Has bsky stopped loading images for anyone else, or is this a problem on my end?

Congratulations to all of the Ennie nominees, but ESPECIALLY to my pal @jpcoovert.bsky.social for having Dragon Town and the Darkness Before up for Best Family Game / Product!!!

Describe the economy in a single sentence

I'll say this until I'm dead. The whole conservative project has been about the conversion of public spaces to private ones, ones where groups can be excluded all in the name of individual choice. And if you hear the phrase "tragedy of the commons," you know who you're talking to.

69 Billion quid for CoD.

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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

I adore @landofeem.bsky.social, but its (excellent) crafting system can be tough to work with at the table, needing a bunch of flipping back and forward in the book to check exactly what you can do with the materials you find. So I made this to help streamline the process! recipes.demondownload.xyz

dreamcast forever 🌀

I’m shaking with fury. That is SOOOOOOOOO NOT me!!! I have THICK freeform locs, and that is a HUGE deal and... that's not me! NOT EVEN CLOSE! And those are NOT my book covers (I'd never allow that cliché Lagoon cover with that fake future skyline! I hate those!!) and, just, what the fuck! Whyyyy?!?

Nothing says 'speaking for the concerns of the common man' like being paid hundreds of thousands of pounds to promote actual gold bars

The death of physical media seems like a small thing practically but in essence it represents the total dissolution of games as “objects of art” and instead reduces them purely to “intellectual property”. It’s a slow disaster but if you care about games as an art form it IS a disaster.

my argument to the execs is: if no videogame professional is now receiving a living wage for their craft, who is going to be buying all those nerd trinkets you produce to sell to them. perhaps now you can see what a mistake you are making. AI has no bookshelf on which to display these

Is handing everything over to rent-seeking digital landlords who want complete control of what they want to sell you in the limited window they want to sell it to you good?

The Overton window keeps sliding.

well that's fucking amazing. good lord, lmao, thank god this comedian pulled it out of the fire.

we take your privacy. seriously

xbox............ is back

Like various other Blair-Cameron relics, it does feel like the e-petitions system was only ever going to increase people's sense of powerlessness in the long term.

yes! the distinction is important and I make this change constantly in my speech, in documents, in corrections. I sometimes slip and when I do I correct myself and explain why I corrected myself.

NEW: Workers across industries say that AI-obsessed bosses are creating deeply toxic and chaotic work environments, with some staffers sharing that they feel as though their manager or employer isn't living in reality anymore due to endless AI validation. futurism.com/artificial-i...

saying "Costa Coffee frappe jaffa cakes" like i'm negotiating to buy han solo's frozen corpse

The Rockstar Games Workers Union - which I firmly believe my involvement with was the reason Rockstar fired me and 34 people last October - is formally seeking voluntary recognition from the company. I hope the right thing is done here ✊ 🌱 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

And so it begins... everyone who is about to be offered a job should ask for DOUBLE, then join a union. 🙂

i think it's good to live in a country where one of the two political parties can't read and the other party is copying their homework

even if it was good policy, this shit is completely ancillary to the goal of actually limiting the power of big tech. Elon Musk has a trillion dollars and is trying to start a global race war, your response to that can’t be “kids should be on their phones less”

it is something i hit on a lot, that of the many, many bad reasons all the internet regulation stuff is aimed at kids instead of actual companies, CEOs, the ones actually doing harm - is it's cuz kids don't have any political power and can't do shit about it. they're a 'no cost' target here.

could be the worst show ever made. could be riverdale 2. there is no chance of anything in between. its all or nothing

If Andy Burnham represented change, they'd treat him like Zack Polanski.

"Google is extracting 100% of the value from the websites it summarizes, and giving nothing back in return."

Darling, shall we have some friends over for T h e E x p o n e n t i a l C o u s c o u s?

Systematic criminality of the most blatant kind, now reported in the mainstream media as if it's just a thing that happens.

The thing is, Mamdani's position is the only correct position for anyone who truly believes in the universality of human rights, not to mention the best framework for a durable peace. And people keep asking him like he's some sort of freak for holding it. And he keeps answering. Good for him.

this is such a great video. he does the RFK endorsed carnivore diet for a single month and his bad cholesterol explodes. doing this diet is a heart attack nuke

Theyve mobilized faster against this than anything in the past 10 years and to me that pretty much says it all and justifies what so many have said about them collectively for anyone willing to pay attention

Thriller idea: man with world's second smallest penis has to stop him.

Yep. Hard to avoid the conclusion that many managers love "A.i." because it obeys without question. They don't actually care about quality; they just want obsequiousness. Despicable.

Remember folks, if buying isn’t ownership, piracy isn’t theft.

🧪 The Japan Meteorological Agency global average surface temperature data for May 2026 have posted. This past May was the 2'nd warmest in their data set which began in 1891 and is in good agreement with results from other climate agencies. #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming.

Just back from seeing The Ghost in the Shell TV event preview. It is a bit of a fuckin' mess, as all versions of this franchise are, but at least it's an *interesting* mess.

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What's that? Employers all agree that we definitely don't need workplace safety legislation and that everything will probably be fine if we just leave it to each local boss to come up with ad hoc solutions? I'm shocked.

one of the things that upsets me so viscerally about rich people isnt just that they're evil and cause untold harm like thats all stuff we all know, but on the emotional level, its that they get to live in a world where they are able to believe this

This paragraph by @dorianlynskey.bsky.social , the author of the review, is GOLD

i promise to use it only for essential purposes. like chatgpt please show me what all the members of ABBA would look like composited into one person. also how many ‘b’s are there in ABBA