My brain, sometime around 4am: “Le Tigre, who came to tea” Me: “shut up” Brain: “it could be an NME article. 20 years ago” Me: “shut up” Brain: “they could interview them at a tea shop” Me: “shut up” Brain: “what’s French for ‘came to tea’, they could do the whole headline in French” Me: “Shut up”

“She’s the exception, I am the rule.” Such articulate cutting through of the nonsense around puberty blockers and eg Keira Bell’s detransitioning from Stephanie Lynnette on GMB this morning. It is also a refreshing relief to see a trans person actually being allowed to speak for once!

Not to be unkind, but I am so impatient about the “what’s the point of making my little zines/comics/crafts/art when the world is on fire” sentiments. I get it, but saving the world is not a responsibility shouldered by your art! That’s what being a neighbor, a friend, and hell, a citizen is for!!!

NVidia chief creep says resistance and scorn for AI have done a lot of harm. Good. Nice confirmation it's working. Keep it up. Although the main thing is this stuff is harmful crap so the mind and body tend to revolt against it automatically.

yeah we need more tech regulation in general, for everything, for ever. like 50-60% of all of our current problems somehow go back to the complete lack of any interference in tech. we made them billionaires and then they became sociopaths

Just finished this today; can't recommend it enough. An intoxicating blend of old-school aesthetics with modern game design, as well as its top of the line assist and accessibility features. A metroidvania to rival Silksong, I'm not lying

Today is Tom Spurgeon's birthday. Read some Little Orphan Annie or Cul de Sac, write a friend you miss, call your mom, gossip about comics with friends, get a group together for dinner, give a book you love a review, see a play, talk for hours with someone who means the world to you. Remember Tom.

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫

Would you like to know how to make a zine? Here's easy step-by-step instructions on how to make your own without the use of a computer by @thorazos.bsky.social

"[...] if there were a way to make this Godot-based game an engine others could use to script their own adventures, it could lead to something extraordinary." This is a wild compliment. I may have to think about this, but the first step would definitely be an overhaul of my scripting language, lol.

Bluesky suspended Sarah Kendzior today for no reason whatsoever. She just shared excerpts of her articles, which were as always incisive and not offensive at all. Hey @pfrazee.com this is super not OK. I know her- we've interacted a fair bit via chats and her work is essential.

wisdom is realizing that it's called the Four Doorus because it has four doors.

@giselelagace.bsky.social Hey, Gisele; I'm probably missing something v. obvious here, but I can't find a way to buy the Pixie Trix collections digitally. I bought the first couple from Comixology (they're in my Amazon library still), but I can't find new ones in the Amazon webshop any more. Help?

Veldig personlig nå, men det tåler dere: Jeg tenker fortsatt, 25 år senere, på den eldre mannlige legen som kom inn til meg etter jeg tok abort som 16-åring og sa «Hvis du trenger noen å snakke med ordner vi det. Men hvis du ikke trenger det og bare er lettet og glad nå, er det også helt greit»

Loved these back when they first came out, and appreciated them even more rereading them this past week. If a series of Regency-set mysteries starring a moderately swashbuckling independent "agent of inquiry" (that's Miss Tolerance to you) sounds appealing, run to your local ebook retailer now

I'm going to start a new political party. It's called Shut The Fuck Up and Feed People. "But what if they're on drugs?" Shut The Fuck Up And Feed People "Or not really THAT poor?" Shut The Fuck Up And Feed People "What if they have a phone and nice nails?" SHUT THE FUCK UP AND FEED PEOPLE

While defending the luddite argument in Discord, I stumbled into this IMO succinct explanation for opposing generative AI: At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.

Just saw this great post again and it reminded me of my old beef against "spoilers don't matter, a good film isn't spoilable": The timing with which information is revealed is important in every movie! It's as much a part of the art as dialogue or lighting,it matters at least as much as aspect ratio

Every day, I pray for a world where everyone is kind and respectful of each other, regardless of gender. May unreasonable attacks against transgender people end🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 May today be filled with happiness and love for you all🤍

Yup.

hey @bsky.app why was @scumbelievable.bsky.social suspended? considering the timing (she just put a new book out) it feels like someone is weaponizing your safety features in a targeted manner

“BUT THE CHILDREN!” Piss off! If you gave a damn about kids, you’d listen to what they need! You’d listen to adult trans people telling you how awful going through the wrong puberty is. You wouldn’t mock the high suicide rates. You don’t give a damn about kids. You just want less trans people.

“WAH! BUT DE-TRANSITION!” Go fuck yourself! Transition care has a lower regret rate than almost any other medical procedure. Even if it didn’t, the solution isn’t taking medicine away from everyone, it’s giving robust care for detransitioners as well. Stop using their pain as a political prop!

