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Tom De Roeck @tomderoeck.bsky.social · 18h

It's prime day alright on CNN!

courtesy of the brilliant @filmcow.bsky.social

m.youtube.com/watch?v=4m_5...

cnn.com breaking news

YouTube video by FilmCow

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Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 1d

How many trillions of dollars have been invested into this technology so far?

Google search for "austria hungary in space"

Google excitedly tells you about the 1889 orbital flight, and that by 1908 there was a Mars research output with 30 people.

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Melsonian Arts Council @melsonian-arts-council.itch.io · 21h

If you're a RPG designer in (or near enough) to London and want to run a promotional intro game in our little shop, get in touch. We've got a weirdly large pool of TTRPG-curious people chatting to us every day. NAB THEM BEFORE 5E GETS THEM!

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Tom De Roeck @tomderoeck.bsky.social · 1d

Loved @mattgreencomedy.com showing up in Slow Horses

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not an economist but seems worrying that the whole US economy is seven companies in a trenchcoat, passing the same $20 up and down

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Tom De Roeck @tomderoeck.bsky.social · 1d

socialist democracy, always. communism, only if you dont know history.

Tom De Roeck @tomderoeck.bsky.social · 1d

is this the one where you fell off, conveniently cut out? :D

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鋼のStephen Meyerink @sjmtaelus.bsky.social · 1d

Okay, games researchers: looking for something that happened in 1991-92ish. the sound team at Sierra On-Line was interviewed, including Chris Braymen; talked in the interview about using character and leitmotif, key changes, and transition pieces. Trying to find the magazine, if anyone has clues.

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Laura Michet @lmichet.bsky.social · 1d

Learned that I am being laid off from Heart Machine, and will be leaving the studio later this month.

Do you need a contractor? I've got a track record of leading scope-friendly script revisions late in dev. I have also done a lot of consulting on new IPs and pitches/demos. Feel free to DM me!

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 1d

Took a break from recuperating in bed to talk to Kickstarter workers who are currently on strike.

Before I left, I asked for them to share cat pics with me and they have delivered. Cuba is wonderful.

spooky general strike @spice.bsky.social · 1d

thanks for speaking on our picket line, @katmabu.bsky.social ! here is Cuba, the cat, at your service

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 1d

Oh lordy. I heard these stories from various people involved. If you want to work in TV, or just are curious about how thoroughly things can go wrong, definitely check this out.

Cole Haddon @colehaddon.bsky.social · 1d

How could a straight-to-series greenlight go so wrong for the first TV series I ever created?! Today, the 5AM StoryTalk Podcast brings you Part 1 of a four-part Hollywood horror story I describe as a cautionary tale for screenwriters about what can happen when all your dreams come true.

The Horror of 'Dracula': The Unbelievable True Story of the 2013 TV Series - Part 1

Podcast Episode · 5AM StoryTalk · 10/07/2025 · 15m

podcasts.apple.com

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Tom De Roeck @tomderoeck.bsky.social · 1d

@thebonelessone.bsky.social @theonewithtwois.bsky.social if you know anyone?

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Count Doracula 🎃 @heyitsdora.com · 1d

Bumping this! I'm still searching for localizers for the following below. If that's you, or if you know someone who it fits, please reach out! This is a paid, short term, fully remote opportunity, though you must be in Ontario due to grant restrictions.

Count Doracula 🎃 @heyitsdora.com · Aug 21

Hey game dev! Looking for Ontario-based localization partners (either a company or individuals) for:
- French
- German
- Japanese
- Simplified Chinese
- Spanish

These do not all have to be done by the same person. Must be comfortable working with queer themes/pronouns and complex narratives! Thanks

a woman is sitting at a desk with her head down writing in a notebook

Alt: A GIF of a woman with her face pressed against a desk and scribbling with a pink pen

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 1d

For the first time in history renewable energy sources are now generating more power than coal worldwide.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal for first time

Record solar expansion and steady wind growth driving world’s shift away from fossil fuels in 2025, report finds

www.theguardian.com

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Michael Dashow @mdashow.bsky.social · Aug 19

Warning to anyone who has their art on Spreadshirt.com: They now have a feature where anyone can remix your art and it's impossible to opt out unless you just leave the site altogether.

Spreadshirt to artists: We’re taking your designs for AI pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/19/s...

Spreadshirt to artists: We’re taking your designs for AI

Spreadshirt is an online print-on-demand store. You can sell T-shirts and mugs and so on. My wife Arkady Rose is an artist as well as a musician, and had a pile of designs on Spreadshirt and Redbub…

pivot-to-ai.com

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Tom De Roeck @tomderoeck.bsky.social · 1d

classic

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Tom De Roeck @tomderoeck.bsky.social · 1d

and has been listened to 5-7 times since

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Lucca (🏳️‍⚧️Aunt Tifa👊) @spookalucca.games · 2d

Ok yeah, got confirmation the reason Link appears banned on Blacksky is because Blacksky was using Bsky's appview-backend.

This is very solvable, just bad timing for this shit to pop off. It's giving folks an incorrect impression that operating independently from Bluesky on ATproto is not possible.

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Tom De Roeck @tomderoeck.bsky.social · 2d

you got this, then the real rapture can begin

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Tom De Roeck @tomderoeck.bsky.social · 2d

they found a way to drink the photon torpedo fuel Im sure

Tom De Roeck @tomderoeck.bsky.social · 2d

Novelty is in urgent need of funding or the entire industry will be butchered. @glassbottommeg.bsky.social also pointed it out better, recently. "VCs dont give a shit about innovation, just about numbers go up" (sorry, paraphrased it)

Jack_The_Generalist @jackgutmann.bsky.social · 2d

Our industry doesn't lack talent it lacks novelty.

True novelty doesn't come from more powerful GPUs. It comes from us, our messy, beautiful, wildly different human experiences.

Last Saturday at Game Dev Days Graz, I gave a talk "No Diversity? No Games! Why inclusion is no longer optional."

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Lady Data🌙 | Goth Donut Games @gothdonutgames.bsky.social · 2d

The Lady Dracula reviews are in!

Nintendo Power - "FUUCK! I HATE IT!!"
X-Play - "FUUCK! I HATE IT!!"
Miyamoto - "FUUCK! I HATE IT!!"

Try the demo and wishlist:
store.steampowered.com/app/4044270/...

Glitch art by @glitchwolfe.studio
music by @mikhailagkonov.bsky.social
game by me

#castlevania

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 2d

The Sora AI disinfo nightmare is here

For more like this:
tiktok.com/@drewharwell
instagram.com/bydrewharwell

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Tom De Roeck @tomderoeck.bsky.social · 2d

a man is making a funny face with his mouth open and looking at the camera .

ALT: a man is making a funny face with his mouth open and looking at the camera .

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