“… the data out of Montgomery County, Maryland makes one thing unmistakably clear: this crusade is not a mass movement. It’s the obsession of a vanishingly small minority …”

Please help her. I’m fortunate enough to have a way to cover my cancer battle. At least, for now. Everyone should be able to.

#devtober day 5, sub evaluators While I could poll the original map + camera data from an area, I could not do this with multiple sources. Today's work was to add support for an evaluator to have "sub evaluators" which will help with interiors like dondoran and the monastery.

as a girl with a PhD in natural language processing and machine learning it's actually offensive to me when you say "we don't know how LLMs work so they might be conscious" I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge. We know exactly how LLMs work.

Remember when we went to war in Iraq talking about how Saddham was gassing his own citizens and we needed to stop it No reason that’s coming to mind today

All your protesting online, writing to your MPs, attending protests, sharing news, keeping the conversation going is making changes All your complaints against war, especially your tax funding it, govs selling arms…. Is turning the tides. Don’t stop. They can’t ignore the public forever.

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

Hey @bsky.app there's such a thing called story telling, not every story is nice and pretty, some stories are told as a way to expose ugly parts of this world we exist in, some stories are told to share experiences This is silencing voices who already can't speak up for themselves. Fix this.

Mr Sujano says he wants point and click adventures to make a comeback There several released each year. Wadjet eye exists as a solo indie dev and publisher. Curse of the Golden Idol won awards. Its actually ubiquitous. Hell there was a new monkey island like 3 years ago

I love this analytical take on video game categorization from Antoine Mayerowitz and Julie Belzanne: hushcrasher.substack.com/p/taxonomy-o... Instead of trying to vibe-intuit the definition of an "indie" game, the authors analyzed the data from the perspective of game size and credits length

Our medieval curator Alison Ray introduces Rawlinson Bodleian Library MS. Rawl. D. 252...a 15th Century necromancer's journal. This manuscript contains spells written in Latin and Middle English, and would have served as a reference for a professional sorcerer. #MedievalMonday

Trying to understand myself better. What is my happy place? Like, a simple relaxing thing I’d do that’d make me feel peace and a little bit of joy. I can think of these for my characters… like one of them would enjoy karaoke and Hawaiian pizza. But I have a hard time thinking of my own equivalent.

@tedbob84.bsky.social This style looks so your thing

Taking my first vacation since 2012. Going out to the mountains/lakes between GA and SC to play board games with my best friends and my wife. I’m hopeful that this gives me a recharge, or a reset, or whatever it is that I need.

The official Canadian Petition to reign in payment processor censorship has stalled out just under 10k signatures. This is a reminder for Canadians, this is an OFFICIAL petition that will be responded to. Show your support in protecting our free speech! www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

ATTN FELLOW CANADIANS: An actual MP has created a petition to stop financial discrimination against adult creators by payment processors. You have to confirm your email but thats because its something that can actually be shown to parliament.

When you publish a website that posts the names and photos of scholars who have written or said things you disagree with and encourage people to surveil and harass them, you are not, in fact, a “free speech” organization.

Yeah I'm still mad about this. Like literally the only thing Android has going for it is "it's not the walled garden that Apple is", and if you take that away. Uhhhh. Why the fuck would anyone pick them? I can't imagine anyone having brand loyalty for fuckin Google at this point. So. Uhhh.

I've been bedridden for the last 9 months, unable to work as I try to get a surgeon and insurance lined up for my operation to let me work again. If you could send a couple dollars, it'd really help. Time isn't on my side here, and waiting is very expensive. ko-fi.com/fooneturing/

ATTENTION BRITAIN! 🇬🇧 The UK now has a petition to STOP CENSORSHIP by MasterCard and VISA of legal products! This joins the Australian and Canadian petitions that are gaining momentum. Come on, let's get these signed! And spread the word! The UK petition: petition.parliament.uk/signatures/1...

Can't find a single thing wrong with this...

