Tof Eklund
@tofeklund.bsky.social
"Can't sing, can't dance, can scholarship a little." AuDHD trans enby metamorph 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈👽. Mop to my kids, "my god, what is that thing!?!" to the haters, Tof to you. Games, comics, queer sh*t. Stop the genocide in Gaza 🇵🇸. Liberate Ukriane 🇺🇦.
NZ First is only a political party on paper. In every way that matters, it's an endlessly rolling political campaign with no real goals other than (re-)election.
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The brilliant performative politics of NZ First’s fake members’ bills
NZ First MPs keep proposing laws they have no intention of passing, and the media falls for it every time.
thespinoff.co.nz
November 6, 2025 at 6:09 AM
NZ First is only a political party on paper. In every way that matters, it's an endlessly rolling political campaign with no real goals other than (re-)election.
thespinoff.co.nz/politics/06-... thespinoff.co.nz/politics/06-...
thespinoff.co.nz/politics/06-... thespinoff.co.nz/politics/06-...
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I talk to the press professionally, I'm really, really, really good at it.
So please, please believe me when say you cannot turn this interview request into anything good, it will do only harm. Harm to you, harm to your child, harm to other children.
So please, please believe me when say you cannot turn this interview request into anything good, it will do only harm. Harm to you, harm to your child, harm to other children.
heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.
November 6, 2025 at 2:34 AM
I talk to the press professionally, I'm really, really, really good at it.
So please, please believe me when say you cannot turn this interview request into anything good, it will do only harm. Harm to you, harm to your child, harm to other children.
So please, please believe me when say you cannot turn this interview request into anything good, it will do only harm. Harm to you, harm to your child, harm to other children.
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Bless him for this! 😂 🤯
Bless Zohran Mamdani For Making Every Racist's Head Explode At Once
Dear Humans,
www.thegodpodcast.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Bless him for this! 😂 🤯
OMFG did a video just *autoplay* on the Bsky app?!? 🤬 @bsky.app I know y'all are having fun messing with us lately, but can we not, please?
November 4, 2025 at 5:45 AM
OMFG did a video just *autoplay* on the Bsky app?!? 🤬 @bsky.app I know y'all are having fun messing with us lately, but can we not, please?
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hire all the fired political teen vogue writers and make a new magazine call teen rogue.
we’ll all subscribe en masse
we’ll all subscribe en masse
November 4, 2025 at 2:32 AM
hire all the fired political teen vogue writers and make a new magazine call teen rogue.
we’ll all subscribe en masse
we’ll all subscribe en masse
I'm feeling pretty good about the state of the video games industry: it looks like I get to write off Microsoft *and* EA this year. I'm really looking forward to not giving money to either of them ever again.
November 4, 2025 at 5:27 AM
I'm feeling pretty good about the state of the video games industry: it looks like I get to write off Microsoft *and* EA this year. I'm really looking forward to not giving money to either of them ever again.
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extremely standout and cool CAIN homebrew release bottomless-sarcophagus.itch.io/glory-unto-t...
CAIN: Glory Unto Them by Bottomless Sarcophagus Studio
A fan expansion for Tom Bloom's CAIN full of art, introducing exorcist bonds, a riveting new difficulty mode, and more.
bottomless-sarcophagus.itch.io
November 3, 2025 at 2:45 AM
extremely standout and cool CAIN homebrew release bottomless-sarcophagus.itch.io/glory-unto-t...
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Last chance to turn it off.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
October 31, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Last chance to turn it off.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
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Again, this precise use case is why these systems exist-to proliferate people’s racist (transphobic, misogynistic…) imaginary at scale. This should not be seen as a “misuse” but rather the product being used exactly as intended.
Racist Influencers Using OpenAI's Sora to Make it Look Like Poor People Are Selling Food Stamps for Cash
Folks looking for evidence of SNAP recipients as welfare queens have no shortage of AI generated schlock to use as justification.
futurism.com
November 2, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Again, this precise use case is why these systems exist-to proliferate people’s racist (transphobic, misogynistic…) imaginary at scale. This should not be seen as a “misuse” but rather the product being used exactly as intended.
My friend @aguaspoints.bsky.social presents Shadow the Hedgehog in "The Doom that Came to Starbucks"
I'll be here all week. Tip your servers and tell @bsky.app to stop messing with our feeds and notifications.
I'll be here all week. Tip your servers and tell @bsky.app to stop messing with our feeds and notifications.
"With Mickey Mouse gloves Shadow grabs the steaming drink from the tall frappe and sugary syrup stained counter: 'Thank you again. I know that I am the best – THE ULTIMATE LIFEFORM! Glad you see it too.'"
www.gamerswithglasses.com/features/son...
