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ZumDeWald
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zumdewald.bsky.social
Something about seeing human beings make music live in real time….

Magic.

Get out there and support live music.
December 21, 2025 at 2:36 AM
zumdewald.bsky.social
I guess the lesson is if you’re going to buy Pepsi products it’ll be cheapest at Walmart 🥴

www.thebignewsletter.com/p/secret-doc...
Secret Documents Show Pepsi and Walmart Colluded to Raise Food Prices Across the Economy
The Trump FTC tried to hide a complaint showing Pepsi forced shoppers to pay higher prices everywhere but Walmart. But now it's unsealed. And the politics of affordability are explosive.
www.thebignewsletter.com
December 17, 2025 at 12:48 AM
zumdewald.bsky.social
Just a reminder to update your Christmas countdown.
December 4, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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kemikziel.bsky.social
Well, I'm up late and it's officially Black Friday here now!

All my music is 50% off with code "blackfriday25"!
Thanks for the support, and enjoy! 🎧💜

kemikziel.bandcamp.com

#indieMusic #supportIndie #BlackFriday #CyberMonday #sale
Kemikziel
⭐️ Now live streaming my songbuilding process at https://www.twitch.tv/kemikziel/ ⭐️ If my music makes you happy, I'm happy too! :) My songs are made using a program called LSDj. The reason they sou...
kemikziel.bandcamp.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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fleurdenoise.com
CITY so nice, we have to do it twice! We're teaming up with CITY2's Camp Supporter to bring the noise for the boys tonight!
October 19, 2025 at 2:28 PM
zumdewald.bsky.social
Pecan pie is the baklava of the western world… and I love it.
October 13, 2025 at 2:52 PM
zumdewald.bsky.social
Team Cherry’s third entry will be a rhythm game starring Sherma.

Calling it now.
Sherma, a character from Silksong, holding her favorite musical tools.
October 7, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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umaw.bsky.social
The Onion doesn’t miss. We need the Living Wage for Musicians Act NOW!
September 28, 2025 at 5:18 PM
zumdewald.bsky.social
Got a fun ending to Silksong Act 2.

How does this game just not quit with this much content?

Best game I’ve played since Sea of Stars.
September 23, 2025 at 8:39 PM
zumdewald.bsky.social
Friend of mine got the “True BeWeaver” ending in #Silksong

Can’t wait for the MCU x HK crossover.
Spiderman is revealed as the True BeWeaver
September 18, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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fleurdenoise.com
Thank you all so much for your support and generosity at last week's home match. With your help, and a key donation from a few of our friends inside CITY SC, we were able to raise $5500 for the Cardinal Glennon Children's Foundation's Cancer Research and Support Programs.
September 15, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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stlcitysc.com
SOMOS CITY 🐍⚽️

Happy #HispanicHeritageMonth!
September 15, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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fleurdenoise.com
Please see our attached statement regarding last weekends CITY match.
September 10, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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fleurdenoise.com
September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, and we’ve teamed up with the brave kids @cardinal.glennon to decorate a special Fleur de Noise drum head and banner. You’ll be able to see their amazing work displayed inside the stadium on Saturday!
#childhoodcancerawareness❤️ #allforcity
September 4, 2025 at 6:17 PM
zumdewald.bsky.social
Low-quality memes to get hyped for #Silksong
September 4, 2025 at 12:26 AM
zumdewald.bsky.social
When my Switch 2 powers on now I hear “Al-bub-kir-kee” (Albuquerque)

What do you hear?
September 3, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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fleurdenoise.com
On field review should NOT have been recommended. Wonder why VAR pushed so hard for it then?
tomtimm.bsky.social tomtimm.bsky.social @tomtimm.bsky.social · Aug 30
From PRO's review: Joyner was running in a straight line, the player cut in front of him, and while there was contact, it "was incidental. This did not rise to the level of a clear and obvious error, and an on-field review should not have been recommended."

proreferees.com/2025/08/30/2...
Inside Video Review: MLS #30 – Professional Referee Organization
proreferees.com
August 30, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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ignunion.bsky.social
Ziff Davis and IGN routinely decide that work done by our laid off colleagues is not important. But inevitably, that crucial work falls onto those who remain.

