If Trump is allowed to murder civilians at sea, he is allowed to murder civilians in your streets. Charges need to be drawn up for his actions in the Caribbean and presented to a US court, military court, and international court. Everyone involved must also face charges.

Just got off of a good roll writing for like an hour and a half. Very infodumpy section but the character doing the dumping has autism so it's fine. #booksky #author #writing

Imagine being the CEO of a company that solely exists, & attracts investment, because a critical mass of people abandoned your competitor over bigotry. Now imagine crashing out publicly & asserting your userbase has no value to you because you don't want to eject a specific & named bigot.

this morning I went into my kid's room to wake him up and he looked so beautiful and peaceful while sleeping, and I thought about ICE bursting into that apartment building in Chicago to drag kids out of their beds and ziptie them, and I felt my entire body clench with fury

People in the US won't believe this, but a society requiring people to own a motor vehicle to get anywhere actually gives you LESS freedom than a society where you can safely walk, bike, or feasibly opt to take mass transit. If you're a slave to your car, you're also a slave to your job.

Had the coolest dream, an OP for a new Professor Layton anime, showing off a bunch of MC Escher ass towers to puzzle through, fallen angels to fight, and new side characters over a Madoka Magica style rock balled. #Layton himself didn't show until the last shot, with a scintillating rainbow aura.

For anybody who doesn't want to put up with Patreon's nonsense anymore, there's a new creator-owned platform called comradery.co that's in open beta! I'd sign up as a creator myself, but I'm not releasing games or fiction online consistently at the moment. Figured it was worth sharing, though.

I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".

I'm looking at the Steam sale, and Haven is only $2.49! It's a very well-written and charming romance/exploration adventure game, I highly encourage anybody who likes those genres to try it.

New Book #theowlhouse #toh

If you can list the shit that horrifies you about the Trump administration and not connect that to, say, the carceral system that you've always just sort of assumed worked, then what you are concerned about is the visibility and/or inconvenience of atrocities, not their existence.

It’s really amazing to me how the actions of the Trump regime and ICE have really made so clear that police and military as institutions simply aren’t there to protect us. Soldiers who might resist can be court-martialed; police can refuse to hand data to ICE but won’t stop their illegal raids.

This is the future the fascists and neoliberals are trying to kill, a free future for all humans not just the wealthy few. The genocide of Palestinians was always a doorway into the abyss of worldwide totalitarian fascism and many of the world’s leaders fell into that abyss. It’s on us all now.

Mobile games are only *mostly* terrible, it's just really hard to find good ones. One example I stumbled into a while ago is this wild and challenging indie title called MADNESS/ENDLESS. Could never finish it despite my efforts but damn if it isn't fun.

International law and human rights are actually very binary, you either follow, defend and support them or you are forfeiting them for yourself and everyone around you. Choose carefully. #3E

The wounded knee thing is really Trumpism distilled to its essence. It’s not enough to be able crush people who can’t fully defend themselves, it’s not enough to actually crush them, you also have to love and admire those who do the crushing otherwise the Trumpists’ delicate feelings are injured

My dream for this book is that it gets so popular maga people start calling for it to get banned only to put even more eyes on it. #booksky #author #writer

If the shoe fits...

Slept like ass, gonna write anyway. Only I can breathe life into this book, and I wanna get it published before Trump rips the constitution and outlaws everything he doesn't like. #booksky #writing #author

Another historical example is the 1953 US Operation TPAJAX in Iran, the CIA carried out false flag attacks on mosques and other public figures and blamed them on Iranian communists. The goal was to undermine PM Mohammad Mosaddegh and provide a pretext for his overthrow.

Something I think we’re not talking about enough with all this autism bullshit is how, no matter what, it’s always blamed on the pregnant mother.

ICE refuses to promptly share locations of those previously detained at Alligator Alcatraz with legal counsel or loved ones. This isn’t just cruel — it undermines their constitutional right to due process.

