Shiny Vacation
@shinyvacation.bsky.social
🌸 Small Indie Dev
🌻 Retired VGM Radio DJ
🍁 Maddie's Mothman
❄️ Tired Day Job Haver (35, he/they)
http://shinyvacation.itch.io/hand-of-horzasha
🌻 Retired VGM Radio DJ
🍁 Maddie's Mothman
❄️ Tired Day Job Haver (35, he/they)
http://shinyvacation.itch.io/hand-of-horzasha
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One of the many things worth thinking about re: Steam's ban on Horses is how it highlights is the centralization problem caused by having such a monolithic (and maybe mono-something-else) retail giant.
Independent studios with even humble commercial aspirations are chained to Valve's whims.
Independent studios with even humble commercial aspirations are chained to Valve's whims.
December 4, 2025 at 12:41 AM
One of the many things worth thinking about re: Steam's ban on Horses is how it highlights is the centralization problem caused by having such a monolithic (and maybe mono-something-else) retail giant.
Independent studios with even humble commercial aspirations are chained to Valve's whims.
Independent studios with even humble commercial aspirations are chained to Valve's whims.
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I’m gonna need the ones defending the ppl who lose weight’s bodily autonomy to start also coming to the defense of fat ppl, esp larger fat ppl, who choose healing+radical acceptance. IWL criticism is far less concerning than the hate we get for going against the grain. #WeightStigma #HAES #FatLib
November 26, 2025 at 8:50 PM
I’m gonna need the ones defending the ppl who lose weight’s bodily autonomy to start also coming to the defense of fat ppl, esp larger fat ppl, who choose healing+radical acceptance. IWL criticism is far less concerning than the hate we get for going against the grain. #WeightStigma #HAES #FatLib
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For anybody who thinks being a U.S. citizen will save them, or that being white will save them, this is a blonde white woman who is a US citizen and the thugs took her too.
Anyway, for the 80 billionth time, stand up for everybody’s rights
Anyway, for the 80 billionth time, stand up for everybody’s rights
Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
December 3, 2025 at 8:13 PM
For anybody who thinks being a U.S. citizen will save them, or that being white will save them, this is a blonde white woman who is a US citizen and the thugs took her too.
Anyway, for the 80 billionth time, stand up for everybody’s rights
Anyway, for the 80 billionth time, stand up for everybody’s rights
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not been a great year for many things, but it has been a superb year for @boontavista.com episode titles
October 11, 2025 at 10:27 AM
not been a great year for many things, but it has been a superb year for @boontavista.com episode titles
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Oh my god
November 30, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Oh my god
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Steiner fan art ✨
Of course now I want to play Final Fantasy 9 again
Of course now I want to play Final Fantasy 9 again
December 3, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Steiner fan art ✨
Of course now I want to play Final Fantasy 9 again
Of course now I want to play Final Fantasy 9 again
this is unbelievable. i have cancelled my subscription and you should too until they fix this. it's not worth letting this seep further into media
Please tag me if you see any anime that appears to plainly be using AI transcriptions for closed captions. That's CLOSED CAPTIONS (SDH) for ENGLISH DUBS, not subtitles for Japanese audio. I wanna publicly keep track of some of these and start holding platforms accountable.
December 3, 2025 at 9:39 PM
this is unbelievable. i have cancelled my subscription and you should too until they fix this. it's not worth letting this seep further into media
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can't wrap me if I was never on there ;)
and if you use Spotify, be a dear and stop it
get some help
get your music like a real person
and if you use Spotify, be a dear and stop it
get some help
get your music like a real person
December 3, 2025 at 7:03 PM
can't wrap me if I was never on there ;)
and if you use Spotify, be a dear and stop it
get some help
get your music like a real person
and if you use Spotify, be a dear and stop it
get some help
get your music like a real person
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It’s gonna go like this bsky.app/profile/late...
December 3, 2025 at 8:32 PM
It’s gonna go like this bsky.app/profile/late...
