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Brodie Robertson 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Today we have the start of our post AVCon indie game developer interviews, this time we have the members of Bad Plan Studios on to talk about there game End of Ember a Binding of Isaac inspired roguelite full of horror refrences but guy who started it knows it needs some work so they're starting from scratch

Video Release: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vi9vBIoKAnc
Audio Release: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tech-over-tea/episodes/Delete-The-Game--Start-From-Scratch--Bad-Plan-Studios-e2mfii1

Laffy 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

💪🏼 #WhiteWomenForKamala
Phang:

They’re raising $20,000 per minute. They’ve already exceeded $1 million dollars!

#whitewomenforkamala

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Toots McGee 🥥🌴 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

My wife's on that call donating now. I'm in another room laughing at this.

Grassroots Joe 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@emmreef

No, they didn't, did they?

What a shit show masquerading as a paper of record.

@GottaLaff

@Laffy @Toots McGee 🥥🌴

Toots McGee 🥥🌴 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@joeinwynnewood @GottaLaff

@Laffy @Grassroots Joe

Kevin Leecaster 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@obviousdwest @paninid @joeinwynnewood @emmreef
The Grey Lady has gone on record as not now being the paper of record.

Somehow, we've got to figure out how to start fixing our fourth estate post-election.

@Toots McGee 🥥🌴 @Coach Pāṇini ® @Grassroots Joe @Darrin West

HandgunYoga (he/him/his) 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

‘It’s good news’: Scientists suspect history about to be made in China

In November last year, despite the post-COVID surge in emissions, China’s massive deployment of wind and solar energy, growth in EVs and an end to a drought that had cut hydroelectricity generation had caused emissions to tumble.

https://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/it-s-good-news-scientists-suspect-history-about-to-be-made-in-china-20240709-p5jsbi.html

‘It’s good news’: Scientists suspect history about to be made in China

Evidence is mounting that some time over the past few months, China’s greenhouse gas emissions peaked. If so, it is likely that a global decline has begun.

^{Nick O'Malley (The Sydney Morning Herald)}

Nazani 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

If China correctly attributes the last month's horrendous flooding to climate change they may move even faster on clean energy. However, the planned dam in the Himalayas is sure to enrage downstream nations.

Laffy 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Via Michael Skolnik

Calling all White Dudes For Harris!

We up next.

RSVP: http://bit.ly/whitedudesforharris

!! come through with your whole crew !!

Ll WHITE DUDEsfnr LET'S DO OUR PART TO HELP ELECT MONDAY, JULY 29 VIRTUAL MEETING: 8PM ET RSVP: bit.ly/whitedudesforharris ALL ARE WELCOME WE ARE HONEST, OPEN, AND READY TO SUPPORT OUR FIRST BLACK WOMAN PRESIDENT. IF THATS YOU, RSVP AND BRING YOUR FRIENDS, FAMILY, & NEIGHBORS.

WHITE DUDES FOR HARRIS CALL SIGN-UP FORM

Thank you for RSVP'ing to the White Dudes for Harris kickoff call! Over 10,000 white men from all across the country are expected to join the effort this week and will be on hand to welcome Vice President Harris to the presidential race and pledge …

^{Google Docs}

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Edgar 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

So glad other white dudes are doing grassroots stuff for Harris. I’m from CA and have watched her for years. She is sharp, funny, and takes no quarter.

We need women like her in governance, across the ballot, local/state/Federal. Thanks for organizing this

StillIRise1963 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

When people cough or sneeze, the way humans do, I can’t help but give them dirty looks and move.🤣

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Pamela :yell: 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

In 1984, I was homeless for two months. I had a job, but I couldn't afford the rent. (I was lucky, though. I wasn't on the street. I was living in a broke down camper at the lake.)

I tried to steal food, and I could not go through with it.

Then, back in the aughts, I saw an old woman stealing Tylenol at Walmart.

It broke my heart. I looked the other way.

@qotca

StillIRise1963 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@pamela6591 We have to make it so this stops happening. @qotca

@Pamela :yell:

LAUREN 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

What if yacht rock is the answer to everything?

