a double-feature so funny, you’ll wanna **** ********

I think it's weird for people who are nominally journalists to say things like "We should have waited to see what people think." The issue isn't that you lost the coin flip of public opinion; the issue was that you gave into astonishment. The problem is that the keyjingling got you at all!

Press pack journos with access to the PM, you need to be asking him about Lebanon, otherwise you look complicit and stupid. A million Lebanese displaced by the IDF. There are a quarter million Lebanese Aussies. What are @albomp.bsky.social's thoughts on the Zionist carpet bombing of Beirut??

Superjump is such a special place in the world of games coverage, I’m so glad to see it get recognition 💛

We're excited to appear in four IT Journalism Awards categories this year: Best Games Coverage Best Independent Technology Media Best Video Program Best Short Form Content Huge thanks to everyone on the team for all your outstanding work over the last year. 🏆

And a big thank you to our amazing video team and collaborators for helping us explore this exciting new territory: @nomibelle.bsky.social, @teejaye84.bsky.social, Liz Burns, @geeofdee.bsky.social, @catwebling.bsky.social, @brandonrchinn.bsky.social, @jeremy.minimap.com.au and @pjwalery.bsky.social!

HOLY FUSHSHHHHHHHHHHHHH YOU CRAZY BASTARDS YOU DID IT

The Singularity is upon us: Apple's AI summarized a text message that read "I'm still down to clown if you are" to.... "clown event still possible."

I want to introduce you all to something myself and @jacksonwryan.com have been working on. A PRINT MAGAZINE about video games and video game culture. We know things have been bad for games writing recently. We're asking, "do you want to Continue?" www.kickstarter.com/projects/con...

I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...

they’re calling it the greatest list of games post 2004

The approximate cause of death for Anne Frank was the Nazis. The specific cause of death was the outbreak of Typhus at Bergen-Belsen camp, which overtook her (and others) from chronic malnutrition and medical abuse. These conditions are not, in character, unlike our system of immigration camps today

more like Marathon Server Blam! is this anything

Here's me, and @boganintel.bsky.social. "Collating the recent escalation of fascist state fuckery in Australia"

Transition timeline

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

Seeing De La Soul tomorrow night and i am beyond keen

Had a tricky/intense emotional day today (everything’s fine, just a lot!) so I’m capping it off by going to war with myself (watching megalopolis at IMAX)

i refused to participate in a panel in this same city because it was held by a university spruiking games degrees & they wanted me to talk about the benefits of a game degree i told them i was declining on ethical standing cuz to stand there & act like a game degree was a safe investment was a lie

We've shut down the busiest pedestrian intersection in Naarm/Melbourne because our government invited a genocidal war criminal to our country

The funniest thing about this post is that Larian is a universally critically acclaimed studio. So the only criticism he could possibly be complaining about here is the backlash he specifically got from wanting to force his devs to use genAI. Lol. Lmao even

Ubisoft unions have unanimously voted to strike from Feb 10-12, due to waves of layoffs, lack of job security, and the end of remote working. (Read more at Insider Gaming)

Sometimes I think it'd be a good idea for shit-takes to be scored, Metacritic-style, based on how others evaluate their shit-takes. I like to imagine it would encourage more restraint. Harsh words do real damage. You shouldn't have to grow callus on your soul just because you want post shit-takes.

i made an upscrolled and my username is ‘MyComputer’ lol

didn’t take any photos other than this but was good to see the numbers today in the city also unfortunately had to tell some Nazis to fuck off but so it goes

Invasion Day, 2026

One last boost for the evening crowd. This has raised a truly staggering amount of money, thank you all!! Also a couple people have said this is one of their favorite videos of mine, which is very nice to hear.

I guess I do think if you participated in the arrest of a five-year-old you are probably just fundamentally incompatible with society. That you are not a safe person for humanity to be around, generally

As one of Freeplay's 11(ish) board members, I want to add my personal 2 cents to a few things about Freeplay in these fried af times. It's important to know I'm just a meager part of the Voltron that is Freeplay, and these are my personal opinions + do not reflect the view of the org or the board

Perhaps the most disgraceful of all the “national security” laws that have been passed since Sept 11 2001. Albanese would have been a good, compliant minister in the Howard govt. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

I interviewed Freeplay's co-founder Katharine Neil a couple of years ago about its origins & legacy. There was SO much fascinating stuff that I couldn't publish but I'm still really proud of the piece & feel as if documenting this stuff holds a tiny bit of importance too.

Freeplay is the longest running independent games festival in the world. This is incredibly sad news and it needs all the support it can get.

one more thing about freeplay, and an issue that's been on my mind for a while (alt text available):

It is so, so, SO hard to put on any arts or games event. I cannot stress enough that you should never take them for granted or think ‘well they’ll just figure it out’. Running any event is a job outside of your (sometimes more than 1) fulltime job. Find ways to help and support them, champion them.

my thoughts on @free-play.bsky.social and why it remains so, so important (especially in the bad times!!!!)

Australia’s inability to recognise and support its burgeoning arts fields is endemic. Our systems are designed to keep our culture regressive and it’s very embarrassing.

An update: Unfortunately Freeplay didn’t secure multi-year funding and is potentially looking at its last year of operation. We’re exploring what comes next & want your input. Read our full statement here: www.freeplay.net.au/survey2026 Help us decide our next step here: forms.gle/W4ZSns1bGCX1...

This is actually devastating. Please respond to the survey and rally behind Freeplay to see if we can support the ongoing org and its team to continue delivering pivotal events and connection points that we so desperately need.

terrible news coming out of Freeplay. I really hope it & Parallels can continue. "Of the 81 arts organisations supported by Creative Enterprises in the 2026-2029 funding round, none are games/interactive arts organisations." (freeplay.net.au/survey2026) This is so supremely fucked

why the fuck does every app now take an entire age for “copy to clipboard” to actually work I’m freaking the fuck out man

Hey man what the fuck are we even doing anymore

Australia needs to seriously come to terms with how much the Labor Party fucking sucks

Cancel. Genuinely. Cancel. A rejection at the border is a permanent mark against entry, forever. If you insist, follow dangerous territory protocols: know your embassy details, make sure someone knows your travel details, and have funds for emergency legal, health, and departure expenditures.

If Greens support this fascistic bill and enshrine Zionist capture, it will destroy them. Your voters will see sellouts and cowards caving on our liberties because you're not up for the fight. Because you're scared of getting yelled at in the newspapers. @davidshoebridge.bsky.social

Getting grok to publicly strip a woman’s likeness online or alter her image isn’t just horrifying at the level of the individual, it’ll be used to get us fired, too. It’s a technique to keep us in the home popping out babies because we lost our teaching job when some guy sent porn of us to our boss.

An administration driven by greed, cruelty, and frankly a sort of empty-hearted boredom. The death of innocents so they can beat their chests and line their already fat wallets. Whatever comes next has to at least look like justice. We cannot just turn the page for the sake of one party’s comfort.

first day back at work