Think of establishment Democrats as the billionaires' second line of defense: bodies paid to occupy seats that would otherwise go to an actual opposition. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

More and more Americans see the Democratic Party as the #1 problem in US politics. Not because it’s worse than the GOP, but because you can’t even begin to fight fascism, climate change, or inequality until the Schumer gang is out of the way.

I appreciate how important the event has been for my career, but at this point it is very difficult for me to imagine ever attending GDC again

Recognition of Palestine is Not Enough, Sanctions Must Follow to Stop the Genocide. Read our full statement on Australian recognition of Palestine at: www.jewishcouncil.com.au/2025/09/jewi...

I think we're heading to Perth Fringe again in Jan/Feb and I'm really looking forward to it, love visiting WA. I want to roadtrip down to Esperance so so bad, I gotta find the time.

Not only is the hunger for new data centres already impacting Australia's energy demands, it's even driving down our ambitions for reducing our emissions, Ketan Joshi reports in Crikey. www.crikey.com.au/20...

Mars First Logistics, our silly little game about building rovers and delivering stuff, will be coming out of Early Access on 26 September 2025!

I conducted an experiment on what Tiktok and YouTube recommends when not logged in on the app. Given the social media ban only covers accounts, hard not to see this could be the experience for teens in Australia come December. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/s...

I reckon Travis is on to something, but just for fun, here are 3 great videogames in/about urban Naarm/Melb Apartment (2021) freeplayfest.itch.io/apartment Touch Melbourne (2018) gleeson.itch.io/touchmelbourne Necrobarista (2020) store.steampowered.com/app/725270/N... bsky.app/profile/grug...

Playing Proteus again today (for the first time in a while) in prep for class this week. Just so beautiful, for sure a Top 5 All Time videogame for me, still. twistedtreegames.com/proteus/

Related: it’s probably beyond time that I/we start researching Discord alternatives. It’s gonna hurt when that platform becomes even more untenable and I just know there’s such a high chance of getting caught flat footed. Like, as a precedent, I hugely regret not investing time in Linux earlier.

I am very worried about the future of Bluesky but more importantly, the future of communication online more generally. But I do not trust anyone so gleefully dancing on the grave of “Social Media”. Being terminally offline, in this era of compromised news media, is an unjustifiable brain disease.

It's all "be kind to each other love and light" in the posts but the actual policy as enforced is "die more quietly or we'll make you"

Just so offensive to watch Shorten so flippantly misunderstand the whole idea of education. “Brain rot” is not a strong enough term for this theconversation.com/bill-shorten...

please bro just let us sacrifice one more minority. bro please i promise everything will be good bro your material conditions will improve if you let us scapegoat one more minority bro

Preparing a small lecture on audio in games, tried digging up @atomless.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy's 2002 playable web toys for Boards of Canada. Flashpoint doesn't correctly play the old Shockwave files, but there's video documentation on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrWj...

Australia's universities are blighted by a "culture of consequence-free, rotten failure", according to the former chair of a senate inquiry examining governance at public universities. ... "There's no other sector in the country where failure is rewarded so handsomely and with so little scrutiny."

Yes yes yes, cannot wait for this. Umurangi Generation is one of my favorite games of this century so far and this new project looks so good. bsky.app/profile/vese...

Big respect to A More Civilized Age for postponing their Andor coverage back in April. It was definitely disappointing to see so many critics pontificate about Andor and "politics" without seriously grappling with the material reality of Disney. amorecivilizedage.net/why-were-pos...

Naarm/Melbourne! We are re-fostering these beautiful two cats (indoor only) and looking to adopt them (as a pair). They are so so so sweet and we would have adopted them ourselves if we didn’t already have our own. Get in touch!

Overcrowded cells. Unsanitary conditions. Limited access to food and water. These are the conditions that ICE has created at 26 Federal Plaza, which eleven elected officials sought to expose. Instead, they were arrested. They must be released right now — and inspectors let in.

We are soo (868) back bsky.app/profile/eggp...

Naarm/Melbourne! We are re-fostering these beautiful two cats (indoor only) and looking to adopt them (as a pair). They are so so so sweet and we would have adopted them ourselves if we didn’t already have our own. Get in touch!

