Hello, friends. We’re looking to slim down our gaming collection and have a rare item available: Limited Edition Normandy replica, 1 of 1500. DM me for info.

I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.

My Celes gouache painting from a few weeks back! It was difficult but still worth the attempt 🗡️

TTRPG PEOPLE: THE FONT OF YOUR RULEBOOK IS STORYTELLING. THE PICAS OF YOUR TABLES? STORYTELLING. This isn't a joke I am 500% serious. Visual design = storytelling.

SCHUMER: I rolled a one JEFFRIES: I rolled a one MAMDANI Fuck <FLUTE TRILL> So I'm gonna bring it all myself HEY

DM: The orange fascist lurks in his lair, hunched behind his massive desk, revelling in his stolen power. His acolytes hiss at you as you approach. What does your human bard do -- MAMDANI: Active perception check. DM: ...that's a natural 20 MAMDANI: Let's fucking go. <FLUTE TRILL>

Google removes a variety of longstanding GMail features if you try to withdraw your default consent (!) to having all your content read and used by Google Gemini via "Smart Features." That's an obvious attempt to coerce consent for privacy violations. Legislatures must act to make this illegal.

Our statement in solidarity with our fellow workers' ongoing protest against @rockstargames.com's gross union busting!

@failbettergames.com yooo this new Candlefinder case is *excellent*. My favorite so far. The song "Children Will Listen" from Into the Woods keeps coming to mind.

From a German perspective, another interesting comparison with Nazi Germany and the aftermath. Given that “I was just following orders” was a standard excuse from those German soldiers, policemen etc. who personally participated in atrocities, when Germany rebuilt its military after 1945, they 1/

ok they deleted and reposted it for some reason but, reminder: this is a survey of GDC attendees only which self-selects for highly paid, senior devs and management which is to say: this is most likely what a result skewed _against_ unionization looks like right now

"Gif that pops up when I type my name" *SIGHS* At least people can usually spell it right thanks to this guy.

Interested in making it a reality? Since we're union with a direct-to-join model... you can! Read up on how to join here: uvw-cwa.org/membership

I have great news... YOU CAN. RIGHT NOW. uvw-cwa.org @videogameworkers.bsky.social

Listing any one of her accomplishments feels like it it does it justice, and listing all of them would take hours. What a legend, what a loss.

another job application sent off into the void with no expectation of reply, wheeeeee. and yet we retain some hope! because we must!

Friends, I'm in tears over this. Sheila is the first editor I ever worked with. I was 20. She deserves better bosses than this. She and Trevor and Sheree have all proven themselves again and again to be really good and decent people in this field. MRM should not use them as reputation shields.

Did you read my post from last week about how contract woes caused me to withdraw an accepted story from F&SF, ending my 54-year quest to be published in that magazine? But wait (as the saying goes) — there's more! Scroll down at the link for an update. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...

'Skeleton Wearing a Top Hat Playing the Shamisen for a Small Dancing Yōkai' (circa 1870) Kawanabe Kyōsai

America's first ever esports champion was Rebecca Heineman, a trans woman. She went on to found some of your favorite video game studios and worked on your favorite video games. Next time you see somebody rail about 'woke' and 'DEI' Remember that. Remember her.

can relate to the ancient absurdity

THREAD. The definitive list of the absolute best interdimensional portals I have photographed on walks in the British countryside. 1. Gateway To The Land Of Leaping Dogs.

Rebecca was one of the founders of Interplay and programmed & designed for some of the most influential games of my youth, notably Bard's Tale I & III and Wasteland. She will be missed.

My trailblazing game industry bad-ass friend Rebecca Heineman has passed away. Fuck cancer. Friends, let’s not forget her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca...

with Marjorie Taylor Greene being kind of a whack job and magic the gathering rolling every IP it can into the game, it’s taking longer and longer to decipher which one posts about “MTG” are actually referencing lately

Rebecca Heineman doesn't have much time left. If you can, please donate for her and her family to make end of life arrangements. One last kindness we can offer for a legend of the games industry and loud and proud trans woman: www.gofundme.com/f/help-rebec...

Ugh, just feeling like. I don't know. I haven't been able to do graphic design properly since 2020, because circumstances kept bouncing me between jobs where that just. Wasn't a thing I was doing. So. Imposter syndrome. Damn it, it's like riding a bike, it's a skill... I can do this.

time to get on that Fangamer job application. spent most of the morning a bit unwell, but Things Must Be Done.

Plus a lot of studios who were formerly chill about remote working are increasingly leaning hard into getting everyone back into the office for no discernible reason (especially when many companies/teams are split across multiple countries anyway)

AND LAND. FUCKING. BACK. landback.org/manifesto/

All children should be brought up gender-neutral from birth until they are old enough to declare their gender. Full HRT should be available to trans kids from the age of 12 or early depending on when endogenous puberty starts

No single person should have more than (the equivalent of) 10 million dollars of power*. Everything after that should be distributed to the people. *This is an arbitrary amount, I'd need to do actual math about it, but don't debate me on the specific dollars. Point is: absolute wealth caps.

Abolish borders. No more passports or visas or checkpoints or any of that crap. Just let people go where they wanted. We did that for literally tens of thousands of years; the entire modern concept of borders is brand new and it sucks and causes untold misery.

Polyamory should be legally recognized & have the same protections as monogamous marriage. As long as all adults involved have consented. Divorce should be extremely simple and have no barriers. Legal stuff should be reserved for division of property,not "proving" that you don't have sex.

Vine reboot called diVine has been launched 📱 • Funded by Jack Dorsey • Includes over 100K videos from Vine's archive • Users can upload 6-second videos • AI-generated content is not allowed

How is AI *really* impacting jobs? Henley Chiu, the CTO of Revealera, a jobs data analysis firm, analyzed 180 million jobs listings in 2024 and 2025, in an effort to find out. Chiu found an: -8% drop in all jobs postings -~30% drop in art, photography, writing jobs -22% drop in journalism jobs

Well you see but AI! Because it's not like AI need human products training data or anything (even if they actually worked at all)

My fellow Europeans, I'm once again asking you to write or call your EU representatives and tell them this is unacceptable. They're essentially selling our sensitive data to companies, effectively destroying our privacy and risking our digital well-being. Check the site! fightchatcontrol.eu

The passport and visa system, the entire concept of immigration controls and nationality is a crime against humanity and should be abolished and rethought. It's one of the world's greatest generators of misery and death.

without downloading new pix, describe your gender

Did Microsoft Azure explode again

accessibility modes and built in cheats. Control (2019) did this incredibly well by just giving you toggle-able invincibility, bullets, energy, etc. the older I get the more I appreciate it.

...some meaningful commentary woven into their DNA that can change you, if you let it. Games are a punk art form. Punch up. Scare the bullies. Say something true even if it scares you.

I should go on a rant sometime about how American privatized insurance traps us in shitty, abusive jobs and prevents career mobility.

Natives are the greatest artists in the world, and when that artistic mind mixes with vanity the most beautiful fashion is born. nativenewsonline.net/arts-enterta...