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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 3h

Bro, you need to read this

City Nolan @ndhapple.bsky.social · 3h

!!!!!! — 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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Fallonthropy @movabletypo.bsky.social · 1h

We should bring back mass market paperbacks that cost south of $10 and can fit in the palm of your hand.

buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 3h

What's your totally ordinary opinion about books that you nonetheless find compelled to share when asked on a social media site such as this one for your most extreme/unhinged/hottest takes?

I'll go first: manga is popular among young people because manga often features young people.

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やすうらやか @15delicious.bsky.social · 9h

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Design Room @designroom.bsky.social · 8h

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We are live! Welcome to Design Room, a new independent games media site.

• We specialize in oral histories like the Final Fantasy 7 and Street Fighter 2 ones I (@mattleone.bsky.social) did at Polygon
• Our first big story is on Shadow of the Colossus: bit.ly/4hjwz8n
• See more: designroom.site

Design Room

Video game oral histories

designroom.site

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Alice Ruppert 🐴🎮 @malicedafirenze.bsky.social · 1d

Good News folks, you CAN now in fact, play this

The free demo for Legend of Khiimori is now available on Steam for everyone. Check it out, give it a try, tell a friend. Show everyone how much you want horse games 💪❤

Screenshot from the game The Legend of Khiimori, showing a horse and rider on a steppe landscape

Screenshot of The Legend of Khiimori in a Steam library. It has a "Demo" tag on the top left

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 14h

"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

Had the Aztecs and Incas shown a bit more interest in the world surrounding them - and had they known what the Spaniards had done to their neighbours - they might have resisted the Spanish conquest more keenly and successfully.

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Fallonthropy @movabletypo.bsky.social · 5h

Still vibrating that Brandon Taylor signed my other novels by him 🥹

Hopefully I did not overwhelm with the things I had been preparing myself to say while in the signing line. Importantly, I mentioned I loved North & South, invited him to visit Santa Barbara, and liked the books he acquired.

Fallonthropy @movabletypo.bsky.social · 5h

This mobile game would’ve be riding high following Dissidia 012 and have potentially more fashion collabs with Lightning in LV while living a potentially canonical post-Lightning Returns life.

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Emma Kidwell | Looking for work ✨ @emmakidwell.bsky.social · 15h

if i wanted to learn more about the game dev scene in japan where would i start? i've been wanting to explore my options there if i can't find a job in america since i dont need a work visa as a dual citizen 🫠

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Jodie Troutman @longtalljodie.com · 6h

My favorite Struzan story is that he was doing the poster for Indy at Disneyland, but they didn't have the rights to Ford's likeness. Fed up with working around the problem, Struzan just called Ford and was like, "hey, can I use your face for this," and Ford said, "if it's for you, absolutely."

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Charlie Ashby @charlie-ashby.co.uk · 7h

RIP Drew Struzan - a man whose talent and imagination etched onto so many minds throughout the last 40+ years.

His art & posters are some of the first visuals I think of when I think about cinema - an invitation to watch these stories and worlds.

A massive loss 💔

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Meek (Spooky) 👻 @themeekwarrior.bsky.social · 20h

Hey, Alaska's been hit by a typhoon and no one is talking about it. Indigenous towns are in need of aid. People are missing and the gov't is still shut down.

If any creators here are in affected areas, please drop links for aid.

#mutualaid #crisis #alaska #typhoonhalong #helpourcountrymen

Rescue and recovery efforts underway as remnants of Typhoon Halong hit western Alaska | Alaska Beacon

Rescue and recovery efforts began Sunday in western Alaska as a major storm caused by remnants of Typhoon Halong hit coastal communities with massive storm surge, flooding and hurricane-force winds up...

alaskabeacon.com

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jade✨ @say0ranarts.bsky.social · 1d

the front & back cover art i drew for @metaphorzine.bsky.social, Pages of Utopia!👑

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Matinee Mode @matineemode.bsky.social · 1d

One of the best cases of real life toxic disdain between 2 actors serving up incredible on-screen chemistry. Murray & Dreyfuss are both at the top of their game in this two-man descent into manic comedy chaos. Leonard Maltin was right: This is like a Wile E. Coyote & Roadrunner cartoon come to life.

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · 19h

This goes for writers, too. Unless the job is something very specific, writing samples are the first thing people will look at.

shel kahn @portablecity.bsky.social · 21h

hey folks, are you an artist who would like to get hired to draw? here's one pro tip to level up your odds instantly!

...........make a ✨portfolio website!✨

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Fallonthropy @movabletypo.bsky.social · 19h

A banging conversation. So glad I went to see him.

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Fallonthropy @movabletypo.bsky.social · 20h

Light workday today, but managed to at least submit my application to Writers House Mentor Initiative in time, and caught up on my reading for my dev editing class.

Fallonthropy @movabletypo.bsky.social · 20h

“Minor Black Figures” by Brandon Taylor, published by @riverheadbooks.bsky.social

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Fallonthropy @movabletypo.bsky.social · 20h

Suddenly, Laura’s Theme (Twin Peaks) plays in the store.

Fallonthropy @movabletypo.bsky.social · 20h

Skylight Bookstore is very well lit.

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Fallonthropy @movabletypo.bsky.social · 20h

I am seated for Brandon Taylor.

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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 22h

Absolutely tore through every episode of this show that we could find when we were researching the book. An astonishing resource and time capsule of gay New York before AIDS, its existence seems impossible today. Highly recommended. Gem after gem in terms of interview subjects.

Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 22h

If you are interested in old New York gay history, watch old episodes of The Emerald City, the first TV show made for gay and trans people. 1977, right before AIDS. My old film teacher Gene Stavis produced and interviewed in it. m.youtube.com/watch?v=2eQW...

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 22h

If you are interested in old New York gay history, watch old episodes of The Emerald City, the first TV show made for gay and trans people. 1977, right before AIDS. My old film teacher Gene Stavis produced and interviewed in it. m.youtube.com/watch?v=2eQW...

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 1d

This just happened again and it really drives home the extent to which scholarly orgs could build great bridges with museums/historical sites by figuring out how to help them get access to scholarly materials. Those places might, in turn, help support those orgs with people and money.

Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 8d

Working at a museum without access to a university library means spending 6 years thinking about/reading Mark Twain & his reception and then every time I think I had an original thought it turns out @mattseybold.bsky.social tweeted it out in the form of a peer-reviewed article a decade ago.

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xuuikie @xuuikie.bsky.social · 1d

I don't regret drawing this as much cus' it inspired someone to do an animation.

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