Feel what you want to feel about the place but like regular people live in the UAE too. Beyond influencers and expats, there are people who made their lives here. Keep your fucking jokes to yourself.

85 schoolgirls. just one is a world, a future of infinite possibilities, a universe. that america has done this atrocity to 85 of them, that it will continue to do even worse... i don't even know what to say. i condemn this with every fiber of my being, but that doesn't feel like enough.

On the record as profoundly and violently sick of this shit

Looking for a way to stand up for trans people today? Here's something you can do RIGHT NOW: Take ten minutes to get on the phone and help stop this violent, dangerous bill. The linked post has all the resources you need to make that call. Go go go

I’m available for freelance game writing and narrative design work! Short or long assignments, as well as one-off consultancy meetings. I’ve worked on critically-acclaimed, award-nominated games and can be your dialogue doctor, plot sounding board or handle voice acting from script to recording!

the cool thing about needing more sleep than most people is that i literally have fewer hours in my day than everyone else

A milestone! Thank you for 10,000 wishlists for Letter Lost, the totally normal post office game where nothing weird ever happens! With just a few months until launch, we're so excited to have hit this point. Happy mailing, postal warriors! #indiegame #indie #gamedev #indiedevhour #nextfest

Looking for a narrative game for Next Fest? Letter Lost awaits you! A lost little girl, a confused and forgetful customer, a mean old lady, a wistful woman from the shore...Who knows what sort of things you might learn by helping them out! #nextfest #steamnextfest #indiegame #gaming #indiedev

FYI for fellow narrative designers/game writers: the studio in question is Sentona Games and it’s my understanding they are currently interviewing to replace me. Be very careful with them. They were very nice to me and easy to work with right up until I needed the money I was promised.

hey if you want to make a true difference in a trans nonbinary person’s life right now in light of all the News™️, you can hire me! Open to remote positions in the US or UK or relocation to the UK 🫡

✨Im open for work!✨ I've had a the chance to work on some incredible indie games (Venba, All Will Rise,Eternights, Six Ages 2 and more!) I do satisfying sound effects, write memorable melodies and can implement it all in middleware! RTs appreciated! www.nehapatelaudio.com

Are you hunting for a Next Fest demo to play today? Do you love narrative games? Dark cozy games? A looming sense of dread while you live out your day to day life as a postal worker? Check out Letter Lost! store.steampowered.com/app/3624790/... #indiegame #nextfest #steamnextfest #indiedev

Tired with Steam being overrun with AI games? Check out Letter Lost, lovingly crafted without the use of Gen-AI! #indiegame #indiedev #gaming #indiegamedev #nextfest #steamnextfest

I think this is one of those things that's stunning, in all the worst ways, and most of them aren't obvious. Let's start with the basics: there are about 5.5 million trans Americans. This means that *nearly 10% of the entire trans population of the nation* has moved. Just Last Year

this is my favorite demo of next fest so far!! soooooo cool and creepy

Fellow writers: If you love writing poetry, please send me a DM inquiry!

✨This months newsletter is out!✨ HOW TO GET GIGS AS A FREELANCER!? 🔥💦 This was cathartic to write and hope it's relatable and helpful❤️ www.nehapatelaudio.com/blog-3-1/blo...

APPLY (if you're mixed, *please* don't self-select out)

Guess what!! Letter Lost has an updated demo for Next Fest!! And with these updates, the demo actually contains words written by your pal Christi Kerr!!!!

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Guess what!! Letter Lost has an updated demo for Next Fest!! And with these updates, the demo actually contains words written by your pal Christi Kerr!!!!

So proud I get to help @rasheedabueideh.bsky.social create this incredibly important historical game, despite the powers that be in the games industry insisting that Palestinians can not be allowed to tell their story.

🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 Good luck 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯

New Letter Lost trailer!!! This is my favorite one yet!!

alysa liu!!!

Guess what now has a Steam page: Deductopia THE FULL GAME! If you like supporting indie devs then smash that wishlist button because Steam visibility is everything for us small devs. store.steampowered.com/app/4429720/...

In case the Alysa Liu video is blocked in your country for asinine reasons:

S o o n

Delete your Twitter account. Burn it

rewatching this every hour or so to combat the horrors

rewatching this every hour or so to combat the horrors

I don't think it's an accident that this kind of thing keeps happening to 1. games made by women 2. games about women 3. games about black women 4. games made by black women (esp. Sweet Baby) the way this industry treats black women is transparently disgusting.

The second to last game I wrote on has a release date, a beautiful new trailer AND a demo for Steam Next Fest🥹❤️ Please play it and don't forget to wishlist!

EXCITING NEWS: we’re *amped* to announce Wax Heads, our new game about running a record store, releases May 5! 💿⚡ check out the new trailer + spread the love 🤘 coming to Nintendo Switch, PS5, Steam, Xbox! www.youtube.com/watch?v=DorB... #indiegames #cozygames #switch #xbox #steam #playstation

It's almost time for Ramadan, as Muslims tonight peered to the crescent moon to see if the month of Ramadan starts tonight or the day after. As with every year, I'm starting this thread so that people can ask questions, and learn about Ramadan from one person's perspective of it.

i wrote this piece when i was as an intern at Paste Magazine. my life has changed so much in the last 8 years... and i'm very sad to see how little the world has changed and, in some ways, only gotten worse www.avclub.com/what-other-g...

Due to recent discussions: when I worked at a library, I was trained on how to politely but directly respond to unwanted sexual comments. Unfortunately commonly-marketed fantasies about librarians mean it happens a lot. Rehearse these. Be comfortable saying them forcefully, but politely.

i'm a yurbanist (i am of the belief that safe walkable and resiliant communities allow yuri to flourish)

Women in the games industry already have to put up with a lot, but we shouldn’t have to do it alone. Men in the industry: if you see one of your fellow men doing behaving this way towards a woman at a professional conference, please speak up and tell them to CUT IT OUT.

A month out from launch, we're releasing the BIG HOPS documentary about the game's 6 year journey. It covers Hop's origin, growing the team, navigating a tough design space, bringing it all together, getting dropped by our publisher, Kickstarting, and more! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vtee...

ALL WILL RISE KICKSTARTER IS LIVE 🔥 BILLIONAIRES ARE OUT🔪🔪🔪 JUSTICE IS IN⚖️⚖️⚖️ Please share, RT and support if you can! This game is so damn relevant and the type of media we need to inspire ourselves from Give me your money moneeeeeey🤑💸💰 And you get a REVENGE FANTASYYYYYYYYY 💦💦💦

Counterpoint: no it will not

Okay y’all what do these two shirts together make you think of? I have to know if anyone else’s brain makes the association that mine did

not me staring at this for several minutes trying to figure out what all the kaleidoscoped letters are only to realize it’s the word kaleidoscope

and here's the form to be notified once it launches: forms.gle/mUgvtkaddn4f...

IIIIII haaaaate Kristi Noem (to the tune of I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll)

in an era when carnivore diet influencers are in charge of the american nuclear arsenal we have to admit the "annoying vegan" stereotype barely ever actually existed and the "all meat diet guy" is real, increasingly omnipresent, and way more annoying and inconvenient to actually be around

Handsome man on will not rest until the dishwasher stops making such concerning sounds