Public education should have nothing to do with grades or diplomas at any level. If employers want to test your aptitude, make them administer those tests, as many, in fact, do. Requiring diplomas serves only to enforce a plausibly deniable class barrier.

Sleep is a biological necessity, and sleep deprivation has real physical, psychological, and social consequences that need to be taken seriously. The way our society treats it as slothful to sleep according to natural rhythms (including midday naps and variant chronotypes like night owls) is evil.

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For folks hoping for a nuremberg moment, I thought this video essay by Jacob Geller did a really great job of moving through the fantasy toward a real reckoning with what, well, real reckoning might look like

Today we released our 8-bit Adventure Pack! Over 1400 graphics, made by humans, including tiles, NPCs, enemies, bosses, items and a hero character. Everything you need to make a Game Boy-style adventure game 100% FREE for commercial use ci.itch.io/8-bit-advent... #gamedev #pixelart #indiedev

I sure am on Mastodon! peoplemaking.games/@clayote

you don't get to count on votes from people you are letting get exterminated. if you let a fox kill the chickens, should you still expect eggs in the morning?

Folks, i need a job or a contract so bad. I'm a full-stack developer, i work in several frameworks (including #laravel and #yii2), and with several CMSes (notably #craftcms and #expressionengine but i can also work in Wordpress). I've got SQL wizard skills and a deep focus on #a11y . Please hire me!

From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free

Bigotry isn't mental illness.

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every time one of those "look how evil ages you" posts goes viral you get a reminder that much of us have heuristics for navigating the world that aren't much different from that of a middle ages peasant

It’s really important for the normie power users to take a stand because Bluesky has already made it clear that it wants all the not-acceptable-for-tea-in-the-Hamptons users gone. Not me personally but my type of account, history and pretty things, is what they want around, so I am making noise.

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just learning now that "waffles" is about Jəsse Singəl, so I will re-up this piece that chronicles his long history of harassing primarily trans women (+ other trans ppl & allies) online... juliaserano.blogspot.com/2017/12/my-j...

Reporters & @nytimes.com, do better. Talk to folks like @fidgetsandfries.bsky.social, @jessdiaryofamom.bsky.social, @cosmickarmic.bsky.social, @lollardfish.bsky.social, @autisticenough.bsky.social who love and support their high-support autistic kids, and don't pretend their lives are pony parties.

If "AI" was as valuable as they say it is, they wouldn't be selling it to you. They'd be using it themselves in secret to make the next Minecraft, the next Avatar, the next Hello Kitty and then they'd sell that to you. They're trying to sell you a sick goose, while pretending it lays golden eggs.

Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL...

This is my regular reminder to everyone that jstor is open to the general public now; a free account there will give you access to 100 papers a year.

I'm betting that it's only the limitations of current technology that limit what you can design in a game jam Unfortunately, I'll only find out if I'm right after I've already spent a decade making better tech oops

"all countries are fake" is the "all lives matter" of colonialism

i would again like to remind everyone that NEGATING A FRAME REINFORCES IT "he's not really targeting criminals" makes it an argument about criminality "this is a fascist attack" states what is actually happening START WITH WHAT IT IS not what it isn't

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NOW REMEMBER This does not mean we end the boycott. This does not mean you are satisfied Conservatives only ever get why they want by taking the concessions they got and demanding MORE

Spirit Swap, our puzzle x VN game is on sale! hotfix patch coming today! Only $15.99 for unfettered joy by queer, trans people of color (and some cis and white people too! I can‘t be sure about the cis part tho sorry) to zone out too and forget your worries! #indiegames

Released version 0.22.0 of #Lisien, formerly #LiSE, the state container and rules engine for systemically complex simulations like those by Maxis or Paradox. Put your game's state in Lisien, and forget that save files ever existed. clayote.itch.io/lisien/devlo... #gameDev #lifeSim #python

People want everything to be a binary between dooming and “we’re so back” but I’ll just say this is both a really troubling attack on press freedom and an open admission that your regime is fragile enough to feel threatened by Jimmy fucking Kimmel

The only way to solve this problem long-term is through collective political action. Decentralization won't save you. Cryptocurrencies won't save you. VPNs won't save you. Open source won't save you. Only mass organization.

Fear will try to convince us to isolate, to hoard resources, to avoid community, to build the least threatening campaigns making little impact. A grounded risk assessment will move us closer to each other, it’ll remind us of that we are millions, it’ll make our work more bold and more brave.

Yes, Charlie Kirk called for Joe Biden’s execution. But he called for it in the right way.

Yup. But it's easy to say things like "right-wing disinfo machine." but not realize that Dems are in a similar disinfo machine. For years, lots of Dems wondered why so many Black folk were disappointed with Elon Musk, or Joe Biden. It was for exactly the same reason: We knew things they'd done.🤷🏿‍♂️

reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle

Unfortunately this post is not true, the header was modified prior to Sep 10: t.co/vUXBqR2rqt

I have written and deleted a lot of posts but I keep thinking about how the brutal assassination of Minnesota State senator Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, and their beloved dog Gilbert in June did not prompt this same level of calls for empathy, sympathy, and flags at half-mast.

unfortunately this appears to be fake, here’s a snapshot of his profile from 9/4 archive.ph/2025.09.04-2...

Welp, it’s time to publish this: Bluesky Moderation has affirmatively dropped the ball with respect to allowing the transgender community on this site to protect itself. I have a blocklist, titled “Transphobic”. You can’t see it. Bluesky Community hid it.

I keep thinking about this because I feel like when people say "canary in a coal mine" these days it's more a shrug/grief/more life lost. BUT THE MINERS LISTENED TO THE CANARY'S WARNING AND ALSO SAVED IT FROM HARM.

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It actually makes me so infuriated that so many peoples analysis of violent eugenicists is to go "they're crazy" like you get that their goal is killing mentally ill people right? You get that thats an ahistorical and antiintellectual analysis that throws away actualyl examining them and their views

This is why "Elon went crazy" is cope: he has only ever been rewarded for spouting embarrassing bullshit, and starting stupid companies out of brain farts. He's just rationally following the incentives at this point.

Profound autism is now the autism that makes you profound

“Just make it exist!” Isn’t that simple, and neither is “making it good.” I know the left hand graphic has been making the rounds and is meant as motivation, but as a frequent victim of Scope Creep, please learn from my mistakes 😂🥲

y’all know what one of the first nazi book burnings was right? y’all know why they did it y’all know trans people were one of their first targets and even the ALLIES left us in the camps when liberating everyone else y’all see what’s right in front of you, right?

This is the burning of the Institut fur Sexualwissenschaft. Right here. This is the tipping point of genocide.

If Microsoft siccing the FBI on their own employees for daring to protest isn’t enough to make you stop covering Xbox and Xbox-published games, we don’t know what to say anymore

"No one is fighting Trump except Newsom." MILLIONS of people across the country, elected and not, are fighting Trump EVERY DAY, from feeding people to providing free healthcare to pro bono litigation to organizing. What you mean is YOU aren't fighting Trump. Posting isn't fighting.