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Jade 🦨💚♀ 🔜 BLFC 🎲 @cupsofjade.bsky.social · 5h

One of those nights. youtu.be/BeJ-Kscdp4w?...

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 7h

I cannot stress how good the writing in Baby Steps is. I’ve described it as if you did Silent Hill characterization in a comedy. Really beautiful, largely improvised, magical realist narrative aimed directly at its audience.

Writing on Games @writingongames.bsky.social · 8h

I know I keep talking about it but I just finished Baby Steps. That ending got me choked up. Honestly my favourite game I've played in god knows how long. This feels like a real all-timer for me. Absolutely everything about it just feels so... perfect. I'm properly giddy about it all. ART, MAN

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Almond @almondsquirrel.bsky.social · 8h

Girlfriend is too old for this to be the GOP

Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 12h

In some ways this is the government now

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Almond @almondsquirrel.bsky.social · 9h

If that fan ain't noctua then I don't hawk tuah

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onion person @junlper.beer · 13h

if every democrat doesn’t use the “we took freedom of speech away” on every messaging apparatus they have every single day for the next 4 years assume they want to lose

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 19h

For @aftermath.site, I wrote about the crucible of beating the Manbreaker in Baby Steps, a brutal challenge that the game actively tells you not to do. I am happy that I did it. aftermath.site/baby-steps-m...

Baby Steps' Manbreaker Did Not Break Me - Aftermath

Baby Steps' Manbreaker is an optional yet brutal challenge that is as much a test of your humility as it is your skill.

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walking mirage @wolf.observer · 19h

My dad showed me some AI-colorized footage of Germany from the 20s. It turned all the cars purple and green and other bright colors... the specific shades you see hot rods painted in.

DAERHYK @daerhyk.blacksky.app · 1d

Watching the dominos arrange for subtle, seemingly innocuous shifts in history and perception. Eyes looking in different directions, a slightly different carpet color, etc. What troubles me is when it becomes indiscernible and later used for reference in other media. AI Mandela Effect inbound.

VGDensetsu @vgdensetsu.bsky.social · 1d

I thought something seemed off about the the image posted below: it's a photo that's been edited and colorized by AI. Please don't do that.

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BunniesOnFire @bunniesonfire.bsky.social · Aug 14

Woo first post!
#furry #furryart #bunny

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BunniesOnFire @bunniesonfire.bsky.social · Feb 21

Brave badger boy badgers basilisk (might be a dragon actually…)

Fanart of Tierny from @gnollplaying.games

#furry #furryart

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BunniesOnFire @bunniesonfire.bsky.social · 1d

Bun’n’gun

#capeescape

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GlacierClear @glacierclear.bsky.social · 1d

was interested in hopping on vrchat. joined a public world. some very nice person said hi to me and i got scared and logged off.

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ᴄᴀʟᴜᴍ ᴀʟᴇxᴀɴᴅᴇʀ ᴡᴀᴛᴛ @calumalexanderwatt.bsky.social · 1d

D E A D S H O T (2011)

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Almond @almondsquirrel.bsky.social · 2d

"teslas are cheaply built, uncomfortable, unreliable adult diapers for tech simps who lay on their backs with their mouths open and pretend that their king's cum tastes like vanilla dunkaroo's frosting"

Regular Car Reviews @regularcars.bsky.social · 2d

Car for the rich

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2023 Lucid Air Grand Touring: Regular Car Reviews

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Almond @almondsquirrel.bsky.social · 1d

Most AI revenue is an obscfucated tacked on service (copilot for windows, grok for X, etc.) for a product that is already free, or would never sustain a $2400/yr subscription.

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Almond @almondsquirrel.bsky.social · 1d

Notice how shockingly little of this money is coming from people paying for actual AI stuff. Optimistically OpenAI makes ~$10B and dominates the AI industry through their API fees and licensing. $10B of revenue a year is not enough to sustain a multitrillion dollar market on its own.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
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Mason Rosenquist @locusdio.bsky.social · 1d

much more on the horizon...

Zio Matrix ZCL-XA/2 AC from Armored Core 2 for my To Hardware project.

Now available on Patreon and My Mini Factory. All links in Bio.

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Music Box Theatre @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social · 4d

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER is Now Playing at the Music Box, presented in 70MM!

Showtimes & Tickets: musicboxtheatre.com/films-and-ev...

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DSM-6 Spoilers @flawedhowl.bsky.social · 1d

"Mini-boss" is derived directly from Marx's concept of the petite bourgeoisie

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Almond @almondsquirrel.bsky.social · 1d

In september 2024 we added 254,000 jobs, in september 2025 was flat or reduced by ~20-30k jobs. And yet, inflation is -higher- while consumer spending is worse. Bad trend. Real bad.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

Highest long-term inflation expectations in 18 months. (March 2024)

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 1d

NY FED: SEPTEMBER ONE-YEAR AHEAD EXPECTED INFLATION 3.4% VS. AUGUST’S 3.2% NY FED: SEPTEMBER THREE-YEAR AHEAD EXPECTED INFLATION UNCHANGED AT 3% NY FED: SEPTEMBER FIVE-YEAR AHEAD EXPECTED INFLATION 3% VS. AUGUST’S 2.9%

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

Highest long-term inflation expectations in 18 months. (March 2024)

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 1d

NY FED: SEPTEMBER ONE-YEAR AHEAD EXPECTED INFLATION 3.4% VS. AUGUST’S 3.2% NY FED: SEPTEMBER THREE-YEAR AHEAD EXPECTED INFLATION UNCHANGED AT 3% NY FED: SEPTEMBER FIVE-YEAR AHEAD EXPECTED INFLATION 3% VS. AUGUST’S 2.9%

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𝑫𝒐𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓 @doover.bsky.social · 1d

North Racer

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Almond @almondsquirrel.bsky.social · 2d

I can just **feel** the conversation where Elon insisted the logo have only 2 face buttons instead of the default 4, "because it's like an NES controller, we're bringing video games back" in the same way the cybertruck copied the Deloean, despite the NES controller being /objectively terrible/.

Every Film Now @everyfilmnow.bsky.social · 3d

Elon Musk announces xAI game studio will release a great AI-generated game before end of 2026.

Powered by Grok, the studio aims to revolutionize gaming with dynamic, photo-realistic experiences.

#xAI #Grok #AIGaming

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BAKER @fuckyoubaker.bsky.social · 2d

MONDAY.
SPITE AS FUEL.

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Almond @almondsquirrel.bsky.social · 2d

There seems to be a sort of collective delusion around Nvidia GPUs, treating them as special magic sauce that you have to pay $30,000 for, when anyone who has built a gaming PC in the last 20 years is like "Yeah fuck quadro/RTX cards they're the same thing but 4x expensive"

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Almond @almondsquirrel.bsky.social · 2d

But the fact that anyone with $10,000 can run their own chatgpt at home right now and yet any generative AI feature is not worth the money it costs in electricity to pay off is pretty damning of the whole thing. Tech executives don't actually know that moat is dry.

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