Tanya Kan 🏳️🌈🍁
@vividfoundry.bsky.social
Vivid Foundry's Founder. She/her, DemiPan. Dev since 2012, 2D+3D arts, marketing, game design, game writing, production. We made the award-winning Solace State: Empower activists amid a biotech revolution!
Get it: https://store.steampowered.com/app/928000
Get it: https://store.steampowered.com/app/928000
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Tanya Kan 🏳️🌈🍁
@vividfoundry.bsky.social
· Oct 30
New intro! Hi I'm Tanya! I've been in gamedev for 12 years in Godot, Unity, and Unreal. I specialize in narrative games esp. politically engaged ones, art direction, 3D & 2D arts, & production. I enjoy doing pitch decks & grants!
My studio launched the award-winning hacktivism game Solace State!
My studio launched the award-winning hacktivism game Solace State!
Ahh! So excited for this! Congrats to the team!
Demonschool: Is OUT. It's out. Finally it is out. We hope you enjoy it.
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November 21, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Ahh! So excited for this! Congrats to the team!
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Blender is struggling. it's the best piece of 3d software on the market, and it's free. I'm not going back to autodesk.
please donate if you can!
fund.blender.org
please donate if you can!
fund.blender.org
Blender Development Fund
Join the Development Fund and support Blender Foundation to work on core Blender development.
fund.blender.org
November 18, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Blender is struggling. it's the best piece of 3d software on the market, and it's free. I'm not going back to autodesk.
please donate if you can!
fund.blender.org
please donate if you can!
fund.blender.org
Please, don't apologize for taking down X and ChatGPT
November 18, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Please, don't apologize for taking down X and ChatGPT
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Well now, would you look at that?
A massive study of NEARLY 300,000 people in the United States found that receiving an updated 2024-2025 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine REDUCED people’s risk of severe disease AND death in ALL age groups, REGARDLESS of immunity from prior infection or vaccination.
A massive study of NEARLY 300,000 people in the United States found that receiving an updated 2024-2025 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine REDUCED people’s risk of severe disease AND death in ALL age groups, REGARDLESS of immunity from prior infection or vaccination.
November 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Well now, would you look at that?
A massive study of NEARLY 300,000 people in the United States found that receiving an updated 2024-2025 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine REDUCED people’s risk of severe disease AND death in ALL age groups, REGARDLESS of immunity from prior infection or vaccination.
A massive study of NEARLY 300,000 people in the United States found that receiving an updated 2024-2025 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine REDUCED people’s risk of severe disease AND death in ALL age groups, REGARDLESS of immunity from prior infection or vaccination.
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We’re also hiring for 3D Artist Generalists!
💠 80k CAD salary
💠 Hybrid/remote work (relocation support available)
💠 Health benefits plan
💠 4-day work week
💠 4 weeks annual paid vacation, unlimited sick/personal days
Job listing ⬇️
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
💠 80k CAD salary
💠 Hybrid/remote work (relocation support available)
💠 Health benefits plan
💠 4-day work week
💠 4 weeks annual paid vacation, unlimited sick/personal days
Job listing ⬇️
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
September 30, 2025 at 4:08 PM
We’re also hiring for 3D Artist Generalists!
💠 80k CAD salary
💠 Hybrid/remote work (relocation support available)
💠 Health benefits plan
💠 4-day work week
💠 4 weeks annual paid vacation, unlimited sick/personal days
Job listing ⬇️
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
💠 80k CAD salary
💠 Hybrid/remote work (relocation support available)
💠 Health benefits plan
💠 4-day work week
💠 4 weeks annual paid vacation, unlimited sick/personal days
Job listing ⬇️
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Hekki, we’re hiring!
First up: Senior Programmer!
💠 80k CAD salary
💠 Hybrid/remote work (relocation support available)
💠 Health benefits plan
💠 4-day work week
💠 4 weeks annual paid vacation, unlimited sick/personal days
Job listing ⬇️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
First up: Senior Programmer!
