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Breaks my heart to share this, but today is my last day at The Verge and I am looking for work! I'd really like to stay in video games, preferably in some kind of journalistic capacity but I can do PR/Marketing and maybe even a lil Narrative Design. Please get in touch! www.ashparrish.com

“Fuck ICE!” chants & a brass band performing “Which side are you on?” as hundreds march in Manhattan, NYC against ICE and in solidarity with Minneapolis.

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

Might as well post here. Times are hard so I'm letting go of a few of my more precious collectibles. I'm selling my Mass Effect Garrus statue, my PlayStation Journey statue, and my beloved Destiny Launch 3A Mara Sov statue. Any help spreading the word is greatly appreciated.❤️ Links below. 1/2

Instead of doing a consumerism on "Black" Friday, consider supporting small businesses, dropping a few coins in someone's ko-fi or go fund me, sign up for their patreon instead. Life is expensive, things are hard. Drop coins to humans, not AI, or big corporations today. QRP with your links!

ARTISTS! I need your help! In collab. w/the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, I'm organizing a group of artists to come to our Jan. meeting! We're looking for artists to create based on what they learn at the conference. $1000 stipend. Application is V short! forms.gle/ah1i8KwNJinZ...

1/4 Garrus statue by Gaming Heads ebay.us/m/iHgZlS PlayStation Journey statue ebay.us/m/7qKTvT Destiny Launch 3A Mara Sov statue ebay.us/m/P8LcM7

Might as well post here. Times are hard so I'm letting go of a few of my more precious collectibles. I'm selling my Mass Effect Garrus statue, my PlayStation Journey statue, and my beloved Destiny Launch 3A Mara Sov statue. Any help spreading the word is greatly appreciated.❤️ Links below. 1/2

In 48 hours, me and the rest of the Cascadian Gamers will be playing games for 25 hours straight to help raise money to help kids through @extralife4kids.bsky.social. Every $10 donated through me or any of the Cascadian Gamers gets you a chance to win an amazing prize! bit.ly/CGELGlenn25

Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.

Help me help kids by donating to ensure that they get the medical care they need! New incentive raffle! $10 gets you a chance to win a Destiny Holiday Pack, filled with Destiny themed baking stuff, some gacha emblem packs, and a glass ornament! Only 50 tickets available! DONATE: bit.ly/CGELGlenn25

California will start producing and selling its own supply of low-cost insulin in January. The suggested price for consumers will be no more than $55 for a pack of five pens. Currently even generic insulin typically costs about $260 for a pack of five. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

This is why they’re deleting studies

I don't have the proper words to say more than this now but I was just laid off. My role at Giant Squid is being eliminated. If your studio is looking for an environment artist, please let me know ASAP. I have 5+ years of experience. thank you

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

The most disheartening thing about America’s descent into fascism has been the abject cowardice of virtually all the people and institutions that could have stood up and refused to comply.

Alan Cumming on bathroom bills: "Why on earth would a rapist go through the bother of pretending to be trans in a country that treats rapists better than trans people."

A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency. "Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die" Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:

embarrassing myself

18,000. That's the low and conservative estimate for the amount of children Israel has violently massacred in the past 600 days. That's a kindergarten class of 30 every single day. Speaking of, Israel literally bombed a kindergarten yesterday. I'm not sharing the video, but it is horrifying.

I heard so many stories like this when researching my piece on engineers and scientists leaving the U.S. or planning to. It was really astonishing, some of their tales

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Here’s the bottom line for what’s going on with Grok - if the owner of the website is putting his thumb on the scale hard enough for the chatbot to turn into Goebbels, you should be deeply concerned about what he’s doing to the algorithm that you can’t so easily see, and what it’s doing to you

Imagine being part of a floundering political establishment at historic lows in favorability, seeing this guy's absolutely infectuous energy, and deciding to try to stop it through an array of embarrassing media appearances and editorial blunders.

