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Lynzee Loveridge

@annlynzee.bsky.social

Every once in a while, I check my son's Steam reviews.

November 20, 2025 at 6:57 PM

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jules+

@julesetc.meangirls.online

with alt text, because everyone deserves a good cry.

come over.

We Have Enough Dead Friends
by LENA OLEANDERSON

Come over. The doors are open,
my flat's a mess and
so is my heart
but the doors are always open.
Come over. I will make soup,
probably from frozen but
the important thing is
we will both eat.

You don't have to be dying,
but if you are,
or you feel like you are,
or if living's been hard,
call me, and I will show up.
It doesn't have to be that bad,
it doesn't have to be bad at all,
but if it is, please call.

Do you want me to do the groceries?
Do you want me to mop the floors?
Do you need to be held;
you don't have to be dying to be held.
If you want me to be there, I want to.

I'm on the bathroom floor again,
and breathing is hard,
and eating's been hard, and sleeping,
the world is a laden thing
rolling around on my chest lately.
Just being alive is heavy tonight,
but we have enough dead friends.
Come over.

July 15, 2025 at 11:21 PM

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Chris Franklin

@errant-signal.com

I adore the way this game looks; it apes the Rollercoaster Tycoon vibe perfectly for its parodic intent while still looking really crisp and clean

hilkojj @hilkojj.nl · 12h

YOU 🫵 LOVE ❤️ CARS

Pave paradise and wishlist Car Park Capital:
store.steampowered.com/app/3031880/...

November 20, 2025 at 5:11 PM

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Micah

@rincewind.run

there were multiple different countdown clocks until the Olsen twins turned 18

reddit had its infamous 'jailbait' community online until late 2011

all of this shit was just out in the open, it was awful

⧉ @smilingnodding.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like maybe it’s a function of everyone online being born in 2002 but I don’t think most people realize how openly and explicitly pedophilic american culture was until like… maybe 10 years ago

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 1d

Someone found an mp3 of the creepy "Jailbait" song Olivia Nuzzi released when she was 16 🫣

November 20, 2025 at 12:10 AM

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Jon Cartwright

@jon.gvg.io

First Half Life, 3 Screenshots

November 18, 2025 at 10:27 PM

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Jessica Price

@delafina777.bsky.social

A woman on TikTok did a very simple experiment:

With SNAP benefits paused, would churches give a poor mother with an infant who was starving a can of baby formula?

Spoiler alert: the Protestants failed.

religionunplugged.com/news/kentuck...

Woman’s Church ‘Baby Formula Test’ Goes Viral, Exposing Compassion Gap

A Kentucky woman who was turned down by dozens of churches of various denominations and sizes in the Bible Belt in donating formula to her hungry baby has created a TikTok sensation. Fortunately, a fe...

religionunplugged.com

November 18, 2025 at 8:26 PM

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mnlwldr

@wldr.xyz

First day as a backend engineer at #cloudflare today. Found a minor bug and fixed it using ChatGPT. Let's see where the journey takes me.

November 18, 2025 at 12:20 PM

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Emilius Duckberry

@emiliusdraws.bsky.social

#3157 A helpful tutorial

A digital drawing of one of those drawing tutorials that says 'don't do this, do this.'
The drawing is of an almost naked middle-aged man doing a flying kick. The 'Don't do this' one has a bunch of areas circled and a cross under it. The 'Do this' one is exactly the same but without the circles and a tick instead of a cross.
The text reads 'Needlessly adding red circles will ruin your art' and a smaller bit of text at the bottom reads 'Bonus tip! Add a tick under all your art so people think you did it right.'

November 17, 2025 at 11:40 PM

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Chris DeLeon Ⓥ DevPods.gg gamedev community

@chrisdeleon.bsky.social

steamed machine ham is this anything

Superintendent Chalmers showing Seymour the grill marks on his steamed ham but I put a steam machine over the burger.

November 17, 2025 at 6:13 AM

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( o ᴥ o )

@photonicdog.bsky.social

Feels like it should be bigger news that a journalist known for being loud about her investigations into banks/payment processors appears to be getting financially stonewalled by the entire industry unaminously right now.