“BU- BU- BU- FAIRNESS IN SPORTS!” Shut the fuck up! Trans women have been playing various pro sports since the ‘70s and competing in the Olympics since 2004. No one gave a shit. No one “pretended to be trans” to cheat. Trans women didn’t become the sporting over-class. It’s a non-issue. Always was

I cannot emphasize this enough that for YEARS: -trans women played various women’s sports. -trans kids got medical assistance as they and their parents needed. -trans folk could get accurate documents. -trans folk used the bathrooms that felt appropriate. AND NOTHING BAD HAPPENED.

ON TOP of the ethical reasons to not use AI, it's also 1) bad at what it does 2) literally makes you stupider 3) has HUGE environmental costs: every search is equivalent to pouring out an entire bottle of water. It's not worth it to generate a cutesy emoji or have it write an error-riddled draft.

kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes

KJ Charles has reached the Bujold tier for me where I click "buy" as fast as I possibly can whenever they publish something new. I've obviously not read this one yet, but I fully recommend KJC's last historical mystery, DEATH IN THE SPIRES. One of my all-time fave despairing but dogged protagonists

Dear "game devs," This is STILL a deal breaker.

This page sold me on THE TITAN's first issue by itself. Love how the negative space in the second panel not only suggests a ceiling, but helps convey how dark and dingy this booth is. And "oh it's just fun watching you walk into a room" is such a killer line. Go, read: titancomic.net/comic/v1c1/

Just read the first issue of FML, the new (ish) creator-owned comic by @kellysue.bsky.social, @davidlopez.bsky.social, Cris Peter and @claytoncowles.bsky.social, and wow, what a thing this is. My favourite kind of teen story: the one where the parents/grown-ups are actual human characters too

@kennym.bsky.social I gotta say, after learning about the coming of Sweet Shop, every time I buy a digital comic from Cmxlgy's shambling corpse, I've started rueing that act even more. Really looking forward to the launch! (Also, you were so great on @sktchd.bsky.social's podcast the other week)

@andrewmaclean.bsky.social Hello! I was wondering if you're selling the digital version of the Agatha comic you kickstarted anywhere, or if it was (and forever will be) exclusive to that campaign?

@oliviawaite.com Hi, I just finished The Hellion's Waltz, and I wanted to thank you for a lovely book, but in particular, the acknowledgements section at the end. I'm tearing up here at your beautifully encouraging words; very much needed just as much now as they were at the time you wrote them.

low-key one of the most insidious dumb guy beliefs of the last few decades to gain widespread purchase has been this notion that demonstrating pro-social behavior in the hope that others would notice and mirror it, one of the fucking building blocks of any kind of society, is somehow ‘fake’.

@philsalv.bsky.social I apologise for this egregious flattery, but I'm listening to the Cyan episode of the Video Game History Hour and I wanted to ask: did you know before going there that you were so hecking good at audio only reporting? Seems a different skill set from podcasts/livestream hosting

Be intentional with how you consume information. Below are some points on doing so in a sustainable way.

@gamehistoryorg.bsky.social Does the discord access tier of your patreon also let me listen to bonus episodes of the podcast? I know I should probably just expect the higher tiers to offer all the stuff from the lower tiers, but it not being listed gave me pause

It's hard to know what to say or whether it's even worth adding to the doom - what I will say is buy your trans friends' weird zine, their album, their art game - buy them a beer or a soda or a meal - give them some ko-fi money for doing absolutely nothing. We gotta protect trans kids and adults.

Yup. Microsoft automatically switched me to the $99.99/year version with Spicy Autocomplete. You have to go all the way through "cancel subscription" to be presented these options and get the $69.99/year one you actually chose.

Fix your hearts or die.

🦋 Competition time 🦋 To celebrate our near-4000(!) new followers this month, we're running a Bsky-exclusive giveaway. Three random winners will win a £100 voucher to spend at lostincult.co.uk To enter, follow + like & repost this lil guy. Winners announced Thur 28th November @ 1pm GMT

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Cosigned. Demon's Tilt is in my all-time top ten. I need all y'all to buy this bonkers-looking sequel on Steam so the devs can afford to port it to consoles

I need authors to understand that the money you "save" using AI for covers or audiobook narrators is lost by people boycotting your shit for directly undercutting artists in your own community.

yes, we boiled the planet, but it was worth it to make a machine that, instead of adding two plus two, takes the statistical average of every answer to questions containing "what" "is" "two" and "plus" from a database of illegal cell phone transcripts and returns a fake nude pic of a high schooler

@gabrieldeleon.bsky.social I'm sure I'm the 54th person to send you this article, but just in case not: www.eurogamer.net/if-dragon-ag... (Thank you so much for the great job you do with 8-4 Play, btw; you've been an amazing addition to the podcast!)

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