Please help Heba and her family if you can: www.gofundme.com/f/Help-hebas...

Know any women, nonbinary folks, or trans people (around Montreal) who want to make their first video game? Applications for the Pixelles Make Games program are open! It's free! And no experience required 🙌 More info: pixelles.ca

As some of you already know, my little brother has a rare cancer. Less than 200 people are recorded having it since the 70's. In just a month, it's progressed to stage 3. He's only 20. It's been SO hard. If my game dev advice was ever useful to you, please consider: www.mealtrain.com/trains/y5z8yy

Remember they told Jews to shower in gas chambers? Now they tell starving Palestinians to collect food aid - then machine gun them down. All those years we wondered how a holocaust could happen. Now we know. All those years you swore you'd have done something if you could have. Now you know.

Every time an app I use offers me a discount if I switch to annual billing I start wondering exactly how they're planning to fuck up their service with AI

Newsletter: This is the Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble: genAI is nothing like Uber or Amazon Web Services, there are no profitable genAI companies, agents do not and cannot exist, there is no AI SaaS story, and everything rides - and dies - on selling GPUs. www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...

big fish~

What a week for DEAD MONEY issue #1! In our first week on KICKSTARTER, as of this writing, we’ve hit 135 backers, and have just crossed the 4k mark, which lets us do a Spanish ver (in PDF). Campaign: www.kickstarter.com/projects/dea... Newsletter: buttondown.com/Jesse_Scoble

Hello friends! My team is looking for a musician / audio designer for contract work on our combat-focused game! We're looking for music that's catchy, energetic, featuring chopped vocals, funky rhythms, and a seamless mix of hip-hop, electronic, and funk.

I had an amazing time at this panel, speaking with industry veterans and a great audience. And while I don’t know which way games is going and my place in it, I’d like to be able to do another one someday

Heading to MontrealComicCon today to moderate "Narrative Nightmares & Lessons Learned" with Tanya Short @kitfoxgames.com, @jillmurray.bsky.social @shomatic.bsky.social at 3:00pm! ...and to chat up DEAD MONEY. :)

Please help if you can - aid is already scarce, and thanks to disgraceful tactics, trying to acquire it on the ground is often dangerous

Looks like Elon isn’t Gretchen Wieners - he’s Janis Ian

Meanwhile in North America we stripmine artists’ talents, use them every day to survive the prison that this planet is, and are then outraged when they ask for a living wage and job security

Let’s stop calling them layoffs. They’re wage suppression tactics at best.

If you’re in North America, PLEASE consider joining @videogameworkers.bsky.social. We cannot allow these robber-baron execs to keep doing this to our profession and art form. We deserve dignity. Unemployed workers and freelancers/contractors are all welcome in our union. We MUST fight back.

I’ll be at Comic Con this weekend at a panel with some great industry folks!

If you’re a leftist group, stop using AI images in your promotional materials or social media. Theft is not a good look for your cause.

Should trans people have fewer rights? ‘Not in our name’, say over 35,000 women Women tired of being told that their rights are threatened by trans people are using a petition to stand up for inclusive feminism By Jennie Kermode

There is an almost direct correlation between the days I volunteer and the days I am able to read the news and not fall into a pit of despair.

🎉 It’s a @narrascope.org weekend! 🎉 We’ve seen so many amazing talks so far this year, and today, it’s OUR turn! Catch Tristan J Tarwater and Camerin Wild (www.linkedin.com/in/camerin-w...) in ⏰ EXACTLY FIVE HOURS ⏰ for “Lost & Found: Converting TTRPG Experiences into Video Games” See you there! 😘

Also there are so many people (rightly) pushing back against unpaid tests but I was recently asked to do an extremely predatory test (~ a month’s work in a week) and when I asked fellow game writers for advice was told that if I don’t do it, someone else will, because that’s just the industry now.

It’s both hilarious and horrifying that we all know EXACTLY which company this is. Have we all gone through their recruitment “process”? Should we form a support group?

They are being intercepted right now. THIS IS A WAR CRIME.

This is the one games-related story that we really can't let get buried by the worst guys you know fighting or summer geoff fest.

Someone on Reddit said Musk today was like “Gretchen Wieners cracking” and I have been laughing at that for like the last four and half hours

Come say hi this Saturday!

I’ve been volunteering with Food Not Bombs’ NDG chapter for a few months now and it’s been one of the most enriching experiences ever. If you’d like to cook some delicious food, meet some cool people, and connect directly with the community, come hang out with us!

Mais arrêtez c’est même pas de la satire maintenant 😭

Only someone who has never created a thing of value in their life would look at a project that people poured their heart and soul into, and see a financial write-off.

I'm not using "DEI" or "Pluralism" or any other word other than kindness. Anything else can be co-opted by MAGA as a racial slur. Sick of it. No more corporate and capitalist lingo infiltrating basic human decency. Language is power. #culturallinguistcs #languageandpower #linguistics

White supremacy can only function in wilful ignorance. Racists will claim Europeans invented maths and science, but will know nothing of Aryabhatta or al-Khwarizmi, or indeed anything about the rest of the world.

Until the Lord Chamberlain fires him and the entire company after producing another hit in the Henry franchise

I remain convinced that AI is the fascist's answer to controlling the flow and messaging of the arts.

A happy glorious 25th of May to all who celebrate. We need the People’s Revolution more than ever in a world where truth, justice, freedom, love, and eggs are getting harder to find. #discworld

This cold and rainy May here in Montreal is really starting to give Year Without a Summer vibes (Hope this at least leads to the invention of another literary genre)

Any Montreal folks available to help out at a barbecue at the New Hope seniors centre in NDG tomorrow? It’s paid work; from 9:30 AM to 1:00 PM plus clean up.

Here in Quebec, we have trillium woods instead of bluebell woods.

Just a reminder that this is what Microsoft and Xbox are supporting when they support Israel.

Any of us could be Anas or his family. I know times are tough but if you can help, please do.

Busalāme I'm half-Iranian, and I'm exploring Iranian mythological creatures but making my own spin on them. The first sketch I did felt really too sci-fi but I still like it! This website is amazing and I'll be basing my explorations on their amazing work! www.eranshahr.com/myths

So YouTube agree that the content they’ve been hosting on their site for over a year *is* abusive harassment… enough to take down a victim’s video about it, but not enough to take down the abusive videos themselves.

This is harrowing. One of the many ways the industry fails to protect the people who help build it, is legitimizing their harassment by a rabid minority

While here in Canada we’re (rightfully) elbows up against the US’ annexation threats but the fact that many look at Gaza and don’t realize that this could be us too is equal parts lunacy and cowardice. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

So I am doing a little #gamedev protest, I am putting Moving Houses on the Epic Games Store in the HOPE that if enough indies join, maybe Valve takes notice and lowers their GIGANTIC CUT a little bit. But I need your help to wishlist, share, and make some noise. store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/movi...

Build cute little old towns in my upcoming city builder Smalltown Architect. Wishlist on Steam! #gamedev #indiedev #ScreenshotSaturday

Relieved to see the Canadian election results (and good job Carleton!) - hoping I and others like me won’t feel obliged to vote strategically in the next one. It’s time to yank the Overton window to the left and trash the far right once and for all.

Please sign and share so that we can one day have a healthier games industry