Shiny Vacation
@shinyvacation.bsky.social
🌸 Small Indie Dev
🌻 Retired VGM Radio DJ
🍁 Maddie's Mothman
❄️ Tired Day Job Haver (35, he/they)
http://shinyvacation.itch.io/hand-of-horzasha
🌻 Retired VGM Radio DJ
🍁 Maddie's Mothman
❄️ Tired Day Job Haver (35, he/they)
http://shinyvacation.itch.io/hand-of-horzasha
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Turn on the TV. Doesn’t matter what channel.
December 8, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Turn on the TV. Doesn’t matter what channel.
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In case you were wondering what it’s like to boot a free to play mobile game in 2025
December 8, 2025 at 3:20 PM
In case you were wondering what it’s like to boot a free to play mobile game in 2025
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this kind of knocking everything down because you won one election is really troubling. that's our information, our data, our institutions, and you're a temporary caretaker. you shouldn't be able to just raze what came before, even if you want to go in another direction. shit is really broken
It appears that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has, within the past week, scrubbed a large amount of climate change content from its official website, as well as *removed human-caused warming* from the discussion on its "causes of climate change" page.
December 8, 2025 at 8:07 PM
this kind of knocking everything down because you won one election is really troubling. that's our information, our data, our institutions, and you're a temporary caretaker. you shouldn't be able to just raze what came before, even if you want to go in another direction. shit is really broken
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can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
December 8, 2025 at 9:29 AM
can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
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we all got cowed into avoiding "virtue signaling" as if the public affirmation of socially agreed upon ethical principles was somehow cringey instead of a significant part of what a "society" even is. now all there's left is vice signaling, and it's reshaping society.
December 8, 2025 at 6:07 PM
we all got cowed into avoiding "virtue signaling" as if the public affirmation of socially agreed upon ethical principles was somehow cringey instead of a significant part of what a "society" even is. now all there's left is vice signaling, and it's reshaping society.
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![american indie developer deciding on a setting: in a cozy mountain town surrounded by wholesome yokai, ghibli inspired cooperative sustainable cherry blossoms and you can pet the dog
french indie developer deciding on a setting: in a world where the gestalt misery of colonisation's victims has manifested into a sort of misery elemental, three church-like religious organisations hav[nine more paragraphs that leave you feeling like you know less than you knew before you started reading]
polish indie developer deciding on a setting: warsaw👍🇵🇱 it is very bad](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bd5w6iipngycpaldvydcslbd/bafkreifwfovv2nzqcjd2cygzz5a6xqmqrcjclghyc37haz5rwygbg2krsa@jpeg)
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HELL YEAH A MILLION REPOSTS
May 11, 2025 at 2:36 AM
HELL YEAH A MILLION REPOSTS
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dude was so all about the metaverse that he renamed the whole company, only to burn billions on a venture that anybody with sense knew was destined to fail. it is laughable that he remains in charge. merit simply does not exist
Meta Platforms is planning cuts to the metaverse—an arena Mark Zuckerberg once called the future of the company—and will shift spending to AI wearables.
Meta Plans to Shift Spending Away From the Metaverse
Zuckerberg’s bet on immersive online worlds has lost the company more than $77 billion since 2020.
on.wsj.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:47 PM
dude was so all about the metaverse that he renamed the whole company, only to burn billions on a venture that anybody with sense knew was destined to fail. it is laughable that he remains in charge. merit simply does not exist
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"For a certain kind of conservative, there’s no hypocrisy here: children (teens) should be kept ignorant of sex and sexual agency so that they can be better exploited. This is why good, appropriate literature should teach them only modesty and stifled hopes."
wrote about the Drift’s romantasy piece, which I felt was condescending and anthropological in nature, and also wrong on some key facts (mostly explored in the footnotes) open.substack.com/pub/lytagold...
romantasyzing yr world
In case you missed it, I had a guest post up on Barbara McClay’s excellent Substack last week.
open.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:10 AM
"For a certain kind of conservative, there’s no hypocrisy here: children (teens) should be kept ignorant of sex and sexual agency so that they can be better exploited. This is why good, appropriate literature should teach them only modesty and stifled hopes."
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Even queers who are "just little guys" living the most inoffensive possible life with their stuffies and their cozy games and their soft colors will just end up accused of "sexualizing children" the same way that babyfurs are accused. If you are queer you are offensive
The fascists are counting on you finding erotica and porn too distasteful to support. Because they always start here. And even if they ended here, sexuality and erotism are integral components of queer expression. You can't support queer creators without supporting 'nsfw' content.
December 4, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Even queers who are "just little guys" living the most inoffensive possible life with their stuffies and their cozy games and their soft colors will just end up accused of "sexualizing children" the same way that babyfurs are accused. If you are queer you are offensive
Any mutuals use Finch?
