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Mare Sheppard

@maresheppard.bsky.social

Designer, Artist, 1/2 of Metanet Software Inc www.maresheppard.com / www.metanetsoftware.com She/her

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Cycle Fun Montreal@cyclefunmontreal.bsky.social · 3d ago

Who will be the 1st cyclist to die on a Toronto street where a bike lane was torn out bc Ontario govt's "war on bikes"? Remember: the 2014 death of Mathilde Blais in Montreal spurred the development & implementation of the Montreal's REV gap-free protected-bike-lane-network on major artery streets.

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Knoebel@knoebel.bsky.social · last wk.

N Plus Infinity Times Two is the first party game in the N plus series and it's a fucking banger. Pretty straight forward, you pick up the controller and play some quick rounds.

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Metanet Software Inc.@metanetsoftware.com · 2w ago

Going to Gamescom 2026? Well you're going to want to get yourself to the Indie Hall (Indies of the Americas booth) and be among the first people to try out N PLUS INFINITY TIMES TWO (and check out our beautifully colourful signage)! Tell your friends! :D Danke ;)

A colourful vinyl banner of N+ INFINITY x2 is being printed -- visible are an array of bright, leaping ninjas, and the logos for both Metanet Software and the game.2 posters for N+ INFINITY x2 are bing printed on one large sheet -- the logo of the game is just starting to become visible, as are a few running ninjas with colourful trails.
Miguel Sternberg / Spooky Squid Games@spookysquid.bsky.social · 2w ago

Thanks everyone who attended Engage MTL to play the Russian Subway Dogs & They Bleed Pixels arcade cabinets, and the Goblin Girl Game early demo! Always great seeing folks enjoying the games we created! Also shoutout to Local Streams for a fantastic event and creating the cabinets!

Photo at Engage MTL of people playing the They Bleed Pixels and Russian Subway Dogs bar top arcade cabinets created by Local Stream. Russian Subway Dogs screen is being mirrored on a large flat screen TV mounted above it.The Spooky Squid Games merch table at Engage MTL. Someone is playing Goblin Girl Game on a little demo station.
Metanet Software Inc.@metanetsoftware.com · 2w ago

We'll be doing another preview/playtest of Team Tag -- the cool new 2v2 game mode found only in N PLUS INFINITY TIMES TWO (wishlist it now!) -- tomorrow, Friday Aug 21, at 3pm on Twitch. See you there/then! ;) www.twitch.tv/metanet_soft...

metanet_software - Twitch

Small game developer based in Montreal, QC, Canada. We just announced N PLUS INFINITY TIMES TWO! Wishlist it on Steam now! https://store.steampowered.com/app/3040020/N_PLUS_INFINITY_TIMES_TWO/ You pro...

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Miguel Sternberg / Spooky Squid Games@spookysquid.bsky.social · 3w ago

Engage MTL This Friday in Montreal! I'll be there with arcade cabinets and merch for Russian Subway Dogs (new coin-op version!) and They Bleed Pixels, plus a playable (very early) demo of Goblin Girl Game. Tickets and more info: local-streams.bloomtickets.ca/event/2302?E...

Poster: Local Streams Presents BREAK ISOLATION THROUGH ART [four vertical images] Live Music [image of someone blowing a saxaphone] Short Films [creepy painting of someone holding a perl in one hand and a wad of bills in the other] Indie Arcades [key art of the Clawed Girl from They Bleed Pixels] No Phones [Cartoony illustration of a man with a beard and straw hat looking at a happy little puffy humanoid of some sort] ENGAGE MTL Claire Devlin * Spooky Squid Games * Films from Sundance, The Oscars & More Engage with the most exciting arts from across Canada and each other - phone-free. AUG 21 6pm-10pm $40 MAI (Montréal, arts interculturels) 3680 Rue Jeanne-Mance
Miguel Sternberg / Spooky Squid Games@spookysquid.bsky.social · 3w ago

