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Clueless game designer, programmer of bugs, chaotic PM. Director of a young house. I'm tired all the time.
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alisonfisk.bsky.social
Something ancient and wonderful for the weekend! 🤩

The world’s oldest known sculpture of a horse!

This tiny figurine was carved from mammoth ivory by an Ice Age artist some 40,000 years ago!

📷 by me

#Archaeology
My photo shows a profile view of a small horse figurine with head to the left, displayed against a dark background. Sculpted from mammoth ivory, the surface is a mottled greyish-earthy-brown colour with a shiny patina. It was once likely pale white in colour. It measures 2.5 cm height, 4.8 cm width, and 0.7 cm depth. The head is gracefully lowered with a long curving neck and a convex curved back. The four legs are incomplete. The top of the tail remains. The eyes, nostrils, and mouth are carved as indents. The ‘Vogelherd Horse’ was excavated in 1931, together with a number of other ivory animal figurines from the Vogelherd Cave, Swabian Jura, Germany. It is the oldest known sculpture of a horse. On display at the Museum of Ancient Cultures, at Hohentübingen Castle, Tübingen, Germany.
November 29, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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kameronhurley.com
This book has been so soothing. I have probably learned more about the foreign policies that shape the world just in the first three chapters than I have in at least the last 15 years of news media. 🙃 It's helped clarify a lot of the absolutely batshit nonsense of the current timeline. COMFORT READ
Cover of Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall
November 29, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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st1ka.bsky.social
Retro game collectors watching sneaker collecting prices collapse
November 29, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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jillmurray.bsky.social
The Government of Canada has released its first iteration of a database of 400+ AI projects undertaken by its various agencies. Everything from chat bots to transcribing insect specimen labels, to cross-referencing information to identify “high risk” travellers. open.canada.ca/data/en/data...
Government of Canada AI Register (Minimum Viable Product) - GC AI Register (MVP) - View - Open Government Portal
open.canada.ca
November 29, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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ellipsus.com
The OpenAI ruling writers should know about 👀 (if your work was scraped for LLM training, this affects you). www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
OpenAI Loses Key Discovery Battle as It Cedes Ground to Authors in AI Lawsuits
The issue has been a major battleground in discovery. OpenAI could be on the hook for hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars if it was aware it was infringing on copyrighted material.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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nocontexttrek1.bsky.social
Star Trek The Next Generation scene. We're in Ten Forward, a future space bar (social club not keyboard) and see Riker leaning forward and eating soup and chatting with a humanoid alien who has a bit of forehead loaf. In the background, two crew member extras appear to be having a saucy date, as evidenced by some hand touching. There's gotta be a story there. Ok, back to the main scene, Riker and guest w/soup, closed caption reads, "We prefer to stay warm by sleeping with a friend."
November 29, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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thewaether.bsky.social
extremely annoying that you can get your book withdrawn for supporting pretend terrorism when I can think of at least one author who spends her money on *actual* terrorism
ianfraser.bsky.social Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 14h
This is madness.

All books by Normal People and Conversations with Friends author Sally Rooney set to be withdrawn from sale.

The 34-year-old Irish author says: “The disappearance of my work from bookshops would mark a truly extreme incursion by the state into the realm of artistic expression.”
Sally Rooney books may be withdrawn from UK sale over Palestine Action ban, court told
Rooney has said she intended to use royalties from her work "to go on supporting Palestine Action."
www.bbc.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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annamegill.com
“The number one thing that we’re here to defend as artists is humanity… We’re here not to think about makes human life easy, what makes it convenient, but what it’s like to actually live.”
robdelaney.bsky.social Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 12h
Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...
Bong Joon Ho took a characteristically radical approach when questioned on his thoughts around the rise of Al technology at the jury press conference of the Marrakech Film Festival on Saturday. The Korean director, who is president of the jury, gave two responses, one measured, the other deeply personal. "My official answer is, Al is good because it's the very beginning of the human race finally seriously thinking about what only humans can do. But my personal answer is, I'm going to organize a military squad, and their mission is to destroy AI," he said.
November 29, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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frankengraphics.bsky.social
2 days later, here's a post-release fix to NEXXT - the tool i make nearly all my NES game assets in.

