rachel
nershly.bsky.social
rachel
@nershly.bsky.social
graceful failure. game programmer, doodler, etc. likes tea. is a she. paints and plays with minis. | developer of Magewinds, a skirmish game: https://www.magewinds.com | personal site: https://rachelnertia.github.io/
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💥 Seventy thousand women have now signed our letter. Seventy thousand women saying clearly that exclusion is not in our name and that trans people deserve dignity, safety and belonging.

🙏 Sign and share: notinourname.org.uk

#NotInOurName #Love #Inclusion #WomenUnite
December 10, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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A week of 50% off our blue-skies-and-space-ruins robot ghost story:
Save 50% on The Signal From Tölva on Steam
The Signal From Tölva is an open-world first-person shooter set on a distant, haunted, future world. Unlock savage weapons and recruit robots to fight alongside you as rival factions struggle to disco...
store.steampowered.com
December 9, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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late last week, workers of different stripes gathered outside rockstar's nyc office for a protest in solidarity with fired devs in the uk/scotland. the message, as fired rockstar workers head into a hearing this week, is that they've got global support, and bosses can't hide
December 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
I am so angry this morning I hate waking up tilted but what other option do I have
December 9, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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The Avarice Awards holds a mirror to the hollow glamour of The Game Awards, as workers continue to have their livelihoods upended by mass layoffs. We are speaking truth to the powers ruining the game industry with their greed!

Stream begins on December 10th at 7pm PT / 10pm ET on twitch.tv/UVW_CWA
December 8, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Feeling very sad today. I have lost so much this year.
December 3, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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the world is learning in realtime what the procgen community has known for years
December 1, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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I wrote this piece about the Scottish Greens but some of it applies to any party of the Left. In particular, I think there's a lot of refusal to accept the realities and limitations of electoral politics, and indeed to even have that conversation without demonising people medium.com/@allanfaulds...
November 30, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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If anyone is near or around Glasgow on Thursday, I'm going to be giving a presentation about unions, explaining the Rockstar situation, and why it's a perfect example of why we need to unionize.

www.meetup.com/videogames-g...
Glasgow Games Soapbox, Thu, Dec 4, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup
An evening of talks about games and game development. We have a small selection of speakers from in and out of the games industry sharing their wisdom. Expect talks to be
www.meetup.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:29 AM
im so ill gang
November 28, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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Hong Kong fire and Grenfell are just alike. Fire spreading through unsafe building materials installed due to penny-pinching, killing dozens. One difference: before the HK fire is even out three executives at contractors have been arrested, eight years after Grenfell no-one has been arrested.
November 27, 2025 at 9:11 PM
You know when you finish all your exams and immediately fall ill?
November 27, 2025 at 9:10 AM
trying to cope with someone taking a sledgehammer to one part of my life by proceeding with doubled speed in other parts, sort of like a liquid squishing out from under it
November 26, 2025 at 5:15 PM
what do you think weekly therapy is like for me right now, followers
November 25, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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November 24, 2025 at 7:34 PM
ughhh!
November 24, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Rolling out the Matt Christman quote from after Charlottesville (2017) again:
November 21, 2025 at 11:08 AM
aaargh
November 20, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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happy international mens day to this guy
November 19, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Queen shit
Cyclist turns down trans exclusionary honour for woman cyclists (and you can feel the BBC’s teeth grinding about it).

"If they don't want to ride with all women, then it's not the kind of ride I want to be part of".
Woman refuses Cycling UK award over trans women being left out
Claire Sharpe says she disagrees with Cycling UK only naming biological women in their top 100 list.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 1:48 PM
frantically googling 'how to live a normal life that doesnt explode'
November 17, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Zoomer programmers on LinkedIn: «how did people make software before git?»

Y’all, we need to talk, who is teaching the children?
November 16, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Please, Gromit.
November 16, 2025 at 12:48 PM
piss
November 16, 2025 at 12:56 PM
I miss doing my job 😐
November 13, 2025 at 11:05 AM