teaching is really really really high up there on completely unappreciated and thankless jobs that are so profoundly important. a lecturer fired for a teaching a class that clearly outlined what was on the syllabus and that it was fine for people to not like it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RX6L...

Or Farenheit 451 where everyone is talking to avatars on screens in their home,.people od on drugs regularly, books are illegal, war is a daily occurrence and the demise of critical thinking skills from extreme intake of mindless media entertainment has allowed authoritarian government control.

In Nineteen Eighty Four all art for the "proles" is created without human intervention at all because they just feed a set number of scenarios and words into fiction machines and songwriting machines, which then create them and disperse them widely to keep the proles happy and FOR FUCK'S SAKE ORWELL

day 4 #gaming #indiegames #indiegamedev #videogames #gamedev #gamer

#Florida woman wins Mortal Kombat tournament playing with newborn baby in arms. You know, like you do. www.dexerto.com/mortal-komba...

Reminds me of when Cave Story was starting to have a renaissance and rereleases (2010ish) and Pixel (one of the greatest game makers of all time whose job then was writing drivers for printers) said smth like "I hope my wife sees now that making video games is not a waste of time". 😭😭😭

O_O'' this is one of the most iconic game soundtracks ever written. poor guy. <3 2013 was 5 years after the throwback retrostyle megaman 9 too that literally just aped 2 as much as possible. tell people you like their stuff, it never hurts. 😭 www.youtube.com/watch?v=wR9v...

I remember when Tony was telling us on tv, prior to the invasion, that it was his religious belief that helped him decide that the Iraq War was the right thing to do. He must be a very holy man now. I'm ashamed to breathe the same air as him and everyone who has enabled this and continues to do so.

there's an irish trans film in the cinema atm, that's p cool. gonna go see it tomorrow! ✌️

so, get this, a nation that is currently on trial for war crimes is planning more of them?? it's explictly sharings plans to illegally capture an international flotilla of humanitarians shipping baby formla to children dieing of mass starvation?! cmon now lads. www.youtube.com/watch?v=935t...

One Battle After Another and Sinners both lay out a formula for cinema success: diverse movies where white nationalists get duffed in the most graphic way possible shot and presented in increasingly baroque high resolution formats.

It's deeply fucked up that the primary concern seems to be how it affects business, not how it violates human rights and will lead to segregation, abuse, destitution and death.

INTERVIEWER: As you know, we are a nation beset by myriad horrors. What are you doing to fight back? SCHUMER: I have been reaching out to the horrors, many of which are friends, in hopes of working together on this for all Americans. You demand we descend into hell? Well ok, but let's do it right.

PTA feels so misanthropic to me sometimes. Kubrick's films are more outwardly dark but the vibe for me is cmon folks, get it together, we're better than this Whereas PTA is like shit sure sucks huh. We're all idiots Phantom Thread is the least pessimistic. Maybe cos it's the most personal/inward

Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995)

beyond all previously articulated reasons for supporting depictions of sexual assault, abuse, or just uncomfortable content in media, this is ground you should not cede because fascism is on a trajectory towards criminalizing its creation/possession in order to specifically round up queers.

Just a few days til my month-long October newsletter begins! buttondown.email/31DaysOfHall...

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imagine being a studio that uploads process, and hypes it up before release, and lets artists post the work that they did on it...imagine. imagine this.

I think one thing that depresses me a bit about art these days is that reactions are so disposable. how in games 99% is focused on technical details and whether a frame rate is hit or not and worse how the internet immortalizes rough first takes via rotten tomatoes or metacritic for all eternity

too sick to finish it last night, watched half so back again. and wowow. it's so deep and rich. so rewarding to watch good movies. besides the rich themes & ideas I do feel like there's a second parallel & national narrative, ala The Shining. not that it's the "real meaning", but just another layer

This cartoon by artist Frank Ape grounded me today #artmatters

ngl 3 vaccines at once on friday has absolutely cooked me. thought i was getting better yest but then last night and today im dieing again

Hey folks! Love each other, and love yourself. Right now, radical compassion is a weapon. Love your siblings and your allies. Because we have enemies that love to hate, and even while hating each other they are VERY united in it. So I suggest the opposite: Leftist unity everywhere! Yea, even there.

