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Chip bitney

@fragboner.bsky.social

Snail helm is go

Snail helmet with the shell being the helm and snail being the face cover

January 17, 2026 at 12:12 AM

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Kim Hu

@kim-hu.com

WE?!!! How is it on us now to find out what this bullshit is useful for LMAO

Mrs Dr Syd @mrsdrsyd.bsky.social · 8h

Delicious to me

January 21, 2026 at 9:14 PM

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inkle

@inkle.co

TR-49: OUT NOW

Narrative deduction / audio drama

"Outstanding" - PC Gamer
"Politically fierce" - Polygon
"One of the best" - Thinky Games
"I wanted to know everything" - RPS
"Impressive - very impressive indeed" - Eurogamer

$6.99 / ~6 hours

Steam: tinyurl.com/2jvt9ewk
iOS: tinyurl.com/4ucwx4s7

TR-49 - Official Trailer

YouTube video by inkleStudios

www.youtube.com

January 21, 2026 at 4:03 PM

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Modiie

@modiie.bsky.social

J’ai décidé de traduire un jeu en vieil anglais pour votre plus grand plaisir 🤓

Ici, un nouveau format de best of « clips dump » pour que les gens qui ont pas suivi l’aventure s’amusent quand même, et que les autres aient des souvenirs 🌠

youtu.be/ZLI1uFl407k?...

Felvidek clips dump, modiie et un chevalier cote à cote

January 21, 2026 at 10:23 AM

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The Elder Memes

@theeldermemes.bsky.social

👍

Elder Memes post of an image of Elon Musk dressed as Maiq the Liar with a box that says "Musq the Liar".

A Mediocre Fella replies "is he essential?"

Elder Memes replies "no billionaire is essential".

January 20, 2026 at 4:59 PM

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Lucie Ronfaut

@lucieronfaut.com

Si vous n'avez rien à carrer du métavers, je vous promets que cet épisode va vous y intéresser. On y parle de justice réparatrice ! Comment l'influence politique des géants du numérique s'est d'abord façonnée dans les mondes virtuels !

(je vous y parle aussi de fanfictions sur le hockey sur glace)

ORIGAMI 💌 Média jeu vidéo... mais pas que ! @origasky.bsky.social · 1d

Tiens, vous avez regardé votre montre ?

Vous avez rendez-vous TOUT DE SUITE avec les Internet Exploreuses et @stellaykv.bsky.social, qui se sont retrouvées dans le monde physique pour parler des métavers. Ringards, abandonnés ... mais peut-être encore utiles à la société ?

youtu.be/JDSSdpuLzJE?...

C'est la fête sur le plateau de l'émission Internet Exploreuses ! Lucie et Héloïse agitent les bras en l'air, pendant que Stella (notre invitée) regarde sur le côté d'un air un peu gêné.

January 20, 2026 at 10:07 AM

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Tim Carvell

@timcarvell.bsky.social

I like that the same day a guy was like “this place will never be Twitter” this thread gave us the most 2015 Twitter experience (complimentary) imaginable.

Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 1d

I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place

January 20, 2026 at 4:38 AM

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Cyan Worlds

@cyan.com

Rumor has it there's a very fun announcement coming later this week.
Cyan Newsletter subscribers will be the first to know!

Not yet a subscriber? Let's fix that:
https://cyan.com/mailing-list/

A very close-up photograph of a single stud on a grey, modular building block set. It is extremely mysterious. *twirls moustache*

January 19, 2026 at 4:44 PM

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Anna Megill

@annamegill.com

Imagine playing in a world where the story, environment & world lore were all slop. No profound interconnections, no elaborate web of meaning underlying it & holding it all together. No greater story to reveal once you see how the pieces play off each other. Just slop vomited everywhere

wishda @wishda.bsky.social · 2d

This is hitting video games where “environmental art” is being concepted by AI.

And it is those posters, signs, graffiti, and other bits of art that tell the story of the world being turned into generic placeholders.

January 19, 2026 at 5:21 PM

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Li Chen

@exocomics.com

that time

December 23, 2025 at 12:32 AM

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Winnie the Pooh (Official)

@indianawalsh.bsky.social

Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale

Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools

Daniel Benneworth-Gray @danielgray.com · 2d

COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS

Back-scratching bovine leads scientists to reassess intelligence of cows

Brown Swiss in Austria has been discovered using tools in multiple ways – something only ever seen in humans and chimpanzees

www.theguardian.com

January 19, 2026 at 5:04 PM

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Anna Megill

@annamegill.com

Also, lore and story are intertwined. They complement and reinforce each other. The magic happens when you play them off each other in ways that deepen the player experience. Those serendipitous connections come you, the creator, and your game is richer for them

January 19, 2026 at 4:48 PM

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ORIGAMI 💌 Média jeu vidéo... mais pas que !

@origasky.bsky.social

Un jeu de déduction par les devs de Heaven’s Vault et 80 Days ? Serait-ce l’odeur du GOTY ? TR-49 et sa fiction audio interactive à base de secrets de la Seconde Guerre Mondiale : ici on mange ça.

21/12 | PC | ▶️ youtu.be/NEIyvjVQCAE

January 19, 2026 at 12:03 PM

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Florence / AngleDroit

@florencetwitch.bsky.social

Ce mardi à 20h sur ma chaine Twitch, à l'occasion des 25 ans de Wikipedia, ça va être très cool, venez !