Progress on my novel is going well! I'm about halfway done with the first draft, and there's already plenty of wild shit, heavy themes, and leftist social commentary. #booksky #author #writing

This shit makes me so mad because people don't understand how much power we have over these companies and the only thing we need to do is not give them money. The only thing we need to do is to not do anything. It's the easiest shit! *wearily* collective action does work, it really does

I’m torn between being happy powerful people are finally speaking out with appropriate ferocity towards republicans; and being pissed as hell it was the censorship of fucking Jimmy Kimmel that did it. As if nothing deserved this kind of outrage before a rich, popular white man lost his tv show 😑

Just replayed Yoku's Island Express, was equally fun a second time. It's more accessible than Silksong; you play as a cute little beetle with a ball and get pinballed all over the map to move.

Show me your weird art, go.

Bruh

In one of the most 'wink wink' moves possible, the US national archives museum has put the entire constitution on display.

I am incredibly baffled. How is there not a single Megaton Musashi fic on a03?? The ending left so many loose plot threads!

Rarely have I encountered a strategy game I am as comically bad at as this one.

one of the clearest signs you're dealing with a strong and principled political movement is when they want to make it illegal to make fun of them

If we flew the American flag at half-mast for every murder of an American who deserved better, who deserved to be heard and respected and live in peace, we’d never raise the flag to its full height again.

Feels great to get positive feedback for your games in addition to tons of ideas on improvements from playtesters! I ran my stuff, from an ECG to a dexterity game, like a dozen times total over the past 2 days, and tried out what others were cooking to the same extent. #gamedev #Protospiel

posters joking about charlie kirk were held to a higher standard than the wall street journal this week

This is simply untenable. There is no way forward with media and political classes captured by the right. Every time someone commits a crime you have to pray it's not an undesirable or it's purge time, then when it turns out to be themselves again they just shrug and wait for the next one.

They’re saying we fired the first shot. No. Not when people explicitly espousing their beliefs have attacked officials, called in bomb threats on hospitals and schools, orchestrated mass shootings, sent innocents to torture camps, robbed millions of health care, killed aid to the needy and more.

Thousands of people, kids too, are dead in no small part due to the kind of firearm policies & the culture of hate exhorted by Kirk,- to say nothing of his genocide apologia. The fact that international liberal "leadership" is falling over itself to project mourning for this bigot is perverse.

#Protospiel Chicago starts tomorrow and I'm excited! While there'll be a handful of companies scouting, I don't expect any of them to like my work. They only care about mass appeal, cheap manufacturing costs, and trend chasing. My games, being weird and innovative, are none of those. #gamedev

A friendly reminder: the axis powers were not defeated by polite debate, nonviolent advocacy, or asking them politely to stop spreading hate and suffering. Fascists today are no different.

I’m sitting on a panel across from someone who believes that people with mental health disorders should be imprisoned. Unfortunately she’s not alone in that opinion. Donald Trump’s recent executive order on homelessness shows that he believes the same thing. It’s fucking abhorrent.

When I see people out on the streets resisting, part of me yearns to join them, but I'm too much of an introvert to be any good at protests. Instead, I volunteer at food drives/banks. If we can build a parallel mutual aid network to meet eachother's needs, the gov becomes unnecessary.

#GameDesign comes more naturally and quickly to me than #writing does, but since I can't actually choose what inspires me at any given point, I've spent way more time writing in my life overall. All of my 10+ tabletop games were hammered into being in basically the span of a single year.

To spell some shit out unambiguously: fascism requires domestic abuse to propagate itself. Demands it. There is no way to humanely teach your children that might makes right. There is no way to gently love a spouse you think is your genetic intellectual inferior. These are inextricably linked.

It's a little crunchy, but check out my second Vacuum Launcher prototype in action! This suction-operated toy is the sweet hook for my #VacuumTCG, where the corner pointing to the target sets where your cards enter! #gamedev #3dprinting

The "rules based order" was always a sham. Western Govs. broke their own rules all the time, & their flagrant disdain for even foundational concepts like due process is not only resulting in horrible suffering, but also means that what comes after MUST go further than re-establishing the lie.

Here's my very hot take: #Silksong is worse than Hollow Knight and stopped being fun after area 4. The game punishes you for exploring instead of rewarding you with useful upgrades. You lose $ too easily and it buys nothing useful. Basic enemies kill you in like 3 hits.

Good. 🐙

I know it won't happen but wouldn't it be perfect if Morpho Knight was somehow a secret boss in Silksong? He fits the setting so well.