why did they put mr beast in survivor. return to sender please

recovering from PRP and i ended up reading all manga volumes of witch hat atelier and frieren. they've been a wonderful form of escapism while healing - what else do people love? i also have loved spy x family, dungeon meshi, and hunter x hunter

I wrote about how Titanium Court abstracts communication and starts conversations about what we give power, paired with some funny anecdotes and insightful takes from my interview w/ @apthomson.bsky.social. Game rules hard. Give it a read, maybe share if you like it! exalclaw.com/titanium-cou...

it felt trivial at times to be writing about video games at rikers, which is so notoriously dangerous for incarcerated people. still, play and, specifically, video games are a meaningful piece of the lives of the ~12 young men i met and played with at rikers. read: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/a...

I wrote about the “vagina doors” in Metroid Prime 4 - and what they say about Samus’ relationship to the planet. v grateful to be at Mothership!

absolutely incredible example of AI making up problems to solve that aren’t real problems nobody needs “inspiration” on how they like their coffee??????? are you serious????? I’m asking ChatGPT to tell me what tastes good??? “computer, what do I want for breakfast?” this is dystopian actually

New: 150 unionized ProPublica workers are on strike TODAY over AI, layoff protections, wages, and more. They're asking readers to not visit ProPublica or engage with content on other platforms. It's the first work stoppage of its kind at the newsroom. www.theverge.com/news/908401/...

this fucking rules www.weareravenous.com/coming-soon/

Today, my fellow founding worker-owners and I are launching a subscription drive to @feedravenous.bsky.social. We are a group of experienced and award-winning food journalists here to publish thoughtful writing and incisive reporting from around the food world. www.weareravenous.com

yuuuuup

Happy World Autism Day. Being the parent of an autistic kid rocks in ways you can’t imagine unless you live it. My son woke me up this morning and explained the order of Hollywood studio acquisitions between Columbia, Tristar, and Sony Pictures — while eating ube ice cream. It was 5am.

Hey, I wrote a thing about AI in astrophysics ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...

this makes me so angry - in what world is any of this appropriate or justifiable? and even with "disclaimers" everything else about the piece looks like a typical interview. it's the equivalent of using ad space to publish misinformation, or the tiny disclaimer or side effect print in pharma ads

the handbasket continues to be one of my favorite sources of independent journalism

every april fools day, man

i don't know what a cozy game is anymore and i don't think you do either www.rogue.site/editorials/g...

Newsletter bundle alert—me, @marisakabas.bsky.social, and @katelynburns.com are offering a 1-month trial for 50% off our usual subscription prices! It's a one-time payment, no strings attached. With so many newsletters out there, we wanted to try something new! trustfnd.com/kattenbarge/...

i wrote about my rainbow pencil and getting back into art

this is completely insane: since when is it acceptable for a tech company to rewrite news outlets' headlines without their consent? especially at a time when audiences are sensitive to how stories are framed in headlines? (ie Israel/Palestine, the Trump admin, ICE) www.theverge.com/tech/896490/...

these super low profile thumb braces are the reason i can play video games again and i did a lot of searching to find them. no provider recommended them to me for video games! none of them really knew what to do about gaming. i don't want to gatekeep! www.mothership.blog/a-thumb-brac...

there are many "non-traditional" chronic illness/disability tools i've thought about writing about an ex: my bad thumbs have made cooking difficult. it took me a year to realize the best "adaptive tool" was a toaster oven. just like a full size oven but smaller, faster cook times, lighter trays

after Charlie Kirk died pundits like Ezra Klein praised his "hard conversations" with students. under the higher ed backlash he helped start, the real hard-to-have conversations are about gender, race, sexuality, protest. the feminists touring colleges with academic bans: @us.theguardian.com

there's something beautiful about how communities find solutions when formal systems fail. the pattern: someone discovers a workaround, shares it, becomes a lifeline. like open source filling needs commercial products overlook. knowledge spreads through networks of trust, not official channels.

