"i've never directly racially abused anyone" from farage has got to be an absolute all time hall of famer of the "already answered by my t-shirt" genre

It's also notable that this technique is largely used in professions that are already highly exploitative - voice acting, modelling, music. These are people who already struggle to find good work, and can't easily advocate for better deals. So there's not a lot of negotiation going on.

“the pharaoh’s tomb is cursed! the necromancer’s ring is cursed! the witch’s grimoire is cursed!” that’s how you sound. everything is fucking cursed with you bro. i don’t care. i’m taking this skull.

It's impossible for anyone to sign away the rights to their data and understand the implications of it. Framing it as artistic control is extremely silly - how can the person know what the ramifications of it will be for them five, ten years from now? It's legal theatre, essentially.

I saw some chat about Arc Raiders' use of AI voice actors recently - I'm probably not going to rerecord the talk I gave at EXAG but I thought I'd drop in a few slides about the idea that you can make generative AI ethical by getting people to sign a piece of paper to say you can use their data.

me, last night: "Command&Conquer: Yuri's Revenge but it's the other kind of yuri" me, today: "OH GOD I'M SO SORRY I DIDN'T MEAN FOR THAT TO HAPPEN"

TimeSplitters Rewind has dropped its first release today! Fan remake of (so far) the full campaign from TS1 plus multiplayer content from across the series. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzWSrgQ3eMI

Close enough, welcome back Endwalker Grapes

You will never guess what this is in reference to.

Just heard someone on the radio describe Keir Starmer’s voice as an air conditioning unit conducting a séance

Still looking to raise a few hundred quid so I can afford to get these drains blasted again. Was rough without our glorious plumbingTM going again but this here weather has screwed us over and then some. Thanks for the help so far.

Windows does update. Now opens Game Bar when webcam turns on. Industrial paper cutter uses a webcam to detect registration dots. Game Bar opens on every sheet feed. I swear half of admin work in 2025 is slapping windows' fingers away from the controls. No! Bad OS. BAD! *gets the spray bottle*

[Interview] "Deep down, most people like furries, they just don't know it yet." Fuga: Melodies of Steel and Aeruta creators talk about the appeal of kemomimi and furry characters automaton-media.com/en/interview...

moisturize me

games workshop let robert yang make a warhammer game you cowards

new paper by Sean Westwood: With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research

best joke of the day, imo: downforeveryoneorjustme.com

I have been WAITING for a journalist to write this story. I specialize in manuscripts produced in England between 1300 and 1500. If this had occurred in the midst of writing my dissertation or first book, it would have exploded my career.

mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one

honestly Slayer have no business being part of anything called "the Big Four of Thrash Metal" as long as bands like Holy Moses exist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsVNvkpieGc

i miss vine very much but i do not think we should let jack dorsey successfully bring it back because he's the reason it died in the first place. idk how many people remember this, but twitter bought vine not long after it launched and they killed it a few years later

RIP to a games industry pioneer and legend, Rebecca Heineman (@burgerbecky.bsky.social) If your unfamiliar, look her up. Her career is like the story of videogames itself.

Wow, this must be one of the most popular things I've ever posted on here, guess I hit upon a sentiment a lot of people were feeling? So, can you do me a favour? Advocate for the art you love. Talk about it, uplift it, introduce it to others, leave reviews. Let's not just focus on the negative.

If every author in the class action filed a claim it would financially ruin the entire industry! 😊

The last toast by the legend herself: I leave it up to you to go to lindken.com and look up Jennell Jacques, now look at her job description, goddess of technology… and fuck cancer, fuck it in the ass - Becky

I see Labour have finally decided that terves are not a big enough voter pool to bother with, so instead to try and regain some of the losses to Reform are now pivoting to chasing the Divorced Asshole Dad demographic

boost if you too have been sinning at a remarkable rate recently and show no signs of wishing to repent

[Centaurworld voice]

You can find me right by an entrance at Thoughtbubble this weekend, easy peasy! Table C27 in Redshirt Hall.

You'll notice that there are certain demographics in society - the poor, immigrants, disabled people - who we are constantly told live on easy street with the government lavishing them with riches, and even after decades of policy designed to stop this, still have it way too good.

Here is an obituary for Alice Wong from The Sick Times, a publication aligned with disability rights and disability activism, if you are looking for an alternative to reading the nyt one: thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...

ernie bushmiller invented funko pops

‘The Owl House’ creator Dana Terrace responds to Disney+ looking to add AI-generated short form content “Unsubscribe from Disney+. Pirate Owl House. I don’t care. Fuck gen AI"

what an incredible fuckin embarrassment that entire operation has become

Coercive sterilization in ICE detention. Eugenics.

3 years ago today, Riot Games offered me a job making more money than I ever thought I’d make in my life. I had 19 interviews over 2.5 months to get it. Partner and I were moving to LA for it. I put in notice at my job and apartment. 2 weeks later they rescinded the offer due to “headcount issues”.

thought bublé

.o( pog blost )

I made a super mini tiny zine to have something new XD (logo for size comparison) Put the pdf on kofi :3 ko-fi.com/s/9af94e4ca9

the goonies but it's the other kind

@daphny.bsky.social oh fuck it's daphny, good to see you around

Aaaaa I forgot to do a post! I am at Thought Bubble! (Bubbleboy hall, C10a!) Aaaaaa oh god I am so bad at this #thoughtbubble

Insulting to the players, insulting to the IP, insulting to the medium, the developers. And the craft itself. Fuck you executives who pushed this garbage. frvr.com/blog/call-of...

This is what Krampus leaves for you after he stuffs your children in a sack

“average gamedev makes $142,000 a year" factoid actualy just statistical error. average gamedev makes $0 per year. Executives Georg, who lives in cave & makes over $10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

2026: I’m voting for the Democrat who literally walks around carrying a baseball bat wrapped in razor wire and nails driven through it.

I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed. Here are the words she left behind: www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...

@dache.bsky.social HEY HEY ARE YOU COMING TO THOUGHT BUBBLE THIS YEAR