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LAUREN 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@GGMcBG @Homoevolutis1 😂 Perfect 👏👏👏

@Hot Dog Water @Chupacabra 78704

LAUREN 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@GGMcBG same same

@Hot Dog Water

RaysOfRed 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Triplets born,
the throne awaits,
a seer warns of a deadly fate
give up your children, separate
bide your time, lie in wait

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Mary Hilton 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

She just can't do her job but she doesn't want to step down at 97 from the federal bench.
There should be a MANDATORY retirement age for ALL federal judges, at 70.
No more lifetime positions. No other job has that perk, does it?
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/pauline-newman-judge-suspension-case-b2586743.html

rstevens 🐳💨✅ 1 year ago (Received 4 months ago) • mastodon (AP)

it all went wrong when we stopped using tables and frames to make websites

Ukraine War Bulletins and News 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

https://youtube.com/watch?v=2nDF_iM5qfE&si=0l1oZv2aHLEr-JSW
⛔️🇨🇳One more chance to change course: Ukraine & China Hold Talks About Stopping Russia’s Invasion (UATV News VIDEO) #Ukraine #Press #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #News #UnitedStates #EuropeanUnion #UnitedKingdom #russiaUkraineWar #10yrInvasionofUkraine
#NoUSRepublicans2024
#Article7 #Article7HungaryNow

Ukraine & China Hold Key Talks: Can They Stop Russia?

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi held over three hours of talks on stopping Russian aggression and Beijing's rol...

^YouTube

#UnitedStates #USA #uk #UnitedKingdom #News #EU #US #EuropeanUnion #Ukraine #NATO #press #russiaukrainewar #article7hungarynow #nousrepublicans2024 #Article7 #10yrinvasionofukraine

Crystal_Fish_Caves 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

24 hr Floor is Lava

#olympicgamesforintroverts
#hashtaggames

#HashtagGames #olympicgamesforintroverts

LAUREN 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Cis Het White Christian Men for Kamala.

Bueller??

Reticent Turnip 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Except I'm not Christian 🤷‍♂️

LAUREN 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

There's a group for you. We'll find a spot 😃

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Reticent Turnip 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

😆

George Liquor, American 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@ReticentTurnip Sames

@Reticent Turnip

Billionaires can bite me 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

The Masturbaters Dead Lift

#OlympicGamesForIntroverts
#HashTagGames

#HashtagGames #olympicgamesforintroverts

clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 4 months ago • friendica (via ActivityPub)

Oh great, we are calling data records management "DRM", as if the other two meanings weren't confusing enough.

This one at least will be used in an entirely separate context, so there's that.

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Kermode 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

DRM applies to more than video - it's all things digital: games, programs, vids, music...
I'm quite sure that these 'compliance people' don't live on another planet! This is done on purpose to 'soften' the actual effect and meaning. These 'compliance people' are the same assholes. Comply! Comply! Stop resisting!
It's purely a legal term and has dick all to do with low level video whose goal is only fidelity to reality, not stifling copying or means of reproduction.
I'm cynical about the status quo and optimistic about revolution 😀 - as you were, 4 years ago.

clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 4 months ago • friendica (via ActivityPub)

@Kermode I discovered yesterday that my 11-year-old doesn't know what DRM and HDCP are, so I assume your average business person outside the entertainment industry doesn't know either. 🤣

@Kermode

Crystal_Fish_Caves 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Nighttime Yarn Bombing

#olympicgamesforintroverts
#hashtaggames

a sprawling tree victim of total yarn bombing

#HashtagGames #olympicgamesforintroverts

Timothy Andrew 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Invisible Parallel Bars

#OlympicGamesForIntroverts
#HashTagGames

#HashtagGames #olympicgamesforintroverts

Michael Coorlim 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Just got laid off. If anyone's looking for a senior writer/showrunner/narrative designer I could really use the work, as this was a contract position and there will be no unemployment.

Games industry, audiodrama, screenwriting, novels, anything with story... I have over ten years of experience and I'm good at what I do. #getfedihired

#getfedihired

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J.Sʜᴀʀᴘ🌍🇺🇦Fʀᴇᴇᴅᴏᴍ&Dᴇᴍᴏᴄʀᴀᴄʏ 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Good luck.

Michael Coorlim 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@JSharp1436 Thanks!

