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Dave Williams
@syrstorm.bsky.social
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Game designer living the dream. Clockwork Revolution, OuterWorlds, L5R, &more! Fan of 'Cuse, Liverpool, & Rams. He/his.
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syrstorm.bsky.social
I'm so freaking happy for Matt Stafford. He's a good dude, and he LOVES the game and his teammates. So well deserved.

#MVP
February 6, 2026 at 3:49 AM
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dceiver.bsky.social
as good as you've heard
kjhealy.co Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 2d
Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.
February 6, 2026 at 2:28 AM
syrstorm.bsky.social
That's a REALLY good Hall of Fame class.

Fitz.
Kuechly.
Vinatieri.
Craig.
Brees.

That's how it's done.
February 6, 2026 at 3:11 AM
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seantcollins.com
Catherine O'Hara is as much of a "good in absolutely everything, no matter how good the thing itself was" actor as Philip Seymour Hoffman.
January 30, 2026 at 6:31 PM
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abigaillarson.com
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illustration of Catherine O'Hara as Delia Deetz for the Beetlejuice Tarot card, "Queen of Swords"
January 30, 2026 at 7:24 PM
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danielsuitor.com
you know this guy is a FOR REAL photographer because he's telling the story of his brutal, unconditional arrest by federal goons and can't help but slip in a gear review
john-abernathy.bsky.social John Abernathy @john-abernathy.bsky.social · 21d
Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
January 17, 2026 at 3:37 PM
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himbobottomus.bsky.social
this is the sickest shit ive ever seen
January 16, 2026 at 9:38 PM
syrstorm.bsky.social
January 7, 2026 at 5:16 AM
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thewyzard.bsky.social
You can make a community more inclusive by kicking people out! Welcome to paradoxical social dynamics! Thank you for following this thread, please share it with whoever needs to see it.
January 6, 2026 at 8:09 PM
syrstorm.bsky.social
I'm ready for 2026 to be the year of the pirate... www.instagram.com/reels/DSgVfr...
December 30, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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mattobii.bsky.social
tl;dr: GenAI and game design concepts traditionally referred to as "AI" (enemy behaviors, pathfinding, etc.) are not the same thing, and I'm on my knees begging people to learn the difference, lest we see more bullshit claims like what The Escapist put out re: Blue Prince.
marioprime.bsky.social Giovanni Colantonio @marioprime.bsky.social · Dec 22
Weird weekend, huh? Took a crack at breaking down the whole Clair Obscur genAI situation, and its bizarre fallout, as best as possible. My main takeaway right now is that people really need to figure out exactly what they're criticizing or it's going to get messy. www.polygon.com/clair-obscur...
The debate over gen AI in games is about to get a lot messier in 2026
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's GOTY retraction signals the start of something huge
www.polygon.com
December 22, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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adamkeiper.com
It used to be that the United States would use Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty to transmit truth across the borders of repressive regimes.

Now the work of American reporters, having been censored, is being smuggled across the border to reach Americans.
helenkennedy.bsky.social Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · Dec 22
The 60 Minutes piece on the Trump Administration’s torture prison that Bari Weiss doesn’t want you to see has leaked.
December 22, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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philiprocco.bsky.social
One of the more important stock-taking moments to watch a bootlegged news program censored in your country.
December 23, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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annabower.bsky.social
“These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their
stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”
annabower.bsky.social Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · Dec 22
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
News Team, Thank you for the notes and texts. I apologize for not reaching out earlier. I learned on Saturday that Bari Weiss spiked our story, INSIDE CECOT, which was supposed to air tonight. We (Ori and I) asked for a call to discuss her decision. She did not afford us that courtesy/opportunity. Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now-after every rigorous internal check has been met is not an editorial decision, it is a political one. We requested responses to questions and/or interviews with DHS, the White House, and the State Department. Government silence is a statement, not a VETO. Their refusal to be interviewed is a tactical maneuver designed to kill the story. If the administration's refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a "kill switch" for any reporting they find inconvenient. If the standard for airing a story becomes "the government must agree to be interviewed," then the government effectively gains control over the 60 Minutes broadcast. We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state. These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless. CBS spiked the Jeffrey Wigand interview due to legal concerns, nearly destroying the credibility of this broadcast. It took years to recover from that "low point." By pulling this story to shield an administration, we are repeating that history, but for political optics rather than legal ones. We have been promoting this story on social media for days. Our viewers are expecting it. When it fails to air without a credible explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of "Gold Standard" reputation for a single week of political quiet. I care too much about this broadcast to watch it be dismantled without a fight. Sharyn
December 22, 2025 at 3:42 AM
syrstorm.bsky.social
All of us show up to 1st night showing of a Sinners x Lost Boys crossover movie if they make one, right? There's literally no one who doesn't want that to happen, right?
December 22, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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theradr.bsky.social
Happy light, everyone ❤️‍🔥
3 lit menorahs
December 22, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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palmer2themax.bsky.social
I'm not joking in the least when I say that state/local PD need to check this asshole's hard drive IMMEDIATELY.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Dec 18
"Men are men. Men can never become women. Women are women. Women can never become men."
December 18, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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ryanlcooper.com
Biden brought American manufacturing back but Trump is strangling it once again
josephpolitano.bsky.social Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · Dec 16
The US continues to lose manufacturing jobs—payrolls are down 81k over the last year, & another 5k jobs were lost in November

