It's like a curse or something... "Hopetown" completely mangled the concept of "psychogeography" and are misusing it to sell the game. Now "Zero Parades" devastatingly misread and misunderstood what "End of History" means. What's next - "Disco Elysium 2" with a rotary dial phone for "Dialectic"?;D

We are living in the golden age of fraud.

Not a good sign when the UN is like:

ALL statistics support this - the more a country invests in a child, the younger the more, the better economic and health outcomes are for the said child and by extension - the country then, too. It's a no-brainer.

Folks, Baby Steps is an easy 5 stars. Experimental performance art meets heartfelt ode to walking (think the ambulatory odysseys of nature writer Robert Macfarlane). And it has this gonzo stoner comedy vibe, too. Exquisite stuff TBQH. Words over @financialtimes.com. www.ft.com/content/dbe5...

is it good that nothing feels real anymore

Every SCOTUS ruling feels like America slowly writing its own obituary in Comic Sans.

Damn do posh liberals move fast. They literally INVENT the whole righteous attack for social capital gains game, and as soooon as it's convenient they throw anybody actually anti-fascist under the bus. Shameful. Jamil should SO be sitting this one out. But no.

It's all closing in. I'm in the Nordics and the flights are cancelled in this major airport due to Euro-wide cyber attacks + unauthorised drone activity. Needless to say incomparable to an actual war, but its smell is nearing closer, it feels like.

The emotional moment was the death of America's 38th most popular podcaster.

I know that the idiocracy machine wants me to react in exactly the following way, and yet still I can't help it - seriously? PARACETAMOL?!? We're attacking bloody PARACETAMOL now?! 🫠

Industry: hey GDC, we need you to move out of San Francisco and the US at large because it's unsafe, deal with the still-too-common harassment issues, stop charging egregious for-profit fees, and for you to provide proper compensation for speakers GDC: we hear you but best we can do is rename it

some of my favorite festivals involve uniting B2B whateveryoucallsits

I love the B2B games ecosystem

it's better to think of the useless centrist 'expand the tent but only rightwards' media people & politicians as blockers paid to occupy space that could otherwise be utilized productively by a serious person. their opinions are pre-approved by their donors and will never change

Chronic underestimators, the IEA calls solar #1 by 2033—but they’ve never kept up with reality. 🚀 With 2025 smashing records & storage racing ahead, coal could be dethroned by 2027–28, maybe sooner. The sun isn’t waiting for forecasts by the fossil lobby. ☀️ #Solar #BESS #EnergyTransition #Renewables

The Myanmar military hasn't really had a modern airforce for that long but its litany of abuses against the Peoples of Myanmar is long. its existence has given the junta a asymmetrical advantage that has helped it survive so far. Solid but grim thread from Edith on its history & many atrocities.

Whilst I of course support this, it feels like merely a symbolic action given UK's primary role in the mess left behind by the British Mandate of Palestine, the Balfour Declaration etc. Much more accountability needed.

I'm conflicted here. On one hand, I repeatedly say - progressives need to engage more in videogames, otherwise the right festers. Yet re: Twitter, why make oneself miserable? The key is ownership. In games it's *still* more diverse. On Twitter, any relevant left wing will be shut down by the owner.

it’s time to put every left wing person in britain in a Conclave

Looking forward to speaking in Mälmo at the Institute for Urban Research next Wednesday: www.iuresearch.se/event/radica...

And in Roskilde the day after: graspfestival.dk/en/programme...

UK if it was John McDonnell who was elected as Labour leader in 2015 instead of Corbyn.

Zarah & Corbyn imploding their own initiative before it even became a political movement did us all a favour. Fuck that style of politics. It was never viable and died in 2019. We need economic populism purged of the pathological tendencies of the old left - a socialism for normal people.

