On this: I’m a tall Brown woman with a strong jawline. A whole white woman accused me of being a man in a public toilet the other day. I didn’t correct her because my being trans or cis was not the point. The point was she felt entirely comfortable and confident doing that to someone in a TOILET.

Curious from the Guardian. I didn't "warn the party" - it wasn't a party meeting! I said progressives needed to separate those thinking about voting Reform from the Reform leadership. I didn't say we "need to seek to understand" - pretty clear it's about inequality. Other than that - perfect!

The point of these attacks is twofold: 1. Flood people with nonsense until it feels true. 2. Grind people down until they lose hope. We know the answer to that: fight back - with hope & a plan for change. There is absolutely no way they win this. Join.greenparty.org.uk

Rockstar management fired 30+ people to try to prevent this and still failed.

Mashina, our stop-motion relaxing digging adventure is OUT NOW on PS5 and XBOX. (And it’s cheap cheap cheap) Be part of a society of cute robots having the time of their lives on islands made out of trash. store.playstation.com/en-gb/produc...

The teenagers behind a shooting at a San Diego mosque last week wore patches associated with Atomwaffen Division, a defunct neo-Nazi group, and drew clear inspiration from "Terrorgram," a loose network of neo-Nazis that supports the use of terrorism. Latest: www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...

Last night BBC QuestionTime broadcast an 'AI Special', featuring, among others, Laura Gilbert,as an independent AI expert. Gilbert works for The Tony Blair Istitute, which receives huge donations from Larry Ellison, who has interests in AI. Such significant funding should be made clear to viewers.

Will be at #NotAtNordicGames doing a fiery fireside with brilliant thinkers, activists, designers Jennifer Estaris and Aric McBay smashing patriarchy, capitalism, extractive design, and maybe the games industry itself??? at 5.30pm tomorrow! www.eventbrite.com/e/not-at-nor...

Will be at #NotAtNordicGames doing a fiery fireside with brilliant thinkers, activists, designers Jennifer Estaris and Aric McBay smashing patriarchy, capitalism, extractive design, and maybe the games industry itself??? at 5.30pm tomorrow! www.eventbrite.com/e/not-at-nor...

As promised, I will be running (my beloved) 'Create An Interactive City In Text using ink' course once more this year. The next cohort will begin on the 24th of November, 2026. Here's all you need to know: www.d6learning.com/course/nov26...

Really, I think it’s helpful to have Tony explain that this government never had any actual programme and that the best we can expect from his ilk instead is no action on climate change, closer cooperation with the global fascist movement and its zillionaire allies, and even more scything cuts.

Can you help Dreams on a Pillow hit an important milestone? if it raises $1,600 in the next 21 hours, it unlocks an extra $2,000 in support from LaunchGood. Help push the boundaries of what stories games are allowed to tell by backing the project: www.launchgood.com/1948

anthropic is in a way more dangerous than openai because they've duped people into believing they're actually the Good Guys and the others provide perfect foils for that assertion b/c they're so comedically villainous. But anthropic is not and will never be anything remotely like good

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reminded of larp cultures where "play to lose" is so normalised that sometimes players have to be reminded that it's okay for their characters to occasionally succeed, and that this might in fact be helpful for all the other players hoping for a tragic ending

I decided to look up the study www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... and for at least one of those numbers, it's even worse. The A.I. agrees *49 percentage points* more than humans, who only agreed 39% of the time, i.e. the A.I. agrees 88% of the time, or 126% more often than humans (left side in figure)

“The Al is not just telling you what you want to hear. It is training you, one conversation at a time, to need less friction, expect more agreement, and become slightly less capable of handling a situation where someone pushes back on you”

Me, a week ago www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-too-ex...

This needs too be normalized at conventions.

Many things contribute to the current focus on trans people and trans women as a right-wing scapegoat, but these are all at their core reproductive anxieties that are animating male grievance politics and reactionary regimes in a time where economic dependence on men is declining.

"conservative cultural anxieties center around reproduction of the in-group and therefore manifest as both heightened queerphobic manias and psychosexual anxieties about the Nation's gestational resources being 'stolen' and 'corrupted' by the Other". Isn't that more concise and generalisable?

