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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 4d

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a new mRNA vaccine that has been shown to suppress abnormal blood vessel growth in the retina, offering hope to MILLIONS of patients with age-related vision loss. The vaccine triggered strong antibody responses that REDUCED retinal damage by UP TO 85%.

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1000xRESIST | Available Now @sunsetvisitor.studio · 10d

We’re also hiring for 3D Artist Generalists!

💠 80k CAD salary
💠 Hybrid/remote work (relocation support available)
💠 Health benefits plan
💠 4-day work week
💠 4 weeks annual paid vacation, unlimited sick/personal days

Job listing ⬇️
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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1000xRESIST | Available Now @sunsetvisitor.studio · 10d

Hekki, we’re hiring!

First up: Senior Programmer!

💠 80k CAD salary
💠 Hybrid/remote work (relocation support available)
💠 Health benefits plan
💠 4-day work week
💠 4 weeks annual paid vacation, unlimited sick/personal days

Job listing ⬇️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Innersloth @innersloth.com · 15d

🦥 HIRING 🦥

We're looking for a Senior 2D Animator for something new!
🖌️ Temporary, full-time role (12-18 months)
🖌️ Remote
🖌️ 3+ years exp of 2D Flash-style animation
🖌️ Proficienct with Adobe Animate

Apps close Oct 10. Apply now! innersloth.bamboohr.com/careers/33

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Tanya Kan 🏳️‍🌈🍁 @vividfoundry.bsky.social · 20d

Thank you very much! A much appreciated series of interviews!

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Greg R. Buchanan @gregbuchananwriter.com · 20d

Pre-pandemic, I ran several interviews with other writers from throughout games and other media -- I’m porting them to the new blog across the next few days, including pieces on romance, horror, space & more.

First up -- how people get their story ideas: gregbuchanan.substack.com/p/interviews...

INTERVIEWS: "How do you get your ideas?'

Featuring answers from Gareth Damien Martin (Citizen Sleeper), Emily Short (Galatea, Failbetter Games), Tameem Antoniades (Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice), and Kaitlin Tremblay (Grindstone, Ubisoft)

gregbuchanan.substack.com

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Tanya Kan 🏳️‍🌈🍁 @vividfoundry.bsky.social · 20d

May I link this as supplementary reading for my game design students? ❤️

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1000xRESIST | Available Now @sunsetvisitor.studio · 22d

What 1000xRESIST is not:
❌ a game with combat
❌ an emotionally cozy game
❌ a super quick story

What 1000xRESIST is:
✅ a doomed yuri simulator
✅ a game that will break your heart (and maybe not put it back together)
✅ a story you won’t forget anytime soon

Get it for 30% off right now! ⬇️

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · Jun 6

another hidden/externalized cost and form of theft in AI is the bots for Meta etc are blowing up site hosting charges of pages they're looting for information to take credit for. profits go to meta and others, made possible by costs spread to all the operators of sites they're crawling to steal from

Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · Apr 2

Last month AI crawlers generated 90% of my site's traffic, forcing me to pay penalties

Problem solved after moving nameservers to Cloudflare+turning on AI crawler blocking.

Site monthly outbound data back to ~40GB per month, down from 800GB (!!) No impact on human visitors

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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · Sep 6

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

www.theatlantic.com

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Draculanna 🧛🌿👁️ @annacwebs.bsky.social · Sep 7

The way writers (of games too!!!!) and artists have to also be their own social media managers now to get work needs to be studied

Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · Sep 7

I just don’t want “film a video and hope it goes viral” to be a “reasonable” expectation of authors!! I hate being on video! I am too awkward for video!

A screenshot of Mad Men of Don Draper yelling. The subtitle has been edited to read, “that’s why I write books!”

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Tanya Kan 🏳️‍🌈🍁 @vividfoundry.bsky.social · Sep 7

You look incredible Natalie!

But also omg wdym mess, it's cozy!

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · Sep 6

heads up as tech that used to work fine keeps getting worse, google's attempt to summarize my flight email somehow made up the wrong date, which is not a date in this email. it then added it on my calendar for the wrong date. when I tried moving it, google moved it back to wrong. don't trust google⚠️

google email summary says flight is sept 7.