Unexpected? This seems like a pretty likely outcome.

can't really begin to explain the extent to which I do Not want to be filmed without my knowledge by someone wearing smart glasses while out and about

Devastating that it took a right-wing government to be the first to do this. The left HAS to get on top of things re: technology.

💯 this. It’s cumulative and iterative, and guys like Yglesias and Klein absolutely know it, but it suits them to pretend otherwise.

1 year exactly since the release of my debut book w/ @versobooks.bsky.social. In February '24 I wrote down in my journal my goals for the release - audiences reached, countries travelled, connections made etc. This 1st year wildly exceeded all my expectations, I am so so grateful. What's next? 1/4

Wow. Heroes!

Some good news for once! Little by little, going back to sanity is commencing. There ought to be a societal apology for neglect to the generation where phones were rampant in schools. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

UPDATE: A New York judge has dismissed terrorism charges against Luigi Mangione !

Learning Danish by reading and translating for myself my union's quarterly printed periodical. 🫡✊

But Wes Streeting has decided that it isn’t, actually, so that’s ok

In 15 mins, at 6pm BST tonight - My book has been lucky enough to be shortlisted for the Bread & Roses Award - a book prize presented by the fabulous Alliance of Radical Booksellers in the UK. I'm so thankful! Watch the Award ceremony live in a jiffy here - 🥰 lighthousebookshop.com/events/bread...

UK: 100k fash out and about. Denmark: Local citizens are protesting against the decision of closing of an asylum centre. Volunteers that arrange activities at the center, in which both residents and locals participate, are sad to see the diverse community affected. 👏 www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...

The curating is all weird. It's like the brief was "buy up anything to do with fighting", but WWE and the Fighting Games Community I think are very distinct and different demographics. What's next, fencing? Probably, tbf.

My only contribution to the discourse is that people should buy and read @marijamdid.com book on gamers www.versobooks.com/products/308...

A few people in the replies here seem to think GG was just a symptom of accelerationism, rather than an act of accelerationism in and of itself. Steve Bannon (correctly) realized GG was the moment that could finally radicalize young people into conservatives, if not even further to the right.

if you’re an isolated, angsty, strange young man, please know that you can become a Kierkegaard scholar instead of joining fringe online communities

being in games world gives you a leg up in understanding the stupidity of our culture while also ensuring that no one outside of that world really takes anything you have to say that seriously

Do you find it bizarre that Trump would invoke trans people on an issue that seems to have nothing to do with them? @srgalloway.bsky.social and I believe this isn't just the ravings of a lunatic but a central strategy of rightwing fascism we call grooming authoritarianism doi.org/10.1017/S104...

On to the next outrage I guess

Another reason I don't trust Klein is that whenever it was suggested to him he was maybe just wanted a Scandi model re: his "Abundance" agenda he'd hit back that no, it needs to be a uniquely *American* solution. Which whispers that it's not about egalitarianism,but simple Clintonesque deregulation.

Now that more folk finally see Klein for the polite face of the right-wing that he actually is I wish to reshare my periodic frustrations with the deceivingly titled "Abundance" Agenda.

We have a Steam page for our game! It's a mahjong-inspired deckbuilder with A LOT OF BIRDS! If you have a Steam account and hit the wishlist button - you will have my eternal gratitude 🙏 store.steampowered.com/app/3473440/...

Re: Kirk shooting at a university, the actually shocking stat to read was that "it marks the 46th shooting that took place at a school in US in 2025 thus far. 24 were on college campuses and 22 were on K-12 school grounds. The incidents left 18 people dead, 76 injured." US of A is totally broken.

Given the last decade, WWIII starting to distract the world from a birthday card seems about right.

Way too late, but at least something. The UK upper class has A TONNE to answer for here. Really hope this legal action goes somewhere. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

By the way, the lack of profiling of Lithuania's new trade unionist Prime Minister Inga Ruginienė by the Western left / central-left outlets thus far is really quite shocking. Selective "internationalism" exposed, maybe doomerism gets more clicks, idk.