Bubbinska
@bubbinska.bsky.social
Videogames and queer liberation
It's Trans Day of Remembrance. I watched Paris Is Burning last week. Been thinking about how trans people exist everywhere and have always been part of my life in little ways - making art I love, contributing to science, or just being a friend. Trans liberation now and forever
November 20, 2025 at 3:01 PM
It's Trans Day of Remembrance. I watched Paris Is Burning last week. Been thinking about how trans people exist everywhere and have always been part of my life in little ways - making art I love, contributing to science, or just being a friend. Trans liberation now and forever
Played through what's available so far for Black Mesa: Blue Shift. I don't remember the original Blue Shift well so I can't speak for how faithful this remake is and it's not the complete campaign available yet, but what is available so far (a few hours at least) is incredibly good. Must play
Black Mesa: Blue Shift mod
Initially developed and released by Gearbox Software in 2001, second Half-Life add-on, Half-Life: Blue Shift is a return to the Black Mesa Research Facility and another look at the Incident's conseque...
www.moddb.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Played through what's available so far for Black Mesa: Blue Shift. I don't remember the original Blue Shift well so I can't speak for how faithful this remake is and it's not the complete campaign available yet, but what is available so far (a few hours at least) is incredibly good. Must play
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Rewatched a classic tonight
November 12, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Rewatched a classic tonight
I'm not good at remembering to take screenshots in games but I have to talk about the newly-released Ambrosia Sky (act 1) from @softrains.bsky.social
Comparable to CTRL ALT EGO by @mindthunk.bsky.social it's going in a less traditional direction to build an immersive sim and I love it so far.
Comparable to CTRL ALT EGO by @mindthunk.bsky.social it's going in a less traditional direction to build an immersive sim and I love it so far.
Save 15% on Ambrosia Sky on Steam
You left. Now they’re dead. Ambrosia Sky: Act One is an immersive sim about exploring an asteroid colony devastated by an unknown contamination. Survive and harvest strains of hostile alien fungi, exp...
store.steampowered.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:52 PM
I'm not good at remembering to take screenshots in games but I have to talk about the newly-released Ambrosia Sky (act 1) from @softrains.bsky.social
Comparable to CTRL ALT EGO by @mindthunk.bsky.social it's going in a less traditional direction to build an immersive sim and I love it so far.
Comparable to CTRL ALT EGO by @mindthunk.bsky.social it's going in a less traditional direction to build an immersive sim and I love it so far.
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DESPITE ALL MY RAGE
LET'S CIRCLE BACK
AND GET ON THE SAME PAGE
DESPITE ALL MY RAGE THERE ARE STILL SEVERAL METRICS TO GAUGE
SOMEONE WILL SAY
TURN THIS IN
BY THE END OF THE DAY
DESPITE ALL MY RAGE
YOU DON'T NEED MY SIGN-OFF
AT THIS STAGE
LET'S CIRCLE BACK
AND GET ON THE SAME PAGE
DESPITE ALL MY RAGE THERE ARE STILL SEVERAL METRICS TO GAUGE
SOMEONE WILL SAY
TURN THIS IN
BY THE END OF THE DAY
DESPITE ALL MY RAGE
YOU DON'T NEED MY SIGN-OFF
AT THIS STAGE
November 11, 2025 at 9:02 PM
DESPITE ALL MY RAGE
LET'S CIRCLE BACK
AND GET ON THE SAME PAGE
DESPITE ALL MY RAGE THERE ARE STILL SEVERAL METRICS TO GAUGE
SOMEONE WILL SAY
TURN THIS IN
BY THE END OF THE DAY
DESPITE ALL MY RAGE
YOU DON'T NEED MY SIGN-OFF
AT THIS STAGE
LET'S CIRCLE BACK
AND GET ON THE SAME PAGE
DESPITE ALL MY RAGE THERE ARE STILL SEVERAL METRICS TO GAUGE
SOMEONE WILL SAY
TURN THIS IN
BY THE END OF THE DAY
DESPITE ALL MY RAGE
YOU DON'T NEED MY SIGN-OFF
AT THIS STAGE
Considering the US's current political trajectory I think it's an act of self preservation to evacuate and demolish pine gap, but our federal government can't even be bothered to stop arming israel so chances aren't great that we'd have the stones to cut ties with the americans
The US should not be allowed to make Australia complicit in nuclear war. 50 years ago Whitlam believed that and he was right.
