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ashe "kaestralblades" website

@gayfarmerwithago.pro

28 • she/it/he • http://kaestralblades.carrd.co vr weirdo • also tv, photography, foss, ui/ux, programming, tech, indie web • anti-genai/anti-nft/anti-crypto • writer w/ @psrdigital.bsky.social‬ • <3 @resonite.com • my last name is website

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Aura/Moom
@moomanibe.bsky.social

uchikoshi pretty literally said this too in that inteview recently and idk yall. if you view your coworkers as obstacles instead of collaborators maybe you're just a bad leader

Mike Cook@mtrc.bsky.social

I appreciate the bar is quite low but this excerpt from an interview with Molyneux about AI is almost too on the nose. Nice anecdote about a colleague he used to respect and enjoy working with, followed by an explanation of how him and everyone like him is now expendable.

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Sinnoware 🔶 232.778
@sinnoware.bsky.social

Dark Messiah: Community Edition is now available for wishlist on Steam. - new game modes (NG+, co-op, trials) - new mechanics (sliding, relics, spells, weapons, transformations) - updated Source engine (Linux, Win64, CSM) - achievements, cloud saves, workshop, controller support

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Supper Mario Broth
@mariobrothblog.bsky.social

The infamous "WET YOURSELF..." Super Mario Sunshine print ad is often posted online without context, leading many to believe it is fake or fan-made. However, it is very much real, appearing on page 130 of issue 119 of the British Nintendo Official Magazine.

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flyingrodent
@flyingrodent.bsky.social

Again, it’s important to understand that the transgender terror did not arise organically from the public. It was imposed from above, by the world’s most hateful and poisonous media class.

Leicester Gazette@leicestergazette.leicester.news

Two University of Leicester students speak out over ‘absurd’ and ‘Orwellian’ decision by the BBC and ITV Studios to edit out pride pins worn on University Challenge

