with alt text, because everyone deserves a good cry. come over.

Don't bring flags to a TDoR-vigil that aren't pride-flags. Ever. Give us this one day. Only one day to mourn our dead, without making it about anybody else.

On this Trans Day of Remembrance, I would have you remember that there are trans people alive who need your action now, not your reflective words later. Remembering us is not enough.

Gonna head to a vigil in a bit. It's good to be around people.

Hey folks, I often do posts calling for indie developers to link me their games so I can signal boost them. Today I want to do something similar for all trans creatives. If you are a trans game dev, artist, writer, streamer or YouTuber, reply here with a link to your work. Only one rule: no GenAI.💜

happy transgender day of remembrance thank you for sticking around in the hardest of times. if you haven't, you are missed dearly please live 💜

Today is Trans Day of Remembrance. Every year, this day gets a little bit harder. The weight we carry gets heavier. The shoulders to carry it are fewer. Too many were lost. We will remember you. We will not give up. We will survive. Remember the dead. And fight like hell for the living.

Nothing is a better demonstration of the anti-scientific nature of banning trans women from sports than the fact that the IOC's OWN STUDY found no evidence trans women have any advantage over cis women in sports, but they're planning on going ahead with banning us anyways

Why am I so against generative AI in games? Because I simply do not want my initial reaction to art to be one of suspicion and scrutiny, AI slop is fundamentally damaging my relationship to art and artistry, and I am deeply resentful that it is forcing me to be guarded when I should be wowed.

THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS

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

This current trend of adding "It reflects our vision" to AI disclosures makes me sick "no it's fine that we used the theft machine because it was our creative vision!" get fucked, every single one of you This is for Anno 117 & Arc Raiders

Only adding the "We used Gen-AI to make assets"-disclaimer, less than a week before launch is a scummy move. Never preorder folks. I expected better from Ubisoft Mainz and ANNO 117, but I guess we can't have nice things anymore.

Finally, Gabecube

We won't let Rockstar break our union and we won't be intimidated - support our campaign here: actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...

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I loved the game, despite it's shortcomings. The story asked some fascinating moral questions. By the time I learned about them using Gen-AI in it's development, my playthrough was almost done. The game about corporate exploitation using Gen-AI to fill gaps, was deeply ironic and left a bad taste.

"The more we let companies use GenAI in development, the more we all stand to lose." As scope increases and budgets shrink, The Alters is a cautionary tale of gaps plugged up by AI, and the backlash that follows. @riorobayo.bsky.social examines #GenAI in games: www.qualbert.com/ai-use-in-th...

Hanging out at a queer bar and nerding out over Vampire: The Masquerade lore for several hours will never get old :D

I genuinely can't overstate how big a deal it is to see a first party Nintendo game feature a dedicated Accessibility menu like this, so well thought out, detailed in depth before game release. There is literally no precident for this from Nintendo. This is a huge leap forward.

Sleep is a biological necessity, and sleep deprivation has real physical, psychological, and social consequences that need to be taken seriously. The way our society treats it as slothful to sleep according to natural rhythms (including midday naps and variant chronotypes like night owls) is evil.

*sighs* Steam Next-Fest is up. I go through my recommendations. A total of 6 games immediately catch my eye. Out of those 6, 3 games use generative AI in some way. And sadly, Steam hasn't been particularly strict on enforcing the "disclose AI on the store"-rule, so who knows if there isn't more.

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

HEY YOU, BLUESKY USER Do you like art on the site? Then you'd better go give the site's moderators a piece of your mind, because they're looking to instate guidelines on October 15th that *massively* censor art on this platform. Make noise in the comments, submit feedback forms on their site, go.

I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

“There is no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign, and refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins ‘Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.’” Fucking wonderful piece.

@wsj.com seriously owes the trans community an apology for painting a target on our backs

Nancy Mace acting on disinformation that the shooter was trans: goes off on tirade against "trannies" Nancy Mace when the actual shooter is a Christian white man: "he's just a poor lost boy, let us pray for him."

As someone who used to work in Community-Management and Moderating large-ish online spaces, Bluesky is fascinating to me. Who are you trying to build a platform for? They've done nothing but harm their core-audience while pampering literal Nazis and other far-right grifters, that despise them.

God its so disingenuous to pretend that all CK did was “have horrible opinions”. The man co-founded an organization that’s sole function was to fight tooth and nail to indoctrinate children at school into violent white nationalism. He wasn’t even just a pundit. He was ceo of the baby Nazi factory.

the permission structure created for a bloodthirsty maga rampage the last two days by mainstream media, all before any facts were known at all, deserves some real introspection by the entire industry

If bluesky bans me again I want you to know this: @jay.bsky.team and @aaron.bsky.team collaborate with fascists on twitter in order to choose specific accounts to ban. They work with nazis directly because they despise the leftist audience they've unwillingly acquired and they want us gone.

Controversial opinion, but I think trans people should feel safe here on bluesky, and nazis shouldn't.

Here are the facts: Bluesky violated their own Terms of Service because they panicked and saw Nazis on twitter getting angry. They took marching orders from the Nazis and helped them target BIPOC and trans users on their website. @jay.bsky.team is complicit. @aaron.bsky.team is complicit

Friend of an Ex adding me out of nowhere and going: "I've been tripping on shrooms and realized "Ex's" entire life is a lie, lets compare notes." was not on my Bingo-Card for today ... but the best part is just my own reaction of "yup, checks out". Said Ex and I broke up over two years ago.

Hey @steampowered.com, will you be allowing refunds for the Alters, since they used generative AI without adding the required disclaimer to the store page? (Which they still haven't done btw, a week after they admitted to using AI on here) They did break your store policy after all.

Inside of you there are no wolves. This has destabilised the ecosystem. The 20,000 deer inside you are becoming a problem

Steve Jackson Games posted this to their blog and the post is getting so many hits their site is effectively crashed but the point is worth repeating

Sitting at the Queer-Cafe/Bar and working on character stuff. Good vibes :3 Maybe, just maybe, very slowly going towards trying to run something myself again ^^

honestly, this is a great political education opportunity AND I think gamer frustration with video game industry greed squeezing players serves as a great potential foundation to reach many of them

Did not have "People discover the woke was lode-bearing all along, even if they're half kidding" on my 2025 bingo card but I couldn't have asked for a more perfectly memeable outcome

Better a pig than a gen A.I. user!

Finally working on some character stuff again. I missed playing TTRPGs ^^ "Steampunk-Apocalypse" + "The last city on earth is an authoritarian nightmare" is one hell of a vibe for my Artificier.

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hello cis friends this is what people mean by trans genocide if a type of person does not officially exist, then any harm against them cannot be measured or reported this headline change isn't even being caused by an executive order it's simply the NYT editors deciding we don't deserve to exist

Been a couple months of pure stress, but slowly things are calming down. Not today though. Today is concert time and I'm gonna be in that fucking Mosh-Pit :D

DIY HRT: Everything I Can Legally Tell You My guide to do-it-yourself hormone therapy, months in the making, is out now on YouTube. Tell your friends! xoxo youtu.be/o2Ggwe2j0Gc

Wenn der Faschismus wieder kehrt, wird er nicht sagen: Ich bin der Faschismus, er wird... Oh nein, nein, doch, er macht einfach den Hitlergruß. Nevermind.

his politics are complicated, huh

If I had a Penny, for every time the richest man in the world openly supports Germany's Nazi Party, while also selling cars, I'd have two Pennies. Which isn't much, but it's weird it happened twice.