It’s time to end AUKUS. Close Pine Gap.
It’s time to end AUKUS. Close Pine Gap.
November 11, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Considering the US's current political trajectory I think it's an act of self preservation to evacuate and demolish pine gap, but our federal government can't even be bothered to stop arming israel so chances aren't great that we'd have the stones to cut ties with the americans
It's against the TOS on this website for me to describe what I think is the rational and politically effective response to the situation in Chicago. There's no reason to assume that this will be isolated or will not get worse. Action is needed but I'm not allowed to say what action exactly.
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 10, 2025 at 7:06 PM
It's against the TOS on this website for me to describe what I think is the rational and politically effective response to the situation in Chicago. There's no reason to assume that this will be isolated or will not get worse. Action is needed but I'm not allowed to say what action exactly.
People like this know they're lying. It's not a mistake to be incorrect in this way, he's doing this on purpose because he's an evil person who wants bad things for everyone. His other posts include downplaying of ascendant american fascism, because he thinks he will gain from it.
I guess here on Bluesky it's controversial to note that the Democrats, once the majority across this country, were reduced to national minority (in stages, from 1968, to 1980, to 2016) by moving left.
But if you'd rather think I'm just making Trump's point...well, whatever helps you cope.
But if you'd rather think I'm just making Trump's point...well, whatever helps you cope.
I'm questioning this statement, "the left started to lose the public (who to this day don't see Reagan the same way they do.)"
Who is this *public* you speak of? Wouldn't the left be a subset of it?
This feels like the current Trump regime's feelings that Democrats aren't real Americans.
Who is this *public* you speak of? Wouldn't the left be a subset of it?
This feels like the current Trump regime's feelings that Democrats aren't real Americans.
November 8, 2025 at 3:55 PM
People like this know they're lying. It's not a mistake to be incorrect in this way, he's doing this on purpose because he's an evil person who wants bad things for everyone. His other posts include downplaying of ascendant american fascism, because he thinks he will gain from it.
I watched Speed Racer (2008) by @lillywachowski.bsky.social (and many others ofc) and this film is absolutely insane. So many wild scene transitions, it's surprisingly rare for a regular cut from one shot to another. Surprisingly large number of car-mounted catapults launching animals as weapons
November 5, 2025 at 6:55 PM
I watched Speed Racer (2008) by @lillywachowski.bsky.social (and many others ofc) and this film is absolutely insane. So many wild scene transitions, it's surprisingly rare for a regular cut from one shot to another. Surprisingly large number of car-mounted catapults launching animals as weapons
This thumbnail annihilated me
November 5, 2025 at 2:50 PM
This thumbnail annihilated me
Dick Cheney, Henry Kissinger and Charlie Kirk walk into a bar 1/3🧵
November 4, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Dick Cheney, Henry Kissinger and Charlie Kirk walk into a bar 1/3🧵
Isn't the threat of withholding support unless your candidate addresses your policy concerns like, literally the entire point of voting? There's also a difference between someone saying they will boycott an election and actually boycotting the election.
I cannot believe there are still people in my mentions arguing that boycotting an election because the candidates aren’t addressing your issue is a way to get them to pay attention.
two men are talking to each other and one of them says that 's not how it works
ALT: two men are talking to each other and one of them says that 's not how it works
media.tenor.com
October 29, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Isn't the threat of withholding support unless your candidate addresses your policy concerns like, literally the entire point of voting? There's also a difference between someone saying they will boycott an election and actually boycotting the election.
The most charitable thing I can say about people writing dumbshit fuckhead articles like this one is that maybe they've bought into the branding of "LLM = AI" and like to reference popular media about the subject, but this garbage reads like advertisement copy. Shameful from Guardian, not surprising
AI models may be developing their own ‘survival drive’, researchers say
AI models may be developing their own ‘survival drive’, researchers say
Like 2001: A Space Odyssey’s HAL 9000, some AIs seem to resist being turned off and will even sabotage shutdown
When HAL 9000, the artificial intelligence supercomputer in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, works out that the astronauts onboard a mission to Jupiter are planning to shut it down, it plots to kill them in an attempt to survive.
