Really absolutely the worst thing* you can do when feeling hopeless is to be on public social media. Log off, connect with hobbies and offline/community friends, it's genuinely the best way. There is one worse thing - you could talk to a Chatbot about it.

wwwwaaaaaaaaa

2026 rachelnertia.github.io/personal/202...

May 2026 be a year when those who persecute, despoil and oppress the people find their power shattering on the rock of solidarity!

might win this thing, actually >:)

oh boy I am really not well at all!

i am not well lads

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Ah, 28 December: 146th anniversary of the Tay Bridge disaster, which tragically took the lives of 59 people – and rather more happily gave the world ‘Sir’ William Topaz McGonagall’s most famous work

The confusion and conflation of ‘generative ai that is built on stolen artwork’ and ‘machine learning, character behaviour modelling and proc gen’ is intentional on the part of the grifters peddling the former. They benefit from murkiness of classification, because the latter predates their bollocks

goddamn im depressed

‘The Shortest Day’ illustrations by Carson Ellis

how it feels to get a bunch of fire reacts in the group chat

Johannes Gutenberg: I'm on some movable printed type shit

should i get my chin removed

i'm so fucking sick of the transphobia. i can't even say what i wish on all the people who support it or have stoked it. all i can say to them is we cannot live in the same reality - there is no coexisting with you.

it is hard to do even little things right now and I'm trying to be kind to myself about that (and failing)

Again I say: how fucking interesting that remote work technology is bad and not worth adopting despite all research pointing to productivity gains, but genAI which offers NOTHING is so important to adopt and force on people who have no use for it despite all the horrible things genAI does

me when you like my little posts

Yesterday we held our first union Xmas party, with truly excellent vibes throughout. Hopefully the first of many to come ❤🎄

I am 100% pro Larian doing whatever pervert shit it wants and I can’t wait for another game where you can like, fuck a squid or whatever, but it really does further drive home the two-tier system of enforcement on storefronts. Bg3 contains basically everything small games get banned for

It's not illegal to use the right toilets and no one should adhere to Mary-Ann Stephenson's headmistressly call to "follow rules" that serve no good purpose, breach the UK's human rights obligations, will be bad for all women, and debase trans dignity. Make her appoint her sodding toilet police.

i do actually think that if you're walking in a bike lane, every cyclist that passes should be legally allowed to slap you.

Also, the main reasons for this union? Return to office mandates and AI. I hope we see more RTO pushback at this level. It is probably one of the biggest improvements across the board for workers in decades. Some studies showed it to be around the equivalent of a 20% pay raise to quality of life

This is the way to do it. The union is across the whole company. This means leadership can't just fire a department, like we see with various QA groups being let go. It's cross discipline, so true collective bargaining is possible, and 'solidarity' moves are feasible. ...

leftist tendency Pokemon starters

doom creator id software just became the latest microsoft studio to unionize. though the neutrality agreement that has allowed CWA to organize so many studios recently lapsed, id devs told me that only applies to activision blizzard for now aftermath.site/id-software-union-doom-microsoft-cwa

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Doom studio id Software unionizes to secure AI protections, benefits: "We see the direction the industry is headed" aftermath.site/id-software-un...

💥 Seventy thousand women have now signed our letter. Seventy thousand women saying clearly that exclusion is not in our name and that trans people deserve dignity, safety and belonging. 🙏 Sign and share: notinourname.org.uk #NotInOurName #Love #Inclusion #WomenUnite

A week of 50% off our blue-skies-and-space-ruins robot ghost story:

late last week, workers of different stripes gathered outside rockstar's nyc office for a protest in solidarity with fired devs in the uk/scotland. the message, as fired rockstar workers head into a hearing this week, is that they've got global support, and bosses can't hide

I am so angry this morning I hate waking up tilted but what other option do I have

The Avarice Awards holds a mirror to the hollow glamour of The Game Awards, as workers continue to have their livelihoods upended by mass layoffs. We are speaking truth to the powers ruining the game industry with their greed! Stream begins on December 10th at 7pm PT / 10pm ET on twitch.tv/UVW_CWA

Feeling very sad today. I have lost so much this year.

the world is learning in realtime what the procgen community has known for years

I wrote this piece about the Scottish Greens but some of it applies to any party of the Left. In particular, I think there's a lot of refusal to accept the realities and limitations of electoral politics, and indeed to even have that conversation without demonising people medium.com/@allanfaulds...

If anyone is near or around Glasgow on Thursday, I'm going to be giving a presentation about unions, explaining the Rockstar situation, and why it's a perfect example of why we need to unionize. www.meetup.com/videogames-g...

im so ill gang

Hong Kong fire and Grenfell are just alike. Fire spreading through unsafe building materials installed due to penny-pinching, killing dozens. One difference: before the HK fire is even out three executives at contractors have been arrested, eight years after Grenfell no-one has been arrested.

You know when you finish all your exams and immediately fall ill?

trying to cope with someone taking a sledgehammer to one part of my life by proceeding with doubled speed in other parts, sort of like a liquid squishing out from under it

what do you think weekly therapy is like for me right now, followers

ughhh!

Rolling out the Matt Christman quote from after Charlottesville (2017) again:

aaargh