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meghna jayanth @meghna.bsky.social · 1d

what a refreshing change to see a politician stand firmly on trans rights, refuse to concede the right-wing framing of trans people as "a problem", and rightly call out ridicule and bigotry in the guise of "common sense"

Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 1d

Solidarity with all trans and intersex people having their existence debated every time a tv host hasn't done their prep and can't think of any more questions

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Spocko @spocko.bsky.social · 2d

The #AntiFascistFrog speaks!

"So I'm out here protesting in a frog costume to, especially in a Frog costume, just to show how ridiculous the notion that we are violent terrorists is. It's just to showcase how that narrative is wrong."

#Portland #Antifa #Frog

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 1d

“The situation has gone beyond disaster and genocide inside the city, and the world remains silent.”

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Militia drone strike kills at least 30 in Sudan displacement camp, says El Fasher group

RSF paramilitary group hit Dar al-Arqam shelter on university grounds in western city, says resistance committee

www.theguardian.com

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Mark | Buy AXYZ on Steam today! @lithiumproject.bsky.social · 1d

LOOK AT THIS LINEUP.

A poster for a game showcase with lots of cool games.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Greens growing. Reform ratttled.

PS - I changed my name back to my family's original Jewish name because I'm proud of being Jewish. If Tice think that makes me a weirdo, I think that makes him an antisemite.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Tice "green party leader Zack Polanski is a weirdo. Changed his name, claimed hypnosis could increase women's breast size, thinks me should compete in women's sport, thinks women can have a penis. Other than that he's fine. Vote Green. Get weirdo."

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Adil Ray @adilray.bsky.social · 1d

A one-year-old boy with his father were subjected to an alleged racially aggravated attack outside their home in Worcester. West Mercia Police confirmed a man and child were sprayed with an unknown substance and racially abused with "threats to kill" which led to a 77 year old woman being arrested.

Muslim leaders speak of shock after 'racist' spray attack on baby

Muslim leaders at Worcester Mosque spoke of their 'shock and sadness' following the alleged racist attack when a baby was sprayed with an unknown…

www.worcesternews.co.uk

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 1d

The UK successfully criminalized climate and genocide protests recently. It's obvious that the Trump regime would also criminalize peaceful protests in the US. Kiss goodbye to the First Amendment.

All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 2d

WATCH- @chrislhayes.bsky.social on the "incredibly dishonest and downright dangerous new talking point being pushed by MAGA:"

“Republicans on Capitol Hill are claiming that peaceful protesters are part of a terrorist network hell bent on destroying America.”

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meghna jayanth @meghna.bsky.social · 2d

“it’s about eating your time”

Aftermath @aftermath.site · 2d

The Assassin’s Creed series was a canary in the coal mine for our modern, engagement-obsessed world. @ckunzelman.bsky.social explains:

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Slackermom @slackermom.bsky.social · 2d

Was just at a neighborhood school at dismissal. Hundreds of people with whistles surrounding the school and stationed down every block making sure ICE doesn’t snatch anyone. The same is happening at all the schools around here. I love my neighborhood and I love Chicago.

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 2d

If youre in the UK and havent signed this petition, please do despite their response here. At 100k sigs they have to discuss it again

Petitions arent a silver bullet on their own, but they help communicate how many people do/dont support something. Its low commitment and worth doing!

GamesMarket @gamesmarkt.bsky.social · 2d

UK Gouvernment: Payment Processors Can Ban NSFW Content
According to the UK treasury, payment processors are in the right and the gouvernment has no plans to step in. This puts it in direct contrast to what artists and the UK games industry have asked for.
www.gamesmarket.global/en/business/...

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 2d

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 3d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 2d

We banned a guy on the Steam forums for repeatedly saying there were “too many women” in our game

So he flipped his positive review to negative

Still totally worth it

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 4d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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It's Topher Winward! ✌️ @topher.io · 3d

I do a monthly round-up of accessibility news at work, and going straight to Can I Play That? as one of my sources is invaluable every time.

A brilliant team doing brilliant work, go give them a follow, and if you can, support with a donation!

Can I Play That? @caniplaythat.com · Sep 10

A colorblind mode is the latest in a series of accessibility updates for mountain climbing game sensation PEAK.

It follows a series of patches with photosensitivity and bug phobia modes among many other balancing and quality of life improvements.

caniplaythat.com/2025/09/10/p...

PEAK accessibility updates continue with new colorblind mode - Can I Play That?

