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zaratustra @zaratustra.bsky.social · 16h

Behind this mask is an idea. And ideas are bulletproof.

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 3d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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Mando @mrmandolino.itch.io · 14h

as one of the tens of thousands of devs that got caught up in the apocalyptic layoffs of the past few years, this makes me feel like shit

thanks

Game Developers Conference @officialgdc.bsky.social · 15h

A New Era Awaits!

bit.ly/3KKYUIq

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Joseph Knoop @josephknoop.bsky.social · 16h

Extra funny when you think about how Sinners, which features Michael B. Jordan gunning down Klansmen in broad daylight in slow-mo, is the 10th highest-grossing R-rated film of all time - higher than The Hangover, 300, Logan, John Wick 4, etc....

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 16h

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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Mando @mrmandolino.itch.io · 16h

that's the other thing i keep thinking about

"well even if the bubble pops we still have to deal with a normal amount of AI, whatever that means"

okay but AI requires massive infrastructural and energy consumption investments. can it even be sustained "normally" outside of a bubble economy?

Loui Stonehill @louistonehill.bsky.social · 23h

So it baffles the mind that industry pros keep saying "Oh well, there'll always be a little left in the fringes that the odd person will use"
From where I sit that is a physical and financial impossibility

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Liz Alfos @touloutoumou.bsky.social · 17h

Detective Daydream is coming really soon

Get in - Get out - Don't get seen

But what it was all just a dream?

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Mando @mrmandolino.itch.io · 17h

it's worth remembering that these people are acting. they aren't firebrand conservatives who are just too enraged for keeping things PC, they write down their insults and meltdowns. it's theater, it's a performance, it's a constructed reality

it's an influencerocracy

The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 22h

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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sheer spite press @sheerspite.bsky.social · 1d

Every zine fest is a miracle and a labour of love, but here are some things that I have experienced that make for a zine fair that is especially nice to table at:
sheerspite.ca/five-things-...

Five things zine fairs do that I love - sheer spite press

Hello! I’ve been thinking about zine fairs (and book fairs, small press fairs, and other places where people stand behind a table and sell you little booklets). I’ve tabled...

sheerspite.ca

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Jo 🏳️‍⚧️🏴🦕 @youjogirl.bsky.social · 1d

Every smartphone in the world contains a CPU descended from one designed by a trans woman in the 1980s. The Matrix is one of the most influential movie franchises of all time. Electronic music was pioneered and popularized by a trans woman. I could go on

Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 1d

i think my favourite part about being a trans woman is how much of an impact we have on culture. a friend reminded me today about a popular meme format she created. another friend today casually told me about how she was the most notorious roblox hacker when she was a child.

just a day in the life!

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Lyn’s art corner! ✨ @sleepysnoot.bsky.social · 20h

Passing, but at what cost 😔

Me and a course mate sit and have lunch together. During conversation, he finds out that Im trans

I blush and ask him if he didn't notice anything before, hoping to receive compliments

He replies that all the details he noticed before, he chalked it up to me being italian

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 21h

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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Mando @mrmandolino.itch.io · 20h

i burst out laughing lmao

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🦎galileo🍉 @galileogb.bsky.social · 1d

kinktober backwards

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Mando @mrmandolino.itch.io · 20h

damn, congrats! that's the archivist's dream right there

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no notes

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Mando @mrmandolino.itch.io · 1d

... i should eat food

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🦎galileo🍉 @galileogb.bsky.social · 1d

a good rule to follow that should go without saying but the internet incentivizes otherwizes: if you dont know what you're talking about, dont pretend to be an expert.

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Renkon @renkotsuban.com · 1d

New #blog post!! Yes, again!! In the same day! Don't look at the post dates, this uhhh actually came out on the 6th 😭 But here's my #ShortBoxComicsFair haul! Go get some cool comics today!!

renkotsuban.com/posts/2025-1...

📚 ShortBox Comics Fair 2025

The cool comics I picked up in this year's ShortBox Comics Fair! Get your fresh new indie comics before they're gone!

renkotsuban.com

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Delisted Games @delistedgames.com · 1d

The 1999 version of System Shock 2 is being delisted on October 10th, will become a freebie in the Steam remaster release

delistedgames.com

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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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悠哉【youzai】 @youzai.bsky.social · 1d

🐱🐭#digimon #デジモン

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Saint Twiggie 🙏 🔞 @twiggietime.bsky.social · 1d

Stop fighting on the internet and go for a walk or something. Take a nap. Buy a little toy. It's going to be okay.

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 5d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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Mando @mrmandolino.itch.io · 1d

"lynch would believe in me" has gotten me through a surprising amount of tough artistic times

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Mando @mrmandolino.itch.io · 1d

they made infinity money instead of infinity minus one money and there's now a crater forming where the media industry used to be

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Mando @mrmandolino.itch.io · 1d

sometimes i think about how had Steam put together an affiliate link program like Amazon did years ago, the situation in games and games media today would be significantly different

but they didn't and won't, they have no need for fostering things. they're a de facto monopoly

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Mando @mrmandolino.itch.io · 1d

mmm

hot tea

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