leicester.newsBBC edits out pride pins on University Challenge in ‘Orwellian’ move* * * This story was published by **The Leicester Gazette** : a local, independent newspaper about Leicestershire. 1,000 people have already joined our community. Just use those buttons below to download our app and **sign up for free**. * * * Astrophysics student Samuel Carlier and History student Emmeline Hague-Wright were shocked to find that their LGBTQ+ pride pins had been edited out of their University Challenge appearance earlier this year. The episode, initially scheduled for BBC Two on 24 August, was delayed twice before airing on 7 September 2026. The pins showed the progressive LGBTQ+ pride flag, the bisexual pride flag and a rainbow feather. Speaking to the Leicester Gazette, Sam said: “Living in a liberal democracy and having the state broadcaster tell you ‘we’re editing how you look’, seems very Orwellian.” Sam described the choice to remove the pins before broadcast as “weird” and “absurd”. He said: “[Censoring] that seemed weird. If I had worn a rainbow shirt, would they have censored that? If the idea is to keep things impartial, where is that line in the sand?” A side by-side image of Sam wearing the pin and with it having been digitally removed. Photograph: supplied Sam contacted the BBC to try to understand why his pins had been edited out. He told the Gazette: “The BBC people said they’d ring me, and I chased them, they just said go to the complaints website and file a complaint there, that’s what I did.” Since then, Sam hasn’t had a response from the BBC as to why his pins were removed. After the episode had aired, Sam noted that his shirt ‘melted’ into itself occasionally, as a result of the editing. Photograph: supplied ## Students believe the decision was made following online transphobia Emmeline was also shocked when she found out that the feather pin she wore was due to be removed from the episode she was in. It was understood by Emmeline that there was online transphobia in response to previous episode of University Challenge, and she had been contacted by the BBC, anticipating support from the broadcaster. When the BBC contacted her, instead of an offer of support, she was told her pin was going to be removed. “At first it was mostly confusion,” she said. “I heard that they had received a lot of nastiness online from people and I thought they were going to call me to say ‘we have support services if needed,’ and that wasn't what I got at all.” Instead, Emmeline was notified that the episodes were going to be delayed. “It was out of left field, I was confused for a while,” she said. “This entire delay has been because of a feather and two badges on a teammate that were basically impossible [for viewers] to see.” Emmeline had expressed her frustrations with the repeated delays from the BBC, spanning from mid-July to early-September. She said: “We were announced on the website and then delayed again, and then announced on the website a second time, and delayed even further. Speaking about the removal, she said: “It takes a lot of time” she said. “Making it [the edit] look good would be even more expensive and time-consuming. It seems like drastically a lot of effort.” ## Join the conversation Our app is more than just a way to keep up – it's a gateway to award-winning journalism and the local community. __Want to support our work?__ Click here for membership__.__ ## Wider criticism on LGBTQ+ support The pins Sam wore during the episode. Photograph: supplied According to leading LGBTQ+ charity Stonewall UK, two in five LGBTQ+ students will hide their identities at university for fear of discrimination. Stonewall has reported that more than 36 per cent of trans students have received hostile conduct from university staff due to their gender identity. Reflecting on the digital removal of the pins, Sam spoke about how disheartening the choice was. He said: “There was maybe like a span of eight years where someone could be uncontroversially out in the open queer – now that’s gone again.” he said. The BBC has also been widely criticised for ‘an attack on the LGBTQ+ community’ by pulling its involvement with the popular show, RuPaul's Drag Race. The broadcaster pulled its involvement in September following “significant financial pressures” as the reason for axing their involvement. The criticism follows another recent controversial edit by the BBC. On its hit show, Strictly Come Dancing, a decision was made to edit out ‘Protect the Dolls’ from contestant Bethany Antonia’s T-shirt. It’s a slogan which has become widely used to support the rights of trans women. The BBC defended their decision, saying the changes were made to meet editorial guidelines. It comes as the LGBTQ+ community has faced challenges amid an increasingly less tolerant political climate. ## What the BBC had to say When we asked them about editing out the pins worn by Leicester’s University Challenge team, a BBC spokesperson said: “In line with our editorial guidelines, we advise that no badges, flags, and emblems or symbols are worn or visible during filming, along with clothing with obvious branding or slogans. If such items are not removed for any reason then a decision is made between the programme makers and the BBC regarding any edits to the programme.” The BBC said the delays to the episode were unrelated to the decision to edit out the pins. A spokesperson for ITV Studios said: “University Challenge is an entertainment quiz show and is made in accordance with the BBC Editorial Guidelines requirements for impartiality.” The University of Leicester refused to comment on the matter. * * * **Before you go…** We’ve recently surpassed 1,000 subscribers, which is amazing considering we’re a small team on a shoestring budget. Now, we’re ready for the next stage of the Leicester Gazette. **Download our new app and get all of our journalism anytime, anywhere.** The app connects with **Bluesky** , **Mastodon** and **Threads** , giving you access to a network of around 60 million people. It’s a safer, more meaningful alternative to mainstream social media – owned by the community. * * *

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Mike Bithell
@mikebithell.bsky.social

‘Customers should be less informed about the products they buy’ is such a wild stance to take

Kim Hu@kim-hu.com

I can't believe he's still at it, it's been days

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Godot Engine
@godotengine.org

#GodotEngine will support spatial containers in the upcoming 4.8 release and we are excited to see how developers use these new engine's capabilities. Spatial Containers bring new capabilities to XR applications to work in shared spatial environments. Read more: www.khronos.org/blog/openxr-...

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Nathan Grayson
@nathangrayson.bsky.social

with sloppy (but convincing enough) AI vibeclones on the rise, developers now face a future in which a steady stream of pre-release videos, demos, and playtests—the only reliable way to promote and build community—could be their game’s undoing

Aftermath@aftermath.site

Game developers fear that thieving AI vibecoders will make free game demos a thing of the past aftermath.site/steam-next-fes...

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KetAnthropic JoshAI
@ketanjoshi.co

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

ashe "kaestralblades" website
@gayfarmerwithago.pro

AI peddlers love to be like "I personally verify everything that comes out and you just need to review your code better" and you look at screenshots of their web service and it looks like one of those food horror posters threw up on a stylesheet

ashe "kaestralblades" website
@gayfarmerwithago.pro

i just saw you can see everything. incredibly good movie and had a great time, however can't help but feel a lot of the excitement is due to a formal/structural experimentation that is new culturally to documentaries but i'm already familiar w/ from narrative games + visual novels

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jenny tightpants
@jtp.bsky.social

