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Emma Kidwell | Looking for work ✨ @emmakidwell.bsky.social · 1d

Boosting again, please share! Still looking for writing work-- full time or contract, i'm incredibly adaptable and eager to learn and grow ✍️

Emma Kidwell | Looking for work ✨ @emmakidwell.bsky.social · Sep 4

Hi! I was laid off from Firaxis this morning. I wrote leaders and civs for Civilization VII (NDA for now) and Deadpool and Storm for Marvel's Midnight Suns. I also wrote the award-nominated Hindsight.

I'm available for full time, remote work starting ASAP. DMs are open:

emmkid.info

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1h

this is an explicitely nazi administration and anyone who still supports them should be viewed as such

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2h

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 8h

The COO of bluesky, Rose, is following the heritage foundation account on bluesky.

Soyweiser @soyweiser.bsky.social · 9h

She is the COO en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_o... of bsky. This is worrying because after the 'we are turning waffles into an anti-trans thing' by the CEO the CEO started to follow a transphobe. Shows a pattern.

Wonder when we find out one of them follows the discovery institute.

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 6h

DEI for me, not for thee.

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 8d

I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".

Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 8d

hey @nytimes.com: there is no counterpoint here. There are no credible legal experts who would EVER say that the US military has any right or authority to blow civilian craft out of the Caribbean and kill their crews from afar without any provocation. There is no other side to this question.

"Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians not directly taking part in hostilities, even if they are believed to be smuggling drugs."

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 5h

this has got to be the stupidest and most blatantly "unamerican" group of rulers this country has ever had. if you can't win against "goons in the streets, rotting food in the fields, orang is 90 dollars now" then i dont know what to say

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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 3h

We are at the 'whole AAA games cancelled for fear of offending rabid racists' stage of this clusterfuck now.

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 3h

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 · 12h

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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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip · 16h

@penllawen.favrd.social Attn: hachyderm.io/@samhenrigol...

sam henri gold (@[email protected])

Attached: 2 images hey wanna see something kinda interesting? this was the entire fix to the iPhone Antennagate in 2010. 20 bytes. (this is going to be a very long thread 🧵)

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Katelyn Gadd @kg.luminance.org · 16h

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · 1d

Laura is one of the very best writers and editors in video games, you'd be lucky to get her on board a project.

Laura Michet @lmichet.bsky.social · 1d

Learned that I am being laid off from Heart Machine, and will be leaving the studio later this month.

Do you need a contractor? I've got a track record of leading scope-friendly script revisions late in dev. I have also done a lot of consulting on new IPs and pitches/demos. Feel free to DM me!

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 22h

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Aura @aurahack.ca · 21h

gonna nip this one in the bud and say that this is basically impossible for ANY western company to do but godddd i want to dream!!!

AUTOMATON WEST @automatonwest.bsky.social · 21h

Japanese game and comic platform DLsite launches its own payment alternative following Visa and Mastercard suspensions

The service will not be available outside of Japan

automaton-media.com/en/news/japa...

Japanese game and comic platform DLsite launches its own payment alternative following Visa and Mastercard suspensions - AUTOMATON WEST

Following suspensions of transactions via Visa and Mastercard, DLsite has launched a semi-in-house payment alternative.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Health Experts Recommend Standing Up At Desk, Leaving Office, Never Coming Back https://theonion.com/health-experts-recommend-standing-up-at-desk-leaving-o-1819577456/

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LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 1d

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

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Fantômas, Le contrebandier de DEI @theefantomas.bsky.social · 1d

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oriana schwindt @schwindter.bsky.social · 1d

🎶 capitalism as totalizing ideology 🎶

Greylace @greylace.bsky.social · 1d

The recent ICE raid which emptied an entire apartment building was apparently at the request of Wells Fargo, which is trying to foreclose on the building.

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 1d

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The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

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BATTLE SUIT ACES OUT NOW 🤖 @team.trinketstudios.com · 28d

🗣️ BATTLE SUIT ACES RELEASE DATE ANNOUNCEMENT 🗣

🤖cool robots
🏳️‍🌈queer, found family narratives woven throughout the game
👨‍🍳made by beloved indie Battle Chef Brigade team
🃏📺part-card battler, part visual novel
🎨iconic anime art style

Coming to Switch, PS5, and PC on October 7th! don't miss this! 🫵

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alyaza ΘΔ @alyazabirze.bsky.social · 2d

this was called Cohost—not enough people used it or spent money on it relative to the amount of money it cost to (1) pay its 4 employees a living wage for their labor; and (2) keep the site running, so it died, nothing like it has taken its place at the scale it existed, and now we're here

Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 2d

Worker owned social media when

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 1d

Built in a lab to appease billionaires

"I know that there are some people in this room who don't believe that my marriage should have been legal," Ms. Weiss told the Federalist Society, an influential
conservative legal group, in 2023. "And that's OK. Because we're all Americans who want lower taxes."

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neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 2d

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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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 1d

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 2d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 1d

come be a senior QA analyst and send me bugs, puff up that jira bro

Gravity Well @gravitywell.games · 2d

Gravity Well is looking for a Senior QA Analyst to join our team! 🎮👾

If you've got sharp testing skills, a passion for video games, and experience with QA efforts, we want to hear from you!

Apply here: job-boards.greenhouse.io/gravitywell/...

Senior QA Analyst

Remote

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Dia Lacina @dialacina.com · 2d

When you realize how long it takes for a single tree to become fully mature and how many trees it takes to be productive... This is just one more method of *generational* violence.

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 2d

Hundreds of olive trees were seen uprooted by Israeli forces in the villages of al-Mughayyir and abu Falah near Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank.

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