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yes, and

"there need to be even more games that are anti-colonialist and that complicate or comment on the colonialist legacies inherent in lone savior narratives of games." - @phoenixsimms.bsky.social on cozy games' less-cozy concerns for @unwinnable.com unwinnable.com/2025/09/11/c...

Time to break out the chart

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As the world's richest, most powerful men and institutions roll over and show their bellies to a pedophile because they like him and want him be their king, regular people like you and me will put these Nazis in the ground where they belong

Murdering someone for the 'offense' of trying to retrieve their brother's body is..beyond monstrous and the horror is compounded by the risk of identifying it as such: The reporter "asked not to be named because Israel has killed at least 189 journalists in Gaza" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

A consortium of game devs have launched the Play for Peace - Games for Palestine 2025 Charity Bundle, which aims to raise $200K in Palestinian aid. www.endlessmode.com/video-games/...

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got stopped by cops cause they thought I was a gang member based on my tattoos… Not surprised the pigs-in-blue never played award-winning 2002 RPG The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind

"Some contemporary Marxists call this salvage communism. Contemporary capitalists call this lateral thinking with withered technology.” @materialistjew.bsky.social in convo w @aguaspoints.bsky.social for @unwinnable.com unwinnable.com/2025/08/29/a...

welp, time to stop reading research material and barricade myself in David Bowie-inspired fantasy for a while

Help Yaqoub, Duaa and family. chuffed.org/project/1388...

Finding Hannah is a good game.

📰 #tmnt

irl with april o’neil

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We've received a lot of requests for worm lore coverage over the years. Well, we've delivered. From worms, to worms (aquatic), to worms (parasitic), to worms (Anchorites), to worms (Sloads), to worms (of unusual shape), we have all the worms you can handle.

feeling very seen by @jhensliterature.bsky.social’s piece on achievement hell for @unwinnable.com: “So many of us are desperate to feel like we’re working towards something in a decade of stagnation and outright regression.” unwinnable.com/2025/08/15/a...

update: this cat is called Ursula

ICE crossed a line in LA

I will have advance copies for sale at @kpondwriters.bsky.social in June!!!

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As the social media manager for this conference (*ahem*), I agree that you should apply.

the new york times disrespecting my neopets

Gonna be real with you, this feels like an advertisement for spiritual death

TRU PUNX (per mitch clem, nothing nice 2 say)

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judgmental

timeline cleanse

amtrak scenes

my toxic trait is looking at “fairycore” clothes on fast fashion sites and muttering “that’s not how faeries dress at all”

drag me

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where is the oscar category for sexiest dracula

I’m playing Stardew Valley for the first time and I have some questions: - how much was I making at the corporate job I left behind? - were there benefits? - do I still have health insurance? - why doesn’t anyone want sea cucumbers as presents? if someone gave me a sea cucumber IRL I would LIKE IT

You can print out and distribute these yourself. Find the link with versions in different languages here. www.ilrc.org/red-cards-ta...

“Witches’ Song” on repeat

petitioning all news outlets to replace Tr*mp M*sk Z*ck’s faces with Marie Antoinette’s

this is the least of his crimes but I’m still shrieking fortune.com/2025/01/20/e...

For No Reason in Particular Here's a Bunch of Games Where You Kill Nazis hard-drive.net/hd/video-gam...

This is a concentration camp. Don't let him or anyone call it a "migrant facility." apnews.com/live/trump-p...

timeline cleanse

“who has a terrible build now” 😭

I streamed for the first time in 2 years so I could play Democratic Socialism Simulator (no reason) only to get deposed smh youtube.com/shorts/IiBk4...

we're in the "skeletor had a point" timeline

is it finally time for me to play Stardew Valley or would I never emerge www.npr.org/2025/01/24/g...

diversity in media is a social moral good etc but it's even simpler: diversity is interesting. like even the "medieval europe was only white" lad simulator couldn't resist a queer black character... the same stories always about the same people = boring www.rockpapershotgun.com/the-gamergat...