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James Gibbs @jamwarp.bsky.social · May 26

Plenty of warbler activity in Central Park this weekend. Chestnut-sided, Canada, Magnolia, Black and White pictured below. Also saw Bay-breasted, Wilson's, and others, but they were harder to capture on film. 🦉 #birds #warblers

Chestnut-sided Warbler perched in a holly tree

Canada Warbler perched on a sturdy tree branch

Magnolia Warbler up in the tree canopy on a branch

Black and White Warbler clinging to the bark of a tall tree's trunk

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Marisa Kabas

@marisakabas.bsky.social

here’s a list of great independent media
outlets to support instead of fascists:

Giving the gift of independent journalism: a guide

The Handbasket has subscription suggestions for almost everyone on your list.

www.thehandbasket.co

December 22, 2025 at 4:34 AM

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Better Things Are Possible

@internethippo.bsky.social

Being a Democrat feels like going to a concert where the band is telling you to settle down the entire time

December 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM

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David_j_roth

@davidjroth.bsky.social

I love to leave my life of unimaginable luxury at the apex of my profession to travel to the windowless lair of a video game streamer with a room-temp IQ so I can do the most absolute dogshit banter imaginable with him and his lumpy shithead buddies.

Chris Towers is in Offseason Mode @cptowers.bsky.social · 3d

I really think it's important for these millionaire athletes, none of whom are children, to feel great shame for being interested in Adin Ross to begin with. Mookie Betts, you are 33 years old. You have a wife and children. You should not know who Adin Ross is.

Chris Towers is in Offseason Mode @cptowers.bsky.social · 3d

Yo what the hell is going on with LA athletes right now

December 18, 2025 at 9:57 PM

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Greggo 🎅

@greggo.bsky.social

My response to anything over the next two weeks

A grey and red transit bus on the road in a city. The bus’ destination sign reads “NO? ?? ???????”

December 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM

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lanyardigan

@lanyardigan.bsky.social

Could a person with depression do this?! (grimly goes about activities of daily living)

December 15, 2025 at 2:53 PM

James Gibbs

@jamwarp.bsky.social

Gotta remind myself that people get super weird about the Trails series and are constantly tripping over themselves to spoil anyone in earshot

December 16, 2025 at 10:44 PM

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Chris Jackson

@chriscjackson.bsky.social

This entire weekend

December 15, 2025 at 3:58 AM

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Rine

@rine.bsky.social

Since Polygon is leaving it out of the headline: Epic Games partnered with The Game Awards to put money into the pocket of a bigot who uses her wealth to further the genocide of trans people through lawsuits and legislation. Every 'free' game gives money directly to JKR, and they are complicit.

Polygon @polygon.com · 9d

Epic Games partnered with The Game Awards to give away this week's free game on the Epic Games Store.

Hogwarts Legacy is now at the right price: $0

Epic Games partnered with The Game Awards to give away this week's free game on the Epic Games Store.

www.polygon.com

December 13, 2025 at 2:31 AM

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The Onion

@theonion.com

Newly Unsealed Batch Of Epstein Estate Photos Contains Rare Holographic Dershowitz

December 12, 2025 at 8:20 PM

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Witchmarsh (Inglenook Games)

@witchmarsh.bsky.social

That's approx 6x our game's total budget. If you think some of your followers would like our platformer cRPG, set in the 1920s - consider throwing us a share! 🎺

#gamedev #TheGameAwards #indiegame #gametrailer

December 12, 2025 at 8:34 PM

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Phil Says Free Palestine

@necron99.bsky.social

I found out my GOAT GameFAQs contributor is on bsky because of his principled stance against a known sex creep being hired for the new Yakuza game and the studio's silence on the matter. Say it with your chest, Scott - we'll always have your Ogre Battle 64 walkthrough!

CyricZ - The Dragon of GameFAQs @cyricz42.bsky.social · 11d

Announcement:

I will not be writing a GameFAQs guide for Yakuza Kiwami 3/Dark Ties.

Full statement below:

Hi everyone. CyricZ here. After giving myself time to reflect on my options, I’ve decided that I will not be writing a GameFAQs guide for Yakuza Kiwami 3 / Dark Ties. I will not be purchasing the game, nor playing it in any capacity.
I write guides because I love writing, and I write for the games that I write for because they inspire me. The joy I find in them drives me to give my best work. If I were to write a guide entirely out of obligation or expectation, I do not believe my best work would find its way to the page.
With the hiring of known sexual harasser Teruyuki Kagawa to the face and voice cast of Yakuza Kiwami 3, I do not find myself inspired by the game. The Like a Dragon series has a long-standing history of opposing sexual misconduct in all its forms and I feel this casting goes against that message.

