A peer-reviewed study in Biological Conservation reports that China’s 2018 ivory trade ban led to a roughly 50% fall in elephant poaching and a steep drop in ivory seizures. Researchers found no “last-minute rush” before the ban, suggesting consumer demand collapsed buff.ly/2KI1tC1 #ShareGoodNewsToo

Or, perhaps I should say: I take it as further indication of what liberalism is, a bunch of empty rhetoric about universals that are riddled with holes. People have rights right up until they're the wrong kind of person, at which point all bets are off.

I'm sorry but I just don't take seriously people calling themselves "liberals" but they also believe some people should have to appear before a judge to justify their lives or be forcibly displaced from where they live

Oeuf trailer coming to youtube on the hour (~20 minutes) www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvrT...

If Maduro gets a trial it will be an improvement over the people Obama kept in Gitmo without trial for his entire term in office.

European heads of state have been letting desperate people drown in boats for years. They've been giving material support to Israel's ongoing genocide for years. Prefacing your statement with "Maduro was bad" just reveals that your moral reasoning is defective.

excellent article about how you should never speak in your divine tongue to the computer like its a person buttondown.com/apperceptive...

Stay your hand! I am at your mercy! Take from my quailing what revenge you can - please, leave me be with my shame! Allow me to die later in my coward’s bed

"Semantics is the creation of a reality..." "My father was an imbecile..." ... Breakcode?

#5: Epigraph, a stripped-down but very satisfying translation puzzle. It's just you and a limited amount of evidence trying to make sense of a constructed language. store.steampowered.com/app/2789770/...

If you see this, we IMPLORE YOU to post a picture from whatever device you're using, without explanation.

New Superhero Team I Invented (1/4)

Trans kids won't disappear. Just like restricting abortions doesn't stop unwanted pregnancies. All it does is drive people to less safe care and ruin lives. Never, ever fall for the line that transphobia is about protecting women. It is only about hate, it only ever has been about hate.

I missed Utter a Name when it was released in February, but I was fortunate enough to come across it later - this is a great, short deduction game in the vein of Return of the Obra Dinn. Highly recommended for figurers-out. store.steampowered.com/app/3213430/...

(this is a "dishonored 2 corvo playthrough is a sop made out of weakness and lack of confidence by the devs and is non-canon" household)

wind turbines look absolutely majestic and I refuse to entertain any other opinion on the matter

a lot of the skill (not all) of using coding agents is setting up small tasks with tight feedback loops where the thing can churn until it gets it right. with SOTA tools I pretty much never see the reward-hacking thing people complain about where it will, e.g., just change the test to make it pass

Explore a haunted movie studio. Learn the fates of the tormented souls bound to it. End a 50-year curse inscribed in blood and celluloid. KINOPHOBIA, my first piece of noncommercial interactive fiction in eight years, is now available to play. brunodias.itch.io/kinophobia

The word ‘head’ is etymologically related to ‘chef’, the head of a kitchen. And to ‘chief’, the head of a group. These are also related to ‘cape’, a headland, and ‘per capita’, literally “by heads” – and yes, to Spanish ‘cabeza’ too. Zoom in on my new graphic to learn all about this word family:

i don't usually comment on american politics but the tattoo thing is inescapable. really feels like another line being crossed - all these people demanding "why can't WE be nazis? THEY get to be nazis"! pundits, politicians and whoever it is that responds to polls.

It’s not a wise idea to make fun of a wizards wand

I hope you will forgive me for unhinged levels of Fallen into the Garden/SBCF posting over the next week; I’m OK now but I had some medical issues late Sept/a lot of Oct so I fear I didn’t do a very good job advertising my comic. But there’s still time to post…I must do it…for her…!!!

if anyone's hiring remote senior/staff eng, let me know my cv's over here: tef.computer

Maybe our PM should take note of the reaction to the singing of the US national anthem in Perth. Him and his government need to read the room and get Australia away from those fascist lunatics.

If I was doing the shit Albanese's government is doing under the banner of a "workers party" I'd be keeping it a big fucken secret too.

And…the final result! Cat ghost print that disappears in the light! Happy Halloween season 👻

This #LudumDare 's narrative deduction game: stuck at home while your friends go catch monsters and battle trainers, can you complete your Monster Tracker with deduction alone? Follow the story and search for tricky clues in your friends' letters. celia14.itch.io/my-friends-t... #ld58 #gamedev

no; it's been extinct for 2500 years. thanks for asking though

The Steam Autumn Sale is on. Last week I played Murders on the Yangtze River, a detective game set in China in the early 1900s. It's a phenomenal indie Phoenix Wright-like that I think you should absolutely play and it's 35% off: store.steampowered.com/app/1746030/... /cc @spacetwinks.bsky.social

Microsoft will no longer allow Israel to use its cloud services to enable its mass surveillance of occupied Palestinians – "the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza"

@celia-14.bsky.social here's a sort of family tree of static/narrative deduction games - IMO, they influence each other in interesting ways. is there anything major you think is missing?

I think this highlights the main issue I have with the social media ban... the algorithm is bad for everyone. It's cooking brains across the globe. Rather than addressing that, they've decided the only solution is to cut off a small section of the population for a few years

After 4 years, Mind Diver @minddivergame.bsky.social , our deduction game set inside a mind, is launching in TWELVE DAYS! Each day before launch, I will share reflections about making and releasing a game in 2025! If you see this, plz repost, so I can join bsky for real 🙏 #gamedev #indiedev

Not, "in the eyes". 'In fact' advocating for the enslavement of women, the brutalization of immigrants and abuse of queer folk. When those arguments are moving into fact, it is no longer a mere discussion. French people who merely argued with Nazis were called Vichy. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/o...

there's nothing columbo loves more than to walk around carrying several objects

Our little game is finally out today 💛 We couldn't be any more excited! It's called Little Problems and it is about life’s small mysteries. We hope you enjoy playing it as much as we enjoyed making it. #LittleProblems #CozyGames #IndieGame #puzzlegames

Type Help was the biggest influence on me making my take on narrative deduction search, The Case of the Dungeon Descent! A nonlinear story where you discover new scenes by figuring out the who, what, and where. jamwitch.itch.io/the-case-of-...

dogs don't have scales

read a bunch of sources to make a single small edit to wikipedia and now it is time to steel myself for the fun part: bowing and scraping and begging the admin who reverted me on reflex to reconsider

sometimes I think about how there's only like a single-digit percentage of the earths current surface that was at the surface in the ~180 million years that dinosaurs existed. The rest has been subducted and destroyed. We literally know fuck all about what lived on this planet before humans.

NEW: The first evidence of a solar take-off in Africa☀️✈️ x33 rise in Algeria solar panel imports in the 12 mths to June 2025, compared to previous 12 mths. x8 in Zambia x7 in Botswana x6 in Sudan x3 in each of Liberia, DRC, Benin, Angola, Ethiopia 🧵

at the age of 40 i have learned how to spell "muesli"

Sooner or later, everywhere makes it known that they only tolerate trans women's presence, and it's very conditional. The slightest excuse to toss us out is seized upon without hesitation. Reinstate Jessie Gender.

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

There is some confusion about whether or not we understand LLMs. The answer is yes and no, but mostly no. It's a complicated enough question that it seemed like it needed an article. www.verysane.ai/p/do-we-unde...