Writers of Bsky: Scratch is back! This time as a weekly newsletter/blog about how writers are surviving ~these times~, run by me, @manjula.bsky.social, @maggiemertens.bsky.social, and @latriagraham.bsky.social. You can read more about why/what that means in our announcement post below.

"These abusers relied on their victims caring so deeply about larger movements that they were willing to put up with being abused, dismissed, and disbelieved."

I’m back in the Guardian, with a piece on how there’s no such thing as a hit anymore when it comes to live service games www.theguardian.com/games/2026/m...

i have been thinking about this--we are long past the point that it is undeniable that everyone, of every stripe, participates in the video game industry as a player in at least some small way. it is also now undeniable true that video game culture is a tangible political force.

Civil Rights icon, @doloreshuerta, made a brave move today, revealing a secret she had been holding for 60 years for the sake of the Farm Workers movement. You can read her letter here: medium.com/@dolores_hue...

these super low profile thumb braces are the reason i can play video games again and i did a lot of searching to find them. no provider recommended them to me for video games! none of them really knew what to do about gaming. i don't want to gatekeep! www.mothership.blog/a-thumb-brac...

soooo psyched to have @nicoleclark.bsky.social back on mothership with a rec post for the push metagrip that details her personal journey towards finding them. i love this story and i'm so happy she could play silksong thanks to this. www.mothership.blog/a-thumb-brac...

if you like project hail mary and are in the mood for more xenobiology--though less buddy comedy, but just as gripping--i can't recommend adrian tchaikovsky enough. i love children of time, and more recently, shroud

this did not turn up helpful answers, so i will ask my movie people. i am afraid of spiders. will project hail mary's alien fellow creep me out? i have read the book. just don't like spiders (or spider-looking creatures) in visual mediums

This dreadful book banning bill, H.R. 7661, has made it out of committee and into the House. It's time to call your reps.

I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out: www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

move slow and repair things

i wrote about hidden object games for the verge!!! it's about the art of hidden object games and how hidden folks inspired a new wave of them, including lost and found co. (super cute game!!), which is out today. more here:

i did not grow up playing pokemon, but i've played a lot of the switch games as an adult, and worked alongside a lot of people who really love the series. pokopia is the first one i've played where i finally understand why people love the pokemon themselves

Hello, my bathroom ceiling collapsed. Unrelated, would you like to buy some art? They’re calling it “the best time” to do it ✨ www.sonnyross.com/shop #illustration #nature #fantasy

With GDC only a few days away, I added @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social's brilliant gaming union zine/explainer to archive.org. The previous host for the PDF added a monthly subscription. Please feel free to print and share as you wish!

the styling in teen vogue's alysa liu cover shoot, i love it so much www.teenvogue.com/story/alysa-...

After the arrests of powerful men across the world, you might be asking why the US has so much trouble holding its leaders accountable for lawbreaking. Since Nixon, all three branches of government have worked hard to ensure they can break the law with impunity www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

donated! let's keep up the momentum (and if you live in CO there are opportunities to volunteer) www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...

I've reported 2-3 stories in my career that have sucked the spirit out of my body and this was one of them. But! Seeing the response of the fgc to help their brother genuinely put it right back. Im humbled to have been trusted with this. Help your neighbors friends those in need are all around you.

grateful for these kind words and for the opportunities to edit, especially as it gets harder and harder to find this type of work

Fuck this and everyone who helped get things to this point. Trans rights are human rights—full stop.

i've been having a very normal time thinking about mountains lately youtu.be/U9Z2M7IGP5k

it was wonderful talking with @patrickklepek.bsky.social about silksong and how hornet consistently stands with her fellow bugs against a hostile empire. inevitably we talked about how people have organized against ICE raids, and what it means to choose compassion and do the hard work it requires

look i get this person. in college i wrote a paper on moby dick so rough my prof let me rewrite it. my first paper? B-. my thesis: "this ahab guy is crazy." my rewrite? C. my thesis "no, i mean he's really crazy." i really thought i just hadn't used enough examples to prove my reading comprehension