the cronenbergian TV bulge!

Wrote this in 2020 and am thinking about it again today

More people have been arrested over the Reflecting Pool than the Epstein files

Left 4 Dead's graffiti is so memorable because it was made by people—a whole lot of people aftermath.site/left-4-dead-gr...

Undiscovered Hemingway classic. #WritingCommunity #SkyBooks

ok this one got me

there isn't a problem with the game's industry. there's a problem with every industry and every publicly traded company. getting a "nice CEO who cares" or whatever won't fix anything until things are addressed at a more fundamental societal level. the system will always drive towards this behavior.

You will be hearing A LOT from me in the coming months and years about improved Medicare for All. I was pushing this 2 decades ago, 1 decade ago, and still. Here's me talking about this in 2017: inthesetimes.com/article/mari... - The US left MUST mount a CONCERTED push now.

Gonna be honest the SoftBank goose has really made my week. It’s so funny. It’s a perfect monument to the business idiots and what they imagine AI could be for no imaginable reason other than their willingness to be regulated by the wallet inspector. It’s indefensibly stupid.

Who hurt this man?

Stray Children ($23.99) - my 2025 GOTY. directed by one of the designers of moon: Remix RPG, SC has you walking through a lost RPG, full of nostalgia... someone else's. an adult's nostalgia. it's frustrating, obtuse, utterly uncompromising. and i love it. store.steampowered.com/app/3649490/...

the demo for this game Boreal Tenebrae Act 0 was short and kinda jank but i did like how much this feels like that Mixtape game on acid. in another universe this is what all our narrative nostalgia games look and feel like store.steampowered.com/app/4222910/...

Zexion ($11.99) - a metroidvania specifically most inspired by Metroid 1, with twinstick shooting slapped onto it, and the difficulty cranked up several notches. great for perfectionists and speedrunners, but can be modified to be as easy as you like. store.steampowered.com/app/3392510/...

Both @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and I believe in a politics of solidarity that refuses to compromise on anyone's dignity or humanity. New Yorkers are fed up with the failures of the status quo. They made that known loud & clear at the ballot box this week.

“Just go indie.” With whose money!? Fucking Aquaman’s!!?

Going to go ahead say, unequivocally, if you are a *big boss boy or big boss girl* and you made shitty fucking decisions that lead to a mass layoff at your company, you should be axed and your insane compensation should 100% go to severance for everyone who suffered thanks to you

Hi! I'm looking to speak to anyone who is finding ways to resist/work around mandatory AI usage policies at work. Mostly games industry-related, but happy to speak to anyone adjacent as well! Published quotes can of course be anon if desired. DM me here or email at [email protected], thanks!

Also the fact you can just remove the "2" from this URL and get the Concord closure sure is something. Can't even be empathetically original in your subject about ruining people's lives: sonyinteractive.com/en/news/blog...

I don't think people realize how big the Destiny 2 team is. That's a lot of jobs.

Microsoft blaming the rising costs of computer components after spending $146 billion dollars on AI investments

Underlined, co-signed, screaming from the rooftops: bsky.app/profile/alex...

Between the insane console price hikes during a recession (I said it) where people can't even afford healthcare, and the jettisoning of talent and institutional knowledge in favor of AI slop and more zeroes on the shareholder paycheck, these industry "leaders" should leave. Devs are not the problem.

It is 2032. There is one computer. It travels the country, letting those willing to wait hours in line the chance to load a file or play a little game once more. It is filled with annoying AI tools that are still wrong. After you use it for a few minutes, you return to the DRAM mines.

“and so it’s almost like a confession – as though the words on the pamphlet are: 'We worship the devil, signed, antifa’.” @reproutopia.bsky.social quoted in @lexmcmenamin.com's incredible new story

WILL COCAINE MAKE COLLEGE OBSOLETE?

Sprites for the next #PolygonalTOY update, mainly for introductions. #Pixelart #Gamedev #simulator #픽셀아트

It is funny that Disney sells Toy Story branded toys so that you can buy an actual Woody the Cowboy for children and they can eventually leave them forgotten in a closet and know they’ve caused a sentient loving being extreme emotional pain

good morning

Really hoping someone files a FOIA into this and gets some investigatory material, because there is not a single shred of doubt that her post is protected free speech under the First Amendment and agents SHOULD know that. She literally identified the source of her information as a newspaper!

Negar lives in Takhar province, Afghanistan. Her newborn twins died last year when she had to deliver them at home because the USAID maternity clinic closed edition.cnn.com/2025/07/22/a...

In Nigeria, Yagana Bulama lost her newborn baby due to malnutrition caused by US food aid cuts. She had already buried three babies www.pbs.org/newshour/wor...

In Kenya, Jane, aged 9 died of malnutrition in a refugee camp because her mother Rovina couldn’t find care and also feed her other eight children hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...

USAID provided ~ $63BN a year to 130 countries for essential food, health, agriculture, rights and democracy needs. The US accounted for nearly half of global Official Development Assistance

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

Olivia Newton-John definitely meant "let's get a plastic box that contains a piece of paper".

And hey, let’s continue this thread with a few more graphics from our coverage last night.

We’ve had quite a few requests for the maps from our primary election livestream coverage last night, created by the genius minds over at Partner & Partners, so here they are. Enjoy!

The writers thought a lame duck would be too obvious a metaphor

really, really scared that after all this outrage and press coverage, we are going to let those deaths happen once dems are back in power. cannot allow that to happen

and everyone can spread the word that once democrats retake power, we have a moral imperative to act immediately to prevent those millions of deaths

"US Marshals are arresting people on the National Mall for the crime of noticing that the president’s new paint is peeling off the bottom of the pool, that the symbols of the nation itself are rejecting him." www.liberalcurrents.com/let-us-refle...

righteous paragraph. I don't think I'm alone in being sick to fuckin death of hearing about Donald Trump

also not lost on me that as democratic socialists are winning some elections, a new red scare targeting anarchists, antifascists, and their allies is digging in hard, and today handed down 30, 50, and 100 year prison sentences to activists and organizers