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Kirk Winner
@kirkwinner.bsky.social
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Just some guy, you know?
He/Him
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theonion.com
Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time
Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time
November 5, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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unseenjapan.com
"Proof that magical girls (fighting girls?) existed in the Muromachi Era"
Text of original tweet: Ritual mountaineering axe with heart‑shaped openwork. Japan. Nanbokucho to Muromachi period, 14th century AD. Forged iron head; wooden shaft spiral‑wrapped with a bronze strip; H 179.8 cm, blade 28 x 25.5 cm. Collection: Nara National Museum. Classified as an Important Cultural Property. Those two hearts are not about romance. In Japan they are inome, the boar’s eye, a very old apotropaic sign cut into weapons, temple fittings and even windows to draw off misfortune and summon courage. The motif has been in use for well over a millennium and you can still see inome windows at temples like Shōju‑in in Kyoto. Text of QRT (Japanese): 室町時代の日本に魔法少女（戦闘美少女？）がいた証拠だ
November 13, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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xavierck.com
Meme of a cat that's usually looking at a brain, but now it's looking at the Unreal Engine logo. Text says "Why is it always" and that's followed by a screenshot of the "Compiling Shaders" alert from Unreal
November 13, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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roodypatooti.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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oocpokemonofficial.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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ironicaccount.bsky.social
the idea that lots of gamedevs are secretly using ai is booster bullshit

what on earth would I use genAI tools for? Coming up with ideas? Writing? It’s shit at those

making 3D models? Coding stuff? It’s shit at that too

oh but it’s faster maybe? Did I mention it’s shit at things?

seems important
November 12, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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pokemongems.bsky.social
Screenshot of a Chansey hiding in the bushes in the Pokémon anime Screenshot of officer Jenny jumping up from behind the green bush with a Chansey hat on her head holding a shot gun
November 12, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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leastactionhero.bsky.social
nobody does more brutal fashion reviews than the irish
lady of sophistication @janky_jane Props to anyone who tries to be fashionable in ireland i wore a red beret once in waterford and someone called me super mario Andrew Beatty V @AndrewBeatty Replying to @janky_jane I once ordered a taxi in Belfast for a night out. The driver pulls up to my house and just says "yer not going out like that. Go back in and change, I'll turn off the metre." | swear I was wearing normal jeans and a normal jacket. Matthew @MrWeir Replying to @janky jane I once wore a silver jacket to college, turned up late for class, said 'sorry I'm late', lecturer said, 'that's ok' then waited til I was halfway across the front of the full class before following up with 'trouble with the spaceship again was it?'. Replying to @janky _jane My sister was in France sporting a new trench coat, thought was so stylish, but went into an Irish bar and got called Inspector Gadget by the first guy that saw her 15:53 • 8/16/21 • Twitter Web App was wearing my super-fashionable short trench coat. My friend took one look at me wearing the jacket and said, "Where are we off to now. Columbo?" Eoin O Neill @eoinjoneill Replying to @janky_jane Was wearing a vintage nike jacket in a very long que for drinks at a boxing match when a Belfast lad goes "furk me this is taking forever, your man has been here since the 80's" Loic Wright @dufflest Replying to @janky jane I wore a suit with a matching tie and pocket square to my first day of work at an advertising company (I thought I was going to be in Mad Men I guess) and the staff sent around and signed a communion card for me with a fiver in it. Eóin O Coileáin @L20_MTN Replying to @janky_jane I wore a white, wool turtle-neck jumper to the match once and a fella in the pub said 'Where have you parked the U-boat?'.
November 22, 2024 at 1:57 PM
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ixnoah.live
In Super Mario Galaxy, the stars on the letters of the logo spell "u r mr gay", while for the movie it says "he mr gay". This is because you are watching Mario, not playing him.
November 12, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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weirdmedieval.bsky.social
hey gang
November 12, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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nocontexttrek1.bsky.social
Star Trek Voyager scene. Harry Kim, famous lieutenant, is talking to a Borgs. Borgs are half robot half regular human or alien hive mind folk. They have sickly looking skin usually and lots of gadgetry and tubules coming in and out of them and sometimes like a full fake arm instead of an arm but instead it's like a big multipurpose tool with terrifying stuff attached used to turn other non Borgs into Borgs. Ok, so now that we know this, we're back to Harry. Picture one: looking earnest, Harry is speaking. Closed caption reads, "I guess the Borg meet a lot of people, don't they?" Picture two, Harry now looking quite embarrassed. Closed caption reads, "(quietly): stupid question." All the alts are found in picture one but thank you for checking and being thorough. Thoroughness is a quality, I feel.
November 12, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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adrieldeutilt.bsky.social
Bogos Binted 👽

