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UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion. As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

Me, a totally normal human with a regular amount of interest in things: The Locked Tomb book series is a literary metroidvania.

Last night I dreamt of a roll of clear frosted toilet paper, and a toilet paper holder with purple and pink LED underlighting. Is this what davinci felt like

Wow end of an era indeed. I started my career working on Facebook games, and they’re still the majority of my portfolio: Scramble, Cafe World, City of Wonder, Gardens of Time, Plants vs. Zombies Adventures… All those titles lost in time. Like tears in rain.

hi, cis folks in california! this headline leaves out that newsom has another 5 days to sign these bills into law. if you’d like to tell him he should do that to protect trans californians, you should to reach out. he also has a phone: (916) 445-2841 want to know what to say? next post! 🧵

"This Whole Thing Smacks Of Gondor," i holler as i overturn my uncle's funeral pyre and turn the 4th Age of Man into the 4th Age of Shit

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

Simpsons S02E04 - Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish

Everyone tries to tell you apathy is cool, but the sooner you learn earnestness is strength not cringe and that all your quirks are what people will fall in love with, the sooner learn how to define your own happiness and find true friends who love youf for you

Whenever Poochie’s not on screen, all the other characters should be asking “Where’s Poochie?”

If you haven't seen Space Ghost Coast to Coast in full yet, Internet Archive has you covered archive.org/details/ghos...

We made a new game. It’s called Q-UP. It’s a coin flipping eSport. There’s a free demo! store.steampowered.com/app/3730790/...

how am I supposed to relax when god is trying to feed me a pill the size of a hockey puck

One of the coolest video game preservation stories I have ever covered arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/...

Having just read this book for the first time I can assure you what Emilia says here is literally 100% a thing that happens.

This is very good.

Prints of all of these are available of course! thejoshshop.etsy.com/listing/4367...

And also just a reminder that Mariode did the sickest soundtrack for it.

Ah! HoloVista is Apple's Game of the Day today! And the little article even quotes me! "Meet the creator:...The game’s narrative director, Whitney “Strix” Beltrán, views HoloVista as 'a strange ode to postmodernism and Western capitalism, bathed in vaporwave-y aesthetics.'”

As a fundamental core philosophy, I truly and deeply believe that the actual point of life is connecting with others, and any media or technology that pushes you away from social connection and toward an isolationist attitude is inherently anti-human.

Six years of development and you can’t even pet the dog :(

The AI boom has created a new type of work: fixing botched AI. Designers are being hired to remake wonky AI art. Writers are asked to make ChatGPT’s writing sound more human. Even software developers are tasked with fixing buggy vibe coding. www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

If you are okay with this, if you think this is justified, if you think people living on the street have brought this upon themselves, if you think this is good leadership, you may be able to fool yourself that you care about others but you don’t fool me

Hey out of curiosity is there a single other country in the world that has schoolchildren training for what to do if someone starts killing their classmates

The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are.

Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it

The Game Changer ARG (yes, there actually was one this time) revealed a secret 11th episode of the season, but it’ll only become available once 100,000 people do the following: 1. Goto www.ep11.love 3. Click the target 3. Use the password: SAMALAMADINGDONG

Video games have a serious crediting problem, but unions can help "Being properly credited on a title is essential to our individual careers as workers, and also just general fairness. Being able to say, 'Hey, I worked on this,' is important to show the work you did and not undercut labor."

Stick with this past the first few levels. My first impression based on the overall structure was “oh I’ve played games like this.” But once it starts folding in more rules you’ll realize that this is actually a VERY GOOD, VERY SMART puzzle game.

Writers should internalize Lao Tzu's lesson about how the emptiness at the center of a wheel is what makes it useful, and how a pot is valuable because of where the clay *isn't*. Corporate geek culture has warped us into thinking that negative spaces are flaws that need to be fixed.

*keycard didn’t boop on the first try* My brain: oh fuck have I been laid off

*email password didn’t work on the first try, probably because I typed it in incorrectly* My brain: oh fuck have I been laid off

*Slack reloads for 1.5 seconds* My brain: Oh fuck have I been laid off

Apple is delisting Wheels of Aurelia from the App Store, because it's... "obsolete". Our statement:

This is his time.

if you've seen my show in the last year, you probably heard my 37-min pre-show mashup megamix. by popular request, i put it on bandcamp. stream it free or pay $1+, every dollar is going to our crew that feeds the residents of macarthur park every thursday electrolemon.bandcamp.com/track/anthem...

"Superman is an open hand extended to a lapsed patriot." what a review!

Goddamn, what a review.

(Obligate reminder that Roguelike Celebration’s CFP is open for another week or two, and also are desperately seeking sponsorship or individual donations. We’re not at risk of cancelling this year, but there’s a very real sustainability question! www.roguelike.club)

It sucks that “maintain your humanity” is the new counterculture but we are where we are

Read news, op-eds, and analysis, not AI summaries. Create your own art (even if it's messy) or hire an artist to do it. Do your own homework. Talk to people, not chatbots. Keep your thinking and skills sharp and cherish our messy humanity. That's the new punk rock.

spent my afternoon making a short little web game for New Yorkers called "Don't Rank Cuomo"... it has 10 levels. it's very realistic and challenging. can YOU don't rank Cuomo? play in browser (free): radiatoryang.itch.io/cuomo

Things I love gameplay engineers doing without needing to ask: * version numbers on title screens * debug options for "instant level complete" and/or sequence skipping * toggle for framerate display * implementing tweakable values in builds for quick and easy testing on device

New York friends! Please, for the love of god, rank Zohran and DO NOT rank Cuomo. We deserve a mayor who doesn't suck.

Voter turnout in NYC local elections does not reflect well on the young and young-ish portion of our population. Please register to vote in the mayoral primary by June 14. It is a closed primary, so you MUST be registered as D or R — NOT independent or WFP. vote.nyc/page/registr...

Can we not elect this guy, please?

IMO, designs should pass the car crash amnesia test. that is, regardless of the solution, if you were hit by a car today and developed amnesia and then returned to look at your design solution, would you say "okay that makes sense" or would you say "how on earth did we get to this ridiculous solve"?