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some smoke, one mirror
December 6, 2025 at 4:57 AM
some smoke, one mirror
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The time has come to nominate your favorite games from the past year for the 2025 @play.date Community Awards!
Nominations start now and close on the 22nd of December, so get to it!
The form can be found here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Join our community Discord here:
discord.gg/zFKagQ2
Nominations start now and close on the 22nd of December, so get to it!
The form can be found here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Join our community Discord here:
discord.gg/zFKagQ2
December 6, 2025 at 12:38 PM
The time has come to nominate your favorite games from the past year for the 2025 @play.date Community Awards!
Nominations start now and close on the 22nd of December, so get to it!
The form can be found here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Join our community Discord here:
discord.gg/zFKagQ2
Nominations start now and close on the 22nd of December, so get to it!
The form can be found here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Join our community Discord here:
discord.gg/zFKagQ2
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voting for the 2025 #playdate community awards is happening now! i released five good playdate games over the last year, and if you enjoyed any of them i'd appreciate a nomination
you can vote here!: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
you can vote here!: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
December 6, 2025 at 3:16 AM
voting for the 2025 #playdate community awards is happening now! i released five good playdate games over the last year, and if you enjoyed any of them i'd appreciate a nomination
you can vote here!: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
you can vote here!: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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the year-end recaps by services can be fun, but they just make me think about surveillance being marketed as a fun toy
you *could* do your own look back through your music library. but why not let us tell you who you are?
you *could* do your own look back through your music library. but why not let us tell you who you are?
December 5, 2025 at 5:19 PM
the year-end recaps by services can be fun, but they just make me think about surveillance being marketed as a fun toy
you *could* do your own look back through your music library. but why not let us tell you who you are?
you *could* do your own look back through your music library. but why not let us tell you who you are?
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🤠Happy Bandcamp Friday! So excited to announce that Dawn Again, our track for this year’s HoYoFair, is finally out on streaming and Bandcamp!
BC: tr.ee/Xh6yV5m_Iy
And we made an 8-min “making of” video for the track as well, now on YouTube
youtu.be/As-r_jdUTCA?...
BC: tr.ee/Xh6yV5m_Iy
And we made an 8-min “making of” video for the track as well, now on YouTube
youtu.be/As-r_jdUTCA?...
December 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM
🤠Happy Bandcamp Friday! So excited to announce that Dawn Again, our track for this year’s HoYoFair, is finally out on streaming and Bandcamp!
BC: tr.ee/Xh6yV5m_Iy
And we made an 8-min “making of” video for the track as well, now on YouTube
youtu.be/As-r_jdUTCA?...
BC: tr.ee/Xh6yV5m_Iy
And we made an 8-min “making of” video for the track as well, now on YouTube
youtu.be/As-r_jdUTCA?...
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Here's the situation. It's Bandcamp Friday, and I put out an album last month. It's good. Like, real good.
jamesgameboy.bandcamp.com/album/organ-...
jamesgameboy.bandcamp.com/album/organ-...
Organ Ghost, by James Gameboy
13 track album
jamesgameboy.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Here's the situation. It's Bandcamp Friday, and I put out an album last month. It's good. Like, real good.
jamesgameboy.bandcamp.com/album/organ-...
jamesgameboy.bandcamp.com/album/organ-...
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Time Warner, after being acquired by Netflix: 𝐈 𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐖𝐚𝐫𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮……
December 5, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Time Warner, after being acquired by Netflix: 𝐈 𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐖𝐚𝐫𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮……
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Happy Bandcamp Friday! If you fancy something fun to bop to or something mellow to cool off with I've got you covered 😎🤘
rupert-cole.bandcamp.com
rupert-cole.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Happy Bandcamp Friday! If you fancy something fun to bop to or something mellow to cool off with I've got you covered 😎🤘
rupert-cole.bandcamp.com
rupert-cole.bandcamp.com
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Please drop links to anti-transphobic primers here. Well sourced articles, patient and kind explainers, etc. Things for someone to read who hasn't read into it too much, might not know any trans people, isn't online much, but has been sent e.g. transphobic petitions or news articles. Thank you!
December 3, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Please drop links to anti-transphobic primers here. Well sourced articles, patient and kind explainers, etc. Things for someone to read who hasn't read into it too much, might not know any trans people, isn't online much, but has been sent e.g. transphobic petitions or news articles. Thank you!
