Got really carried away making my Pentiment layoff protest sign for the Irvine CWA rally outside Obsidian offices today 🥹 it was so nice to meet folks from more Microsoft units. You all put so much heart and passion and craft into making video games. You all deserve so much better.

The CDC is so underfunded now that it's like: "Just remove the three outer layers of lettuce, so you don't consume any feces, then wash each interior leaf individually, so you remove any hidden feces. Good luck!"

Flew to Chicago this morning. My kids are finally both old enough to be pretty happy entertaining themselves with some basic movies and games. It was the least stressful flight since maybe when my oldest was 8mo. I was even able to get some reading done! A revolution! Truly!

you tell them they can't hang out in the park after dark. you chase them off the basketball courts. the skate parks have all been dismantled. all their third spaces have been ripped from them. i don't know what you expect them to do that doesn't cost money

wild that it's taken this long, it was such obvious bribery, it was the most egregious "i can't say i'll buy your vote but wink wink nudge nudge lemme buy your vote."

Good. Now follow through. Anyone know where Blanche is right now?

he needs to be ousted as leader immediately

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Yyyyabba dabba doooo!

heartbreaking, i really grew up in the peak gaming periodical era.

Aw no, not Kelvin-Khan! NOt Benedict Khanbumbatch! Give us Ricardo Montalban!

ICE killed another person.

AOC says Don't Print Lies In The Newspaper

Oh no, France has the Trump curse on them now www.politico.com/live-updates...

The success of friendslop is quite simple: It's $6. Do you and your friends have $6? You're playing friendslop

BREAKING: NYC Mayor Mamdani signs new law that says you don't have to go to work if your pet is asleep on you or just being extra cute.

aw man

New York has become the first US state to enforce a data center moratorium, as governor Kathy Hochul signed an executive order today to pause construction for one year.

aw man

An unexpected highlight of my fellowship at the Huntington this summer: getting to see & smell two corpse flowers blooming this morning (one, nicknamed Odorysseus, is making its public debut!). They only flower for 24 hours or so once every 2-3 years, so a double bloom is a real botanical event!

logging on

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

ICE and/or police murdered someone this morning in Biddeford, Maine. From the statements I’ve seen from local activists, I *think* the victim was a young Black man. You may already know Black immigrants are the largest non-white immigrant demo in Maine. A protest is already under way.

a thousand monster / dinosaur / megafauna movies since Jurassic Park have tried and failed to replicate its magic, but the thing Jurassic Park understood is that we aren’t just hooked by the Big Toothy Creature, we’re hooked by the moment a crotchety old grump rediscovers his sense of wonder

based unabashed lefty Sam Neill

RIP to the incomparable Sam Neill

live a good life in service of others and look at how you’ll be remembered.

aw Sam Neill

“But I want to tell you what he was like to hang out with in private when there were no stakes” is a very common response to the death of a person who had immense power in situations with high stakes.

Lindsey Graham was one of the main subjects of a @theatlantic.com cover story I wrote in 2020, on why people collaborate with regimes they know are immoral. Here's a gift link: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Y’all, “getting mad at politicians for making anodyne statements about their dead professional colleagues” is not actually a good hobby, take up cross-stitch or something.

"Tributes Pour In for Senator Lindsey Graham", then a dramatic blank space on the landing page of NYT.

🏁TIME🏁 #SGDQ2026 has raised a total amount of $2,408,701 for @doctorswithoutborders.org!!! Thank you to everyone who made this marathon possible, and to all of you for your amazing generosity & support. 💙 See you next time at #AGDQ2027!! WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!

oh, I just came to post about a sick balatro speedrun, wasn’t expecting THAT

i have never been more stressed by math than watching this man chase a silly number

ouch

Not DEI was saving y’all from diarrhea sjfjdkdkd

There’s an increase in cyclosporiasis (a parasite that can cause watery, sometimes explosive, diarrhea) reported in multiple states. What to know ⬇️ 1/

Lorde spoke out against “fucked up” AI glasses during her set at Mad Cool. Ray-Ban is a sponsor of the Madrid festival, and Ray-Ban Meta AI ambassador Jennie took the stage directly after her. [📷: Javier Bragado]

I’m sure it’s obvious but the way it hit me like a truck how so much of the Toy Story trilogy is a metaphor for the parental anxiety that our children will no longer need us/grow beyond us. Seriously, like a truck.

Bluesky during England-Argentina

We're so sorry to hear about more layoffs this week, & that this keeps happening. This is why we continue to run and foster community spaces & events like Gamedev PerkUp - collaborating with United Videogame Workers and more to make a difference. Let's keep pushing together. ✊✊🏼✊🏾 See y'all tomorrow🌱

editor: “hey nobody knows where Mitch McConnell is” journalist: “should we look into it?” editor: “no but we definitely should write a piece about how nobody is looking into it”

4 Player Ascension 10 Necrobinder Run is amazing to watch! Get that doom!

Musk has been tweeting all day, including right around the time this interview was supposed to be taking place lol

along with the huge corruption investigations, democrats need to do a million little things like this AND THEN BRAG ABOUT IT