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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"

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JVG 骨 @jasonv.bsky.social · 9d

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

"some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily execute civilians" says today's New York Times, continuing their long tradition of whitewashing fascism

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 11d

Live from "war ravaged" Portland

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Robyn Miller @tinselman.bsky.social · Aug 13

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Robyn Miller @tinselman.bsky.social · Jul 29

This is the first time I’ve seen this puzzle—I didn’t work on Myst III—but from a glance I think you may be right.

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Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org · Jun 25

Today we're having a gander at the minute books of the Merchant Adventurers.

The archive is held with our friends @uoyborthwick.bsky.social and contains documents from the 1200s to the present day.

The minutes from meetings are from the 17th to the late 20th century. A short thread...

We are looking at a large embossed brown leather book with the words tooled in gold on the front 'York Merchants' Company Minute Book'

We are looking at a page from a book which is divided into sections and then has minutes written in ink. This particular page is for the Court of Assistants held on Monday 21st April.

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Robyn Miller @tinselman.bsky.social · Jul 5

Thank you!

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Robyn Miller @tinselman.bsky.social · Jul 4

I just hit 27 million streams across all my albums, so I decided to award myself with this (virtual) gold record (which I don't exactly deserve).

🎵 Most streamed: Atrus’ Theme, from RIVEN
🥈 Runner-up: Gehn’s Theme from RIVEN

Thank you to everyone who continues to support my music!

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Robyn Miller @tinselman.bsky.social · Jun 26

We have everything lined up. But these things seem to move like molasses.

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Robyn Miller @tinselman.bsky.social · Jun 20

Clown tower

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Robyn Miller @tinselman.bsky.social · Jun 18

CAUTION! #Myst

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Robyn Miller @tinselman.bsky.social · Jun 15

And today on Myst island…

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Robyn Miller @tinselman.bsky.social · Jun 8

If it were not for Bill Atkinson’s HyperCard, Rand and I would have never begun making games and we would have never made Myst and Riven. He was a gentle soul and a brilliant human. We owe so much to him.

Mac Sees @macsees.bsky.social · Jun 8

Bill Atkinson, Who Made Computers Easier to Use, Is Dead at 74. QuickDraw, MacPaint, HyperCard ... Bill changed the world www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/t...

Bill Atkinson, Who Made Computers Easier to Use, Is Dead at 74

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Robyn Miller @tinselman.bsky.social · Jun 3

I haven’t seen these for decades. I’m not sure these were finals, especially the grayscale map on the left. Even so, cool beans.

MrTalida @mrtalida.bsky.social · Jun 3

Thanks to the source Making of Myst footage, I was able to grab higher resolution screenshots of @tinselman.bsky.social mock working on Myst Island height and color maps. This is what I ended up with after some light cleanup in photoshop:

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Robyn Miller @tinselman.bsky.social · May 29

I’m ready for my Quarter Pounder with Cheese!

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Robyn Miller @tinselman.bsky.social · May 5

I had a blast hanging out with Ron, Joel, and Jawmaster at the Retro Repair Roundup last night. We talked about everything from the birth of Cyan, to the joys of creating our early 1 bit kids games, to some of our early inspirations.

Ron’s Computer Videos 🧍‍♂️🖥️📼 @ronscompvids.bsky.social · May 5

Many thanks to Robyn Miller @tinselman.bsky.social for joining us last night! It was great hearing some of the development history of these classic games!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9HX...

Robyn Miller - Retro Repair Roundup - Episode #78

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · Apr 26

A two year old baby forced onto a plane by her government—our government. That’s what Ilan Wurman and Kurt Lash and their academic collaborators and defenders have been paving the way for with their bullshit articles. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

Judge says 2-year-old US citizen appears to have been deported with ‘no meaningful process’

The girl was deported Friday with her mother to Honduras, despite her father’s efforts to keep her in the United States.

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Robyn Miller @tinselman.bsky.social · Apr 15

chat with me here on BlueSky!

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Robyn Miller @tinselman.bsky.social · Apr 14

I absolutely agree with your last statement. None of us can trust what's real anymore. Maybe that's the point, and the fun, of going back to my own 30 year old work and poking fun.

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