@J.Sʜᴀʀᴘ🌍🇺🇦Fʀᴇᴇᴅᴏᴍ&Dᴇᴍᴏᴄʀᴀᴄʏ

J.Sʜᴀʀᴘ🌍🇺🇦Fʀᴇᴇᴅᴏᴍ&Dᴇᴍᴏᴄʀᴀᴄʏ 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Content warning: Good luck!

@Riley S. Faelan

Tofu Golem 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

#schadenfreude

T-shirt on Amazon with the text "Don't let the old man win"

Review: "I bought this shirt for Joe Biden, but now that he isn't running, it looks like I'm making fun of Trump. I can't wear this in front of my friends now. Amazon won't refund me even though they removed Biden in a coup.
Waste of $16.99!"

One person found this helpful

#schadenfreude

Jamie Teh 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

I normally don't do this, but I did a risky thing and installed iOS 18 public beta on my primary (and only) iPhone. I've only been using it for a few hours, but I have to say I'm quite impressed. Regarding braille screen input, aside from the new features, it just feels a lot snappier and more reliable. I haven't had it lag, fail to handle contracted input correctly, etc. like I saw in prior versions. Everything else feels pretty snappy and solid too. I've filed a couple of VoiceOver bugs, but they're mostly obscure things I can work around or avoid. Time will tell, but so far, this feels like a really solid release. And many of you know I don't give that kind of praise lightly. 😀 #accessibility

#Accessibility

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Alex Hall 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

You're a brave man. I'm glad it's working out. The BSI changes are very neat on my non-essential iPad. I look forward to the full release.

Jamie Teh 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@alexhall Either brave or very, very silly. I may yet live to regret it. Time will tell.

@Alex Hall

James Dean 4 months ago • hometown (AP)

@alexhall I too am running public beta on my only functional phone. SE2022 and it's been going very well. I did make an encrypted back up to my Mac first just in case things really went weird, but I've been so impressed how solid this has been for a beta. I think they are trying to fix the long-standing issue where voiceover jumps around in the app switcher when you first open it, but right now that's really bad and if I'm not quick, I'll switch to the wrong app multiple times. So I guess that's the only real issue I'm having with it.

@Alex Hall

Hai Nguyen Ly✅ 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Does activating Show notifications in the notification center cause a springboard crash for you? It happens consistently for me and I have to train myself not to activate the button unless I want to wait for a reboot each time.

Jamie Teh 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@HNguyenLy I don't have that button at all right now, but I'll try it when it next shows up and let you

@Hai Nguyen Ly✅

David "Dave" Treloar 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Okay I'm curious how do you do braile on a screen that is flat and has no bumps, which is what braile basically is as a language form.

Jamie Teh 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@trelord75 This is braille input (typing), not output (reading). To type braille, you don't need dots. You just position your fingers on either side of the screen as you would on a physical braille keyboard, using up to 6 fingers at once on each hand to enter braille cells.

@David "Dave" Treloar

Jamie Teh 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@trelord75 For those of us that can't see the keyboard on the screen, this can be a massive deal faster, especially because braille has "contractions" which effectively cut down the number of characters you have to type.

@David "Dave" Treloar

David "Dave" Treloar 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Ah that makes sense now, and you would have voice output response to help you along, all the best to you, I still have my sight, for now, but with MS degradation that is not guaranteed.

Edit: but isn't it great that technology allows us to even communicate like this, it's pretty amazing really when you think about it, when I was young I wouldn't have even thought this would be possible.

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Jamie Teh 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@trelord75 It is indeed wonderful. Technology helps level the playing field in so many ways for people with disabilities. That's why it's so important that we get accessibility right - to maximise these benefits - and why I'm so driven where that is concerned. We still have a long way to go, but we've also come a very long way at the same time.

@David "Dave" Treloar

David "Dave" Treloar 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

The Sean guy who responded to you earlier works in telecommunications on accessibly programming so if you have issues, he'll sort you out by the looks of it just fyi, take care.

His profile link okay to make it easy you for to find him:
https://aus.social/@cachondo@defcon.social

Edit: he responded to the double click post.

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Jamie Teh 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@trelord75 I also work in accessibility. 😀 Not for Apple though.

