Absolutely feel like I'm crashing out. >Traffic has been aggravating today for no reason >Had to blow almost $300 at the vet for them to tell me his tummy might be upset >Hub still is umemployed going on 2 months > *gestures vaguely at US gov*

Casual Sunday menty-B over how anxiety is ruining my life.

Proud history?? The confederacy were seditionist traitors and it only lasted for 5 years. What a proud goddamn history that is.

Had something odd happen today 🧵

Deskilling is real. This is the world generative AI peddlers long for, one where people are incompetent without their service. Don't outsource your brain to this shit. You'll regret it.

Google fired a woman in Canada within days of finding out she was pregnant, so she's suing them and rather than just saying she wasn't fired for being pregnant they're arguing that being pregnant isn't protected by our human rights code (they're wrong, it is)

Time has changed

I need a @khill.bsky.social video about the radioactive wasps they found at that nuclear facility in SC. Like WHAT?

Microsoft just became the second company to be valued at over $4 trillion. They’ve also fired over 15,000 workers this year. They’ve also spent over $18 billion on stock buybacks over the last year.

Decided to take up video editing as a hobby. I’m currently making short YT vids of my Pokémon cards using my phone and doodling around with them. It’s been pretty fun so far, and even only doing 2 vids I feel like I’ve learned a lot.

Goodnight, Dark Prince. 🖤💔 www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrit...

I don't think I've been this depressed since my grandma died the other year. I feel all of the positive work I've done on myself just flying out the window.

My mom always used to tell me that my great-grandma had a saying, "Never do anything you wouldn't want put on the front of the newspaper." I suspect she would have felt very vindicated at this Coldplay Jumbotron story.

I think the only thing that's keeping me from crashing out entire right now is the fact that my neighborhood is the stomping grounds for two very cute mallard ducks, which sometimes walk down the road wiggling their butts.

Seeing multiple buddies get jobs recently has made me feel a little more hope for where we're at in the game development industry. Meanwhile, I'd like to be your team's next QA or Production person! - 11 Years QA Experience - 4 Years Production I can send a resume over with deets if you need🥺

[worst possible stuff happening everywhere] man why do I feel bad

Today was Day 2 of our RTO, and my second day commuting over an hour one way to office. And of course I've almost been rear ended, I watched someone ride up on someone's lawn to avoid hitting someone, and I've gotten stuck in rolling back ups for no reason.

Wolfenstein II is atill my favorite game I’ve worked on. You can’t get tired of taking hatchets to Nazis. ❤️🖤

Tomorrow is the start of me having to go back to the office 3x a week. And given the fact they laid off a ton of my coworkers, I’m not really looking forward to it. I also have to learn to navigate my husband not being on Slack to bother 😭

Anyways...

Happy 4th of July everyone! Let’s celebrate what this day is meant- independence from tyranny. I served in the Army to make sure that everyone, regardless of race, gender or sexual orientation is treated with the same rights & freedoms to pursue THEIR best life. That’s MY America. Have fun! Be safe!

Matt Turnbull, Executive Producer at Xbox Game Studios Publishing - after the Microsoft layoffs - suggesting on Linkedin that may maybe people who have been let go should turn to AI for help. He seriously thought posting this would be a good idea.

Let's be 100% clear on this, Microsoft is investing $80 Billion in AI. This is not conjecture or speculation, it is plainly in their own words back in January this year, they gutted a profitable games division because AI is the new shiny bauble. blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issue...

The games and tech industry are being systematically hollowed out. The human toll is... staggering to the point of tragedy. The lack of accountability to anyone in power is really infuriating. Where does this end?

I’m going to try not to doom post about the layoffs because I have nothing unique to say, and those laid off should be the ones vocalizing. But Christ, having to update my rosters and shit this morning is so gd gloomy.

Riot has 141 open roles at the moment- including some 77 in LA and some 24 in Mercer Island. It feels like a drop in the bucket these days, but please take a look if you need it. www.riotgames.com/en/work-with...

I think what really pisses me off is you can say things like "Microsoft has laid off 9000 employees" and be technically correct However, it's a lot more accurate to say "Phil Spencer is personally responsible for taking food out of the mouths of 9000 people and their immediate families."

CD PROJEKT RED is hiring ❤️

For those affected in the Xbox layoffs today, we have a few roles open at Gearbox, DM me if any of these are you! www.gearboxsoftware.com/careers/#car...

It’s hard to exist on the internet right now, I only see bad news And not small bad news, but “hurricane season will be more dangerous”, “9000 laid off today”, “criminal we know did crimes not convicted of crimes”, and, “government brags about new concentration camps.” I feel like I’m drowning

I appear to be safe from the Zenimax layoffs. They absolutely gutted QA. I don’t know how to explain the horror of watching my coworkers calling out in slack that they got the HR ping, and the get deactivated within minutes. They couldn’t even say goodbye.

please folks be sadder about the actual people who are being laid off than about this canceled game you really wanted to play

I would love to see these executives shown some actually leadership and take a pay cut with any of these layoffs. AND THATS JUST BARE MINIMUM.

Did you know the CEO of Microsoft/XBox makes 79 million dollars annually? Did you know it takes 790 employees making 100k a year to make 79 million dollars?

As one illustration of just how sloppy and chaotic today's mass Xbox layoff has been, some employees at Zenimax Online Studios are now watching their Slack accounts abruptly get locked out. No message from HR, no word on whether they still have a job, just an ominous Slack deactivation

Really grieving over the absolute massacre done in the game's industry today. So many bright, wonderful testers that I've worked with for years were just...tossed aside.

Not doing good today folks.

mac is here on this #makeaterriblecomicday2025 to school you all in THREAT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS do not get caught off guard or Who Knows What Might Happen

Grateful every day that air con was invented 🙏🏻

hypernormalisation

Been playing Date Everything! the past two days and I'm trying so hard to meet all the datables and see all the options... But I met Dorian like right off the bat and--- god damn.

I can't believe getting offline and actually getting steps in is making me feel better. 😩

Happy Pride Month Here is the character most representative of Pride.

He can believe and say whatever, but no one is going to want an impossible to curate, impossible to QA open world of AI slop with no artistic intention.

This is insane behavior to me. You want to WRITE for a living but you don't want to WRITE?!?