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‘The nine big retailers account for 94.5% of all retail food. That’s nine companies, using just 131 distribution centres. In drone war, that’s a sitting duck.’ www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

really good, and stresses the point that what’s being done to trans people in the uk is being done by a small elite cohort with no democratic mandate whatever

ICYMI: A number of audiobook narrators, podcasters and journalists have filed a class action lawsuit against Google for allegedly using their voices to train its AI models. 👇

The fact Labour would rather enable the racist illiberal right if it means locking the liberal anti-racist left out certainly clarifies the type of party Labour is for anyone who might still be unsure

Some children - up to the age of 15 - to travel for free on some buses in England over the summer. Why not all children all of the time and on all buses? Like pensioners?

"Tice’s comments came in a combative interview where he threatened to walk out when presented with information from the [IPCC]. Tice…declined to name advisers who convinced him the scientific consensus was wrong." Extraordinary interview by @akshatrathi.bsky.social & @oliviarudgard.bsky.social

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What struck me most from the conversations I had with multiple Palestinian devs for the unpublished piece how they spoke about how Palestine was portrayed in media, and how we so rarely get depictions of it as a place where people just like you and I have just...lived lives. Whole, beautiful lives.

Over a year ago, I spoke with @rasheedabueideh.bsky.social about Dreams on a Pillow for a piece that was killed before it could be published. I am honored that he was willing to take the time to speak with me again in spite of that and tell me about his beautiful homeland: kotaku.com/upcoming-ste...

CROWNBREAKERS is not just a project I love, it's also a #ProjectWeLove according to the people at Kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/sha...

The children yearn for simulacra of manual labor

🚨BREAKING | Andy Burnham confirms he will NOT scrap first-past-the-post before #GE2029 Burnham said electoral reform must be "in a manifesto", and revealed he does NOT back proportional representation, instead praising the non-proportional Supplementary Vote (SV). Via @itvnews

gorgeous write-up of @rasheedabueideh.bsky.social’s game about the Nakbah, made by a developer in the occupied West Bank and crowdfunding now. please, please support this vital creative work 💜 www.rockpapershotgun.com/palestinian-...

Winner of the Long Feature Award 🏆:  MainSequenceStar with “Season 31” 🌴🦩 Your role is clear, make number go up. whatever the cost. Make number go up. But as you manage the twists and turns of the tracks, they suddenly untangle in front of you. #amaze2026 #mbbfunded

PLAY IT PLAY IT NOW

Congrats to the winner of the Digital Moment Award 🌴🦩:  Hanwen Xu & Hatim Benhsain with coalescent || tidal rapture 🏆 This game goes beyond normative depictions of intimacy and doesn't shy away from being meaningfully sensuous, mysterious, complex, and primal.  #amaze 2026

Only a computer, not you yourself, can truly understand your preferences.

New fund for UK game developers launched today and I'm super proud to say I worked on it! Please go and apply if you have a suitable game as its been a labour of love! New fund of up to 50k per game for localisation, marketing, PR, Influencers, etc  www.bfi.org.uk/get-funding-...

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

I know there’s a lot going on in the world, and we don’t have enough attention to pay to any of it. But the throttling of Cuba by the US should be a bigger story than it is. There are about 10 million people in Cuba, subjected to horrendous collective punishment. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Thank you everyone for being there, It means a lot to me. your support for our project is amazing @amazefest.bsky.social Crowdfunding Now: www.launchgood.com/1948

ICYMI, 100% of people in Gaza "face high levels of acute food insecurity." euromedmonitor.org/en/article/7... Direct aid is essential. Help six families & a displacement camp afford food, shelter, medicine here. Make it recurring! But then act to END THIS. chuffed.org/project/hope...

five years ago today i published my senior thesis project That Which Faith Demands, an interactive fiction game about salvaging a fallen mech made from the body of a god jannouna.itch.io/that-which-f...

NEW: A class action lawsuit is accusing OpenAI of sharing ChatGPT chat queries (!) + other personal data with Meta and Google. Reminder: no matter how friendly your chatbot is, it's probably surveilling you. futurism.com/artificial-i...

All Will Rise is taking some big swings: mechanically, narratively, politically. I waded through its dense three-hour demo and spoke to @meghna.bsky.social and @hugobille.bsky.social about why they think it shouldn't be dumped in the "woke, liberal bucket". www.pcgamer.com/games/advent...