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In a Costume I am Cooler than You! — Gamers with Glasses
Luis Aguasvivas falls into Sonic X Shadow Generations, or maybe it’s Shadow that has come through to our reality. What’s Shadow doing in a Starbucks? Will Luis ever manage to actually play a game on h...
www.gamerswithglasses.com
November 2, 2025 at 2:00 AM
My friend @aguaspoints.bsky.social presents Shadow the Hedgehog in "The Doom that Came to Starbucks"
I'll be here all week. Tip your servers and tell @bsky.app to stop messing with our feeds and notifications.
I'll be here all week. Tip your servers and tell @bsky.app to stop messing with our feeds and notifications.
Great is the Devourer, endless is his Hunger. Great is his Wrath, the Eater of Worlds. Unknowable be his will, Unspeakable his tongue. Oh Metamato! Oh Starry One! Great Kirby, let me be eaten first!
This Halloween, we invite you to remember the horror that is...Kirby:
"Kirby is a shapeshifter, fueled by the essence of the living beings that he consumes...He shows up, he consumes all, and he leaves, with a trail of corpses in his wake."
www.gamerswithglasses.com/features/kir...
"Kirby is a shapeshifter, fueled by the essence of the living beings that he consumes...He shows up, he consumes all, and he leaves, with a trail of corpses in his wake."
www.gamerswithglasses.com/features/kir...
Kirby is the Nightmare in Dreamland — Gamers with Glasses
For decades, Nintendo has tried to pass horrors beyond human comprehension as adorable cuties. Kirby may be cute while sleeping, but awake, he’s an irrepressible killer who wields the instruments of t...
www.gamerswithglasses.com
November 1, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Great is the Devourer, endless is his Hunger. Great is his Wrath, the Eater of Worlds. Unknowable be his will, Unspeakable his tongue. Oh Metamato! Oh Starry One! Great Kirby, let me be eaten first!
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Very cool to see @srtrzinski.bsky.social and @aguaspoints.bsky.social's costume pieces featured this week. We assure @quips.bsky.social that yes, the costume party is ongoing!
This week: 31 terrifying picks on haunted houses, costumes, Blue Prince, cozy games, friction, media literacy, and much, much more:
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October 26th
Welcome back readers. We’ve got an absolutely stacked issue this week at 31 new-and-cool picks. If you like what we do here, please do check out the Patreon! I’m going to go lie down fo…
critical-distance.com
October 27, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Very cool to see @srtrzinski.bsky.social and @aguaspoints.bsky.social's costume pieces featured this week. We assure @quips.bsky.social that yes, the costume party is ongoing!
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kitsune tails is 30% off on steam and itch! get the gay fox girl jumping game on either platform via kitsunegames.com/kitsunetails
October 28, 2025 at 7:29 PM
kitsune tails is 30% off on steam and itch! get the gay fox girl jumping game on either platform via kitsunegames.com/kitsunetails
Duncan's is an excellent NZ microbrewry. Their "Yum Yum Yuzu" dry lager is possibly the best lager I've ever had. Tasting it, all I can think is "I really don't like lager."
October 27, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Duncan's is an excellent NZ microbrewry. Their "Yum Yum Yuzu" dry lager is possibly the best lager I've ever had. Tasting it, all I can think is "I really don't like lager."
Costume party! "Leave your body and soul at the door"
We are throwing a party and you are invited.
www.gamerswithglasses.com/features/hal...
www.gamerswithglasses.com/features/hal...
Presenting: Costume Party — Gamers with Glasses
Welcome to the GwG Costume Party! We’ve got custom skins, bleeding over from game worlds and real worlds. We’ve got dressing up for laughs and we have blank faces that can become anyone or anything. H...
www.gamerswithglasses.com
October 26, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Costume party! "Leave your body and soul at the door"
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If you're interested in Roguelike Celebration it is a near certainty you'd be interested in The Banished Vault. I even gave a talk on how space travel is carefully abstracted a few years ago! www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSJA...
October 21, 2025 at 10:51 PM
If you're interested in Roguelike Celebration it is a near certainty you'd be interested in The Banished Vault. I even gave a talk on how space travel is carefully abstracted a few years ago! www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSJA...
It's Basque!
😍 TWO TINY DICE GIVEAWAY 😇
Win a Steam key of Pyrene (aka the best roguelike ever).
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Winner will be randomly selected on Friday 24th October. GL 🍀
#giveaway #tuesday #indiedev #indiegame #pyrene
Win a Steam key of Pyrene (aka the best roguelike ever).
❤️ Like & Follow our account
🧑🤝🧑 Tag 2 friends
🔁 Repost
Winner will be randomly selected on Friday 24th October. GL 🍀
#giveaway #tuesday #indiedev #indiegame #pyrene
October 22, 2025 at 3:01 AM
It's Basque!
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"But when the team looked at the employees’ actual work output, they found that the developers had completed tasks 20% slower when using AI than when working without it. Researchers were stunned. “No one expected that outcome. We didn’t even really consider a slowdown as a possibility.”
