People have no idea how well priced Bibi's disability/mobility aids are and how excellent the quality is. Bibi's stuff LASTS. It wears well. And Bibi is bending over backwards to accommodate US customers right now due to tariffs we never wanted and Bibi has no control over.

How loosely available is Discord’s age verification ID information if compromising an outsourced support agent can give them access to it?! If it wasn’t clear, I have been very against this from the start. NEVER give your ID to a social media company. Call your reps!

My favorite thing to listen to right now is Michael Bise's trove of Gap in-store playlists from the late 1990s to early 2000s. He's been hunting for these pieces of ephemera for 20 years! www.theverge.com/report/79080...

if the state of journalism and its capture by the right wing also has you in despair, a real, tangible thing you can do to push back is support/subscribe to worker-owned indie news media!! @coyotemedia.org (bay area) @51st.news (dc) @racketmn.com (mn) @autonomynews.co @505omatic.bsky.social (nm)

Been waiting on this book from the mighty @barrywalters.bsky.social for literally years here, and it’s up for presale, release date next May. Do yourself the biggest favor.

Bluesky....still don't know what to do on here lol

🤩 We can’t wait to see what these Virtual Exchange grantees create! Today we are featuring Shohre Esmaili, Brianna Wren, @ashleycooper.bsky.social, @arivelazquez.com, and @irisxie.bsky.social! #IGDAFVirtualExchange2025 #GameDevs #IndieDevs

Having to click through Bluesky then Twitter then Facebook then Instagram then Twitter then Bluesky again to find a post is terrible, it's like trying to find a missing object in my house....

Goddamn. What a sobering and poignant piece of conceptual art. What an amazing artist.

Every time trans people ask "do you think they'll stop at this?" you need to immediately take it seriously. Remember when they said evangelicals and terfs won't stop at trans athletes? all queer people were on the chopping block, they just started with the easiest target.

LMAO I called Visa’s customer support service - the guy on the other line was like “are you ALSO calling about the video game payment processing? Please send us emails instead.” Keep up the calls, folks, we’re definitely gumming up their works

Call call call. Visa is literally begging us to stop calling and send emails. Calls cost them way more money and they can't use key words to filter them out

If you want to actually solve the problem, instead of punishing itch, start calling payment cos Collective Shout, which is run by people who get published by Spinifex, a very terf-seeming organization, apparently needed 1,000 people to yell at visa to get this done. We got more than 1000 people.

if you know someone with a sizeable following, you could probably get 3000 or more people to contact visa and mastercard and very politely ask why their company is allowing an apparent hate group to brag about tricking them into killing legitimate businesses

I just wanted somewhere to post my weird gay video games. Why can’t they leave us alone

People keep telling me that I shouldn't be mad at @itch.io, just the payment processors. They are fundamentally misunderstanding why I was up until 4am reporting on this last night. Itch is withholding trans authors' incomes. If you stiff my girls, then yeah, we have a fucking problem.

sigh. i've mentioned this resource to so many people, in so many articles and newsletters and interviews, and more because it was so helpful. america in 2025, folks.

UPDATE: I need to pay for a full exam for my cat's rabies booster which is $230, on top of the rabies booster which the receptionist wasn't sure what it cost! So would really appreciate any help with this very untimely bat exposure 😭 ko-fi.com/afiregender #MutualAid

I think life is playing an absolute joke on me that the past month is probably the most alive I have felt in two years, but I guess it's what happens when you decide to not give up

it's hard to find a motivation for DOGE other than 'hatred of the good.' these are bad people fundamentally envious or un-understanding of the idea that you might work or give for others, and attempting to punish it.

💠 1000xRESIST is nearing its FIRST anniversary! 💠 We'll be celebrating at #LudoNarraCon, held by @fellowtraveller.games! We've got a lot of fun stuff lined up for our BIRTHDAY MONTH of MAY. Stay tuned and hekki G ✌️

Here ye, Fellow Travellers! 🗣️ We're excited to announce that #LudoNarraCon will return May 1-5! 🚶‍♀️ You can look forward to: 🎮 Playable demos of upcoming games 💲 Discounts on over 170 story-rich games 🎙️ In-depth talks with devs 👀 And much more... Stay tuned 👇 🚶‍♀️ www.ludonarracon.com

This is important to remember, too. The cards are stacked against us so often. Just, like, existing in a world that is NOT neurodivergent friendly is in itself a feat. You're valid. Period. The end. The problem is the eugenics, not you.