"the gays gained rights by voting for the homophobic democrats." no the democrats gained the votes of gay people when they started offering policy concessions, however slow and incremental. this also goes in reverse. offer incremental concessions to the right on trans issues and lose our support

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alizard🦎
@alizard.gay

Resonite (and Neos) is an incredibly important part of my life that I've put so much into, even if I play less nowadays than I did during covid and early college years, it is something truly special to me and the first time I felt like I was apart of a larger community

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alizard🦎
@alizard.gay

Replying to @alizard.gay

There is nothing else that fills the niche of Resonite, I honestly can't imagine not having this method of sandbox VR communication with high level editing tools

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Invertex
@invertex.xyz

PSA: The latest NVIDIA App update adds a Default-ON option that allows AI Agents to control the app... Might want to turn it off.. Even aside from being lame AI features, that feels like making security even worse by defaulting it ON.

ashe "kaestralblades" website
@gayfarmerwithago.pro

i really hate that the two options for music & book support in seerr are the official project that has been fighting its bravest fight for years to thwart and vanquish the mischievous MRs that want to add support, or a completely vibecoded mess of a fork that is an absolute eyesore

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Matt Royer 🤘🏼
@mattroyer.bsky.social

We need to bring shame for being this insanely indoctrinated and genuinely stupid back into society. Kari Lake is insinuating that Talarico was missing because he was recovering from bottom surgery because AI told her.

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Dippy
@dippyfoxderg.bsky.social

#Jackbox + #Resonite = Dippy's Jackbox Games! I'm sporadically announcing that I'll be hosting jackbox party games in Resonite, with the first of many events taking place on October 15th at 10pm UK time (5pm Eastern, 2pm Pacific)

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JackTheFoxOtter
@jackthefoxotter.bsky.social

It's bothering me that a lot of pro-AI voices in the discussion surrounding Resonite adding mandatory tagging for AI generated content don't want to realize that mandatory tagging is ALREADY the middle ground solution between allowing AI and banning AI. And still, it's seemingly too much for them.

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🦜 Decoy
@decoy.fluffy.social.ap.brid.gy

i play resonite because it's exactly what i want i know it doesn't have 10k users (yet) i know it's janky i know there are some pieces missing i know it's super early alpha i know it doesn't have millions in funding i play resonite because it's what i want

qualia@qualia.floofy.tech.ap.brid.gy

everyone's got some shit they can't stand abt it. ik is gnarly. no hard permissions so you have to admit to the realities of potential piracy. you can't fuckin uhh. custom shaders. there are 3,922 tickets on the git hub and they are all valid and everyone knows them ok. Look At What We Have Still

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qualia
@qualia.floofy.tech.ap.brid.gy

Replying to @qualia.floofy.tech.ap.brid.gy

everyone's got some shit they can't stand abt it. ik is gnarly. no hard permissions so you have to admit to the realities of potential piracy. you can't fuckin uhh. custom shaders. there are 3,922 tickets on the git hub and they are all valid and everyone knows them ok. Look At What We Have Still

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qualia
@qualia.floofy.tech.ap.brid.gy

Replying to @qualia.floofy.tech.ap.brid.gy

i hope if absolutely nothing else it continues to be a goalpost of inspiration for whatever comes next bc for the last three years it has continued to be The Thing That Justifies VR As A Creative Medium for me and many others & damn am i tired of the noisy haters & banned creeps being noisy fucks

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qualia
@qualia.floofy.tech.ap.brid.gy

Replying to @qualia.floofy.tech.ap.brid.gy

there's tons of loud angry voices out there because they keep holding it against a humongous consumptive platform 1000x its size with millions more in funding & now a bunch of ppl are flipping out bc they spent a ton of money slopsmithing into it and now don't want to admit to such

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qualia
@qualia.floofy.tech.ap.brid.gy

resonite is hands-down the coolest shit that's ever happened to computers as an artistic medium & i'm tired of pretending it isn't every complaint about it boils down to "some messy fallible geniuses plus a passionate weirdo community are tryna make the computer future we've all been waiting for"

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Makkon
@makkon.bsky.social

I'm immensely proud to announce that my texture library that's been in the making for nearly a decade is now available on my itchio store for indie devs to purchase commercial licenses. makkon.itch.io