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October 19, 2025 at 10:51 PM
"But when the team looked at the employees’ actual work output, they found that the developers had completed tasks 20% slower when using AI than when working without it. Researchers were stunned. “No one expected that outcome. We didn’t even really consider a slowdown as a possibility.”
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yes, i stole the crown jewels but in my defense, i am using them to train an llm in jewelry design and therefore i am within my rights
October 20, 2025 at 11:46 AM
yes, i stole the crown jewels but in my defense, i am using them to train an llm in jewelry design and therefore i am within my rights
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We're at it again! @mayorhere.bsky.social reviews Back to the Dawn by Metal Head Games, a game that uses anthropomorphism as a powerful estrangement tool through which to explore institutional power dynamics.
www.gamerswithglasses.com/reviews/back...
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Back to the Dawn Review: Anthropomorphism as Social Commentary — Gamers with Glasses
Back to the Dawn by Metal Head Games succeeds because it understands something that effective anthropomorphic storytelling has always known: non-human characters don't make serious themes less s...
www.gamerswithglasses.com
October 20, 2025 at 8:40 PM
We're at it again! @mayorhere.bsky.social reviews Back to the Dawn by Metal Head Games, a game that uses anthropomorphism as a powerful estrangement tool through which to explore institutional power dynamics.
www.gamerswithglasses.com/reviews/back...
www.gamerswithglasses.com/reviews/back...
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this is your favorite game designer's next favorite game and i told yanni he can quote me on that.
accidentally loved a game so much i somehow found myself as a stretch goal on it?? please check out ambition, it's so god damn beautiful
gamefound.com/en/projects/...
accidentally loved a game so much i somehow found myself as a stretch goal on it?? please check out ambition, it's so god damn beautiful
gamefound.com/en/projects/...
Ambition by The Press Betwixt - Gamefound
Ambition is a tales & tactics TTRPG for 2-4 Ambitious and a River by Yanni Panagiotopoulos. Reach for Heaven from underneath, Strive for whats beyond it, and Shape the continents into the image of you...
gamefound.com
October 14, 2025 at 3:07 PM
this is your favorite game designer's next favorite game and i told yanni he can quote me on that.
accidentally loved a game so much i somehow found myself as a stretch goal on it?? please check out ambition, it's so god damn beautiful
gamefound.com/en/projects/...
accidentally loved a game so much i somehow found myself as a stretch goal on it?? please check out ambition, it's so god damn beautiful
gamefound.com/en/projects/...
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It’s happening people! I’m finally in a position to start crowdfunding to recover some of the costs of taking legal action against my employer. Watch this space :)
October 19, 2025 at 8:24 PM
It’s happening people! I’m finally in a position to start crowdfunding to recover some of the costs of taking legal action against my employer. Watch this space :)
Seeing all these #OVER/UNDER posts and wondering what the hell it is? So was I! #OVER/UNDER is 1) completely insane and 2) this:
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Mothership Month 2025 Wargame: OVER/UNDER - Sam Sorensen
You can now join the Discord server and read the rules. Starting on October 14th, as a part of Mothership Month 2025—the annual group-crowdfunding
samsorensen.blot.im
October 20, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Seeing all these #OVER/UNDER posts and wondering what the hell it is? So was I! #OVER/UNDER is 1) completely insane and 2) this:
samsorensen.blot.im/mothership-m...
samsorensen.blot.im/mothership-m...
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honestly I'll call this forgivable given the explanation seems to be "grant morrison doesn't have a smartphone and hasn't read anything about AI and automatically assumed it was a daemon he should befriend"
Grant Morrison is seemingly dropping the use of AI in their newsletter following a backlash to comments on the subject in a Reddit AMA.
Grant Morrison disavows AI after Reddit AMA discussion
The writer said they will reconsider using AI in their Xanaduum newsletter after a comment in a Reddit AMA sparked a widespread backlash.
www.comicsbeat.com
October 17, 2025 at 6:29 PM
honestly I'll call this forgivable given the explanation seems to be "grant morrison doesn't have a smartphone and hasn't read anything about AI and automatically assumed it was a daemon he should befriend"
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They say the NES is 40 today. Read what that means for the man.
Featuring @aetataureate.bsky.social: "In a volunteer survey, we found almost no significant correlation between the zodiac sign and the favorite Mario items of respondents."
www.gamerswithglasses.com/features/sup...
www.gamerswithglasses.com/features/sup...
Super Midlife Brothers: Thoughts on Mario at Forty — Gamers with Glasses
It’s-a Mario’s birthday! Sort of. So here’s a Mario bonanza from your friends at Gamers with Glasses, which in typical fashion includes a scientific* study on Mario and the zodiac, elegiac expressions...
www.gamerswithglasses.com
October 19, 2025 at 5:33 AM
They say the NES is 40 today. Read what that means for the man.