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Gwen C. Katz

@gwenckatz.bsky.social

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Lead developer of Nightwell Games. Currently surviving the aftermath of the Eaton Fire. Art-themed deduction game SURRADIA coming soon: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2781420/Surradia_An_Art_Retrospective/

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · Apr 27

Deductopia Chapter 1 is out now! Sort out chaos in the classroom and get a little free taste of the puzzle-filled world of Deductopia.

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Deductopia Chapter 1: Bring Your Pet to School Day on Steam

Can you sort out this chaotic classroom? Six kids, six pets, six desks--but whose is whose? Drag the right names and pictures to the right desks to win!

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🦇🩸Hexavier🩸🦇 @xavierck.com · 15m

We desperately need someone with your very specific set of skills, like, RIGHT NOW! OMG!

But ooooooooonly if you're willing to relocate so you can sit in an office and desperately try ignore other people so you can get half as much work done in twice the time 😎

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 2h

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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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 10h

That's great!

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Glenn White @justicar.xyz · 10h

DAILY HAND-TO-HAND COMBAT WITH ANTIFA.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 12h

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 10h

Always great to get a gig!

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 10h

CACKLING

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Nosferatu RBMK 🦇 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 16h

this shit looks like someone’s about to shoot franz ferdinand

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16h

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 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 11h

And you know they had 10 more puns ready to go that didn't make the cover

Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 12h

With another squirrel in the background

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 15h

My Very Dear Ones,

I write to you from near the front lines of war ravaged Portland.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 14h

Well of course the firefighter is winning, he's a good 1.25% scale

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 15h

Here’s some Johana Molina art to make your Tuesday a little better.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 15h

I'll forgive this if every response is just "Shut up and listen, jesus"

lindsey adler @lindseyadler.bsky.social · 1d

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neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 1d

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

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Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · 4d

Submissions are open until 15 October!

Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · 16d

The general submissions portal is now open for all writers. We are looking for speculative fiction stories, 5000 words or under, and our preference is for something that is, more or less, fun.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 18h

Oh for sure, and their inability to explain these basic facts really exacerbates everything

Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 19h

There are plenty of reasons to hate AI but can we all get straight that an AI "feature" on a site doesn't mean they're training on that site's data.

Because they're training on all the data everywhere, AI features or no.

🇵🇸Baldemoto @baldemo.to · 20h

Hive provides genAI services, but Bsky has no stake in that part of the company and there is no financial incentive for them to provide the data themselves. If Hive, or any company, wants to scrape the entirety of Bsky like any other site, they can. I can't find it in me to be mad about this anymore

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 20h

Update: Still terrible

Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 20h

Hollebecq's got a slam dunk theme song for his Nobel Peace Prize campaign

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kgjk...

Gwen Stefani - Hollaback Girl (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by GwenStefaniVEVO

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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 20h

If you’re a ferret, sometimes a little brother can be used as shelter.

One of my ferrets has draped his entire chubby little body over his much smaller older sister. Only a little bit of her face and butt can be seen poking out from under his belly

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 21h

Doesn't load for me.

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Saimi Hanma ⚔️ @saimihanma.bsky.social · 1d

Is there anyone in the Seattle area who really wants to get into macro photography and has a Nikon? I'm giving up on heavy camera gear and I'm going to sell a ton of stuff including a barely used speedlight kit and commander, Laowa 100mm Macro, Nikkor 10-20mm, Manfrotto tripod with ball head...

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 21h

How can I experience Cheese Dungeon

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love & barley 🐸🌶️🪏🎃 @loveandbarley.bsky.social · 1d

give greta thunberg a gundam

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