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Raigan Burns
@raiganburns.bsky.social
I make games (and music), and play games (and music).

One half of https://metanetsoftware.com
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this made me so happy i went outside and began throwing rocks at people
📣 ICY TOWER IS COMING BACK
Stoked to announce that we're making a brand new Icy Tower game, ready for the 25th anniversary next year!

Check out the trailer, spread the news, and wishlist on Steam :D
s.team/a/3014860

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November 13, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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petro is so beast
November 13, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Thinking about the impending US Bailout of AI Companies, it will be interesting to see how *anyone* defends it. 2008 was defended that it basically helped backstop job loss (to an extent). But success of AI *requires* job loss. My guess is that we'll see """national security""" thrown around.
November 13, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Ah yes the American national mythology of nobody coming from overseas
It’s how you end up with language like “paperwork American” or the idea that Thanksgiving turkey is some sort of natural ethno-national tradition that certain other groups are incapable of ever appreciating
November 13, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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November 13, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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Best extrapolation I've read yet. 10/10
These emails really do highlight why rich folk are so impressed by ChatGPT.
November 13, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Thanks Silicon Valley.

It's nice to be reminded that fundamentally this is all still the same bubble that started in 2015.

It's just gotten too narrow a pile of shit to stay standing any longer.
November 6, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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The Fed - "We're going to pivot from inflation to addressing a weakening job market."

Trump Admin - "Uhh... You don't need to measure unemployment for that; do you?"
October Jobs Report to Skip Unemployment Rate, Hassett Says
The October jobs report will be released without a reading of the unemployment rate, President Donald Trump’s top economic adviser said Thursday.
www.bloomberg.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Predictable but still amazing to watch people who spent literally years accusing every librarian, teacher, and trans person they could find of sexually grooming children suddenly throw themselves in with "actually it's ephebophilia"
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 13, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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people are focusing on the scary part ("AI-generated") but why, why on Earth, would I want content "from users"
Bob Iger says Disney+ will soon have AI-generated short form content from users

(via THR)
November 13, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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one degree down, one degree to go. every little bit helps. doomerism is collaboration. only big social majorities can get it done.
Lot of people are already passing this around with the usual "WHY ISN'T ANYONE DOING ANYTHING" shrieks, while ignoring the fact that the article literally says that this is a *significant* decrease from the warming that we were on track for even a few years ago.
World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds
Fossil fuel emissions have hit a record high while many nations have done too little to avert deadly global heating
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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Might I suggest that a newspaper that was far too cozy with the most famous pedophile in the world constantly concern trolling about gender affirming care mutilating children's bodies is, in fact, two sides of the same coin.
November 13, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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"humanoid robot" is one of those things, like — you are spending so much energy replicating what's a very energy-efficient locomotion scheme *for humans,* just so the people who buy it can convince themselves that their new dishwasher or their new j/o toy is actually a slave
My friends unsuccessfully trying to get the car keys, watching me leave the bar, after I insist “swear to god I’m a better driver when I’m a lil buzzed *pukes in mouth* swear to god bro”:
November 13, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings

“Big tech has made their choice”

www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
November 13, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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And you can do it on the cryptocurrency exchange Binance, which has accounted for $2 billion of the $5 billion the Trumps have made this year for their own cryptocurrency venture. Oh, and thanks to a pardon from Eric's dad, the founder of Binance won't have to serve time in prison.
Eric Trump: "You can send $500 million worth of bitcoin on a Sunday night at 11pm while having a glass of wine with your wife for virtually zero fees."
November 13, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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The Republican president is a pedophile who has doubled my healthcare costs and let scores of violent criminals out of jail. But a Democratic mayor-elect wants to make busses free in a city I don't live in. I have never felt more politically homeless.
November 13, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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sts researchers: :spend decades tracing the way well-intentioned design choices constrained by culture, capital, and the material environment can have negative outcomes in aggregate:

ai companies: lets put a chatbot in a doll that tells kids to set fires

futurism.com/artificial-i...
AI-Powered Toys Caught Telling 5-Year-Olds How to Find Knives and Start Fires With Matches
AI-powered toys are flying off the shelves -- but they're engaging in horrifically inappropriate conversations with children.
futurism.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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i’ve said this before and i remain convinced it’s true, the 2028 platform that would deliver obama 08 results is “i am gonna
bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”
November 13, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Our leading news organizations turned a cache of ultimately-innocuous emails into a scandal-coded weeklong series of front page stories leading into the 2016 election. If they do not cover the "emails from notorious pedophile implication the President" emails with the same fervor, it's curious!
November 12, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Imagine trying to convince someone a decade ago that this sentence would be a 100% literally accurate description of the American political situation.
The attorney general and the FBI director, a manosphere podcaster bro, pulled into the situation room a member of Congress best known for getting kicked out of a Beetlejuice musical for drunkenly giving her date a handy, in order to pressure her about the president's child sex trafficking scandal.
November 13, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.
November 13, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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A pedophile game show host and gang of third-tier comedians with podcasts helped the Nazis retroactively win WW2. You're not going crazy. This is what actually happened.
November 12, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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every few years it's revealed that the NYT was sitting on information about some horrific thing that public knowledge of would have changed the country's course and for some reason a ton of people still give them money. you can play those games on other sites
November 12, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Pizzagate: If you replace the word “hot dog” with “little boy” and “pizza party” with “child sex orgy,” you will see the lengths these elites go to cover up their crimes.

Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
November 12, 2025 at 11:10 PM