Mathew Kumar
@mathewkumar.com
Writer of exp. magazine (https://expzine.com). Game developer for hire. He/They.
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Mathew Kumar
@mathewkumar.com
· Sep 16
Pleased to announced that exp. 2602, a new #zine in my exploration of the 1970s releases for the Atari 2600, is available for pre-order NOW at our new online store! Read more: expzine.com/2025/09/16/a...
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Inflation made 100k a year for a family go from upper middle class to struggling. With most of this inflation happening since the turn of the century.
November 27, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Inflation made 100k a year for a family go from upper middle class to struggling. With most of this inflation happening since the turn of the century.
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There are some people who seem to see the recovery of ecosystems in a deforested waste as a personal affront. It's about power, and different landscapes reflect the different ways in which power is distributed - or concentrated.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Willow trees on Prince William’s land in Devon poisoned with herbicide
Exclusive: Unknown culprit suspected of spraying glyphosate on protected trees hoped to stop peat erosion and flooding
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:12 PM
There are some people who seem to see the recovery of ecosystems in a deforested waste as a personal affront. It's about power, and different landscapes reflect the different ways in which power is distributed - or concentrated.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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We're gonna need a truth and reconciliation commission and Nuremberg style trials to reckon with all of this evil, and any Dem candidate for office who shies away from a full reckoning in the name of "moving forward as a nation" can get well and truly fucked
I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:29 PM
We're gonna need a truth and reconciliation commission and Nuremberg style trials to reckon with all of this evil, and any Dem candidate for office who shies away from a full reckoning in the name of "moving forward as a nation" can get well and truly fucked
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On this day, Indigenous people and allies confront the settler-colonial narratives of “Thanksgiving,” observing it instead as a National Day of Mourning.
November 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM
On this day, Indigenous people and allies confront the settler-colonial narratives of “Thanksgiving,” observing it instead as a National Day of Mourning.
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New exp. for supporters! Baby Steps is absolutely as good as everyone says it is. The best game-feel of the year. But is what it asks of you... necessary? expzine.com/2025/11/27/b...
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November 27, 2025 at 4:50 PM
New exp. for supporters! Baby Steps is absolutely as good as everyone says it is. The best game-feel of the year. But is what it asks of you... necessary? expzine.com/2025/11/27/b...
Patreon link: www.patreon.com/posts/baby-s...
Patreon link: www.patreon.com/posts/baby-s...
New exp. for supporters! Baby Steps is absolutely as good as everyone says it is. The best game-feel of the year. But is what it asks of you... necessary? expzine.com/2025/11/27/b...
Patreon link: www.patreon.com/posts/baby-s...
Patreon link: www.patreon.com/posts/baby-s...
November 27, 2025 at 4:50 PM
New exp. for supporters! Baby Steps is absolutely as good as everyone says it is. The best game-feel of the year. But is what it asks of you... necessary? expzine.com/2025/11/27/b...
Patreon link: www.patreon.com/posts/baby-s...
Patreon link: www.patreon.com/posts/baby-s...
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It is IMO not possible to operate any kind of meaningful democracy when your national press is a joke and a travesty, but your mileage on that may vary. I think it’s incontestable that it is impossible to govern well and effectively, while being in hock to these pantomime clowns.
November 27, 2025 at 8:46 AM
It is IMO not possible to operate any kind of meaningful democracy when your national press is a joke and a travesty, but your mileage on that may vary. I think it’s incontestable that it is impossible to govern well and effectively, while being in hock to these pantomime clowns.
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THE POLICY ADDRESSES THIS ALREADY.
"Homeowners will be able to roll up the annual payments and defer them until they move house or die." www.ft.com/content/5b07...
"Homeowners will be able to roll up the annual payments and defer them until they move house or die." www.ft.com/content/5b07...
November 27, 2025 at 11:43 AM
THE POLICY ADDRESSES THIS ALREADY.
"Homeowners will be able to roll up the annual payments and defer them until they move house or die." www.ft.com/content/5b07...
"Homeowners will be able to roll up the annual payments and defer them until they move house or die." www.ft.com/content/5b07...
“It’s an indication of an end phase, where people turn to rituals and odd beliefs … Then it breaks out in an orgy of violence. Then it stops, but it’s too late.”
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Pointed out by my friend @carloshasanax.bsky.social . There's something weird and unsettling about a fairly homogeneous culture spread out across Europe that then collapses into an orgy of genocide.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Headless bodies hint at why Europe’s first farmers vanished
Wave of mass brutality accompanied the collapse of the first pan-European culture
www.science.org
November 27, 2025 at 1:43 PM
“It’s an indication of an end phase, where people turn to rituals and odd beliefs … Then it breaks out in an orgy of violence. Then it stops, but it’s too late.”
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Unlocked! In some respects Flotilla is FTL before FTL. But even fifteen years later, I have no idea how to successfully play it.
Flotilla (Blendo Games, 2010) - exp.
I don't think I actually understand how to play this.
expzine.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Unlocked! In some respects Flotilla is FTL before FTL. But even fifteen years later, I have no idea how to successfully play it.
I would like to formally announce my endorsement of Zohran Mamdani
🚨 BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani to require all NYC students to carry a 3DS.
November 26, 2025 at 11:52 PM
I would like to formally announce my endorsement of Zohran Mamdani
Piracy is the free market at work—capitalists just don't really believe in the free market. People pay for what they value and don't pay for what they don't.
