Black cat chain

apropos of nothing, here's an old blog post i did about piracy and when/whether it's ok and things like that when the people who make the games aren't even getting to keep their jobs, far less profit from a game's success, pirate those suckaz tbh www.joewintergreen.com/one-time-a-g...

I'm re-re-posting this significant article: "The open-source archive now contains more than 500,000 digitized photographs, identification papers, diaries, maps, films, and letters, many of which were collected directly from Palestinian families and might otherwise have been lost forever."

It’s weird that every time we hear about layoffs we also hear reports of “oh, but they’re also working on x game!!” Get excited for Quake and Fallout! From development teams that have been completely destroyed!

imagine if they fired every band member every time an album came out

This is brilliant, gutsy reporting by @laurajedeed.bsky.social . I could t have stomached what she went through to show us that we were right — the nation’s 250th was indeed a shitshow. If only they had kept the civil servants around who know how to do these things….

continue to think that planter’s support with the lib/left male pundit class was not *in spite of* his various transgressions, but because of them, a frankly pathetic attempt to reassert dem masculinity through a man whose violent career they believed represented working class authenticity

Billionaires Like Taylor Swift And Corporations Like PlayStation And Xbox Are Not Your Friends https://kotaku.com/xbox-layoffs-playstation-taylor-swift-travis-kelce-wedding-2000712926

so to be clear, the city didn't "give up." the last time they painted over the mural, sitting city council members alexis mercedes rinck and joy hollingsworth personally helped scrub the paint off, effectively rendering hot rat summer an official city monument.

I have edited a lot of sexual-assault-accusation articles, and this one easily clears every veracity check: contemporaneous emails with her therapist, a boyfriend who knew, a woman she warned—all before Platner ran for office. Good on Politico for nailing it, and on Jenny Racicot for speaking up.

This is the Bluesky equivalent of the Great American Novel. Gripped all the way to the end.

it's crazy when you see a photo for the first time and recognize it's gonna be used as a shorthand for the era you're living in right now by historians in 100 years

As is tradition by now every year

new metaphor just dropped

the use of “performative” as an insult here is why these people are losing their primaries. yes, voters want you to perform their anger and disgust! they want representatives to represent their symbolic interests! the idea that good representation is necessarily quiet and unobtrusive is wrong!

NEW: Workers say their bosses are becoming obsessed with cocaine and essentially turning the entire workplace into an exercise in cocaine psychosis -- making absurd pivots, communicating only in cocaine slop, and even asking cocaine who to fire bsky.app/profile/jonc...

You can get ALL of our games for less than $60 on Steam with the Strange Scaffold Collection. store.steampowered.com/bundle/35090...

Theyve mobilized faster against this than anything in the past 10 years and to me that pretty much says it all and justifies what so many have said about them collectively for anyone willing to pay attention

Mamdani promised and is immediately delivering on policies the centrists sneered at us for even mentioning for 40 years. They're losing their minds because he's showing they've been lying all along about what is possible; he is proving that good government comes from the (not even that far) left

Shareholders.

this is a terrific opening paragraph for a dystopian pulp novel released in 1997

there isn't a problem with the game's industry. there's a problem with every industry and every publicly traded company. getting a "nice CEO who cares" or whatever won't fix anything until things are addressed at a more fundamental societal level. the system will always drive towards this behavior.

I assimilated all the way to Congress and this idiot still tells me to go back where I came from.

The message tonight is clear: the era of spineless corporate Dems in safe seats is ending. We get the party we demand, and we're demanding fighters. And primary season ain't over. More endorsements to come!

Rep. Dan Goldman has been unseated by Mamdani-backed Brad Lander. Get fucked, centrists.

Today is a momentous day for the workers of Arena! After months of planning, waiting and organizing, our dream is finally a reality; the votes have been counted, and our union of UWOTC-CWA has been officially elected. From this day forward, we have a union!

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this is the result of antifascist resistance, in Minneapolis, Newark, and other cities and to protests against these facilities across the country. as Marisa says, it's a huge victory.

burning twelve dollars of shale gas (probably more given how heavily subsidised these things are right now) in a residential memphis neighbourhood for two lines of CSS is not something i would personally describe as “fascinating”

Please Use AI

Ubisoft EMBARGOED news to outlets about the layoffs and studio closures, FYI. Employees were told this morning. And then many reached out to us. Companies trying to embargo layoffs and closures might be the most embarrassing thing I've ever seen in my 16 years.

This thread has become something really special because of the comments from people who experienced the epidemic first hand, many if which lost friends and loved ones. They deserve to be heard and recognized. This is what Pride month is about.

Temporarily un-lapsing as a Catholic to avoid using Microsoft Copilot

As ICE ramps up their bullshit for the summer, a reminder that me and a whole bunch of other folks will get whistles out to you, for free, in quantities of 100 to thousands, to distribute in your communities. Just send a request here linktr.ee/3Dwhistles

Of $2.5 billion of fire relief funds, $0 went to fire victims. $75 million went to the military. $14 million went to pay cops to tear gas civilians who were protesting against ICE. www.nbclosangeles.com/investigatio...

New: Google is quietly trying to buy code from Android developers to train an AI coding tool as part of a "confidential" program. Tells them it's a "once-in-a-generation opportunity" for "helping society at large" www.404media.co/google-is-qu...

The thing that every Trump appointee has in common is a bottomless appetite to debase themselves in service to Dear Leader. When this era mercifully ends, clips like this will be used as evidence of our national mass delusion, which i imagine is a common theme in all post-authoritarian societies.

June 1st

This is good but the main thing is: these guys don't want to make art -- they want to *have made art.* They want people to look at the art they can't bother making and praise and respect them for it. Because generally they feel they deserve the world's respect without doing anything to earn it.

They stole the internet’s knowledge and all the work that went into it and they want to sell it back to us for a fee. What a business model.

$9-billion taxpayer transfer to a $5 trillion company for US spy agencies to go all in on AI. NYT doesn't include a single critical word from a privacy or civil liberties expert. Just a don't-worry-about-it assurance at the end. Also: Anthropic is not our friend. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/u...

Trump on Iran War: Reporter: What extent are Americans’ financial situation motivating you to make a deal? Trump: Not even a little bit. I don't think about Americans’ financial situation

When we took office, NYC had a $12B deficit. Today it’s zero. And we didn’t close that gap on the backs of working people. We closed it while funding parks, libraries, safer streets, & public housing. Call it Pothole Politics or Democratic Socialism: We are government that delivers for the people.

Do you have an elderly or disabled neighbor in NYC? Be a good neighbor and let them know about the free air conditioner program. if they earn $3473 or less a month, NYC will cover the costs of an A/C. Last summer we had 95 degree weather. (via @leahfrombklyn on twitter) www.ny.gov/services/app...