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Asher Vollmer
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Recovering game developer. Made Threes. he/him
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Asher Vollmer @ashervo.bsky.social · Feb 6
No one asked for a new tetris-like in 2025, but here we are. This is my game Plumbsum, which is about organizing pipes.
ashervo.itch.io/plumbsum
A screenshot of the start screen for a game called "Plumbsum" -- there is a conspicuous plunger.
ashervo.bsky.social
may 2026 be the year we finally start taking UBI seriously 💵

fund it directly from billionaires 🏹

it's not that complicated 🌈
December 30, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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rob-sheridan.com
Buttons are back. Knobs are back. Dumb devices are back. Own-it-forever software is back. Print is back. Personal websites and chronological feeds are back. Touching grass is back. People keep saying 2015, but it’s not far enough. The entire 2010s were a mistake. We must retvrn to… 2009.
wired.com WIRED @wired.com · 5d
Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its senses.
Rejoice! Carmakers Are Embracing Physical Buttons Again
Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its…
wrd.cm
December 28, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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literaryfish.bsky.social
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Non Binary Pride Flag Women T-Shirt $31 Non Binary Pride Flag Men T-Shirt $31
December 27, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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mrgan.com
Enjoying redacted document pages in your timeline? Why not take control of them in my fun mobile game! mrgan.com/blackbar/
Blackbar
A text game about censorship, by Neven Mrgan & James Moore.
mrgan.com
December 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
ashervo.bsky.social
if you flatter me and say Threes, I'll give you a hug irl
batariangal.bsky.social Julianna 💎 @batariangal.bsky.social · 13d
Quote this with what you would have said your game of the year was at the end of 2014, if you had one, and what you would say your favourite game of 2014 is now, if it differs

Localisations and early access count, remasters don't. Remakes depend

Refresher list: backloggd.com/games/lib/po...
a 5 by 5 grid of various games that released in 2014, they are Mario Kart 8 Valiant Hearts: The Great War Wolfenstein: The New Order Tales from the Borderlands Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor Shovel Knight Bayonetta 2 The Evil Within Titanfall The Sims 4 This War of Mine Broken Age Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze Far Cry 4 Dragon Age: Inquisition Forza Horizon 2 Dark Souls II Goat Simulator Divinity: Original Sin Alien: Isolation South Park: The Stick of Truth Destiny The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Transistor inFamous: Second Son
December 18, 2025 at 7:11 PM
ashervo.bsky.social
feeling bad? have you tried mental health?
December 18, 2025 at 7:56 AM
ashervo.bsky.social
Game developers are the #1 ultrawide monitor haters
December 18, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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mixolumia.com
my dream
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mixolumia.com davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · Sep 22
i want to make a 4:3 game and if anyone complains about black bars i will tell them to get a new monitor
December 17, 2025 at 11:40 PM
ashervo.bsky.social
My most radical take: games should have fixed aspect ratios!! Let us compose our shots, your ultra-widescreen monitor be damned.
terramachina.bsky.social EarthMachine @terramachina.bsky.social · 14d
Man, the video game hangar skeuomorphism interface or whatever the proper term is something we're seriously missing more of. There was so many amazing games with things like this on dos.
December 17, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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segyges.bsky.social
at this point it looks like you have to be putting carbon into the atmosphere out of spite if you do buildouts that aren't primarily solar
greatlakespecktwo.bsky.social Jonathan Overpeck @greatlakespecktwo.bsky.social · 18d
This is incredible (good news too): “After a 40% fall in 2024 in battery equipment costs, it’s clear we’re on track for another major fall in 2025…The economics for batteries are unrecognizable, & the industry is only just getting to grips with this new paradigm”
www.pv-magazine.com/2025/12/12/b...
Batteries now cheap enough to make dispatchable solar economically feasible
Energy think tank Ember says utility-scale battery costs have fallen to $65/MWh outside China and the United States, enabling solar power to be delivered when needed.
www.pv-magazine.com
December 14, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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finjico.bsky.social
🕹️ CorgiSpace is OUT NOW!

