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Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social · Dec 17

Now, more than ever, you have to be a weird little pervert who makes art of questionable quality. You need to be driven crazy by the flesh. Because, as we all learned from Cronenberg's The Fly, the computers are not made crazy by the flesh. They can't do it like us.

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molly carroll @mollygos.com · 1d

ever have trauma so bad it makes your therapist cry 🥴

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 1d

screenshot 3 is incredible

amy brown (spooky edition) @amybrown.xyz · 1d

inspiring 💗💖

LinkedIn post about how a guy got a job interview at Strava by running a route that spelled HIRE ME on the map

HIRE ME written on the map (looking more like HIRE NE tbh)

commenter asks if the guy got the job and OP says “I don't think so. But his effort got him noticed and a foot in the door when so many others didn't”

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molly carroll @mollygos.com · 2d

sickos.jpg >:)

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julie muncy @julie.radiantarray.io · 2d

If you work in games, games discoursing on a Sunday counts as crunch

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molly carroll @mollygos.com · 2d

ahhh this rules

Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 2d

Game Boy Color visions of a Bitter Coast journey to Vivec.

Trying out a lil Game Boy game jam Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind fan adventure game that's got a whole glob of talent and charm behind it.

A pixel GBC scene of a silt strider rising above a fittingly swampy and tall mushroom strewn landscape in horizontal perspective. A tall grey mountain rises above the dithered mist.

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molly carroll @mollygos.com · 2d

ok just one more Hades 2 run and then i will definitely get dressed and do my lil tasks 🌝

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2d

Listen to the response to this and look how easy it is to say it.

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 2d

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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molly carroll @mollygos.com · 2d

i promise being an authentically awkward messy human is gonna be 1000x more endearing to a person you’re compatible with than workshopping a LinkedIn follow up message with your dumbass computer

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 3d

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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molly carroll @mollygos.com · 2d

really grateful for all the little guys who live in my house 😭💖 we got some really good ones

a photo of a cat and a cat-sized dog laying on a beige sofa

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 4d

one of my go-to touchpoints is “is it possible for this system to generate the events surrounding and during Fleetwood Mac Rumors tour?”

if not, probably needs more drama hooks

have just realized I have a new one to add to my list, and that’s “can this do The Lion In Winter” (2/2)

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 4d

I have a theory that when designing a social simulation / generator, it can be useful to keep in mind a story you’d like your system to be able to organically generate. not every system should generate the same story but I have a short list of high-salience interesting stories I reach for. (1/2)

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molly carroll @mollygos.com · 3d

i made cookies 😌

6 big chocolate chip cookies cooling on a wire rack

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 4d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 4d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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molly carroll @mollygos.com · 4d

it's called Spirit City: Lofi Sessions! store.steampowered.com/app/2113850/...

and i'm gonna check out finch!

Save 40% on Spirit City: Lofi Sessions on Steam

Spirit City: Lofi Sessions is a gamified focus tool, set to a soothing lofi soundtrack. Discover and collect Spirits, customize your cozy virtual space, and facilitate your real-life tasks with a coll...

store.steampowered.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4d

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molly carroll @mollygos.com · 4d

there are a lot of things that are caves of qud tho

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molly carroll @mollygos.com · 4d

drinking coffee out of the exact same mug rn

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 5d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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molly carroll @mollygos.com · 5d

god what a frustrating and disappointing start 🙃

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molly carroll @mollygos.com · 5d

suddenly very intrigued by Skate Story

also i saw what u did 🔍

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molly carroll @mollygos.com · 5d

tragic: i've collected all the creatures in this lo-fi girl to-do list game. how am i supposed to complete my little tasks now

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victor @windienine.bsky.social · 5d

i'll be uncharacteristically direct this time and say that the KS is 10k out with ONE week left and i need everyone on this game's team to make rent and have enough to eat. i can't overstate the importance of trans gamedevs continuing to create in a hostile industry. please support if you can!

Blanksword ⚔️ Kickstarter live NOW!! @blanksword.bsky.social · 27d

⚔️TIME ⚔️ TO ⚔️ RECLAIM ⚔️ YOUR ⚔️ BRAIN⚔️

Blanksword's Steam Demo & Kickstarter Campaign just launched as of RIGHT NOW!

Play the Demo on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3484670/...

Preorder the game on Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/283...

Join the Discord: discord.gg/ftmCfsupyv

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molly carroll @mollygos.com · 6d

they’re perfect 😭💖

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 7d

10/07/2025

a crude drawing of a trash bin with a large human face sticking out of the top of it, surrounded by trash, with the caption "early testing for the public trash bins with human faces that beg to be fed garbage indicated that most found them too unsettling to use. However, the small number of participants, including some investors, who said they found the bins deeply erotic, and attempted to form romantic relationships with the bins was considered promising enough to continue funding the project."

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