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richard b brookes @richardbbrookes.bsky.social · 4d

it's a bold man who turns in a life of hypnoboobery for a shot at fighting back the tides of the british right wing

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richard b brookes @richardbbrookes.bsky.social · 5d

if they had columbo in the medieval times they'd have absolutely done stained glass windows of him

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richard b brookes @richardbbrookes.bsky.social · 5d

look how they massacred my boy #monikers

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Andy Kelly @ultrabrilliant.xyz · 10d

The Japanese Mario 64 official strategy guide is an incredible thing. "Can we make little hand-made dioramas of all the levels?" "Sure, why the hell not."

A model of the first level from Mario 64.

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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 23d

Every time I watch ALIEN I am transfixed thinking to myself "there's no way they've left themselves enough room to get the third horizontal line in that E without it looking like a squashed-in mess!" but no, every single time there it is, and it's beautiful. Most tense part of the movie tbh.

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 12d

A reminder that literal Holocaust and genocide scholars are trying to figure out what to call Israel's genocide because Israel's concentration camps and massacring are distinctly too evil to be categorized a "normal" genocide.

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Mass slaughter in Gaza stands apart from other genocides, Chris Sidoti says: ‘People cannot escape’

Australian human rights expert who was on UN commission of inquiry labels Israel’s strategy a failure that ‘has not brought peace and has not destroyed Hamas’

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richard b brookes @richardbbrookes.bsky.social · 12d

in 2025, a content aggregation account called "@jeremychristopher004" has pasted all 27 fart sounds to an instagram reel which play over minecraft clips. it's 17 seconds long. it skips fart #14 and plays fart #23 twice. the next reel down is a guy reacting to a hate crime with casual indifference.

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richard b brookes @richardbbrookes.bsky.social · 12d

the files be displayed as little speaker symbols above blue text, arranged in a 3x9 table stretching across the width of the screen. opening each file brings the same joy as opening the door of an advent calendar. you watch as windows media player's visualiser casts ripples across an electric pool.

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richard b brookes @richardbbrookes.bsky.social · 12d

in 2001, there'd be a website called "letitrip.com" which would have 27 different fart sounds you could download as 8-bit, mono .wav files with a 22050 hz sample rate. the site has a WordArt logo and a banner ad for subway sandwiches. you use a download accelerator to get all of the files in 3 mins.

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Glen @vaguebiscuit.bsky.social · 16d

Well don't I feel stupid

A headline about the James Webb Telescope potentially finding a new stellar object dubbed a black hole star

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richard b brookes @richardbbrookes.bsky.social · 22d

damn, how do they always *know*

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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 22d

the “Play for Peace - Games for Palestine 2025 Charity Bundle” needs as much support as it can get right now. it’s halfway there with just 2 days to go!
itch.io/b/2979/play-...
please share and spread the word.

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Deconstructeam @deconstructeam.bsky.social · 22d

You can get everything we've ever done cheaper than Silksong!

Including our latest short experience Many Nights a Whisper.

And it's way easier to complete than Silksong! (Well, maybe not Gods Will Be Watching)

store.steampowered.com/bundle/6097/...

Save 67% on Deconstructeam Bundle on Steam

The Deconstructeam Bundle includes both The Red Strings Club and Gods Will Be Watching.

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eSBe @sb2749.bsky.social · Jul 28

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richard b brookes @richardbbrookes.bsky.social · Sep 12

please for the love of god let it be John Kennedy

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · Sep 11

if i get killed, you can quote stuff i wrote. that's why i wrote it

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Ian Hell Damnskin @innuendostudios.bsky.social · Sep 11

"let's keep them on the big platforms so we can monitor their behavior"

how's that working out? good?

onion person @junlper.beer · Sep 11

probably not good that all these people are publicly self radicalizing themselves even further which is being led by the richest guy in the world

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richard b brookes @richardbbrookes.bsky.social · Sep 11

not even morgan mcsweeney likes morgan mcsweeney

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Elisabeth Beinke @ebeinke.bsky.social · Sep 5

Crunch KILLS people, I'm not sure how many times we need to tell companies this. Companies need to be held accountable for these kind of things. www.kiro7.com/news/trendin...

Microsoft software engineer found dead at office; family makes plea to tech companies

“That will probably save a life.”

www.kiro7.com

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richard b brookes @richardbbrookes.bsky.social · Sep 5

Rand as in "Hi Eggplant, it's Rand"?! no way!

richard b brookes @richardbbrookes.bsky.social · Sep 4

honestly kind of hype that noah hawley looked at his alien series and said "we need a final destination episode"

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Argo Tuulik @mixedmartialarx.bsky.social · Aug 21

The defamatory statements Zaum gave to PMG about myself and Dora Klindžić in the latest Disco Elysium follow-up story left me with no other choice than to disprove them with hard evidence. This is what really happened in Zaum between June 2022 and Feb 2024:

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Alexa Ray Corriea @alexaray.bsky.social · Aug 22

Just dropping this right here... www.gamefile.news/p/ea-ceo-and...

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James Endicott @o76923.bsky.social · Aug 27

As a reminder, PayPal is so happy to work with the pedophile haven Roblox that they have a special arrangement so you get more Robux per dollar when buying them directly from PayPal.

It's not about protecting kids. It's about punishing 100% legal sex workers.

Ana Valens | 🔞 | Comms Open @acvalens.net · Aug 27

VTuber Milky: "PayPal recently out of no where terminated my account perm, mostly due to my PATREON that is 18+"

Milky 🌌 🥛
@Miilkywayz
Hello this is Milky and truly this is sudden to make an announcement of but I feel it is my heart to try my best to warn other creators before this happens to you as well.

Paypal recently out of no where terminated my account perm, mostly due to my PATREON that is 18+ I know without a doubt it was for this reason as I sent a transfer and it flagged everything on Paypal and caused my termination once they most likely saw it was an 18+ Patreon account.

As you know, if you don't.. Payment processors are growing more and more against 18+ creators and finding any way to terminate them, the moment you are on their radar. It's game over and you will lose your account.

I never thought this would happen to me, I've been a creator for 5 years and I never had any issues, I'm still shocked and in disbelief but I know without a doubt it was my Patreon.

What does this mean for me? For now please do not donate to me as I have no valid working Paypal. I have made the choice of no longer creating 18+ content on my Patreon as I am left with no other choice. I DO NOT Intend to fight these Payment Processors, It's a fight no one can win because we are all at their mercy.

Please keep in mind if you really think things like "It's fine, It's not going to happen to me." Please re-think this because this is exactly what I thought as well until it happened to me. It's only a matter of time, protect yourself by all means please don't be naive like I was.

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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · Aug 27

Because some people haven't heard it yet: PAYPAL IS NOT A BANK, DO NOT LEAVE MORE THAN A COUPLE HUNDRED DOLLARS SITTING IN YOUR ACCOUNT AT ANY TIME. MOVE IT TO YOUR BANK ACCOUNT IMMEDIATELY.

Paypal can and will close your account and steal all your money without warning. And have done MANY times.

AUTOMATON WEST @automatonwest.bsky.social · Aug 27

Steam adult game programmer has account frozen by PayPal, £80,000 in earnings withheld

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Steam adult game programmer has account frozen by PayPal, £80,000 in earnings withheld - AUTOMATON WEST

PayPal froze £80,000 of a Steam programmer's earnings because of their involvement in developing adult games.

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