Itchy, Tasty is now available for sale directly on my website! Buying from me is the only way at the moment to directly support my work. (Also, there's an Autograph option if you're interested!) cvxfreak.com/store/itchy-...

MINA AND TONI ARE MARRIED

OKAY BUT WHAT IF I CRIED

Today's newsletter is about the awful and extremely political decision to gut Teen Vogue for parts www.readtpa.com/p/teen-vogue...

thrilled to have this piece from @reidmccarter.bsky.social on kotaku today interrogating how 2025's spate of historical fiction blockbusters all try to convincingly recreate the past, and what it means when games offer up their own visions of history. kotaku.com/ghost-yotei-...

Uninstall Grammarly NOW. They've partnered with an AI company and actively scrape your writing to train its models.

Went to the library and read one of the horniest gay poems I’ve ever read

And then you better read the second part of the essay, about my favorite character in a video game maybe ever, and why she deserves better than the discourse often gives her

If you missed my (quite good imo) interview with YouTube cult icon Joe from Joe is Hungry, I have freed it from its Hive Vault and made it publicly available!

Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.

The newly elected mayor of New Yorl, Zohran Mamdani, was live for Kenny Omega vs. Bryan Danielson at AEW Grand Slam!

A frog friend to confide in 🐸🧡 #hades2

To be fair... his pants doesn't have pockets

the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre" www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...

girl who invites you over to listen to her playlists and it's entirely german numbers station recordings.

It’s not ever about the numbers—you can bring insane audience engagement, views, eyeballs to your verticals, shape the conversation in wonderful ways, win awards and on and on And they still will nuke your job and your entire desk in the name of capital consolidation and kissing the fucking ring

The short version: Despite layoffs, buying the game still puts money in the pockets of the developers who worked on it. Which is doubly important because they're out of a job. Boycotting the game in solidarity with them by screwing them out of money won't help anyone!

Timeline cleanse: Kodak will begin selling two famous types of film stock—Kodak Gold 200 and Kodak Ultramax 400—directly to retailers and distributors in the U.S., another indication that the historic company is taking back control over how people buy its film.

Frustrating though entirely unsurprising that a young femme-focused magazine that has been doing banger work in reporting on crucial issues is being gutted by the politically grey Vogue. We need this reporting now more than ever, and I've said this far too many times in the last two years.

New awareness campaign

This is what happens when the Secretary of Transportation was hired solely because he was on a reality show called Road Rules.

i await the rfk crusade against covid now that it has been shown to contribute to autism chances. i refuse to say "risk" even if the article does. risk implies that it's a problem, and being autistic is not inherently problematic. i've known way too many autistic people to believe otherwise.

Color printing

She won.

I'm ventuing into spicy territory but the idea that farming game is "the quintessential indie genre" now is IMO more reflective of what indie genres people view with an element of distaste bc trust me when I say there are 1000x more vampire survivors/run based roguelikes out there than farming games

Sims 4 content creators are leaving EA's Creator Network over fears that the conservative values of EA's buyers — which include Saudi Arabia and Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner — will impact the game's development. bit.ly/47eou1x

new OC design, Mira, a ghost who haunts a cursed LaserDisc

Citing a Trump executive order banning "gender ideology," the VA is withholding coverage and treatment for male veterans with breast cancer, an increasing condition among veterans exposed to toxic chemicals during service. 100 male veterans a year are diagnosed with breast cancer.

today’s THC products are absurdly strong and badly need to be regulated to reduce population harms. but re-criminalizing THC when this regime is violating civil rights wholesale/building a new network of prison labor camps should set off alarm bells for anyone familiar with prisons and jim crow

Hey folks, my wife was laid off unexpectedly. We depend on her income with my own. We are crunching numbers, but it's grim. Not sure how we'll make it through November, let alone think about December. You can help here, but we understand everyone is struggling too. <3 ko-fi.com/gnomedic/goa...

Tony bringing back the classics

He's doing his best. #AEWDynamite

not Excalibur name-dropping Tom of Finland re: Don 😂😭 #AEWDynamite 🤼

I went to Caroline Kingsbury and MARIS's "Give Me A Tour!" with @quantumdot.space. They blew our faces off. You can tell Caroline is really dedicated and worked really hard on her craft. MARIS is a POWERHOUSE. That voice!!! She's gonna be a megastar.

10 years of 2-player TTRPGs, and intimate one-on-one conversations. Thanks for coming along for the ride so far. Here's to many more parties to come. If you'd like to quote-tweet this with kind words, or a favorite episode, or what you like about the show, I would appreciate it. Party On, y'all.

Here's the rest of the case. Love how it all came together.

So honored for being part of the Bombathon! A kiss on the cheek to @giantbomb.bsky.social @tolkoto.com @grubb.wtf for the opportunity. Much love to the rest of the crew @jerf.xyz @danryckert.com @turboshawn.com @chucktowski.com and congrats on the stream! It got me through the day. Good show!Cheers!

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A tortured soul and his tormenter.

The sad Kendall Roy Succession piano music in BTE today, after watching all of S1 recently I *cannot* I was laughing so hard

friend shared this, immediately updated my settings

BOMB-A-THON 2025 OCTOBER 27 5PM ET - OCTOBER 28 5PM ET BE THERE!!!!!!!

Worth noting that Airport Insecurity by @ibogost.com (2005) predates Papers, Please and was kind of casual and wholesome-looking. But it was pointing at the post-9-11 security theater and the questionable, ever shifting guidelines of the time. persuasivegames.com/game/airport...

Good article by @im.giovanh.com about a "cozy" airport security game. Wholesome games tend to reimagine labor -and reality as a whole- as we'd like it to be: beautiful, tidy, meaningful, social... but why would there be terrorist threats in this utopia? blog.giovanh.com/blog/2025/10...

I am not a layout artist and when I self-publish I either get friends to do layout for me or I do something super simple in Gdocs. Some of my friends use the alternatives in this post though: www.creativebloq.com/features/ind... (i've also heard good things about Canva?)

Surviving Jon Moxley "Outside the ring, dealing with Moxley is like talking to a domesticated animal. Inside the ring, it's like dealing with a wild animal." by Tom Lawlor READ: moonsault.press/surviving-jon-moxley #wrestlesky #indiewrestling 🤼‍♂️

Another excellent point from the article