The federal government is giving the richest 1% a $117 BILLION tax break this year. $117 billion could buy every single Major League baseball team. What the hell are we doing here, people?

man, who ever could have foreseen that a studio releasing an NFT shooter--one criticised by fans as being structured in a way to be profitable for the developers, not the player marketplace--would ever run into financial trouble.

If ya'll could boost my game I'd very much appreciate it! Trying to get to 50 reviews for the Steam algorithm. I already have glowing reviews from the likes of Raigan Burns (N++) and Daniel Linssen (Leap Year) and just need a handful more. Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3641010/...

Reinforcing my pet theories: 1) all reactionaries/authoritarians are basically the same; 2) misogyny is the molten core of every reactionary/fascist movement; 3) persecution of LGBTQ is downstream of the misogyny; 4) so are all the other bigotries (this is more tendentious I concede).

The Same Families Who Tried to Overthrow FDR Are Running The Government Right Now open.substack.com/pub/dissenti...

What we need is god damned education and critical thinking skills taught in schools. Until then, there will always be a Joe Rogan.

Note: I would be gifting this game to everyone possible if I thought that would help, but sadly (AFAIK) Steam doesn't consider gifted copies a valid source of reviews (dunno about other aspects of the algo, eg do gifted copies count wrt sales numbers?). So: just buy this game. It's very special! <3

I would watch this movie

It’s hard to overstate how much of this moment is driven by people who got a taste of accountability and were very, very mad about it.

There is no such thing as the video game industry: aftermath.site/video-game-ind...

And this beautiful game on grief is out now! If you want to support Arab-made work about the Arab world, history, arts, and culture -especially in a time of destruction and erasure towards our people- I cannot recommend this game more. store.steampowered.com/app/3451680/...

proudly presenting PRINT GALLERY OF AN ARTIST, a short platformer exploring recursive spaces, inspired by a video on M. C. Escher's Print Gallery managore.itch.io/print-galler... (web)

This game seriously "has the sauce" or whatever they're saying these days... it's *really* good! Especially notable is: it's doing its own thing! It has an entirely novel set of movement mechanics!! Which are super-interesting!!! (And also the whole open-world setting is such a fun/great fit.)

race communism

Cops fractured his skull for standing by in peaceful protest. And people in power claimed he assaulted the cops. No hell greater for those who smeared him. RIP.

In case you haven't heard, our friends at Portland Indie Game Squad are hosting their very first convention next month: PIGCON! 🐷🎮 If you're looking for more indie showcase opportunities in the PNW, they're still accepting submissions for game exhibitors and speakers until Monday, April 13th!

Finally wrote up the UI/UX work I did on @strangescaffold.bsky.social's Life Eater as a case study! I go through the entire design process & show early versions of the interface... vaida.me/portfolio/li...

"[A]ll but six states have tax systems that exacerbate inequality. Nationwide, the bottom 20% of earners effectively face state and local tax rates nearly 60% higher than those in the top 1%. ... [M]ore than 25 states have been slashing corporate tax rates, personal income tax rates or both."

The more I think about the 70,000 ICE incarcerated without due process the more I think we are underreacting. People are literally trapped inside for profit prisons. We need to do something.

For @aftermath.site, I wrote about 3D printers, being a part of a hacking space, PC case fans, Corsi-Rosenthal boxes, and the process of slowly making an air purifier piece by piece. aftermath.site/3d-printing-...

“The momentary relief cannot make us forget the chaos, the destruction, and the lives lost. The govt of Spain will not applaud those who set the world on fire just because they show up with a bucket. What is needed now: diplomacy, international law and PEACE.”- Pedro Sánchez, Spanish Prime Minister

stripping all of the state capacity out of the federal government with a special malice towards diplomacy and centralizing all authority in a subdowning president turns out to make high stakes war negotiations much more difficult

If you've ever wondered why this is true, it's because right-wing media has billionaire sponsors and left-wing media does not It is truly that simple

This morning in CBC radio they were talking about four months worth of wildfires this summer. Almost as if it were predictable and worthy of mitigation.

I'm going to keep reposting this every day... it's that good. Buy it!!!!!!!!!!

governor abbott took away our rainbow crosswalks but we replaced them with much more visible rainbow sidewalks, and some businesses have followed suit (one added rainbow exterior stairs)

+alt

This two week period also brings us into the time period that analysts have pinpointed as being when the first signs of the Hormuz closure would be felt in shipping disruption to the west. The way I choose to read that is another 2 wks of hope & hype to keep money from fleeing until the last second

this is something which, plainly, AI cannot do. journalism is by definition out-of-distribution, and even if you presumed that everyone wanted to read more Claudeprose than people already do, "writing up one's findings" is not the primary job a journalist performs!

MAD KING NO KILL TODAY

Only a master deal maker could achieve the status quo of 5 weeks ago in exchange for accomplishing nothing of value and turning his country into a global pariah. Thank you sir

Someone needs to make a really great Digital Exlipse style Karateka esque documentary/collection of the Double Dragon series.

Leaning in to becoming the world's last petrostate at a time when countries like China are putting terrawatts of solar and wind energy on the grid (and cornering the global renewable energy tech market) is exactly the kind of backwards, banana-republic thinking that leaves you behind the curve

the psychic damage of being online and aware this morning is staggering

The only real answer is UBI as a dividend to citizens as shareholders

panel 1: guy saying "Trump is going to kill everyone?? Wtf!! This is stressing me tf out" panel 2: Guy on phone "ugh! Posting isn't making me feel better??" panel 3: Guy meditating "meditating isn't working either!" panel 4: Guy drawing "Maybe making a comic?" out the window we see a nuclear blast

Checking in on the Doomsday Clock guys

This is real

Turns out that having no actual political grand vision, i.e. just maintain the status quo through technocracy, is a really bad way to run a railroad and also totally unprepares you for someone like Trump, who you can ONLY defeat through a positive ideology of your own, and an offer of the future

One of the things to remember when seeing things like this, is that the media political establishment can only conceive of problems that are soluble by the solutions they approve of. If something is intractable within the bounds of Business As Usual, they will simply pretend that's not true.

again very funny to think that a critical pro trump message in 2024 was that he wouldn’t start world war iii

What did they think would happen here? That Iran would somehow surrender? It's ludicrous. And that's the really terrifying thing. All the "they would never do X, because then Y" logic - this government simply cannot think like that. All the people who can have been removed.

You know that a lot of arcade design elements (lives + permadeath, scoring, strict timers, loops, etc.) are valuable because younger roguelite devs who barely played arcade games still recreate them semi-independently. Just because they fill a lot of very unique gameplay niches

I'm probably done with Mario Maker 2 now, but if you want to check out maps and mini-guides for all my levels, you can find them here: www.remargames.se/smm2.php

the way people have absolutely zero principles genuinely disturbs me. they believe nothing and will say anything that brings them their next paycheck. this is no way to live. it’s disgusting. i do not understand how this isn’t a bot and an actual real human being

cowardly!!

*guy cheering on nuclear war voice* why aren’t people having babies?