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Michael

@michaelklamerus.bsky.social

Makes tiny games. Currently in grad school to be a librarian. Helps organize local game dev stuff near Detroit. they/them https://michael-klamerus.itch.io/ https://virtualmoose.org/

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Michael@michaelklamerus.bsky.social · 7h ago

Playing my second open world adventure game for 2 or more players with proximity voice chat, Big Walk, after playing Myst Online: "getting a lot of Myst Online vibes from this"

Free Speech Coalition@fsc.bsky.social · 8h ago

SCREEN Act, which would have required mandatory age-verification for sites (like this) that allow "material harmful to minors" failed to pass out of committee after thousands and thousands of people called their Senators. More work ahead!

Alison Boden@alisonboden.bsky.social · 9h ago

The SCREEN Act just failed to pass in the Senate Commerce Committee! 🎉 Enormous thanks to the thousands (!!) of you who told your Senators to vote no! Your voice matters and you should feel good that you made a difference. Obviously, the fight isn't over, but this was an important victory.

Michael@michaelklamerus.bsky.social · 8h ago

LRT: GOOD CHARLOTTE were the ones that owned Brooklyn Vegan and other music sites?! I already thought the early 00s were the worst era of music and they keep finding new ways to be absolute dogshit even when no one is listening to them

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 12h ago

In other Michigan news, the state looks set to elect it's first transgender lawmaker. Joanna Whaley won her Democratic primary and will compete in November for a state house seat, beating a primary opponent who tried and failed to disqualify her for not running under her deadname

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Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · 17h ago

Abdul El-Sayed has won, NBC News says. And there are other wins for the left in Michigan: —William Lawrence wins his U.S. House primary. —A DSA-backed candidate is leading a Democratic incumbent for state House. —Abbas Alawieh, co-founder of Uncommitted, leads for state Senate.

CNN@cnn.com · 20h ago

Sunrise Movement co-founder William Lawrence will win the Democratic primary in Michigan's battleground 7th Congressional District, CNN's Decision Desk projects, in the latest victory for the party's rising progressive wing. Follow live updates: https://cnn.it/3TCons8

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C. Robert Cargill@crobertcargill.bsky.social · 21h ago

Noise. Pollution. The Ozone Layer. Acid Rain. AIDS treatment. Cancer cures. Crime rates. Child abductions. As much as we consume doom and gloom in our media, humans are very, very good at solving problems when we want to. We just have to want to.

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 22h ago

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

dorian @doriantaylor.com air travel is one of those experiences that has gotten monotonically worse over my entire lifetime question though: has *anything* in the last 40+ years genuinely gotten *better*? like, there's *more* stuff, sure, but is any of it *better*? 2:58 PM Aug 4, 2026
victoria rose, serious cattegirl@riningear.bsky.social · yesterday

omg hiii, ok so I wrote a whole piece last year about the silly "bestiecore" name I offhandedly came up with around then and how, in contrast to AAA multiplayer titles, these indie games actually provide a really good map for what makes a good multiplayer title!! tl;dr these are NOT slop!!!

Smaller 'Friendslop' Games With Friends Highlight What Big Live Service Games Get Wrong | MMORPG.com

Live service games are losing the plot, and Victoria is here to tell you why.

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Matt Caulder (They/He)@mattcaulder.com · yesterday

Can Big Walk be the game where we stop calling them "friendslop"? It's feels incredibly embarrassing that professional writers are using this term, such a dismissive attitude

Richard Moss@mossrc.bsky.social · yesterday

A couple of chaps in Sydney (one of whom worked on Good Game and Spawn Point) are trying to get a documentary series off the ground about Aussie games history, told by the people who were there, and they need your support. You can back the project on Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/reg...

Region Locked: A Documentary Series on Aussie Video Games

Far from Silicon Valley, the Australian video game industry was forged by risk-takers, innovators and visionaries. This is their story.

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Region Locked - Documentary@regionlocked-doco.bsky.social · 6d ago

Thanks to everyone who pledged to Region Locked today! We are doing this to have the Australian gaming community involved in the project and cannot wait to create it for you! We still have a long way to go - so please pledge, follow and share! www.kickstarter.com/projects/reg...

Ryan H.@ryan.blacksky.app · 5d ago

I'm proud to share that Reclaiming The Wild, my first solo gallery exhibition, will be opening at the African American Cultural Historical Museum of Washtenaw County @aachm21 8/29! The exhibit will feature some of my favorite encounters with the incredible diversity of wildlife & nature here 🪶📸

Reclaiming the Wild: A solo gallery exhibition of nature and wildlife phtoography by artist, activist and organizer Ryan Henyard. Opening 08.29.26; members-only reception 5-6pm, public reception 6-8pm. 3261 Lohr Road, Ann Arbor MI at the African American Cultural & Historical Museum of Washtenaw County
xot@xot.bsky.social · 5d ago

Rebecca Heineman's source code disks for Apple II, Apple IIGS, and C64 versions of "Tass Times in Tonetown" were recently imaged at KansasFest 2026 and are now archived. Burger Becky was an incredible and beloved engineer and raconteur who we sadly lost last year. archive.org/details/tass...

Title screen of the Apple IIGS version of "Tass Times in Tonetown". A white dog dives out of the smashed computer monitor. He wears red-rimmed glasses and a brown felt hat with press credentials tucked into the blue hat band. The title appears at the top, and text below reads: "Designed by Interplay Productions and Brainwave Creations, copyright 1986 Activision, Inc.
Ephemeral Enigmas@ephemeralenigmas.bsky.social · yesterday

New blog post time! This week's game is Knife Edge: Nose Gunner, an often overlooked N64 rail shooter that looks bland at first glance, but is actually very distinct within the console's library. It's atmospherically compelling, mechanically competent, and it even has 4-player co-op! #blog #gaming

Knife Edge: Nose Gunner

Knife Edge: Nose Gunner is exactly the kind of game I love to cover on this blog. You can tell because it’s one of the longest posts I’ve made in quite some time! It’s been sitting here all t…

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Iain Mew@superchartisland.com · 3d ago

After Richard Paul Jones proved too capitalist for Jeff Minter, his Interceptor Micros became an early British games success story. In 1987, its success continued thanks to Colin Swinbourne's smart way with building on Spectrum classics. New post on Joe Blade: www.superchartisland.com/joe-blade

Joe Blade – “Prime the explosives”

The increasing success of Code Masters in 1987 prompted rounds of coverage of the Darling brothers as young business whizz-kids. They were far from the first such story. The next new game at #1 aft…

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