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Ash Parrish @adashtra.bsky.social · 4d

Hello hello! still searching for marginalized sims creators who are down to talk about what's going on in the sims community! please boost and share amongst your discords/reddits/whatnot!

Ash Parrish @adashtra.bsky.social · 5d

Hello! Are you a marginalized Sims content creator? Do you have feelings about what's going on in your community right now? Please get in touch!

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merritt @merrittk.com · 7d

Zohran caught in LIES: Mamdani claims to have "loved Final Fantasy III" when he was growing up. yet research indicates that the game he played was in fact the SIXTH Final Fantasy game

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Rob Hailman @rjhelms.bsky.social · 21d

I had a hot take but I forgot it.

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 23d

The death of multi-camera TV: a thread. I know most of you will know the technical parts of this (and may have read it in the other place) but bear with me. 1/ 🧵

A shot from the studio rehearsal of Doctor Who: The Daleks' Master Plan episode 'Volcano', showing several actors ont he TARDIS set, with various video cameras around the scene.

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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · Sep 29

LinkedIn is the worst

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Rob Hailman @rjhelms.bsky.social · Sep 26

for example, in the Ontario Legislative Assembly they got these extra-padded leather roller chairs... but the UK's House of Commons they sit on long benches.

Does this mean anything? Probably not.

A row of chairs n the Ontario Legislative Assembly, showing thick padding on the seats and roller bases.

A photograph of the UK House of Commons, showing rows of long green benches

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Rob Hailman @rjhelms.bsky.social · Sep 26

years ago, I had the idea to make a blog that highlighted the chairs in legislatures around the world.

I think now is the time!

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Cyan Worlds @cyan.com · Sep 24

Thirty-two years ago today, Myst was released.
Happy Birthday, little guy!
🎂

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · Sep 24

Turn off Google AI summary shit, it is poisoning your brain. it is lying to you. tenbluelinks.org

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · Sep 24

don't use AI as a factchecker because *it makes shit up*. this phrase does not occur in Downbelow Station: I just searched the e-book. (h/t @fatalist.bsky.social)

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · Sep 23

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Chris Conroy @conroyforreal.bsky.social · Sep 24

In June 2002, Avril Lavigne claimed that “five years from now” you would see the titular Sk8er Boi “rockin’ up MTV,” but by June 2007, MTV had replaced its full schedule with reality programming and aired no music videos. In this TED Talk, I will

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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · Sep 23

rapture happened if you can read this you are gay

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Rob Hailman @rjhelms.bsky.social · Sep 23

When I was in Montreal a few weeks ago I felt like a bumpkin overwhelmed by the big city - but Toronto doesn’t faze me at all even though I moved away over 20 years ago.

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Rob Hailman @rjhelms.bsky.social · Sep 23

It’s too real that the author’s trip starts with just missing the 7. Growing up we called that the Law of Bathurst - no matter when you got there, and where you were going, you’d miss the bus by 30 seconds

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Dr. Mike P. Moffatt @mikepmoffatt.bsky.social · Sep 22

New report by Jesse Helmer. We grade 34 S. Ontario municipalities in 5 housing start and sales categories. Across the region, sales of new condos are down 89%, and sales of new ground-oriented homes are down 70%.

Read here: www.missingmiddleini...

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Homestar Screens @grapenutsrobot.graphics · Sep 19

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · Sep 18

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · Sep 18

If this is what it took for you to be pushed into fascism you were probably already there

This predates the social media wars of the late 2010s: One Trump appointee told me that a radicalizing experience was being booted out of the Gawker comments section, way back in the day. But as progressive movements swept through social media, others were tossed off Twitter and Facebook for stepping over a variety of lines, from allegations of harassment to claims of election misinformation. Pandemic era public health rules and fevered enforcement cost others their accounts.

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Rob Hailman @rjhelms.bsky.social · Sep 17

Canada is a once again a leader in the fight against apartheid by *checks notes* recognizing the bantustans. www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com/politics/fed...

Canada’s recognition of Palestine will be a ‘step-by-step process,’ Anita Anand says

Canada will recognize a Palestinian state at the United Nations later this month, Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand says, but will hold off fully normalizing diplomatic relations until there is

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Cold November Mar @histoftech.bsky.social · Sep 17

ha. oh.

“The Washington Most
CLIMATE SOLUTIONS
Your body can build up tolerance to heat.
Here's how.
Small gradual exposures to heat can help the human body build tolerance to rising temperatures, experts say” (real article, put in a word bubble coming out of a frog that is in a pot of boiling water)

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helen, gender goblin @gendergoblinhelen.bsky.social · Sep 17

first they came for the socialists and I was like 'heh, based,' then they came for the trade unionists and I was like 'good, fuck those guys' then they came for the Jews and I was like OH SHIT THAT'S ME.