Pronoia @pronoiawp.bsky.social · 2d

RDV demain sur la chaîne Twitch de @florencetwitch.bsky.social pour fêter les 25 ans de Wikipédia 🥳.
➡️ Au programme : visibilité des femmes sur Wiki et immersion dans les rouages de l'encyclopédie 📚✨.

Venez ! Ça va être super 😎!
@lessanspages.bsky.social

January 19, 2026 at 3:53 PM

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Rebecca Solnit

@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

I'm sorry. As a technology writer, I'm supposed to be telling you that this bet will some day pay off, because one day we will have shoveled so many words into the word-guessing program that it wakes up and learns how to actually do the jobs it is failing spectacularly at today. This is a proposition akin to the idea that if we keep breeding horses to run faster and faster, one of them will give birth to a locomotive. Humans possess intelligence, and machines do not. The difference between a human and a word-guessing program isn't how many words the human knows.

I'm sorry. I know that when we talk about "digital sovereignty," we're obliged to talk about how we can build more data-centres that we can fill up with money-losing chips from American silicon monopolists in the hopes of destroying as many jobs as possible while blowing through our clean energy goals and enshittifying as much of our potable water as possible.

January 18, 2026 at 5:29 PM

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Dr. Briana Jackson 🏴‍☠️

@baladria.bsky.social

Oh I see, we’re quoting our answers!

The MYST series. There is no after, it still exists. It comes with 90s nostalgia, so nothing surpasses this.

Ok I will follow up with a thread of photos of my collection. Listen, YOU ASKED. Here are my maps and Myst Chest (w/ other Cyan games)

Photograph of a cedar chest filled with merchandise from the Myst computer game series, and the games Firmament and Obduction

Photograph of rare maps from the games Myst and Riven

Photograph of a rare map of D’ni from the hardcover first edition of Myst: The Book of Ti’ana

Photograph of a signed poster for the game subduction and a framed display of the 5 CD-ROM sleeves from the first edition of Riven

January 18, 2026 at 4:48 PM

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The Elder Memes

@theeldermemes.bsky.social

The retirement home when I load up the hit 2006 game oblivion

(Below are a smattering of elderly people looking excited, scared, confused, as well as several npcs from various games doing weird shit)

January 18, 2026 at 4:56 PM

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg

@theradr.bsky.social

And my personal favorite from a mss from Brasenose College, Oxford in 1528, added to a mss copy of Cicero’s De officiis by a monk of Osney Abbey about John Burton, the local abbot (&, according to other historical sources, an actual massive POS).

So much solidarity, dear little monk.

Fancy calligraphy mss and then someone scrawled fuckin abbot in the margin and MAN do you feel that guy

January 18, 2026 at 12:42 AM

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Kelly Turnbull

@coelasquid.bsky.social

Meanwhile, compliments of the actual writer who brought you Sinners;

List of various consultants from the credits of Sinners;

Twins Consultants LOGAN MILLER • NOAH MILLER
Mississippi History & Economics Consultant JAMES C. COBB
Mississippi Choctaw Cultural & Language Consultant JAY WESLEY
Hoodoo Consultant YVONNE PATRICIA CHIREAU
Mississippi Delta Chinese Cultural Consultant DOLLY LI
Irish Cultural Consultant BILLY MAG FHLOINN
Railroad Consultant KELLY LYNCH
Historical Gambling Consultant LEEROY JOHNSON

January 17, 2026 at 7:32 AM

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Lex Feathers 🍂

@lexfeathers.ca

Duckduckgo has a survey for pro/anti-AI and I cackled so hard at the (current) results

https://voteyesornoai.com

Are you YES AI or NO AI? Vote now.

Big Tech doesn't care if you want AI or not. They should.

voteyesornoai.com

January 16, 2026 at 6:11 PM

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Genki

@genkigamer.bsky.social

“One Winged Angel” from Final Fantasy VII performed with traditional Japanese instruments on TV Asahi program “Untitled Concert” 🔥 #FF7

January 15, 2026 at 11:22 PM

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Emily C Taylor

@pentapod.bsky.social

As of today, I no longer work for Netflix. 😮 Check out today's blog from Spry Fox, and then please...

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✅ Sign up for our newsletter for beta info: playspiritcrossing.com
✅ Wish us the best of luck!!! #SpiritCrossing #GameDev🤞

A version of the "disaster girl" meme, but instead of the young girl smiling as the house in the background burns, she has been replaced by the character Nibbit from Spirit Crossing. Nibbit is a squarish bear with large round gold glasses, dark hair, and business casual attire. She is smiling, with her (tiny stubby) arms flung wide as the house behind her burns to the ground. The caption on the meme reads:
HEADING INTO 2026
NOW INDIE

January 16, 2026 at 4:20 AM

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Li Chen

@exocomics.com

transformation

January 15, 2026 at 9:40 PM

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Cat Manning

@catacalypto.bsky.social

there’s stuff circulating about Wikipedia and AI; I’d ask that you dig into this thread before getting concerned.

Molly White @molly.wiki · 6d

Sure. AI companies have ALWAYS been training their models on Wikipedia content, which under the free and open access model is available to anyone — including AI companies. Agreements like these require AI companies to limit and offset the strain they place on Wikimedia infrastructure.