A number of Vermont businesses have announced they are fully or partially closed today as part of a national protest against Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Others pledged to donate a portion of sales to organizations assisting immigrants.

If you’ve been thinking to yourself “man, I really want to help people in Minneapolis, but I also some some cookies, AND I’d also like to help out trans, neurodiverse, and BIPOC youth“ boy oh boy do I have some good news for you! digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/troop5...

"There’s an extremely hurtful narrative going around that my product, a revolutionary new technology that exists to scam the elderly and make you distrust anything you see online, is harmful to society."

It's weird how after every good thing/gain (even if we don't call it a victory) people circle up to insist we shouldn't celebrate. Celebrating is not how people give up, in my experience; believing we can't win, never win, and have no power is (with a side of joylessness).

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brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

if you do not want to watch the video, go to settings > content and media and uncheck the "autoplay videos and gifs" box right now

How is it GDQ time again already??? I swear they have figured out how to speedrun the calendar

One of our biggest printings ever! In just over a month we will receive copies of: - two NEW books: Life is Strange & Dragon Age II - three old books with refreshed covers - three more reprints ...meaning every single paperback will be back in stock. @kaittremblay.bsky.social @charlottereber.com

So, we have news... Season 3 is in the works. We have been working very hard on it. Wishlist it now! #indigames #gamedev #adventuregames store.steampowered.com/app/3990360/...

This is the conclusion, which I'm pulling out from behind the paywall because it'll probably be a free newsletter or podcast one day. I think the AI era is a reckoning for the tech industry, one where consumers finally realize they're being abused.

Dragon Age Day Comes And Goes In Complete Silence Just One Year After Veilguard https://kotaku.com/dragon-age-the-veilguard-day-bioware-layoffs-december-4-2000650888

No one can do everything; don't worry about fixing the whole world by yourself. This will take all of us, each working in our own areas of expertise, with our own communities. Just pick your lane. Find your organizing home. Join with your neighbors. And do SOMETHING.

whenever the sun sets at 4:45 pm i open a window, lean out and yell "WRONG" as loud as i can. that usually buys me another hour or two of sunlight

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trans rights are human rights 💾🏳️‍⚧️✊ #floppydiskart #transgender

My Bluesky dash being a 50/50 mix of gaming and political news is making it really hard to keep track of which "MTG" people are yelling about at any given moment

don’t make me learn about any more opinion columnists. no more! ive had enough columnists and their opinions!

Stop sharing AI slop. It's one thing if you don't know or just made a mistake. No need to breathe down someones neck b/c its harder to tell nowadays. But if you do know (ESPECIALLY IF YOU DO KNOW) even if you're posting it to make fun of it or sharing it unironically... consider not doing that.

If you see this QTP with a female anime character you love

ok fine, just a little more libbing out, as a treat

This is why you can't succumb to nihilism. I know it's SO fucking hard, but that's what the fash want: for us to give up. Fuck them, it's not over

[in a way I haven't truly meant it all year] nice

What we know so far, 8:30pm —Democrats flip VA-Gov & VA-LG. —Also means Dems take VA trifecta. —Dems in good shape to win NJ-Gov. —Dems appear to flip 2 statewide offices in Georgia. —JD Vance's half-brother loses in Cincinnati. —Last GOPer in Orlando council gone. —PA: Dem justices up big so far.

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

LinkedIn/privacy news you can use.

If only everyone could have predicted this www.thegamer.com/ea-generativ...

Like I’m appearing in these guys’ mirror the moment the first data center deal goes under. They’re going to open the fridge and I am going to roll out of the crisper with 30 pages of printed out headlines

Still the greatest endorsement of all time

This AWS Outage is proving it may not be the best idea for us to rely on a few tech monopolies and their billionaire founders to control the core infrastructure of the internet. While it’s top of mind, cancel your Amazon Prime. Let’s kick em’ while they’re down, literally.

A dinosaur talking with an NPR producer.

notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”? anyway that’s why these events are important

Anyway, block, ignore, talk football.

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Gotta block them all! Block early, block often! bsky.app/profile/did:...

“When they rob us of art and emotion, that leads us towards the aesthetics of fascism. In this film, all the sets are real, the decor is human-sized, there are painstakingly created miniatures... It’s there to remind us that art is not only necessary, it is urgent. And AI can go fuck itself!”

The ability to remove your post when a hostile account quote-tweets you is a great feature of Bluesky. To do it, go to their quote-tweet of you, click on the three dots in the bottom right, then click “detach quote.” It shows up as “removed by author.”

This is a very good point about DHS. They direct harassment campaigns on Twitter using quote-tweets.

I'm only a couple hours into Silksong but I'm already starting to see a worrying trend of me yelling "THAT'S! MA! GIRL!" at the screen every time I finally beat a hard fight.

this is beautiful

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Hollow Knight Silksong Accessibility Settings Preview - Access-Ability Given the lack of pre-release review codes for Silksong, I went and tracked down as much confirmed accessibility for the game info as I could. Text: access-ability.uk/2025/08/26/h... Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PsJ...

Hahahahahahahahahahahahha hell yeah dude

Since this came out I've been so bitterly amused by how *much* of my stuff is here. Folks have spent so much energy declaring my work inferior and me a "DEI hire"... but then they stole every book, story, and even interview to feed their plagiarism machines. And yeah, I'm adding my name.

Wrote about AI, and the way we talk about it all having the quality of a ghost story. open.substack.com/pub/houseofm...

This is not a joke. Consider this. Its 150 gigs for images and all. That's literally less than one AAA game.

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This ends tonight!