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Tom Lommel @tomlommel.com · 3h

idk maybe we shouldn't be selling out most of our sports and entertainment to a country with a litany of human rights abuses

Game Developer @gamedeveloper.bsky.social · 6h

'Gaming is the new oil:' How the EA buyout 'diverges from the traditional playbook'

Analysts explain how the high-risk leveraged buyout will impact Electronic Arts and the video game industry.

www.gamedeveloper.com

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Tom Lommel @tomlommel.com · 5h

@asterionhex.monster seems like a cool folk horror RPG you and @nullzone.bsky.social would enjoy hosting

Idle Cartulary @idlecartulary.itch.io · 17h

Today, I read Harvest, the game of creeping folk horror. Is this island a place you want to visit, or should you stay well away? Find out! idlecartulary.com/2025/10/09/i...

I Read Harvest

I Read Games reviews are me reading games when I have nothing better to do, like read a module or write or play a game. I don’t seriously believe that I can judge a game without playing it, usually…

idlecartulary.com

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 11h

As an instructor, I'd rather see your fever dream, No Doze-fueled 4AM essays written at an IHOP rather than anything generated by an LLM.

Hope this helps

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 14h

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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Tom Lommel @tomlommel.com · 12h

Evie, I told you not to post about our new Square Root of Zero Grain bread until the executive suite signs off on the final packaging! Evie!!

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 14h

If I was told I couldn’t do a job Meghan McCain did I think I’d become a monk

Raw Story @rawstory.com · 1d

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report.

CBS News' new boss once auditioned for 'The View' — and 'wasn't invited back': report

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report. Variety reported on Tuesday that Weiss auditioned for "The View" when host Me...

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TrustedReveler @trustedreveler.bsky.social · 1d

LA: we will fight you.

Chicago: we will fight you.

PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

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Trash @trash69.bsky.social · 15h

I do think it's terribly funny in a post-ironic sense that the viewer managed to, accidentally, self-insert themselves into the work and experience the themes firsthand. you couldn't pay for that level of metatextual immersion in a semiotics course

Lux Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 18h

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway
I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way.
What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money.
Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight.
To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.

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Tom Lommel @tomlommel.com · 19h

Again, I cannot emphasize enough how chickenshit corporate "leadership" is. These people have one - and only one - guiding principle: polishing their golden parachutes.

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 21h

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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Tom Lommel @tomlommel.com · 19h

Blocked another Resistance account that just screenshots popular posts from people like Robert Reich and then reposts them without alt text.

Friends. Stop following and reposting engagement farmers.

It's just a *slightly* more sophisticated spin on the RT If You Agree! grift.

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Tom Lommel @tomlommel.com · 22h

ok Darren but we can't guarantee that you won't get 1 grain. if you're willing to risk single-grain bread, let me know and I'll be happy to process your order

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Tom Lommel @tomlommel.com · 23h

We've got a strike going on here in BC and I stopped by the picket line on this chilly morning to offer donuts and some words of solidarity. It was a little thing but as someone who pounded the picket line two years ago, it means a lot to know your struggle is seen and supported.

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Tom Lommel @tomlommel.com · 1d

How much work could it be? You just tell the drop ship to deploy mechs!

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dr. hazel 🐝 @hazelmonforton.com · 1d

The King of All Cosmos from the Katamari series, with a speech bubble.

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 1d

Hey @queermedieval.bsky.social your illustration prints *beautifully*!!

Anti-fascist frogs hot off the press

A print made from wood type and linoleum. The linocut is an early-modern style woodcut rendition of a protester in a frog costume facing off against two ICE officers in riot gear. The text reads

STAND UP
TO
FASCISM!

The ink is green on an off white paper.

wood type and linoleum set for printing in a proofing press. The linocut is an early-modern style woodcut rendition of a protester in a frog costume facing off against two ICE officers in riot gear. The text reads

STAND UP
TO
FASCISM!

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discover tab replies from lyndsay 👻 @magpie.tips · 1d

The soft boy enjoying pets and attention

A blissed out greyhound with his tongue peeking out

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aric @aghastronaut.com · 1d

Tuvok didn't approve of your AI girlfriend

Tuvok from Star Trek: Voyager saying, "You're in line with a computer subroutine?"

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Tom Lommel @tomlommel.com · 1d

I have no idea if these fundraiser accounts are even monitored, but it's better than just leaving them on read.

A fundraising text from a Democratic group. It's signed with Gavin Newsom's name.
My response: "I'm not donating to anyone who won't firmly and vocally stand up for trans rights. Everyone deserves dignity and respect. Gavin Newsom apparently does not understand that."

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Tom Lommel @tomlommel.com · 1d

It's the most cynical dumb shit but I'm sure he's hoping* there won't be ads that say "GAVIN NEWSOM MANDATED GENDER WOKE COMMUNISM ON CALIFORNIA TEENAGERS and he's going to make YOUR KIDS GAY"

*they're going to make those ads anyway

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1d

This is going around again and it is not true. Like every site on the internet, Bluesky uses machine learning to do a first-pass approximation of image classification to detect and label content. They have repeatedly confirmed outside services do not use Bluesky user data to train their models.

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Curb Your Malthusiasm 2.0 @manucleardevice.bsky.social · 2d

"This Whole Thing Smacks Of Gondor," i holler as i overturn my uncle's funeral pyre and turn the 4th Age of Man into the 4th Age of Shit

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