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My Ghoul Young Blood @lightbombmike.bsky.social · 12d

Image split into three sections. On the left half is the cover to the book 'At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails' by Sarah Bakewell. On the bottom right half is the cover to the album 'Heard Noises' by Matt Berry. The top right section of the image says Flipping, in reference to the book. And Spinning, in reference to the album.

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Joel McDonald @mcdjoel.bsky.social · 21d

Prune, my bonsai puzzle game and love letter to trees, is finally out on Steam for its 10th anniversary!

store.steampowered.com/app/3903490/...

Save 38% on Prune on Steam

Grow and shape your tree into the sunlight while avoiding the dangers of a hostile world. Bring life to a forgotten landscape and uncover a story hidden deep beneath the soil.

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Spooktarán na hÉireann @rocketgal.bsky.social · Sep 13

Does anyone know who the lead character designer was for the Bill and Ted animated series? Every now and again I think about how fantastic they are.

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My Ghoul Young Blood @lightbombmike.bsky.social · Sep 7

Someone already has to be open to change for the flood of discourse to change their beliefs. Otherwise it drives them to people that already match their beliefs, which is easy to find in replies and quotes. Social media discourse is a tool of the society of the spectacle, to distract and cleave.

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My Ghoul Young Blood @lightbombmike.bsky.social · Sep 7

Nuance takes time to explain & trust amongst those speaking, so people don’t fear shame or embarrassment when self reasoning beliefs. Social media =/= that. It means to engage each bad take earnestly, without judgement, to share experiences that can open their mind, without interlopers undermining.

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My Ghoul Young Blood @lightbombmike.bsky.social · Sep 7

It’s an uphill battle. Character limits & displaying click/share metrics actively force & encourage context flattening of takes to signal beliefs. Which then actively activates people’s fight or flight response, pushing them to rationalize their beliefs for themselves or signal to their community.

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My Ghoul Young Blood @lightbombmike.bsky.social · Sep 6

Image split into three sections. On the left half is the cover to the book 'Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI' by Karen Hao. On the bottom right half is the cover to the album 'Puro Tayta Shanti'. The top right section of the image says Flipping, in reference to the book. And Spinning, in reference to the album.

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My Ghoul Young Blood @lightbombmike.bsky.social · Aug 18

Image split into three sections. On the left half is the cover to the book 'How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion and Persuasion' by David McRaney. On the bottom right half is the cover to the album 'Slump' by Improvement Movement. The top right section of the image says Flipping, in reference to the book. And Spinning, in reference to the album.

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My Ghoul Young Blood @lightbombmike.bsky.social · Aug 17

Image split into three sections. On the left half is the cover to the book 'Morning and Evening' by Jon Fosse. On the bottom right half is the cover to the album 'Teeth Marks' by S.G. Goodman. The top right section of the image says Flipping, in reference to the book. And Spinning, in reference to the album.

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Femi and the Foundation @femiandfoundation.bsky.social · Aug 15

today's the day! Wrong Side of the Sun is out on all platforms - Spotify, Apple Music, etc. but leading here with the Bandcamp link by popular demand

femiandthefoundation.bandcamp.com/album/wrong-...

Wrong Side of the Sun, by Femi and the Foundation

9 track album

femiandthefoundation.bandcamp.com

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Somayeh Tohidi @somayehtohidi.bsky.social · Aug 10

“[…] art and ideas come out of the passion and torment of experiences: it is impossible to have a real relationship to the first if one’s aim is to be protected from the second.”

Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · Aug 4

Reading James Baldwin and every page seems to glitter with wisdom.

Extract from Balwin’s book reads:

“I am not sure that the cultural level of the people is subject to a steady rise: in fact, quite unpredictable things happen when the bulk of the population attains what we think of as a high cultural level, e.g., pre-World War II Germany, or present-day Swe-den. And this, I think, is because the effort of a Schoenberg or a Picasso (or a William Faulkner or an Albert Camus) has nothing to do, at bottom, with physical comfort, or indeed with comfort of any other kind. But the aim of the people who rise to this high cultural level—who rise, that is, into the middle class—is precisely comfort for the body and the mind. The artistic objects by which they are surrounded cannot possibly fulfill their original function of disturbing the peace-which is still the only method by which the mind can be improved-they bear witness instead to the attainment of a certain level of economic stability and a certain thin measure of sophistication. But art and ideas come out of the passion and torment of experience: it is impossible to have a real relationship to the first if one's aim is to be protected from the second.”

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Liz Ryerson @ellaguro.bsky.social · Aug 7

re: art as an important sight of social struggle - we could use a lot more of this energy right now.

tweet from user @JasonAChristian from April 3rd, 2024:

"According to Luis Buñuel, there was a brief moment when the surrealists in Paris understood that aesthetic revolution was inseparable from social revolution. Most avant-garde artists since have forgotten or ignored the second part."

below is a screencap from the autobiography MY LAST SIGH by Luis Buñuel, which the highlighted portion says:

"Their principal weapon wasn't guns, of course; it was scandal. Scandal was a potent agent of revelation, capable of exposing such social crimes as the exploitation of one man by another, colonialist imperialism, religious tyranny- in sum, all the secret and odious underpinnings of a system that had to be destroyed. The real purpose of surrealism was not to create a new literary, artistic, or even philosophical movement, but to explode the social order, to transform life itself."