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to anyone that listens to & supports my music, you are the something comforting that makes it all worth it, in spite of the streaming industry being the inequitable and corrupt behemoth that it is.
so instead of any stats, here’s a little cover.
thank you for listening ❤︎ ❤︎ ❤︎
so instead of any stats, here’s a little cover.
thank you for listening ❤︎ ❤︎ ❤︎
December 4, 2025 at 4:42 AM
to anyone that listens to & supports my music, you are the something comforting that makes it all worth it, in spite of the streaming industry being the inequitable and corrupt behemoth that it is.
so instead of any stats, here’s a little cover.
thank you for listening ❤︎ ❤︎ ❤︎
so instead of any stats, here’s a little cover.
thank you for listening ❤︎ ❤︎ ❤︎
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LOVE when I’m trying to read an article and an ad gets in the way, and then after closing that ad another ad loads and bumps me to a different spot on the page, and then when I scroll back to where I was in the article the page reloads, this is how we want the internet to be
December 4, 2025 at 4:11 PM
LOVE when I’m trying to read an article and an ad gets in the way, and then after closing that ad another ad loads and bumps me to a different spot on the page, and then when I scroll back to where I was in the article the page reloads, this is how we want the internet to be
i have been obsessively listening to this album since whenever the hell it released. idk if im using this word super correctly but the lyrics feel 𝒸𝒶𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓇𝓉𝒾𝒸. i love machine girl
machinegirl.bandcamp.com/album/psycho...
machinegirl.bandcamp.com/album/psycho...
PsychoWarrior: MG Ultra X, by Machine Girl
14 track album
machinegirl.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:29 AM
i have been obsessively listening to this album since whenever the hell it released. idk if im using this word super correctly but the lyrics feel 𝒸𝒶𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓇𝓉𝒾𝒸. i love machine girl
machinegirl.bandcamp.com/album/psycho...
machinegirl.bandcamp.com/album/psycho...
im eating popcorn and reading a book until i zonk out. it feels wrong but idc. what the hell doesn't feel wrong
December 3, 2025 at 4:05 AM
im eating popcorn and reading a book until i zonk out. it feels wrong but idc. what the hell doesn't feel wrong
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Sure, they've made an environmentally catastrophic mass hallucination disinformation plagiarism Clippy that will destabilize the world, but also their other goal is to replace human workers entirely and let us humans starve. A boycott of AI is the most important boycott of your entire life.
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Sure, they've made an environmentally catastrophic mass hallucination disinformation plagiarism Clippy that will destabilize the world, but also their other goal is to replace human workers entirely and let us humans starve. A boycott of AI is the most important boycott of your entire life.
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Tom’s Crossing.
November 11, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Tom’s Crossing.
made some header/logos for my site today <3
November 30, 2025 at 7:18 PM
made some header/logos for my site today <3
idk if we're allowed to swear on here, but i love Dark Souls so fucking much
November 29, 2025 at 6:09 AM
idk if we're allowed to swear on here, but i love Dark Souls so fucking much
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If I open an article and the splash banner is AI slop, I close the tab. If you don't have the bare minimum of discernment to not do that, what else do you consider "good enough" to publish?
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 10:18 PM
If I open an article and the splash banner is AI slop, I close the tab. If you don't have the bare minimum of discernment to not do that, what else do you consider "good enough" to publish?
Microsoft 365 probably is "ubiquitous" but it's so funny to hear that when it holds some of the worst software i have ever had to use lmao
it sucks that this is ubiquitous!!
it sucks that this is ubiquitous!!
November 28, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Microsoft 365 probably is "ubiquitous" but it's so funny to hear that when it holds some of the worst software i have ever had to use lmao
it sucks that this is ubiquitous!!
it sucks that this is ubiquitous!!
wanted to make something weird and kinda just let my subconscious guide me <3
im gonna go read a good book until i fall asleep, bye!
im gonna go read a good book until i fall asleep, bye!
November 27, 2025 at 5:27 AM
wanted to make something weird and kinda just let my subconscious guide me <3
im gonna go read a good book until i fall asleep, bye!
im gonna go read a good book until i fall asleep, bye!
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something grant me literally any serenity
November 26, 2025 at 7:17 PM
something grant me literally any serenity
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Every great product, once it's established itself as a primary operator in its market, is deliberately made worse and worse by its provider in pursuit of greater profit and exploitation of the consumer. I don't know how we can observe this process & still believe in the rationality of capitalism.
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Every great product, once it's established itself as a primary operator in its market, is deliberately made worse and worse by its provider in pursuit of greater profit and exploitation of the consumer. I don't know how we can observe this process & still believe in the rationality of capitalism.
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