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Alexa Ray Corriea @alexaray.bsky.social · Sep 6

This “solo dev” and “only 3 devs” rhetoric is getting truly dangerously out of hand. Investors see this and think “I only have to pay 3 people” and the result is severely overworked and/or underpaid people and a subpar product. We need to stop treating outsourcers and contractors like ghosts.

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Tanya Kan 🏳️‍🌈🍁 @vividfoundry.bsky.social · Sep 5

Thanks for the amazing snaps, Dorian! It was very nice hanging out with you at Gamescom!

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Dorian Chou @dorianchou.bsky.social · Sep 5

Tanya Kan (@vividfoundry.bsky.social) - Game Developer - Canada 🇨🇦

A portrait of game developer Tanya Kan. The background is filled with purple LED-rings. Her shoulder and back are facing the camera and she gives a pretty smile towards the camera. She is wearing glasses and the light catches her hair nicely. Her eyes are locked on the camera ready for the picture to be taken.

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Tanya Kan 🏳️‍🌈🍁 @vividfoundry.bsky.social · Sep 5

Look at this ✨extremely handsome man ✨

Whew omg
He's playing silksong rn
He's so hot
He's lovely
We're going to watch the finale of Andor S1 together
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Dorian Chou @dorianchou.bsky.social · Sep 5

Gary Kings (@garyjkings.bsky.social) - Game Trailer Maker - United Kingdom 🇬🇧

A portrait of Game Trailer Maker Gary Kings. The background is colorful and dominated by the color purple. He is wearing a shirt displaying various plants. His cap and glasses in combination with his eyes are exuding confidence as if he knows the picture will come out well.

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Dorian Chou @dorianchou.bsky.social · Sep 5

Meet the faces of Gamescom!
I had the privilege to attend Gamescom 2025 and wanted to highlight some of the incredible people from the games industry I met this year. I have the utmost respect for each of them and felt truly honored to capture a quick portrait of them. Part 3 includes:

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Jonathan Ore @jonore.bsky.social · Sep 4

Before he died, this Gaza teen described what it was like to starve
www.cbc.ca/news/world/g...

ANALYSIS | As hunger grows in Gaza, warnings that starvation hits the most vulnerable first | CBC News

Despite Israel’s denials of famine and a recent uptick in food delivery, starvation in Gaza is getting worse. Before his death, a 17-year-old described to CBC News how his body and life were shutting ...

www.cbc.ca

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · Sep 4

We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...

How Are You Supposed To Get The COVID Vaccine Now? An Explainer | Defector

As the muggy malaise of summer winds down, you might find yourself interested in taking advantage of one of several safe and proven vaccines to help protect you from the inevitable brumal surge of res...

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Jill Murray @jillmurray.bsky.social · Sep 3

Canadians, this is a parliamentary petition, not a random online thing. Takes a minute to sign. An easy good deed for the day.

Michelle Keep @jmkeep.bsky.social · Sep 3

Canadians! There is a petition to sign to protest Mastercard and Visa's control over the purchase of legal adult content. This is specifically about the Steam & itchio situation, but language protects adult creators.

www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

#nsfw #censorship #canpoli

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Tanya Kan 🏳️‍🌈🍁 @vividfoundry.bsky.social · Sep 3

OMG that keychain!

Would this be something @kimchica.bsky.social and @intelligame.us might like?

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Tanya Kan 🏳️‍🌈🍁 @vividfoundry.bsky.social · Sep 3

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joannes @playthroughline.com · Sep 3

🚨 Episode 8 of neurocracy.site is out now!

Do check out the dope ass article that the below citation came from: omnipedia.app/wiki/2049/10/08/Blankout

It's about mysterious bursts of memory loss that have been affecting people in 2049 🕳️🧠

And players think they're affected 👀

joannes @playthroughline.com · Sep 3

Episode 8 of Neurocracy going out today

It's a fun one

A citation from a fictional Wikipedia article that reads:

Pospisil, W. (September 2049). “Scientists struggle to explain rise in cases of sleepwalking.” Nature.

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Michelle Keep @jmkeep.bsky.social · Sep 3

Canadians! There is a petition to sign to protest Mastercard and Visa's control over the purchase of legal adult content. This is specifically about the Steam & itchio situation, but language protects adult creators.

www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

#nsfw #censorship #canpoli

@acvalens.net

Petition e-6695 - Petitions

www.ourcommons.ca

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