I wrote a little comic for my brother and asked @ramonvillalobos.bsky.social to help make it real. Sharing it in case you get something out of it too.

You cannot overstate how startling it is to see a politician just say the thing with clarity and poise. No fearful hemming. No overwrought qualifying down til it’s meaningless. No lingering sense that there is a loyalty to a donor class or an ideology of stasis that they’d never admit to.

i wish more braces were marketed as being good for gaming. here's the push metagrip my FAVORITE thumb brace. it stabilizes the joint w/o impeding movement and is low profile. the marketing lists cooking and gardening. no doctor could tell me if it would help me game, so i'm here to say it does!!

extremely saddened and angry to hear of more layoffs from vox. good journalism jobs are growing more and more scarce, and my old colleagues are some of the best to do it

For over a decade I have tied my shoes one specific way: Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot. I learned it from Ian (aka Professor Shoelace) whose site is over two decades old. The knot has never failed me. I spoke with Ian about knots and the dangers of the modern internet. aftermath.site/ians-shoelac...

wowow yaoi in the guardian in 2026, we've done it lol

Props to @nicoleclark.bsky.social, whose article for @aftermath.site on rehabbing her hands with Silksong inspired me to write about my own experience: aftermath.site/silksong-hol...

I was having an extremely bad time last year. I started experiencing excruciating pain in my right arm, pain that lasted for months (it's ongoing now). When Hollow Knight Silksong came out, I didn't know if I'd even be able to play it. On Silksong and suffering: www.theguardian.com/games/2026/j...

ICE killed an unarmed mom and the administration's response was to drag her corpse through the mud by calling her a terrorist

i know a lot of games journalists and critics follow me, and you'll notice that mothership.blog already has a "How to pitch" page live, along with a few other pages! so yes, please, go ahead and pitch. i'm so excited to announce this in part to get more of your voices out there.

excited for mothership!!! a new publication from maddy and zoe, colleagues of mine at polygon. thrilled to be writing for the launch, and more after that. independent journalism forever

hi! i'm co-founding a new gaming website with my former polygon colleague @zoehhannah.com. it's called mothership.blog. i made it for someone like me... the kind of website i always wished we had in our space. watch the video to learn more :D

in 2026 i hope to keep getting capacity back and to find more adaptive tools. i plan on having as much fun as possible even though life looks different these days. we are getting better! slowly

seeing the excitement around heated rivalry is making me miss polygon days and working with a whole team who understood how to write fandom. esp the gulf between its success being seen as "unexpected" and how huge m/m hockey romance fandom is and how its not actually that surprising it blew up

I wrote about the dirty, demeaning, absolutely booming business of turning something like a shitty bigoted college essay into a shitty public career as a bigot, and also estimated how old Marine Todd would be today. defector.com/the-conserva...

she only has two moods

one of my fav reads this year!!!

I see people have takes on the wicked sex scene. I will share a semi related story which is that I received the book way too young as a gift from a clueless uncle, and when I showed my mom the sex scene, which had confused me (like most of the book tbh) she said "that's just a thing green people do"

a couple hours left to get an annual sub to game file and read my cool review of an even cooler game. you will find yourself becoming a little more attractive and better at your favorite daily word games.

i hate that i think this is a great idea. people are so bogged down with admin, work is exhausting, everyone is lonely and having a hard time making or spending time with friends. friendships deserve our time and effort but good friends can also make drudgery fun

On average, it costs 28% more for a household with a disabled adult to have the same standard of living as a household without someone disabled. And that's from 2015 to 2018 data, so it's probably even more now. (Source: a 2020 study from the National Disability Institute)

I spent October traveling to schools throughout the South talking to students about American history. What I found were young people who understand we can tell a story that includes both the positive and the negative. As one 8th grader in Memphis said, “Doesn’t seem that hard, just say both things.”

it's really exciting to see the flytrap republish some of bitch's features. i remember furiously reading this one when it came out years ago. imagine wasting brain cells over trying to obsessively expose a chronically ill person as "not actually sick" the-flytrap.ghost.io/fake-it-off/

freelancing in 2025 feels so different than even a few years ago. healthcare premiums are so expensive, being disabled is so expensive. money worries grind down the ability to think creatively or engage deeply with the world outside day to day survival

KEEP SHARING YOUR STORIES about increased ACA premiums due to the disappearance of subsidies. The stories clearly are having an impact, they help people feel less helpless, and they create solidarity that leads to action. Mine went from $395→ $821. What happened for you?

