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Robin Bea @robinbombus.bsky.social · 5m

my four favorite games this year are all like 2 hours or under store.steampowered.com/app/3570370/...

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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 12m

Yeah I was not expecting to see that either, but I'm super glad it did! That game didn't get enough laurels.

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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 14m

It's so slept on! It was so good!

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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 17m

So the FANGORIA Chainsaw Awards are... a thing that exists that maybe warrants its own unpacking, but the 2025 nominees for best video game according to horror nerds is a surprisingly decent spread of titles.

www.fangoria.com/2025-fangori...

"Best Video Game: Death Stranding 2. Mouthwashing. Silent Hill 2 Remake. Slitterhead. Sorry We're Closed."

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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 3h

The fact that these don’t specify North or South Carolina nor whether they’re mustard or vinegar based makes them incredibly suspect

A picture of a bag of “Carolina style BBQ” flavored Cheetos fries

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 4h

"we are going to murder americans without due process"
~pam bondi, US attorney general

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 7h

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 5h

Sometimes the hum of electric cars sounds like a Fortnite chest is in the area

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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 6h

Maybe stop being less of a fucking bigot willing to throw people under the bus to make sure you can get to brunch on time and actually fight fascism by believing in something.

Like if you’re willing to bus people how are you in any material way better than the other fascists?

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Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 8h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 17h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 9h

Doing crowd work from notes. Pitiful

The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 14h

Close-up photos have revealed the prepared list of put-downs that Pam Bondi brought to use against senators during her Epstein hearing.

Bondi Accidentally Reveals Her Burn Book for Fiery Epstein Hearing

The attorney general chose to lash out rather than answer questions from lawmakers about the late pedophile.

trib.al

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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 12h

Counterpoint: Bigots need to be shamed and shunned until their hateful beliefs are no longer socially acceptable; kicking the dirt and waiting for bigots to change their own minds ain't gonna achieve shit.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 13h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 22h

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 13h

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Yo Gabapentin @yogabapentin.bsky.social · 1d

Claude AI’s logo is unironically Kurt Vonnegut’s butthole drawing

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maddie ★ othatsraspberry @othatsraspberry.com · 1d

🤏🌟

Hades II comic
Melinoë (she looks very cool and powerful)
Melinoë when Selene calls her “little star” (she is a cute baby star being held by Selene)

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Blanksword ⚔️ Kickstarter live NOW!! @blanksword.bsky.social · 1d

9 DAYS LEFT to back BLANKSWORD, our Roguelike RPG where you play an Angel that lost his brain!

⚔ God is waiting. ⚔

BLANKSWORD

An Angelic Roguelike RPG

www.kickstarter.com

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 1d

A bill that basically allows teachers to acknowledge that trans people exist is too spicy for this nazi fluffer

Republicans latched onto the legislation as an example of "gender ideology" at work in state government, with the Senate Minority Leader Brian Jones (R) demanding Newsom veto it.
The bill promotes the "theory that reproductive anatomy does not necessarily determine a person's gender," Jones wrote in a message to Newsom.
"For third grade students the framework states,"
'When
providing instruction on sexual and reproductive organs, teachers can introduce the concept that gender does not always match the sexual and reproductive organs described," Jones said.
"Teaching controversial gender theories to students as young as eight or nine years old is not a practice that most Californians support, nor want to see happening in our schools."

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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 1d

It's a big day for Chris pulling out his various image macros about how the Democrats are failing, huh

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

if the democratic party starts stepping away trans people they might as well sign this country away to the far right forever

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 1d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 1d

I still cannot get over the fact that the police chief from Weapons was the guy that played Artie, The Strongest Man in the World on Pete and Pete

A picture of Toby Huss in The Adventures of Pete & Pete

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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 1d

Yeah I just know someone is going to suggest using an AI to summarize all the junk AI wrote to begin with, but at that point you're compounding the likelihood of hallucinations!

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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 1d

Whatever meager time savings you may get from one out of ten "CRITICAL" Claude code review comments being legitimate and good, you lose in having to sift through mountains of slop everywhere.

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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 1d

While full on AI agents haven't taken over my workplace, one thing I have noticed lately is the ridiculous uptick in just... word salad generated by AIs. Everywhere. Meeting summaries, code review suggestions, stories coming into sprints half-written by AI that are then summarized by *another* AI.

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