I reviewed South of Midnight - its deep, dark, and the perfect love letter to the South. Nestle it into the Southern Gothic pantheon with Eve's Bayou please. Read the review 👇🏾👇🏾

in a move that likely surprises no one: I am LOVING South of Midnight

My hometown is literally all held together by Asian grocery stores and I basically talk about them daily with my mom...stress

Our game is fully live. Honored to work with so many passionate people to bring Midnight to life. Writing Hazel and all the stories of Prospero is so important to me. Getting to write a game set in the South with a Black female protagonist that moves with empathy and caring means so much

Surveillance companies have done a real number on society in terms of convincing folks that tracking someone equates with their actual safety.

We’re still shipping out KS backer orders for The Vow in batches, BUUUUUT after those are all set we’ll be selling physical copies online! If you want a physical copy and want to make sure you don’t miss out, consider subscribing to @feralroyal.bsky.social’s newsletter: buttondown.com/feralroyal

I’m feeling a lot of emotions, but South of Midnight is out into the world to be received however it will be received I spent three years of my life working on this, a game I would’ve loved to have as a kid. It means so much to me and I hope it resonates with folks. Thanks yall.

I reviewed South of Midnight and I'm floored by it. It has some of the most beautiful level design and art around; the narrative is hauntingly strong and honors Southern Gothic literature perfectly. While the gameloop is repetitive, I never wanted to put it down. My review:

Hearing Major League sportscasters struggle to explain Shonen Jump lore to listeners might be my favorite moment in 2025. Maybe my only moment from 2025.

My debut book of translations, The Lantern and the Night Moths, turned one year old today!🏮🦋 (thread)

A lot of people like to dismiss racism as insubstantial to material realities but we’re watching a nation burn trillions of dollars in wealth to entrench a racial system of domination.

Every time Ryo recruits me for TSOJ my sub-conscious goal is to fuck up the vibes as much as possible and I am always thriving babyyyyy! (Also in general it's another great issue from one of the best music newsletters in the world, please read, subscribe, support and all that jazz.)

Disability tax....why do I have to pay $500+ so my eyes won't hurt 😞

i have been overwhelmed (positively) by the response to this! I would love to fund more of these microgrants but i am a big fan of starting small and scaling up. The response i'm getting tells me that a LOT of people want to create and communicate about DJ but don't have the resources to.

I am honestly gonna have to start posting nonsense on here to feel comfortable...Twitter was fine bc I had others to post for me but now I have to take up space...this sucks

Bluesky makes me feel like an indoor cat who hates too open spaces...where is the canopy of anonymity and memes that I crave so I can post into the void, this is like Livejournal but with no screen names 😂

every year it happens and reminds the rest of us you guys do not consider dating sims and most vns “real games”

Hi my name is Dani Lalonders, I am a Chicago based game developer and the CEO of Veritable Joy Studios and I created this lil game called ValiDate! 😁💗

This was such a lovely presentation! Definitely take a look if you missed the Experimental Games Showcase at GDC last week.

Been a week since GDC and my voice is only 70% back and I'm still so tired 😂

A very good forum and most importantly, it’s very active!

well the tiktok playlist cracked 200 open.spotify.com/playlist/2gi...

this has been bothering me since GDC but i am sick and tired of grown ass men going out of their way to flirt with and try to pursue young students at professional events like GDC. you are supposed to be mentoring these kids, not flirt with them!!

i hate semantic diffusion! i think about how the original paper on cozy games defined them as ones where your character’s basic needs are met so you don’t have to worry about survival and can focus on ones like self-expression and friendship, but it’s been watered down to just mean “cute aesthetic”

Application period for the @igdafoundation.org VE has been extended! This 6-week online program supports game devs from underrepresented communities around the world 🌏 ✨ Curated panels & workshops 🤝🏻 1:1 mentorship 🕒 Light time commitment (~2–3 hours/week in Aug–Sept) 💫 Pls RT 💫

Hey, I made some micro-auto-interactive-fiction about my experience being diagnosed with PCOS and infertility, and you can play/read it here: mothshaped.itch.io/infertile