frankengraphics.itch.io/nexxt/devlog...
NEXXT 3.7.1 released - important bugfixes
Yep, no big update without its issues seems to be the rule no matter who thorough I try to be. This time, 2 critical bugs (pasting metasprites and deleting sprites) could cause unpredictable behaviour...
frankengraphics.itch.io
November 29, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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celechii.itch.io
last week i remembered that macOS lets you set your own icons and that *I* have the power to delegitimize the professionalism of the software that runs on my machine, so here's a thread of the 16 new icons i've made so far

i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')
comparison between apple's finder icon and mine. apple's is the split blue and white smiley face, mine is two blue and white anime girls making out comparison between discord's icon and mine. mine is like a screaming cat on a blue/purple slimy background comparison between celsys's clip studio paint icon and mine. mine is similar but rotated with some comic styling and pink and blue highlights comparison between mozilla's firefox icon and mine. mine is similar but looks closer to the old firefox icon and brings back the little arm and gives the fox a cute little smiley face
November 29, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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applecider.bsky.social
Vendetta's animations are kinda crazy in terms of how much is going on and there's not a lot of stuff that looks TOO crazy

pictures for the gays only

#overwatch #vendetta #gamephotography #virtualphotography
Overwatch 2 screenshot of Vendetta, the newest hero to Overwatch. She is a confident Italian woman with poufy brown hair and red eyes, wearing futuristic gladiatorial armor that is red, black and white, and has mechanical tattoes on her arms. Her ponytail is held up with a spiked clasp. She is in a dark empty ruin with columns. Her sword is striking a pool of water and rocks are flying into the air. Overwatch 2 screenshot of Vendetta, the newest hero to Overwatch. She is a confident Italian woman with poufy brown hair and red eyes, wearing futuristic gladiatorial armor that is red, black and white, and has mechanical tattoes on her arms. Her ponytail is held up with a spiked clasp. She is in a dark empty ruin with columns. She is doing an athletic move and mid-swing with her sword. Overwatch 2 screenshot of Vendetta, the newest hero to Overwatch. She is a confident Italian woman with poufy brown hair and red eyes, wearing futuristic gladiatorial armor that is red, black and white, and has mechanical tattoes on her arms. Her ponytail is held up with a spiked clasp. She is in a dark empty ruin with columns. She is swiping her sword and it is showing off bronzed back muscles and thighs. Overwatch 2 screenshot of Vendetta, the newest hero to Overwatch. She is a confident Italian woman with poufy brown hair and red eyes, wearing futuristic gladiatorial armor that is red, black and white, and has mechanical tattoes on her arms. Her ponytail is held up with a spiked clasp. She is in a dark empty ruin with columns. She is charging, holding her sword aloft, her body ready to strike overhead.
November 27, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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bimbam-tm.bsky.social
Some more cheeky #GodotEngine 'watch-dev'.

On the one hand, was an interesting challenge thinking of a game that made sense on the form factor. Only radial game I could think of was old school Tempest.

On the other, these devices clearly aren't made for it. I rinsed the battery in no time!
November 29, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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davidho.bsky.social
I grew up about 4 km from the fire in Hong Kong. I have no words for what happened, but I’m proud of Hongkongers for helping each other: building a real-time rescue map, donating essentials, and housing those suddenly homeless.
Hongkongers built their own SOS map as seven towers burned
When a fatal fire tore through seven high-rise towers in Hong Kong's Tai Po district, thousands of families were glued to a single webpage that offered updates far more quickly than official governmen...
www.abc.net.au
November 29, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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vptevo.bsky.social
in the midst of our supposed campaign against Venezuelan drug traffickers the President of the United States has chosen to pardon the Former President of Honduras, freeing him from his long prison sentence earned for trafficking more than 400 tons of cocaine into the United States
Donald J. Trump @realDonald Trump If Tito Asfura wins for President of Honduras, because the United States has so much confidence in him, his Policies, and what he will do for the Great People of Honduras, we will be very supportive. If he doesn't win, the United States will not be throwing good money after bad, because a wrong Leader can only bring catastrophic results to a country, no matter which country it is. Tito will be a Great President, and the United States will work closely with him in order to ensure the success, with all of its potential, of Honduras! Additionally, I will be granting a Full and Complete Pardon to Former President Juan Orlando Hernandez who has been, according to many people that I greatly respect, treated very harshly and unfairly. This cannot be allowed to happen, especially now, after Tito Asfura wins the Election, when Honduras will be on its way to Great Political and Financial Success. VOTE FOR TITO ASFURA FOR PRESIDENT, AND CONGRATULATIONS TO JUAN ORLANDO HERNANDEZ ON YOUR UPCOMING PARDON. Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE HONDURAS GREAT AGAIN! PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP 24 ReTruths 77 Likes 11/28/25, 1:18 PM Juan Orlando Hernández, Former President of Honduras, Sentenced to 45 Years in Prison for Conspiring to Distribute More Than 400 Tons of Cocaine and Related Firearms Offenses
November 28, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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joe.inkle.co
⭐️ Godot’s Scene System Is Just Brilliant ⭐️

