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Sam Seltzer-Johnston
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Freelance #GameDev
Sr Engineer at Exis Interactive
NPC systems for Dragonhold: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1510330/Dragonhold/
Co-developed ExoCorps: exocorpsgame.com/steam
He/Him
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at a certain level of any creative or intellectual collaborative job the main task is sin-eater: to fix what you can and get blamed for what you can’t, secretly knowing how much worse it would have been if you hadn’t done what you did.
December 10, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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Genuinely incredibly fascinating study in what marketing vectors lead to literally zero sales here, wowwww

kotaku.com/king-meat-gl...
December 10, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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Just heard disappointing news that @warren.senate.gov will co-sponsor the Kids Online Safety Act again despite overwhelming opposition from LGBTQ, human rights, abortion rights, and racial justice groups.

This is a horrific betrayal of her constituents, particularly trans youth and their families.
Why Are Some Democrats Backing MAGA's Anti-LGBTQ+ Censorship?
From late-night host cancellations to removing LGBTQ+ history from government sites, politicians in both parties are contributing to the overwriting of the internet — a place where lots of queer and t...
www.teenvogue.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Wow. This is quite a 🧵.
1/ It was the height of the pandemic, but Phoebe Putney Memorial had good news: At 99 years old, Maude Burke was the oldest COVID-19 patient they were discharging.

In a video, staff waved balloons, celebrating Burke beating the disease.

There was one issue: It wasn’t true. 🧵
December 10, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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every year around christmas time the ballet dancers who play the rats in the nutcracker come out with a series of unexplained banger tiktok videos and anyway this is my favorite part of the holiday season
December 14, 2024 at 5:06 PM
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This is DEFCON 1 priority, y'all. Call your senators, reps, call your friends and tell them to call their senators and reps about this. Call your grandma and tell her to call her senators and reps about this.

What we have here will be *gone* if these bills pass.
Congress is attempting to fast track KOSA and more than a dozen bills that would restrict internet access, censor speech and increase surveillance under the guise of protecting children.

Committee hearings begin tomorrow.
Lawmakers to consider 19 bills for childproofing the internet
KOSA is back, along with more than a dozen other bills that will erode free speech and privacy in the name of protecting kids.
reason.com
December 2, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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Day 5 of my 2025 Favorites is just the tiniest #EmotionalSupportSpood known to science, Mr Neonella camillae

Bug and I make regular pilgrimages to central Florida to see them. He's but a grain of black sand 🖤
December 6, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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Day 6 of my 2025 Favorites: There's a particular oak in a particular spot upon which for some reason I've found an adult male Phidippus richmani every year for the past 3. Little things like this bring me joy. And he looks like that 🥹
#EmotionalSupportSpood
December 7, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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A male rock ptarmigan (Lagopus muta) in winter plumage.

Ptarmigan is from Gaelic 'tarmachan' meaning "croaker". The p- was added when people mistakenly assumed it was a Greek word.

A bird forever warning people: "A werewolf!" (just in case of werewolves).
December 6, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Porcelain crab on an anemone

#photo #photography #scuba #dive #crab #crustmas
December 6, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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maybe Pacific Drive is ballin actually
December 6, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Are there any UE5 sickos out there who know the MassEntity framework really well? Particularly relating to actor LODing? I can't find a single example of using LowResTemplateActor in a meaningful way, particularly in a multiplayer setup.
December 6, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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20% off all books in the False Knees store! store.falseknees.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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inaccurately-named birds, a helpful guide:
December 6, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Is it any wonder why so many think the system is rigged against them?
December 6, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Y'all the latest episode of the #Kilauea #eruption just went CRAZY. It looks like pressure built up enough to explode out the ground around the two existing vents (first few seconds), leading to a massive surge in lava fountaining.🌋🤯

USGS Live stream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiyt...
December 6, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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OMG it just took out one of the distant cameras!!
December 6, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Norfolk’s wildlife mystery of the year. A beaver has appeared in the wild on the River Wensum for the first time in 400 years. Somewhere there is a breached beaver enclosure, but none of the nature reserves admit to losing one! Here's the intriguing story ⤵️

@eastangliabylines.co.uk
Beaver ‘escape artist’ mystery
A mysterious beaver has appeared in Norfolk, prompting excitement and an investigation into which enclosure it escaped from
eastangliabylines.co.uk
December 6, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Steam should really start selling movies again. But not streaming. F streaming. Sell em like they sell games, but you download in whatever quality you want. They could be the only people offering lossless format movies digitally. Just give me the fuuuucking video file
December 5, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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The other thing Valve should obviously start doing is arts funding grants

They never will tho because when Oculus started doing it for VR games it was a complete no-brainer with functionally zero costs and would have saved the entire burgeoning industry they were banking on and they didn't
Steam should really start selling movies again. But not streaming. F streaming. Sell em like they sell games, but you download in whatever quality you want. They could be the only people offering lossless format movies digitally. Just give me the fuuuucking video file
December 6, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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Actually somewhat-massive news, COCONA, one of the members of the all-Japanese based-in-Korea group XG, has come out as non-binary transmasc and having had top surgery

Which for an active idol in either country is just unheard of, never mind one at such a big group. They look amazing!
XG’s Cocona Comes Out as Transmasculine, Nonbinary
The 20-year-old rapper announced the news in an Instagram post: “I was born and perceived as female, but that label never represented who I truly am. I live in a way that feels more masculine and true...
www.hollywoodreporter.com
December 6, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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I've become deeply radicalized against gambling. It's just getting more evil the longer it's allowed to fester unregulated
December 6, 2025 at 3:36 AM
new browser exploit just dropped: lyra.horse/blog/2025/12...
SVG Filters - Clickjacking 2.0
A novel and powerful twist on an old classic.
lyra.horse
December 5, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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We are going to have so many corrupt billionaire-sponsored DINOs shoved down our throats next year and I am already sick and disgusted at the thought.
December 5, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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[Werner Herzog voice] He is monstrous, but in a more profound sense, Cookie Monster is also a victim
December 5, 2025 at 4:43 AM