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ellis dex 🌟 @ellisdex.itch.io · 1d

my friend qasam is crowdfunding for aid to gaza! please share or donate if you're able to
www.launchgood.com/v4/campaign/...

Qasam's Deployment | LaunchGood | LaunchGood

Join me as I hand delivery relief items to impoverished and underrepresented communities in dire need of your support

www.launchgood.com

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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 4d

Books on the history of Palestine, including our free ebook From the River to the Sea, and our new releases Gaza: The Story of a Genocide, The Idea of Israel by Ilan Pappe, and Men in the Sun by Ghassan Kanafani

Gaza: Books on Solidarity, Resistance, and Hope

Books on the history of settler violence, global resistance, and Palestinian art and identity including Gaza: The Story of a Genocide.

www.versobooks.com

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Halima @halomedes.bsky.social · 4d

This’ll have to do until I find a shotgun.

A screenshot from the videos Silent Hill f, with the protagonist Hinako holding a kind of curved sword with a long, thin hilt. The name of this weapon is Naginata in Japanese, described as a polearm.

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Halima @halomedes.bsky.social · 5d

The girls and I are enjoying the autumn sun ☀️ 🍂

A selfie of me, a Black woman in a teal hijab and sunglasses, sat on a bench by the river. A bunch of pigeons are sunbathing in the background.

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Char @alphachar.bsky.social · 6d

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Halima @halomedes.bsky.social · 9d

Looking up whether there are any downsides to eating butter chicken every day.

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Halima @halomedes.bsky.social · 10d

Can’t figure out what’s more stressful for me: watching the live tracker of the aid flotillas approaching Gaza or not watching the live tracker.

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Halima @halomedes.bsky.social · 10d

Oooo I’m excited for this one!

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KigyoDev 🎃 SpookY2K out now! @kigyodev.com · 10d

🎃 SpookY2K is out now! 🎃 #SpooktoberVNJam

You wake up on a cold bathroom floor, only to discover that you time travelled to a Halloween party in 1999!

As you get closer to the other guests, will your clueless involvement let the party take a deadly turn? 🔪🩸

🦇 PLAY HERE: kigyo.itch.io/spooky2k

A title screen showing a girl doing a peace sign on the floor, surrounded by a chalk outline meant for a corpse

Two girls pouting, with the third in the middle saying "Now, now. Don't pout, you two."

A man seductively leans into the screen, while three choices are displayed: "Go for it", "Do nothing", and "Kill him"

A relaxed skater dude stands in the kitchen, saying "Well, I guess what I'm trying to say is... thanks"

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Halima @halomedes.bsky.social · 12d

I don’t feel particularly British except for when certain British indie songs from the early 2000s/2010s start playing.

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Halima @halomedes.bsky.social · 13d

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Florence Smith Nicholls @florencesn.bsky.social · 14d

I'm presenting my @qgcon.bsky.social talk on "Contemporary Video Game Archaeology as Anticipatory Grief" at 2pm ET (7pm BST) today!
Most of the talks, including this one, are being streamed live on Discord. Check out the schedule and more here: www.qgcon.org

Slide: Contemporary Video Game Archaeology as Anticipatory Grief
Florence Smith Nicholls

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 15d

The boycott works. Continue the boycott.

BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 15d

Microsoft has terminated unit 8200’s access to select cloud storage and AI services, making it the first giant tech company to terminate any services to apartheid Israel at least since the beginning of its Gaza genocide.

Read more: loom.ly/aS6eYUQ

#NoTechForApartheid
#NoTechForGenocide

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Halima @halomedes.bsky.social · 15d

I’m learning how to reverse park into bays while teaching others a lesson in patience.

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Halima @halomedes.bsky.social · 17d

I found my car unlocked one morning. Totally intact, nothing was missing and, once I got over the shock, drove just fine. Can’t help but wonder if there simply isn’t a market anymore for compact and sturdy Toyotas from the early 2010 :/

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llaura @dreamfeel.bsky.social · 17d

the flotilla of humanitarians trying to bring aid to Gaza is being attacked in international waters www.youtube.com/shorts/cjw-h...