💠 80k CAD salary
💠 Hybrid/remote work (relocation support available)
💠 Health benefits plan
💠 4-day work week
💠 4 weeks annual paid vacation, unlimited sick/personal days
Job listing ⬇️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
September 30, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Hekki, we’re hiring!
First up: Senior Programmer!
💠 80k CAD salary
💠 Hybrid/remote work (relocation support available)
💠 Health benefits plan
💠 4-day work week
💠 4 weeks annual paid vacation, unlimited sick/personal days
Job listing ⬇️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
First up: Senior Programmer!
💠 80k CAD salary
💠 Hybrid/remote work (relocation support available)
💠 Health benefits plan
💠 4-day work week
💠 4 weeks annual paid vacation, unlimited sick/personal days
Job listing ⬇️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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🦥 HIRING 🦥
We're looking for a Senior 2D Animator for something new!
🖌️ Temporary, full-time role (12-18 months)
🖌️ Remote
🖌️ 3+ years exp of 2D Flash-style animation
🖌️ Proficienct with Adobe Animate
Apps close Oct 10. Apply now! innersloth.bamboohr.com/careers/33
We're looking for a Senior 2D Animator for something new!
🖌️ Temporary, full-time role (12-18 months)
🖌️ Remote
🖌️ 3+ years exp of 2D Flash-style animation
🖌️ Proficienct with Adobe Animate
Apps close Oct 10. Apply now! innersloth.bamboohr.com/careers/33
September 25, 2025 at 11:48 PM
🦥 HIRING 🦥
We're looking for a Senior 2D Animator for something new!
🖌️ Temporary, full-time role (12-18 months)
🖌️ Remote
🖌️ 3+ years exp of 2D Flash-style animation
🖌️ Proficienct with Adobe Animate
Apps close Oct 10. Apply now! innersloth.bamboohr.com/careers/33
We're looking for a Senior 2D Animator for something new!
🖌️ Temporary, full-time role (12-18 months)
🖌️ Remote
🖌️ 3+ years exp of 2D Flash-style animation
🖌️ Proficienct with Adobe Animate
Apps close Oct 10. Apply now! innersloth.bamboohr.com/careers/33
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What 1000xRESIST is not:
❌ a game with combat
❌ an emotionally cozy game
❌ a super quick story
What 1000xRESIST is:
✅ a doomed yuri simulator
✅ a game that will break your heart (and maybe not put it back together)
✅ a story you won’t forget anytime soon
Get it for 30% off right now! ⬇️
❌ a game with combat
❌ an emotionally cozy game
❌ a super quick story
What 1000xRESIST is:
✅ a doomed yuri simulator
✅ a game that will break your heart (and maybe not put it back together)
✅ a story you won’t forget anytime soon
Get it for 30% off right now! ⬇️
September 18, 2025 at 5:07 PM
What 1000xRESIST is not:
❌ a game with combat
❌ an emotionally cozy game
❌ a super quick story
What 1000xRESIST is:
✅ a doomed yuri simulator
✅ a game that will break your heart (and maybe not put it back together)
✅ a story you won’t forget anytime soon
Get it for 30% off right now! ⬇️
❌ a game with combat
❌ an emotionally cozy game
❌ a super quick story
What 1000xRESIST is:
✅ a doomed yuri simulator
✅ a game that will break your heart (and maybe not put it back together)
✅ a story you won’t forget anytime soon
Get it for 30% off right now! ⬇️
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another hidden/externalized cost and form of theft in AI is the bots for Meta etc are blowing up site hosting charges of pages they're looting for information to take credit for. profits go to meta and others, made possible by costs spread to all the operators of sites they're crawling to steal from
Last month AI crawlers generated 90% of my site's traffic, forcing me to pay penalties
Problem solved after moving nameservers to Cloudflare+turning on AI crawler blocking.
Site monthly outbound data back to ~40GB per month, down from 800GB (!!) No impact on human visitors
Problem solved after moving nameservers to Cloudflare+turning on AI crawler blocking.
