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gekido.bsky.social
Games industry dot biz is asking how you are using AI, do your thing!

survey.alchemer.com/s3/8679343/b...
GamesIndustry.biz AI Survey
survey.alchemer.com
February 13, 2026 at 6:03 PM
inkbotkowalski.bsky.social
European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly for the full recognition of trans women as women!!!

greekcitytimes.com/2026/02/13/e...

(took me a while to find news on this that's not on fucking Substack)
greekcitytimes.com
February 13, 2026 at 8:01 PM
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anothersmd.bsky.social
somehow there's an update... and it's not a great look. it shouldn't be the case that the admin react when there's an outcry then just don't change whatever system they've got in place anyway.
Tamer Nahed 𓂆🇵🇸 @Tamer_Alnoaizy The Bluesky platform has truly become a strange and deeply frustrating experience for me. At 3 a.m., I received an email on my official address from them explaining that what happened was merely a technical error, and that my account had been closed due to a platform glitch after the tweet spread very widely and created significant pressure on their system. I was genuinely happy when I read the message. I thought the issue had finally been resolved and that I would regain access to my account normally. But the moment I logged in, I was shocked to find that my account had been suspended again. It was extremely painful… like a door that opened for a brief moment only to be shut harshly once more. Honestly, I no longer feel any desire to use this platform. It feels like there is no real freedom of expression, and that our voices are only allowed to exist as long as they don’t disturb anyone. [the poster uploaded two screenshots, one of an email telling him that bluesky reviewed their decision and restored his account. the second screenshot shows his account has been suspended again] 11:42 AM · Feb 12, 2026 https://twitter.com/Tamer_Alnoaizy/status/2021912820057509913
February 12, 2026 at 2:02 PM
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anothersmd.bsky.social
palestinian journalist posting on twitter that his bluesky account was immediately taken down purely because he was in gaza. all palestinian accounts are assumed to be spam.
Tamer Nahed 𓂆🇵🇸 @Tamer_Alnoaizy BlueSky is one of the worst platforms I have ever dealt with. Within seconds of creating a second account, after my first one was shut down just two days after it was created, my account was closed again. This happened despite the fact that I hadn’t posted anything or followed anyone. I was only in the process of adding a profile photo, yet I received an email claiming that my account was “spam” and that it was “causing harm.” What kind of logic is this? The painful truth is that the account was shut down the moment it became clear it was created from inside Gaza. It seems we are no longer allowed to write or speak about what is happening to us here. They are not afraid of content itself, but of our voices and the reality we carry with us. Millions are spent to silence these voices and to erase the truth. I am exhausted by this platform and by how our photos and videos, which document real suffering, are treated as “violations of community standards,” as if pain itself has become a crime. What is happening is not simple moderation or policy enforcement. It is an attempt to erase our existence and bury the truth. And honestly, this is shameful and unbearably painful. [the original poster has included two screenshots showing the email from bluesky admin informing him that his account has been taken down for being 'spammy, inauthentic or disruptive to users'. it's the standard boilerplate you get when they take moderation action.] 2:45 PM · Feb 10, 2026 https://twitter.com/Tamer_Alnoaizy/status/2021234178461704409
February 11, 2026 at 5:26 PM
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gnofhorror.com
Post a tree you photographed
A misty landscape with barren trees and a silhouetted tower in the background. The foreground is a grassy hill, creating a mysterious, eerie atmosphere.
February 13, 2026 at 1:48 PM
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markhisted.org
In terms of what cures are being lost:

- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
"Moderna's CEO announced the company will no longer invest in new Phase 3 vaccine trials for infectious diseases: 'You cannot make a return on investment if you don't have access to the U.S. market. Vaccines for Epstein-Barr virus, herpes, and shingles have been shelved.” 9:12 AM Feb 12, 2026 604.8K Views
February 13, 2026 at 5:44 AM
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carolinelucas.bsky.social
BREAKING⚡️The High Court has just ruled that the government's draconian ban of Palestine Action was unlawful. This is a massive blow to the Home Office’s authoritarian approach. They need to stop criminalising people protesting a genocide and start ending the UK's complicity
February 13, 2026 at 11:09 AM
inkbotkowalski.bsky.social
I miss doing HEMA in general, but I especially miss the part where we'd spar with foam weapons. Best cure for social anxiety there is. BONK
February 13, 2026 at 1:24 PM
inkbotkowalski.bsky.social
Social anxiety through the roof recently. What do you mean I'm a grown adult and being stuffed into a crowded train car makes me want to scream
February 13, 2026 at 1:20 PM
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tressiemcphd.bsky.social
For my money, the way thousands of regular people are self-organizing to resist data centers is one of the most cautiously hopeful stories going right now.

www.themountaineer.com/news/no-cryp...
No crypto in Canton: Town blocks data centers and crypto mining operations
Canton’s makeshift town hall in a tiny trailer was bursting at the seams Wednesday night with citizens united against data centers and cryptocurrency mining.
www.themountaineer.com
February 13, 2026 at 2:27 AM
inkbotkowalski.bsky.social
Ausgezeichnet.
February 13, 2026 at 10:31 AM
inkbotkowalski.bsky.social
WHAT IS THIS WHITE ORB IN THE SKY. WHAT IS THIS BRIGHTNESS
February 13, 2026 at 9:27 AM
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kategevans.bsky.social
Some good news for anyone depressed about the world right now: the kakapo are getting it onnnnn thespinoff.co.nz/science/13-0...
Good news: It’s kākāpō fuck season
The world is going to hell in a handbasket but at least the kākāpō are going hog wild.
thespinoff.co.nz
February 13, 2026 at 1:09 AM
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davelevitan.bsky.social
"If someone can invent a new Olympic sport by stacking one guy on top of another guy, surely someone could invent another Olympic sport by stacking yet one more guy on top of the aforementioned guys."