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My Ghoul Young Blood @lightbombmike.bsky.social · Aug 1

"World is heavy. Life is hard. But alas, Jerskin + Emily + Yorgos found one another and are making art together. Life is good. Life is light. Thank you." - @stevejimdave

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

Jerskin Fendrix - Beth's Farm (Official Music Video)

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Camille @cmarjoux.bsky.social · Jul 31

Animators and Creature lovers 🐉

Here’s the replay of my INDIGO talk on animating Dragon boss fights for #DragonAge at BioWare.

It’s packed with practical advice and production war stories :) I hope this can help some of you bring your next monsters to life!

#Animation #GameDev #CreatureAnimation

INDIGO @indigo-showcase.bsky.social · Jul 31

NEW INDIGO 2025 TALK AVAILABLE ONLINE!

Camille Marjoux - Senior Creature Animator at (EA) Motive Studio

Talk: Animating the Dragons of Dragon Age: The Veilguard
Video: youtu.be/YmLmEr_E8S8

This talk was recorded at INDIGO 2025!

#techtalk #gamedev #indiedev #gameevent #indigo2025

Camille Marjoux - Animating the Dragons of Dragon Age: The Veilguard- INDIGO 2025

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My Ghoul Young Blood @lightbombmike.bsky.social · Jul 27

Image split into three sections. On the left half is the cover to the book 'Wonderstruck: How Wonder & Awe Shape the Way We Think' by Helen De Cruz. On the bottom right half is the cover to the album 'Bill Withers Live at Carnegie Hall' by Bill Withers. The top right section of the image says Flipping, in reference to the book. And Spinning, in reference to the album.

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My Ghoul Young Blood @lightbombmike.bsky.social · Jul 26

It is the setup I have. I decided to focus first on getting the collection I desired and then see if I want to chase the audiophile sensibilities. Both at the same time seemed like an immediate money pit and it was the ritual of the records I was most interested in.

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My Ghoul Young Blood @lightbombmike.bsky.social · Jul 26

Nice! Welcome to vinyl club. If you are looking for a solid quality system that is easy to set up, and doesn’t break the bank, this is the go to. Like everything with this hobby, it is easy to go down a rabbit hole of time and money.

Picture of a poster that says ‘Get them an entire turntable setup at an affordable price!’ Which lists an Audio Technica LP60 Turntable and Edifier Bookshelf Speakers

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Jul 18

a society that would like to keep functioning must discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jul 18

Mike Johnson on Trump: "His approval ratings are skyrocketing. CNN had a story a day or two ago -- he was at a 90 percent approval rating! There's never been a president that high."

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Compulsion Games @compulsiongames.bsky.social · Jul 16

We made the list! South of Midnight is one of Kotaku's 'Best Games of 2025 So Far' ✨

kotaku.com/2025-best-ga...

The Best Games Of 2025 So Far

We're over halfway through the year, and here are the games that have already made their mark in 2025

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Compulsion Games @compulsiongames.bsky.social · Jul 11

"South of Midnight shines as one of the most beautifully crafted single-player games in recent memory."

We’re proud to share that South of Midnight has been named “Best Xbox Game” at the inaugural 2025 @rollingstone.com Gaming Awards:

www.rollingstone.com/product-reco...

The 2025 Rolling Stone Gaming Awards

Our staff and experts pick the best consoles, new games, and gaming accessories for the first-ever 2025 Rolling Stone Gaming Awards.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · Jul 10

It doesn't matter if they are ever coming for you.

It was always ever already too much that they were coming for anyone.

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My Ghoul Young Blood @lightbombmike.bsky.social · Jul 8

Mike Schur nails it here. People in creative endeavors can be in survival mode or creative mode. And the role of managers is to flip the switch so people feel safe to be in creative mode.

That nearly everyone is in survival mode right now is damning and depressing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6Mb...

Philly Justice | Good Hang with Amy Poehler

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Jul 7

Also talked about The Onion being inefficient on purpose.

www.status.news/p/the-onion-...

What has it been like shifting from reporter to media executive, managing a staff instead of filing stories yourself? And do you write any of the jokes at The Onion? Or are you strictly managing the business?

The Onion’s process is deeply, beautifully inefficient. Every day, our writers take 150 headlines into a physical writers room in Chicago and whittle them down to maybe one or two. These people throw away the funniest sentence I will ever write in my life six times by noon every weekday.

The point of taking over this place was to preserve this process, which I learned this week is almost assuredly more rigorous than The New York Times.

That’s why I don’t touch any of it. I just try to get more people to pay attention to the output, and get our work into different mediums and new places. We brought back the paper, reinvested in the Onion News Network, bought a full page ad in The Times for something they were going to write anyway. The role is to make the world-class work they’re already doing seep into everyday American life more frequently, and that’s working.

You actually can do this, you know. You can just try to highlight the beauty of things you like and not try to vampirically extract value at every step.

If people get one thing out of this whole Q&A, I hope it’s that. You do not have to make an A.I. version of your own employees that operate at 1.5x speed but produce purely iterative garbage, especially in media and journalism. People don’t actually want that shit. Make a good, human thing and people will bend over backwards to support you. This is a valid way to run a company.

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My Ghoul Young Blood @lightbombmike.bsky.social · Jul 7

They had the same in Italy. Sometimes a bit annoying to get it to align to close but definitely a no brainer to bring this to North America

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Tanya X. Short @tanyaxshort.bsky.social · Jun 28

I think there's also a tricky trap where you need to put yourself into Adventurer Mode (Do, Decide, Self-examine, Make Mistakes) rather than Student Mode (Analyze, Evaluate, Perfect), and reading documents/completing checklists puts you in the latter mindset instead of the former.

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