Zaz (they/them)
@zazlinkous.bsky.social
Nonbinary gamedev. Documentation pedant. Builder of experiences.
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Zaz (they/them)
@zazlinkous.bsky.social
· Oct 22
Hello, world! I'm Zaz. I used to run a silly virtual coffee shop in the Core Games metaverse, and now I'm still building virtual playgrounds.
I love:
- indie games
- open source
- pedestrian-friendly infrastructure
- making other people be creative
- SciFi (generally)
- Murderbot (specifically)
I love:
- indie games
- open source
- pedestrian-friendly infrastructure
- making other people be creative
- SciFi (generally)
- Murderbot (specifically)
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Please read our statement regarding the proposed Electronic Arts buyout. We refuse to let corporate greed decide the future of our industry.
cwa-union.org/news/release...
cwa-union.org/news/release...
October 16, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Please read our statement regarding the proposed Electronic Arts buyout. We refuse to let corporate greed decide the future of our industry.
cwa-union.org/news/release...
cwa-union.org/news/release...
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If you are in the PNW and freaking about all the recent announcements and feeling like there is nothing you can do?
Donate to local legal resources for immigrants. The legal defense needs to move quickly in these cases before the defendants are moved. No Actblue!
@nwirp.bsky.social
www.nwirp.org
Donate to local legal resources for immigrants. The legal defense needs to move quickly in these cases before the defendants are moved. No Actblue!
@nwirp.bsky.social
www.nwirp.org
Home | Northwest Immigrant Rights Project
Northwest Immigrant Rights Project promotes justice by defending and advancing the rights of immigrants through direct legal services, systemic/Users/miguel/Local Documents/nwirp-temp/index.html advoc...
www.nwirp.org
September 30, 2025 at 5:33 PM
If you are in the PNW and freaking about all the recent announcements and feeling like there is nothing you can do?
Donate to local legal resources for immigrants. The legal defense needs to move quickly in these cases before the defendants are moved. No Actblue!
@nwirp.bsky.social
www.nwirp.org
Donate to local legal resources for immigrants. The legal defense needs to move quickly in these cases before the defendants are moved. No Actblue!
@nwirp.bsky.social
www.nwirp.org
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The last 48 hours have shown why people have stopped relying on legacy journalism and have migrated to independent journalists in droves.
The benefit of legacy journalism is supposed to be “editors” and “factchecking” and they can’t even get that right in a rush to blame trans people.
The benefit of legacy journalism is supposed to be “editors” and “factchecking” and they can’t even get that right in a rush to blame trans people.
September 13, 2025 at 10:44 PM
The last 48 hours have shown why people have stopped relying on legacy journalism and have migrated to independent journalists in droves.
The benefit of legacy journalism is supposed to be “editors” and “factchecking” and they can’t even get that right in a rush to blame trans people.
The benefit of legacy journalism is supposed to be “editors” and “factchecking” and they can’t even get that right in a rush to blame trans people.
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This Murderbot + Witch King and more Humble Bundle from @torbooks.bsky.social has raised nearly $80,000 for @wck.org World Central Kitchen -- Can we get that up higher before time runs out? #booksky
www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...
www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...
Humble Book Bundle: Martha Wells' Murderbot and More by TOR
Fall in love with Martha Wells’ The Murderbot Diaries series—the engine behind the hit AppleTV adaptation—and help support World Central Kitchen.
www.humblebundle.com
September 9, 2025 at 3:18 PM
This Murderbot + Witch King and more Humble Bundle from @torbooks.bsky.social has raised nearly $80,000 for @wck.org World Central Kitchen -- Can we get that up higher before time runs out? #booksky
www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...
www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...
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Basically we need UBI but we more urgently need to stop these AI guys from creating the dystopia they envision.
September 11, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Basically we need UBI but we more urgently need to stop these AI guys from creating the dystopia they envision.
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Time to learn Godot again and ah yes I remember now.
August 16, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Time to learn Godot again and ah yes I remember now.
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Background paintings by Sue Mondt for Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends (2004–2009), created by Craig McCracken, Cartoon Network Studios
August 8, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Background paintings by Sue Mondt for Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends (2004–2009), created by Craig McCracken, Cartoon Network Studios
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"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪
July 18, 2025 at 4:12 AM
"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪
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Jesus, the trouble I used to get in saying the Obama admin needed to prosecute absolutely everybody for Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo. "Think of the election." "Be practical." "Play the long game." What fucking ever. All those people belong in the prisons they build for others.
July 8, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Jesus, the trouble I used to get in saying the Obama admin needed to prosecute absolutely everybody for Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo. "Think of the election." "Be practical." "Play the long game." What fucking ever. All those people belong in the prisons they build for others.
Literally me.
Me: Why aren’t there any computers in Dune?
