i am on a Gamers Vacation where a few friends and i rented a house together and will play boardgames for three days straight first up: The Old King's Crown

Apply now! We’re partnering with @imaginenative.org to support the iNdigital Youth Collective — an 8-week Toronto program for Indigenous youth ages 12–24 learning game design + digital creation in Unreal Engine. ⏳ Deadline extended: imaginenative.org/year-round/i...

me bringing my partner to the gym: and there's the guy who coughs all the time. and that's the guy who said women have more value when they're young. and there's the guy who has never ever done a full rep of anything. and that's the guy who stares at me. and there's the

watched Jesus Christ Superstar for the first time. they really make Jesus so annoying until that one song

‘This shouldn’t be normal’: developers speak out about bigotry on Steam, the world’s biggest PC gaming storefront

My friends and I designed a lil TTRPG about the absurdities of capitalism called "Don't Torture Puppies" and we're fundraising for a print run as part of Zine Month. I'll also be making some art for it! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/g...

i loved Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie! go see it

Although he's been gone almost 28 years, brother Kwame Ture aka Stokely Carmichael is still teaching you just gotta listen

💾The Games & Storage special issue of Critical Studies in Media Communication is officially out! 📚Thanks to editors @nickttaylor.bsky.social, @thechristinet.bsky.social, and Robyn Hope for putting this together. 📡Be sure to check out my article on Satellaview restoration, 𝘚𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘈𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘦𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘦𝘴!

new blog post: The future of public game arts festivals and non-commercial games culture, with notes on @free-play.bsky.social / indie games events around the world www.blog.radiator.debacle.us/2026/02/the-...

If your (Canadian) university is buying subscriptions to gen AI like Copilot etc, can you send me a link (or the email you’ve gotten) about this? Collecting for a reflection… Example: it.ucalgary.ca/it-security/...

*young me, developing a strong sense of justice* This is gonna be great, what an asset, this will never drive me insane

HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.” hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...

i wonder when my apartment building will take down the christmas tree in the foyer. it's february 8

Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”

My politics

i'm very sick and i've totally lost my voice and it sucks a lot AND now i can't even talk to my dog

Today’s the last day to get your NDP membership to be eligible to vote in the leadership race. Get your membership today and let’s fight for a better future for all of us, together:

Don't forget to submit your playful works to the #AMazeAwards by February 1st! Demos, experiments, interactive performances, installations, immersive theater, or prototypes are welcome too.  👉 Register here: https://f.mtr.cool/kcwtodyzgj #AMaze2026 #arthousegames #playfulmedia #mbbfunded

PC games giant Valve has been told it has to face a £656 million lawsuit in the UK, which claims the Steam giant's revenue share is too high and negatively impacts consumers. www.gamesindustry.biz/valve-to-fac...

On Feb 23rd, I'll be giving the 2026 Lansdowne Lecture in Media Studies at UVic! Join us virtually to speculate on how feminist game studies warned us about everything—from GenAI scandals to online swarms—and why/if/when we need to burn it all down 🔥 events.uvic.ca/media-studie...

Blistering piece on ed tech in @economist.com. ‘Although ed-tech companies tout huge learning gains, independent research has made clear that technology rarely boosts learning in schools—and often impairs it.’ economist.com/united-state...

Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step. 1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish. 2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.

should you have the best bite first or the best bite last?

Gaming doesn’t count as screen time. Gaming is books. Unless it’s on your phone - that is screen time. Movies are books unless they are Marvel, who produce screen time. Television is screen time.

whenever i hit a fitness goal i end up spiraling out and wondering what is the point of anything, so best not to ever set goals

you: ... me: haha ya totally. wow. isn't it weird that i'm going to die one day?

In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties. The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized. Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.

Last week, I got a corrections request for a story I didn't write, on a publication I don't write for. It sent me down a very strange rabbit hole involving a mysterious content publisher. There's a lot I don't understand, but here's what I know: aftermath.site/nicole-carpe...

“What this cheery accommodation to a new commercial regime obscures is the neoliberal restructuring of the classroom, where debt-saddled students and overworked adjuncts come together in overcrowded classrooms to transact knowledge exchange and produce actionable data points.” 🔥🔥

obsessed with this freshly built apartment building in my neighbourhood. ground floor windows where you can directly see the toilet? why not!!

just finished The Seance of Blake Manor and: I liked it a lot

every seat in a movie theater should have an "I have to pee" button and if enough people press it they should be able to pause the movie

teaching my favourite classes this semester! theory of game design, gender and sexuality, and capitalism on screen

2026 is already bringing about studio closures and corporate decisions without worker input. Now is the time to build a better future. As tech and video game workers, organizing is how we fight back. Learn how @ one of our organizer trainings this month ⤵️

Hot off the presses with our first post of 2026: @sesmith.lol on algospeak and how softening the way we speak dodges hard conversations about big things.

X is producing deepfakes at a rate 84x higher than the top 5 dedicated deepfake sites combined, according to an analysis. Victims say there's no recourse. Their images are still up despite reports to X, and those who speak out become targets. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Given everything happening right now, I updated this article with options for weather apps, web forms, and translation services — along with some tweaks to existing categories. I hope it helps your transition off US tech!

"...part of the dynamism of Alexander as an interlocuter is the extent to which her personal biography is braided into the trajectory of gaming’s twisting twenty-first-century form." THANK YOU @lainenooney.bsky.social for this interview. romchip.org/index.php/ro...

all the movies i watched over winter break, ranked from best to worst: romy and michelle's high school reunion american fiction knives out: wake up deadman bridget jones' diary hamnet round and round avatar 3 les miserables our little secret marty supreme f1

I’m planning a column about women and games next year. I want to discuss how stories about women are told/received in games, and how does womens’ criticism exist- where/what is it? If you are a woman game writer/dev/critic and would like to share your thoughts, dm or email [email protected] !

turning Solar Server off for a few days as the battery is suffering in these cold and foggy days, brb!! ☁️☃️

turning Solar Server off for a few days as the battery is suffering in these cold and foggy days, brb!! ☁️☃️

usually i like to do tedious boring work that i can do while watching a movie but today my work is so tedious and so boring that not even watching a movie can save it (updating my canada commons cv)

I love New Years and setting intentions for the year ahead. My 2025 one was 'All Life, No Task' because I was feeling like everything I had to do in my life, even things I like, were chores. I'd say I made some progress on that and want to continue more

2025 was a strange year for video games. It was really hard for me to make a traditional "GOTY list." So I didn't. That said, the best thing I played this year was Known Mysteries by @solarserver.games (Kara Stone), and it's not even close. youtu.be/kkvQQwN5fyo?...

That time of year again!

🎬 Filmmakers! The Internet Archive’s 2026 Public Domain Day Remix Contest is open! 🎥 Create a 2–3 minute short film using at least 1 piece of public domain material from 1930. 🎶🎭📚 📆 Deadline: January 7, 2026 💰 First prize: $1,500 ℹ️ Details 👉 blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/2... #publicdomain #contest

are there any good pieces of media about social media/online platforms? games, movies, or novels?

Incredible what you find when you start looking for data on the "white men can't get jobs anymore" phenomenon www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/12/17/w...