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Stefan Mohamed @stefmowords.bsky.social · 19h

bet everyone who said my slutty László Krasznahorkai Halloween costume wouldn't be relevant this year is feeling pretty stupid right about now

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jessica harvey @jessiscah23.bsky.social · 10h

fuck me, can we stop hosting our message boards on Discourse? Such a miserable platform to navigate.

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zaratustra @zaratustra.bsky.social · 8h

first movie director to lose his job to AI

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josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 9h

It's very fitting that notorious perfectionist Stanley Kubrick's final film was the last one he did before he died

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Silly 👑 COMMS OPEN @sillychaotic.bsky.social · 15h

I am so late but happy #InternationalLesbianDay 💖💖

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zaratustra @zaratustra.bsky.social · 8h

well sure if you're on the wrong side of the pacific of course it's gonna go towards the sea

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Saoirse ☀️ @scratchcarddust.bsky.social · 15h

If you know basic kabbalah it's actually not too hard to make a golem out of a labubu. Don't recommend it though. They have a pre-existing body-dharma. As soon as they wake they run straight for the sea. V hard to counter. Lost the first one. No idea what it's doing out there. Moved like lightning.

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 10h

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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zaratustra @zaratustra.bsky.social · 9h

that's like 50% of the bluesky userbase

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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 13h

How over- and underrepresented are different causes of death in the media?

Another way to visualize this data is to measure how over- or underrepresented each cause is.

To do this, we calculate the ratio between a cause’s share of deaths and its share of news articles.

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〽️ax krieger does the damn thing @maxkriegervg.bsky.social · 10h

the radioactive shrimp story always leads to It's Worse Than You Think and i would be impressed if it can top this

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 11h

after the 10th radioactive shrimp recall in 7 weeks, i decided to do some digging

little did i know it would lead me to an underreported industrial accident that may have released an airborne plume of radioactive debris over swaths of indonesia
www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...

What Is Really Going on With All This Radioactive Shrimp? - Consumer Reports

Here’s the latest on how shrimp and spices got contaminated with cesium-137, how the FDA has responded, and why consumers should not panic.

www.consumerreports.org

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Kate Gray @hownottodraw.bsky.social · 10h

I'm pretty sure this is an AI-generated logo. If you look at the other versions of it on their website, every single bird is slightly different (the feet, the head, the bag).

I mean, this sucks, no?

A screenshot of the Sackbird website that says "seek the sack" (horrible) followed by four images of a black bird with a bindle and a human arm. there are minor variations in the art - some birds have bigger heads, or more fingers, or flatter feet.

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Morning Song @aubade.itch.io · 10h

This is how touhous play baseball

Rob Friedman @pitchingninja.com · 17h

All 8 of the Blue Jays Pitchers from Yesterday (overlay)

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Talha - Mashina OUT NOW @taloketo.bsky.social · 11h

❤️❤️❤️
I kinda wish Mashina was more popular, but the most important thing is that people who play it like it. Really proud of this one both as a game designer and a programmer.

Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 13h

Mashina is severely overlooked, another sort of Steamworld Dig kinda game where you play as a little stop-motion robot in a garbage world where everything is all hand-made and animated with stop-motion, it's a delight and how does it only have 87 reviews, what!? That's not right.

Save 20% on Mashina on Steam

A little robot digs to repair her world. Dig, build, discover and mend in a chill, stop-motion world.

store.steampowered.com

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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 12h

EARTH MUST DIE DEMO

9/10

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Ice-Pick Lodge @icepicklodge.bsky.social · 13h

New demo arrives on October 13th.

How is the new demo different from “Quarantine”? In every way! The new demo is a slice from the beginning of the full game.

🕗 Starts Oct 13, 10:00 PDT

Read the full announcement below.

Last chance to add Quarantine before it’s gone!

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Rando Chrontendo @randochrontendo.famiconsumer.com · 13h

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Jeremy Parish, imperial aerosol kid @jparish.bsky.social · 13h

Remember how I kept talking about the Metroidvania book I had in the works, and then it kinda dropped off the radar? I didn't lose interest. I was just working with a Legit Major Publisher (Dark Horse!) on turning it into the pilot release for a Press Run team-up: www.gamespot.com/articles/exp...

Explore The Origins Of Metroidvania In This New Retro Gaming Book

This new book will explore the history of the enduring metroidvania genre in video games.

www.gamespot.com

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 2d

10/07/2025

a crude drawing of a trash bin with a large human face sticking out of the top of it, surrounded by trash, with the caption "early testing for the public trash bins with human faces that beg to be fed garbage indicated that most found them too unsettling to use. However, the small number of participants, including some investors, who said they found the bins deeply erotic, and attempted to form romantic relationships with the bins was considered promising enough to continue funding the project."

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 13h

To be clear, it's not that bitter online dorks assumed it was about them. It -is- about them. They just don't like that it is calling them out for what they are.

Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 14h

It’s kind of crazy that Nazis and the KKK have recently become controversial bad guys because a bunch of bitter online dorks assumed it was about them

DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 1d

Ubisoft canceled an ‘ASSASSINS CREED’ game set in the post-Civil War era

• Featured a Black Assassin who was formerly a slave

• Players would fight the emerging KKK

• Leadership canceled it after concerns with U.S. political climate & Yasuke backlash

(Source: www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...)

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 1d

Death seems the only desirable sequel for a career like this

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zaratustra @zaratustra.bsky.social · 14h

expedition 3³

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zaratustra @zaratustra.bsky.social · 14h

sam altman is always "i worry that everyone's gonna start selling heroin, and it won't be as safe as the heroin we sell"

M. C. Flux PhD @fluxinflux.bsky.social · 1d

The world works this way because of you, Mr. Altman. You created a world of runaway digital body snatching and SpongeBob meth labs. Don’t blame human nature to remove your culpability.

Quote from today’s article in @theverge.com

www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

He positioned the launch's speed bumps as learning opportunities. "Not for much longer will we have the only good video model out there, and there's going to be a ton of videos with none of our safeguards, and that's fine, that's the way the world works," Altman said, adding, "We can use this window to get society to really understand,
'Hey, the playing field changed, we can generate almost indistinguishable video in some cases now, and you've got to be ready for that."

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Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 14h

oh fun, another little manbaby wants to dance

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Hit, Hit, Pop It, Ride, Sugar Assis Cyanide @seuassis.bsky.social · 14h

silksônica

a battle decisively @mattoi.bsky.social · 16h

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