(FWIW though, get a library card. They'll have everything—digitally too—and it's a meaningful act)
(FWIW though, get a library card. They'll have everything—digitally too—and it's a meaningful act)
piracy discourse is so exhausting and passe, but i will observe that every truly great collector of physical media I know has a big harddrive of pirated books and movies. you literally cannot have one without the other
November 26, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Piracy is the free market at work—capitalists just don't really believe in the free market. People pay for what they value and don't pay for what they don't.
(FWIW though, get a library card. They'll have everything—digitally too—and it's a meaningful act)
(FWIW though, get a library card. They'll have everything—digitally too—and it's a meaningful act)
As a kid I was insanely lucky enough to have a Transformer G1 Jetfire (tragically, long since lost or charity shopped.) I literally could not understand how the other Transformers weren't this cool.
I know now it's a VF-1 Valkyrie from Macross, but this colorway will always be primary to me
I know now it's a VF-1 Valkyrie from Macross, but this colorway will always be primary to me
November 26, 2025 at 9:52 PM
As a kid I was insanely lucky enough to have a Transformer G1 Jetfire (tragically, long since lost or charity shopped.) I literally could not understand how the other Transformers weren't this cool.
I know now it's a VF-1 Valkyrie from Macross, but this colorway will always be primary to me
I know now it's a VF-1 Valkyrie from Macross, but this colorway will always be primary to me
I feel like I *just* posted about it but every time someone says people should promote their book I'm gonna promote my book.
Just imagine adding this wonderful book of essays to your cart of Black Friday whatever. Think how you will cherish the experience of buying and then reading it
Just imagine adding this wonderful book of essays to your cart of Black Friday whatever. Think how you will cherish the experience of buying and then reading it
November 26, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I feel like I *just* posted about it but every time someone says people should promote their book I'm gonna promote my book.
Just imagine adding this wonderful book of essays to your cart of Black Friday whatever. Think how you will cherish the experience of buying and then reading it
Just imagine adding this wonderful book of essays to your cart of Black Friday whatever. Think how you will cherish the experience of buying and then reading it
Very funny poll because even the AI experts are like "oh yeah, AI will be terrible for people's brains, the environment and democracy... heck, we even basically agree with you that it's bad for the arts. But I *do* think it will benefit me specifically."
It's not this platform. It's all of society that hates AI
November 26, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Very funny poll because even the AI experts are like "oh yeah, AI will be terrible for people's brains, the environment and democracy... heck, we even basically agree with you that it's bad for the arts. But I *do* think it will benefit me specifically."
Important Lemming lore just dropped
The Story of the 12 Tribes of Lemming Island, a pack-in novel with some releases of Lemmings 2: The Tribes, has been scanned and archived (thanks to @capnkabuki.bsky.social for donating this!) Please enjoy!
archive.org/details/The-...
archive.org/details/The-...
November 26, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Important Lemming lore just dropped
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Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important.
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important.
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
Unlocked! In some respects Flotilla is FTL before FTL. But even fifteen years later, I have no idea how to successfully play it.
Flotilla (Blendo Games, 2010) - exp.
I don't think I actually understand how to play this.
expzine.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Unlocked! In some respects Flotilla is FTL before FTL. But even fifteen years later, I have no idea how to successfully play it.
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Starmer's government redefines "terrorism" to include for the first time civil disobedience and protest.
Then it declares it's scrapping the ancient right to trial by jury (because juries too often acquit protesters).
In a rigged justice system, injustice is assured.
Then it declares it's scrapping the ancient right to trial by jury (because juries too often acquit protesters).
In a rigged justice system, injustice is assured.
November 25, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Starmer's government redefines "terrorism" to include for the first time civil disobedience and protest.
Then it declares it's scrapping the ancient right to trial by jury (because juries too often acquit protesters).
In a rigged justice system, injustice is assured.
Then it declares it's scrapping the ancient right to trial by jury (because juries too often acquit protesters).
In a rigged justice system, injustice is assured.
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seeing people being like "ehhh Idkkkkk horses DOES sound kinda icky, I get why it was banned" like barely 2 months after a bunch of people kicked up the wildest possible hostile campagn against _itch_ makes me feel like I'm losing my mind lol
November 26, 2025 at 1:39 AM
seeing people being like "ehhh Idkkkkk horses DOES sound kinda icky, I get why it was banned" like barely 2 months after a bunch of people kicked up the wildest possible hostile campagn against _itch_ makes me feel like I'm losing my mind lol
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Christ, this is heartbreaking. Looking around my bit of Cornwall... the sheer scale of what was thrown away... millions for farmers, hundreds of thousands for schools, more hundreds for young people and culture and...
www.myeu.uk
www.myeu.uk
myeu.uk – see what the EU has done for you
The EU invests around £5 billion a year in the UK. Search by your address or postcode to see some of the investments near you.
www.myeu.uk
November 26, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Christ, this is heartbreaking. Looking around my bit of Cornwall... the sheer scale of what was thrown away... millions for farmers, hundreds of thousands for schools, more hundreds for young people and culture and...
www.myeu.uk
www.myeu.uk
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"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read
Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service
November 26, 2025 at 12:29 AM
"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read
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Here's one for under the tree: www.amazon.com/dp/B0DJPFPVFT
And you know, nothing makes a better stocking stuffer than a zine set: expzine.com/product/exp-...
And you know, nothing makes a better stocking stuffer than a zine set: expzine.com/product/exp-...
November 26, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Here's one for under the tree: www.amazon.com/dp/B0DJPFPVFT
And you know, nothing makes a better stocking stuffer than a zine set: expzine.com/product/exp-...
And you know, nothing makes a better stocking stuffer than a zine set: expzine.com/product/exp-...