This was revelatory for me because I've never heard of a woman being lauded in the context of AIDS drug expertise. I've only heard about genius white guys. Iris Long was the woman who taught ACT-UP and who initiated what became ACT UP’s famous treatment and data committee.

Medical students in Gaza restore one of the oldest libraries after it was bombed by the Israeli occupation.

Reunited

The GDC talk I did with @lucawriting.bsky.social is free to watch on the GDC Vault! If you want to break into game narrative but have absolutely no clue where to start, check it out! gdcvault.com/play/1035858...

Think of how many games where the verb is violence. How many games (including the ones nominated for tonight’s BAFTA awards) where you shoot, fight, kill. But when games want to explore the topic of violence in a meaningful way, that’s the issue?

Can you believe my day job makes me leave this little guy every day

Your totally normal friends would like to thank you for 14,000 wishlists! Letter Lost is coming out SO soon, so keep an eye out for our release date announcement, and thank you for the incredible support! #indiedev #indiegame #upcominggame #indiedevhour #mysterygame

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we gotta stop calling it vibe coding. it makes it sound fun and silly instead of deeply stupid

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Statistically in one of the last GDC industry polls there were like six white women with 20+ year long careers, 1-2 Asian women, and ZERO black and Latina women with that kind of career tail length.

reminder for everyone participating in the mom game discourse that there's a mom game from small loan studio coming very soon 👀

Happy 25th anniversary, Animal Crossing!

Dosa Divas, our cooking themed turn-based RPG is out now on Steam, Switch, Switch 2, PlayStation 5, and Xbox S|X Two sisters and their upgradable spirit-mech cook delicious meals, fight corpos, build up your reputation with local communities, and reconcile with loved ones. outerloopgames.com/dosa

reminder for everyone participating in the mom game discourse that there's a mom game from small loan studio coming very soon 👀

Hi #PortfolioDay! I'm a writer and game dev looking for remote work in narrative design or localization. I also make custom stylesheets. I have a couple digital tip jars, where the price of a pack of gum helps me keep making games. 🎲 gcbaccaris.itch.io 👁 ko-fi.com/grimdev 🦷 patreon.com/gcbaccaris

if no bias is present, the probability of hiring 9 white people in a row in the US is less than 1% if no bias is present, the probability of hiring 9 men in a row in the US is less than 0.2% if no bias is present, the probability of hiring 9 white men in a row in the US approaches fucking ZERO

without disco there’d be no house music, and without that no Detroit techno and no raves. raving and techno are both Black creations, and it all traces back to disco.

Powerpuff Girls was too violent and I wasn’t allowed to watch it

I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I. I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee

i want to cry. my first game. i've seen this trailer dozens of times and it still amazes me every time. so excited for you all to get to know Mesa and Santana, and all the other strange characters we're creating in this equally strange world. thank you so much for your excitement. 💖

HEY THAT'S THE GAME @heartimecia.bsky.social IS WORKING ON 🗣️🗣️🗣️

Hey there! I’m Ash and I'm a writer/narrative designer working on [NDA] as well as [NDA 2]. I previously wrote for Destiny 2, Call of Duty: BO6 and MWIII, Skullgirls, and Spider-Man 2, as well as some board games for Disney & Marvel. I also write on comics, such as Ringo Award–winning Transphoria.

It haunts me.

wanna take a moment to celebrate my dear friend @shslovak.bsky.social!! the game she’s poured her heart & soul into is out today. she started as a junior writer & has finished development as a force to be reckoned with. play The House of Hikmah to experience her incredible writing! s.team/a/3451680

i don't believe in posting through it or centering my Diaspora Feelings over what my family and friends are living through in real time so i will refrain from expanding this into a whole thread of angst. please donate to mutual aid efforts in lebanon www.chuffed.org/project/1719...

Please please PLEASE show support to all of the Iranians in your life right now. Here’s a starter pack of all of the amazing Iranian artists and creatives I know!! bsky.app/starter-pack...

Please stop saying TACO. We’re talking about an ungodly number of people who could die or maimed. It’s not time for cutesy little internet slang. We have to get away from this bizarre desensitization.

you or i as americans might not be responsible for this, we might not have wanted it to happen, we might have fought against it. but we are by dint of our simple existence here complicit in it. sit with that. let yourself be sad and ashamed. you can probably handle that, if you're not a coward.

I've wished for Arab-made games about Arab mythology for so long, and despite assisting on the project I still can't believe there's one swinging for the fences this hard. House of Hikmah is something very needed in a time where the world would rather erase us. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZTu...

I'm just not sure it's appropriate for westerners to be centering themselves right now

The Black State of the Games Industry Survey is up! It'll be open till May 6th, 2026 and should take 20 minutes maximum of your time. Only requirements are that you're a Black Game Developer over the age of 18! 🎮🎮🎮 forms.gle/teLH4p9rAokS...

"bluesky will never be twitter" that's because bluesky is tumblr, idiot

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

Another boomer meme has appeared in the break room at my day job

Looks like Artemis II is gonna launch at the same time that I'm commuting home from my day job. We are the same 😌

store.steampowered.com/app/4087210/... Our girl Allie is gonna kick some ass for her child. Will she go too far? Is there such a thing? Do we not support women’s rights *and* wrongs? don’t worry, I’ll be posting/reposting/threeposting when it launches!

I was talking to someone today who had literally no idea JK Rowling was a bigot. They're never online, they saw the movies and liked them, and planned on watching the show. I told them about Rowling's behavior and they're disgusted; but they sincerely had never heard it before. I'm saying this bc

"Suck my toes, my darling" - Inkle's book of essays by game writers reveals the secrets behind the worlds we play in www.eurogamer.net/inkle-kaleid...

NarraScope 2026 registration is ‼️OPEN‼️ NarraScope is @iftechfoundation.org's hybrid conference! In-person and online options are available, and this year it's in Albany, NY: narrascope.org/register/

Huge thank you to Andrea! This interview was so fun. I love to be both a woman and in horror

you can take the assets out of the game but you can’t take the chemical runoff out of the environment !!!

I’d love to see a CEO defend having a female protagonist with the insistence they reserve for AI. It’s the future! Everyone’s doing it!

I love my dog so freakin much

read @christikerr.bsky.social 's piece about using Enneagram personality types to create characters this morning. The part about using it to craft dialogue choices was especially cool, seems like a great way to avoid the more cartoonish Good/Neutral/Evil dialogues!

I love my dog so freakin much

This is the only Harry Potter argument worth making It wouldn't matter if Harry Potter was a singular, unmatched work of genius. Giving Rowling money is actively making the world a worse place and killing trans folks. There's no book good enough or nostalgic enough for that to be worth it.