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it's wild how the positive use cases are like "save 5 minutes reading a long doc" and "write a generic email faster" and the negative use cases are "get encouraged to dive deeper in psychosis, misogyny, or suicidal thoughts" and we're still on the fence about overall value
New from 404 Media: ChatGPT told a violent stalker to continue running his misogynistic and threat-filled podcast despite the “haters,” and to visit more gyms to find women. The man stalked women in multiple states, including touching and following from work
www.404media.co/chatgpt-spot...
www.404media.co/chatgpt-spot...
ChatGPT Told a Violent Stalker to Embrace the 'Haters,' Indictment Says
A newly filed indictment claims a wannabe influencer used ChatGPT as his "therapist" and "best friend" in his pursuit of the "wife type," while harassing women so aggressively they had to miss work a...
www.404media.co
December 3, 2025 at 6:17 PM
it's wild how the positive use cases are like "save 5 minutes reading a long doc" and "write a generic email faster" and the negative use cases are "get encouraged to dive deeper in psychosis, misogyny, or suicidal thoughts" and we're still on the fence about overall value
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I don’t really understand how people don’t grasp that capitalist competition leads to monopoly. Something wins a competition. It is a pretty obvious thing.
December 3, 2025 at 3:26 PM
I don’t really understand how people don’t grasp that capitalist competition leads to monopoly. Something wins a competition. It is a pretty obvious thing.
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do you guys want subscribers or not? You are a news and literary magazine
“Performative reading” has gained a curious notoriety online. Is it a new way of calling people pretentious, or does it reflect a deprioritization of the written word?
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
Now Watch Me Read
“Performative reading” has gained a curious notoriety online. Is it a new way of calling people pretentious, or does it reflect a deprioritization of the written word?
www.newyorker.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:12 PM
do you guys want subscribers or not? You are a news and literary magazine
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Back in 2016 Humble was literally the only mainstream storefront willing to carry Ladykiller as an 18+ game, which I thought was courageous of them and helped push other platforms. Seeing how far they've fallen since then in making this deeply embarrassing decision is really painful to see
Humble's now banned it too, post-launch:
www.ign.com/articles/hor...
www.ign.com/articles/hor...
Horses, the Upsetting Horror Game Previously Banned on Steam, Gets Last Minute Ban From Epic Games Store Too - IGN
Last week, we reported that disturbing horror game Horses had been banned from Steam. Now, at the last possible minute before the game was set to release widely across other PC store fronts, Epic Game...
www.ign.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Back in 2016 Humble was literally the only mainstream storefront willing to carry Ladykiller as an 18+ game, which I thought was courageous of them and helped push other platforms. Seeing how far they've fallen since then in making this deeply embarrassing decision is really painful to see
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Hey, quick question about this photo from Epstein's island: What the fuck
December 3, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Hey, quick question about this photo from Epstein's island: What the fuck
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Low-trust societies are so expensive, I swear.
To bare my chest, my spouse and I just navigated two years of fighting for IDEA accommodations for our older kiddo whose dyslexia and decoding skills deficits were so pronounced that, in 3rd grade, their reading test scores were <1st percentile.
To bare my chest, my spouse and I just navigated two years of fighting for IDEA accommodations for our older kiddo whose dyslexia and decoding skills deficits were so pronounced that, in 3rd grade, their reading test scores were <1st percentile.
This is what frustrates me so much about these articles: Propagating the narrative that large numbers of kids are faking disabilities is just going to result in a world where disabled people are *even more* scrutinized when they ask for accommodations!
My kids go to a "rich" public school. My daughter is 7 and cannot read; she is a sweet, caring, intelligent child, but if you spend a moment with her it is clear that she has ADHD an order of magnitude more serious than what you think of when you hear "ADHD." Anybody questioning her IEP can fuck off
December 2, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Low-trust societies are so expensive, I swear.
To bare my chest, my spouse and I just navigated two years of fighting for IDEA accommodations for our older kiddo whose dyslexia and decoding skills deficits were so pronounced that, in 3rd grade, their reading test scores were <1st percentile.