Now, in a somewhat less deadly case (so far) of life imitating art, an AI safety research company has said that AI models may be developing their own “survival drive”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 25, 2025 at 10:30 AM
The most charitable thing I can say about people writing dumbshit fuckhead articles like this one is that maybe they've bought into the branding of "LLM = AI" and like to reference popular media about the subject, but this garbage reads like advertisement copy. Shameful from Guardian, not surprising
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Animals are defined by what they don't do as much as what they do. Same with actors and artists. Making them do stuff they didn't actually do isn't creative, its destructive. Its destroying what they are and replacing it with something else
October 23, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Animals are defined by what they don't do as much as what they do. Same with actors and artists. Making them do stuff they didn't actually do isn't creative, its destructive. Its destroying what they are and replacing it with something else
Lots of good (and awful) opinions in the quote tweets, here's 5 games I think are really good art, and cannot be replicated properly in other media:
The Talos Principle
The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood
Pathologic 2
Rain World
Receiver 2
The Talos Principle
The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood
Pathologic 2
Rain World
Receiver 2
(honest question) what are the “good” video games? artistically i mean, not in a “i enjoyed this escapist slop” kind of way
Well. It's not Red Dead Redemption 2, but it's like one of three video games I'd genuinely consider good.
October 20, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Lots of good (and awful) opinions in the quote tweets, here's 5 games I think are really good art, and cannot be replicated properly in other media:
The Talos Principle
The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood
Pathologic 2
Rain World
Receiver 2
The Talos Principle
The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood
Pathologic 2
Rain World
Receiver 2
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Roses are red,
I'm on the edge,
I'm on the edge,
100 million particle moose dropped on a right-angled wedge
YouTube video by Alexander Gustafsson
www.youtube.com
October 20, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Roses are red,
I'm on the edge,
I'm on the edge,
Roses are red,
I'm on the edge,
I'm on the edge,
100 million particle moose dropped on a right-angled wedge
YouTube video by Alexander Gustafsson
www.youtube.com
October 20, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Roses are red,
I'm on the edge,
I'm on the edge,
I think it's good that a bunch of otherwise-disengaged people are becoming alarmed and active about the horror of what's going on, but "No Kings" is not enough and it really needs to be said that a big protest, a scathing critique or a landslide election doesn't solve the problem.
October 19, 2025 at 1:38 PM
I think it's good that a bunch of otherwise-disengaged people are becoming alarmed and active about the horror of what's going on, but "No Kings" is not enough and it really needs to be said that a big protest, a scathing critique or a landslide election doesn't solve the problem.
I think advertising should be banned except for dedicated opt-in spaces such as browsable business directories, and have made a measurable effort to avoid all forms of advertising in my life. My brain is full of engineered brainworms from growing up around advertising and I refuse to add more
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 17, 2025 at 7:51 AM
I think advertising should be banned except for dedicated opt-in spaces such as browsable business directories, and have made a measurable effort to avoid all forms of advertising in my life. My brain is full of engineered brainworms from growing up around advertising and I refuse to add more
This demo was a vibe.
October 16, 2025 at 9:20 AM
This demo was a vibe.
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Once again wishing Steam had a no-gen"ai" filter
I refuse to support any game that has been made in any part using generative slop & it would make my time digging through the nearly 3,000 demos on show right now if I didn't have to check every single one to make sure it wasn't using that crap
I refuse to support any game that has been made in any part using generative slop & it would make my time digging through the nearly 3,000 demos on show right now if I didn't have to check every single one to make sure it wasn't using that crap
October 14, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Once again wishing Steam had a no-gen"ai" filter
I refuse to support any game that has been made in any part using generative slop & it would make my time digging through the nearly 3,000 demos on show right now if I didn't have to check every single one to make sure it wasn't using that crap
I refuse to support any game that has been made in any part using generative slop & it would make my time digging through the nearly 3,000 demos on show right now if I didn't have to check every single one to make sure it wasn't using that crap
Played the demo for World War V: Last Call, which is a voxel shooter game that's very cute. The developer tries to stop you from ending the demo, but you can just shoot him. store.steampowered.com/app/4031300/...
October 13, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Played the demo for World War V: Last Call, which is a voxel shooter game that's very cute. The developer tries to stop you from ending the demo, but you can just shoot him. store.steampowered.com/app/4031300/...
americans will see this and say "my culture is not a costume"
October 12, 2025 at 3:33 AM
americans will see this and say "my culture is not a costume"