Nancy 6/4/26

5/ There's an official petition to withdraw C-22, sponsored by NDP MP @jennykwan.bsky.social. More than 2,600 Canadians have signed. We need more. Add your name and ask others to do the same while it's still at committee: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

As I keep trying to tell people — if you have an email list, no one can ever buy it. If you have "a Substack" (sic), they already own it, so they don't even have to.

It's now been 14 years since the greatest correction in newspaper history ran in Rockhampton's 'Morning Bulletin' in Australia.

The Stray Story (Riverhill Soft/Union Planning, FM-7/PC-8000/PC-88, 1983)

A while back we had the wonderful opportunity to pitch a Red Dwarf adventure game directly to Doug Naylor himself. While the project didn't end up going ahead, we're now free to share some of the work we produced for the pitch!

come to @gamesewer.com!! Sunday June 14th, so called Vancouver, Red Gate Arts Society, 6pm!! Games! Music! Art! Performance! and maybe some stuff that blurs the lines of all 3!!

Going to name my next open source project a.out just to create confusion

Well, at least the headline isn’t mincing words. www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

This govt is jamming Bill C-22 Lawful Access through Parliament, undermining democratic fundamentals. Witnesses are being heard while the door has already closed for proposed amendments. Parliamentarians haven't been provdied with briefs from witnesses. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Angeline Era's 20% off for the week!! Every level hides in plain sight in this uniquely mysterious action-adventure⚔️ store.steampowered.com/app/2393920/...

New #blog post! TOWNSQUEER Vol 1 (!!) and all its finery. Also some general housekeeping, most importantly that the e-mail newsletter is going away, so if you were subscribed to that, please make the switch over to RSS! 🙇 indietsushin.net/posts/2026-0...

Michigan has outdone itself again with the "I Voted" sticker contest. https://bridgemi.com/michigan-government/public-voting-begins-for-michigans-i-voted-sticker-design-contest/

New blog post time! This week's game is Coaster Works, the Dreamcast roller coaster simulator that managed to make construction focused and (mostly) intuitive on a controller in 1999. It also served as the start of a long, ongoing journey for a humble yet impressive solo developer: #blog #gaming

Not to oversell it or anything but this is probably one of the most important shmups in years. It's got some very radical ideas about game structure, one of the few shmups I've seen do a meta-game progression system really well. You gotta try this once it's out. Here's the English trailer.

Oh that's a fun new bug, looks like it's no longer possible to drag and drop videos into the post composer. Definitely looks like a bug, I'll have to report.

Request to bluesky: you know what country I'm in, please don't put a "June 2 election" banner up if you know the June 2 election is for a country I'm not in

My *World Premiere* playthrough of Wacky Races for Mac is now on youtube, complete with timestamps. youtu.be/SojGXZZTyws

It's Pride Month! I'm a gay! I'm also disabled and homebound and I need help to survive. I have just enough to pay my rent for the month and not much else. Bills, medicine, supplies and necessities like food are all not covered by my benefits. 🙏💸 0/1600 ko-fi.com/jebwrench

a place to rest (@komi-tsu.bsky.social) "I would like to see more safe benches in cities. This is especially true in Tokyo." Free - Browser: warpdoor.com/2026/06/01/a...

This game *rules*. Very rare hacking-themed game involving puzzles that actually feel like you’re doing hacking. I really enjoyed it.

Happy Pride month, from VGAPride and my 60mhz Pentium running MS-DOS.

HOORAY FOR MY NICE TRANS FRIENDS!!!

New blog post! I came across a fully-interactive offline archive(!!) of a BBS from 1994 and wanted to share an interactive walkthrough of it. Let's explore 90s Kansai online and see what people were chatting about. cdrom.ca/games/2026/0...

As promised: the tool we made to help convert Hoi! from Amiga assembly code to portable C code. The original Hoi! assembly files are included to prove it's working. bitbucket.org/rhinoid/conv... We hope it will help other Amiga devs to revive their old games and breathe new life into them. 💚

What do you mean there is an unreleased English version of 1994's Wacky Races from Future Pirates Inc for mac, complete with English voices? What do you mean Snakeman just found it ebay browsing the other night? You mean to tell me he's streaming it Monday 3pm EDT at www.twitch.tv/dreamharrier...

I was drafting up a thread about it but I decided I should "blog" about my first weeks with the #MiSTer-based SuperStation One console instead - spoiler alert: I'm having a lovely ol' time with it!

Word, Ms Word

Damn if only there were some alternatives (Reminder that several months ago council unanimously voted to direct staff to find alternatives but I guess the challenge was simply insurmountable)

Pro tip! If you're thinking of getting a Nintendo Color TV Game 6 or 15 because newer game systems are so expensive, make sure you get the variant with the "V" at the end of the serial number, not the "S". Otherwise you won't have true potentiometer controls! nicole.express/2023/not-ano...

I'm watching Aura play Mina the Hollower, and I'm kind of fascinated they seem to have given the whole game a major balance pass during that long delay? At least this seems quite different from the demo I played from before the delay.

Find myself wondering if my XD FirstClass BBS post would be on-topic to submit to lobste.rs... honestly can't quite tell

BTW I spent some time asking around and no one else I've spoken to has ever seen something like this for FirstClass before. It sure looks like they cobbled this together from the official FirstClass offline demo and found a way to get it to load their own content.

By the way, if you want to visit XD for yourself, I've included a link to an in-browser Mac emulator with the CD loaded! So please do load it up and click around. There's so much more here than I had the chance to include and I'd love for more people to get to try it out. cdrom.ca/games/2026/0...

New blog post! I came across a fully-interactive offline archive(!!) of a BBS from 1994 and wanted to share an interactive walkthrough of it. Let's explore 90s Kansai online and see what people were chatting about. cdrom.ca/games/2026/0...

Afternoon, Bluesky!

From jwz - anyone got a contact over at Yahoo? www.jwz.org/blog/2026/05...

The mythical “evening music”

Anytime I find myself tempted to despair over the state of the current web Defector’s there to raise my spirits. So grateful to have such great stuff to read there daily.

Today in cat news defector.com/how-i-became...

The epithet "little goody two shoes" is a holdover from the days when only the most insufferable children had two shoes

I may be annoyed by how unnecessarily JS-centric a lot of news sites are, but on the plus side most of them serve up their content on initial load and *delete* it with JS if it’s paywalled so reader mode accidentally bypasses a ton of paywalls these days

Hey, so what's up with Youtube's playlist embed in HTML webpages? It doesn't show it's a playlist anymore and if you click the Youtube icon it takes you to just a single video now.

3/ We need to help Cuba right now, even if it bothers Trump: Canada should send immediate humanitarian fuel aid, in as much quantity as we can quickly assemble. And we should be speaking out loudly on the international stage: US military action against Cuba is absolutely unacceptable!

MF Doom - Coffin Nails www.youtube.com/watch?v=sd-d...

I think every site should have a feature where you can reblog with a "quiet" comment like tumblr reblog-with-comments-in-the-tags

there's a flute—philosophers have written on this—a most delicate instrument, crafted of silver and bone, and to blow any note upon it would bring the gods themselves to wakefulness and end their dream which is creation, and this flute waits in your future (graduating class starts booing me) what???