Site monthly outbound data back to ~40GB per month, down from 800GB (!!) No impact on human visitors
June 6, 2025 at 6:57 AM
another hidden/externalized cost and form of theft in AI is the bots for Meta etc are blowing up site hosting charges of pages they're looting for information to take credit for. profits go to meta and others, made possible by costs spread to all the operators of sites they're crawling to steal from
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Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
September 6, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
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The way writers (of games too!!!!) and artists have to also be their own social media managers now to get work needs to be studied
I just don’t want “film a video and hope it goes viral” to be a “reasonable” expectation of authors!! I hate being on video! I am too awkward for video!
September 7, 2025 at 11:01 PM
The way writers (of games too!!!!) and artists have to also be their own social media managers now to get work needs to be studied
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heads up as tech that used to work fine keeps getting worse, google's attempt to summarize my flight email somehow made up the wrong date, which is not a date in this email. it then added it on my calendar for the wrong date. when I tried moving it, google moved it back to wrong. don't trust google⚠️
September 6, 2025 at 5:33 PM
heads up as tech that used to work fine keeps getting worse, google's attempt to summarize my flight email somehow made up the wrong date, which is not a date in this email. it then added it on my calendar for the wrong date. when I tried moving it, google moved it back to wrong. don't trust google⚠️
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This “solo dev” and “only 3 devs” rhetoric is getting truly dangerously out of hand. Investors see this and think “I only have to pay 3 people” and the result is severely overworked and/or underpaid people and a subpar product. We need to stop treating outsourcers and contractors like ghosts.
September 6, 2025 at 7:36 PM
This “solo dev” and “only 3 devs” rhetoric is getting truly dangerously out of hand. Investors see this and think “I only have to pay 3 people” and the result is severely overworked and/or underpaid people and a subpar product. We need to stop treating outsourcers and contractors like ghosts.
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Tanya Kan (@vividfoundry.bsky.social) - Game Developer - Canada 🇨🇦
September 5, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Tanya Kan (@vividfoundry.bsky.social) - Game Developer - Canada 🇨🇦
Look at this ✨extremely handsome man ✨
Whew omg
He's playing silksong rn
He's so hot
He's lovely
We're going to watch the finale of Andor S1 together
🥵
Whew omg
He's playing silksong rn
He's so hot
He's lovely
We're going to watch the finale of Andor S1 together
🥵
Gary Kings (@garyjkings.bsky.social) - Game Trailer Maker - United Kingdom 🇬🇧
September 5, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Look at this ✨extremely handsome man ✨
Whew omg
He's playing silksong rn
He's so hot
He's lovely
We're going to watch the finale of Andor S1 together
🥵
Whew omg
He's playing silksong rn
He's so hot
He's lovely
We're going to watch the finale of Andor S1 together
🥵
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Meet the faces of Gamescom!
I had the privilege to attend Gamescom 2025 and wanted to highlight some of the incredible people from the games industry I met this year. I have the utmost respect for each of them and felt truly honored to capture a quick portrait of them. Part 3 includes:
I had the privilege to attend Gamescom 2025 and wanted to highlight some of the incredible people from the games industry I met this year. I have the utmost respect for each of them and felt truly honored to capture a quick portrait of them. Part 3 includes:
September 5, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Meet the faces of Gamescom!
I had the privilege to attend Gamescom 2025 and wanted to highlight some of the incredible people from the games industry I met this year. I have the utmost respect for each of them and felt truly honored to capture a quick portrait of them. Part 3 includes:
I had the privilege to attend Gamescom 2025 and wanted to highlight some of the incredible people from the games industry I met this year. I have the utmost respect for each of them and felt truly honored to capture a quick portrait of them. Part 3 includes:
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Before he died, this Gaza teen described what it was like to starve
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ANALYSIS | As hunger grows in Gaza, warnings that starvation hits the most vulnerable first | CBC News
Despite Israel’s denials of famine and a recent uptick in food delivery, starvation in Gaza is getting worse. Before his death, a 17-year-old described to CBC News how his body and life were shutting ...
www.cbc.ca
September 4, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Before he died, this Gaza teen described what it was like to starve
www.cbc.ca/news/world/g...
www.cbc.ca/news/world/g...
