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dr. hazel 🐝 @hazelmonforton.com · 17h

Sadly, my contract with Blizzard ended in September. That means I'm looking for fulltime or contract work as a senior writer or narrative designer. If you need someone who can write sharp characters, poetic prose, and emotional stories, I'm available! www.hazelmonforton.com

dr. hazel 🐝 @hazelmonforton.com · Jul 8

It's #portfolioday! I'm presently a senior narrative designer at Blizzard, but before that I was at Bungie and Arkane. I wrote for the Writer's Guild award-nominated Dishonored: Death of the Outsider, and a bunch of critically acclaimed seasons and expansions in Destiny 2.

A scene from the High Heresy cinematic in Destiny 2: Heresy (2025)

A scene from the Safiyah cinematic from Destiny 2: Season of the Haunted (2022)

A scene from the final mission in Dishonored: Death of the Outsider (2017)

A cutscene featuring the Outsider from Dishonored: Death of the Outsider (2017)

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Edwyn "Omahdon" Tiong @edwyntiong.com · 15h

"It's just you and me, Jared. Ares doesn't get an oreo. If JARED wants an oreo, Jared can have an oreo."

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Aussie Voice Over @aussievo.net · 16h

And that concludes a very vocal PAX Aus! ❤️🎙️

What had you cackling the most at this year’s ‘Who’s Speaking Please’ panel?

What takeaways did you learn from the ‘Sorry, You Peaked’ presentation?

Well done to all the amazing voice actors that took part this year and to everyone who came along!

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Suzette Smith @suzettesmith.bsky.social · 17h

Portland’s Emergency World Naked Bike Ride arrives at ICE

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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 18h

Reading up on why various YouTubers stopped performing can be kind of a rollercoaster because it's like "said a slur", "said a slur", "lost contact while searching for a cave near Area 51 whose entrance allegedly emitted 'mysterious vibrations'; present whereabouts unknown", "said a slur".

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 1d

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a cancer vaccine that has shown STUNNING results, PREVENTING up to 88% of MULTIPLE aggressive cancers by harnessing dual-pathway nanoparticles that train the immune system to recognize and destroy tumor cells. In some cases, it COMPLETELY prevented metastasis.

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Edwyn "Omahdon" Tiong @edwyntiong.com · 16h

"Thanks for submitting! Unfortunately..."

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 16h

Has anyone in history almost been certainly killed more than this dude, simultaneously the most targeted and luckiest man in the world

Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 18h

“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”

Andy ngo mad about muppets again — this time in Chicago

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Zalmon ザモン @zalmon.bsky.social · Feb 13

This officer is consuming an anatomical sandwich - an artificial organism made specifically to take the form of a bun with filling, ready to eat, at the end of its life cycle. Like a banana. (1/n)
full picture: bsky.app/profile/zalm...

Sci-fi cop consuming a sandwich-like lunch from an aluminum packaging. It appears to have stringy cheese, but blue in coloration.

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Dave Capdevielle @cadaverdave.com · 16h

Happy trails to an absolute legend of radio and all things weird.

The A.V. Club @avclub.com · 19h

The influential, top hat-wearing DJ, Dr. Demento, wrapped his long-running radio show yesterday with a countdown of his top 40 most requested songs.

www.avclub.com/dr-demento-f...

Dr. Demento ends 55-year run as radio's weirdest DJ

www.avclub.com

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Among the Stars and Bones @amongstarsbones.bsky.social · 17h

Two xenoarchaeologists walk into a bar!

@chrismagilton.bsky.social and @edwyntiong.com (Ben and Remy) met up for the first time over the weekend at the @aussievo.net dinner in Melbourne over the weekend.

Thanks to @aimeesmithva.com and all the AVO crew for a terrific evening.

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Paul VanKoughnett @pvk.bsky.social · 20h

Best post I saw about this was like “You can make fun of Linux users all you want but they can’t hear you because their sound cards aren’t working.” (i use arch btw)

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 21h

every linux person i know: you should try linux, it’s great and easy!

also every linux person i know:

Ed @ed3d.net · 21h

ed: I want to just install a Linux desktop and I prefer KDE

also ed: fedora doesn't have even nouveau out of the box and says "mess with rpmfusion"

also ed: "'nobara linux'? that has one developer"

also ed: "kubuntu's installer crashes making encrypted partitions"

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Kaylyn Saucedo - MarzGhoul @marzgurl.com · 20h

Because my friends from Channel Awesome days aren't Doug Walker, and you've clearly carried on a wholly unrelated war against myself and my friends, not against the Channel Awesome entity itself.

