Happy Trans Day of Visibility ❤️🏳️‍⚧️❤️

I tell people this about writing all the time. Ideas are the easy part. Turning the idea into a story people will enjoy reading - that's what's difficult.

"How does one hate a country, or love one?" Ursula Le Guin always out there expressing my exact feelings in trying times.

Dear #gamedev, we know that making a game is hard, but please try to wait until you have more strings before you send them to your translators. To translate those 15 words, we still have to accept the project, add it to our task tracker, open the project, start the actual translation work...

SO READY TO FEEL SO MANY THINGS

"I asked ChatGPT" etc etc I asked Pinky☆ and she said:

As for languages other than Japanese, my current pet peeve is "Lüften", because we can't possibly just say "to ventilate", we need to pretend it's ancestral German knowledge.

🗣️ HEKKI INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY 🗣️ women are capable of so many things! like matricide, committing crimes, motherhood, godhood, not talking about their feelings with their crush... the list goes on! thank you for accepting the women in 1000xRESIST with open arms 💖

Hey #TeaseYaGame, Our current project is The Arab League of Misfits! 🃏 A satirical 1v1 card duel game 🌍 travel 16 countries dueling regional leaders 🩴 Make use of over 140 cards full of Arab memes and flying slippers. 📚 Learn Arabic wit and cultural jabs through gameplay #indiegame #ALoM

It's almost like the AI bros have trouble understanding consent. (1/3)

🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work. This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public. Please spread the word. 🧵 1/4

I will never not find this disproportionately funny #discoelysium

JD Vance looks like yassified Chucky

Hope this is what @on-together.bsky.social and @futurefriendsgames.com had in mind when they launched 😅 Here’s a handful of our talented localizers, taking a class picture together 📸 (Very important work) Remote work is far from lonely. And we're happy that we can give our folks a space to hang 🤗

Thank you, Knower, I feel seen #1000xRESIST #gameloc

Not my house, but I know my way around.

New Year’s Eve.

I barely made it, but here I present to you the @fromthevoid.net Gaming Awards 2025. Maybe a bit heavier than previous years, but hey, that's the world for ya 🙃 ⬇️ fromthevoid.net/blog/gaming-...

As promised in our newsletter, we're organizing a giveaway of the Summer Eternal Anthology Deluxe Firestarter Bundle! To enter: 1. Follow us 2. Repost this post Winner receives one free pre-order for the Anthology Deluxe Bundle.

#introduction We list virtual #tech events that include community participation. Open means open data - reuse our listings! We will launch properly after the holidays - for now just saying Hi. 👋 Send us details of good virtual events you know about! opentechcalendar.co.uk #techcommunity #dev

so fucking tired of people saying AI "democratizes" creative skills, it's fucking privatizing it you dumb fuck, they're stealing your creativity from you and selling it back to you at a premium the ability to draw and write and sing and fucking whatever else came free with your fucking humanity

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Freya Emerson, 35, reportedly failed to respond to your casual request for a coffee as she didn’t know how to explain to you that she was overwhelmed and unavailable without making it sound like she didn’t like you – and has felt terrible about it ever since.

People saying Trump is dying or possibly dead, but I for one would urge caution, because it is quite possible a second healtbar will appear as he enters his second phase and a gargantuan centipede will burst forth from his torso, so be careful of his new sweep attacks and toxic buildup from bites.

Fuck the shovels.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2... I didn't know it was physically possible to cringe so hard.

Nothing makes more sense than you being a socialist male, trust me. But let me reiterate, no individual enjoyment of LLMs justifies the current project of building ecologically disastrous data centers to fuel their continued speculation. There is no justifiable socialist defense of doing so.

Since 2023, translators and interpreters have seen work dry up, rates plummet and their jobs reduced to editing AI-generated output. Some are leaving the field, others are considering bankruptcy. All despite any major upgrade in translation quality. This is how AI is killing translation work:

Here's one for all the game devs out there www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

can you imagine trying to convince the average skepti-dude in the year 2010 that this is what summer europe will look like in 2025

One of the most common arguments you hear from fans of generative ‘AI’ is that it’s not plagiarizing people’s work, it’s just learning like a human learns. So I’m going to break down why that’s just not true, and why it can never be true, with the existing systems. 1/

just make it exist first you can make it bear later

Esquie is wondering if you'd like a hug to stop you feeling whooo... #Esquie #Expedition33 #PixelArt

sorry i didn’t reply to your message i saw you texted and half-knew what it was probably about but didn’t have all the details to respond yet and if I open it I’ll forget i opened it so i can’t open it yet please know that it is causing me: intense psychic agony

Sick of everything being Orwellian or Kafkaesque. I demand more Scarrylous situations, where animals drive vehicles and run small businesses.

So ist es. 10 Jahre: „Die Toten kommen“. politicalbeauty.de/die-toten-ko...

Full support to our fellow translators from AVTE. While not being surprising coming from such a profit-oriented transnational corporation, it is still utterly disappointing and disgusting. Using MT is a conscious 𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗶𝗰𝗲 they make.

'avin a laugh~ I love Axl < 3 #AxlLow #GuiltyGear #PixelArt

Ireland has had "sELf iD" for 10 years now and not one single issue that the media, government and anti-trans movement predicted has come to pass. Not one. If it works in Ireland why would it not work here? No one who opposes it can give a good answer, because the real answer is transphobia

Your quarterly reminder to read this essay from 1941, called "Who Goes Nazi?" You might recognize some people from your life within the piece. harpers.org/archive/1941...

Yes, it's long. Yes, it's complex. Yes, it's detailed. And yes, it will make you sad unto nihilistic depression. But it's also necessary to read because AI is going to fuck the planet beyond expression. www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...

Sadly.. I don't think it wants to share with you.

I am begging people, from game devs to game journalists, to regular players: Stop equivocating difficulty options with accessibility. While difficulty options can make a game more accessible as a side effect, they are are not a substitute for real accessibility options.

I'm a big fan of the pomodoro technique for productivity, where I do my best impression of a tomato and sit in the dark for 48 hours before I am devoured by beings beyond my comprehension

"We'll just terraform Mars," they insist, unable to terraform Earth, a planet that is already perfect except it's like 2° too warm.

🤖 Time to put your co-op skills and friendship to the test, and run fast! Xion Leak is available in English, Italian, German, Portuguese (Brazil) and Spanish (LatAm) thanks to our fantastic team of #TranslatorsInTheCredits! 💫 Thank you @gentlebeastsstudio.bsky.social for the amazing collaboration

As the multinational giant @keywordsstudios.bsky.social loves to say, «There is a bit of Keywords in pretty much every video game that you know.» Yet, when the video game translators ask for fairer compensation, the giant seems as deaf as if it were someone else’s business. shorturl.at/2RVFw