After a long gap, pleased to share: Episode 2 of Games & Resistance, a slow-burn podcast miniseries hosted by @chadtoprak.bsky.social & me. We interview Lebanese / NYC game dev Ramsey Nasser about his work, including recent project gaza.memorial. games-and-resistance.pinecast.co/episode/739b...

if you love game manuals, we've got the events (in collaboration with TXTbooks) for you!! ONLINE ITCH JAM: sat 11/15 - 11/29 IN-PERSON WORKSHOP: sat 11/22 @ 11am - 2pm at boshi's place check out this thread for more details! ⬇️

This series of experimental dub is *so* good, do not miss (False 03 is maybe my fav record of the year) bsky.app/profile/funk...

(Reuters) - Meta internally projected late last year that it would earn about 10% of its overall annual revenue – or $16 billion – from running advertising for scams and banned goods, internal company documents show. $META @reuters.com www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Excited to be working w/ @tigershungry.co.uk & the NYU crew to make an intramural, bsports tournament for NO QUARTER 2025! To recruit teams @chouxsalad.bsky.social & I will show the HEXADECIPAD, a 16-player NES controller, at @nyugamecenter.bsky.social 11/6 @boshis.place 11/7 @wonderville.nyc 11/8

So the answer is because the social media ban was never actually about protecting children, but rather an obvious smokescreen for the ALP to inappropriately enact authoritarian surveillance over all Australians. Hope that helps! bsky.app/profile/leno...

So. To recap. Discord, a company NOT included in Australia's social media age restriction law, had its age verification partner breached and leaked around 68,000 Australian PII details. Even though it isn't included in the ban. Which hasn't started yet. Such a great start before we've even started.

Absolute no to the thought of ever voting for Gavin Newsom. To do so would not be to "make a hard choice", it would giving up on any longer-term vision of a better future. I get that you don't always get what you want in a democracy, but you have to be willing to draw a line somewhere.

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school

Super excited to share that I will be attending @playtopia.bsky.social in Cape Town in December! I've heard such good things about the festival. I'll be there giving a talk (playtopiafestival.co.za/program-satu...) and exhibiting a new iteration of Canopy Co-op (doougle.itch.io/canopy-coop)

Corporations are machines for making humans not act like humans

NEW: Amid concerns over the Biden administration's regulation of the crypto industry, billionaire tech investor Marc Andreessen, a longtime Democrat, donated more than $5 million to groups supporting Trump ahead of the 2024 election. Since then, he's gotten what he called for: a hollowed-out CFPB.

The Reddit community r/Democrats has a conspicuous absence of any news about Zohran Mamdani today. But that's by design. The moderators have rules that ban people from talking about democratic socialists. www.reddit.com/r/democrats/

uh i would say it's mildly alarming that the Trump administration is using its sanction powers to compel tech companies into taking its critics offline. First, the ICC's chief investigator says he was blocked from his Microsoft-hosted email after US sanctions. Now, this

The last people on the planet I want to hear tell me about Mamdani is the New York fucking Times

no national election has ever reflected the true will of the people. ~25% of the total population voting for a mass suicide should never have convinced us that Fascism is “political reality” and “inevitable”

lol I have very fond memories of exhibiting at 285 Kent at Babycastles in 2011, how times change, and change again bsky.app/profile/klee...

good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx

Southern Gaza witnesses raids, intensive artillery shelling as Israel continues its attacks, violating the ceasefire.

Super excited to share that I will be attending @playtopia.bsky.social in Cape Town in December! I've heard such good things about the festival. I'll be there giving a talk (playtopiafestival.co.za/program-satu...) and exhibiting a new iteration of Canopy Co-op (doougle.itch.io/canopy-coop)

Eat shit Chuck Schumer

Mamdani probably would have been expelled from the ALP

The bad news is that *even in the current climate* liberals, capitalists, and mainstream media will form a united front with the fascists to oppose a center-left candidate. The good news is that they can be defeated.

Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.

why is this mayoral election different than all other mayoral elections? in all other mayoral elections, we get to see andrew cuomo lose but once. but in this mayoral elections, we get to see him lose *twice*.

do you want to play games in the grass with a big group of people? great! then come meet us in fort greene for: - a chill intro & warmup activities on blankets - warm, decaf tea - field games in the "new games" tradition - games with two parachutes - & more (please read on for more details!)

Simply cannot stress enough that you’re gonna have to leave corporate media behind; it is hostile to you, and your lifestyle.

I don't really love to throw industry shade because it's rarely black and white, but I am going to remind people that a game starring arguably the most iconic black superhero was cancelled *in advance* of this sale and all of the GDC talks from staff working on it were shot down at the EA level

people overused the word "gaslighting" in the first Trump era i guess - but i don't know how else to describe how weird it feels that he literally has a lower approval rating now than any time in his first term and the media is acting like he has 70 percent approval

Schumer had a chance to repudiate the gutter racism and Islamophobia of Cuomo's campaign and he just fucking didn't. And that is disqualifying. He should be ashamed and we the voters should make sure he feels that shame.

I really loved Erik Hall's performance of Steve Reich's Music For 18 Musicians (and Simeon ten Holt's Canto Ostinato). Very excited that Hall has just released a recording of Reich's Music for a Large Ensemble - excellent stuff: erikhall.bandcamp.com/album/solo-t...

Was honored to help @chana.bsky.social edit this deep dive compilation of Curtis Sliwa lore gathered over weeks. There is so much jaw-dropping material, we simply could not bear to make it shorter than 76 slides.

absolutely brilliant and sweet article, perfect election morning read

You’re a “leftist?” Hold on a minute. It says here you used to offer “running lessons” in EverQuest where you’d convince newbies to /follow you and run them directly into a goblin cave to harvest their gear. I don’t seem to remember Marx mentioning that in Das Kapital

Hooray…Its not just fossil fuel expansion where Australia leads the world… thepoint.com.au/news/251104-...

BREAKING: The Albanese Labor Government just joined with the Coalition to vote against an inquiry into AUKUS proposed by the Greens.

if i was a democratic voter and i saw a parade of Nazis lining up to endorse a centrist democratic candidate on the eve of an election, i would probably never trust any of the people or structures that supported that candidate ever again

Jesus christ, I knew it was bad, but 'absolute purge of all black women from Teen Vogue' is hitting new levels of fascist-complicit media ratfuckery.

I am so upset. Last week Time Magazine solicited a piece from me on Zohran Mamdani & anti-Muslim hate. I pitched a framing re the dehumanization of Muslims & how Mamdani’s inclusive, socialist campaign in its content resists that. They agreed. I wrote the piece. 1/

I'm trying *really* hard to divest from Big Tech where I can, but man is this a struggle. I've moved over to LibreOffice, but struggling hard using Impress to author lectures. No one single big deal breaker, just so many small QOL problems, death by a thousands paper cuts.

I continue to be mad about age verification laws

Steam cloud saves are so cursed. It's like: what if we took the experience of git merge conflicts but spread that misery to the logistics of *playing* games, not just developing them.

I think about this post now whenever I see the outer ripples of Games Discourse™ I haven’t followed bsky.app/profile/stev...

Super excited for this interview! As prep, I just completed the game again - this time with the <redacted> ending - and my goodness it is such a triumph of worldbuilding and writing. bsky.app/profile/eggp...

NYC, today is the last day of early voting. Go out to vote today and save yourself the stress of Tuesday voting.

I hit a wildly unfortunate map gen bug in Qud that prevented me from entering the endgame, but the kind folks on the Qud Discord suggested that I wish a zone rebuild. Saved! The Qud "Wish" system is so inspired. Computers only "adjudicate" rules if you don't sufficiently empower your players.

Informative Vic Aboriginal News (three-part) interview discussing (recently passed) Victorian Treaty Legislation, with co-Chair Rueben Berg: vicaboriginalnews.com.au/2025-10-20-6...