Derek Carroll
derekcarroll.bsky.social
Derek Carroll
@derekcarroll.bsky.social
(he/him)

I make totally sweet games like MechAssault, Shadowrun, Halo: Reach, and Destiny.

I use this account as a placeholder and for testing purposes. My main social media presence is over on Mastodon:
https://mastodon.social/@mantis
(Find me there!)
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Shit is so bad that the best American news of the week is that Dolly Parton didn't die.
October 10, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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every time i think im fully radicalised i read something like this and find a little more room
October 9, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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October 7, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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⚡In case you missed it, the newly rebranded Experimental Games Showcase (formerly the Experimental Gameplay Workshop) is now accepting submissions for next year!⚡

The deadline is October 24 and can be either in person or via video.

Get more info and submit here:
www.experimentalgamesshowcase.com
Experimental Games Showcase
SUBMIT YOUR GAME TO THE
www.experimentalgamesshowcase.com
October 7, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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When your custom character appears in a cut scene
October 6, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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i just can’t get over ICE going into the streets of the city i live in, throwing gas at citizens, invading people who live here. this is state sponsored terrorism being enacted on americans
October 4, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Anyway props to NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD for just flat saying "in times of crisis your supposed protectors reveal themselves as the racist lynch mobs they always were" 57 years ago
October 4, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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ICE writing long screeds whining about someone from Cato calling out their bullshit shows how they know they're losing the narrative here. No one likes ICE. No one trusts ICE. And they're flipping out about how weak they look.
ICE says I cause assaults on ICE by reciting facts about ICE’s recent shooting but refuses to link to the thread. Only posting a picture. ICE lies and ICE hides. You can read the facts for yourselves
October 4, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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sorry I can't come to your thing I have a spooktacular
October 14, 2023 at 5:00 PM
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Congrats to @jay.bsky.team and the whole Bluesky team for creating a new dogwhistle for transphobes in record time. Excellent work all around.
ope stage 5
October 3, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Name A 28-Year-Old. “The data tells us that 3,880,894 children were born in the year 1997, and yet we can find no trace of them in popular culture.” [defector.com]
Name A 28-Year-Old | Defector
Here is the challenge before you: Name a famous person who is 28 years old. Go ahead. No cheating, no looking it up. Off the dome. Pure, uncut 28-year-old naming. I bet you can’t do it.  Zendaya? 29. Gracie Abrams? 26. Paul Mescal? 29. Hannah Einbinder? 30. You’re lower than dirt. You couldn’t name
defector.com
October 3, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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"decentralized protocol" is such a funny thing for bluesky to bring up every time they fuck up - something already available on Mastodon, doesn't fully work here, almost nobody wants. its like if mcdonalds forgot how to make fries but they told everyone they had almost mastered the Mexican Pizza
October 3, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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SCOOP — Pennsylvania prosecutors were alerted to possible voting irregularities by one of MAGA's leading voices against voter fraud. A long paper trail shows Jack Posobiec has been living in Maryland but voting using his parents' PA address for years.

From @jsweetli.bsky.social, @slate.com + me:
MAGA’s “Voter Fraud” Watchdog Votes in a Swing State. He Doesn’t Live There.
A long paper trail shows that Jack Posobiec casts a ballot in one state and lives in another.
slate.com
October 3, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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I would like to know how we can identify the specific persons at CNN who researched, wrote, edited, and approved this and hang it around their necks for the rest of their professional lives.
Last year, CNN ran a “fact check” of Kamala HQ that claimed we were lying for saying Trump’s plan is Project 2025.

Now Trump is outright admitting it’s his plan.

Legacy media failed the country.
October 3, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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today i learned dorothy thompson was dragging trumpy tradwives in 19-hundred-and-fucking-41 in Harper's, the same magazine which would 79 years later publish a letter decrying precisely this kind of drag as illiberal cancel culture
October 2, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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Read bad art. Write bad art. Critique bad art.
October 2, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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Once again: Hegseth is the exact type of guy The Art of War was written for, which means he will never read it
October 2, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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You can now fill out the FAFSA!

About half of Washington families qualify for the Washington College Grant (WA Grant). A student from a family of four making $72,000 or less can get the equivalent of free public college tuition and fees for their post-high school program paid.
October 1, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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you know, I don't know much about Jane goodall, but I feel like she had a thing she was really passionate and driven about and she made it her duty in life to advocate for that thing without worrying that her advocacy was detracting from "more important" causes, and man, I can totally respect that
Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91
October 1, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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i know you are all still in scrappy startup bright eyed crew of the uss enterprise delulu mindset but good lord you really ought to hire pr
October 1, 2025 at 6:54 PM
I’ve said this before, but it might go double for SUPER HEXAGON: “Sound is half the game.”
Someone has reimplemented Super Hexagon for the 3DS. But without @chipzel.bsky.social ‘s banging soundtrack it just doesn’t hit the same…
October 1, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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We're gonna need an active communist party if only to restore context to our political discourse, I can't listen to republicans calling chuck schumer radical left anymore
June 16, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
October 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Circle K has what can only be described as “Saints Row Food”
October 1, 2025 at 3:48 PM