In order to comply with the WARN Act, people are still "employed" for 60 days, that's the window of time for unions to bargain to save jobs Also, for the love of god, journos, don't start posting in 2 months "more layoffs this week!" They already happened. You are hurting, not helping

Shut the ✨fuck✨ up.

This story from @nirhasson.bsky.social demonstrates not only the scale of the carnage (at least 4% of Gaza's population) but the truly unprecedented targeting of civilians. Women and children account for 56% of those killed - more than twice their share in Sudan, Syria and Iraq. archive.ph/tfOaG

Back in Okinawa for a couple days. Always feels surreal to be back here.

Found something pretty amazing at a second-hand store in Sapporo today. Twin Peaks Box Set on VHS. All except one are still sealed. Never been opened. Released in 1992(?) #TwinPeaks

Hey artists! My WebGlaze invites have been restored, I've caught up on my backlog and now I've got roughly 13 more invites I can give out until next Wednesday Reply here if you'd like one!

If you take one thing away from today, let it be that we outnumber them.

It would be great if America’s pundits would pause this entire genre. “Burning down my house means I don’t need to take out the trash!” Your cleverness is not winning the day right now.

Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

Imagine spending your whole life cos-playing and fantasizing about fighting the federal government sending troops in against its own citizens only to root for the government when the moment finally arrives

I was a medic at the Santa Ana protests in OC today. I watched police fire tear gas, flash bangs, & rubber bullets into crowds of men, women, & children. Other medics and I were clearly marked with red crosses, and the police were targeting us. One of the most fucked up things I’ve ever seen.

Devolver is supporting Pride Month with new 'Y'all Means All' merch available now! 100% of the proceeds from these products will go to Trans Lifeline. Buy: t.co/0nGhVHKV6t Support: t.co/mFkRwZCYA7

💙 COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT 💙 With over $250k raised for the Bungie Foundation and an unmatched passion for emblems, Destiny @emblemcollector.bsky.social is an incredible resource for the D2 community and the epitome of a LightKeeper ✨ Check out the full Q&A: bungiefoundation.org/article/comm...

Your bill is going to cut coverage for 11 million Americans and it’ll still cost more than universal healthcare. Healthcare is a human right, you absolute ghouls.

Abducting people at work sites - meaning they have jobs. Capturing them at court dates - meaning they're following the law. Blocking them from accessible higher education - meaning they're striving for more. And peddling lies about jobless, lawless, driftless.

Ugh, he just gets better. 😩

A former “friend” told me he cared for me & wanted me to have everything I needed… but that it was time I realize I’m a net negative in society. He referenced my “free surgeries”, countless ER trips & how the system was artificially extending my life. 🧵

On Sunday, my friend, Jonathan Joss was murdered and it took me a minute to find the words... Like so many of our lives, Jonathan's existed at the powerful intersections of Indigeneity, queerness, visibility, and vulnerability. He was fierce, funny, flawed, and real in every way that mattered.

Happy Pride. Don't stop fighting.

This no-kill animal shelter is in desperate need of kitten food, kitten milk replacement, and other supplies. If you post a screenshot in my replies showing that you donated at least $10 (even as a Chewy gift card), I'll answer a style-related question for you. Donation info in their thread.

with aapi month coming to a close, i wanna shout out my fellow hāfu and plug Hindsight, which was heavily influenced by my mixed heritage 🔑 She’s also 50% off right now! store.steampowered.com/app/1122700/...

I'm taking my son with me to Tokyo for the @kojipro2015.bsky.social Death Stranding 2 Launch Tour. Even if we can't attend the panels, it's going to be really exciting to attend the event and give him an experience like this.

This guy stole $10 million from the employees of his nursing home to buy himself a luxury yacht and Cartier watches. He PLED GUILTY. And because his Mom gave Trump $1 million, he just got a pardon. And this story barely makes the news today. WTF. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...