To bare my chest, my spouse and I just navigated two years of fighting for IDEA accommodations for our older kiddo whose dyslexia and decoding skills deficits were so pronounced that, in 3rd grade, their reading test scores were <1st percentile.
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how the hell are this many of you still using spotify. get a bandcamp account like a normal person.
December 3, 2025 at 4:37 PM
how the hell are this many of you still using spotify. get a bandcamp account like a normal person.
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i think the financial incentive to bait people into engaging with dogshit is a big part of how we got where we are.
Yes, we give you permission to hate-read 'American Canto'
Review: Yes, we give you permission to hate-read 'American Canto'
Political journalist Olivia Nuzzi has dazzled the media with scandals, but her prose is less sparkling. Her much-anticipated new memoir is rife with arrogance and thin on sourcing.
www.latimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:31 PM
i think the financial incentive to bait people into engaging with dogshit is a big part of how we got where we are.
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also weird that "masculinity crisis" doesn't get scare quotes in media. it's just framed as something real
December 3, 2025 at 4:32 PM
also weird that "masculinity crisis" doesn't get scare quotes in media. it's just framed as something real
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i think any ideology that frames asexuality and celibacy as inherently bad things is dangerous
Scott Galloway on the masculinity crisis: ‘I worry we are evolving a new breed of asexual, asocial males’
Scott Galloway on the masculinity crisis: ‘I worry we are evolving a new breed of asexual, asocial males’
When his book Notes on Being a Man was released last month, it raced to the top of the bestseller lists. The US author, tech entrepreneur and podcaster explains his theories on dating, crying – and the rise of Donald Trump
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:32 PM
i think any ideology that frames asexuality and celibacy as inherently bad things is dangerous
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How about we worry less, as a society, about whether individuals might be cheating to get a disability accommodation or some help buying food, and more about whether extremely wealthy people and corporations are paying their fair share of taxes?
December 2, 2025 at 9:42 PM
How about we worry less, as a society, about whether individuals might be cheating to get a disability accommodation or some help buying food, and more about whether extremely wealthy people and corporations are paying their fair share of taxes?
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Bluesky is centrist coded! The left has been dead for about 100 years since FDR began the red scare
December 2, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Bluesky is centrist coded! The left has been dead for about 100 years since FDR began the red scare
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thinking out loud maybe the weight gamers put on aggregated review scores when they truly do not matter serves as a way of justifying this continued anti-establishment resentment towards games journalists as if they're an elitist class lording taste over us all when that has zero material basis
December 2, 2025 at 3:52 PM
thinking out loud maybe the weight gamers put on aggregated review scores when they truly do not matter serves as a way of justifying this continued anti-establishment resentment towards games journalists as if they're an elitist class lording taste over us all when that has zero material basis
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It seems like every week or so some jackass lawyer on here steps on a rake, is corrected, and when faced with the idea of acknowledging a mere non-lawyer peon on the internet was better informed chooses to start crying and peeing their pants instead.
December 1, 2025 at 10:12 PM
It seems like every week or so some jackass lawyer on here steps on a rake, is corrected, and when faced with the idea of acknowledging a mere non-lawyer peon on the internet was better informed chooses to start crying and peeing their pants instead.
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Yearly reminder that if you watch The Muppet Christmas Carol on Disney+ make sure you are watching the full version with the cut song put back in.
Going to try very hard to be normal about Muppet Christmas Carol this year.
December 1, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Yearly reminder that if you watch The Muppet Christmas Carol on Disney+ make sure you are watching the full version with the cut song put back in.
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Unreal: "The EPA is moving forward with approvals for pesticides containing 'forever chemicals' as an active ingredient... The agency also announced plans to relax a rule requiring companies to report products containing PFAS and has proposed weakening drinking water standards for the chemicals."
November 23, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Unreal: "The EPA is moving forward with approvals for pesticides containing 'forever chemicals' as an active ingredient... The agency also announced plans to relax a rule requiring companies to report products containing PFAS and has proposed weakening drinking water standards for the chemicals."