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We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...
How Are You Supposed To Get The COVID Vaccine Now? An Explainer | Defector
As the muggy malaise of summer winds down, you might find yourself interested in taking advantage of one of several safe and proven vaccines to help protect you from the inevitable brumal surge of res...
defector.com
September 4, 2025 at 5:27 PM
We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...
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Canadians, this is a parliamentary petition, not a random online thing. Takes a minute to sign. An easy good deed for the day.
Canadians! There is a petition to sign to protest Mastercard and Visa's control over the purchase of legal adult content. This is specifically about the Steam & itchio situation, but language protects adult creators.
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
#nsfw #censorship #canpoli
@acvalens.net
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
#nsfw #censorship #canpoli
@acvalens.net
Petition e-6695 - Petitions
www.ourcommons.ca
September 3, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Canadians, this is a parliamentary petition, not a random online thing. Takes a minute to sign. An easy good deed for the day.
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🚨 Episode 8 of neurocracy.site is out now!
Do check out the dope ass article that the below citation came from: omnipedia.app/wiki/2049/10/08/Blankout
It's about mysterious bursts of memory loss that have been affecting people in 2049 🕳️🧠
And players think they're affected 👀
Do check out the dope ass article that the below citation came from: omnipedia.app/wiki/2049/10/08/Blankout
It's about mysterious bursts of memory loss that have been affecting people in 2049 🕳️🧠
And players think they're affected 👀
September 3, 2025 at 10:03 PM
🚨 Episode 8 of neurocracy.site is out now!
Do check out the dope ass article that the below citation came from: omnipedia.app/wiki/2049/10/08/Blankout
It's about mysterious bursts of memory loss that have been affecting people in 2049 🕳️🧠
And players think they're affected 👀
Do check out the dope ass article that the below citation came from: omnipedia.app/wiki/2049/10/08/Blankout
It's about mysterious bursts of memory loss that have been affecting people in 2049 🕳️🧠
And players think they're affected 👀
Reposted by Tanya Kan 🏳️🌈🍁
Canadians! There is a petition to sign to protest Mastercard and Visa's control over the purchase of legal adult content. This is specifically about the Steam & itchio situation, but language protects adult creators.
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
#nsfw #censorship #canpoli
@acvalens.net
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
#nsfw #censorship #canpoli
@acvalens.net
Petition e-6695 - Petitions
www.ourcommons.ca
September 3, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Canadians! There is a petition to sign to protest Mastercard and Visa's control over the purchase of legal adult content. This is specifically about the Steam & itchio situation, but language protects adult creators.
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
#nsfw #censorship #canpoli
@acvalens.net
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
#nsfw #censorship #canpoli
@acvalens.net
My only regret is that I didn't make a bonfire out of the HP books I tossed out years ago, and build that bonfire into fundraising for trans charities.
I have infinitely more respect for a fullblown Walt-is-capitalist-Jesus / second home in Orlando-owning Disney Adult than I do for even the lowest-key Harry Potter casual gcn.ie/j-k-rowling-...
J.K. Rowling uses Harry Potter wealth to fund anti-trans organisation
Rowling's organisation will offer financial support to individuals or groups in the UK or Ireland who want to fight trans inclusion.
gcn.ie
September 3, 2025 at 5:33 PM
My only regret is that I didn't make a bonfire out of the HP books I tossed out years ago, and build that bonfire into fundraising for trans charities.
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I want to yell at these people AI CANT ASSIGN COPYRIGHT. If you use generative AI you will violate your publisher indemnifications that you own or have the valid licenses to all assets in the game. There is never any consideration for this and its setting people up for failure to promote it
September 3, 2025 at 2:52 PM
I want to yell at these people AI CANT ASSIGN COPYRIGHT. If you use generative AI you will violate your publisher indemnifications that you own or have the valid licenses to all assets in the game. There is never any consideration for this and its setting people up for failure to promote it