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Jamie Lee Squirtus

@kyliecoyote.bsky.social

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game dev | narrative designer | writing lead for The Elder Scrolls Renewal: Skywind @skywind.bsky.social | fictional old man enjoyer doing it for the girls, gays, & theys. 📍Chicago

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Jamie Lee Squirtus @kyliecoyote.bsky.social · May 8

i think my house is haunted

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Jamie Lee Squirtus @kyliecoyote.bsky.social · 7m

agreed 💙

Jamie Lee Squirtus @kyliecoyote.bsky.social · 8h

he has an incredible way of conjuring vivid imagery in fewer words than most would require

i’ve never read anything in the cyberpunk genre before now, but on screen, aesthetics & atmosphere are so core to its themes. i was curious how that would translate to the written word. def not disappointed.

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how far out is the world that's coming? @mxmarkargent.bsky.social · 9h

i have read this book so, so many times and there's always some new-to-me description or turn of phrase that reminds me that, oh yeah, Gibson can fucking *write*.

Jamie Lee Squirtus @kyliecoyote.bsky.social · 1d

i want to eat William Gibson’s descriptions with a spoon

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Jamie Lee Squirtus @kyliecoyote.bsky.social · 9h

i’m on my first read through currently & this is the first book i’ve read in some time that’s sucked me in from the first page. “a black expanse where gulls wheeled above drifting shoals of white styrofoam” made me set the book down for a minute so i could fully process the image.

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Jamie Lee Squirtus @kyliecoyote.bsky.social · 10h

*Seinfeld bassline rips*

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Jamie Lee Squirtus @kyliecoyote.bsky.social · 1d

i want to eat William Gibson’s descriptions with a spoon

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 17h

hmmmmm

no i'm not a human indie game showing suspicious perfect teeth diagram next to pam bondi edited into the storage closet room.

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Jamie Lee Squirtus @kyliecoyote.bsky.social · 10h

To whomever made the FallRim Resavr tool & included an XML file that gets saved to your desktop as a Chrome shortcut that's labeled "pom":

if your intent was to create an awkward situation for Skyrim modders when their hot professor helps them fix something on their laptop, know that you succeeded.

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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 17h

Reminder to cis people that anti trans legislation can and will also hurt you, if you’re not already motivated to care about trans rights. We need stronger state level privacy laws around medical records in a post-Roe world for abortion rights, too.

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One bill expanded San Francisco state Sen. Scott Wiener's "State of Refuge" law, passed in 2022. The enhanced measure would prevent other states and private entities from subpoenaing private medical records.
At least four bills directly addressed trans protections, including Wiener's healthcare and patient confidentiality measure; streamlining legal name and gender changes, anu enhanced confidentiality requirements for court records; nondiscrimination protections for health insurance plans and an insurance company mandate to offer a
12-month supply of prescription hormones; and a requirement to ensure homelessness programs remain inclusive and nondiscriminatory, combatting federal efforts to force homeless shelters to ban trans people.

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PercolatorFish @percolatrfish.bsky.social · 1d

The Human Centipede is a tremendous allegory for LLMs and image generators

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 1d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Jamie Lee Squirtus @kyliecoyote.bsky.social · 1d

me: *falls from 50 ft in the air, breaks ankle*

Elder Scrolls; “You should rest and meditate on what you’ve learned.”

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 1d

World’s oldest mummification found: smoke-dried remains from SE Asia & S. China date back 12,000 years—predating Egypt & Chinchorro, with ties to Indigenous New Guinea & Australia..

In @archaeologymag.bsky.social: archaeology.org/news/2025/09...
In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Examples of Early and Middle Holocene human burials from southern China. This figure shows six human burials from Huiyaotian (A: M14, B: M19, C: M20) in Nanning and Liyupo (D: M23, E: M24, F: M28) in Long’an, both shell-midden sites located in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. All individuals are in flexed positions, with several exhibiting hyper-flexed postures (A and E: male, B–D and F: female).

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Jamie Lee Squirtus @kyliecoyote.bsky.social · 1d

i want to eat William Gibson’s descriptions with a spoon

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Jamie Lee Squirtus @kyliecoyote.bsky.social · 1d

that’s so cool. if it wasn’t for the cost of higher ed here, i’d pursue a PhD no question. i genuinely enjoy school & i love learning about/discussing games beyond just playing them (or even making them).

do you know the exact degree your colleague is getting? is it game design or something else?

Jamie Lee Squirtus @kyliecoyote.bsky.social · 1d

thank you! this is really helpful.

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 3d

And they’re hiring. Every reel of terror that is released—every video of slamming a woman on concrete, blowing the doors off of the house of a screaming family—is an advertisement to get in on the terror while it’s good.

bsky.app/profile/utop...

utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 3d

There it is

Bluesky post:

Kristina Cooke
@kristinacooke.bsky.social
Follow I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and
all her possessions were gone

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onion person @junlper.beer · 4d

they’re intenionally advertising to and recruiting far right loyalists. they post and reply to explicit groyper memes. they’re not super subtle about what this government is

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 4d

I said what I said.

The Briefing with Jen Psaki @briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social · 4d

IL Congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh: "I think Kristi Noem should have consequences. I think she should be tried at The Hague."

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Jamie Lee Squirtus @kyliecoyote.bsky.social · 4d

At this point, I think I just have to accept that my interests & skill sets aren’t things that will lead to easy, steady employment 😅

Jamie Lee Squirtus @kyliecoyote.bsky.social · 4d

Tbh, I wasn’t considering grad school until one of my teachers mentioned academia careers. But given a choice between that & working as a dev, I’d always pick dev. So I suppose the primary thing I’d want from it is experience & networking. (I have experience, but not the kind most roles ask for.)

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Jamie Lee Squirtus @kyliecoyote.bsky.social · 4d

at the same time, i’ve developed a passion for the research side of video games & their sociological impact.

i could see shifting my focus to academia, but i’m not sure what the career potential looks like, so i would love to hear from people with first-hand knowledge.

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Jamie Lee Squirtus @kyliecoyote.bsky.social · 4d

as graduation draws nearer, i’m thinking about next steps.

i’m still in love with game dev, but the vast majority of open roles are senior level.

i’ve been told an advanced degree can give a candidate a leg up in lieu of industry experience, but that sounds extremely circumstantial.

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Jamie Lee Squirtus @kyliecoyote.bsky.social · 4d

okay, this may flop, but…

@ fellow game devs: what are your thoughts on pursuing an advanced degree as a game designer? worth it or nah?

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John Lansing | Fantasy Football Tactics @jlansing19.bsky.social · 4d

For anyone that uses Unity and may have missed it, there is an important security patch available. This affects apps and games published with Unity for the last several years: discussions.unity.com/t/unity-plat...

#gamedev #indiedev

Unity Platform Protection: Take Immediate Action to Protect Your Games and Apps

An important message A security vulnerability was identified that affects games and applications built on Unity versions 2017.1 and later for Android, Windows, Linux, and macOS operating systems. Ther...

discussions.unity.com

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