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Robin Baird @arlee.bsky.social · 13d

No lie, one of my favorite perks of being a bartender was free access to the maraschino cherries 🤣

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Live, Laugh, Lore @livelaughlore.com · 13d

🎉Legion Timewalking and Patch 11.2.5 is now LIVE!!! 🎉

To celebrate Blizzard has given us a Dreadlord Regalia Pack to give away to one lucky winner! To enter follow us & quote this post with your answer to the question "What are the Dreadlords up to?" by Oct 12th!

#WoW_Partner

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Robin Baird @arlee.bsky.social · 19d

My hands-on with the Midnight Alpha is up with all my first impressions. There will be more content soon, after I've slept a bit more. It was a jam-packed day for sure. @worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com #Midnight

World of Warcraft Midnight Alpha Hands On Preview | MMORPG.com

Robin had a chance to jump into World of Warcraft Midnight's alpha, which officially goes live tomorrow, to preview the new campaign, dungeons, and player housing.

www.mmorpg.com

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · Aug 11

AI is moving wealth from the people to the super-wealthy at a record pace

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Robin Baird @arlee.bsky.social · Aug 5

With love!

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Camp @campfireharve.st · Jul 11

I saw an infographic a couple years ago about how to remove source identifiers from links and why it's important, but I can't find it again and too many people I know are sending me links with them so here's an infographic straight from the oven

Header text: "HEY YOU! YES YOU! TAKE THIS SHIT OUT OF LINKS!"

This is followed by a couple example urls, with a red square highlighting the sections with source identifiers. The rest of the text is as follows:

Source identifiers are used to track your activity on a site. Where you came from, what device you use, and even who you talk to. Whether it's written clearly in the url or tied to a random string of characters, it's assigned to your activity.

When you send a link containing a source identifier to somebody and they click it, it signals to the website that you two are connected. And that data goes right back to the website operators, and thus their advertisers.

Whenever you select "share" or "copy link" on a social app or website, it creates a link like this. If you give even the smallest shit about online privacy, it's important to remove them. Everything after the "?" symbol can be removed without issue, especially sections starting with "si=" or "utm_source="

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Kim Acuff Steiner @emberdione.bsky.social · Jul 12

www.ebay.com/usr/ember_di...

WAVE OF STUFF GOING UP!

Includes Neopets - with and without tags.

Blizzard Statues.

WoW Mega Blocks, LOL.

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Robin Baird @arlee.bsky.social · Jul 8

Woah… that wild!

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · Jul 2

Your options for self-funded game dev becoming a sustainable career:

1. Have existing money or income.

or

2. Get extremely lucky while doing everything perfectly.

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Key Biodiversity Areas @keybiodiversity.bsky.social · Jun 8

🌊 This World Ocean Day, we want to highlight how marine KBAs can be used by governments all over the world 🌎 as a strategic tool for nature-positive spatial planning, sustainable development and international compliance.

#WorldOceanDay #SaveOurOcean

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Anna Megill @annamegill.com · Jun 6

This article sums up the uneasy feeling I've had since PAX East. The industry I've known my entire career is gone. I don't know what's coming next, but I can't pretend that things will ever return to what they were

Aftermath @aftermath.site · Jun 4

We're really just going through with all this, aren't we

aftermath.site/summer-game-fe...

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Robin Baird @arlee.bsky.social · May 13

Except now this needs to be done 😯

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Robin Baird @arlee.bsky.social · Apr 7

Someday people will reach the point where “I didn’t like it but others did” is valid. Someday.

a cartoon of stitch covering his eyes with his hands and the words uggg !! below him .

ALT: a cartoon of stitch covering his eyes with his hands and the words uggg !! below him .

media.tenor.com

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Robin Baird @arlee.bsky.social · Apr 7

Are people saying it wasn’t?

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Robin Baird @arlee.bsky.social · Mar 27

Would be very interested!

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Robin Baird @arlee.bsky.social · Mar 12

Very long thread, 100% worth your time. It’s probably the best thing I’ve read in years 😂❤️

Nome @nome.bsky.social · Mar 12

I have been doing entirely too much earnest posting about deep things recently, I need to do a proper thread about hippo testicles or something just to keep myself sane.

Oh by the way hippos have migratory testicles.

a statue of a hippopotamus with its mouth open and teeth showing .

Alt: A hippo being tossed a watermelon, which it crushes in its massive jaws.

media.tenor.com

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Robin Baird @arlee.bsky.social · Mar 11

I’m so excited!!! Let’s go!!!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrMT...

BlizzCon | Announce Trailer

YouTube video by Blizzard Entertainment

www.youtube.com

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Raj Patel @rajio.bsky.social · Feb 1

Now that January is done, here is where we're at with known games industry layoffs. We know of layoffs at 24 workplaces this month impacting at least 640 employees. While that's a tenth of last January's headcount, it doesn't look like a general slowdown. We're still FAR from pre-2022 numbers

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · Jan 30

ATTN: Are you a federal government employee on paid administrative leave because you worked in DEIA? Please contact us: www.muellershewrote.com/p/are-you-a-...

Are You a Federal Employee on Administrative Leave for DEIA?

We'd like to hear from you

www.muellershewrote.com

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Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · Jan 8

ok but what about five baby foxes playing in the snow, though, did you even consider that

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Robin Baird @arlee.bsky.social · Jan 10

Are you sure you weren’t hungry before writing this? 😂

Robin Baird @arlee.bsky.social · Dec 31

Ooh, there’s a spicy tweet I should go looking for.

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Live, Laugh, Lore @livelaughlore.com · Dec 20

Sometimes we like to see what the Warcraft community has to say about the truly important questions. Like what are Magni's boxer briefs made of? Well you can find out what Reddit has to say about that in this week's episode!

livelaughlore.libsyn.com/139-you-weir...

Live Laugh Lore: A Podcast on the Story of Warcraft: 139. You Weird Reddit

This week we have a little fun and check in on some of the top posts of the r/warcraftlore subreddit!   Support us on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/livelaughlore   Follow us! Blue Sky: &n...

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Robin Baird @arlee.bsky.social · Dec 12

Ooh that’s a good point. I’m in the middle of a lot of forced return to work. I completely forgot about that aspect ><

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Robin Baird @arlee.bsky.social · Dec 12

I feel like more and more places are doing this and I don’t get it. I don’t understand what positive companies think they are getting out of this.

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