Important work from @sabs.bsky.social:

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High-Level, Actionable Insights From Watching Doubles Luge For The First Time | Defector
To the uninitiated, luge itself might seem a silly sport, given that the average person might guess it mostly consists of holding onto a sled real tight as it goes fast down the ice. Of course, this o...
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February 12, 2026 at 10:10 PM
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skwinnicki.bsky.social
Happy birthday, Chuck.

Proud to carry on your legacy of studying evolutionary biology while going through it
Image of a bearded, bald, and morose Charles Darwin, with his famous quote “I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything”
February 12, 2026 at 3:52 PM
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baroness.bsky.social
Just about all the people I know and have met involved with cultural heritage preservation in Europe are on the left side of the political spectrum

I think about that a lot whenever I hear chuds proclaim they're going to save 'our' culture
February 12, 2026 at 4:48 PM
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drnwillburger.bsky.social
In the early medieval period, colorful glass beads were a mark of prestige and fashion. This striking necklace, comprising over 60 beads in vibrant reds, blues, yellows, and intricate patterns, was discovered in the burial of a woman at Bissingen, southwest Germany, dating 7th century. 🧵1/2

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The picture shows a necklace made of glass beads. The beads are of different size, shape and colour. Some are patterned, others monochrome.
February 12, 2026 at 11:26 AM
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dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social
This seems as good an excuse as any for a short thread introducing people to some single moths I've found in my area, looking for fun.

1. Here, for starters, is a Canary-Shouldered Thorn Moth (I didn't make this up).
A Canary-Shouldered Thorn Moth
February 12, 2026 at 11:54 AM
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ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social
Adding the finishing touches 🖌️

The image in this ancient Greek cup depicts a helmet-maker concentrating on adding the final touches to a Corinthian helmet.

📷️ Attic red-figure pottery stemmed cup depicting a scene of daily life, The Antiphon Painter, 490–480 BCE. AN1896-1908.G.267
A overhead view of an ancient Greek cup, decorated in the centre with a workshop scene in orange. A overhead view of an ancient Greek cup, decorated in the centre with a workshop scene in orange.
February 12, 2026 at 8:01 AM
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catacalypto.bsky.social
one thing I’ve noticed in talking to people is that they really are not aware of how meteoric the increase in storage has been, or what that means for renewable energy
costasamaras.com Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 1d
This is incredible. Like the previous few years, near all of the electricity capacity added to the grid was clean energy. The Inflation Reduction Act helped this - it made solar & wind cheaper but it also for the first time had a standalone incentive for grid storage. Look at the growth in storage!
bistline.bsky.social John Bistline @bistline.bsky.social · 2d
Final EIA-860 is out, and 2025 really did it: 54 GW of new U.S. electric capacity, 96% clean. Solar again carries the offense, and we built more storage in 2025 than the cumulative total through 2023. More and more and more additions... but also record low retirements.
February 12, 2026 at 5:46 AM
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davekarpf.bsky.social
Damn, @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social's got hands today.
"The only thing Big Tech is selling us is their own unprocessed trauma back to us. It's not a revolution. It's a comfort blanket for a managerial class that still can't fathom that all their tech and wealth couldn't protect them from the pandemic."
February 11, 2026 at 9:09 PM
inkbotkowalski.bsky.social
I have just deep-cleaned the floors (vacuum yesterday and mop today), and yet somehow the soles of my feet are covered in lint from walking around barefoot after working out?! HOW.
February 11, 2026 at 9:47 PM
inkbotkowalski.bsky.social
Started watching Smallville (I know, I know), and hooo boyyy, that first time Clark and Lex meet sure ain't homoerotic at all, no sireeeee
February 11, 2026 at 9:27 PM
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assignedmale.bsky.social
I'm not saying that Canada is perfect, I'm saying that the bar is pretty low right now.
Four frame comic. First frame shows a Canadian flag. Text reads : the new canadian citizenship policy, which was enacted in December 2025, restores citizenship by descent, for ancestors as far as you can prove. 2nd frame shows a locomotive. Text reads : that means that if one of your grandparents, great-grand- parents or even farther was demonstrably born in Canada, you don't even need to apply for citizenship - you are retro- actively granted it. Third frame shows an old dusty register book. Text reads : the process involves linking your CanadA-born ancestor to yourself by digging up a paper trail of birth or wedding certificates, proof of immigration or adoption, etc. thanks to Canadian archive- keeping traditions, this is possible by reaching out to towns, parishes, national archives*... Fourth frame shows old factory chimneys. Text reads : between 1840 and 1930, 925 000 French-Canadians fled persecution and economic oppression by moving to the usa. today, their descendants represent around ten million people, or 3% of the U.s. population. if it's time for you to come back, we haven't forgotten about you.
February 10, 2026 at 2:24 AM