if christopher hitchens were still alive he would have invented several novel forms of transphobia by now

Bluesky is consistently censoring Palestinian people. There is a blatant pattern of this and you can't argue it's down to ignorance because they've been directly confronted on it. Kick up a fuss. Lift the voices of Palestinians. Let Bluesky know that you see this pattern and you won't let it slide.

when I worked in an independent bookstore, the owner told me the most stolen book was one about getting your first period and if I saw anyone walking out with it, I should just let them go.

We all love the obvious graphic power of a monumental, centered image on a double-page spread, but artists, please, heed the words of someone who's been doing this for a long time: if your work will EVER be published in book format, the entire concept of designing a DPS this way is off the table.

Fundamentally, there is no such thing as a "direct translation". It's impossible to have a translation without _some_ artistic license from a translator. No, your fan translation is not an objectively "true" one. This all makes listening to the opinions of some incel weebs very tiring

INTRODUCING: Summer Eternal Anthology Volume One. This incendiary tome is part cultural journal, part development diary, part exclusive game reveal. Built by firestarters, for firestarters. summereternal.com/anthology

The Vitamin

Nonbinary people are nonbinary and they're trans if they say they are. Stop with the oppression Olympics and gatekeeping. I love ALL the members of our trans community, including enbies.

if you know you know.

A good time to re-read this Lucille Clifton poem, always a good time.

hell yeah we are, anyone tries to tell you different you send em to me

Oh look, it's that easy. 🤷🏼‍♀️

I am really glad to see people inc professionals expressing disgust at the comedians agreeing to be tame court jesters at Riyadh, but anyone who at this point is all 'not wonderful, wonderful Louis!!!' feels a bit

she is not usually that cuddly with me during the day, but with T in the office she is feeling clingy

@retroid.bsky.social PAUL LOOK

actually think it is quite funny that the GFA etc just refer to Ireland and Britain as "these islands". can just imagine the British diplomats trying to bully the Irish into letting them call it "the British Isles" and the Irish telling them to piss off until they reached this compromise.

Thirty days hath September April, June and November; All the rest have thirty-one, Except the Month of Absent Sun. ('Tis the month we dare not name; Be wary, lest it come again.)

And I want trans men to be safe. And non gender conforming lesbians and gay men. And the proudly butch and the proudly fey. The problem for ALL of us are predators who do not need to “pretend to be women” to commit assault. Transphobia rots your brain.

To be clear, him being Mormon was enough to assume he was Zionist to begin with, it's literally part of their religious doctrine

Stop buying his fucking books

My opinion on Emma Watson's statement on J. K. Rowling is can we stop centering the opinions and feelings of famous cis people in conversations about trans eradication for FIVE FUCKING MINUTES?

This whole section really.

I see a lot of adverts for this kind of product at the moment 😬 glad he learnt his lesson (following post reports he will never buy one of these again) but god this is scary.

I have no idea how good Silent Hill f is as a game but the horror imagery and atmosphere is absolutely to die for

“Biological sex” is intended to sound sciencey and authoritative, just as “gender critical” invokes academic rigour. Don’t be fooled. They’re phrases invented by weird genital obsessives who believe that a quick glance between your legs at birth defines the rest of your life.

Blows my mind how the blame was so successfully put on the people who cared &tried their hardest to fix this game. Meanwhile the ones responsible walk away not only untouched but billions richer You’d think all those years of BioWare plotlines would’ve prepare me for this headache &despair…it didn’t

Alright so theres a valid DAV crit going around- and im not trying to squash that- but I wanted to give some ✨Context✨ on why some things are the way they are because sometimes people have legal obligations. Some of this is already known if you look, but I dont know how public. So lets talk PULP🧵

something I think a lot of fans really don't get is that the writers thought of it. I promise, every single criticism we have of the writing and the tone (talking legit criticisms, not culture war shite) THEY THOUGHT OF IT. you think we know this IP better than they do? please.

If I were a producer for the new Harry Potter TV series, with a duty of care towards the three child actors playing the leads, I’d find the way Rowling treats the leads of the last screen adaptation to be hair-raising, to put it lightly.

Never Leave a Red Sock on the Clothesline — Shaun Tan

I would never in ten million years have made Digger if I had any idea how long it would be. You can eat the whale one bite at a time as long as you NEVER look at the whale.

Today is a good day to support my friends and former co-workers, whether they're at @yellowbrickgames.bsky.social, @summerfallstudios.com, @northmiststudios.bsky.social, or elsewhere. So many brilliant people making things that bring a little more love into the world.

first day of teaching is tomorrow did you all see my husband's boots

"Emma Watson was a multimillionaire at fourteen" yes, because unlike you she was working long hours in a physically and sexually objectifying industry for her entire childhood, Murray. And if she and her peers had been a lot more dogshit at their jobs you'd have a lot fewer millions too

It's so wild to me that in 2025 we continue to treat child actors as kids who basically just get to live at Disneyland, and not as vulnerable and legally disempowered human beings, of whom some are literally keeping their families afloat, whose labor largely enriches people other than themselves

In every country where trans women can legally use the right restroom there is no increase to violence on cis women. In every country where trans women are prevented from using them there is a 4x increase of violence towards trans women. My safety is less valuable than your comfort.

imagine if trans people didn't need to beg for their fucking lives constantly and instead we could just be funny and hot and go to sleep at night without worrying about what threat morning will bring

It's another Steam sale, which means it's time for 65% off our debut game, Eternal Strands! That's SO MANY PERCENTS! store.steampowered.com/app/1491410/...

One of the things I take great pleasure in is that JK published her detective series under a false name because she was insecure about the idea that her literary work would stand on its own merits. And it didn't. They leaked her name to recoup their losses. I hope that haunts her every day.

hi gist.github.com/mary-ext/6e27b…

as always, AJ Odudu looks like an actual goddess, and Will Best just looks like some guy #BigBrotherUK

Happy Bisexual Visibility Month

I'm SO glad we actually DID GET VEILGUARD. IF this IS the final BioWare game I'll ever get to play, then let it be a game brimming with HOPE, with the BELIEF in GOODNESS and the COURAGE to fight for a BETTER WORLD. Veilguard is IMO BioWare's most SIGNIFICANT game. It has no equals in this.

The main goal was to figure out her mullet from behind, but I got sidetracked

tfw you're an enormous goth but you want to ensure your students know you're sound

Reiterating that Veilguard's hope for the world was a radical thing. I don't know what happens next, but given today's news, the things that game had to say feel even more important as a "final word" from BioWare when all the odds were stacked against them.

“The heroes of The Veilguard have seen the corruption win out, and yet never stop believing that something greater is possible. It’s not even an option in The Veilguard’s eyes. The downtrodden will be protected, the oppressed will live proudly, and those who have been wronged will find new life.” 🥹

Just neverending horrors 💔😞 Help Sama’a and Baha’a be there for Raad’s pregnant widow and three daughters 🫂 tinyurl.com/support4samaa