For any unfamiliar with the quality of journalism at Teen Vogue, it's well known for hard-hitting stories on "politically sensitive" topics including climate. Then there's CBS: the only major network to increase climate coverage in the last few years. They just axed nearly their whole climate team.

Teen Vogue has been a trailblazer in taking young peoples' political action and interests seriously. their coverage was phenomenal. this is a heartbreaking loss

I’m back in the NYT jamming on the year’s return to old-school difficulty in action games www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/a...

Happy Holloween!

there's still going to be a gap in accessing SNAP benefits for families, this is a great time to volunteer to distribute food at a food bank and to check on your neighbors and make sure no one is hungry www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

In addition to L.A. food banks, pantries, community fridges, and other food donation programs, we see free Cambodian chicken rice porridge, kids goodie bags, and a program that allows you to buy a meal for someone at a growing chain. The full story: lataco.com/free-food-la... By Hadley Tomicki

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no one asked but my real advice for getting into media is that no matter your beat you have to love writing, investigating and journalism more than the beat itself. also get a day job, pretty much everyone has one.

Hi everyone, I'm urgently looking for any work. I'm a writer and narrative designer, I offer game consultations and mock reviews, I localise between German and English, I can write copy. If it needs words, I'll do it! Here's some games I've written on in the past:

i wrote about consume me for @theverge.com ✨

I interviewed Toby Fox again. :) You can read the conversation in both and digital and print (!!!!!) editions of Game Informer. We talked about the “stupid” way to make games and his new journey with Deltarune. Read to see our convo and some awesome fan art. gameinformer.com/2025/09/30/i...

yeah, this is hegseth straightforwardly announcing that it is free play time for bigots in the ranks. and together with his comments on standards, he clearly wants to purge as many women, black and brown people as he can from the armed services. a white man's military.

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For reasons we cannot fathom but by which we are utterly delighted, our son was voted Homecoming King. Here is the t-shirt he wore to the pep rally. rawpaw.ink/products/inf...

silksong's musical score only gets better with each listen. i love the use of strings to evoke weavers, the use of bells in specific moments. haven't gotten to the end of the game yet but accidentally spoiled some reveals because i keep listening to the score and noticing the leitmotif lol

I spent the summer reporting this essay on why it seems harder than ever to sell a book right now—especially if it isn't a debut and comes with the dreaded "sales track." I'm grateful to the writers, agents, editors, publishers & experts who spoke to me for this piece: thewalrus.ca/the-publishi...

this story sums up a big part of why i love independent and alt weekly journalism. i feel like i would not have gotten to read this elsewhere, and it's a delight!

I went on the record with @tajjaisen.bsky.social to talk book sales and the infamous “track”: thewalrus.ca/the-publishi...

Here it is, my last piece for @eater.bsky.social: my treatise on the last 20 years of food culture, and how food turned into fandom. I really hope you read it. www.eater.com/food-culture...

happy to share a project I've been working on with @austeng.bsky.social for the past few months -- Sports Movies That Don't Suck, a podcast about sports movies that don't suck! more info to come soon

once again profoundly exhausted by the framing of autism, and disability in general, as something to fight against, prevent, and scare people about. it is extremely objectifying

Tylenol isn't connected to autism. I wonder if this reporter is aware (and no shade to her, this is one of few stories I've read that actually quotes autistic people!) that there is a higher prevalence of autism and ADHD in hypermobile communities www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/u...

the fact that so many people frame autism as “a problem that needs to be solved” is a constant reminder that being “not normal” isn’t acceptable to a large amount of the world. it’s the same reason there’s a trans panic right now too. they think people are defective

celebs are getting sedation for tattoos before most of us are getting sedation for IUDs lol. also this quote is extremely funny and telling. needless to say i don't know anyone who got tattoos because life didn't give them enough challenge www.theatlantic.com/health/2025/...