Maine - Senate Polling: 🔵 Jackson: 49% 🔴 Collins: 46%* UNH / July 20, 2026

@amandatien.bsky.social played The Flame in the Flood while living in New Orleans, and she was surprised to learn that the game made her feel better, not worse, about what the future holds. Free with your email:

I've been thinking about the ending to THE FLAME IN THE FLOOD for 10 years (devs The Molasses Flood were absorbed by @cdprojektred.com; pub by @curvegames.com). So grateful that @mothership.blog @zoehhannah.com @midimyers.com gave me a chance to write about it. www.mothership.blog/why-an-indie...

It's about damn time we had some Love and Deepspace coverage on Mothership!! This one dives into the game's romanceable characters as body doubles for productivity, and why it feels so much better to open L&D than it does to open Hinge www.mothership.blog/why-date-whe...

these are my confessions 🎶 www.mothership.blog/is-it-okay-i...

Really proud to have this reported feature from @exalclaw.com on the site today -- caretakers should be a protected class!!!

Inspired by @meredithgran.com's writing on attending game conferences as a parent, @exalclaw.com interviewed devs who are also caretakers about balancing their careers in games with their loved ones' needs.

For @mothership.blog, I talked to over a dozen caretakers about the reality of being a caretaker while working in games. The short of it? It's *very* difficult. Here's a glimpse of the current experience, its consequences, and coveted standardized practices: www.mothership.blog/the-games-in...

poured my whole being into this piece for the last week. feelin very lucky to have @mothership.blog as a platform and @midimyers.com as an editor www.mothership.blog/its-everywhe...

finding out england almost won but then suddenly didn't via bsky is very silly. lots of "ah well"'s

poured my whole being into this piece for the last week. feelin very lucky to have @mothership.blog as a platform and @midimyers.com as an editor www.mothership.blog/its-everywhe...

if you're up for it today, this one from @zoehhannah.com is a worthwhile trek through some difficult shit

big brain article for art nerds?? yes pls www.mothership.blog/discopup-is-...

Vibecoding has made it possible to create a cheap rip off of a video game in just a few hours.

did you know i make videos for mothership and sometimes i put too much blush on?? follow us on ig!!!

Our EIC @midimyers.com has some blunt, funny, very true advice about what to do with your big gaming feelings:

Well well well.

it's always during a week of men being horrid that i get a lyft driver who wants to do some nonsense like tell me how he went berserk at the shooting range while i'm alone in his backseat

Alarming story that confirms my own reporting along similar lines: Dan Moraff, the political strategist who plucked Graham Platner out of obscurity to run for senate and barely vetted him, was barred from Rep. Summer Lee’s 2022 campaign after three complaints of sexual misconduct.

Launching a new website about video games today. Meet @respec.net. A sibling to @rpgsite.net, a spiritual successor to VG247, & a brother from another mother to other 100% independent UK media brands like @videogameschronicle.com and @trueachievements.com. www.respec.net/feature/87-w...

can someone send me that fuck ass news site that was posting details of platner's rape allegations yesterday? i'm rage writing and i can't find it thank u in advance

one way to avoid having rapists everywhere is to avoid having men everywhere

@amandatien.bsky.social is one of those writers who just has an endless well of ideas. Lucky for us, she likes bringing those ideas to Mothership. her latest: www.mothership.blog/sadie-adler-...

A year ago, I took a chance and moved PV Guide from Substack to Ghost. To celebrate (+ pay the bill), I'm running a 20% off sale on all subscriptions! If you want more work like this, start a paid subscription today! Annual: pvguide.ghost.io/the-big-ghos... Monthly: pvguide.ghost.io/ghost-renewa...

"Verso’s wish is the pathway I guide patients towards nearly every week in my practice. It is, by almost every measure, the healthy choice. And yet, I chose Maelle," psychiatrist Douglas McWilliams writes.

I'm currently writing this report for @aftermath.site. If any member of any accessibility team was impacted by the layoffs, please reach out through email, messages, or my signal –4129804478.

i wrote about executive dysfunction and doing house chores. if you relate to this graf, i'm sorry <3

The game industry is so fucking back

Even now there's misinformation floating around, so let me make this clear: Xbox is cutting 3,200 jobs, or 20% of the organization. 1,600 jobs will be eliminated today, and then another 1,600 (including the studio divestments) in the next 12 months. Full story: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Why should you support independent trans media? Perhaps because we take on the bias of major news organizations with facts and data. Here's the latest from @evanurquhart.bsky.social, who found NYT wrote 5 stories on the trans sports ban decision without quoting a single trans person. 🤯🤯🤯

“He then put her license plate details on a surveillance “hotlist,” meaning he would get a notification in real time anytime she drove by an AI-powered license plate surveillance camera.”

Proud to announce our HARDSHIP FUND: uvw-cwa.org/hardship-fun... If you've been recently laid off and need support, we got you.

I hope Portugal loses because Christiano Ronaldo is credibly accused of rape

I have to say, in addition to writing this beautiful story that made me cry (like, full sob, really), @vinhamsterface.bsky.social also wrote us one of the funniest pitch emails I've ever gotten and MAN I love when shit works out! www.mothership.blog/learning-to-...

a great life hack is having a lot of friends who are older than you so they can tell you about life's horrors before you live them

(chanting under my breath, preparing to enter the internet for the day) people who willfully misunderstand you are not worth your time

games have been huge success. thats why we're firing every one who makes games. also we are going to make it so players can no longer buy games

We have sold > 200 tickets for this fine absolutely not grudge-filled event in less than 3 hours AND that was before I sent out my newsletter.

DC Public Library locations are open as cooling centers. DC is under an Extreme Heat Alert through Sunday, July 5, at 8:00 a.m. Temperatures will feel like 105°F or higher. If you need to cool down quickly, visit heat.dc.gov to find a cooling center near you.

you see, in indie media you have two audiences: the audience who reads your articles, and the audience who reads your headlines

I was going to make a joke but this article is a really good encapsulation of the lack of representation of women as a whole in gaming and mothers especially. Quick, name a video game mom. They’re all dead or Mother Brain smh.

At long last, there is a permanent page explaining where paying subscribers can find their private, full-text RSS feeds! Find it in our site menu or here: www.mothership.blog/rss-feed/

I've been looking at the action movies released globally in 1991 and 2026, looking at who is fighting who and what's changed in the genre over 35 years. next up: June, featuring our second straight month with a Robin Hood movie, a whole bunch of sequels, and more! pvguide.ghost.io/back-in-acti...

almost every story at @mothership.blog this week is free to read. JUST SAYING if you want to sample our stuff, it's a good time to do so

If you are trans I love you

The trans sports ban are almost completely an invention of the media, conservative and mainstream. it has been years of lies, of shoddy fact checking on just completely false conservative claims, years of phony concern trolling.

the one and only @nicoleclark.bsky.social visited the yacht club games studio and found out so many wonderful little details about Mina the Hollower!!! like, say, that her namesake is actually mina harker from dracula (so obvious now that i think about it...) www.mothership.blog/maps-mice-an...

this is the LAST DAY that you can take advantage of a 50% deal on a 3-month subscription bundle to three feminist worker-owned indie poublications: my website @mothership.blog as well as @autonomynews.co & @theflytrapmedia.com. if you already support mothership, you still get 50% off the other two!!

i am a fan of my own website and i'm not afraid to admit it www.mothership.blog/maps-mice-an...