You need to be willing to plant trees knowing you will never sit in their shade

despite all my pessimism i am something of a utopian idealist. i mean, we have to be able to imagine a better world to attain one. as a species we have the ability to create heaven on earth if we wanted. it wouldn’t be easy and it would require lifetimes to accomplish. but its worth doing.

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 24-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 1.2 MILLION people in Denmark found NO LINK between aluminum in childhood vaccines and autism, asthma, OR chronic disorders. Aluminum is an ADJUVANT. It ENHANCES your immune response to a vaccine. That’s it.

We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.

Today New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mayor Zohran Mamdani unveiled a plan for universal child care across the state. Governor Hochul also announced that she’s “committing to fully fund the first two years” of Zohran's plan for free preschool for all 2-year-olds.

do the work not because you have to but because that's a life well-lived. live the fuck outta your life. the people we buried would be fucking pissed off if you don't. make art. kill nazis. don't get discouraged. enjoy the sunrise. work hard on this and rest. enjoy being alive. go down swinging.

AOC: This has now become what we feared most about ICE for a long time—that it would be used as an anti-civilian force with no accountability. At the end of the day, what we saw today was a murder, and murders in cold blood need to be prosecuted.

maybe it's cruel to unmask all 20,000 and subject them to a kind of unprecedented level of public humiliation circus fuelled by the mind-melting nature of modern algorithms & shortform video that will make them either live with the shame forever or do "something" to themselves but maybe it's funny

Here’s some things that can be done by a party out of power - file impeachment articles every day in the House - withhold unanimous consent in the senate and filibuster every nominee - be everywhere with comms saying this is lawless and impeachable

It's always great when worthless pieces of shit show who they really are, so that good people who don't want to spend time in their hive of scum and villainy can take their ball and go home to make their *own* bar, without "AI"-slobbering fucks It's not like it's *hard* to create a new subreddit

as the domain of words continues to be reduced to the statistical average of written expression i dedicate myself more and more to have a style of communication that is clearly differentiable. especially at work, where it's all LLMs responding to other LLMs. i pick my own words! all of them!

As companies realize the growing organizing power of video game workers worldwide, it is evident that executives will do anything to protect their profits, even at the expense of workers coming together to demand a better future. We stand in solidarity with our union siblings at Ubisoft Halifax.

Fuck off

AAA for Indie: Mario Wonder/Galaxy, Horizon ZD, Uncharted 2, Civ (#?) Indie for AAA: Among Us, Peak, Project Silverfish, Nidhogg, Type Help Multiple options to account for genre preference; my main goal was to immediately and consistently showcase what excellence looks like at a given scale.

immortal.

I think about David Langford a lot normally, but especially a lot these days.

It's working ✨

The Sucker Punch employee should get a bag too

well well well, turns out it *is* that easy to find a mayor that doesn't suck shit

I’ve posted this before, but here’s a reminder to students and juniors that the game industry has never been this bad in terms of opportunities. The amount of studio closures and layoffs is unprecedented. Not even the crash in the 80s was this bad. I see a lot of talented folks beating themselves up

absolutely wild to me that PMG made a video on Jubensha/ORGs and at no point in it mention the term "LARP" people were doing this in the 90s with goths dressing up in trenchcoats and playing live-action Vampire how the fuck can you be a game journalist and do this little research lmao

If Dems talked like this regularly, we wouldn't have to focus on "how to win close elections in difficult environments." We would have a lot fewer close elections, and a lot fewer difficult environments.

I will pay MORE not to have AI near my financial information!!!!!!

There are only 218 Republicans left in the House. Make them produce a majority every day, every hour, for every thing.

trump did january 6th. republicans did january 6th. violent traitors did january 6th. they stormed the capitol, destroyed the building and threatened to kill members of congress. ashli babbitt was a violent insurrectionist. the capitol police protected people. these are truths we need to repeat.

Is your studio hiring designers now that it's January? Recently depose your AI-addled leadership and want to put the newly available money towards hiring? Did you trip on several million dollars that you're now investing in game dev? I'm available! I like spreadsheets! Hire me! (Seattle or remote)

I still have to use Windows for some things and it seems to be just about every day now I'm seeing complaints about it sucking in new ways. So here's a little list of tools I use to make Windows not suck by debloating virtually everything out of it that makes it bad and making it more usable. 🧵

The #gamedev job market is worse now than it's been at any other point since I graduated with an AAS in game development in 2013. My peers and I experienced less unemployment and received more job offers 6 months out of college than we have during the last 2 years. Now we're all just unemployed lol.

I went from “I guess I will always stay in a Hilton from now on” to “I will never stay at a Hilton again” so freaking fast.

Unrelated but the flu this year is really bad, and is spiking really hard. It's worth taking extra precautions. Actually related: "necrotizing encephalopathy" is a phrase I wish I had never read.

If you think something is bad you should absolutely say you think its bad or even go far to materially treat it as though its a bad thing. its okay to judge things based on their demonstrated nature. there is no rule saying you have to act like a thing you think is bad thing isn't bad.

Fuck the Hiltons, solidarity with the Hampton Inn in Lakeville.

this lesson has been thrown in our face for centuries: organized crime, bootlegging, drug trafficking, gunrunning... literally every illegal group ever holds to the principle refusing to prosecute the bosses is a tacit approval of the crime

every fascist intellectual is nothing more than an adolescent pseud with faux gravitas whose output is sophomoric fanfiction the sole purpose of which is to rationalize fascist barbarism

unfortunately that particular hotel was privately owned, and the Hilton Hotels Corporation has already rushed to throw them under the bus to appease ICE/DHS.

Children will die with RFK Jr.'s new vaccine recommendations. We're NOT doing the "experts disagree" game. The US vaccine schedule was painstakingly constructed through a deep & thorough process by experts with unquestionable expertise. This is policy by fiat. It is pre-meditated murder. 1/

Hey creator, I don't know if you need to hear this from one more person, but Twitter is gone. That's X, the Everything App, and "everything" includes a lot of shit you don't want to be a part of. Get the fuck off that website. Your audience isn't over there anymore.

About a year and a half ago on a social media website that doesn't exist any more I articulated my position on AI as total rejection; "I want rid of this bathwater and I'm happy to kill the baby to do it". And dear lord was I right, and correct, and ahead of the curve on that one.

It's a black box automated system whispering in your ear that some corporation run by a guy with reactionary ideas operates. Relying on it is just opening a backdoor to your brain.

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as someone who spent years of my life thinking way too much about the Victorian era, let me tell you: I think stigmatizing masturbation is going to go GREAT, and it's going to make society SUPER NORMAL

Satya Nadella even *acknowledging* the word “slop” feels like another mile marker for genAI’s downward trajectory. Complaining about people using it only makes the word stronger.

Libre Office is fantastic.

helloo, we're looking to hire a mid-level unity programmer at a new indie studio to work on a new ip! MUST BE UK-BASED but it's flexible and remote with the option to co-work with us in london 🤝 link is in replies 👀

Wear A Mask An n95 on your face costs less than an NRB in an emergency department. abcnews.go.com/Health/flu-a...

Also this thread was how I discovered LibreOffice exists, so cheers Microsoft lol

this has showed me that there are still fresh, new veins of idiocy to be mined by Satya Nadella and his cohort of yes-men with head injuries I'll be honest I really didn't have "Microsoft annihilates 50% of its revenue" on my bingo card for the year