Fucking American Gestapo.

#Handsoff rally today in affluent, suburban Walnut Creek, CA! Somewhere between 3,000 and 5,000 enthusiastic participants, I would estimate.

My 83 year-old dad joined a protest for the first time in his life today.

American Gestapo.

It’s wild that everyone who wants America to be “run as a business” seems to want lower taxes. That’s not what a business would do if it had a monopoly and the violence of the government behind it to set whatever price it wanted. A business would send taxes through the roof.

#TeslaTakedown in Walnut Creek, CA today. Getting bigger every week! Must have been at least 500 of us this time. Keep it g(r)owing, everyone!

There's still time. Call your Dem Senators.

CALLS ARE WORKING - it has bought us precious time, but we NEED to keep the pressure up. Tomorrow is the cloture vote. KEEP CALLING: (202) 224-3121 ☎️☎️☎️ Tell your Dem Senator to vote NO on Cloture and NO on the Republican spending bill. Do NOT assume your Senator will be good on this. Trust me.

I need y'all to sit with this headline and understand what is being done to our community. They're trying to criminalize our very existence. This is a campaign of eradication. www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/rcna...

One week from today! Trying out some new things for my workshop this year, which can always be a bit of a dice roll. 🎲🎲 Looking forward to seeing old friends at GDC and making some new ones! #gdc #gdc2025

Now that the influential bigot who did a Hitler salute publicly claimed that organic protests against his malfeasance are secretly controlled by a list of foreign Jews, some of whom aren’t even alive today, are we allowed to call him a Nazi, or is there something even Nazier we have to wait for?

Around 300 of us today in Walnut Creek! I was here a month ago and we barely broke 100. Keep it going! #TeslaTakedown

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

Berkeley: bigger and louder this time, with mariachi musicians to boot! #TeslaTakedown

No need to even pretend anymore, apparently.

seen in newark, new jersey 🔥

About 150 of us at the #TeslaTakedown rally in Berkeley today. Keep it going!

New Microsoft study finds that using generative AI at work makes employees' critical thinking skills "atrophied and unprepared" www.404media.co/microsoft-st...

Folks trying to save USAID are trying to counterprogram Musk's $40 million Super Bowl ad. They're asking everyone to share this video as widely as you can today: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqUE...

it's not hyperbolic to say we're witnessing a coup.

It’s pretty fucked up that they would just take things, just steal things, to advance their AI, I can’t believe China would do that to OpenAI

Another Video Game Storytelling birthday today! The audiobook version, narrated by the inestimable @dgchichester.bsky.social, was released exactly three years ago. 🎙🔈🎉 a.co/d/bcl42tS

Most of the Executive Orders we have seen so far are fanfiction.

3 things about this message that greeted millions of Americans on TikTok today: 1) the shamelessness of Trump who just U-turned on his opposition to TikTok. 2) the shamelessness of these tech companies, sucking up to Trump. 3) the fecklessness of Biden who gave Trump this win.

Drumpf's first term was a sick joke, and as we all know, comedy sequels suck. Hang tight, everyone, and prepaare to RESIST.

Weak. Real manly masculine men would have kept it outdoors and taken off their shirts to show what badasses they are. But these are pampered little princelings with tiny hands.

It's official! (For the 18th time, in case anyone's still counting!) schedule.gdconf.com/session/stor...

Today is January 6, the anniversary of the felon/GOP’s violent insurrection trying to stop the peaceful transfer of power in the 2020 election! We remember 140 officers who were injured & those who lost their lives due to the attack on the Capitol! Hold all involved in the insurrection accountable!

We need to normalise, in media, on socials and in face to face conversations, saying 'This is a stupid conversation and I'm not going to continue it.'

KFC Introduces New Bird-Flu Dipping Vaccine

How much energy and water is being used by people running LLM bot accounts on social media? This is the world that Zuck and Musk want to create by the way… ad revenue from clicks is not big enough, so they want to artificially boost clicks through bots.

No, *you* just drove 2+ hours round-trip to buy a Star Trek: TNG tricorder.

This is now the 5th straight semester (including summers) in which I've had to fail or severely penalize a student for using generative AI to complete a major assignment. Each time, it's only been one student I've caught. But I'm only about halfway through my grading for FA24. Hopefully no others.

AOC: “Oh, I don’t think we’re witnessing the START of an oligarchy. I think we are fully here.” 🇺🇸

It’s that time again.

Email from Safelite with the subject heading: We’re coming to get you 😳 /scrolls down We’re coming to get you fixed up

Hey, I dunno, maybe we should focus more on increasing human intelligence and not making machines smarter. We generate our own electricity and only need about 3.7 liters of water a day to conjure galaxies, poems, songs, books, movies and great ideas like universal health care.

It really can't be stated enough how the AI craze is rooted deeply in utter vitriolic disrespect for the working class. Like I've seen multiple cases of this tech being marketed directly on sticking it to us filthy poors who want things like "benefits" and "fair pay for our labor"

Happy 10th birthday to my little blue book! When I finished writing VGS, I didn't have much confidence that it was any good. I just knew it was finally done! Thanks to everyone who's bought it, read it, reviewed it, recommended it, and/or discovered its utility as a chair-balancer and fly-swatter.

In my Facebook feed just now. Can’t be a coincidence.

Age yourself with your first computer.

Jfc, very tired of *writers* posting ai-generated images, even as a “joke”. Using that crap “ironically” does the same damage as earnest use - it does not discern intent. Also, it’s gross and so disrespectful to other artists.

Remember, folks… this is your chance! 📺

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Now live! On the cusp of the 10th anniversary of my book, Video Game Storytelling, being published by Penguin Random House, I was interviewed on their "Lits Play" YouTube channel. How has game narrative evolved in that time? What's improved? What challenges persist? And where are things headed?

Post you from a different era