Concept by:
@pauldrawsart.bsky.social

#PixelArt #Pokémon
A pixel art sprite of a UFO version of Diglett, he's in the GSC style with green and blue colors
November 12, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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everydaylouie.bsky.social
ZA team <3
a drawing of a pokemon team and trainer
November 13, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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zander.supertonic.au
I love noodling around and finding a nice crunchy chord then asking the computer what it is. I think this is just a Bm9, but go off Sibelius, lay that F#11b13#9/B on me
Allegedly an F sharp eleven add flat thirteen add sharp nine over B chord
November 11, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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zander.supertonic.au
I just want games journalism that tastes like real games journalism
November 11, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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cratesmith.bsky.social
So my talk on realtime clustered/volumetric audio is up!

For anyone keen here's all the links
Talk recording: youtu.be/RbvLHn5RZck?...

Slides: cratesmith.github.io/gcap2025-talk

Demo/source: github.com/Cratesmith/g...
Every tree in the forest. Clustered spatial audio.
YouTube video by GCAP
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November 11, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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tetrabunz.bsky.social
October 2, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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belgianboolean.bsky.social
Friendly tip for folks. My discord got hacked yesterday and my computer was acting funky ever since. Turns out it was malware installed through a blender file I bought as part of an asset pack on CG Trader. I didn’t know blender files were being used this way, but I figured I’d spread the word.
November 11, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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busalonium.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/shorts/8hyhg...

At Supernova on Sunday I asked some indie devs to give me their elevator pitches

@dungeonpizza.bsky.social @abandonedsheep.com @rockalot.bsky.social @jettwilliams.name
I asked five indie devs to pitch their games (and did my own) #gamedev #indiegame #videogame #gaming
YouTube video by Busalonium
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November 10, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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snapcube.gay
everyone needs to grow the fuck up and start playing pretend with toys
November 7, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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dandock.bsky.social
I just want to be as confident as the Red & Blue sprite for Blastoise
September 22, 2023 at 6:55 PM
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smoothdunk2.bsky.social
me when the AI bubble bursts
3 panel comic Panel 1: A desperate, panicking Blue Guy screams into his phone: Come Quickly! The AI companies are in trouble! Panel 2: A Pink Guy, also on the phone, replies: Oh Shit! I’m on my way! Panel 3: Pink Guy is relaxing in his living room, having a lovely cup of tea. He has no intention of going to help save the AI sinking slop ship.
November 10, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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maddymakesgames.com
its important as an artist to have strongly held bad opinions about your medium
November 10, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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stefmowords.bsky.social
succubus - female demon that seduces men

incubus - male demon that seduces women

vengabus - non-binary demon that likes to party
November 6, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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kekeflipnote.bsky.social
Most of my favorites are too simple (Cleffa, Ditto etc) so I went with Machoke for a good challenge! (of course!)

It was hard but I tried my best!

Thanks for the exercice Jon, Hope I am not too late, this was fun!
Illustration of the Pokémon Machoke, drawn with only one line. The eye part was tricky so I put it touching the mouth (I hope it still works!)
November 6, 2025 at 11:06 AM