@David "Dave" Treloar

David "Dave" Treloar 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

One more thing since I just read your profile, mozilla, well you can tell them for me, that enlarging the text really helps, my eyesight is fine long distance for now but short I'm hopeless and enlarging the text on webpages is simply awesome, otherwise I'd be constantly wearing glasses, medications or small text instructions on things, all glasses, we all get old eventually, and things get, broken.

Thomas Stivers 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

For me, the Seeing AI app crashes immediately on launch in the beta. I’m not sure if it will be Apple or Microsoft that fix that issue but I hope one of them gets to it soon.

Jamie Teh 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@Thomas_Stivers Thankfully, I can't reproduce that here. Is this with the developer beta or the public beta? Not sure if they're different currently, but I assume the dev beta is ahead slightly.

@Thomas Stivers

Thomas Stivers 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

It’s happening with the public beta. Uninstalling and reinstalling the app had no effect.

Jamie Teh 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@Thomas_Stivers Damn. What phone do you have there? I wonder if it's some weird thing with a sensor my phone doesn't have; the LiDAR or similar. I have an SE, so no LiDAR.

@Thomas Stivers

Metin Seven 🎨 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

#RobRogers #cartoon #climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction #environment #earth #GlobalWarming #GOP #politics #trump

Four-panel cartoon by Rob Rogers (.com). Panel 1: "Record heat," showing scorched earth. Panel 2: "Record storms," showing big tornadoes. Panel 3: "Record floods," showing homes submerged in water. Panel 4: "Record idiocy," showing Trump voters denying climate change.

#Trump #Politics #Climate #cartoon #ClimateChange #GOP #climateaction #climatecrisis #environment #globalwarming #earth #robrogers

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Copernicus EU 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Let us take you for a quick journey starting from the Mer de Glace glacier in Chamonix 🇫🇷, passing the Mont Blanc, moving to 🇮🇹 and jump to the Monte Rosa Massif. The animation ends in the Matterhorn mountain seen from the🇨🇭side above Zermatt.
https://nitter.privacydev.net/search?q=%23Sentinel2
📽️Courtesy of
https://nitter.privacydev.net/i_ameztoy

[2024-07-26 12:08 UTC]

Copernicus EU 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

How can applications of
https://nitter.privacydev.net/search?q=%23Copernicus
https://nitter.privacydev.net/search?q=%23OpenData
support actions to make oceans cleaner, healthier, and more resilient?
Hear the answers in the 2⃣nd webinar of the EU 🇪🇺
https://nitter.privacydev.net/search?q=%23OceanData
series!
🗓️10 October
🕑14:30 CEST
Register at 👇
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[2024-07-26 07:00 UTC]

Europe Says 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

https://www.europesays.com/1363292/ Critics Warn Manchin-Barrasso Permitting Bill ‘Is Taken Straight From Project 2025’ #Climate

Critics Warn Manchin-Barrasso Permitting Bill 'Is Taken Straight From Project 2025' - EUROPE SAYS

Critics Warn Manchin-Barrasso Permitting Bill ‘Is Taken Straight From Project 2025’ https://www.commondreams.org/news/permitting-reform-bill by crustose_lichen

^{EUROPE SAYS (EUROPESAYS.COM)}

#Climate

Copernicus EU 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Kati Thanda–Lake Eyre, is an endorheic lake in the east-central part of the Far North region of South Australia, around 700 km north of Adelaide.
This is a short-wave infrared composite image. We can discern vegetation in green, water in deep blue, dry salt surfaces in turquoise.

[2024-07-26 10:26 UTC]

StillIRise1963 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

JD Vance’s wife has no self-respect.

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Joshua A.C. Newman 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

I think she’d proudly agree.

StillIRise1963 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@JoshuaACNewman Probably.☹️

@Joshua A.C. Newman

Aviva Gary 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

In order to have self respect you have to have agency... 👀

Benno 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Dammit. Was going to get a sausage at Bunnings but it’s the fucking Salvos.

