me when I'm trying to battle various disabilities resources to give me basic support systems as a disregulated triple-deficit DysAuDHD person

Best catches from the first day of #PokémonGo weekend, including a Pokémon TCG gamble that paid off big time 👀

Kotaku wants to get in touch with developers about how AI is being used in your studio. You can contact our tips hotline [email protected] or my secure email at [email protected] We'll keep your identity protected and anonymize info so it's not traced back to you.

🏳️‍⚧️ It's Trans Awareness Week (Nov 13 to 19)! 🏳️‍⚧️ If you're a cis person who has the financial ability and/or in position of power, I recommend you to exercise your privileges and give direct support to trans people and/or hire trans people because awareness isn't enough. Thanks! 😊✨

Sylvia Chandler, retired GP and KONP campaigner, reports on how she successfully challenged this decision to withdraw an NHS service. Food for thought/great tips for anyone who may be affected. keepournhspublic.com/attempt-to-c...

Taking a break for a few days! If I hear anything more about R* I will die! That place sucks! Solidarity to the workers!

I just bought my first pair of ear defenders for gigs! I'm honestly sick of farting about with ear plugs and I do not care about being fashionable or like, hiding that I'm protecting my hearing / tinnitus getting worse I already wear a mask everywhere I might as well just fully lean into it

Support the video game workers who were unfairly fired by Rockstar for unionizing: actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...

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so proud of all the marginalised devs who have refused to shut up and be grateful. the fight for justice continues, all the stronger without "allies" who are anything but kotaku.com/game-awards-...

I just rewatched the Bojack video, and dear lord, it's one of the best videos on subs, dubs, & translation out there. You get a 101 course, along with detailed analysis, and plenty of elaboration that treats its audience respectfully regardless of your Japanese ability. youtu.be/p3mXrC4sv1Y?...

the new york times relies on its immensely popular games to both drive subscriptions AND generate ad revenue from non-paying subscribers. stop playing wordle, even if it's free.

Revealed waiting times of all GICs in UK: Most Trans+ people in the UK will wait more than a third of their adult life to get an appointment, and some will never receive care

Kind of wild to see this launched as I was editing my talk on complicity in games. Will absolutely be pointing people here.

me when migrane

I've now decided I need prescription PC glasses and I'm stuck between buying very fun crazy ones or just big comfy ones

Honestly I cannot believe I can just sit down and do almost three and a half hours solid of work on a random Sunday with no immediate deadline ADHD meds truly are something else

If you're on ADHD meds, I highly recommend NOT downloading a music visualiser, playing Windowlicker by Aphex Twin and just staring at it Great for a night in, not so much when trying to do Uni work

Very much this! I do play in handheld mode because I can't always sit up straight, but having a Steam Deck really gave me so much access to my Steam library that had been gathering dust since I got sick.

The ACLU petition still hasn't reached it's signature goal? WHAT? That needs to change now. 200k signatures is nothing, let's GET IT. AT LEAST! action.aclu.org/petition/mas...

I might be able to publish my portfolio soon!! It's not very accessible due to limitations of the platform I've put it together on which makes me angery, but it will be a good stop gap between continuing to learn web coding and having my work out there for folks to see.

perhaps the most egregious thing that happened with the Future Class was when The Game Awards took money from Old Spice in the name of the FC & simply... pocketed it it wasn't used to fund Future Class initiatives, it wasn't used to help lift marginalised developers they just profited from us

Rockstar having to delay GTAVI and the Union busting are NOT isolated incidents. See this as a victory. You have way more power than the Take Two money men. Without you the game wont get finished. Join the fucking Union.

Unfortunately I’ve been laid off today from Square Enix, so if anyone has leads for any Community or Social positions please let me know. I’m just tired and heartbroken.

My take on this is they daren't push someone who might be pro-union, so they'll spite everyone instead

If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.

Solidarity with the Rockstar workers. I started my career there. I stood up for our rights then as much as I could, and I stand up for them now.

look I know this is a weird unhinged thing to post at half 3 in the morning, especially from someone who is sober and doesn't really go out anymore but I got a 3-CD " Pure Garage" compilation from a charity shop the other day and honestly it's an absolute belter

Done dirty at the charity shop 😭

BlueSky's moderation is intentionally improperly labelling a post to make it harder for a trans person to get help paying for surgery. Y'all mfs are like, comically evil aren't you? Give Mel a hand here, support them, even a few bucks helps.

Me, a lifelong British person with memory issues, in November: "Fuck, it's the 5th."

LEGO Party! from @smgstudio.bsky.social letting you filter which minigames to include in the playlist based on accessibility barriers #gamedev #accessibility

Sometimes people mishear me in real life and think my name is Jade. No sweat! It happens. ...but in a fucking written email?? ??????

it's kinda wild watching a cat getting groomed on YouTube while petting your cat and his fluff flies through the air it's like a 4D experience

oh maaan... I started 3D modelling with a tool called Womp 3D. I stopped paying for Pro last month because my learning had hit a limit and I decided to move to Nomad / Blender. They're starting to just absolutely ruin their project with AI prompts and credits. What a shame. A damn shame.

"Join our free event..." Oh I'd love to! "...in London!" ._.

SAG-AFTRA stands in solidarity with the IWGB Game Workers Union exercising their right to organize following reports of union-busting at Rockstar. Our members’ union performances on Rockstar games are an integral part of the success and legacy of games like Grand Theft Auto.

Started adding some colourblind support to the game today. Still have a long way to go with accessibility features but its a start. The beta is in two weeks! You can sign up here: subscribepage.io/C1erpq #indiegame #gamedev

My Uni did a student opinion forum on AI You can guess how I reacted (^:

New awareness campaign

Honestly if we actually wanted kids to do well, test all of them for dyslexia when they hit like 7/8, they're not difficult tasks for kids who don't have it, and those that do will benefit from catching it early. I had no idea I was dyslexic until I was THIRTY-TWO. Unacceptable.

My webinar on making printed and digital content #accessibility is now available as a standalone video with descriptions and captions in: English, Ukrainian, Malay, Arabic, Czech, German, French, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Serbian, Spanish. youtu.be/AO9XXkrACtU?...

The world outside of working on triple A games can be much better than in them, for anyone stuck in an awful situation. Just saying.

This is the most ruthless act of union busting in the history of the UK games industry. Yesterday, @rockstargames.com unfairly fired over 30 employees for union activity. We won't back down, and we're not scared - we will fight for every member to be reinstated.

Happy Belated Halloween!!! I've been dreadfully unenthusiastic this year for some reason but I love Halloween, I hope you have all have a good one!!!

With almost a third of players identifying as disabled, I think accessibility needs a permanent seat at the table when we discuss UX 🖤

There’s a sudden influx of people asking what Sweet Baby Inc *do*. So here I am, a Sweet Baby Inc employee, to tell you: we are writers & narrative designers! We write and help create stories, all with the enthusiastic consent of the studios who hire us! Great thread about that here! \/\/

This is slightly related but one time I attached a video to a bug report called "stupid ai" and the dev replied saying "we've fixed the "stupid" ai" and honestly I'm still embarrassed over ten years later

My saying goes "If you love it, save it." This goes for YouTube, songs, pictures, TikToks, anything on the internet. You never know when a company is going to lose its mind and trash decades of data. Apparently old resolutions may stay available, but I wouldn't trust Google about that.