Transportation (especially auto manufacturing), wood & electronics/electrical manufacturing are the biggest losers, but few subsectors are doing well
A graph of year-on-year change in US manufacturing employment
December 16, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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itshard.bsky.social
For 40 years I’ve been told by the media that Republicans were good for the economy, and the funny thing is that hasn’t been true for a single day of those 40 years.
December 16, 2025 at 2:16 PM
syrstorm.bsky.social
As if we needed proof of how much John Cena loves pro wrestling - there's a handful of guys EVER who would allowed to win their retirement match, and John is one.

No way. He used his retirement to put a DOZEN wrestlers over with his tournament.

Class. For miles.

The GOAT.
December 14, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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kentremendous.bsky.social
So, just to be clear: all that has to happen is for a student to lodge a complaint against a teacher and that teacher is suspended? That's smart. I can't see any way that this power being placed in the hands of students could possibly backfire.
charlottegarden.bsky.social Charlotte Garden @charlottegarden.bsky.social · Dec 13
From the Oklahoma U student paper: the school is now saying it will automatically suspend faculty (with pay) in response to student complaints
www.oudaily.com/news/ou-poli...
“During the course of the debate, it was disclosed that it is now policy of the university to suspend any faculty member with pay against whom a student has lodged a complaint. The faculty member is suspended under the Title IX program,” Schmeltzer wrote. “This was new information to everyone in attendance.”
December 14, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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missmc.bsky.social
My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
jonkingh.bsky.social Jonathan Kingham @jonkingh.bsky.social · Dec 6
This is so disgusting.
December 7, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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kaseygifford.bsky.social
Me:~watching Tarsem Signh's The Fall on a smart fridge screen~ This is really how it's MEANT to be seen.
December 7, 2025 at 1:49 PM
syrstorm.bsky.social
A movie that takes place where you're from.
Movie poster for "The Express: The Ernie Davis Story".
November 23, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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ernie.tedium.co
If you have been sharing that Malwarebytes article on the Gmail thing, you should note the giant correction up top.

www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
Update November 22. We’ve updated this article after realising we contributed to a perfect storm of misunderstanding around a recent change in the wording and placement of Gmail’s smart features. The settings themselves aren’t new, but the way Google recently rewrote and surfaced them led a lot of people (including us) to believe Gmail content might be used to train Google’s AI models, and that users were being opted in automatically. After taking a closer look at Google’s documentation and reviewing other reporting, that doesn’t appear to be the case. Gmail does scan email content to power its own “smart features,” such as spam filtering, categorisation, and writing suggestions. But this is part of how Gmail normally works and isn’t the same as training Google’s generative AI models. Google also maintains that these feature settings are opt-in rather than opt-out, although users’ experiences seem to vary depending on when and how the new wording appeared. It’s easy to see where the confusion came from. Google’s updated language around “smart features” is vague, and the term “smart” often implies AI—especially at a time when Gemini is being integrated into other parts of Google’s products. When the new wording started appearing for some users without much explanation, many assumed it signalled a broader shift. We’ve revised this article to reflect what we can confirm from Google’s documentation, as it’s always been our aim to give readers accurate, helpful guidance.
November 22, 2025 at 9:44 PM