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David
@hamlabum.bsky.social
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Games, Music, Zeugs.
Writer, organizer, editor by day, occasional dabbler also by day. I don't do night shifts.
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beetlemoses.bsky.social
A New Color (1/5🧵)
Page 1: A man is walking home, smoking a cigarette, being quietly trailed by a UFO above him. As he enters his apartment, two aliens watch from inside the ship. Alien 1, who has a large head, says, “that’s him. Let’s move.” Page 2: The man walks upstairs as the aliens watch from the entrance of the building. The man enters his apartment and greets his little dog. Suddenly there is a knock at the door. Page 3: he peers through his peephole, and sees the two aliens standing in the hallway. Alien 1 is holding a briefcase. From behind him, the voice of alien one: “don’t scream.” Page 4: The aliens are seated across the room on the man’s couch. Sadie is in her bed next to them. Alien 1 says, “you’re not in any danger. Have a seat.” The man looks at his dog and thinks, “sadie is unusually calm.” Alien 1: don’t scream, or it’s a problem.
August 24, 2026 at 11:16 PM
hamlabum.bsky.social
Turns out I picked an excellent time to re-read "Ra" by @qntm.org
quantamagazine.org Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org · Jun 3
Recently, multiple teams of physicists identified how a quantum property known as “magic” makes space-time’s fabric bendy. Charles Cao, one of the researchers, calls it “the fabric softener of space.”
Entanglement Builds Space-Time. Now “Magic” Gives It Gravity. | Quanta Magazine
In holographic theories, physicists may have traced the pliability of space-time to its quantum roots: a measure of quantumness known as “magic.”
www.quantamagazine.org
June 3, 2026 at 3:05 PM
hamlabum.bsky.social
They asked me if I was interested in joining the jeans store robbery but I told them I wanted no pants of it.
May 17, 2026 at 4:10 PM
hamlabum.bsky.social
Soundpark
Linkin Estate
delaneyking.bsky.social Delaney King (She/Her/Whomst) @delaneyking.bsky.social · May 11
Slightly increase a band

Men2OlderMen
danwhitehead.net Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · May 11
Slightly increase a band

Confident Mouse
May 11, 2026 at 9:50 AM
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hamlabum.bsky.social
Meme- Bild. Zwei muskuläre Arme ragen von links und rechts ins Bild. Die Hände umschränken sich in der Mitte. Beschriftung Arm links: Eltern von Anderthalbjährigen. Beschriftung Arm rechts: Kunstkritik im frühen 20. Jahrhundert. Beschriftung Mitte: "Ich weiß nicht, was Dada ist."
May 3, 2026 at 7:52 PM
hamlabum.bsky.social
Meme- Bild. Zwei muskuläre Arme ragen von links und rechts ins Bild. Die Hände umschränken sich in der Mitte. Beschriftung Arm links: Eltern von Anderthalbjährigen. Beschriftung Arm rechts: Kunstkritik im frühen 20. Jahrhundert. Beschriftung Mitte: "Ich weiß nicht, was Dada ist."
May 3, 2026 at 7:52 PM
hamlabum.bsky.social
Es ist nur Pürree, wenn es aus den geschützten Anbaugebieten in den Pürreenäen stammt. Ansonsten ist es nur fancy Stampf.
April 22, 2026 at 4:21 PM
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theabigailthorn.bsky.social
Treble Clef: here are the notes I hope you like them ☺️

Bass Clef: I moved all your stuff, good luck finding anything, Ds are Fs now fuck you
April 11, 2026 at 2:15 PM
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haarbizarre.eurosky.social
Here we go again
Moe throws Barney Meme das verändert wurde. Mo der Barney aus der Kneipe schmeißt hat jetzt den Kopf von Römer Longinus und Barney einen Jesuskopf. Als Jesus wieder hinter Barney in der Kneipe auftaucht hat er Wackelaugen aufs Gesicht montiert (im ersten Bild von ihm sind die Augen geschlossen, es ist von ner Kreuzigungsszene)
April 19, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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jank.cool
What are you running for?

www.jank.cool/what-are-you...
What are you running for?
One cannot survive on The Aesthetic alone
www.jank.cool
March 23, 2026 at 9:24 AM
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sameervasta.bsky.social
This is the best product review I’ve read: samhenri.gold/blog/2026031...

It doesn’t matter if you’re interested in the MacBook Neo or not; this is the kind of essay that makes you think about the potential of technology and the joys of exploration.
“This Is Not The Computer For You” · Sam Henri Gold
Sam Henri Gold is a product design engineer building playful, useful software.
samhenri.gold
March 13, 2026 at 12:16 AM
hamlabum.bsky.social
The text that appears in souls games when you killed a boss, but it says "patterns matched".
March 8, 2026 at 9:49 AM
hamlabum.bsky.social
In honour of the winter Olympics, here's my most unique video game take: MOBAs are, at their very core, curling games where you play as the broom.
February 7, 2026 at 2:09 PM
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pentadact.com
I've been running an indie games studio for 15 years now, and it felt like a good time to boil down what I've learned into 4 pieces of advice:

www.pentadact.com/2026-01-08-1...