Key members of RGG Studio have refused to speak on the hiring of Kagawa after his misconduct was made more widely known. While they are by no means required to speak about this, by their silence they have sent a message that they do not view Kagawa’s misconduct as a dealbreaker for inclusion in the series cast, nor do they deem it worth addressing. This stands in contrast to steps taken in the past to replace other cast members that did not align with their values.
I won’t go into further detail on the issue itself as the information is widely available via the #REMOVEKAGAWA movement. The rest of this will be about me, my guides, and my relationship with RGG Studio and the Like a Dragon series.

I remain a fan of the Like a Dragon series. It’s not something I can just excise from myself. I intend to continue playing past Like a Dragon games on stream as they are some of my favorite video games. That may be subject to change in the future, but the plans are to continue playing the games on stream in my intended order, with the exception of Yakuza Kiwami 3 or Dark Ties. The only minor thing that will change with regards to my streams is that I intend to take special note during stream of the many, many instances during the series that remind us of the societal ill of sexual misconduct.
As to future games put out by RGG Studio, I reserve the right to not make a decision on those at this time. That will be a “wait and see” situation, dependent on future actions or inactions by RGG Studio.
Further, if things change with regards to the release of Yakuza Kiwami 3, I reserve the right to reassess all the preceding. RGG Studio still has the opportunity to do right in this situation, and I hold onto hope that they will see the best way forward.

Finally, I promise to all my readers that my GameFAQs guides for the Like a Dragon series and other RGG Studio games will be going nowhere no matter what happens. Not only are they some of my best work, but if I preserve the guides with myself as the author, I remain in creative control of them. This prevents others from taking the text and redistributing it without my consent, which is something I fear would happen if I were to remove them from GameFAQs entirely.
For those of you who read my guides, thank you so much for your support, and I’m sorry I will not be helping with this upcoming game. For anyone who wants to write a guide on GameFAQs for Yakuza Kiwami 3, be my guest, not that you need my permission anyway. For those of you joining me in solidarity against Kagawa and this release, I thank you all for sticking with it. Your commitment has inspired this.
Be good to each other,
Scott “CyricZ” Zdankiewicz

December 12, 2025 at 1:20 AM

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Marisa Kabas

@marisakabas.bsky.social

at this point AI is the equivalent of your friend eating something disgusting and asking 800 times if you wanna try it

December 10, 2025 at 8:08 PM

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🎄Grunch Enjoyer Riana🎄

@diyferret.bsky.social

you have been visited by the Quail of the Double Top Knot. Like for good luck. Ignore to go fuck yourself.

A western Quail walks along a sidewalk. He spots two head feather plumes, called topnots. He is looking very fancy

December 9, 2025 at 10:01 PM

James Gibbs

@jamwarp.bsky.social

Taskmaster US tour tickets were absolutely bungled by Ticketmaster and the usual bots and scalpers.

I'm pretty disappointed!

December 9, 2025 at 3:09 PM

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Paul F. Tompkins

@pftompkins.bsky.social

God damn STOP TEXTING ME MARK KELLY

December 7, 2025 at 9:18 PM

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Paul F. Tompkins

@pftompkins.bsky.social

Happy Birthday (Observed) to the uncontested KING Jonathan The Tortoise, estimated to be 192 years old

192 MORE YEARS! 192 MORE YEARS!

December 4, 2025 at 9:17 PM

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Marisa Kabas

@marisakabas.bsky.social

i will vote for any presidential candidate who campaigns on sending pete hegseth to the hague

December 4, 2025 at 4:44 PM

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Johnny L.

@johnnylandmine.bsky.social

"Thagomizer" in Japanese is, in fact, サゴマイザー/sagomaizaa, and you can imagine my delight when it dawned on me what the katakana I was reading represented.

Madison;Notes @mads-in-zero.bsky.social · 18d

Come to think of it, Johnny, what's the Thagomizer called in Japanese?

The keepers at Enoshima Dinoland - a dinosaur themepark - try to decide what charm point they should advertise their stegosaurus with, to increase traffic. The thagomizer (the spikes on their tail) is mentioned.

December 4, 2025 at 1:39 PM

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SCOOPS 🍖

@sundogscoops.bsky.social

firefox AI and slop disablers from tumblr for the people from local hero mckitterick. Tried it on my end and the browser is significantly faster now

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