Why are you 15 years late, calling it TGWTG and even referencing Busy Street in the first place.

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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 1d

GUESS WHO'S BACK

BACK AGAIN

DOC'S BACK

TELL A FRIEND

That's right. It's time for part 3 of the FPS series; this time, a lot of assorted thoughts on what makes for good enemy design. This one was fun as hell to write.

docseuss.medium.com/building-a-b...

building a better first person shooter part 3: enemy mine

So! First, we talked about a specific subgenre of first person shooter, loosely starting with Unreal and Half-Life and dying off around…

docseuss.medium.com

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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly, Grok sponsoring a Tron movie is the most anti-Tron thing and just shows how much Ares is straight up corporate tech bro propaganda. It’s very sad. Tron has such potential and never fully gets there. Legacy and Uprising are good but Tron: Identity tbh is the franchise peak.

A sponsorship installation for Musks Grok doing AI bullshit at the Tron Ares premiere.

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Edwyn "Omahdon" Tiong @edwyntiong.com · 1d

Personally, I think the movie would have earned that extra $3M if the main character of Tron (Tron) got to say his catchphrase "IT'S ARSEING TIME!" or "I'M ARSEING OUT"

Cosmic Marvel @dailycosmicmarvel.bsky.social · 2d

‘TRON: ARES’ has earned $14.3M in its opening day at the domestic box office.

For comparison, ‘MORBIUS’ opened to $17.3M.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 21h

Is life often terrible? Yes.
Are there still always people out there going “Let’s make a cool ass thing for other people to see?” Also yes.

Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 1d

"The World of the Dark Crystal" documentary (1983, 1 hour) is available for free on Youtube.
>> www.catsuka.com/breves/2025-...

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OverClocked ReMix (We ♥ video game music!) 🎮🎵 @ocremix.org · 1d

25 years in, we are NOT allowing genAI music onto OC ReMix, full stop.

We're 100% against genAI music and are a community geared toward authentic creativity and artistic development. You don't get that by doing text prompts.

ocremix.org/remix/OCR04918
youtube.com/watch?v=fUsg...

Recent comment: "This A.I. music is as fake as 🏈 🦇."

In this case, this is human-made. (3 of our judges panel are also involved as collaborators on it: jnWake, pixelseph, and paradiddlesjosh.)

We explicitly do NOT accept any music made with generative A.I. There are tools out there that help identify genAI music. If music involving genAI is ever unknowingly let on, it will be removed if it's discovered.

We're 100% against genAI music and are a community geared toward authentic creativity and artistic development. You don't get that by doing text prompts.

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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 2d

Best analysis of Tron: Ares I've seen, and its from my comment section.

A comment from Jessie's review of Tron: Ares - "TRON is a movie about unionizing your workplace. TRON: Legacy is movie about the tools of fascism. TRON: Ares is a movie about... how hard it is to be tech billionaire running a Fortune 500 company, I guess."

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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 21h

Satoshi Kon would have turned 62 today ;_;
Fanart by Jinou (x.com/Jinou_rakugaki)

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Edwyn "Omahdon" Tiong @edwyntiong.com · 20h

God, I sure hope so too, Sunrise.

photo of a television screen with a picture within picture showing Airforce One or Two and with the text "LIVE: TRUMP LEAVING SOON"

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CORZH77 @corzh77.bsky.social · 1d

awooo

#Silksong #hollowkinghtsilksong

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LittleKuriboh @littlekuriboh.bsky.social · 21h

When I see voice actors posting how they wanna work on the supposed Duolingo anime despite that app being openly in bed with AI

An old tweet by Reby Hardy that says “and fuck that owl.”

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Dan Larson @danlarson.bsky.social · 6d

I got the email notification about this from Spreadshirt last week and promptly deleted my account. If you have one, you should too.

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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