🏃 Break out of jail (a lot)
🐶 Be a pug
🔪 Stab nazis
💥 Fall off stuff
🌍 Terraform a planet
⛪ Drink various popes
🍄 Farm mushrooms

Check it out on Steam & itch.io!
December 12, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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iridiumstudios.bsky.social
Be sure to check out a BRAND NEW TRAILER for People of Note, tomorrow morning on the Day of the Devs Digital Showcase!

Noon Eastern, 9 AM Pacific! BE THERE IF YOU LIKE MUSIC AND GAMES AND STUFF
Day of the Devs: The Game Awards Edition
YouTube video by thegameawards
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December 10, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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oakfrogs.bsky.social
escapism through channeling a medieval manuscript illustrator
November 27, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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milkyblood.bsky.social
engineer familiars
November 22, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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v21.bsky.social
great one two punch of a incredible shitpost headline & a genuinely touching article
November 26, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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jannouna.bsky.social
ok young suns is out so I can post about this: I got a bug where a furniture item spawned in the world as a chicken. complete with chicken noises. ceci n'est pas une poullet
a screenshot of young suns where a furniture item labeled "ionian stained shelf" is uh. a chicken.
November 25, 2025 at 6:54 PM
ashervo.bsky.social
on top of spaghetti
all covered in bees
I contracted my windpipe
due to allergies
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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bencranewrites.com
Cosmic Cadets: Accused! is out in just over 2 weeks!!!
Inks @andyalvesart.bsky.social
Colors @prips.bsky.social
@idwpublishing.com @topshelfcomix.bsky.social

Mystery! Adventure! Friendship!

An all-ages #scifi #comics #graphicnovel following the kids of the crew of a ship exploring the galaxy.
A trope arrows graphic for Cosmic Cadets: Accused! - Kids solving mysteries! - New alien friends! - Ridiculous disguises! - False accusations! - Friendship and family! - Gravity hijinx! - Stand-alone sequel!
November 24, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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ko-op.com
Join us tomorrow at 12 PM EST for an exciting announcement of our upcoming game! youtu.be/rVEWbp1FiKg
KO_OP Game Reveal & Presentation
YouTube video by KO_OP
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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laurasaurus.bsky.social
I’m howling.
Recently, Clifford "Buzz" Grambo decided to upgrade his electric scooter. The old one he had purchased online only reached 16 mph and wasn't cutting it anymore. He needed to go faster to keep up with the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement cars he chases around Baltimore. So, Grambo bought a Segway MAX G3, which features a 2,000-watt motor and can get up to 28 mph. "The first time I caught up to them, I could tell that they already knew who I was," he told me when we first spoke on the phone in late October. "They had seen me before, so they thought they were just going to speed away. I was like, ha-ha bitches, I got a new scooter!"
November 20, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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sbworkersunited.org
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.

Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Don't Buy Starbucks! At any location, today and beyond, while workers are on ULP strike!
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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mllepilgrim.bsky.social
POSSESSOR(S) is launching today.

I have been the producer on this project for three years, & the last few weeks have been difficult. Most of the team isn't around anymore to celebrate the launch, so I wrote many words about these incredible people to celebrate them.

🖤 shorturl.at/MpMra
Celebrating the Possessor(s) team 🖤 | Notion
I am not one to post like this usually, but as things have developed recently, I want to take a minute and get some stuff off my chest.
shorturl.at
November 11, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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pearlsnapped.bsky.social
my passion is behind-the-scenes set photos of star trek
brent spiner as data sitting outside on steps reading a script in a dodgers hat gates mcfadden as bev crusher in uniform on the lot riding a unicycle patrick stewart in a canadian tuxedo sitting next to data in old west gear on an old west set Marina Sirtis as Troi on the bridge reading Women Who Love Too Much
November 7, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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jamellebouie.net
ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections
jakemgrumbach.bsky.social Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · Nov 5
Off their phones and into the streets

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/n...
A Little-Noted Element Propelled Mamdani's Rise: Gen Z Loneliness Members of Gen Z found something unexpected in the mayoral race: a chance to hang out. Their enthusiasm turned into real votes. Listen to this article • 7:30 min Learn more Share full article GIRLS
November 5, 2025 at 12:49 PM