Gaming hivemind. I've been decluttering, which means delving into my collection of random neat stuff. I've come across this card in a copy of Wind Waker, pretty sure it's a promo card or somesuch. Don't suppose anyone know exactly what this is and where it came from?

Gaming hivemind. I've been decluttering, which means delving into my collection of random neat stuff. I've come across this card in a copy of Wind Waker, pretty sure it's a promo card or somesuch. Don't suppose anyone know exactly what this is and where it came from?

This year I’m going to be kinder, more positive, work harder, and put more faith in myself until the very first minor obstacle throws me off for the next 350+ days

Fortunately, I am a big fat person and thus had room for both cats this new year's day.

Wrote about how disappointing it is that Jon Stewart punched down on people masking at @motherjones.com, when people should mind their own business and leave mask wearers be. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Something for you all to read on your phone while avoiding your family at Christmas: I spoke to Junichi Okada about Last Samurai Standing, becoming an action planner, what an action planner even does, and what that all means for him and the series going forward. Catch it in @theverge.com.

2/ “You might think you know what tired feels like. But this is different. Research suggests [ME/CFS] creates a wall. A brick wall. Even simple mental exertion or physical or mental activity hits you hard. It is called post exertional malaise. It feels like your battery is not just empty but broken”

Proof, once again, that no one can question my dedication as a journalist: I endured four episodes of a Doctor Who spin-off in order to check out its disability representation for @radiotimes.bsky.social. It was okay – the representation, not the show; the show fucking sucks.

This is the second year in a row I've ended my work year with an email in my drafts addressed to an editor, trying to put into words the profound discomfort they caused me in an ableist exchange/series of ableist exchanges. Which is really fucking rubbish, frankly.

2026 is either going to be the year I start a blog full of all the reviews I don't land, South Korean TV, and accessibility or it's going to be the year I get the hell out of journalism and find a job I don't hate.

Do I like video games? Or do I, in fact, like five video games and perpetually search for echoes of them in every other game I play?

"We are open for pitches; we want your pitches." Great! "Please send us all your pitches." Will you read those pitches? "Lol, no."

Time is owned by Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce, which is currently trying to sell its AI tool to ICE in order to triple their recruitment. just a thing I think about sometimes while I’m at work, implementing his product for nonprofits.

Oh man, Raul Malo? Loved that guy.

Palantir's new neurodivergent fellowship is in fact bad because neurodivergent people participating in technofascism will not save us. Latest for @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

wrote about Horses, which should be defended against censorship, and also is a game I think is bad :) www.wired.com/story/horses...

“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to

art isn’t always going to make you comfortable. it’s treating art in this puritan sense where it has to please you, then it’s just a consumerist product… and we have these storefronts (payment processors too) constantly dictating what counts as art. in hypocritical ways. it’s grim really.

I spoke to rap legend Curren$y about his love for the Sega Genesis & Ecco the Dolphin. This is Part 1 of the 'Device That Made Me', my new editorial series for Back Market where the famous reflect on a life-changing electronic. Illustration: Hayley Wells Read: www.backmarket.com/en-us/c/tech...

I try to tag my editors in my social posts about pieces, but I do want to shout out two of my former editors. @halophoenix.bsky.social gave me my first professional commission and was a rare champion of accessibility reporting – alongside Christian Donlan, former features editor at Eurogamer. 1/8

Not now unexpected structure in the solar system’s Kuiper belt!

Slightly late to the party, but I reviewed @necrosoftgames.com's Demonschool for The Verge; a colourful take on tactical combat that builds its own identity from a mountain of inspirations and that I genuinely loved. Thanks to @andrewrweb.bsky.social for letting me.

Man, there are a lot of pieces that were published this past week that make me even more furious than usual that so many people who are dedicated to telling meaningful stories are unemployed or scrambling to pitch while...all that gets published, amplified, paid for, and inflicted on readers.

Appeasing the far-right gives the broader public the impression that their narrative is true. There is no way to stem support for Reform by endorsing their policies. Either you are fighting against them or you are, regardless of how you see yourself, fighting for them.

Some abled parents of disabled people are the most violent ableists. They use their children as tools to demonstrate their heroism in shouldering the burden of taking care of a disabled person, think they’re incapable of ableism, and say the experience of a caretaker is the same as being disabled.

Respect Alice Wong’s call here: “When I am in public spaces and see most people unmasked either because they think the virus is a hoax, that masking is virtue signaling & a sign of weakness, aren't thinking about it, or that they simply don’t care, I feel like an expendable burden not worth saving.”

"I insist on resisting with joy and finding pleasure where I can such as with my friends and two cats, Bert and Ernie. Yes, life is a complete dumpster fire, but I am reminded that I am not alone, that I am in this with many others." — Alice Wong, January 2025: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

*To the tune of the Coca-Cola christmas ad music* Eugenics are coming

One of those moments in which words mostly fail. I am immensely privileged to live within a community Alice shaped, as are we all.

Open AI loses copyright case in Germany. Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."

On a scale of one to The Cask of Amontillado, how many scratching noises in your walls is too many scratching noises in your walls?

Hopped back on board the Stuart Gordon train (choo choo) to mark 30 years since Castle Freak for @inverse.com and @htranbui.bsky.social. A hidden gothic horror gem that becomes even more watchable within current horror trends than it was in 1995. With input from Jeffrey Combs.

After years of being incensed by people calling shows "the next Squid Game" just because they're South Korean, I'm also back in @thedailybeast.bsky.social to talk about the next Squid Game, because it literally is Squid Game – albeit in 19th century Japan – and yet also somehow 10x better.

A big one for me. Even before moving into journalism, I was trying to work out how to write about Reply 1988. Now, 10 years after its release, I'm in the BBC talking to the people behind it about how it remains one of *the* great televisual experiences and how it changed South Korean television

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

I'm in the verse today talking about reverse engineering the kinect 15 years ago, alongside @theowatson.bsky.social, @memoakten.bsky.social , and @adafruit.com! Thanks for covering this @geoffreybunting.bsky.social! Lots of fun memories.