I wanted to draw attention to a few of my favourite features in @godotengine.org. What do I love about Godot's scene system? Read all about it: joethephish.me/blog/godot-s...
Godot’s Scene System Is Just Brilliant
Joseph Humfrey is co-founder of inkle & Founder of Selkie Design
joethephish.me
November 28, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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rystorm.com
Extremely unfortunate phrasing by the Boston Globe.
The article about a student being deported, and a giant 'YOU HAVE BEEN SELECTED' at the bottom from the Boston Globe.
November 28, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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gamefromscratch.bsky.social
There is an awesome new Visual Programming language project for the #GodotEngine. It's called FlowKit and it brings a GDevelop/Construct3/ClickTeam Fusion type programming option to Godot.

gamefromscratch.com/flowkit-visu...

#gamedev #indiedev
FlowKit - Visual Programming Language for Godot – GameFromScratch.com
FlowKit is a brand-new open source Visual Programming Language for the Godot game engine inspired by Construct 3, GDevelop & ClickTeam Fusion
gamefromscratch.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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heytibo.bsky.social
Reworking on my multimesh tool (based on the naive tool I made a while back)

✅ Draw / Erase instances
✅ Simple grid spatial partitioning

#godotengine #gamedev
November 27, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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spriters-resource.com
Some updates from the DidYouKnowGaming side of things;
youtu.be/76597Bw0cOo?...

We have an official tabletop game! We're interviewing developers! Doing a giveaway! Check it out, and let us know who you think we should talk to!
Important DYKG Updates
YouTube video by DidYouKnowGaming
youtu.be
November 27, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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alienmelon.bsky.social
i know you’re not supposed to read the conversation in the comments but the conversation is depressing and anti-art in all the typical ways to justify censorship… like there’s so much to unpack here especially with how quickly people paint art as “abuse” when it discusses difficult topics.
comment to the article arguing “It's not really a gray zone. It's skirting fettishised child-abuse, which is an absolute no-no. We don't really know what happened here and likely never will, but for all the posts below saying this is about Valve being evil, it's just as possible that they have an internal blacklist for developers who stray way over the line and into territory that's going to be legally very risky in many countries. I can see how the scene as described would do just that. I suspect what we have here is a case of a bunch of artsy types who, trapped in a bit of a creative bubble, don't actually realise how some of this stuff is going to look to "normal" people. They may do well to hire a gray-suited centrist-dad type to act as a bit of an internal nay-sayer and stop them doing stuff like sending scenes where children ride naked people in horse masks to companies like Valve.” comment arguing “Some people don't understand that it isn't always the artist who gets to define what is and isn't sexual and that some artists are weird.”
November 27, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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enikofox.com
nowadays can't even get started with most languages without websites going "to install gronkflim, just use flambingle -install gronkflim"

then you spend 3 hours figuring out flambingle's a bespoke package manager which needs another package manager to install and that one's not available on windows
October 24, 2024 at 9:54 AM
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freya.bsky.social
ahah IT WORKS look it's a C² dual quaternion B-spline!!

this is interpolating *poses* in dual quaternion form, coupling position and rotation, instead of treating them independently (this is a really neat thing!!)
November 26, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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presentcorrect.bsky.social
Hong Kong neon fantasy. A composite series using the cities old neon signs www.keithmacgregorphotography.com/km-165-natha...
November 25, 2025 at 6:33 PM