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game dev (QA, writing), editor, & book layout designer. currently working in community college administration (please get me out of here it is hell ._.; ). looking for work! Ich spreche ein bisschen Deutsch. https://jensentoperzer.com/

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kobold labor union @lucidseraph.bsky.social · Aug 28

Btw I'm looking for a new job. If that wasn't extremely clear.

kobold labor union @lucidseraph.bsky.social · 17h

Which tbh, they have a game franchise for that! It's called TWEWY & it was excellent!

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kobold labor union @lucidseraph.bsky.social · 17h

the only two who look like themselves are Rinoa and Gaia, and that's because their original designs were already pretty modern fashion

I think some people at Squeenix just want to be fashion designers, not game people.

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kobold labor union @lucidseraph.bsky.social · 18h

This is literally the phrase, and the game, that made me realize I was nonbinary. Love you, Failbetter <3

Failbetter Games - Wishlist Mandrake on Steam! @failbettergames.com · 20h

does your presentation make people think, gosh, that's an individual of mysterious and indistinct gender?

we have a shirt for that

A Mysterious Individual - Failbetter Games T - Shirt

Unisex Cotton T-Shirt

gametee.co.uk

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kobold labor union @lucidseraph.bsky.social · 18h

Can you stop getting hit with the Apollo prophecy dodgeball for five minutes man, this is depressing

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joannes @playthroughline.com · 3d

The sci-fi setting of Neurocracy posits exactly this scenario: brain implants are initially trained on neural data from a subset of society, so getting them to work requires us to think in ways characteristic of that subset, installing biases directly in our minds and fostering a mental monoculture

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 4d

Hi hello did you know that Elon Musk's third Neuralink patient (previously nonverbal) is "getting help from Grok" to communicate

and I hope -- I REALLY HOPE -- he's not stuck in his own brain listening as a robot talks for him without his input because this, to me, would be worse than death

This patient’s Neuralink brain implant gets a boost from generative AI

A patient who types with his brain thanks to a Neuralink implant is using AI chatbots to speed things up.

www.technologyreview.com

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kobold labor union @lucidseraph.bsky.social · 18h

Ok, my question is: where is all this lead coming from in the first place? Why are so many agricultural lands apparently catastrophically contaminated with lead? Is this not then a global supply chain issue?

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 1d

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 1d

we talk about the Aztec Empire as though it was an institution of great antiquity, but its worst abuses started in the time of living people's grandparents or great-grandparents. it had been growing more and more extractive and murderous as long as the current generation had been alive.

hypoallergenic bobcat alternative @noghiri.bsky.social · 1d

this is cursed, there's a reason the peoples under the aztecs were willing to help Spain out and it wasn't naivete

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 1d

"Sapiens" is so normal for the first 70,000 years of human history but then goes absolutely buckwild as soon as it gets to colonialism

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

Subscribe to The Onion and help us become a bigger newspaper than The Washington Post by next year. It can happen!

membership.theonion.com

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Jake: Drinks with no ice @brehlol.bsky.social · 4d

Yeah you should read this article. A great point about how memeing the administration doesnt get to solving the real problem.

The Frog is the best thing to happen to American politics all year, but the fact that politics has devolved into Posting is ultimately a bad thing. As you can see in the grid of outcomes, the majority of the time, people are simply posting at each other instead of engaging with reality or solving collective action problems. The question of who wins or who loses in Triangle Posting Politics is divorced from material conditions, justice, or the common good.

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 3d

“More than half of the work done by women in the period between the 16th and 18th centuries took place outside of the home, and around half of all housework and three-quarters of care work was conducted professionally for other households” [England]

phys.org/news/2025-10...

A woman's place was not in the home: Challenging the assumptions about women's work in early modern history

New research has revealed that women played a fundamental role in the development of England's national economy before 1700.

phys.org

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.bsky.social · 3d

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.bsky.social · Jul 26

my new ai device will sit in a beer garden that backs onto a small river and drink three to five pints on a sunny late summer afternoon for you, leaving you free for more meetings and business calls

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 4d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Riley Black 🦕 🏳️‍⚧️ @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 5d

It's part of why I wrote this piece, dipping into some of the pop culture aspects to highlight why carnivorous plants grow where they do. Amazing plants.

Carnivorous Plants Have Been Trapping Animals for Millions of Years. So Why Have They Never Grown Larger?

Plants that feed on meat and animal droppings have evolved at least ten times through evolutionary history

www.smithsonianmag.com

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mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 5d

still amazing to me the number of movies, games, etc. which have Venus Flytrap-based creatures in some form compared to the actual native range of Venus Flytrap, which is like, the great untamed jungles of a few wet pine savannas in North Carolina

map illustrating the native range of Venus Flytrap plants, just a little half circle around coastal North and South Carolina in USA

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eke @eke.bsky.social · 5d

we should've stopped with DeepDream, a perfectly good AI that took your picture and filled it with fractals full of eyes

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 5d

yes, just like the earlier versions of Midjourney from like 2022 actually produced some pretty interesting surreal images, while the more recent versions largely just produce profoundly boring smooth-edges clip art slop

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Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 6d

Make shorter games with worse graphics and fewer shareholders

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The Ghost Of Cohost. CoGhost. Gohosohssosost @ceresultra.bsky.social · 6d

How do I explain to offline people that my favorite Japanese mascot said "we can only be liberated from queer oppression if we are truly seen as human" and then started wielding fireworks like a rocket launcher on the side of a mountain without sounding like I've totally lost it?

Chiitan forever

Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 6d

Chiitan has a dream.
I hope that one day the term LGBT will become a thing of the past.
I will continue to spread my message until we live in a world where everyone can love freely and is free from persecution and discrimination.
Until then, let's all support each other🤍

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cozy milly 🥀 @mischiefmilly.bsky.social · 8d

no talk me i'm pervert

A screenshot of an enemy called Forgiven Perversion, which is standing in the corner of the room facing the wall akin to the "don't talk me angy" cat meme

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 6d

When we talk about the "tyranny" of the automobile, this is it. You're never not thinking about your big metal box, where to store your big metal box, when to move your big metal box, and what you'll pay if you don't store your big metal box correctly.

In New York, Free Street Parking Comes at a Cost

www.nytimes.com

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aj 🧃lyse’s wife @lalafellss.bsky.social · 8d

Y’shtola’s story!

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Failbetter Games - Wishlist Mandrake on Steam! @failbettergames.com · 7d

The Fallen London Arcana.

(Very) Soon.

A tarot card entitled The Chariot, depicting a large bat in silhouette, flying over a London skyline against teal water and a teal sky. It is balanced against a leatherbound book.

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 9d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 8d

Mourning those murdered by Hamas isn't incompatible with mourning those murdered by the Israeli state.

Demanding that the hostages return isn't incompatible with naming & demanding an end to genocide.

Naming the power imbalance & impact thereof doesn't desecrate those murdered two years ago today.

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kobold labor union @lucidseraph.bsky.social · 8d

noodle soup cures many ills. especially good pho.

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kobold labor union @lucidseraph.bsky.social · 11d

Stopped clock and all that