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josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 55m

"I was working in the lab late one night"

Let me stop you right there. I am not listening to a song about work

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1h

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 1h

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 2h

I feel I'm duty bound to boost this post; as I ne'er shut up about iambic's

Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · 3h

Six years ago, I wrote most of the Tragedian dialogue for Pathologic 2 in iambic pentameter. I'm back now doing the same for Pathologic 3. I figured it was helpful to write a guide on *how* I did it – in case I get hit by a bus and the team has to carry on without me.

azhdarchid.com/so-you-want-...

So You Want to Write Iambic Pentameter

In which I share the dirty secrets of the world's least useful skill

azhdarchid.com

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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 2h

notebook page. spiral-headed face. spiky hair. unconnected text: "mysterious door 1" plus an unconnected picture of a slinky

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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 2h

various smokers

large cigarette and a guy saying "gimme"

"what a cigarette!" said by guy who's eyes are popping out

"here ya go man have a drag of this" says disembodied head to a guy

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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 2h

two-legged creature with "SATAN" written on it

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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 3h

america needs antifascist artworks like a dying patient needs shots in the arm. if was a person its bloodstream would be piss and poison

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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 3h

just last night in fact, disney doing a promo with "mechahitler"

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 1d

Disney promoting AI slop posters at the ‘Tron Ares’ premiere

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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 3h

I also think there's no point being scared that a piece of art you make might stoke controversy in america when american media frequently shits out thoughtless AI-generated bigotry through its mainstream media channels

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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 3h

I think the thing about being afraid to make the game and also mentioning the "backlash to yasuke" is basically saying "the klan are an important part of our audience"

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 5h

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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Ashley Cooper @ashleycooper.bsky.social · 4h

If you think a game about going after the KKK would be controversial due to the current political climate, it's a good sign you should make a game about going after the KKK.

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 5h

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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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 3h

I belive slipknot record without click tracks, which is very impressive for a band with a minimum of 9 members

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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 3h

I am doing this album with no click track AND in unusual time signatures. this calamitous album is hurtling toward you like a meteor

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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 4h

I don't think there's a single leftist who hasn't been yelled at by another leftist. that's called being made of harder stuff

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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 4h

guys who are like "I used to be liberal but because you yelled at me I'm a fascist now" never needed much pushing

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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 4h

CONTROVERSIAL?: thinking about your project counts as working on it

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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 4h

pillow fort update: I forgot to include an entrance and I can't get in

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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 4h

this album's like 15 minutes long. that's "punk"

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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 4h

I have cut one of two tracks that's over 2 minutes long cause it's too hard. that's 9 tracks and they're all like 1 minute 50 seconds

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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 5h

the AI craze really does just feel like a "pivot to spam", because saturating everywhere with low quality automatically generated content used to be called spam.

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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 8h

what are they gonna do with the AI datacentres after the AI bubble bursts? run a billion copies of Doom?

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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · Nov 6

if you're concerned about information security, you should know Signal isn't actually secure. instead, try Mastodon, which is a website where you can be guaranteed no one will ever see what you post

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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 12h

YOUNG ME: so what's the future like?

ME: there's a robot doing kung fu moves

YOUNG ME: cool!!!

ME: the robot is a nazi and it's owned by disney

YOUNG ME: what?

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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 1d

cleaning all my matte electronics with one of those wet-wipes

Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 1d

buying shoes is tricky for me cause I've got big-ass kingdom hearts feet

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