if you're still writing using the hero's journey, your mind is closed to all the possibilities

thinking about how my parents escaped vietnam, where the CIA destabilized my family's home country by spreading misinformation, and they landed in the united states, which is now getting destabilized bc someone in vietnam is spreading misinformation

Made my day to read this great post and see this!

the US is a machine where everybody has to call congress every day to beg them to not make the worst choices imaginable like that game where the baby is trying to die but it's the united states if anybody doesn't know what I'm talking about it's fine/hilarious store.steampowered.com/app/427730/W...

Hundreds of Starbucks baristas and labor organizers blockaded Starbucks' largest distribution center in York, Pennsylvania, halting distribution of syrups, coffee beans, and other supplies to the entire northeast. This escalation is part of @sbworkersunited.org's ongoing strike.

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today. We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.

the thing about the roblox interview is that he's more or less just saying out loud what every social media & gacha CEO has been doing for the last 10+ years. selling kids gambling with the minimal legally allowed guardrails is hot profits rn

"Well, yes, Mamdani and I have our differences. He's a socialist, they say he's a socialist, and I guess he says so too. A democratic socialist, but a socialist. Meanwhile, I'm busy seizing the means of production, forcing a cultural revolution, cracking down on the intelligentsia ...."

I don't know how anyone in a studio can make a game in this environment. It's not just the instability, but it's the apparent callousness of the dismissal and the contempt for the labor itself.

The amount of people I know who have been laid off from games industry jobs and are deciding to leave games entirely as a result is not only extremely saddening (of course), but also genuinely scary. We have lost legitimately thousands of years of knowledge and experience in the last four years.

they're saying there's a spectre haunting europe and it's very nice, we're looking into it strongly, it's beautiful, we love it and we think it means well

Zohran flip your hair again we need healthcare get him to give us healthcare.

Today is the day that Zohran Mamdani truly became president

They condemned socialism before fascism

House votes on dumbass resolution condemning socialism, meanwhile the DSA's Lisan al-Gaib rolls the truculent child brain president like a pair of socks

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

while I’m being cranky, access journalism needs to go. When the president does his “I’m alpha because I insulted you” thing somebody needs to fall on his sword and say “what the fuck is wrong with you, old man?” on a hot mic. the hero of the wizard of Oz is Toto.

> “They had seen me before, so they thought they were just going to speed away. I was like, ‘Ha ha, bitches, I got a new scooter!’”

Can we also talk about how a bunch of jobs that are mostly dominated by women now have had their eligibility for student loans for their education removed in the US, mostly education, therapists and other medical roles #politics

finding out recently that almost all the words in the dictionary are not IP and are in fact open source/public domain was an absolute game changer for me as a writer

The thing about bubbles is that no one really knows when the music will stop. There's probably going to be some minor panic around every earnings call or other big event for every one of these companies until it actually finally explodes.

The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.

That Part. Also If I have to watch one more hip hop artist suffer through a rhythmless Game Awards audience I swear before God. We need more seasoning yall! shout out to @hiphopgamer.bsky.social for bringing the bling 💍

It's DAY SIX of our national, open-ended ULP strike 🔥 Check out this incredible customer who immediately turned around and joined the picket line with us in Philly this morning to SHUT IT DOWN! THIS is what solidarity looks like. #NoContractNoCoffee

I *do* think however that it's grotesque to be giving awards to companies that have laid off huge chunks of the workforce that worked on these games that are now getting awards

A symbolic denounement to the British empire: after centuries of plunder produced little more than a mostly-calm island with modest social benefits, the state is left to plunder at home from the pockets of asylum seekers, extracting a last morsel of flesh from those with nothing while fleeing hell.

the 'clubs' they mentioned are a thing that just does NOT exist anymore. I honestly think that's the biggest hole like, clubs, or lj comms, or single-interest forums just do not exist. Today you toss fanart/discussion onto an open sea and pray other fans will see it and engage, and if not, too bad

reminded of eric williams's observation about britain's relationship to its history with slavery. "British historians wrote almost as if Britain had introduced Negro slavery solely for the satisfaction of abolishing it."

intrusive thought

The IWGB has just announced that 220 letters, signed by Rockstar staff, have now been delivered to leadership at the company, demanding the immediate reinstatement of their fired colleagues.

Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed

Like I dunno, maybe the reason it took a lady to break open the story of all the men protecting the dude trafficking underage girls is because the male journos were all emailing him making jokes about it?

I simply refuse to accept that police ever have to look like this. this is just pure cosplay. it should be illegal for cops to be dressed like soldiers going to war.

a “Space Force”, if you will

Video game giant Rockstar has sacked more than 30 workers across the UK, including my constituents working at their Edinburgh office. I urged Ministers to support workers who have lost their jobs, and stop this from happening again.

"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups."

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

About half of what it was going to cost to fully fund SNAP in November during the shutdown.

Amazing how many criminals get together and decide the first order of business is emailing each other about the crimes every three minutes

listening to my team in a meeting today

be there or be square! me:

this is literally never not accurate

Listen I’m just a girl who has played a lot of Crusader Kings 3 but uhhh both parties couldn’t be doing a better job setting the stage for a peasant revolt/potential revolution if they TRIED

Your local freelancer here.... if the ACA subsidies get axed, this is genuinely really scary. I'm very fortunate that I live in California where they also have subsidies at the state level, but many people in the other 49 will be priced out. Please call your reps!!!

This why they want to remove humans from the creative cycle, they do not want people with the art literacy to see these things for what they are, we are the watchmen for the coming generations, we must continue to point and laugh and skewer them at every turn.

This is interesting drama to follow lol TLDR, the people who made the AI coke commercial are denying it and generating fake concept art, actual concept artists are ripping it all apart as fake because the guy has no idea how any of this works

been doing some light reading about the aftermath of the korean dictatorship and I think it's really important that we repeat this to ourselves, to our friends, to our neighbors, to our politicians

MrBeast hates Zohran because if people have access to basic necessities, it will demolish the Giving People Those Necessities As Part Of A Saw-Inspired Game Show industry

Overly-broad NDAs are widespread in the industry, and if companies are able to stick in court that they can interpret talking about your woking conditions as "leaking confidential information" that's an avenue they'll pursue to disrupt organizing.