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Pim

@pimmeke.bsky.social

mijn zoon was gister jarig. hij werd acht jaar oud, de schat
hij vroeg aan mij Robux, en die heeft-ie ook gehad
zijn bal, zijn fiets, zijn treinen, nee daar keek hij niet naar om
Dat Roblox was hem alles, alleen wist ik niet waarom

Ik heb hier een chat met mijn groomer
Die ook nog op Discord zit

November 21, 2025 at 6:24 PM

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megan farokhmanesh

@megannicolett.bsky.social

I spoke with people role-playing ICE raids in video games to help educate people on their rights and what to do in real-life situations. Tonight, they're holding an event in Fortnite www.wired.com/story/activi...

New Save Collective plans to continue holding future events and organizing gamers. The fight for these communities online is far from over. “Gaming wasn't kind of a random genre that we chose,” says Siggelkow. “We've been tracking anti-immigrant myths and disinformation digitally for years. We really grounded this campaign in a lot of data and research. This really is a space that is critical for immigration narrative.”

November 21, 2025 at 10:16 PM

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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash!

@standplaatskrk.pl

little lady gams (@lexaprose) on twitter:

"writing a cover letter is just like: here is my worksona she has no mental illnesses and hates breaks! i would like to larp her for 40 hours a week with full pay and benefits"

November 7, 2024 at 3:39 PM

Pim

@pimmeke.bsky.social

2 vragen

1: is dit wat cocaïne met een mens doet?

2: hoeveel likken heeft een hiel precies nodig voordat het zo'n waarheidsverstoringsveld begint uit te stralen

joey schutz @joeyschutz.bsky.social · 1d

this is a bizarre interview

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/p...

And say we figured out the best way to do that is to do it with better and better A.I. models. Would you pick that?

Roose: Yeah.

Baszucki: Good, so you’re aligning with what we did. High-five.

Roose: But I’ve also been covering social networks ——

Baszucki: Thank you for supporting our Roblox decision matrix.

Roose: But I also remember 15 years ago when ——

Baszucki: I’m so glad you guys are aligned with the way we run Roblox. High-five.

Roose: Right, I also remember 15 years ago when Mark Zuckerberg was saying ——

Baszucki: Is this a stealth interview where actually you love everything we’re doing and you’re here to stealthily support it?

Baszucki: The scale we’re at is absolutely mind-boggling right now. Like absolutely mind-boggling. And every system: image review, text review, all of that, constantly getting better and better.

Newton: I mean, look, Dave, I can tell you’re getting a little bit frustrated here.

Baszucki: I’m actually not frustrated. I just, I’m so excited to talk — I thought we were going to be talking about fun, funny things in the industry and all of that. So I’m not frustrated, I’m just kind of figuring out how much fun time I have with you guys and how much fun time we have versus kind of this superfocus. But I’m happy to talk about whatever you guys want.

November 21, 2025 at 6:21 PM

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Dia Lacina

@dialacina.com

👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

Priscilla @priscillamab.bsky.social · 1d

I gotta get back to caves of qud, man. Game is one of the best in history.

November 20, 2025 at 10:19 PM

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Foone

@foone.bsky.social

my grumpy-old-woman-gamer opinion is that I hope the mumblings about a new half life are because they're announcing a sequel to half life 1

November 19, 2025 at 9:13 PM

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petra

@kutheks.bsky.social

feitelijk valt er weinig af te dingen op de constatering dat Yeşilgöz een wel heel losse relatie onderhoudt met de waarheid

www.vn.nl/maar-yesilgo...

grove leugens

Opmerkelijk, want feitelijk valt er weinig af te dingen op de constatering dat Yeşilgöz een wel heel losse relatie onderhoudt met de waarheid.

Zo bracht de VVD-voorvrouw als minister van Justitie en Veiligheid het laatste kabinet-Rutte moedwillig ten val met een leugen over ‘nareis op nareis’. Yeşilgöz stelde destijds dat er jaarlijks ‘heel veel’ en ‘duizenden mensen’ naar Nederland komen via ‘nareis op nareis’. Cijfers van de IND toonden later dat ‘nareis op nareis’ slechts enkele tientallen keren per jaar voorkomt.

Als lijsttrekker bediende Yeşilgöz zich bij herhaling eveneens van grove leugens over haar opponenten, in de hoop in het gevlij van de kiezer te komen. Zo zou Bontenbal van gezinnen met een koophuis volgens Yeşilgöz 400 euro per maand ‘afpakken’ door de hypotheekrente af te schaffen. RTL factcheckte achteraf dat dit alleen geldt als de hypotheekrenteaftrek in één klap wordt afgeschaft. Het CDA neemt echter dertig jaar de tijd voor de maatregel.

GroenLinks-PvdA-leider Frans Timmermans werd er structureel van beticht veel geld te willen ophalen ‘bij al die hardwerkende Nederlanders’. Volgens Yeşilgöz wil GroenLinks-PvdA belastingen verhogen, en de VVD belastingen verlagen. Ook dit was ver bezijden de waarheid. De doorberekeningen van het Centraal Planbureau (CPB) toonden juist hoe GroenLinks-PvdA de hoogste koopkrachtverbetering voor werkenden in petto had.

November 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM

Pim

@pimmeke.bsky.social

In een sleutelscène aan het eind van zes volle seizoenen van the Americans laat Rhys alleen maar zijn handen zakken en ontspant hij zijn schouders. Ineens zie je hoeveel angst, stress, woede en teleurstelling hij al die tijd in zijn spel meedroeg – en dan nóg is dat allemaal een nieuw masker.

Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social · 4d

Matthew Rhys is an insanely good actor. Generationally good. Cast him in the Heat remake good. I met him and it took a minute to place him because he carries himself differently than in any of his most famous roles. The chameleons who barely need makeup like Rhys, Cheadle or Colman are my favorites.

November 18, 2025 at 1:56 PM

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Leon Thomas

@renegadecut.bsky.social

everyone hates rush hour but nobody is doing the important work of staying unemployed to lighten traffic

November 17, 2025 at 11:56 AM

Pim

@pimmeke.bsky.social

Shit, zélfs Jowling Kowling snapte het spirituele en emotionele dode spoor van de spiegel van Negereb en toch gaan AI-dudes over op het land van de levende doden

November 15, 2025 at 3:19 PM

Pim

@pimmeke.bsky.social

Mijn gewaardeerde bijdrage aan het discours

Paul Rudd tegen zijn oma in They Came Together. Ondertitel: "Oh my god Bubba I want to suck you so bad."

Paul Rudd's oma in They Came Together tegen hem: "Do it, Don. Don't overthink this."

November 15, 2025 at 10:21 AM

Pim

@pimmeke.bsky.social

Weet je welk fiasco er ook begon met het laten herrijzen van de doden?

Introductietekst van Star Wars. Tekst: Episode IX, THE RISE OF SKYWALKER. The dead speak! The galaxy has

November 14, 2025 at 12:58 PM

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Brendan Keogh

@brkeogh.bsky.social

This is possibly the most fucked thing I've ever seen but also the bit at the end where the grandmother is straight up being tricked into providing training content for the app feels particularly revealing.

Chris Paxton @cpaxton.bsky.social · 8d

Nightmarish idea for a startup tbh

November 14, 2025 at 5:39 AM

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Disney Prime Video + ᵖᵃʳᵒᵈʸ

@disneyprimevideo.bsky.social

November 14: A Partially Muscled Skeleton Stands by the Perimeeter Fence and Screams For Thirty Seconds Before Vanishing

(human hand inside kermit frame, yelling yaaay)

this is adapted from an artwork you see on redbubble, even though its edited i would have credited an original artist if one could have been positively determined, its too widespread and stolen for over a decade to nail it down precisely. sorry i tried, dont yell at me.

September 25, 2025 at 2:34 AM

Pim

@pimmeke.bsky.social

Zie ook (absolute tips): Dicey Dungeons, Herald, Minit

Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social · 10d

one of the most frustrating things about games for me is how many think Interactive Story just means “‘beats’ that you click through”. Papers Please is what games are best at

November 12, 2025 at 10:02 AM

Pim

@pimmeke.bsky.social

Super Shame Box (2010)

Jan Willem Nijman @jwaaaap.com · 10d

technology that makes people more productive is inherently used to perpetuate capitalism, that’s why I make videogames, technology that makes people less productive

November 12, 2025 at 9:32 AM

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Aftermath

@aftermath.site

Good morning Europe! We have a new website! If you don't like using credit cards (and many EU readers have told us they don't), we're finally accepting other payment methods for subs, like Google Pay, Apple Pay and Link:

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Welcome To Aftermath 2.0

Despite the ravages of age and an internet steeped in misinformation, your eyes – in this one case – do not deceive you: Website different.

aftermath.site

November 11, 2025 at 9:25 AM

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Anthony Oliveira

@meakoopa.bsky.social

there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all

CHOAM shareholder (non-voting) @samthielman.com · 11d

“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”

Tweet by Joyce Carol Oates:

"wherever he goes, he wants to leave"--that's because when he gets there, he has brought his own self along; & whatever club he's invited to join has been devalued by the invitation.

QT of @avidreader1000
Wherever he goes, he wants to leave: SA, Canada, ultimately the U.S. in the long run, based on his behavior. This also includes Earth. A continuous disavowal of your home is odd, to say the least. He seems to have no c...

November 11, 2025 at 6:31 AM

Pim

@pimmeke.bsky.social

Mondriaan is mooi want ik kan het aantal kleuren onthouden

Pim @pimmeke.bsky.social · 11d

'ik heb een aanvalspatroon in mijn spiergeheugen geprent' - Creatieve Kunstliefhebber over Echte Kunst

November 11, 2025 at 9:09 AM

Pim

@pimmeke.bsky.social

De Universele Taal van Goede Games is duikelen in vol pantser rond een ondode kerel met een heel groot zwaard

Liz Ryerson @ellaguro.bsky.social · 11d

whenever people around the game industry think this way about games i want them to just for a second try applying that thinking to any other context - like "this film is great because it followed the 180 degree rule in every scene". there's a reason we had this art movement thing called modernism

Em Reed (Debut novel MORE BUGS out now)!!! @dayofthemutants.bsky.social · 11d

The conclusion I have to draw from playing videogames intermittently throughout my entire remembered life is that there is no mechanic or manner of handling it that will ensure your game is good. They should make another Seaman

November 10, 2025 at 10:46 PM

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Jason Bergman

@jasonxbergman.bsky.social

My latest at @comicsjournal.bsky.social: I talked to @oglaf.bsky.social! Not the character, but rather, the people who create it.

They don't do many interviews, so this was a real treat. They're funny people! Turns out they're not super private, just...really bad at PR?

www.tcj.com/talking-ogla...