I talked to @halfrobot.com about what credit card companies have been doing to Itch and the impact that could have on the future of games www.404media.co/credit-card-...

Someone give this brilliant book to the puritanical angry moms who bullied payment processors into all but banning porn games. The reason we even have online payment processors is BECAUSE OF SEX WORK. It was invented to pay for porn!

Every day should be like this for all of them. ALL OF THEM. ALL THE TIME. EVERYWHERE THEY GO. They shouldn't be able to go out to eat, to relax, to vacation, to shop, without someone making a noise.

🚨 Los Angeles, CA! “Children's Hospital LA pauses enrollment of hormonal therapy for minors The hospital will also continue its pause on gender-affirming surgeries on minors as mandates by Trump’s Jan. 28 executive order” You might want to travel for this one. 🚘

This Fiona Apple narrated explainer PSA on how to film (and release footage from, not livestream) ICE arrests is exactly what we need from people with production skills right now and is worth about 3 million celebrity “imagine” covers in terms of survival utility

I bet there are more video game stories with dead wives than with living ones.

I really wish folks (especially those new to global politics) would take the time to learn about history, global power dynamics, and the ways that we become indoctrinated into accepting the (often oppressive) status quo as truth before they spout off some of the most bonkers and dangerous hot takes.

Since I get asked a lot, here is a list of some of my favourite fiction genre books. anitasarkeesian.medium.com/my-favourite...

As we bring the process of organizing everything to shut down FemFreq I’m finding piles and piles of game footage we collected for tropes. It feels like a waste for it to just collect dust on a shelf— would this footage be useful for any media makers??

I’ll be at Gamescom for one day. Hmu if you’re around!

Where in Stockholm would one watch the women’s World Cup??

How are people thinking about using all these different platforms (Bluesky, Threads, Twitter) — are you choosing one? Posting the same thing across all of. Posting differently on all of them?

It’s embarrassing that *at this point in history* any new app is built without robust safeguards and moderation built directly into the foundation.