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ellis dex 🌟
@ellisdex.itch.io
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✭ gamedev of many faces
✭ indie dev + writer + QA @ glowmade
✭ LITHOBREAKERS member
✭ hopeful ghost, agender menace, curiosity machine. excited for everything!!!
✭ https://ellisdex.itch.io
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ellis dex 🌟 @ellisdex.itch.io · Oct 20
okkkk hello new bluesky people!! i'm ellis [they/any] - indie dev + writer + bearer of multiple hats. i'm currently working as QA at glowmade, and i make lots of queer indie narrative games about having friends + feelings + maybe agency 👀 you can find me at ellisdex.itch.io or ellisdex.carrd.co 🌟
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victoriatran.bsky.social
💵 MONEY for GAME? In 2026??? 💵

There have been more and more successful-game-devs-turned-game-funders popping up, so here's a lil' thread of some of the more recent ones I've seen.

Hopefully this helps you get some $$$! 🔽
January 8, 2026 at 8:09 PM
ellisdex.itch.io
wanting "training" for agents of government brutality suggests that their teachers will teach them away from violent tactics - but this is the precise way they have been trained, and their propensity for violence is why they have been hired. it is a system that rewards and protects violent behaviour
ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 5d
side discussion but anyone saying the real issue with ICE is a lack of proper training is subtly arguing for increased funding and should probably be ignored going forward regarding all substantive matters
January 8, 2026 at 9:40 AM
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darkcerbshaun.bsky.social
I've seen a number of people say this is the vetted gofundme for her which is already at 350~k so hopefully she can lawyer up.

www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...
Donate to Support for Renee Good’s wife and son, organized by Mattie Weiss
Please support the wife and son of Renee Good as they grapple with the devastating … Mattie Weiss needs your support for Support for Renee Good’s wife and son
www.gofundme.com
January 8, 2026 at 8:49 AM
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sophiemolly.co.uk
'Data from hundreds of public bodies in England shows only four complaints about transgender women in women’s single-sex spaces over a period of three years'

Sounds like a non-issue being spun to stoke hate against a minority by bad faith 'feminists'.

www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/almo...
Almost no one is complaining about trans women in women's spaces, study finds - LGBTQ Nation
“This is a manufactured controversy, not a documented crisis.”
www.lgbtqnation.com
January 7, 2026 at 9:25 AM
ellisdex.itch.io
tis i, the boy of a thousand hair changes
January 6, 2026 at 8:55 PM
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roodypatooti.bsky.social
Wish I could internalize this
brightwanderer I think a lot about how we as a culture have turned "forever" into the only acceptable definition of success. Like... if you open a coffee shop and run it for a while and it makes you happy but then stuff gets too expensive and stressful and you want to do something else so you close it, it's a "failed" business. If you write a book or two, then decide that you don't actually want to keep doing that, you're a "failed" writer. If you marry someone, and that marriage is good for a while, and then stops working and you get divorced, it's a "failed" marriage. The only acceptable "win condition" is "you keep doing that thing forever". A friendship that lasts for a few years but then its time is done and you move on is considered less valuable or not a "real" friendship. A hobby that you do for a while and then are done with is a "phase" - or, alternatively, a "pity" that you don't do that thing any more. A fandom is "dying" because people have had a lot of fun with it but are now moving on to other things. I just think that something can be good, and also end, and that thing was still good. And it's okay to be sad that it ended, too. But the idea that anything that ends is automatically less than this hypothetical eternal state of success... I don't think that's doing us any good at all.
October 30, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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equalitytrust.bsky.social
As you're reading this — literally right now — FTSE 100 CEOs have just been paid as much as an entire year's wage for the median full time worker. After just a couple of days back. I haven't even cleared my inbox yet.
Bar chart showing FTSE 100 CEOs are paid a year's median full time wage in just 29 hours, compared to £594 for median workers after 29 hours.
January 6, 2026 at 11:30 AM
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danshinwastaken.bsky.social
👀 Looking for 👀

Unreal Dev Mentor

Mentee:
- Fem Middle-Jun indie dev
- Knows UE5/4, it’s tools, how to customize engine, build plugins, and general flow.
- Wants to learn ways to scale, build proper architecture, design patterns and mindset

🙏Pls share🙏
asking 4 a friend w no online prescense
January 5, 2026 at 3:22 PM
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lukethehebble.bsky.social
Need some new music in your life / game? Then do I have the website for you!

Featuring a diverse selection of over 200 UK games composers, portfolios/music and contacts >>

gamescomposers.co.uk

Completely free to use/join etc - open to anyone in/from the UK who's made music for games 🎵🎮💪
January 5, 2026 at 11:26 AM
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michaelklamerus.bsky.social
I agree but it's also fun to push back on this feeling by making your own website and linking to other websites with fun little buttons that people can click on to discover new pages. It's a new year, consider making your own website with Neocities or whatever

virtualmoose.org/favorite-blo...
January 5, 2026 at 2:54 AM
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rebeccamwrites.bsky.social
New year and new pinned post! Looking for game writing, world-building or narrative design for your project? Let's talk.

I have a bunch of samples right here!
gameswriting.coffee/portfoliowri...