Something different for #ScreenshotSaturday this week! An illustration created for the brand new Russian Subway Dogs coin-op arcade cabinet! The cabinet is being unveiled Friday (Aug 21) for Engage MTL, at MAI in Montreal! Tickets and info: local-streams.bloomtickets.ca/event/2302?E... #pixelart

Pixel art illustration of an arcade cabinet. The whole Russian Subway Dogs pack hanging around it. The Kittens are bursting from the screen with magical sparkles and pixel glitch. The Subway Dog is resting atop paws over the marquee. The Proletaricat is hiding behind one side from a kitten peering around the corner.
Baldur Bjarnason@baldurbjarnason.com · 3w ago

"AI’s Impact on the Environment Is Absolutely Horrifying, New Paper Finds" > AI companies are the fossil fuel industry's best friends. futurism.com/artificial-i... And yet so many people I know in tech keep finding excuses to justify not only using the tech but even working on the tech itself

AI's Impact on the Environment Is Absolutely Horrifying, New Paper Finds

AI is giving the fossil fuel industry a major leg up, a new paper has found, indicating its carbon footprint extends beyond data centers.

futurism.com

Draknek & Friends@draknek.bsky.social · 3w ago

We're excited to announce that applications are open for the Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant 2026 🎉 The grant will award $15,000 to five thinky puzzle game developers from all over the world, and a year's mentorship with genre veterans. Deadline: September 27th More info 👇

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Mary Gillis@marygillis.bsky.social · 3w ago

At this point, anyone advocating for more fossil fuel infrastructure and extraction is just an evil person. There's no other word for it. It goes beyond greed, beyond ignorance. It's just plain evil. Crops are being cooked IN THE GROUND.

Potatoes ‘boil’ in the ground as record heatwave sweeps across swathes of Asia

South Korean farmers are suffering in record heat, as Hong Kong reports its highest ever temperature and Japan swelters through newly designated ‘cruelly hot’ days

theguardian.com

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 4w ago

In a *stellar* essay entitled "Temperature Zero for Culture: Why Everything Is Starting to Look the Same" by the data scientist Lauren Leek, we get a top-notch example of "putting things together": laurenleek.substack.com/p/temperatur... 11/

Temperature Zero for Culture: Why Everything Is Starting to Look the Same

What 640 London shopping streets, 4,000 Billboard hits, a million films and synthetic AI personas tell us about why everything is flattening into sameness and how to regulate the algorithms behind it.

laurenleek.substack.com

Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · 4w ago

Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users. ALL ROAD USERS. What about painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them. Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org

Separated Bike Lanes Means Safer Streets, Study Says — Streetsblog USA

Cities that build protected lanes for cyclists end up with safer roads for people on bikes and people in cars and on foot, a new study of 12 large metropolises revealed Wednesday.

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Mare Sheppard@maresheppard.bsky.social · 4w ago

I’ve been doing a daily collage lately — each one is made from some words and an image that feel right at that moment, chosen from a specific group of books/magazines (additionally, I’m trying to find a way to use every part of each bk/mag in the process — it’s a fun constraint!). Here are a few:

Collage in a wire-bound sketchbook of two similar photos of tumultuous water against a cloudy sky opposite each other, with 45 degree strips of black paper containing portions of white English and Japanese text overlaid on the photos and surrounding negative space. Bright Fluo red text scattered across the page says: “the lake calls to the sky”A sparse collage featuring a rocky beach and ocean in black and white, the far-off horizon made up of negative space. Within that space are words, angled across the page on red fluorescent paper like a poem in three lines: “lobs bombs / Goes home. Doesn’t respond.”A collage in a sketchbook of three more or less black and white images arranged in a vertical line. Spacewar is in the middle, surrounded by some console screenshots of (unrelated) code. The bright red text meandering across the page reads: “think of fields nearby but fences first”This collage is the most colourful of the four, featuring photos of trees, ground, night sky and lights, different moments in time of the same scene, rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise and overlaid in chunks vertically along the page. Bright text on red fluorescent paper urges: “Without direction in mind, Walk”