New song by the legendary antifascist artist @flangermoose.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwiX...

Billionaires don't need more yachts, but an increase to the royalty rate on Steam would be life-changing for many small indie devs.

Wishing the whales GOOD HUNTING

I truly miss when a chatroom was just 20 people who all knew each other instead of 10000 strangers who may not ever interact once but are still expected to be on the same page at all times. That's what Discord is. Its not closeness or community. It's just the chat version of 'number go up'

hey so Stripe is doing Al garbage where if you let it handle disputes you have to pay it 30% of the refund. the email link to opt out didn't work. i couldn't find the right menu myself, and after some searching, managed to find it elsewhere. turn this shit off. dashboard.stripe.com/settings/dis...

This is AMAZING.

can you spare $20 to help my niece get her prescription filled? she's been without her meds for ten days #TransCrowdFund

I love all of you.

BREAKING: At least three Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli bombing east of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, a source at the Nasser Medical Complex has told Al Jazeera. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/yi35jt

i had never heard of @nthcircle.bsky.social 's Of The Devil but given that there's a literal achievement for reading comprehension in the game, I'm legit gonna check it out based on that alone. Very, very cool. Learning is fun, yall. If you don't enjoy it, well, maybe consider fixing that.

Indie dev here -- This here? Rad. Amazing. Love it. I'm just gonna say this. We put our hearts, souls, time, effort, love, and life into making the art that we make. If you aren't interested in our game then just dont play it. You can do other things instead of complain about our art.

This is why yall need to continue to contact your representatives about paypros, this is banking discrimination

Each month my biggest worry is keeping a safe home for my children. This month, we need £500 for rent before the 15th— without it, we’ll have nowhere to go. 💔 If just 17 people give £30 each, you’ll keep a roof over my children’s heads for one more month — a month of warmth, safety, and dignity.❤️🙏

Banks are targeting individuals by name because of their "high risk" line of work who are too outspoken. This is why we need you to stand up for nsfw creators

PWN locals, please keep an eye out. We gotta find what we can find of this important equipment.

every new AI application amounts to coming up with a smart sounding way to prey and profit from the most vulnerable and gullable

Friend tried to donate to my Throne, flagged by fraud detection at Bank of America — bank identified the transaction as specially for “giantess voretuber Ana Valens” I suspect I faced those Patreon / Ko-fi dings b/c financial institutions have me, specifically, on record as a high risk recipient!

This has been going since the 1940s. Slavery was (is) legal is America. Genocide is legal in America, and has been part of its history since the 1400s. So really, what is your fucking 'rule of law' that is breaking down?

The 'rule of law' has always been imaginary -- The fact that so many people still think its "breaking down in front of us" instead of dead, six feet under, and not even a memory, is a huge part of the problem. The building isn't burning. They're pissing on its ashes.

The first time I wrote "Hello World!" and it printed on the screen properly I'm pretty sure I was a god for a few moments. genAI chuds will never know that incredible high.

Gonna throw a few back tonight and cry some into my drink, thinkin bout a lost love one who I only learned died today when his insurance company reached out to me. I hope yall are well. I love all of you.

Protesters have gathered in Uptown Charlotte to speak out against Border Patrol earlier today.

Da Malört be hittin HARD (Im making a joke but this is actually good news)

I'm not trying to be mean, but racists who believe Trump betrayed them by being a child molester are not going to embrace the Democratic Party without forcing that party to embrace racism. And the people gained would in no way make up for those lost.

im so tired yall 🥲

A nice obituary for Alice, who was going to be recognized as one of The Post 50. I hate that we now have to live without this phenomenal woman. #GiftLink wapo.st/49WOdx1

This is an important new line being crossed. Trump isn't just pardoning the act of attempting to overthrow the government on January 6: he's pardoning *those people* for committing crimes generally. He may be creating a group of (federally) legally untouchable people.

. @chickencoop.bsky.social does not use genAI. We never will.

Call campaigns work! But we need as many people joining as possible Join today and yell at paypros to stop discriminating against adult content and sex workers! stop-paypros.neocities.org

Constituents: we want you to fight Democrats: no we're definitely going to give up Republicans: oh in that case, on top of taking away health care we're also going to ban weed and poison everybody

I'm gonna cry myself to sleep. Gnite yall.

BY THE WAY If you've updated to Windows 11 recently, you're probably on version 25H2. There's a new setting in Settings: Privacy & Security. Scroll aaaaaaaalll the way to the bottom and you'll see "Text and Image Generation." TURN IT OFF.

“It’s not an honor to be on the forefront of social commentary that makes most people with privilege uncomfortable,” she says. A hero whose work just made us hope to be better at being human.

Kotaku wants to get in touch with developers about how AI is being used in your studio. You can contact our tips hotline [email protected] or my secure email at [email protected] We'll keep your identity protected and anonymize info so it's not traced back to you.

steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back

Alice was a friend, a mentor, and a guide to so many in the disability community, and especially in the realms of disability and technology and disabled-led design. This one hurts bad, but some of her last words were "Don't let the bastards grind you down. I love you all." Gonna try to hold that.

*sigh* Alice Wong was someone I really, truly respected. Her disability work was among some of the best and this genuinely breaks my heart. Damn. Damn. Damn.

holy fuck. this actually might change the course of my life.

Forced sterilization never died!

"They tried to shut me up by deporting me." www.npr.org/2020/12/22/9...

I need Nisqually Tribe to evicerate this man.

Glad to see the artist Anish Kapoor considering legal action. He's made a big fuss about how much he hates that its called The Bean. I've always called it The Bean out of spite, and because its a cute name. But because of him considering action, I'll now call it The Bean (respectful).

USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins plans to make all SNAP recipients reapply and prove "that they literally are vulnerable and they can’t survive without it.” The 'genuinely disabled' The 'literally vulnerable' They keep moving the goalposts. They were never going to fund SNAP. It's eugenics:

son the hedge

‘The Owl House’ creator Dana Terrace responds to Disney+ looking to add AI-generated short form content “Unsubscribe from Disney+. Pirate Owl House. I don’t care. Fuck gen AI"

I truly mean it when I say red team and blue team are *the same team*. I don't mean it metaphorically. I mean it LITERALLY.

The year is 2026 Disney+ is overrun by AI slop of Mickey Mouse and Elsa saying slurs No actor wants to work with Disney anymore because they didn’t agree with their likenesses being used like this Bob Iger: “…Why does everyone hate us?”

Another reason to KEEP TAKING COVID SERIOUSLY.

From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."

@lukeplunkett.com i know u dont know me but can u make that post into something we can reply to with our indie studio links so folks can find us and check out our work? ♥