I hope it's of use, not least because goddamn I forgot how long blog posts take to write.
A timeline visually representing the advice from my post, emphasising how dramatically and reliably having more time, with a testable build, converts to your game being better and your studio being safer.
January 8, 2026 at 6:02 PM
hamlabum.bsky.social
These guys. Hoods and cowls plus lightning works every time. Formative in that I never learned to draw faces properly. Why bother?
Magic the gathering card Raven guild Master. A wizard with a Body made of water and a Black torn Cowl casting a lightning spell Magic the gathering card arcanis the omnipotent. A hooded wizard in a Cape casting a lightning spell
November 26, 2025 at 7:25 AM
hamlabum.bsky.social
RIP Sir Terry Pratchett, you would have done great things with the concept of "Fighting The Machine with Handwritten Attack Poetry"
www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...
Poets are now cybersecurity threats: Researchers used 'adversarial poetry' to trick AI into ignoring its safety guard rails and it worked 62% of the time
Hacking the planet with florid verse.
www.pcgamer.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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nickkapur.bsky.social
Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back!

Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.

Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!

#MundaneHalloween
November 2, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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ladidalisa.bsky.social
Heute bei der Zwiebel: Gelegenheiten für Citizen Science in der Dialektforschung! 🧅
ditsvibl.bsky.social [ditsvibl] @ditsvibl.bsky.social · Oct 28
Redet ihr gerne darüber, wie ihr redet? Habt ihr Spaß daran, alte Handschriften zu entziffern? Fallen euch manchmal Schilder im Dialekt auf? 🤓
Dann könnt ihr in der neuen Zwiebel lesen, wie ihr damit der Dialektforschung weiterhelfen könnt!
derzwiebel.wordpress.com/2025/10/28/c...
Citizen Science – Wie ihr online dabei helfen könnt, Dialekte zu erforschen
Wie nennt ihr eigentlich den Kern vom Apfel? Heißt es bei euch die Cola oder das Cola? Sagt ihr Ich bin gesessen oder Ich habe gesessen? Was sagt man, wenn es an Neujahr Mitternacht schlägt? Und be…
derzwiebel.wordpress.com
October 28, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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hamlabum.bsky.social
Low effort Silksong post
One white lego Duplo brick, two red bricks and one black brick form a rough version of hornet from hollow knight silksong
September 16, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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hamlabum.bsky.social
Lob des Handwerks (Filzstift auf Kachel, ca. 2025)
Fliesenwand in einer Ubahn-haltestelle. Neben restaurierten alten Fliesen steht als Erkärtext: "Diese farbigen Originalfliesen von 1912 wurden sorgfältig ausgebaut, gereinigt und bei 1060 Grad gebrannt." Darunter steht mit Edding "Ja toll".
October 24, 2025 at 2:00 PM
hamlabum.bsky.social
Lob des Handwerks (Filzstift auf Kachel, ca. 2025)
Fliesenwand in einer Ubahn-haltestelle. Neben restaurierten alten Fliesen steht als Erkärtext: "Diese farbigen Originalfliesen von 1912 wurden sorgfältig ausgebaut, gereinigt und bei 1060 Grad gebrannt." Darunter steht mit Edding "Ja toll".
October 24, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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eckdoktor.bsky.social
wenn Stan endlich sein scheiß Baum bekommt
August 14, 2023 at 10:15 AM
hamlabum.bsky.social
Low effort Silksong post
One white lego Duplo brick, two red bricks and one black brick form a rough version of hornet from hollow knight silksong
September 16, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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arvy.bsky.social
I love this analytical take on video game categorization from Antoine Mayerowitz and Julie Belzanne:

hushcrasher.substack.com/p/taxonomy-o...

Instead of trying to vibe-intuit the definition of an "indie" game, the authors analyzed the data from the perspective of game size and credits length
A graph titled Scope of video games according to Hushcrasher Classification System. The Y axis shows Game Size (from 10 MB to 100GB), the X axis shows Credits count (sourced from Mobygames). The clustered dots on the graph represent 4 distinct scale categories of games - Kei, Midi, AA, AAA. The larger correlation between the size and the credits means larger category of a game.
September 14, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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debuff.de
Wir sind zurück! Aber nicht so, wie ihr denkt. Alle Infos: www.superlevel.de/superlevel-r...
Aus Superlevel wird Debuff
Wir sind zurück – und bedanken uns zuerst bei euch für euer Vertrauen. Denn viele von euch haben Superlevel auch während der Pause unterstützt. Nun aber Butter bei die Fische: Was kommt? Superlevel...
www.superlevel.de
July 16, 2025 at 11:06 AM