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Mx Nate (Pia) Foxhall @foxhall.bsky.social · 18h

Just like, quietly releasing an entirely new early access story for an entirely new world with entirely new characters like that's no big deal and then later being like 'OH SHIT, YOU RELEASED VEXTERIA INTO THE WORLD.'

Right at the time when censorship is gonna HATE that story lmao

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Mx Nate (Pia) Foxhall @foxhall.bsky.social · 23h

Ah. How history repeats and sounds just as silly.

depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 1d

via teddy bear article

Moral panic
In 1907, a Catholic priest in Michigan declared teddy bears to be "horrible monstrosities", which by supplanting the "good old dolls" would cause girls to lose the urge to nurture babies, leading to declining birth rates among the white population and race suicide. The suggestion attracted widespread but short-lived attention.[18]

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Mx Nate (Pia) Foxhall @foxhall.bsky.social · 23h

The way this applies so brutally to the novel publishing industry that I didn’t even see ‘game’ at first because word-for-word it applies. 🤝

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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 4d

I will say this: a lot of new folks are clinging to a nostalgia for ‘getting a publisher’ as a marker of validation, of being a ‘real game’.

And I’m here to tell you that’s bollocks. They need you more than you need them. If they can provide a service, awesome, but you hold the means of production.

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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 4d

Look, it’s really straightforward to get a publisher as a new name indie in 2025. Simply do 95% of the work making and marketing your game, and if your metrics are trending towards almost certain success, a publisher will swoop in to promise the remaining 5%, deliver 3%, and collect 75%

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Mx Nate (Pia) Foxhall @foxhall.bsky.social · 2d

Zoom went down as well and my therapist's telehealth sessions run through Zoom so I think my therapist had a similar 'WELP' moment in that she couldn't even reschedule her clients through the system. T.T

I hope it's okay now or working out D:

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Darla @basicandbizarre.bsky.social · 3d

This is like a Leverage episode, I swear.

Sophie: "I have crafted an elaborate cover story with a long con-"

Parker: "Nah, it's ok. I stole a truck with a ladder."

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Mx Nate (Pia) Foxhall @foxhall.bsky.social · 2d

It's Janusz, too, out of all of them, like, why not Crielle, that's the real question

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jeremy kaplowitz @jeremykaplowitz.com · Aug 3

you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · Jun 24

boeuf boruginoh. beofu burgening. no. fuck. the. beoug bourgenes. wrong. uh. fuck

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M. Gordon @dimespin.bsky.social · 5d

Sleep is a biological necessity, and sleep deprivation has real physical, psychological, and social consequences that need to be taken seriously. The way our society treats it as slothful to sleep according to natural rhythms (including midday naps and variant chronotypes like night owls) is evil.

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 6d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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Mx Nate (Pia) Foxhall @foxhall.bsky.social · 3d

Anyway today an anon thought-policed a *character's fantasy that they weren't acting on* which is a level of thought-policing inception I haven't encountered before and know I definitely will again.

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Mx Nate (Pia) Foxhall @foxhall.bsky.social · 3d

And around that childishness, we have governments globally like 'I wonder how we can use this kind of puritanical moral panic to better surveil our citizens? Hmmmm....'

Anyway. I'm tired. Stop abusing real people for the way they play-pretend / make-believe.

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Mx Nate (Pia) Foxhall @foxhall.bsky.social · 3d

A 9-year-old watching the way another 9-year-old plays pretend with their My Little Ponies or Barbies and going: 'You played pretend wrong! You're a witeral murderer!' is literally what anti-shippers sound like and are trying to do to people re: actively thought-policing fictional fantasy.

Rad.

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Mx Nate (Pia) Foxhall @foxhall.bsky.social · 3d

McDonald's should have a special light by its bright signage that goes off when the soft serve isn't working so you can just drive away instead of being perpetually disappointed by Schrodinger's McDonald's soft serve machine.

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Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com · 5d

True story

Writing a book is just like reading a book except the book hates you

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Mx Nate (Pia) Foxhall @foxhall.bsky.social · 5d

Even the innate Word grammar/spellchecker has gotten worse since they’ve started rolling out more Gen AI into the editing algorithm. It’s so painful. But PWA is so often an editing test on hard mode to catch a few typos and some passive language. They are going more and more downhill now.

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Mx Nate (Pia) Foxhall @foxhall.bsky.social · 5d

I will say that PWA can have an error rate of over 70% in fiction. If you don’t know grammar/punctuation well enough, you will be adding more errors. It’s pretty incredibly how shockingly and increasingly wrong it’s become since LLM algorithms

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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 6d

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors

“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”

www.404media.co

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eggnog slut @deus01.bsky.social · 9d

postmodern finance theory

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Mx Nate (Pia) Foxhall @foxhall.bsky.social · 8d

Hopefully this means fruit! Though… then you get the parrots as well… *stares at all my half-eaten nectarines that made the cockatoos super happy* I know you can cover them (and many do here) but who has the time

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Mx Nate (Pia) Foxhall @foxhall.bsky.social · 8d

I’m too late to plant the things I wanted to plant in for spring, but I’ve also kept a Boronia alive for more than two weeks so I feel like that’s enough of a gardening achievement for now.

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Mx Nate (Pia) Foxhall @foxhall.bsky.social · 8d

But what if I hand-stitched multiple unique designs of my Fae Tales characters on wooden panels and then put them all together because they’re so cute

Small hand-stitched cross-stitch characters on small wooden frames with scalloped edges. There is a lot of green and red and blue, and ten individual character squares of cross-stitch sitting flat on a table.

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Mx Nate (Pia) Foxhall @foxhall.bsky.social · 8d

(To be fair when Karri trees bloom en masse all you hear is an overwhelming heavy drone of millions of bees high high above you it sounds like the end times :/ ) Not saying something isn’t wrong with the mango trees either, just that most mango growers would be like ‘yeah that happens.’

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Mx Nate (Pia) Foxhall @foxhall.bsky.social · 8d

Karri trees in Western Australia have mass bloom events that sync around every 10 years, you might think the end times were coming if you weren’t used to it. Mangoes aren’t like this re: timing/sync, but boom-bust flowering cycles over lengthy periods is very normal for many fruit trees.

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