When I was a freelancer, healthcare costs drove SO many of my decisions about work and contracts I took. I’m SO excited to see UVW taking this on.

The fact that Nyong’o’s beauty is causing a war between two rival cultures in America right now is proof enough that she is the perfect Helen of Troy.

"Auditing AI" is open access. We wrote it for leaders / organizers of all kinds who want to *do something* about AI, so if you want to read it for yourself, you can find it here. If you find it useful and share it with your communities, let us know! direct.mit.edu/books/book/6...

Donald Trump made more than 3,700 trades this year. We need to ban him and every single lawmaker in Congress from trading stocks.

“SCOTUS’ gutting of the Voting Rights Act is more than an attack on Black America. It is the check‑engine light for American democracy b/c every time this country weakens the protections built by Black struggle…it loosens the democratic foundations everyone stands on.”

if you enjoy storytelling in video games or have ever so much as glanced at Twine, I implore you to follow @iftechfoundation.org IFTF shares all kinds of updates about the interactive fiction space: IFComp deadlines, microgrants opportunities, annual NarraScope conference details, and more

Lots of cute lil guys out on my run today

Man, it's so cool when you get to talk to cool people about cool ideas and you both leave the convo just totally jazzed for the things you're both working on. 💖

My annual reminder that we are both the best conference in games and the most misnamed conference in games. If you’re making weird or interesting art using procedurality, procgen, deep systemic simulation, we want your talk, regardless of what your relationship to “roguelikiness” is!

I'm looking for a Senior Narrative Designer to join my team! Quest folks, mission folks, apply within! www.cdprojektred.com/en/jobs/2206...

It's true! I'm hiring another senior writer for my team. Position is FT, remote. Come work with me and some truly brilliant, creative folks to create Cyberpunk 2 💥🦾 www.cdprojektred.com/en/jobs/2205...

I've always wanted to work with Stacey but now you can instead!

I've shared tips with writers about visiting a TV/Film set but always wondered why there wasn't ONE resource I could send. So I made one. SETIQUETTE is a 58pg guide: How to read a call sheet, a who's who crew guide, what to do and NOT do on set & more. writingandwhatnot.com/blog/setique...

Come work with super talented Stacey and other (no less talented!) narrative folks on Cyberpunk 2! It's a banger of a team. Noviest chooms only.

HAPPY CITIZEN SLEEPER DAY! 🎉 The series is 4 today and I have ⭐NEWS⭐ 🚀 Announcing CITIZEN SLEEPER: HELION RISING, a full TTRPG in the CS universe, coming 2027! ⭐LAST CHANCE to get CS2: DESIGN WORKS at Lost in Cult! ◼️What's next for JOTA? Something is growing in the dark, see it emerge June 7th...

Come work with me! We’ve just opened 2 narrative positions: a Senior Narrative Designer and a Senior Writer! I can’t speak highly enough of this team and this project. We’re cooking up some REALLY cool stuff! 👀 www.cdprojektred.com/en/jobs/2206... www.cdprojektred.com/en/jobs/2205...

Sorry for the delay. Here's the living memorial roundup for Paste Games. If your favorites didn't make the cut, feel free to add to the replies on this post, and we'll get them added as soon as possible. critical-distance.com/2026/05/04/r...

If you're going to post your stuff on Substack, I really wish you'd post it elsewhere as well somehow (I'm no expert on that part). Because some of us refuse to support hate speech in its myriad forms on Substack, but a lot of you are turning out killer content I bet.

Stuck in a black hole of bad UX on Google Workspace compounded with bad UX from the admin panel on my hosting service and this whole process is radicalizing me toward setting up my own server. The cloud was a mistake.

📢 CALLING ALL NONBINARY GAME DEVS! 📢 i'm helping run a steam sale event to showcase games made by nonbinary devs during the week of international nonbinary day! if you fit this description, fill out the form by may 18 👉 forms.gle/cx9AqFfPqzF9... please share & send to all your nb dev friends!!

