Rec-league sports: no trans women, they're too good. Video game tournament: we won't let trans women play, don't worry. Dumbass author: it's not fair that in order to be beautiful now you have to be trans. All in unison: we are good feminists (we know women are terrible at everything)

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Yesterday, the Epic Games Store decided at the last minute not to distribute the game, after having previously approved a release build. HORSES is otherwise now available on GOG, Itch, and Humble for $4.99. www.horses.wtf

a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit

Hey so are @mayorjacobfrey.bsky.social @governorwalz.mn.gov doing anything about this or are we just letting people be disappeared and not caring about abandoned children.

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

@profanity.accountant piss

Being rich literally makes your brain rot.

i've got 4 games on itch right here! all 20% off, or even cheaper if you buy the bundle with all 4! bsky.app/profile/jess...

Today is Creator Day on @itch.io! For 24 hours, Itch doesn't take a cut from sales, meaning creators keep 100% of the money you spend. As is tradition, I want to spend the day boosting as many indie #ttrpg people as possible, so if you have games on Itch, drop them here!

Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.

Britain's attacks on trans existence have global significance

Bluesky suspended Goran Gligovic, the guy that makes nice art. Jesus fucking Christ Bluesky

idiot guy: i'm like the wolf i'm stalking my prey alone through the forest and being raw as fuck even if i'm in a group i'm the alpha actual wolf: i love my friends so much!!! i love to romp and kiss my bros and work together as a family <3 awooo etc etc have you seen the puppies oh my god come see

Is it dumb to think there should be an indie games store that *only* sells games from small studios, and *only* ones it thinks more people should buy/play? Itch *also* has discoverability/curation problems, also a problem of scale/“moderation” (of a kind, clearly)

Honest analysis: as this poorly-applied policy can kill 75% of sales for a game like this, it's indicative of a wider, ongoing crisis for the creative potential of video games. Valve may not intend anti-art sanitizing, but that's the result. Developers don't have much choice, but players still do.

Santa Ragione, a venerable, innovative and award-winning studio, may close due to @valvesoftware.com's unaccountable, counter-factual ban. From an early build of HORSES I can easily say it's another award-contender. Valve can still rectify this poor judgement. www.gamedeveloper.com/business/-it...

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Well, well, well, imagine this: Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...

It's interesting how this all flows from a single regulatory requirement: Steam asks developers to disclose GenAI usage on their store page, while no other store does this

📌 Looks like the ones affected are model numbers RP-1304 and HL-RP-S1304.

Extremely bad news for everyone who rides a Rad Power Bike 😢

Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.

Honestly can't imagine how people can buy this game when this is how the studio treats people. By all signs it's a horrible studio to work for, churning out a next-gen version of something decades old, that will cost like $80+.

It feels impossible that Chris Fleming hasn’t made appearances on @dropout.tv by now

Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait. My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.

The NHS announcing the need to do more puberty blocker trials is “we haven’t proved that vaccines DON’T cause autism” in a funny hat

It’s so depressing how even most kids think Roblox is bad. But it’s where their friends are, so despite knowing and admitting it sucks, it’s the way to hang out with them, and there isn’t a platform with more gravity. Remind you of any dynamics adults follow? 🫠🫠🫠

shelved by genre is a good podcast

How’s that “uploading a photo to prove you’re really a woman so we can keep everyone safe” thing going

This is a good thread because it goes beyond "get a lawyer" and into "here's the sort of lawyer you need and how to find them."

I’m *very* cranked up about idiots thinking N.K. Jemisin doesn’t deserve every award she has ever received. But I’m more affected when I consider how lucky we are to be alive in a world with her and Hopkinson still in it. What the fuck did the genre do without them, how’d we cope

do yourself a favor and dont even hate-watch that shit this year, man. go see a movie. edgar wright's new thing is in theatres. demonschool is out in 2 days, birdcage is out tomorrow. play something from your backlog. tron 2.0 is $10 on gog. catch up on some tv. do groceries. whatever.

game awards 2016: we signed a sponsorship deal with schick, here is a bit razor mascot man. he's buff for some reason game awards 2025: we signed a sponsorship deal with a company that knowingly sells ad time to the government agency that kidnaps immigrants

I get why it happens but goddamn do I wish anything could hit as hard on the timeline as something that sucks that everyone hates written by or about the worst person you know. I wish something good or interesting was able to get anywhere near the traction some shit that sucks does.

Of course I was conflicted when I first realized my highly intelligent genius daughter was also a fiendishly cunning serial killer, but eventually I decided it is my responsibility as a parent to raise the best child I can and it is the responsibility of the FBI to capture her.

In fairness “we don’t like England” is the rare Republican policy I can wholeheartedly support

i'm sure we can extract the Ashfield Relic from the museum with minimal bloodshed. after all, the Ashfield Relic told me so

Just found out Giant Bomb keeps a running list of games using generative AI, and it helped me remove a couple of games from my wishlist. Woo. www.giantbomb.com/generative-a...

The Team at A Better DFL is releasing the following statement on the disastrous listening session from Thursday. ABetterDFL.org. We need to hold the DFL to a higher standard than "at least we're not republicans."

steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back

watching as people cross an active Starbucks picket line (which is currently chanting “don’t cross our picket line”) even tho there are literally two other coffee shops directly across the street??? What do you think it feels like to be evil

I think that if you say that assaulting a 15-year-old isn’t really pedophilia, or is substantively different/less bad than assaulting a younger child, *on television*, you shouldn’t be able to have a functional life outside your home. People should be telling you what kind of person you are all day.

We are going to have AI tutors before we have 15-kid classrooms, and it *still* will be talking about three-cueing instead of phonics.

The thing about cruelty and inhumanity is that the limits of who is affected keep expanding and expanding until we shove it back the other way

BREAKING Wes is about to have a pisco and malort cocktail.

Jeffrey Epstein advised Steve Bannon that the lawyers representing Brett Kavanaugh in his confirmation hearing should accuse Christine Blasey Ford of being on medications that cause false memories or memory loss.

"The mainstream understanding of AI is as an interefering piece of shit which doesn't work" pt II www.askamanager.org/2025/11/the-...