10 years, mad. I remember a few of us had some drinks downstairs in Pantibar that night but hardly anyone knew it happened. The terrifying boogeyman of "Self-ID". For the next few years, still v few knew about it. A few thousand folks were able to get personal documents a bit easier & that was it!

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Like, if you havent seen it, this scene is literally 10s long.

I hate when my frantic attempts to change my fate ironically lead to the same outcome prophesied by the soothsayer

I had a semi mental block about Licorice Pizza for some reason but I'm finally watching it now. damnnn. he's such a good writer, and director, and. 'You have to stop fighting with everyone all the time.' 'Oh fuck off Danielle'

It's pretty wild to me that investigators have uncovered that anti-trans campaigns are largely funded by the fossil fuel industry, and that the presumed motivations are pretty directly to redirect the public conversation away from climate change... and that this isn't bigger news.

So thrilled with this class lyric video, thank you so much @enigmastud.io (god I love working with TALENTLEGENDPEOPLE)

Here's a lyric video I put together for the INCREDIBLY talented @lauraryder.bsky.social's new song, which has been totally lodged in my brain since I first heard it ♥ 24 - Laura Ampersand youtu.be/NsblPGM8E5c

video games are way way way too long, and too expensive also.

I'm presenting my @qgcon.bsky.social talk on "Contemporary Video Game Archaeology as Anticipatory Grief" at 2pm ET (7pm BST) today! Most of the talks, including this one, are being streamed live on Discord. Check out the schedule and more here: www.qgcon.org

Loving Consume Me. Funny, snappy, and original. It tackles issues of body image, academic expectations, and coming-of-age dramas in a surprisingly compelling way. The metaphorical mini-games are all masterfully interwoven into the overarching life-sim gameplay. store.steampowered.com/app/2359120/...

Nish Kumar, "What is the Green Party's vision for how we redraw the economy of this country?" Zack Polanski, "The first thing is to have a big conversation about public ownership" "Nothing we need, and need to use, should be in private hands. All of our utilities should be nationalised"

We've had a ridiculous amount of emails and messages asking for this and it has to be said: you were right. This is almost definitely the best episode of any politics podcast ever. And it's the longest episode we've done too, obviously. See you Wednesday for Zack & Gary.

“Let’s call it for what it is: bullshit. The truth is, politicians have talked about little else but immigration for decades and in the most dehumanising ways. Polanski added: “Stop the boats’ is all we hear. Well, today I'm saying ‘stop the bullshit’.” www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

😭😭😭 the cost of this!!

I’m so excited for this one. @nightsignalentertainment.com made Home Safety Hotline and @greyalien.bsky.social made the super polished Regency Solitaire. This is gonna be something really special and I absolutely can’t wait.

Sobbing at these Italians being happy to be stuck in traffic during a strike for Palestine

these people are members of a batshit millenarian cult and it is high time we forced everyone to acknowledge this

I think about Mashina at least once a week, sometimes more. I think it's only sat with me better as time's gone on. I appreciate more of it every single day -- the music is so phenomenal, the radio stations & their commentary is not only extremely hilarious but also poignant. I love this game bros.

Moments before being slammed to the ground, masked ICE agents took this woman's husband - no warrant, no explanation. This is ICE: Assaulting a distraught woman, frightened by the disappearance of her husband, in front of her children and the cameras.

Magazine ad for "Sengoku Turb" (DC) [戦国ＴＵＲＢ]

trans indie gig tonight in inchicore. 8pm. www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Ire... I have two tickets and won't make it if anyone wants em for free? it's only a tenner in anyway, so go and support regardless!

just got three vaccines (flu, covid, pneumonia) and two rounds of bloods taken a lot of needles lol