one time i wrote a horror fiction story in which toxic masculinity was presented as very literally toxic, and no one got it. but maybe people will get it now that it's many years later and i'm spelling it out in this post? happy belated halloween! kotaku.com/the-only-gir...

One of my favorite parts of Bounty Star is when Clem receives the Revisitor from Teddy Cotton, which lets her perform inscrutable and frightening explorations of self (replay old missions)

sort of incredible to read a review that doesn't just made a vague nod at AI being bad, but actively reckons with the ways in which falling obsessively to AI usage actively obliterates the artistic intent and integrity of the work you've made.

a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,

[🎵 Sarah McLachlan music] Every day, a toxic yuri author can spend hours staring into space thinking about a lady with cruel silver knives. Or maybe a mutual poisoning, as euphoric as it is deadly. But you can help! Buy the bundle, and distract both them and you. itch.io/b/3364/poiso...

"Can I use gnome with muffin" Questions that arise in: - 90s adventure games - Linux

theres a whole category of newstertainment thats gotta go. and its "ask a really rich freak who is also evil and directly stealing from you what hes seen on the computer lately that has made him feel bad." the only -- ONLY -- story about this guy worth exploring is: he is getting rich spying on you

Stripe here showing the ultimate purpose of AI: offloading blame of consequential decision-making onto a cold, unthinking, unfeeling, "purely logical" machine.

Does anyone know where the love of god goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?

“individual employees asked to change behavior in response to catastrophic mistakes made by their high-level leadership over the past 3-7 years” really feels like the overarching story of the current times

Bounty Star is the mecha game you didn’t know you needed

broken record on this but a similarly great beat for left wing media would be covering arts and culture and not just focusing primarily on politics and current events because there's a massive void there right now

please watch movies and read books and play games and look at art, please view it with your own eyes through a lens you made yourself and not just through video essayists and ending explained videos please im begging you

nier oot out of touch thursday

what if the S thing we've been drawing for years is just the logo of the company running this simulation

I've basically switched to getting my political news about America from The Guardian (I contrasted their headlines with the NYT for a week and felt so much more informed by The Guardian.) A good overview of wins last night here: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Colorado has a 90s vintage law (TABOR) requiring voter approval of any change to taxes, a republican ploy to gum up the works since "increase taxes" is such a bogeyman. Last election, we voted that every one of these measures include a table like this, a BRILLIANT way to undermine tax fearmongering.

thank you for the outpouring of support! those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.

"To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool." Election day with Octavia Butler on how to choose leaders: www.themarginalian.org/2020/08/23/o...

I contracted on a game that fundamentally changed what it was trying to be every six months because the CD had played a new game over the weekend. They worked on that doomed project for ever seven years before someone finally pulled the plug

It wasn't deep. It didn't have much to say. But Xiao Xiao inspired millions to try Flash animation for themselves. A Beijing artist made this series -- and turned stick fights into a phenomenon. We're exploring why and how he did it: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/when-stick...

My favorite thing I've added to the Virtual Broomcloset for its 30th anniversary is the new Publications page. I've gathered print materials ranging from strategy guides to magazine reviews to old catalogs. If you've ever wondered how the Kalamazoo Gazette reviewed Space Quest 6, look no further!

In the glorious future my second recommendation to the restitution and redemption committee is to ban grocery cart geofences. 😒

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

リハビリ眼鏡さん

The gutting of Teen Vogue, a publication which dared to treat its readers seriously and with respect, is an especially dispiriting day in old media's long, self-destructive forced march to nowhere

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

#dailyart 59: birb study

This is a classic divide and conquer strategy. Highlight and elevate contrarian views, claim there's a divide, and then relentlessly try to manufacture one so that they can roll back the rights of the entire group. This was the entire purpose of the LGB Alliance in the UK.

Open for some kitty commissions!! 🫶💗 for yourself, or a holiday gift!

That's one for the record books folks! #Baseball #BountyStar #Videogames #IndieGames

Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...

Mulholland Drive (Dir. David Lynch, 2001)

My Space Quest site, Roger Wilco's Virtual Broomcloset, launched 30 years ago this month. That makes it one of the oldest video game fan sites on the web. To celebrate the milestone, I've updated the site for the first time in ages with tons of new content. Check it out! wiw.org/~jess/roger.html

That's one for the record books folks! #Baseball #BountyStar #Videogames #IndieGames

give us 20 innings this time. make this a root canal. i'll be watching. fuck god and fuck you

Just 9 more innings to go 🙂

I strongly recommend everyone do research sometimes 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘧𝘶𝘯. Look something up on Wikipedia. Go to the little citation. Follow it. Read the article it's referencing. Follow links to the original interview. Read the paper written by the interviewee It genuinely makes you appreciate journalism

TV too small

🎃 Some lessons from Hallowe’en: 👻 Little kids should be able to walk in the streets, even at night, without worrying about cars. People who are well-off are expected to give out more candy. Candy is for anyone who asks — no means-testing. Whatever else we are, we are each other’s neighbors.

Happy Halloween, I'm Mira.

As of October 31 this post bsky.app/profile/did:... is still factually accurate. We've been in a "district work period" the entire time and every week or so someone gavels in, says the pledge of allegiance, extends the "district work period" another week, and gavels out. This happened today.

Its October babes.

a year of free games !!

okay, update: i have had this question answered, and I am now looking to speak to game QA testers ON the record about the weirdest, silliest-sounding things they've had to do to make sure games work. the wackier the better. happy to keep folks anon if they prefer. DMs open, email/Signal in bio

The internet is collectively writing louvre heist yaoi and I think that's beautiful

Still one of the fav things I've made