A colorblind mode is the latest in a series of accessibility updates for PEAK, following patches with photosensitivity and bug phobia modes.

caniplaythat.com

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 3d

Rasha Abdulhadi on Death Panel: “If you are not hearing from a Palestinian about Palestine, what you are hearing is propaganda.”

www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/...

A Killing Peace w/ Rasha Abdulhadi (Part One) (04/18/24) | Death Panel Podcast

Death Panel podcast host Beatrice Adler-Bolton speaks with Rasha Abdulhadi about the last six months in the escalation of genocidal violence against the people of Palestine, what has and hasn’t change...

www.deathpanel.net

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George E. Osborn @georgeosborn.bsky.social · 3d

How are video games being used as a frontier for information war? What are democracies doing to respond to the challenge? And how are organisations like NATO grappling with the problems?

Find out in this week's @vgim.bsky.social - videogamesindustrymemo.substack.com/p/natos-vide...

NATO’s video game frontline, 09/10/2025

It’s all gone a bit John le Carré 🕵️

videogamesindustrymemo.substack.com

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · 4d

Six years ago, I wrote most of the Tragedian dialogue for Pathologic 2 in iambic pentameter. I'm back now doing the same for Pathologic 3. I figured it was helpful to write a guide on *how* I did it – in case I get hit by a bus and the team has to carry on without me.

azhdarchid.com/so-you-want-...

So You Want to Write Iambic Pentameter

In which I share the dirty secrets of the world's least useful skill

azhdarchid.com

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Xalavier Nelson Jr. @writnelson.bsky.social · 4d

You would not believe how many stories like this have been popping up over the last ~5 years

Not just full games cancelled—entire characters and plot lines removed or changed, leaving less time for making the *rest of the game better*, to try avoiding a small and malicious contingent of voices.

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 4d

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 4d

sociology and anthropology are dangerous to them, because those fields help us understand the power dynamics, ethics, and human cost of what the industries they like better are doing.
Performing arts is hugely important for the economy, but it doesn't benefit them directly.

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 4d

Badenoch and Co see education only as a means to a massive income in some soul destroying career.

Devoid of imagination and the power of knowledge they view life entirely through the prism of the CV.

My advice always is to study what interests you and the rest will follow

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 4d

feels like yet again time to mention that the *videogames* industry (that's a creative industry, which people do creative degrees in) brings in more than twice the amount to the British economy as the fishing and steel industries *combined*

Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 4d

I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?

It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 4d

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 4d

When @aceottorney.bsky.social first told me about this I said "this could change people's lives and stop developers from getting exploited" and having seen the final resource, I think I was not wrong. I'd call it a must-bookmark for indie devs.

René Otto @aceottorney.bsky.social · 4d

Proud to announce Deviant Legal’s Game Developer’s Guide to Publishing Agreements: a free resource for developers wanting to learn about publishing deals. Publicly accessible, without requiring to provide your data: deviantlegal.com/guide/game-d...

An image about the game developer's guide to publishing agreements feauturing otto the otter

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René Otto @aceottorney.bsky.social · 4d

Proud to announce Deviant Legal’s Game Developer’s Guide to Publishing Agreements: a free resource for developers wanting to learn about publishing deals. Publicly accessible, without requiring to provide your data: deviantlegal.com/guide/game-d...

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Steve Hyndside @stevehyndside.bsky.social · 4d

👉20,000 new members in a month
👉3,000 over conference weekend
👉2,000 in 24 hours after party political broadcast came out
👉Up by a third since @zackpolanski.bsky.social became leader

And honestly, this is just the start.

join.greenparty.org.uk

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 5d

This is one of the last workspaces still functioning in all of Gaza, and it’s in the north where the IOF is focusing its ground invasion. And the kids are still coming for their exams, and the team is still helping them—to ground their community in the land and resist ethnic cleansing. Join in.

Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 5d

I don’t care about being correct. If you care about digital rights, this is a volunteer-run tech space supporting dozens of kids for their exams this week. In Gaza City. Which is being invaded.

They rely on us to cover fuel costs for their generator. Chip in: chuffed.org/project/spark-space-gaza

🇵🇸 Gaza Needs Your Support: Help Build a Lifeline for Students and Remote Workers!

In Gaza, war has destroyed homes, blocked roads, and left countless people without work. Yet, amidst the rubble, hope remains. Students and remote workers face daily struggles—power outages, broken in...

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