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Canadians! There is a petition to sign to protest Mastercard and Visa's control over the purchase of legal adult content. This is specifically about the Steam & itchio situation, but language protects adult creators. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en... #nsfw #censorship #canpoli @acvalens.net

Just to say what is actually happening in a way the press will never: Your President, a known sexual predator and pedophile, has dispatched the military to terrorize and silence sexual assault victims who, it is likely, he personally interacted with.

i cannot overstate how extraordinary it is for federal civil servants to do this

We could have cool stuff like this. Instead we have men in masks breaking car windows and stopping people from fighting fires.

Only 3% of the documents are new information, this is the GOP flooding the zone with already public documents to avoid releasing more #Epstein related information and files. Their play is to deny, distract, and deflect. #opdeatheaters

This is a country living in terror of a non-existent crime wave, getting rid of vaccines which saved millions of lives, and indulging in economic policies which we saw fail 100 years ago. It's a deeply disordered place.

An extraordinary joint op-ed and plea by NINE former directors or acting directors of the CDC under both Democratic and Republican administrations, succinctly describing undermining of public health, and what’s needed now. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

Working on different models/animations for item chests in ABYSS X ZERO, to better suit the context of what you'll find inside and the level they are in. (yes, even the last one is an item chest, technically) Now we just need a proper item collect jingle... #gamedev #lowpoly #madewithunity #axz

YEEEEEESSSS when can I have this fed directly into my veins please

Oh hell yeah

Fuckin hell this looks good

I solved the TTRPG dice system problem that’s been hounding me for the last five years. It’s less that I’ve found an innovative trick and more that I’ve finally made up my mind about something and actually feel satisfied.

So, betting pool. Liver, kidneys, heart, brain? Which one do we think gets him and how much do ya wanna wager in hypothetical, non-redeemable, fictitious currency? I’m gonna bet kidneys for 500 Blorks.

They teach this in school in the US, in Illinois no less. US history classes make Grant/Sherman out to be monsters who happened to be on the side with better civilian leadership, resources, and morals, and Lee/Jackson are presented as tragic heroic figures who worked for assholes on the losing side.

this "passion tax" appears all over the place & should be talked about more. you see it in book stores and game stores all the time excitement for particular work is constantly weaponized to depress wages & pit workers against each other

Just a heads up. I was able to schedule my COVID vaccine appointment. Online it will ask “do you have a condition that puts you at high risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19 virus.” Click yes and it will allow you to schedule an appointment. No questions asked. No proof required. Pass it on.

CDC employees standing up and walking out in light of the mass shootings, firings, and *waves hands in the air* everything else. #USAnotRFK Lets gooooo

If you tried to "fit in" by hating everything the internet told you to hate, you would end up forgetting how to enjoy anything. Maybe you'll finally fit in, only to find you're surrounded by those as miserable as you. Life is too short. If it isn't actually hurting anyone, enjoy what you like.

The idea that 'AI can speed up dev cycles' would require a premise that dev cycles are long because people are taking forever to make assets (so you could replace them with shoddy slop and it'd go faster), which you could only believe is true if you've never actually tried to make a video game

This week in court a white cis woman landlord started *literally crying* when I was doing my opening argument for my client and started saying to her lawyer "how is this allowed? How are these people just allowed to have a lawyer?" through tears, because evidently oppression is when due process

"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense

Tell me Estelle’s dialogue is still crazy, PLEASE tell me she’s still talks like a goblin

RT if you also wish ill upon JK Rowling.

Executives learn what making video games actually costs challenge 2025

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu: “Silence in the face of oppression is not an option. The U.S. Attorney General asked for a response by today. So here it is…Stop attacking our cities to hide your administration's failures.”

With over 50 skills, "Quartet" has a lot of options for you to express yourself (and decimate the enemy). Here's a few samples. "Quartet" is coming to PC on August 26th! #QuartetRPG #JRPG

Are the mRNA vaccines incredible? YES! Are the mRNA vaccines perfect? No. Have the mRNA vaccines saved millions of lives? YES! Can we make the mRNA vaccines even better? YES! Can we use mRNA vaccine technology to prevent and treat many other diseases? YES! Fund mRNA research!