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coldspiral.bsky.social @coldspiral.bsky.social · 1d

I adore this song!
Have you watched Andrew Bird & Matt Berninger playing it?
youtu.be/bznV1DqUG6o

Andrew Bird: Live From The Great Room - Perfect Day (ft. Matt Berninger)

YouTube video by Andrew Bird

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The Princess Formerly Known As Prince @nataliereed84.bsky.social · 11d

I don’t think people were quite ready for the fact that although fascism happens extremely quickly, it doesn’t just ANNOUNCE itself by marching loudly through the streets in the uniforms of past fascist governments. It isn’t subtle, but a) for MOST people, life goes on, more or less normally. They..

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Sean Brodrick @seanbrodrick.bsky.social · 20d

#Andor

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coldspiral.bsky.social @coldspiral.bsky.social · Sep 8

A mercy

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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · Jul 11

There's an interview with me in Scientific American: www.scientificamerican.com/article/were...

We’re Light-Years Away from True Artificial Intelligence, Says Murderbot Author Martha Wells

Today’s large language models are hardly related to the kinds of machine intelligence we see in science fiction, according to Martha Wells, author of the Murderbot Diaries series

www.scientificamerican.com

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coldspiral.bsky.social @coldspiral.bsky.social · Jun 23

Such an incredible album!

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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · Jun 19

The BIG ROBOT classic, Sir, You Are Being Hunted, along with our other games, are all on sale this week! It would make a rubbish summer significantly nicer if you could pick one of these up and enjoy our weirdo worldbuilding.
store.steampowered.com/app/242880/S...

Save 40% on Sir, You Are Being Hunted on Steam

Sir, You Are Being Hunted is a freedom sandbox stealth experience, where each playthrough is unique, thanks to our British Countryside Generator. Escape from these robot-infested islands with violence...

store.steampowered.com

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scare-ron "actual ghost" shanxnywy @thxnywy.art · Jun 3

universal pride
#art

a neon scene of a columned archway opening into space, where six floating eyes in rainbow colors drift among stars and planets and nebulae

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coldspiral.bsky.social @coldspiral.bsky.social · Jun 2

I recently lost my beloved hound of many years, and it has put a sharp highlight on how frequently games have you fighting dogs and wolves right out of the gates.
Game devs need to a) stop doing that, or b) give us a mode that swaps canines out for goblins or bone spiders or something.

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autumn wright 🍂 @theautumnwright.bsky.social · May 17

Something is rotten on the island of Sacra.

You cannot beat the final boss of No Rest for Wicked's latest saga

The founder of Moon Studios has become the action RPG's worst enemy.

www.pcgamer.com

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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · Apr 30

Say it after me: Chat GPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences. You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching.

Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.

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coldspiral.bsky.social @coldspiral.bsky.social · Apr 7

Hey Delaney, I initially followed you for your artwork, which is brilliant, but I have to say that you're one of the few people I follow whose jokes can bring me a smile or laugh consistently, and you make it appear effortless.
I appreciate your humour and your presence.

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Delaney (Pum)King (She/Her/Whomst) @delaneyking.bsky.social · Mar 24

Not a cellphone in sight, just people living in the moment.

Indiana Jones doing what everyone should do to Nazis. Punching them until they stop being able to do Nazi stuff to people.

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coldspiral.bsky.social @coldspiral.bsky.social · Mar 17

The head from a Grimoire Red Beret Gundam model kit - a bright red dome with three blue lenses in the front - mounted on a squat skeletal body in grey. It stands on the lid of a bottle of ink on a cluttered desk.
In one of its hands it clutches a red serrated knife, which is longer than the model is otherwise tall, and brandishes it menacingly.

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · Feb 27

The California Fire Relief Bundle is live!! Benefitting survivors of the SoCal wildfires through the Community Organized Relief Effort (CORE). Featuring 400+ games: Tunic! Tangle Tower! Catlateral Damage! Hidden Folks! Cook, Serve, Delicious! And more! $10 minimum!! itch.io/b/2863/calif...

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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · Feb 28

Here's me.

'Nazi oligarchs have seized treasury control of an authoritarian White House and everyone seems kinda chill about it'

Nazi oligarchs have seized treasury control of an authoritarian White House and everyone seems kinda chill about it - The Shot

Capitalism and democracy, despite what you’ve been led to believe, are not the same thing. Capitalism eats democracy if unsupervised.

theshot.net.au

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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · Feb 4

The BIG ROBOT games are all on sale via Steam this week! Please buy them! store.steampowered.com/developer/bi... Hunt robots! Be hunted *by* robots! BE a robot (sort of)! And even temporarily hypnotise whirring hunter-killer robots with a special flashlight! Yes, all your robo-fantasies are HERE.

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coldspiral.bsky.social @coldspiral.bsky.social · Feb 4

Without downloading any new pics where are you mentally.

A gif from the "Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy" film depicting a flock of sheep fleeing panicked across a green field, in front of trees and a large satellite dish. Above it all, the flat underside of a spacecraft from the Vogon Constructor Fleet hangs in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.
A yellow caption reads: "baaa-ing"

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The Princess Formerly Known As Prince @nataliereed84.bsky.social · Jan 27

THE FUCKS ARE AT IT AGAIN

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coldspiral.bsky.social @coldspiral.bsky.social · Jan 24

It's notable that while r/warhammer has banned X links, r/warhammer40k... has not 😬

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coldspiral.bsky.social @coldspiral.bsky.social · Jan 23

Mind still reeling from finishing Absolution by @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social and within a day I discover the Rykelmä series by Matias Karsikas - this is what Area X feels like to me.
matiaskarsikas.com/rykelm%C3%A4

coldspiral.bsky.social @coldspiral.bsky.social · Jan 21

No bread, all circus.

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The Machine. The Demon. 🍉 @themachinethedemon.bsky.social · Jan 16

David Lynch saying one day the sadness will end. R.I.P.

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coldspiral.bsky.social @coldspiral.bsky.social · Jan 13

I'd forgotten it for about a year, but just added you in case I get back to it!

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coldspiral.bsky.social @coldspiral.bsky.social · Dec 5

Yeah, this tracks:

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