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Edward Newton @ewords.bsky.social · 7m

From the folks who brought you "we paywall the information industry experts gave us for free."

Game Developers Conference @officialgdc.bsky.social · 17h

A New Era Awaits!

bit.ly/3KKYUIq

Edward Newton @ewords.bsky.social · 5h

@pentadact.com Replaying through TBW and this line is still a banger.

"I'm in this image and I don't like it."

A still image of a dialogue scene from a video game, where a character is talking to the dream version of herself.

Character: I like my insights with a little more compassion and a little less accuracy.

Dream version: I can't give you that. I'm the only person you have no compassion for.

Edward Newton @ewords.bsky.social · 13h

This is the most Portland thing I can imagine.

dannyodwyer @dannyodwyer.bsky.social · 14h

I always knew the Furries would be the ones to save us

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 3d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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Edward Newton @ewords.bsky.social · 13h

God, I would have played the shit out of that game though.

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Edward Newton @ewords.bsky.social · 3d

Wait, is this the course? or an introduction to the course?

I'd rather just a link to the course. :D

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 3d

I’m tempted to dunk, but ok, let’s engage seriously.

Putting Japanese-Americans in concentration camps was a fascist activity.

(And I think that if you were Japanese-American at the time, you were experiencing the US as a fascist country.)

Does that mean the US was fascist?

Wrong question.

Shawn McCullough @shawnmcc.bsky.social · 4d

So I guess the US was also a fascist country when FDR was putting Japanese Americans in internment camps, right?

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 4d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Edward Newton @ewords.bsky.social · 4d

This is a twelve minute advertisement for a product I will never buy and I've watched it twice.

youtu.be/hbO1z13WP8o?...

"How to Orchid" by Telepathic Instruments

YouTube video by Telepathic Instruments

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Edward Newton @ewords.bsky.social · 4d

"Either I'm stealing your wallet or - more frequently - I'm not."

would not leave you with a lot of confidence about me around your wallet.

Edward Newton @ewords.bsky.social · 4d

Technobabylon is a banger in a catalog of bangers, don't sleep on it

Hampus 🎃 @hampus.bsky.social · 5d

I'm playing this at the moment and it's a really good time

Wadjet Eye of Sauron @wadjeteyegames.bsky.social · 5d

Cyberpunk adventure Technobabylon by is 70% off during the Steam Autumn Sale!

Hit the blue-neon streets of Newton to follow the trail of a serial killer known as The Mindjacker!

Discover why "there's nothing like being in Trance."

Jack in here: store.steampowered.com/app/307580/T...

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Edward Newton @ewords.bsky.social · 4d

Listing the absolute least common thing first is misleading.

So is saying "at least one" when you mean "exactly one.'

Here's an example:

"I'm married to a woman."

vs

"I'm married to at least one woman."

It's misleading.

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Edward Newton @ewords.bsky.social · 6d

I think I got it now, thank you.

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Edward Newton @ewords.bsky.social · 6d

From just that screen cap alone, it would seem you were suggesting "re-identifying with their natal sex" was the majority of the 18%, and that would be very misleading.

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Edward Newton @ewords.bsky.social · 6d

I'm really confused by this, but I haven't felt comfortable asking bc I don't want to distract the convo.

I read the thread as being about people projecting ill intent into unrelated messages - and it seems like that's exactly what's happening.

I know I must be missing something, but what is it?

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James Deardenayake @technocratgames.bsky.social · 7d

Still my favourite review

Darryl Mott 💀 @gamerstavernshow.com · 7d

Technobabylon's on sale as part of the Steam sale again! So I must as always post this review to convince you to buy my favorite point-and-click adventure game. It's a hilarious and well-written cyberpunk/genepunk thriller and...well...see the review store.steampowered.com/app/307580/T...

Screenshot of a Steam review for the game Technobablyon by Nyaru:

Title: Tricked by the SJWs again!

Snap, they got me good.

Played just over 2 hours before they unleashed their agenda - suddenly I'm looking at interracial gay marriages and hagning out wiht minority trans people in a progressive paradize where it is the norm, as apparently nobody is even surprised by it.

Just past the refund period. Well, guess it's my own fault for taking my time and inspecting everything instead of rushing through the story.

EDIT: and now I found lesbians and a gay robot, and some other cringey thing I forgot.

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Edward Newton @ewords.bsky.social · 7d

Boomer employers: "Ugh, can you believe we have to hold classes to teach GenZ how to act at work?"

The Generation prior to Boomers: "Yeah, we just taught you for free, on the job, without complaining about it."

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Edward Newton @ewords.bsky.social · 7d

"how good is this AI?"
"Slightly better then guessing."

Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 7d

Microsoft says its Agent Mode in Excel has an accuracy rate of 57.2 percent in SpreadsheetBench, a benchmark for evaluating an Al model's ability to edit real world spreadsheets. This result

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 8d

Folks — this is not a normal government shutdown.

Let me explain the stakes and how we got here.

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Edward Newton @ewords.bsky.social · 9d

Dear Team Cherry:

You were so concerned with whether you could, you didn't stop to ask whether you should.

Signed,
The Person Dying On the Nth round of a Mob Battle

P.S. save something for new game+ guys

Edward Newton @ewords.bsky.social · 9d

Yeah, the fact that the organizational structures (business admin) now run the show, instead of the subject matter experts, is a legitimate problem.

Imagine hiring a payroll company, and then finding out they fired you and took over the business, with no idea of how to do it.

danielleri @danielleri.bsky.social · 9d

Kind of want to put this bit on a billboard somewhere (or, idk, replace every web ad everywhere with this text) bsky.app/profile/edzi...

Text describing the current state of business in media and tech (and most industries, truly)

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Edward Newton @ewords.bsky.social · 10d

Judging by your account username, you are a mighty pirate (or long to be)

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 10d

I mean yes this is funny, but the fact that these unconstitutional stormtroopers are so directionless that they literally stand around waiting for random nonwhite delivery guys to bike past them is just pathetic. No mandate, no mission, no clue. Just racism.

Steve Marmel @marmel.bsky.social · 10d

ICE attempted
and failed to disappear a food delivery guy.
It needed to be scored.

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Edward Newton @ewords.bsky.social · 10d

You can hardly see it due to the light, but Stephen Graham (who played Tommy) manages to keep his face neutral while a single, subtle tear runs down his cheek, while the other characters in the scene decide if it's easier to kill him.

Edward Newton @ewords.bsky.social · 10d

When Tommy stands there, with the upside-down sweet-sick sound of "Golden Brown" playing in his ears, waiting to find out if they're going to kill him next, it perfectly captures the sullen, brooding, bruised feeling of sitting in the aftermath of a life-changing mistake.

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Edward Newton @ewords.bsky.social · 10d

Brad Pitt knocking out Gorgeous George in Snatch is quietly one of the best moments in cinema history.

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