Not this time. Not anymore.
FROM NOW UNTIL FEBRUARY 13TH IGN CREATORS GUILD IS GOING TO... DO OUR JOB! OVER THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS, IGN MANAGEMENT HAS GOTTEN AWAY WITH LAYING OFF OUR COWORKERS OVER AND OVER. MEANWHILE, MANY OF OUR COLLEAGUES HAVE LEFT THE COMPANY IN NO SMALL PART DUE TO BUYOUTS, OVERWORK, AND FEELING UNSUPPORTED, EACH TIME, THE COMPANY HAS REFUSED TO BACKFILL MANY ESSENTIAL ROLES, CLAIMING WE'RE ON A HIRING FREEZE, IT'S NOT IN THE BUDGET, OR THAT WE'RE GOING TO DO LESS WORK THIS TIME. AS A RESULT, IGNCG MEMBERS HAVE BEEN FORCED TO TAKE ON MORE OF THEIR FORMER COLLEAGUES' WORKLOADS. MANY OF US NOW WORK LONGER HOURS THAN WE USED TO. A LOT OF US RARELY TAKE LUNCH BREAKS. SOME OF US DO NOT TAKE ADEQUATE TIME OFF DUE TO THERE BEING NO ONE TO PICK UP THE SLACK. OTHERS OF US ARE STUCK DOING WORK WE WERE NEVER HIRED TO DO IN THE FIRST PLACE. UP TO THIS POINT, WE'VE ALL ACCEPTED THIS AS NORMAL, BECAUSE WE CARE DEEPLY ABOUT IGN AND THE WORK WE DO. BUT WITH SO MANY OF US STRUGGLING MORE AND MORE AS EACH NEW WAVE OF OUR COWORKERS ARE DEPRIVED OF A LIVELIHOOD, THIS CYCLE CAN'T CONTINUE. MANAGEMENT IS UNWILLING TO STOP IT, SO IT FALLS TO US. WITH THE LAYOFFS OF EIGHT OF OUR COWORKERS, IGNCG HAS NEGOTIATED A SIX-MONTH RECALL LIST. WHAT THAT MEANS IS THAT, FOR THE NEXT SIX MONTHS, IF IGN WANTS TO FILL ANY OF THOSE ELIMINATED ROLES AGAIN, THEY MUST REHIRE OUR LAID-OFF COLLEAGUES. WE WANT THEM TO HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO GET THEIR JOBS BACK IF THEY WANT THEM, AND IF NOT, WE WANT THOSE ROLES BACKFILLED TO EASE THE BURDEN ON THE REST OF US. SO STARTING TODAY, LENCE MEMBERS ARE COMMITTING TO DO OUR JOBS. NO MORE, NO LESS. WELL SHOW UP TO WORK ON TIME AND LEAVE ON TIME. WE'RE TAKING ALL OF OUR LUNCH TIME, EVERY DAY. IF WE WORK LATE, WE WILL FIRMLY ASK FOR OUR RIGHTFULLY EARNED COMP TIME. AND IF IGN WANTS OUR LAID-OFF COWORKERS' WORK TO GET DONE, THEY'LL HAVE TO REHIRE THEM TO DO IT INSTEAD OF FOISTING IT UPON US. HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT IGNCG IN ALL THIS? SHARE THIS POST, AND TELL IGN MANAGEMENT THAT Y…
August 25, 2025 at 9:25 PM
zumdewald.bsky.social
You’re telling me the “s” in Postgres is silent?

One day I’ll be a real dev who knows things. Today I stepped closer to that reality.
August 18, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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eyesineverything.bsky.social
If there are any streamers seeing this - or anyone who can get in touch with any streamers/influencers/etc. - Can we get #Psycutlery in the hands of anyone who would be willing to show it to a larger audience?

On Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3577630/...

