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Reid Young @reidman.bsky.social · 16h

yeah, lots of regions in the world where it can and does just get mixed in. back when we made Shirtness, cotton from Uzbekistan was typically farmed with government-backed slave labor, and it was very hard to avoid. good news is that apparently that changed a few years ago, so.. progress!

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Luke Schuler 🎃 @lukospicturehouse.com · 17h

Bringing back #OrphanMemories for the spooky season, here's some Halloween memories you forgot you still remembered. Part 1/?

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Mato @clydemandelin.bsky.social · 1d

Today is #IndigenousPeoplesDay, so I hope you'll play my work-in-progress game demo about #Choctaw language and culture:
tomatogame.itch.io/halito-tomato

OR if you'd just rather read about the backstory instead, it would make me very happy:
halito.tomato.game/about/

Thanks for your time! YAKOKE!

From the About page for my game/blog - there's a lot more on this page, so please check it out sometime!

From the game - there's not much to the game right now but the Nanih Waiya burial mound is at the center of it all

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Paul 🎃 Remnant Controllers @remnantcontrollers.bsky.social · 1d

My shirtness is still going strong!

Ness' backpack from Earthbound sits over "shirt-ness" from Fangamer.

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Reid Young @reidman.bsky.social · 1d

this was our first fully custom shirt! woven from turkish cotton that was dyed to the exact blue+yellow colors we requested – in the process of overseeing this i learned a lot about shirt blanks and manufacturing (and how prevalent slave-labor is in the global cotton supply chain)

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Reid Young @reidman.bsky.social · 1d

the 3 most common print types:

TOP: waterbase – soft print, might begin to fade after a few years

MID: plastisol – long-lasting, but ink is usually very thick. starts to crack and eventually flake after a few years

LOW: print on demand – cheap garbage, fades/flakes after a few washes

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Reid Young @reidman.bsky.social · 1d

we actually own and operate our screen printer – Forward Printing – because they do some of the best printing in the business. one of the first (and best) domestic printers i ever found with the patience and skill to use waterbase inks + discharge agents to dye the prints right into the shirt

Jean-Baptiste Zeller @esurnir.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t know how @fangamer.com find their T-shirt supplier. But out of all the merch I ever purchased, the dye used in their T-shirt prints are the most long lasting dyes I’ve ever seen. Had many tshirt just fade out over the years but theirs has just stayed alive forever. How?

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Reid Young @reidman.bsky.social · 2d

cleaning up the kids toys, *almost* missed @meeellla.bsky.social’s calling card

sylvanian cat toy with incredibly small tattoos and a piercing. this was mixed in with like a dozen other toys so i did a double take and had to dig it back out to take this picture

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Reid Young @reidman.bsky.social · 2d

email [email protected] and they’ll look into it for you 🫡

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Reid Young @reidman.bsky.social · 2d

lightner merch off the table, but for other plush we’re certainly looking at our options~

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Reid Young @reidman.bsky.social · 2d

we've worked with bandai namco to make some cute crane game goodies~

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Reid Young @reidman.bsky.social · 3d

is this loss

Reid Young @reidman.bsky.social · 4d

this guy gets it! a @meeellla.bsky.social creation, naturally

Reid Young @reidman.bsky.social · 4d

YO thank you again for that - i got it home safely, now i just need to listen to it! it’s actually right behind that otgw soundtrack, which i basically use as my queue

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 5d

You can always tell people who didn't work their way up through real jobs and manage based on the dumbest ideas they've heard of other terrible bosses doing.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 5d

Here's the full memo.

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Reid Young @reidman.bsky.social · 5d

“religion should appeal to the hearts of the young”

easily one of the best lines written that entire decade

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Reid Young @reidman.bsky.social · 5d

got the Z 20th anniversary vinyl, totally reasonable price and a beautiful cut

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Reid Young @reidman.bsky.social · 5d

🤔

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Reid Young @reidman.bsky.social · 6d

gat dang

Reid Young @reidman.bsky.social · 7d

very cool and fun ludum dare concept by @cassowary.me – i'm no game designer but as a UX/UI guy I love it when someone plays with language, labels, etc

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Reid Young @reidman.bsky.social · 7d

Ⴑꝺ:׀Z Э⌶ᐳ:Эꝺ⌶ⵒ Э⍑ΞZ
cassowary.itch.io/stamp-collec...

Stamp Collecting on Planet Q by cassowary

Not really sure how to explain this one. (LD58)

cassowary.itch.io

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Reid Young @reidman.bsky.social · 9d

ok minor delay then, 2026 will be the year of desktop linux. definitely Q1

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Reid Young @reidman.bsky.social · 9d

they call him the splatter of light

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 9d

🇮🇹 For the fourth straight day, Rome was flooded with protests for Gaza. Organizers said one million people marched on Sunday, October 5, from Porta San Paolo by the Pyramid of Cestius to Piazza San Giovanni. La Repubblica described it as a “human tide” — an endless procession still streaming past...

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Reid Young @reidman.bsky.social · 10d

industry legends 👑

John Ricciardi @johntv.bsky.social · 10d

Somehow our little company turns 20 years old today. Time is weird! Thanks and <3 to everyone who has supported us over the years~

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