“This budget is basically just ’Trust me bro.’” Vancouver city councillors got an earful Wednesday and Thursday from residents opposed to a proposed budget that would freeze property taxes and is expected to increase fees and cut services. @jenstden.bsky.social reports. #vanpoli

Introducing EmCon! A game dev conference where everything is Em The speakers, the artist and even the venue are all Em! Featuring these emmazing speakers: @emaudible.bsky.social @sonderingemily.bsky.social @emmabellish.bsky.social @emmakidwell.bsky.social Tickets: bit.ly/EmCon2025

Great news! Our stationery shop is open again for a limited time! ❄️Shop small and grab some goodies for the holidays from Nov. 12th - Dec. 1st! ❄️That’s not all! All items are on sale for 10% off from Nov. 12th - Nov. 17th! Thanks for supporting small businesses!❤️ www.etsy.com/shop/kukubee

November, so another thread of freelance and full-time tech, gaming and culture job opportunities! Shares appreciated as always 💛

it must have been really distressing for Geoff to take time off his busy schedule schmoozing with his celebrity and influencer buddies. Geoffs only look like that when they're in pain.

EVERY FINJI GAME IS ON SALE ‼️‼️ Click here to save money on very cool video games on Steam: store.steampowered.com/curator/6960...

Ambrosia Sky, Daniels highlight from the Vancouver Game Garden is out now! Catch our initial impressions here:

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It’s really important that #Vancouver’s Downtown Business Association, who were originally against bike-lanes, are now among their most vigourous supporters, because of ACTUAL EVIDENCE that they’re better for downtown business than any street parking they replaced. Safe bike-lanes mean business.

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if u like pixel fonts i sell a huge fucking pack of them chevyray.itch.io ain’t that somethin

Can we all agree to start calling it Regurgitive AI? I think that needs to become a thing.

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

Shohei Ohtani was sent down by God to destroy Toronto spiritually and LA physically

as a bird artist, in honor of tonight’s game i have attempted to draw the gorgeous blue jay as accurately as possible. as always please let me know if you have any constructive criticism

I almost can't believe this but the game we've been working on for a, uh, frightening long time now is launching into Steam Early Access NEXT WEEK! November 4th, 9am PT Wishlistin' plz and thank: store.steampowered.com/app/2963240/...

A SURPRISE SPOOKY UPDATE!? This wasn't one of our 10 planned Milestone updates; we just really really like Halloween and we decided to squeeze an extra update in to release some spooky-themed stuff in celebration... SO LET'S GET INTO IT! 🧵

This photo of rookie Yesavage casually walking off the mound as future Hall of Famer and helmet-less Ohtani is still in motion striking out is everything. #WantItAll

🌍⚔️🛸It's time to lead Earth to victory against Emperor Zarb and his invading Martian forces! 🚀Earth vs Mars has launched, and is available now on Steam for USD $14.99! Plus, for the first two weeks you can enjoy a 10% launch discount! Buy it now - https://bit.ly/Earth_vs_Mars

I'll do a prettier post whenever I've got the energy for it, & realistically, no one hires right before the Holiday break 🫠 But! I've worn many hats in my ten years in games, so if you are looking for a producer with experience in event planning, marketing, release management & bizdev, hmu 🫡

game update, jays dodgers game 3 has reached its -2147483648th inning, which our coders have not properly prepared for

Plan to leave your car at home on Halloween Night (this Friday night) between 5.00 pm and 9.00 pm, and if you do need to drive, take it slowly and carefully to help keep children safe on the most dangerous night of the year for child pedestrians.

Nearly 25,000 without power in Queensland and hundreds of outages in Victoria after state’s wettest day

“He’s in a dungeon in his own palace with a raving lunatic in charge upstairs, and a dragon burning the city, and he thinks he’s got the world where he wants it. It must be something about high office. The altitude sends people mad.” -Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

Man, who is this guy saying there are no women fans of Star Trek. I did a whole history of women in Star Trek fandom two years ago

kicking that ball into the sun (Day 16 - Sun) #beastieball #beastoberball #art #fanart #digitalart

Autumn 🍂

Halloween is right around the corner and we’ve got a spooky themed Bash to celebrate! Friday, October 31st at 4PM PST to Sunday, November 2nd at 4PM PST Play with Plumask, Albrax or Skulkapi in this battle of the spookiest Beasties! 👺👽💀

Ohtani killing it and the Dodgers losing is basically a perfect game

I thought LA wasn’t a walkable city…

It is somehow fitting that the first sport to fully overwhelm the timeline on the retirement home for millennial posters is baseball, the Spreadsheet Nerd's sport.

BARGER!!!!!! OMG

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Fighting for safer crosswalks and infrastructure at Willow and 16th, the site of a recent incident where a driver hit a woman pushing a stroller.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS! 🌸🔬🎶 SNOWDROP FESTIVAL 2025 We're hosting our 4th annual festival on Dec 13—celebrating the music made by the digital fusion community & adjacent scenes in 2025. All are welcome to participate! Submission form & rules: infloresce.com/snowdrop-festival-2025-submission-form

Thicc crocodile 🐊🌈

Good evening. We estimate that between 4.2 and 7.6 million people turned out for the No Kings Day demonstrations held around the country on Saturday. This makes Oct 18 very likely the biggest single-day U.S. protest event since 1970. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...

folks can complain about the effectiveness of scheduled orderly mass protest but to think about it another way its the closest thing we have to the opening scene of A Muppet Christmas Carol where all the muppets sing "there goes Mr. Dipshit, there goes Mr. Ass" to Scrooge and it clearly bothered him

there is one week every october in this city where early fall transitions to vancouver grey for the next five months and it’s always spectacular

“When they rob us of art and emotion, that leads us towards the aesthetics of fascism. In this film, all the sets are real, the decor is human-sized, there are painstakingly created miniatures... It’s there to remind us that art is not only necessary, it is urgent. And AI can go fuck itself!”

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Day 18 of #MÖRKTOBER is Wither! With the snap of a gnarled finger, the warrior's strength is sapped away into the howling wind! The hatchet and mail is far too heavy for the shrunken soul, a wretched defeat now awaits the soldier after so many victories. If only he could scream!

Nobody’s asking me, but since poverty is a significant driver of crime the way I’d like to see our federal government reduce crime is to significantly reduce poverty through adequate basic income and housing. #CanadaSky #cdnpoli

For Tolkien fans, a timely passage for No Kings Eve, from WH Auden’s review of Lord of the Rings.