#indiegame #gamedev
August 16, 2025 at 12:02 AM
zumdewald.bsky.social
Beat DK Bananza
Finished the “after party”
- All Banandium Gems
- All Fossils
- All Outfits
- All Records
- All Pauline getaway cutscenes
- 3 stars on my save file..? Out of how many, 5? 11??
August 11, 2025 at 1:24 PM
zumdewald.bsky.social
Drag x Drive demo went well.

The stripped down style reminds me of PS1 games that just focused on the core fun parts.

That minimizes budget and gets us a $20 USD price instead of $70.

I’m cool with it. My son and I played a few hours today and can’t wait to pick it up.
August 10, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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fleurdenoise.com
CITY, Wake up! The new Red and Black band just dropped and its a banger. How do we feel about this STL? Want to see it in the stands?

open.spotify.com/album/4UWtdo...
We Are The City
Red and Black Brass Band · Single · 2024 · 1 songs
open.spotify.com
August 8, 2025 at 4:02 PM
zumdewald.bsky.social
@loganjplant.bsky.social one thing Drag x Drive does is show the “variable pricing” Nintendo touted in action.

They focused on a core mechanic and didn’t sink money into creating a cute Nintendo IP for it, so we get it for $20.

In the $70+ game conversation the price here does seem worth noting.
August 8, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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ignunion.bsky.social
Today, IGN laid off eight extremely valuable members of our union and workforce via directive from our parent company, Ziff Davis. This, after two incredibly successful live events IGN Live and SDCC, and yet another corporate acquisition.

Please take a moment to read and share our full statement:
Today, IGN Entertainment announced that it would be laying off eight members of the IGN Creators Guild. This is 12% of our bargaining unit, and comes just days after our sister union, the Ziff Davis Creators Guild, underwent similar layoffs impacting 15% of their members. It also comes just months after our multibillion-dollar parent company, Ziff Davis, instituted a company-wide buyout that shrunk our unit numbers, with the express intent of avoiding future layoffs. And it comes just a little over one year after three of our members were laid off almost immediately after our union went public. The company has told us that the reason for this layoff stems from a Ziff Davis-mandate to cut costs despite several quarters in a row of year-over-year revenue increases, to which IGN Entertainment responded by coming for our members' jobs. This is perplexing to us, as we are told again and again that IGN Entertainment has had a tremendously successful year thus far thanks to their hard work. In just the last few months, our members have been absolutely essential to major events and livestreams, including San Diego ComicCon, Summer of Gaming, and IGN Live. Every single person impacted today was involved in and critical to the success of those events. Meanwhile, IGN Entertainment continues to spend money on costly acquisitions, only to turn around and gut those companies in the same way it is cutting away at IGN itself. For instance, last year, it acquired Gamer Network, and almost immediately laid off a number of staff critical to making those sites successful. The company has not responded to the union's questions about whether its budget for future acquisitions is being reconsidered as a cost-saving measure alongside these other apparently necessary personnel cuts. At a time when it is more necessary than ever to support its creators, IGN Entertainment is choosing to eliminate the individuals who ensure IGN remains competitive as generative AI threatens our reach. We have been told that expert opinion pieces, original interviews, and work that leverages our staff's deep knowledge of gaming, tech, and entertainment are all essential to combating AI summarization and regurgitation of our work. Management has responded by cutting several individuals who do that exact work, as well as others whose job it is to ensure that these written and video pieces are published in a speedy manner — another component of combating AI we're told is critical. This continued cycle of repeated, aggressive cuts to our staff and being asked to do more with less, only for management to continue to spend on new business it isn't interested in sustaining cannot continue. We will enforce our interim agreement that guarantees better severance and other protections to laid off members, as well as demand additional support for those impacted. We will continue to bargain over our first contract with the aim of enshrining even better protections against further layoffs, working conditions continuously degraded by understaffing, and the encroachment of generative AI. And we won't stop fighting to ensure IGN remains the best destination for trustworthy, original, exciting, and creative work covering video games, entertainment, and tech. While IGN Entertainment management may not value us, we value one another and the incredible work we can do together. Behind the articles, videos, social posts, playlists, and maps of IGN are human beings, not just numbers on a spreadsheet to be pushed around when some number at the top isn't big enough. Without us, there is no IGN.
August 4, 2025 at 9:20 PM