Joel Michael 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

I’m sorry you’ll need to find a new Bunnings

Timothy Andrew 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

🎶🎤 Dancing with myself (ah, oh, oh-oh) 🎶

#OlympicGamesForIntroverts
#HashTagGames

https://youtu.be/cniSxTAbuco?si=_D_hhlYs5lmKEybx

Dancing with Myself (2001 Remaster)

Provided to YouTube by Reservoir Media Management, Inc.Dancing with Myself (2001 Remaster) · Billy Idol · Generation XAnthology℗ 2020 Chrysalis Records Limit...

^YouTube

#HashtagGames #olympicgamesforintroverts

Boots Chantilly 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

R.I.P. Gary Wright ❤️ #JukeboxFridayNight #DreamsAndHopes https://youtu.be/McZYYe0kAtg?si=88pu6yAu9iDazNO8

Dream Weaver

Provided to YouTube by Rhino/Warner RecordsDream Weaver · Gary WrightThe Dream Weaver℗ 1975 Warner Records Inc.Bass: Gary WrightWriter: Gary WrightAuto-gener...

^YouTube

#JukeboxFridayNight #dreamsandhopes

AMonkeyInSilk 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

It’s weird.

People who wear seatbelts, stop at red lights, won’t let their children out unsupervised, etc show antipathy towards those who wear masks to protect themselves.

People are strange.

From: @StillIRise1963
https://mastodon.world/@StillIRise1963/112853504312145077

StillIRise1963

2024-07-26 15:30:17

By wearing a mask, I don’t let COVID control my life. I take control of COVID.

@StillIRise1963

StillIRise1963 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Yep. That’s pretty much the definitive statement on people - they’re strange.😃

Tengrain (🇺🇦) 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

I’m waiting for Cap’n Guyliner's groupies to start in...

“Hey Stan, we got another weirdo on line2 who want to upholster a couch in latex; third one this week!”

Crystal_Fish_Caves 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Bathtub Sudoku

#olympicgamesforintroverts
#hashtaggames

#HashtagGames #olympicgamesforintroverts

Mary Hilton 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

500 Sudoku puzzles in 3 months or less.

#OlympicGamesForIntroverts
#HashTagGames

#HashtagGames #olympicgamesforintroverts

Dave Dawkins (D. Harrigon) 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Dressage (sleepwear as daywear)

#OlympicGamesForIntroverts
#HashTagGames

#HashtagGames #olympicgamesforintroverts

Timothy Andrew 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

1 Person 2000 Yard Relay

#OlympicGamesForIntroverts
#HashTagGames

#HashtagGames #olympicgamesforintroverts

Squidoku (Jordyn) 4 months ago • firefish (AP)

Tonight, I spontaneously poked the Whiprays' community server for +3 in Swim or Sink. As it turns out, there were three Whiprays available - N8te, Eon, and Fish - plus another friend, Nox, who could play once Fish had to leave.

Together, under the banner of Gill O' Teen, we took third place in Mako bracket!

Sets:
Group stage:
0-2 Almond Nuts
0-2 Secret Elixir
2-1 kuuchuu bunkai

Mako bracket:
2-0 Guess What!?
2-0 Storm Drain
3-2 Dead Man's Hand
0-3 Lemon Cider
3-2 Jelly Squids

Cris 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

that's awesome, congrats!

Dan Morgan :ksu: 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

NBC and the Paris organizers have turned the Olympics opening ceremony into the Macy’s Day Parade. Same drivel. Long silences. Lip syching by mostly singers I don’t know. “Hey is that the cast from Rent?” #olympics #Paris2024

#olympics #paris2024

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frater chaos 4 months ago • diaspora

Activist Alejandra Caraballo shared the except from the Times, adding, "JD Vance and his wife were previously close friends with a trans classmate at Yale Law. That all changed in 2021 as he eyed running for senate in Ohio. Vance will throw his friends, family, and loved ones under the bus for political power."

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/7/26/2257879/-J-D-Vance-once-identified-as-gay-which-should-have-given-him-a-sense-of-empathy-and-understanding?pm_campaign=trending&pm_source=sidebar&pm_medium=web

Vance’s grandma once told him being gay ‘would be okay.’ Seems he learned nothing from her

Admin correction: This story and its headline have been edited to better reflect the entirety of Vance’s story about being “convinced” he was gay as a boy, including his grandmother’s full response. Additionally, the name of Vance’s wife, Usha, has..

^{Daily Kos}