Happy to chat perm & contract/freelance work. From consulting to bigger gigs.
Social graphic featuring games I have worked on including Gears Tactics Yooka-Replaylee, and Dirty Bomb.
January 5, 2026 at 1:05 PM
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sahilbajaj.dev
New Year, New "Hey, I'm Still Looking For Work" Post

I'm available for full-time or part-time work as a Game Writer and a Narrative Designer but I'm open to consulting if that's what you need.

You can find my work and reach out to me at sahilbajaj.dev
January 5, 2026 at 1:21 PM
ellisdex.itch.io
episode 8 of the pitt... why would they do this to me
January 4, 2026 at 4:36 PM
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mothshaped.bsky.social
Feeling powerless as always, but I've landed on making a €20 donation to Alimenta la Solidaridad, a Venezuelan charity tackling food inequality. Match me? donate.alimentalasolidaridad.org/give/395747
January 4, 2026 at 11:07 AM
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deletedsavesmag.bsky.social
Deleted Saves is open for pitches for Issue #2 - Spring 2026! Send your ideas to deletedsaves at gmail dot com. We focus on critical analysis of games and are open to new and experienced writers alike! Pay is $275/piece.
December 12, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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mommunism.bsky.social
The people of Venezuela do not deserve this. Solidarity with the people of Venezuela. May the words of Chavez give them some solace
Chavez blasted the U.S. empire. 'It is the most perverse empire in history: It talks about freedom while invading and destroying other nations.... The empire is very powerful, but not infallible. This century we will bury the U.S. empire. The empire has to face the people of Venezuela and Latin America. It has failed in Iraq already." He urged the audience to "imagine a world in which the U.S. administration declares peace to the world, withdraws its forces, and uses its resources to produce medicines and food for the poor people of the world."
January 3, 2026 at 8:08 AM
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rebeccarhelm.bsky.social
OMG 😭

Huntington's is an inherited disease that's like Alzheimers + Parkinson's all in one. NOW: "once the gene therapy has been delivered into the brain... [it] injects a piece of DNA to reprogram the neuron to become a factory for its own cure."

LIFE SAVING!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhEx...
Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time | BBC News
YouTube video by BBC News
www.youtube.com
September 25, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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wharthur.bsky.social
Happy 2026 everyone! 🍾
48-word RPG Jam has started on itchio!
Make a RPG in 48 words in this new year!
itch.io/jam/48wordrp...
48-word RPG Jam
A game jam from 2026-01-01 to 2026-01-31 hosted by W.H. Arthur & Rook and Role. An analogue game jam in 48 words This game jam is for 48-words RPGs, open to game designers of all experience level. The...
itch.io
January 1, 2026 at 8:52 AM
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archive.org
🥳 Welcome to the Public Domain: creative works from 1930 & sound recordings published in 1925! Duke Law's Center for the Study of the Public Domain has highlighted some of the most anticipated works entering the #publicdomain in 2026!

More ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai...

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January 1, 2026 at 5:02 AM
ellisdex.itch.io
yippee
A screenshot of Storygraph. It says 2025 at a glance, and has a list of books: Private Rites by Julia Armfield, Yellowface by Rebecca F Kuang, Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White, The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K LeGuin, the entire Magic of the Lost series by C.L. Clark, the Paladin series by T. Kingfisher, She's Always Hungry by Eliza Clark, Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao, Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhoarse, Swordheart by T. Kingfisher, and Fate's Bane by C.L. Clark
January 1, 2026 at 11:22 AM
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ranyart.bsky.social
In June I finished a poem about being suicidal and the tiniest things one can use as a carrot to keep themselves going, and here at the close of the year I am finally (mostly) ready to share it
the case for living Sometimes a breeze blows on a sunny day. A pollen-covered bee crawls gracelessly across a poppy, loading up on food to share with all her sisters in the hive. The first tomato of the year is ripe, ready for salt and slices of fresh bread. The juice drips, tart and sweet, down to your wrist before you have the chance to lick it clean. You laugh, undignified and far too loud as you remember what your best friend said when you were young. She's long since passed, of course, but every burst of laughter brings her back. It's not enough, and yet it's all we have, each too-small seed of joy unearthed from soil watered more often by our tears than rain and melting, soft and fragile, in our hands. In lack of hope or some great blessed plan, we hold and kiss and keep them while we can.
December 31, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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kitsparks.bsky.social
oh hey I just read the greatest work of fiction of the decade

archiveofourown.org/works/73396436
AO3 screenshot: Why one small American town won't stop stoning its residents to death by Anonymous for sophiahelix fandom: The Lottery - Shirley Jackson, The New Yorker RPF date: 25 December 2025 tags: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Isaac Chotiner, Mr Summers, Isaac Chotiner interviews the guy who runs the lottery in Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" summary: The picturesque village of Buell, Maine is one of the last in the United States to continue the tradition of the "harvest" or "prosperity" lottery. Its residents insist the lottery makes them stronger, even as condemnation from outsiders grows.
December 31, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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formyths.bsky.social
gathering / winding / echoing / wearing / turning / anchoring - forgot i never posted the full set of prints from my residency this past summer. you can see them on my site: formyths.com/promises

5 color risograph prints (mint, bright olive green, medium blue, bright red, hunter green)
six riso prints, with borders of stylized, symbolic panels around a central image
December 29, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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pghravearchive.bsky.social
Christmas In July, July 19 2008, I think at the Shadow Lounge
August 15, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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turns out the pitt is as good as everyone says it is
December 30, 2025 at 7:05 PM