You should absolutely do this, and there are worse places to start than with this presentation by one of the creators of Kentucky Route Zero gdcvault.com/play/1020596...

when Bungie announced their Star Wars season, I decided I was finally done with the game. today, I watched their stream about the expansion, and came so close to downloading the game again—I fear I’m still in a fight for my life, lmao

2025 actually did suck. i know we've all said this about a lot of previous years but this one was quite bad actually

Thank you @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social for including me in this list! Must Read Short Speculative Fiction: October 2025 - Reactor reactormag.com/must-read-sh...

If you have been sharing that Malwarebytes article on the Gmail thing, you should note the giant correction up top. www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...

The last couple of days I’ve been chewing on an idea for a series of flash stories that’s got me thinking about Partizan (FATT season 6), Cowboy Bebop, Dune, and Chronicles of Riddick—I might be really close to writing actual words 😭😮‍💨😌

"hand-crafted adversarial poetry" is a concept I will think about for a long time.

Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron has launched a free digital archival library of literature by Black and brown authors, poets, and artists. Readers can borrow rare and out-of-print books for up to 45 days

I cosign every single word of this anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

some days you write twelve (12) words, and that's good and beautiful

it's always writing y'all hate that travels furthest and fastest here, same as anywhere else

Since I hit credits in Blue Prince, I’ve been hungry for something more kinetic. Eventually turned to Armored Core 6, which I’d only played ~12 hours. I’ve been replaying missions, toying around with AC builds, learning the game again. Love the crunchy, somewhat ethereal vibe and aesthetic, y’know?

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

bring back maligning racism as the mark of a stupid person. prejudice is the mark of an idiot. if you believe that shit i bet you also don’t wipe your ass

it sure seems like a lot of discipline and focus has permeated the left. really stunning to see huge swaths of people with very recent learned experience recognize destabilizing bait and to ignore it, while quietly acknowledging constructive criticism and building from that.

maybe i will finally finish disco elysium next year 😭

I finally hit credits in Blue Prince, really excited for the game to actually start now 😌

I'm on my bullshit in this blog! Shoutouts to Bianca for asking such an interesting question, and all of my fellow Split Lip folks for engaging with it so well ✨

Emotional resonance? Yes, please! Some thoughts on the subject by SLM staff @mollyandrearyan.bsky.social @michaeltoddcohen.bsky.social @ruthlefaive.bsky.social @cedarchromatic.bsky.social @razishadmehry.bsky.social @maxpasakorn.bsky.social @terivela.bsky.social & more!

“[Mamdani’s] presence wasn’t performative. It was pastoral. In a city that so often divides its grief by identity, he crossed the invisible line and simply showed up.” i love this forward.com/opinion/7805...

showing my work

exercise: swap "AI psychosis" for "monomyth psychosis" because that seems to be the narrative leverage the bots default to in the process of destroying people. what does it mean that these machines produce the form over and over? what does it indicate about the cultural centrality of that template?

Regular reminder that if you want to talk about RPGs on Youtube, I’m running an indie RPG Youtuber mentorship over on the @chimerahearts.com’s Discord!

it has come to my attention that you need to see this image immediately

the story is always: they want us divided, and they have to try really hard to achieve that, because we’re drawn to each other

if you see this post, your actions are: - if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this - if you don't have a spare buck, just repost your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive

Nigga, WHAT????

my hot take is that the fantasy that’s being catered to with videos like the one going around is of participation in a seamless, infinite, directed loop where the player and computer are constantly updating each other. which is where I think a lot of the satisfaction in systemic video games is. 🧵

🤷🏽‍♀️ bdsmovement.net/news/boycott...

can't wait to hold it in my hands 👀 truly still a lovely, baffling honor to be among all of these talented folks!

the best thing about SLM honestly is that our queue is so diverse in every way i can imagine, aesthetically and in terms of the experiences the writers bring. that is the legacy of a decade of diversity in our readers and editors, of paying contributors, and of having thoughtful communication.

today, I saw someone reading Ilya Kaminsky's Deaf Republic at the coffee shop—great fucking book 😭🙏🏾

we didn't mean to, but conner and I wrote a book. it's available now. i am so proud of what we've made and can't wait for people to uncover what's inside it

oh, incredible—and not surprising! vajra doesn’t miss 😤

This hits a lot of the notes I've been shouting from the rooftops: the frictionlessness of both producing and consuming slop, and the value of labor as friction that lets us slow down and think. Rather than "unlocking creativity" it's rendering our collective creativity down into a big vat of slop.

I just keep thinking about the first guy to put on the frog costume reading the news today and seeing frogs literally all over the world what a fucking thing, man that 25 year old did more for the country in a week than most of the NYT op-ed section in a lifetime

the whole article could have just been ten pages of “Brilliant Things Eleanor O’Brien Said,” and some gold was left on the cutting room floor, but this is such a banger of a closer and it’s so very much the theme of today

Thousands took to the streets in Santa Fe and Albuquerque for No Kings Day on Saturday, two of nearly 30 protests planned around New Mexico.

I was JUST thinking about this! I've been thinking all week about how I feel like I have really turned a corner in the last year—this story was absolutely the start of something for me. Shoutouts to @amystuber.com and @maureenlangloss.bsky.social for believing in it 😭🙏🏾💜

this made me scream-laugh in public. fuck, dude.

Mamdani promises to deploy *hundreds* if lawyers to fight for trans rights, create a new office of LGBTQ affairs, and allocate millions of dollars to fund housing and healthcare for trans kids and adults This is what fighting back looks like--elevating activists to materually support trans people.

“it’s about eating your time”

And let me highlight the DISCIPLINE at play here and across the country, too. They are trying to goad protestors into lighting a Reichstag fire and those efforts are being met with suggestive hip thrusts from a giant inflatable frog. This is movement not taking the bait.

As a protest optics nerd love about the inflatables is how much they visually disrupt and pull focus from the fascist shock imagery Noem & Miller are trying to create. So many of these photos now look like the world's silliest dance party, backgrounded by a bunch of guys in uniform looking awkward

when I started to think about doing a PhD this summer, I was on an interminable drive between Albuquerque and Denver, and I was listening to Games Studies Study Buddies—but also I immediately was like "Really, though?" because of who I was listening to. I probably will do it, but with my eyes open?

Two conflicting thoughts about this: 1. Damn. 2. I think even with the best team and the most consistent thoughtful approach, Ubisoft would have handled this is a very weird way that would have been off putting at best.

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

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