My favorite Sam Neil fact will always be that he designed a future Australian flag that replaces the union jack with the aboriginal flag for Event Horizon and insisted the film use it.

The “LLMs are inevitable” discourse is always hilarious to me. Even within the last 5 years, we intentionally dismantled the greatest collection of human knowledge ever assembled and the ability to effectively search it because it wasn’t profitable enough. No technology is inevitable.

Every time I see someone talk about Claude I think about how they switched from female to male names as soon as they wanted the robots to seem like experts vs personal assistants.

This is very exciting!

Nobody warned me how much Marathon Monday in Boston was going to make me want to sign up for something. "But Stacey, it's Wednesday. You're still on this?" NOBODY WARNED ME...

“Become Unmonetizeable” is the new “Become Ungovernable”

Back in the day, some of our team worked on the Telltale Interloper, an email newsletter fashioned after a tabloid. In addition to news from around the studio, the Interloper had some regular features including the Order Up! cooking column and everybody’s favorite advice column, Dear Max. 🧵👇

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars. We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director. Please stand by for more.

For the first time in our 9-year history: WE ARE HIRING! We're seeking a full-time fundraising manager to establish and grow our non-profit's development department - in other words, to raise money and help us grow! Remote-hybrid in the SF Bay Area with benefits! www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/44...

Nothing is more disastrous to capitalism than contentment.

Just learned from this - apparently this is your last chance to grab the choice-based Star Trek game before it gets delisted!

there’s a Type of Guy who will be awesome to you while he can gain clout for Supporting you. Once you expect to be heard, hired and paid like an equal, you will be jettisoned for more grateful and impressionable women

even if he’s not a literal sexual predator, look twice at an Industry Guy who surrounds himself with younger women and otherwise Diverse talent only while he can Champion them — yet his coworkers and peers are all just people like himself

Just remember: 1. as long as there are people, they'll always want to play 2. as long as imagination and critical thinking continue to operate, we can devise an infinite number of ways to play Everything else is just clutter on the road and the question of the current system's sustainability.

Cash is punk. Convenience tools are surveillance tools. Use more cash.

Had a friend ask how I can talk to strangers so easily. It’s actually easy: 1. Presume you’re already friends and adopt those vibes. 2. Say what you’re going to say, then say one more thing. - How’s it going? - Great! (1 more thing:) I just got a killer deal on this jacket I’ve been eyeing! etc.

Lot to be said for third spaces and the shared expectation to socialize with strangers within them.

Making friends in Boston continues to be so much easier than it was in the Bay Area. Like it’s just so ridiculously easy here it’s bananas.

I talk about mine all the time: do not under any circumstance give me a limp, lifeless ponytail option in a character creator. I would rather not have the option of a ponytail at all if it can't be well-animated and floofy. Actually jk, this is important and high-stakes 🤔

Caught up to current with The Pitt and wow this show is excruciating to watch in real time (in the best way)

Now imagine what being surrounded by sycophantic humans for your entire life does to your brain.

procedural generation saves neither time nor money and is not something people do to save budget on a project

An unthinkable situation compounded by a bureaucratic nightmare. My thoughts are with Mike and his family.

I think I’m going to need a second weekend to recover from all the things I’ve ended up juggling this weekend and I haven’t even started on the normal things like laundry, groceries, etc. 😅

OPPORTUNITY Narrative Lead - US - focus on Narrative design Not affiliated. Shares welcome gamejobs.co/Narrative-Le...

since "what is a cozy game" discourse continues to swirl, I'll drop what I think is the definitive word on how to think about categories like that

Great day with great folks 😌🥰

When Halsey's album "If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power" came out, I didn't shut up about it to my friends for prob 3 months straight. I'd loved Halsey since "Gasoline" but then she dropped an album produced by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross and it's peak. Put on good headphones and treat yourself.

BREAKING: Nearly 1,000 faculty members at NYU are on strike. The union for non-tenured faculty, @CfuUaw, was optimistic about reaching an agreement this morning. But after giving the university a 3 hour extension, the two sides could not agree, and the strike is now on.

Welp.