"This is what Polymarket thinks is gonna happen" is the new "I've decided this reprehensible rich man's opinion now qualifies as headline-worthy news"

Fun fact(s)! This game is 1. Completely bonkers, and 2. Currently on sale. store.steampowered.com/app/819020/Z...

It's amazing that Trump could've just done nothing and would've benefited (again) from an improving economy, but he made a big show of Shaking Things Up and here we are.

Over the last few days I made a tiny side project. It's an experimental game about artificial selection of silly alien creatures, where you can engineer the target alien through selective breeding. Web-based, free. Play it here: erytau.itch.io/creatures-fr... #gamedev #indiedev

Ah, SPIEF, renowned for its unerring thought leadership. www.euractiv.com/interview/cf...

the main reason given as to why people are moving away from e-books back to paper is 'screen fatigue', the idea that people want a break from the digital world, but I would like to propose instead: the publisher can't update your book so it starts playing more ads

(Waving hello)

Apart from anything else, Vanilla Ice has got a max 10 minutes of recognizable material, and that's counting the theme from a ninja turtles movie

I’m just over here reading normal things, like “The cemetery contains one of the largest and oldest known aggregations of ground nesting bees ever documented.” www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

pretty much every single one of the founders except for John Adams were the "candles $3600 someone help me my family is starving" meme, but for brandy and slaves

We’re so close to “very positive”! Play Amberspire and if you like it- give us a review s.team/a/3350750

so like lemme weigh in on this as someone who is more financially comfortable than many in my generational cohort: everything I have gained seems precarious and temporary because I know the people with real money will take it all from me the second they get an opportunity and no one will protect me.

Unreliable narrator stories are fun until you live through a global-economy tanking war between two sets of relentless liars both trying to influence a stock market full of investors who don't actually care what's true.

“steven cheung’s tailor” has to be up there amongst most challenging careers

When your community removes a racist statue, do like Charlottesville and melt that fucker down. Because if you just stash it in storage, it becomes what @artcrimeprof.bsky.social calls “America’s strategic racism reserve” — ready for redeployment. www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/s...

Pictured: The hospital's perspective of me seeking medical attention.

Our little game about building a paper town now has a demo on Steam ✂️✨ Want to give it a try? store.steampowered.com/app/3907910/... #screenshotsaturday #indiegames #cozygames

Ooh, I somehow missed that Mario's Modules - one of the most creative Mario 64 romhacks ever - got a sequel. romhacking.com/hack/mario-s... A puzzle adventure about collecting code-chips and combining them to create your move-set. With both a regular campaign and a roguelike procedural dungeon.

I mean, sure, but I’d rather breathe in a bag. youtu.be/Rxa7lb4Vqd4

MESSENGER: sire, a peasant named humpty dumpty fell off a wall KING: send all my horses and men to put him back together QUEEN: should we not just send a doctor KING: no send all the horses and men ADVISOR: my liege, the castle will be defenseless KING: all of them i said

Happy Sandford Liberation Day to all who celebrate. To mark the occasion, here’s my (somewhat embarrassingly earnest) essay on how HOT FUZZ disguises a critique of policing as a series of clever jokes. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Think we need a break from "father figure and child" games to give room to "drunk aunt at a wedding" storylines. Let their stories be heard!

Uncle Lee's Cookbook releases in less then 48 hours! We decided to update the demo to include all the new features and bug fixes the full game has, as well as a new prologue episode. Try it on Steam or itch.io! store.steampowered.com/app/3777930 apicici.itch.io/uncle-lees-c...

We made this in a text adventure engine. Then @petermjgross.bsky.social programmed something into it that shouldn’t function in said text adventure engine. It’s something you should see yourself! #indiedev #scifi #amaze

“The Odyssey is a very serious book, Odysseus is a very sympathetic, brilliant character and you should not make fun of it” - someone who has clearly never actually read the Odyssey.

UVa became a hotbed of racist eugenics in the first part of the 20th century thanks to then-president Edwin Alderman, including bringing aboard Bean and others to train future doctors and lawmakers archive.news.virginia.edu/content/uva-...

I read something I hated, so now it’s everybody’s problem (I don’t make the rules) pmjg.blogspot.com/2026/05/alte...

Some pretty crazy stuff that somehow didn’t make it on the air.

As we've said many times - If your house is suddenly full of spiders, it may constitute as a spider sanctuary and you should check with your local spider sanctuary laws.

Hold on. We the taxpayers are going to pay companies $900 million, which is more than 6x what we spend on wind power R&D, to NOT build wind power at a time when electricity prices are spiking and we need more clean power?

“Do what you love, and you’ll never work a day in your life“ …unless, you know, you give a shit about your craft.

How it started/How it's going

Oh god, Horse Armor is within the Ask Historians 20 year rule for historical content 💀

This wasn’t explicitly written about Pete Hegseth running the DoD, but it’s all I can think about now.

Hey folks, I've finally gotten around to adding Demonschool to my Steam curator page, a game I had wanted to give a thumbs up to, but desperately wanted to see through to the end before doing so, as I was utterly captivated by it. Especially that soundtrack! store.steampowered.com/app/1900250/...

Only 3 more days before you can dive into our Victorian fantasy world where vampires walk alongside humans 🦇 Our next otome game releases on April 29th! Be a vampire or a human, fall for 3 male love interests, and solve a murder mystery 💖 Wishlist: store.steampowered.com/app/3072470/...

Dungeon Clawler 1.0 is coming out on April 30th!! Or to be more precise... THIS THURSDAY!! 🎮🐰 Coming to PC, Mobile, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series S|X and Nintendo Switch! 💥

this is america. you could find yourself within 100yds of a shooting at any time, in any place. school, the grocery store, a movie theater, a block party, a public park… it happens to regular people every day. but this week we’ll get 50+ weepy op-eds because it happened to the guys who write op-eds

What?! Gritty wouldn’t have “tried,” he would have GOTTEN THE JOB DONE.

Pour one out for the Hilton staff who are working perhaps the worst shift in food service history rn.

But… Skunks?! is a game about stinking on purpose, with sick beats. bitterlyindifferent.itch.io/but-skunks #Gamesky #Freegame #Itch #Quadplay

NEW | THE CUT’S 'Losing My Friend Over Wegovy' ESSAY IS AN ALL-TIMER EXAMPLE OF BROKEN EDITORIAL ETHICS Editors should a duty of care to writers, no matter how tempting a take might be. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-cuts-l...

one thing i will say about the james beast news is you cannot freely refer to yourself and your peers as "the boys" if your primary care physician is pointing out you should consider scheduling a prostate exam in the next few years

Did you already submit your bird-themed game to our aptly named Steam festival Birds of Play? We need 20-50 wild games to submit the festival and then hopefully are able to go through with it and officially host it on Steam. tally.so/r/lbWro6

Every piece of a game's environment tells the design team’s story. Four architectural examples from games and real life offer insights for narrative design and environmental storytelling. www.cindiknapton.com/post/narrati... #GameSky #GameDevelopment #IndieDev

Steam as a rough place to operate: "If you're a studio reading this band as a strategy, don’t ignore the corpses underneath it." www.deconstructoroffun.com/blog/newzoos... #GameSky #IndieDev #GameDev

It’s inaccurate to say Mario is brave and Luigi is cowardly Luigi is afraid of death, so he runs away from danger. Mario is afraid of living, so he runs towards death. Both brothers are cowards in their own way

Made this cute smol interactive fiction about being a birb the other day. This is my only suitable for all game. whoblue.itch.io/you-are-a-birb