Husb, vibrating intensely: I’m so glad you asked.
Husb, vibrating intensely: I’m so glad you asked.
July 7, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Literally me.
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when the nice indie software begins telling you to "supercharge your productivity" and a sparkle icon appears
July 6, 2025 at 8:48 AM
when the nice indie software begins telling you to "supercharge your productivity" and a sparkle icon appears
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I like this as the basis for an author's note in law review publications. I might add "I have given preference to sources which also certify they have not used AI."
Yesterday I used this "AI -Free Statement" in a conference talk for the first time. Still trying to figure out the exact language.
Feel free to borrow, modify, etc.
Feel free to borrow, modify, etc.
June 29, 2025 at 1:42 PM
I like this as the basis for an author's note in law review publications. I might add "I have given preference to sources which also certify they have not used AI."
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Yet another @annacwebs.bsky.social banger!
Highly recommend giving this a watch, especially if you're a dev outside the US and want to make sense of the the uh... *gestures at Games Industry*
Highly recommend giving this a watch, especially if you're a dev outside the US and want to make sense of the the uh... *gestures at Games Industry*
OKAY HERE IT IS
A BRIEF HISTORY OF LABOR IN THE USA AND WHAT IT HAS TO DO WITH THE MODERN GAMES INDUSTRY
youtu.be/OmV1QTzfyRo?...
A BRIEF HISTORY OF LABOR IN THE USA AND WHAT IT HAS TO DO WITH THE MODERN GAMES INDUSTRY
youtu.be/OmV1QTzfyRo?...
July 6, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Yet another @annacwebs.bsky.social banger!
Highly recommend giving this a watch, especially if you're a dev outside the US and want to make sense of the the uh... *gestures at Games Industry*
Highly recommend giving this a watch, especially if you're a dev outside the US and want to make sense of the the uh... *gestures at Games Industry*
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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July 3, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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obligatory "read persepolis" skeet. or at least watch the movie. it's going to grab your heart and never let go
June 22, 2025 at 4:10 PM
obligatory "read persepolis" skeet. or at least watch the movie. it's going to grab your heart and never let go
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amtrak’s marketing team gets it
June 21, 2025 at 12:21 PM
amtrak’s marketing team gets it
June 21, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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The owner of Twitter sends out 100 right wing propaganda tweets every single day and the algorithm is set up so that every single person on Twitter has to see every single one of these tweets. Now here’s another piece about Blue Sky’s ideological diversity problem.
June 15, 2025 at 2:56 PM
The owner of Twitter sends out 100 right wing propaganda tweets every single day and the algorithm is set up so that every single person on Twitter has to see every single one of these tweets. Now here’s another piece about Blue Sky’s ideological diversity problem.
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God, I've never seen this thing we've all experienced to some degree articulated so perfectly.
June 14, 2025 at 11:34 AM
God, I've never seen this thing we've all experienced to some degree articulated so perfectly.
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"You're stupid for saying a thing that's happening is bad because you probably don't know about other bad things that have also happened, unlike me, the genius Professor Badthings" is becoming my least favorite genre of post and I would like it to stop, thank yinz in advance for your cooperation
June 12, 2025 at 5:27 AM
"You're stupid for saying a thing that's happening is bad because you probably don't know about other bad things that have also happened, unlike me, the genius Professor Badthings" is becoming my least favorite genre of post and I would like it to stop, thank yinz in advance for your cooperation
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Yo, where is the 3 hour video essay on the history of pressing up in video games?
How my Youtube front page looks like nowadays, thanks internet.
June 11, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Yo, where is the 3 hour video essay on the history of pressing up in video games?
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good morning: yeah I drive a dually, I need a truuuuuuuck to do stuuuuuuuuff
www.ruotedasogno.com/en_gb/cars/1...
www.ruotedasogno.com/en_gb/cars/1...
June 12, 2025 at 1:10 PM
good morning: yeah I drive a dually, I need a truuuuuuuck to do stuuuuuuuuff
www.ruotedasogno.com/en_gb/cars/1...
www.ruotedasogno.com/en_gb/cars/1...
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Kathy Rain 2: Soothsayer (Clifftop Games, 2025)
June 9, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Kathy Rain 2: Soothsayer (Clifftop Games, 2025)
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I don’t give a shit if Elon Must was using huge amounts of ketamine. I don’t care if it was illegal and I don’t care if it affected his judgment. I only care about what he did to other people. I don’t care about his, or any politician’s, inner life. I don’t give a fuck. I only care about action
June 1, 2025 at 12:42 AM
I don’t give a shit if Elon Must was using huge amounts of ketamine. I don’t care if it was illegal and I don’t care if it affected his judgment. I only care about what he did to other people. I don’t care about his, or any politician’s, inner life. I don’t give a fuck. I only care about action