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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · Jul 29

We need to teach people the difference between being uncomfortable and being unsafe. Because the discomfort of the safest people is endangering the most vulnerable, all day every day.

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Chavonne Brown @chavbrown.bsky.social · Jul 18

I fell into a rabbit hole about Turkmenistan recently, central Asia's hermit kingdom. Spinning golden idols do feature. And then I found out about Soltan Achilova. I think it's really cool that a super repressive regime is deeply fucking scared of one old lady who tells the truth.

The most dangerous person in Turkmenistan

YouTube video by Fredo Rockwell

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Chavonne Brown @chavbrown.bsky.social · Jul 16

Remember, it's always a joke until it isn't

PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · Jul 15

Gutfeld: “We need to learn from the blacks. The way they were able to remove the power from the n-word word by using it. So from now on it’s: What up, my Nazi? Hey, what up, my Nazi? Hey, what's hanging, my Nazi?”

Kennedy: “Nazi, please!”

Gutfeld: “Thank God you did a hard ‘i’ there.”

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What’s the Hold Up Pod Dan @jacketdan.bsky.social · Jul 6

So about that 3D printer @hollyanderson.bsky.social

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Chavonne Brown @chavbrown.bsky.social · Jun 18

Let's not forget to rag on the UK's deeply punitive immigration policies, not just maintained but deepened by Starmer's government.

UK Home Office tells parents their children should return to Brazil alone

While Ana Luiza Cabral Gouveia and Hugo Barbosa can remain, letter says sons, 11 and eight, must go back to Brazil

www.theguardian.com

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Chavonne Brown @chavbrown.bsky.social · May 13

@edzitron.com covered this on Better Offline and the way it made my piss boil I could have run a steam engine off my kidneys

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Roxana Hadadi @roxana-hadadi.bsky.social · May 7

about last night's ANDOR episodes, the cycles of historical violence playing out on ghorman, and gaza. @vulture.com:

www.vulture.com/article/ando...

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Chavonne Brown @chavbrown.bsky.social · May 5

And "voluntarily emigrate" the entire population. So it's completing the genocide, that's the plan, right?

Israel plans to capture all of Gaza under new plan, officials say

Two Israeli officials says ministers have approved a plan to capture the entirety of the Gaza Strip and remain in the territory for an unspecified amount of time.

apnews.com

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Feb 20

Pritzker: If we don’t want to repeat history, then for god’s sake, in this moment, we better be strong enough to learn from it.

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Chavonne Brown @chavbrown.bsky.social · Apr 25

At last, a good laugh

milo @ventdeiji.bsky.social · Apr 24

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Chavonne Brown @chavbrown.bsky.social · Mar 26

Real conversation a student:
Me - "The Huguenots came from France"
Her - "Is France the same as Europe?"
Me - "Where is France?"
Her - "Paris?"
*I cover my mouth in shock, she bows her head in shame*

Chavonne Brown @chavbrown.bsky.social · Mar 5

And I want to be clear, when I say Israel, read Israeli government.

Chavonne Brown @chavbrown.bsky.social · Mar 5

The USA will not only abet this genocide but proposes to profit from it. Who bulldozed what was left? Who dropped those unexploded bombs? Gaza did not spontaneously combust, it was murdered.

Chavonne Brown @chavbrown.bsky.social · Mar 5

Obviously, Bibi wants to finish his genocide. October 7th became the pretense Israel had needed for decades to finally exterminate Palestine. America will be handmaid to the betrayal of Ukraine and total ruination of Palestine. The world order we knew is over, if it ever existed at all.

US and Israel reject Arab alternative to Trump's Gaza reconstruction plan - BBC News

They say the Arab League's proposal for post-war reconstruction fails to address realities in Gaza.

www.bbc.com

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Chavonne Brown @chavbrown.bsky.social · Feb 14

I get so many YouTube ads telling me to visit the Emirates, and no, I like my holidays not in the desert and with approximately 100 to 150 percent less slavery

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Chavonne Brown @chavbrown.bsky.social · Feb 6

No, this would not have saved Veilguard. Retaining the staff who made earlier games a success and never having wasted time on live-service dev before an unwieldy pivot to boxed product would've saved Veilguard. Baffles me how these dudes seem pathologically incapable of learning the right lessons!