Times are pretty scary out there, but I'm feeling very grateful to everyone who contributed to our @eggplantshow.bsky.social Year of UFO 50 - especially our thoughtful Discord community and all the incredible guests who joined us on episode. Thanks y'all!

a key reason they see an opening for such a blatant speech crackdown is that they already did one to Palestinian and anti-genocide activists and it got enthusiastic bipartisan approval

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The shape of politics in the US right now is increasingly that the media, political and economic elites are allied with the Trump regime against the actual people of the country who hate it

The Government finally released the Climate Risk Assessment report, and it's damning. 1.5 million Australians living on the coastline are under threat of rising sea levels by 2050! But the Govt STILL approved extending the North West Shelf gas project #auspol @richarddenniss.bsky.social

We're launching a campaign to end the genocide in Gaza. Sign our petition to call on the Australian government to sanction Israel NOW. Tomorrow we'll be in the Daily Telegraph and the Herald Sun so please: Snap a photo of yourself with the ad and tag us www.jewishcouncil.com.au/2025/09/peti...

The UFO 50 book club is wrapping up soon, and we're going out with a bang: Join us on Wednesday, September 17, for Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games Presents: A Year of UFO 50 Finale Eggstravaganza — LIVE! Special guests! Surprises! Fun! (Follow twitch.tv/eggplantshow for the live notif)

The Australian government has released the landmark national climate risk assessment report, providing the most detailed picture of the severe and far-reaching social and economic impact of the climate crisis for Australia. 🔗👉 www.theguardian.com/p/x383n...

DID YOU KNOW that Maddy 'Celeste Developer' Thorson has been pretty busy since redefining precision platformers? Enjoy a trilogy of high-powered Kaizo Marios starring shitpost non-binary Sonic. www.smwcentral.net/?p=section&a... www.smwcentral.net/?p=section&a... www.smwcentral.net/?p=section&a...

1 in 8 Australian households (1.3 million people) don’t have enough money to buy food

Eggplant Presents: A Year of UFO 50 - [REDACTED] We're joined by @chouxsalad.bsky.social @alt254.bsky.social + Steve Gillham to discuss [REDACTED] hidden within the UFO 50 collection. Don't miss our LIVE series finale next Wed 7:30pm CST! www.twitch.tv/eggplantshow eggplant.show/ep-a-year-of...

Disgraceful. No govt that actually cares about climate change would do this. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

It’s not 2012 anymore, this isn’t Twitter, the world has changed, and I really have to somehow convince my brain to think about social media differently.

I spoke with a brave Australian, Dr Bianca Webb-Pullman, who is sailing to Gaza aboard the Family Boat alongside Greta Thunberg. Following the drone strike on her boat, she has a message for her local member, Josh Burns. Why not help him hear it?

Wait but seriously, it's wild how many people out there are newly engaging with The Grasshopper / Suits because of UFO 50, lots of discussion about the book in various Discords, etc. bsky.app/profile/doou...

Revisiting Miasma Tower for this week's episode and, goddamn, I don't think UFO 50 gets enough credit for its approach to storytelling and writing. All-timer for me. Just so inspiring.

lately when i’m feeling hopeless i just think of the Katamari cat wearing scuba gear. if she can survive in an inhospitable environment then so can i

New: HHS has told all employees that they should start using ChatGPT, continuing the administration's AI-ification of everything, its trust in tools that hallucinate, and the general sense that getting things right is not important or worth trying to do: www.404media.co/hhs-asks-all...

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

Here's a nice photo of me and Melissa from Edinburgh Fringe, pre-show at Pleasance in our dressing room (Photo by Jennifer Forward-Hayter)

I stopped posting on Instagram, and I wish my friends would stop expecting me to use Whatsapp. I hugely miss posting photos to friends. I guess I just keep hoping there will be a mass exodus from Meta platforms sooner than later. bsky.app/profile/eman...

Hours after attacking the Sumud flotilla, Israel has bombed Qatar and now ordered 1 million people to evacuate Gaza City. This is ethnic cleansing disguised as a military operation. The world must act together now.

Israel’s attack on Qatar violated international law and targeted peace negotiators, proving they’re not serious about returning hostages or a negotiated resolution to the genocide they’re committing.

Rally to save Meanjin magazine Thursday 11 Sept 9am 715 Swanston St Carlton A number of Australian writers, editors and academics will speak in support of this vital cultural institution

You don't have to play or give attention to games that are so needlessly ignoring anti-genocide boycotts. There are *so* many other great games being released, all the time.

50 games we freakin did it