Ana Valens | 🔞 @acvalens.com · 3d

The full count as of today:

YouTube suspended
Twitch banned 3x
Patreon suspended (temporary)
Patreon 3x audio flags (one false posi)
Ko-fi suspended (indefinite?)
Buy Me a Coffee suspended
Vice reporting censored
Pornhub censored 3x times
Fansly censored 1x

Mr. Hands is making SuccuDeck 😈🃏 @mrhands31.bsky.social · 3d

Is it really a conspiracy to say Ana is being explicitly flagged by finance bros when she's now been banned (or censored) from Twitch, Patreon, Buy Me A Coffee, Ko-Fi, and *PornHub*??

November 17, 2025 at 2:10 PM

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daryl "'do not repeat this insight'" b 🏳️‍⚧️

@hypercubexl.bsky.social

matthew holness as garth merenghi in his dramatically lit office, dramatically reading a sec scene from one of his books

November 17, 2025 at 4:40 PM

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Soren Spicknall

@sorenspicknall.bsky.social

Easy choice if you're a deer deciding where to buy a house

A map showing a town called Deer Park next to a town called Kildeer

November 17, 2025 at 3:53 PM

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Becca Petunia 🏳️‍⚧️

@tallgirlpetunia.bsky.social

Marvel Presents: A Team Of Only White Characters Goes Back to 1776 To Learn Why America is Great

ComicsXF @comicsxf.com · 4d

@adamreck.bsky.social takes Marvel's 1776 #1 to task on its narrow view of history and limited cast: comicsxf.com/2025/11/16/1...

November 17, 2025 at 1:18 PM

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Lillikoifish

@lillikoifish.bsky.social

YOU GUYS WANNA SEE SOMETHING CURSED???? HOW ABOUT NEON GENESIS LEHIGH VALLEY PHANTOMS HOCKEY?????

November 16, 2025 at 11:25 PM

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Thembo

@thembo.bsky.social

Dems: Mamdani is too radical for our taste. Plus someone said he's antisemitic. And that name is scary to us! We need to keep him out.

Dems, 1 week later: Look lots of people have tattoos like that

Dems, 2 weeks later: Marjorie Taylor Greene, welcome to the Tent

November 16, 2025 at 8:16 PM

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Colin Hemphill

@colinhemphill.com

I wonder why their attempt to take on Steam didn't work.

Ethan Evans on LinkedIn.

As VP of Prime Gaming at Amazon, we failed multiple times to disrupt the game platform Steam. We were at least 250x bigger, and we tried everything. But ultimately, Goliath lost. Here's why:

The 15+ year long attempt to challenge Steam started before I was VP of Prime Gaming, but we never cracked the code. Not under my leadership or anyone else's.

The first way we tried to enter the online-game-store market was through acquisition. We acquired Reflexive Entertainment (a small PC game store) and tried to scale it. It went nowhere.

Then, after buying Twitch, we created our own PC games store. Our assumption was that gamers would naturally buy from us because they were already using Twitch. Wrong.

Finally, we built "Luna," a game streaming service that let people play without a high-end PC. Around the same time, Google tried the same thing with their product "Stadia." Neither gained significant traction. The whole time, Steam dominated despite being a relatively small company (compared to Amazon and Google).

The mistake was that we underestimated what made consumers use Steam.

November 16, 2025 at 6:41 PM

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele

@drdragases.bsky.social

The golden age of diversity and democracy in Oz.

November 16, 2025 at 7:04 AM

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Zach Rabiroff

@zachrabiroff.com

November 15, 2025 at 10:14 PM

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Mr BlondetanamoBay

@blondetanamobay.bsky.social

LP, LP, ➜, LK, HP. I went back redid my Homer Akuma. This time with synched mouth and tweaks.

November 15, 2025 at 9:12 PM

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JonnyExists

@jonnyexists.bsky.social

I was at a metal clubnight in Manchester wearing this jacket. The Irish guy queuing at the bar next to me loudly says to the barmaid "Nah, Judge Dredd here was ahead of me"

Sleeveless denim jacket with band patches and golden scale-mail shoulder armour.

November 12, 2025 at 2:15 PM

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Alexandria ⛯

@ash243x.bsky.social

"one day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this"