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How many hours of my one precious life must I spend doing Cloudflare security checks

A major new study has looked at the impact of the Australian welfare system on the rates of suicide It concludes that effective suicide prevention would mean raising JobSeeker payments & replacing punitive mutual obligations (such as Work for the Dole) adelaide.edu.au/about/news/2...

A lot of the “kids online safety” proponents actually are anti-LGBTQ extremists and fundamentalists who want kids to have less freedom and don’t care if that actually makes them tremendously less safe too

Hard pass. Do you know how game developers used to "visualise that object in the world"? They hired concept artists. AI is a tool of Capital designed to finally and fully disenfranchise Labour. Full Stop. That's all it is, that's all they want, and if they get it that's the ball game.

I wrote a manifesto for making games, and (not) selling them, for #manifestojam illomens.itch.io/no-one-is-go...

Ohhh yeah, agents can’t organise, agitate, or refuse unethical work.

no no you don’t understand, we only used AI for the part of the production pipeline where we didn’t want to pay employees, it’s different

If you wanted to know a bit more about making Penguin Colony as a mostly Indigenous team:

“No, please hold me back, I’m too powerful” is also spin

In the "I'm just gonna learn how to create my own midi parser real quick" stage of development. (I know there are plenty of libraries out there but I'm having fun.)

If you’ve been wondering why I haven’t been posting much the last three months: My paper on the future of Australia’s games industry — and what the government can do to avoid another Crash wiping — is out today. drive.google.com/file/d/1Hnr_...

There's something awakening beneath the ice... The Penguin Colony demo is out now on Steam! Pick it up to descend into Antarctic cosmic horror, and don’t miss the Story-Rich Showcase and Frosty Games Fest for brand new info from developer @veselekov.bsky.social. 🐧 Demo: bit.ly/PenguinColonySteam

Disabled Australians and their families are being screwed over by bullshit numbers thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

New poem, “Advice”, in the latest issue of Island magazine. With thanks to poetry editor Timothy Loveday for giving it a home.

Wyrmspace is part of the Cerebral Puzzle Showcase! @puzzleshowcase.bsky.social have curated an incredible set of thinky games that we're proud to be beside! Like thinky tactics, deckbuilding with memory cards, and traumatised space pirates? Give Wyrmspace Tactic a wishlist: #indiegame #thinkygame

It has been 0 days since I’ve been insulted by some colonial bureaucratic bullshit

truly incredible how many of us tried that shit once and were like "oh this is a bad program that does not deliver what it promises at all, I can do it faster and better myself" and proceeded to get screamed at for three years about how we're the stupid ones

“More than four decades on, Edward Said’s famous observation that ‘permission to narrate’ is denied to the Palestinian perspective has lost none of its currency.” Nick Riemer reviews the transcripts of the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion.

Very excited to be bringing our Next Game Penguin Colony to the world in 2026! #indiedev www.youtube.com/watch?v=pccy...

On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world 😍 airesistlist.org

Our lovely @tasgamemakers.com president @hey.paris wrote a PHENOMENAL National Cultural Policy submission, and the board has decided to share it on our website for all to read to support national advocacy efforts: tasgamemakers.com/policies-and...

“It’s here, we have to learn to live with it.” Remember when NFTs happened and we ignored it because it was obviously shit and everything turned out fine? We can afford to ignore more shit.

I just thought: Timothy Snyder‘s first „rule“ of how to fight authoritarianism and fascism was „Do not obey in advance“. We should be aware of this and act accordingly when the TechBros try to hammer us with their narrative of „inevitability“. Their total regime is not inevitable.

I gave a talk once saying "I'm not supposed to be here" and pointed to these stats, especially the systematic exclusion of mob in tech. My point was the industry needs to change so that I'm not such an anomaly, but instead I got a bunch of Lean In Girl Bosses telling me "No you DO belong here! 💖💪"

From the No Games for Genocide talk: "And this is just a reminder of what we can accomplish if we come together. Something like a boycott, it doesn't make an impact when there's one of us, but when it's all of us working together, we're able to create something more powerful."

You don't want to hear this but 500 Days of Summer is an outstanding example of nonlinear storytelling.

Not nostalgic at all, but they used to at least pretend to be giving you what you want and now it’s just “this is inevitable,” which among other things, is the language of abusers.

reminder that cancer does not make you eligible for disability payments in australia

Tony Albert is one of Australia's most important artists www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

New article by @amymcquire.bsky.social on the illegal kidnapping of Wangerriburrah and Birri Gubba filmmaker and activist Sam Woripa Watson from the Global Sumud Flotilla by the IOF. Call DFAT and Penny Wong's office today. substack.com/@amymcquire/...

“I don't understand what it's supposed to do. Every time I see a video on Instagram that's like, 'Hollywood is cooked,' what follows is, like, the most stupid dog shit I've ever seen in my life…”

folx, I’ve been working on AI "ethics" for almost a decade now & hate to tell you there’s no such thing as "ethical AI" the only "ethical principle" that works is regulating the shit out of the industry & to take back control of our autonomy, fundamental rights, freedoms & right to exist w/out AI

I've been reporting on local communities opposing massive new data centres. An update on one of the ones I covered. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Love to do 10 extra pages of documentation because I, a First Nations person, dare to suggest my work contains First Nations content

apparently knowledge institutions that employ thousands of experts on racism, colonialism, and geopolitics did not conform to a specific form of words acceptable to this one tiny powerful lobby group who provide cover for a livestreamed genocide. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...

An article about my poem, “human in the genocide”, which taught me something: namely, that every sickening thing we see now likely has its inspiration in some evil shit America did. honisoit.com/2026/05/wand...

📢 CALLING ALL NONBINARY GAME DEVS! 📢 i'm helping run a steam sale event to showcase games made by nonbinary devs during the week of international nonbinary day! if you fit this description, fill out the form by may 18 👉 forms.gle/cx9AqFfPqzF9... please share & send to all your nb dev friends!!

Submissions to the National Cultural Policy close next Sunday 24 May. We need as many studios, gamemakers and sector support organisations to put in submissions. Freeplay's helpful guide on making a submission can be found here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Indigenous researchers and communities are reshaping how Western science thinks about data ownership. Learn more during #AANHPIHeritageMonth. ⬇️ https://scim.ag/4txYYMC

Some theses on #slop. A thread. Slop is automated ideology. It's content made of content, optimized for circulation, prompted, shaped, and refined through feedback loops of adaptation to platform conditions 1/

“Stacey feels less like a 90s teenager and more like the product of a team of white guys making a video game about a 90s teenager in 2026.” I enjoyed the hell out of Mixtape but this is spot on.

"I have a finite time on this earth that I mostly want to spend interacting with other human beings. I don’t want to be the person arguing with a robot, or wasting my time reading something that a real person couldn’t be bothered to write."

If only there was a game coming soon that was set in Australia about Australian issues with an Australian cast. 👀

The children yearn for decent games journalism

If you haven't checked it out yet, the ANZ Indiefest is on Steam right now! Wyrmspace is lucky enough to be among some other awesome local games, check it out! ANZ Indiefest: store.steampowered.com/sale/ANZIndi... Wyrmspace Tactics: store.steampowered.com/app/4122350/...

was it a good commercial decision for these Australian devs to set their game based on their own musical nostalgia in America? probably. was it a good artistic decision? probably not. (see this nice piece on Americans getting confused by Necrobarista: medium.com/@damonreece/...)

Ben has a really gorgeous interview with jazz trumpeter Jess Carlton up today, talking about jazz, their PhD and neurodivergence and being a mother: reallylistening.substack.com/p/space-to-b...