It really needs to be pointed out how every one of these embarrassing statements is made by a c-suite executive and not an artist or even art department lead

some other familiar grocery store names that are brands for producer-owned agricultural co-ops: Blue Diamond Bob's Red Mill Land O'Lakes Tillamook Welch's

Pet Peeve: When modern/sci-fi survival crafting games make silicon, the eighth most common element in the universe, an uncommon or rare resource.

Bumping this as a reminder NYT leans hard on revenue from their puzzles, games, Wirecutter etc to fund their billionaire apologist headlines, contrarian Op-Ed take havers, and iffy/yikes livetweeting style of journo

Hot Take: Every "Kramer, what's going on in there?" meme is funnier than the show ever was

everyone who wants Democrats to focus on throwing immigrants and trans people under the bus needs to explain why this is not going to be the end result

Introduce a bit of whimsy to everyone's life by pronouncing "carrot" and "tarot" the same way.

We’re not doing “disability accommodations are unnecessary and unfair actually” discourse less than 24 hours after Alice Wong has passed. Absolutely the fuck not, even if it is a perfect example of the kind of shit disabled people have to deal with and why Alice’s activism was and is so necessary.

"Respect you and support you" is mutually exclusive with "your profession is bad, I want to help you stop doing it, and I'm going to imply that only truly desperate people would ever choose to do it in the first place."

Something I wish got challenged more often in this “men in crisis” discourse is the blithe assumption (or sometimes outright assertion!) that everyone’s boss is a woman now. “Women now dominate white collar work and corporate management roles.” No they don’t. That just isn’t true.

Having a political discussion with my cat. I say that "MEYERUP"s should be tightly regulated and controlled, she says that "MEYERUP"s should be unregulated and free and she's going to keep saying them no matter what.

I worked for a hosting provider & was part of the team to manually verify that flagged material was, in fact, what it had been flagged as. The things I encountered are the most traumatizing memories I have, and it is a job I will *NEVER* do again.

steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back

8 years of "What is a woman?" and now it turns out that the comeback was "define a child"

Get white men to understand they have an identity and have done nothing but talk to us about their identities and how to politically and culturally accommodate their identities for all of history challenge: impossible

I do not want to “Do my own research.” I want to pay trained accredited experts to do the research, trained accredited experts to report on findings, and trained accredited experts to make policy based on them. I am busy af with my own job, I don’t need to do eight zillion more.

WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.

"You'll get more conservative as you get older" Buddy, the older I get, the more firmly I believe that the stock market should be shut down entirely and it should literally be illegal for a private business to not be employee owned.

If you don't use AI slop at any point in the development process, it can't "accidentally" slip in anywhere.

Those claiming Dems should retreat on racial justice aren't hard-headed realists, they're pushing against the electoral tide rather than leaning into it. The story of Gen Z isn't about racist backlash or red-pilled young men. It's the most racially progressive generation in American history. 🧵

Open AI loses copyright case in Germany. Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."

Can confirm, I did say this, over on Threads. I stand by it here as well. And everywhere else!

For some strange reason, my MAGA co-worker isn't going out of his way to make the occasional "Trump is great" comment anymore. I wonder what happened.👀

"We're saddened by all this racism and xenophobia, but we're still 100% OK with hating and hurting trans people"

Seriously you can’t spend 30 years making show after movie after book about how marriage & kids are LITERALLY THE WORST PRISON IMAGINABLE, women who want a family are a boring drag, dudes are cool & cool dudes never want commitments, then look around & go “how come y’all don’t want marriage & kids?”

STOP. Your judgmental family's comments are a diet-culture brain rot THEM problem, not a you problem. You're not broken. You're allowed to love your body and eat what you want. Unfollow anyone who makes you feel shame around food.

So there’s a lawyer going around BlueSky right now responding to everyone talking about the Anthropic book settlement by (1) urging people to opt out and (2) saying that they are representing authors who are opting out.

I cannot begin to properly articulate how upsetting it is to have had people baselessly accuse trans people of being groomers and pedophiles only for it to come out that they were deliberately doing this as part of a project to provide cover to actual groomers and pedophiles in positions of power

Reading this thread and discovering that a number of authors whose work I liked growing up were/are awful people is just...UGH

And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.

I can't believe Seattle would elect someone with only 15 years experience organizing successful local legislation campaigns.

absolutely heartbroken to announce that i was part of the crystal layoffs today 💔 if y’all spot any openings for a soft, dedicated, smiley games writer — please send them my way 💫 i was on the most perfect narrative team on an exciting, ambitious project. i will cherish it all forever. 💖

You know, folks objecting to the use of "pedophile" in reference to people who sexually assaulted teenagers are right; we should stop calling them "pedophiles". Instead, we'll just call them "child rapers", and no one will have to get in a tizzy about how we're using the "wrong term"

My cat, who sometimes drinks too much water too fast and then throws up, is unimpressed with the "Barf Cat, Barf Cat, Meow Meow, BLEGH" song I sing to her.

Theres actually an important convo to be had re: the difference between 5 & 15yo victims of predation, how society treats them, etc. but the ppl most eager to have that talk tend to be interested in the concept of “acceptability” & excusing predation rather than preventing it or helping anyone

The "technically, it's ephebophilia" folks are working overtime this week

I'm not sure which is more insulting about the whole $2k "tariff" dividend checks: That they'd just be partially paying back money they took from us by means of the tariffs, or that they actually think we'd believe that Trump would ever voluntarily pay money he said he'd pay.

Prolific board game designer Amabel Holland has won the second annual Bobby Nunes Memorial Award - recognising exceptional discussion of cultural issues in historical gaming - for her video essay on Kurt Vonnegut's long-lost board game: boardgamewire.com/index.php/20... @amabel.bsky.social

Fenyx Rising is better than BotW in almost every way. Yeah, I said it...and I damn well meant it.

You all honest to God think that the eight Democrats that voted to end the shut down just happen to be people that weren’t up for reelection anytime soon or at all? If you think that I can’t talk to you.

Kind of obsessed with this listing on Amazon that 1) gives the age range in months rather than years, and 2) has an upper age limit of 800 years old

Do my moots know anyone well-versed in the "implicit harassment" tactics of the online right? I have done a lot of research on this, but a 15-minute chat with an expert would be *hugely* helpful for my book. I'm talking this kind of stuff:

Really difficult to overstate the fury one should feel that the GOP and institutions like the New York Times went all in on transphobia as some mortal threat to women and girls while covering up something like this.

I have in my hands definitive evidence that my opponent has committed a world-historic evil. Evidence that, were it to be released to the public, would cause his supporters to abandon him and his entire world to crumble to dust. I therefore have no choice but to give in to every one of his demands

When you are a new creator, whether in prose, comics, or other media, it can be very tempting to agree to every convention or other event that you're asked to do. Exposure is great, right? And it's wonderful to be wanted.

an open source console / pc to take on sony and Microsoft + an open source vr headset / pc to take on facebook, bring it the fuck on

Just cuz I suspect it's gonna be relevant: "underage women" is a contradiction in terms. There are adults and there are minors, who are children. Ditto "nonconsensual sex." That's rape. The only reason to play semantic games is because you benefit from obscuring the simplicity of these terms.

We don’t use generative AI at Strange Scaffold and I can confirm that a *lot* of other studios are not—whether indie or AAA. Get outta here with this normalization bullshit.

Folks are getting carried away with calling stuff "ageism". Thinking any 45 year old is unqualified to enter a new industry: ageism. Thinking any 25 year old is incapable of leadership: ageism. Thinking an 80yo is likely to have an unforeseen adverse health event at any time: statistics