Global Sumud Flotilla Under Attack

YouTube video by Tadhg Hickey

www.youtube.com

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Halima @halomedes.bsky.social · 17d

Crude Drawing Of An Angel

YouTube video by Caroline Polachek - Topic

music.youtube.com

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Sa-ilent-hill Bajaj (Still Looking for Work) @sahilbajaj.dev · 18d

There's an hour left to help support a good cause and get some really rad games in the process!

Junch @junchgaming.bsky.social · 18d

We're down to the last 1.5 hours of the Games for Palestine charity. If you've not yet picked up nearly 400 incredible indie games and experiences, and support a good cause while you're at it, now's your chance

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Hannah Nicklin @hannahnicklin.bsky.social · 22d

You know I actually really liked Disney+ and Xbox Gamepass. But a boycott is a boycott. If you get to pick & choose the ones that don’t impact you, they don’t lose a real customer, and the boycott doesn’t work. If BDS says don’t watch Eurovision. Don’t watch it.

bdsmovement.net/Guide-to-BDS...

Guide to BDS Boycott & Pressure Corporate Priority Targeting

Ending the complicity of states, corporations, and institutions in Israel’s ongoing, live-streamed genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza is the most effective form of solidarity with the P...

bdsmovement.net

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Halima @halomedes.bsky.social · 22d

Where and when do you draw the line? Useful question for me and for you.

Halima @halomedes.bsky.social · 22d

Disney has been on the boycott priority targets list under BDS (boycotts in support for Palestinian liberation) for months. Check out the infographic below for other targets.

BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · Sep 2

The Palestinian-led BDS movement has updated our priority targets, pressure targets and organic campaign targets.

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Game Devs of Color Expo @gdocexpo.com · 22d

Tristan talks decolonization & cozy games.

What does safety mean for the audience we're trying to reach?
What mechanics, rewards, cultural touchstones, & character archetypes will we implement that will resonate with them?

Questions to consider when thinking about your game.
#GDoCExpo2025 #gamedev

DECOLONIZATION AND DECOLONIALITY
DECOLONIZATION
Often framed as an undoing of colonial influences and structures, it is also a creative process of imagining what cultures would look like if not disrupted by the exploitation of colonialism.
DECOLONIALITY/DECOLONIALIDAD
The process/practice of rejecting Euro-centric ways of knowing and being. Coined by Aníbal Quijano, this concept acknowledges how different concepts of the cosmos influenced knowledge acquisition, information storage and transfer, and ideas of the self.

COLONIALSIM? IN COZY GAMES? WHERE?
• So Many White People
• The Outside Individual Who
Saves the Day
• The Land is There for the Taking
• Corn and Wheat Make Number
Go Up
• Nuclear Family/Two Gen Family
• Monochronic Structures, 4
Seasons, Gregorian Calendar
• Conveniently Ancient Civilizations
Spirituality is Silly
Straight Up Racism

HOW CAN WE DECOLONIZE COZY GAMES
We can start the process of decolonizing and practicing decoloniality by questioning ourselves and those we trust around us. For example:
• What does safety mean for the audience we are trying to reach? • What mechanics, rewards, cultural touchstones, and character (archetypes) will we implement that will resonate with them? • What is the relationship of the player character to the NPC community and how can we handle this mechanically and narratively?
• How many generations of people are present at any time?
• How is time measured and how does this play out mechanically and narratively?

Games to Check Out
Fields of Mistria
Saltsea Chronicles and Mutazione
Tales of the Shire
Wanderstop

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NEON AURELIUS @neonaurelius.bsky.social · 23d

It's the first #TurnBasedThursday that we can participate in and here's our little turn-based contribution, Sparrow Warfare, a bird-themed deck-builder: store.steampowered.com/app/3473440/...

Sparrow Warfare on Steam

Lead a feathered rebellion in the bird-filled deckbuilder SPARROW WARFARE! Combine your tiles to free birds. Unlock wildtiles to craft riotous combos. Take down the fiendish Storyteller for the libera...

store.steampowered.com

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Halima @halomedes.bsky.social · 24d

Chikis Khan is my fave so far 🐔

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Halima @halomedes.bsky.social · 28d

Really useful thread - please do take a moment to read through it. Boycotting is an effective and easy way to support Palestinian liberation.

BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · Sep 2

The Palestinian-led BDS movement has updated our priority targets, pressure targets and organic campaign targets.

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