the video game industry is a mess

Wine Moms and Daycare Dads are rightfully getting a lot of credit for the resistance but also we need to recognize a lot of this top notch Auntie energy that’s out there too doing a lot of lifting

I rarely judge parents. But not getting your kid vaccinated for childhood vaccines makes you a bad one (exceptions for kids with recent organ transplants, super high dose of chemo etc where medicine has to be more regimented. These kids need herd immunity. ). www.the-independent.com/news/health/...

I mean are NDAs, HIPAA, or a variety of European laws *really* a problem? techcrunch.com/2026/02/18/m...

Today my partner's kiddo is doing a Dogsled camp where she gets to hang out with doggos all day. I'm so jealous.

lmao this is an incredibly diplomatic way to describe the digital child sweatshop gig economy producing entirely unregulated gambling for an audience that’s a 90/10 ratio of kids to pedophiles. classic creative disruption

People talk about this stuff in terms of how much it'll suck for gaming and I hate to inform you how many MRI machines, X-Rays, all sorts of other vital machinery are just a Windows IoT Edition PC in a beige plastic box with a big magnet/accelerator/whatever attached.

We’ve come full circle

*Mid-Atlantic accent* Newsflash: Decades-long shitlord finds new way to show he's a shitlord! The narcissist screws over others for his own profit again & again. Yet capitalism and short memories won the day each time. Will this be the time the capitalist gets the comeuppance, gentle readers? (Nope)

I start a new project at work today, and my body woke me up at 6 am like it was a school field trip or Christmas. The client is in California, on PT time. And is a game developer. The earliest I'm going to get information on what I'll be working on is 1 pm. I could be asleeeeep 😭

Recent CBS News news: 1. Anderson Cooper leaves 60 Minutes after two decades 2. Stephen Colbert reveals network won’t let him air interview with Dem 3. Producer says politics dictating what airs 4. Owner’s bid for CNN parent back on the table. 5. Not firing Epstein pal.

Me whenever I have to communicate with other human beings #anxiety

I think it’s time for Democratic leaders to start saying “if you’re a pilot or ground crew involved in a deportation that was stayed by a judge, you’ll be held criminally liable for human trafficking.” Everyone involved in these flights should have that fear in the back of their minds.

A lot of people on here talk a big game about primarying do nothing democrats. In Sacramento we got a young candidate endorsed by unions, DSA, and the Working Families Party challenging and 82 year old millionaire married to a billionaire. Donate and help us win: secure.actblue.com/donate/maifo...

NOM

I got to this and ugly cackled. Backed. 👩‍🍳💋

Dreamation is this coming weekend and I'm so sad I'm not going. It's a friend birthday, and my partners kiddo is up for the weekend. If you're a game con human & haven't heard of Dreamation in NJ, it's one of the best cons I've been to.

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Some good 💿🐎 today about forgiveness, when it comes to public figures recanting their love of the admin/fascism. It comes down to transformative justice for me; what actions are people taking to not only show remorse for their harm, but also A) help the victims B) prevent others from doing harm.

Many games this weekend so far. Oceans, Calico Knitting Circle, Wine Cellar, Flip Seven, Tasso Banana, the Presence. Did not know where my phone was during more than one game, so limited pictures.

Happy Valentine's Day to queers and only queers. That's right, it's Gay Day now.

Facebook plans to put facial recognition in its glasses and they think we’re too stupid to fight back. Their internal memo: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”

I usually repost these on LinkedIn but gods do I hate that site. Anyways, the company I work for is still hiring, right now a Lead Producer role is open. With the caveat that I know people will ignore: don't ask me questions, I'm just signal boosting. demiurgestudios.com/job-openings/

Is there nothing this man can't do?

I swear, best game in the last decade, easy.

A pre-cooked rotisserie chicken from Safeway is $9.99. If I bought one every day for a year, that's $3,646.35. The average price of a house in the United States is $400,000. It would cost about 109 years of daily rotisserie chickens to buy that house.

I would really like to be on less of a rollercoaster. My health has been shit, but my relationships have been lovely. Rising fascism is taking a serious toll on my loved ones, but my job is amazing & I learned today I get to do even cooler things... Is it insomnia from The Horrors or Excitement?

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

Ending this operation is not enough. We need justice and accountability. That starts with independent investigations into the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, economic restitution for businesses impacted, abolishing ICE, and the impeachment of Kristi Noem.

hold on i gotta take this

PwC somehow more lucid on AI and education than most university leaders these days

Just for context, top 10% households bring in ~$250k. 15% ~$190k 20% ~$165k 50% ~$85k If the adults in your household *collectively* make more than $85k, you bring in more money than half of the households in the country.

Yesterday, someone made a Dungeons & Dragons analogy for vaccines in our (Facebook) comments. I don't play or understand D&D, so I asked our Preparedness Coordinator to explain. I still don’t understand it, but he said this analogy will be understood by people who do! Anyway, please get vaccinated.

Five Tiers of RPG Publishing Hasbro’s annual earnings came out this week, so I took a look. It is truly staggering how much Wizards of the Coast has changed the company since they were acquired; when looking at unadjusted earnings the Wizards of the Coast and Digital Games division was the only…

The No ICE in Minnesota Charity Bundle has officially LAUNCHED! There are 1,439 games to discover for a $10+ donation to Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota! Purchase the bundle here: itch.io/b/3484/no-ic...

As someone who didn't watch the Superbowl, seeing shit like this in my timeline is wild.

The definitive Ghostbusters film ranking: 1) Ghostbusters (1984) 2) Ghostbusters (2016) 3) Frighteners (1996) 4) Practical Magic (1998) 5) Ghostbusters 2 (1989) 6) Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021) 7) Evolution (2001) 8) Casper (1995) 9) Ghostbsuters: Frozen Empire

jfc people, I wake up at 5 am with insomnia to my timeline describing Neopets like they're in the Fatal RPG.

The public made noise for Liam Ramos and it got him released from Dilley. Now we must make noise for 7 year old Diana Crespo. Her parents were taking her for emergency medical care when ICE grabbed them, and she’s rotting in the camp sick and exposed to measles. Get them out!

I don’t like this

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

My cat once again deposited a live mouse in my room at 1:15 am. It was injured, but managed to scoot into my dirty laundry on the floor and then she lost it. 🙃 I went downstairs to try and sleep on the couch but I've just been adrenaline alert and uncomfortable the whole time.

Even if they didn't pay more in taxes, even if they were a complete negative on the country's budget, we should have open fucking borders. We should embrace the ideals of "Give us your tired, your poor, and your hungry." Not saying that that's ever been true, just that it should be.

The thing is, it’s not just a drop in the bucket and it hasn’t been just a drop in the bucket. Every small step we take, even incremental, to support our neighbors in the most local sense adds up in powerful ways. Do not let perfection diminish the impact. Shop *more* locally than you had.

Musk's X offices in France raided by Paris prosecutor's office

“It’s just weird to see a toddler in a pink onesie getting their eyes washed out from tear gas, you know?”

While the 3.5% rule is correlative not causative (ladylibertie.substack.com/p/the-35-rul... explains it better than I), it puts the 38% of people in the MN strike in fantastic perspective. We need 12 million of us protesting all year. Making good trouble, disrupting the system. We've got this.