Eurogamer @eurogamer.bsky.social · Feb 5

"To break out beyond the core audience, games need to directly connect to the evolving demand of players who increasingly seek shared world features and deeper engagement alongside high-quality narratives" EA's CEO has said, post Dragon Age: The Veilguard. bit.ly/3Q52rAP

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Chavonne Brown @chavbrown.bsky.social · Jan 27

Wilcox, their mind is full of spiders that long to make games, and here's a condensed version of fabulous flagship

Six Planes Games @sixplanes.bsky.social · Jan 27

Daemonologie: In One Page is our submission to #tinyworldjam! It's a hack of our game Daemonologie, trying to translate that game and setting into one 8 fold zine.

Free people from demonic pacts, fight monsters, tell the crown of England to go fuck itself.

six-planes.itch.io/daemonologie...

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Chavonne Brown @chavbrown.bsky.social · Jan 17

Something full of awe is coming and we're rather pleased with the wicked japes within

Six Planes Games @sixplanes.bsky.social · Jan 17

IN THE SHADOW OF SOMETHING VAST
Five Games - One Zine

#zimo #zinemonth #zinequest

www.kickstarter.com/projects/six...

Coming soon: In the Shadow of Something Vast

Face the infinitely bigger than you. Five games in one massive, A4, full colour zine.

www.kickstarter.com

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Chavonne Brown @chavbrown.bsky.social · Jan 13

Dev team after dev team have met the axe of incompetence

Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · Jan 10

Why do video games cost so much to make these days? A recent NYT article pinned bloated budgets on the graphical arms race, but that's only a small part of the equation. The real problem? Rampant mismanagement.

This week's column is a spicy one: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Why So Many Video Games Cost So Much to Make

Graphical fidelity is only part of the reason that game budgets have swelled to hundreds of millions of dollars

www.bloomberg.com

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Chavonne Brown @chavbrown.bsky.social · Dec 25

For Christmas the present I want is nationalised utilities, please and thank you, Santa Keir

Ian Jackson 🗿😷🇪🇺 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🩺🚲 @ibjhealth.uk · Dec 24

This is outrageous - how was it allowed to happen?

Heads need to roll across this sector!

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Revealed: Thames Water diverted ‘cash for clean-ups’ to help pay bonuses

Exclusive: UK’s biggest water company assessed risks before cutting back on cost of environmental work, investigation shows

www.theguardian.com

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Chavonne Brown @chavbrown.bsky.social · Dec 14

Marc Andreessen sucks, is a ghoul, is a man who shouldn't be by the levers of power but he will be. All of these big tech guys have no morals, ethics, or principles and somehow we allowed them to take over the world.

Why Marc Andreessen was 'very scared' after meeting with the Biden administration about AI | TechCrunch

What scared him most was what some said about the government’s role in AI, and what he described as a young staff who were “out for blood. ”

techcrunch.com

Chavonne Brown @chavbrown.bsky.social · Dec 4

Wilcox at it again with a spooky island, we love a spooky island

Six Planes Games @sixplanes.bsky.social · Nov 28

Currently writing a Daemonologie adventure about the Svalbard whaling colony, part inspired by technological obsolescence and partly inspired by The Thing (because every third thing we make is inspired by The Thing)

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Chavonne Brown @chavbrown.bsky.social · Dec 3

Would love to get a piece o this list 🙏🏿

Chavonne Brown @chavbrown.bsky.social · Dec 3

Lemme see 👀

Chavonne Brown @chavbrown.bsky.social · Dec 2

I was on a panel last week at London South Bank Uni about positive experiences in gaming (boy knows we need those now more than ever) and the students were so engaged while being clear eyed about how tough it is out there, so this is for them!

Mayank Grover on LinkedIn: #fresher #layoffsupport #games #jobs #careers #gamedev #internships

Tencent, Nintendo, Niantic, Inc., PlayStation, Activision, and Ubisoft are hiring for multiple entry-level roles and internships⚔️ Experience: Entry Level…

www.linkedin.com

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