December 4, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Any mutuals use Finch?
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The "bedroom coders" everyone loves to romanticize were selling shareware. They were selling mail-order software. Victor Hugo wrote Les Mis as a serial for a newspaper and he got paid by the word, which is why it's so fucking long. Labor can only exist if society values its existence.
December 4, 2025 at 3:22 PM
The "bedroom coders" everyone loves to romanticize were selling shareware. They were selling mail-order software. Victor Hugo wrote Les Mis as a serial for a newspaper and he got paid by the word, which is why it's so fucking long. Labor can only exist if society values its existence.
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If we can only have art from people who "aren't in it for the money" that means we can only have art from privileged middle-class dilettantes. Making art being a viable career is responsible for nearly all worthwhile art, and if it's not a viable career any more we will get drastically less of it.
December 4, 2025 at 3:13 PM
If we can only have art from people who "aren't in it for the money" that means we can only have art from privileged middle-class dilettantes. Making art being a viable career is responsible for nearly all worthwhile art, and if it's not a viable career any more we will get drastically less of it.
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here is probably the most whimsical and gormless creature ive made so far. just utterly permeable. under investigation for an allergy to tap water
December 4, 2025 at 5:17 AM
here is probably the most whimsical and gormless creature ive made so far. just utterly permeable. under investigation for an allergy to tap water
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November 13, 2024 at 6:39 PM
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Remembered this piece I really like that I dont think I’ve posted on here
December 4, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Remembered this piece I really like that I dont think I’ve posted on here
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You absolutely fucking love to see it.
It’s incredible how much integrity and solidarity Greta has shown. In a world full of spineless quislings and grifters, she’s really a hero.
It’s incredible how much integrity and solidarity Greta has shown. In a world full of spineless quislings and grifters, she’s really a hero.
Greta Thunberg delivered the acceptance speech for whistleblower group Justice for Myanmar at the 2025 Right Livelihood Award Ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden, on Tuesday english.dvb.no/greta-thunbe...
#whatshappeninginmyamar
#JusticeForMyanmar
#whatshappeninginmyamar
#JusticeForMyanmar
Greta Thunberg shows support for Myanmar at Right Livelihood Award ceremony in Sweden - DVB
Greta Thunberg, a Swedish activist and 2019 Right Livelihood Laureate, delivered the acceptance speech for whistleblower group Justice for Myanmar at the 2025 Right Livelihood Award Ceremony in Stockh...
english.dvb.no
December 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
You absolutely fucking love to see it.
It’s incredible how much integrity and solidarity Greta has shown. In a world full of spineless quislings and grifters, she’s really a hero.
It’s incredible how much integrity and solidarity Greta has shown. In a world full of spineless quislings and grifters, she’s really a hero.
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When is the No Kings protest against the illegal war with Venezuela
December 4, 2025 at 4:21 PM
When is the No Kings protest against the illegal war with Venezuela
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One of the many things worth thinking about re: Steam's ban on Horses is how it highlights is the centralization problem caused by having such a monolithic (and maybe mono-something-else) retail giant.
Independent studios with even humble commercial aspirations are chained to Valve's whims.
Independent studios with even humble commercial aspirations are chained to Valve's whims.
December 4, 2025 at 12:41 AM
One of the many things worth thinking about re: Steam's ban on Horses is how it highlights is the centralization problem caused by having such a monolithic (and maybe mono-something-else) retail giant.
Independent studios with even humble commercial aspirations are chained to Valve's whims.
Independent studios with even humble commercial aspirations are chained to Valve's whims.
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I’m gonna need the ones defending the ppl who lose weight’s bodily autonomy to start also coming to the defense of fat ppl, esp larger fat ppl, who choose healing+radical acceptance. IWL criticism is far less concerning than the hate we get for going against the grain. #WeightStigma #HAES #FatLib
November 26, 2025 at 8:50 PM
I’m gonna need the ones defending the ppl who lose weight’s bodily autonomy to start also coming to the defense of fat ppl, esp larger fat ppl, who choose healing+radical acceptance. IWL criticism is far less concerning than the hate we get for going against the grain. #WeightStigma #HAES #FatLib
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For anybody who thinks being a U.S. citizen will save them, or that being white will save them, this is a blonde white woman who is a US citizen and the thugs took her too.
Anyway, for the 80 billionth time, stand up for everybody’s rights
Anyway, for the 80 billionth time, stand up for everybody’s rights
Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
December 3, 2025 at 8:13 PM
For anybody who thinks being a U.S. citizen will save them, or that being white will save them, this is a blonde white woman who is a US citizen and the thugs took her too.
Anyway, for the 80 billionth time, stand up for everybody’s rights
Anyway, for the 80 billionth time, stand up for everybody’s rights