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Dustin Yost @temportalflux.bsky.social · 3h

The one feature I still really want is "request to follow". Not being discoverable is great in an of itself, but PLEASE let me currate who gets direct access to my posts in their followers feed. I like being able to respond to everyone (so I don't want to go full private like Twitter had)

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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 5h

“I had previously assumed a 10-year depreciation curve, which I now recognize as quite unrealistic...Based on my conversations over the past month, the physical data centers last for three to ten years, at most.” futurism.com/future-socie...

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 7h

His immediate dawning understanding of just exactly how much he could fuck things up made him go "That's a GREAT analogy," heh

sarahquaint @sarahquaint.bsky.social · 16h

While providing tech support for my FIL:

FIL: What's that screen?

ME: The terminal. You should never use it.

FIL: Never?

ME: So you know how I'm allowed to watch you open the electrical panel and swap out breakers, but I'm not allowed to ever open up it myself?

FIL: Ah! I understand, thank you.

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Dustin Yost @temportalflux.bsky.social · 18h

Please enjoy this photo of 5 urban turkeys in my neighborhood park

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Kurtis McCathern @kurtismcc.bsky.social · 23h

So I’ve been taking the same folio to off sites, conventions, and talks for over 15 years. Today when cleaning it out this fell out and I have 0 memory of the context, but hey: good reminder.

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AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 1d

sherman, for the love of god!

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tami lam @cuppy.bsky.social · 1d

It’s friggin so cool that this game still exists and is still coming to new platforms.

MMORPG.com @mmorpg.com · 1d

Investigate the magic and mysteries at Ravenwood Academy on console, as Wizard101 launches on PlayStation and Xbox (with Switch version still on the way). www.mmorpg.com/news/wizard1...

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Witch’s Black Kat Marchán 🐈‍⬛🧙🏼 @zkat.tech · 1d

This is the most liberal fucking thing I've read today so far, I swear.

No, the problem with billionaires is that their very existence represents the fact that a bunch of innocent people are being exploited and even starved to death. There is no way to become a billionaire without exploitation.

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 1d

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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brosephene_ @brosephene.bsky.social · 1d

Why yes thank you, I WILL purchase this game immediately

Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 1d

We banned a guy on the Steam forums for repeatedly saying there were “too many women” in our game

So he flipped his positive review to negative

Still totally worth it

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Darcy Sandall @darcysandall.bsky.social · 1d

Pour yourself into your work only in the hours you're legally required to in your employment contract.

When you're off the clock build yourself a life outside of games.

It's much easier to handle the ups and downs of this industry when it's not your entire world.

Old DeuTaranomy 🧶⚒️ @kindofstrange.com · 3d

Those of you who have been in gamedev for 5yrs+

What do you wish you knew before you joined the industry? What life lesson would you pass down to someone just joining today?

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Oldrün Scholar @oldrun-scholar.bsky.social · 2d

After giving World Anvil my sincerest efforts (and money), I've found a far superior product in LegendKeeper. LK has a simpler, more intuitive interface that feels less clunky. Not to mention the performance difference (faster). LK is just better all around.

#osr #ttrpg #legendkeeper

LegendKeeper @legendkeeper.com · 4d

Timelines is out! If you haven't dipped your toe in the Timelines pool just yet, let us guide you in with our latest blog post. Learn what to use Timelines for, how to create events, how best to use the different views and more.

How to use LegendKeeper's Timeline feature

Learn how to use LegendKeeper's Timeline feature to create a comprehensive history for your world.

www.legendkeeper.com

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Nessa ✨ @nessathewriter.bsky.social · 2d

I hate when people say shit like “whatever you feel about AI it’s here to say” like that’s not the levelheaded nuanced take you think it is. it just tells me that you have no pattern recognition and also don’t give a fuck about the environment

britt hayes @britthates.bsky.social · 3d

Jason Blum's take on AI sucks. an AI takeover isn't inevitable, and treating it as such (while also referring to filmmaking as "content creation," smdh) helps AI companies promote the lie that their deeply unprofitable, destructive tech is more powerful and useful than it actually is.

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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 3d

This is a REALLY good video that gets into the *specifics* of how AI is degrading our information environment and putting truth further out of reach for the average person / the population as a whole

🎃 🧟 Prof. Dr Beth Singler 👻 🎃 @bvlsingler.bsky.social · 3d

I walked into the lounge last night to find my teenage son watching this. We have long admired @kurzgesagt.org and found their videos to be extremely illuminating. But this one in particular I think is so important right now!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zfN...

AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel

YouTube video by Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

www.youtube.com

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 3d

This Reuters headline. Oof.

Fascism isn't 'coming.' It's HERE.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Dustin Yost @temportalflux.bsky.social · 3d

That's understandable. I almost entirely watch on computers, and the jellyfin media player for desktop does plenty for me. Plus I'm on an android phone if I really want to use my phone to watch.

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Dustin Yost @temportalflux.bsky.social · 3d

I didn't find one. I moved to Jellyfin and it's been so much more pleasant.

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Noam "Free Link" Law-msky @noamlaw.bsky.social · 3d

want to close your Wells Fargo account because you want to punish them for siccing ICE on a building of impoverished immigrants that Wells Fargo execs wanted to foreclose and sell?

here's how

Mama Murphy☘️ @mamamurphy.bsky.social · 3d

Here’s how you can close your account:

Call 1-800-TO-WELLS (1-800-869-3557)
Visit a Wells Fargo branch near you.
You can close most accounts immediately when:

The account has a positive or zero balance.
All deposits, outstanding and pending items are posted.

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Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 3d

Because it feels relevant as we continue to evaluate the media and our representatives’ statements, my favorite way to identify the active vs. passive voice.

A post by Rebecca Johnson:
“I finally learned how to teach my guys to ID the passive voice. If you can insert "by zombies" after the verb, you have passive voice.”

A tumblr respond from mightymur:
“The final, brilliant word on passive voice.
"She was killed [by zombies.]"<--passive
"Zombies killed [by zombies] her." <-- active”

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 4d

It's not just that they're going to strike down a law against conversion therapy, it's that they're going to do it on behalf of made-up claims from a straw plaintiff who can't honestly show the law affected her at all

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 4d

One thing about American's widespread distrust and disapproval of the Supreme Court is that mainstream news coverage mostly doesn't dwell on stuff like standing, so people don't even begin to grasp how rigged the Court truly is www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Supreme Court Live Updates: Justices Seem Set to Rule Against Colorado’s Ban on Conversion Therapy

www.nytimes.com

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 5d

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.

Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

Signal @signal.org · 8d

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

signal.org

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 6d

This story describes such a psychologically complex phenomenon, breaking with the parents who didn’t vaccinate you to get protected now. But it’s encouraging to read—it’s not too late to protect yourself and others, and the shots themselves are generally no big deal

Emily Guskin @emgusk.bsky.social · 6d

When he started getting his shots in his 20s — including for polio, whooping cough and measles, according to medical records — he said it felt like an act of rebellion toward his parents, whose views he now vehemently disagrees with. “I was just like, ‘Load me up, Doc,’” he said.

Their parents never got them vaccinated. As young adults, they faced a choice.

Falling vaccination rates around the country mean more will grow up without protection from debilitating diseases until they are old enough to decide for themselves, typically at age 18.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 6d

People think they might be safe because of skin color, religion or class, but pay attention, they are calling large parts of Congress “radical leftists” and they are also saying “radical leftist ideology” is the hallmark of their made up terrorist group.

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Nina Marotta ☢️💙 @mrschief7.bsky.social · 6d

I work on telling a computer how to behave for a living with game AI.

It doesn't know anything. It doesn't think. It makes choices based on math and random dice rolls, not based on feelings or emotions or anything else.

It's a pile of math disguised as intelligent. It has no rights and shouldn't.

The Louvre of Bluesky @thelouvreof.bsky.social · 6d

i think it’s actually completely okay to say an algorithm is not a real person

hailey @hailey.at
if you're writing a sentence that sounds like eugenics but you go "oh that's fine to say because it's not a real person" (whatever that means) you may want to consider what made you okay with saying that

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Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield @agdanrayfield.bsky.social · 6d

BREAKING NEWS: We just secured a court order blocking the president’s order to deploy federalized National Guard troops to Portland when a federal judge granted our request for a Temporary Restraining Order. Read our statement.

#orpol #nationalguard #portland #portlandoregon

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Lee Scheinbeim @lee.scheinbe.im · 6d

what????????? www.vice.com/en/article/s...

Scientists Are Working on an Mrna Vaccine To Wipe Out Allergies

Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania may have developed a vaccine for seasonal allergies and food allergies.

www.vice.com

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