ren alex-rose🌙

@archosaur.bsky.social

Game Writer & Narrative Designer @ Fuse Games working on STAR WARS: Galactic Racer🌟 (prev Until Dawn 2🌴, Redwall🐭) // also writing a novel about love & loneliness || (she/they)+human linktr.ee/archosaur_

Your "personal choices" impact other people, they have consequences. They make the world more or less safe for others, they widen or narrow possibilities for others, they change lives for better and for worse. You do not, ever, exist in a vacuum

JK Rowling has used her wealth to stoke the fires of a worldwide pogrom against trans people to where she's silenced a Holocaust scholar after JK engaged in Holocaust denial & now done the same to Amnesty International for their warning about trans eradication, but keep buying your Harry Potter crap

Maybe this hasn’t sunk in for anyone who should care but the NHS was birthed when the UK *literally had negative money*. The USA had razed us of every penny to pay for weapons to defend ourselves against Germany, Germany had bombed all our industrial sites. We still did it in 6 months. 6.

Amnesty International UK@amnestyuk.bsky.social · last mo.

The NHS was founded 78 years ago today. It was built after the devastation of the Second World War when the country was bankrupt - but when the people demanded a society built on fairness and dignity for all. Today, we must defend the right to healthcare and rebuild our social security system.

Photo of Nya Bevan with a quote saying: "Illness is neither an indulgence for which people have to pay, nor an offence for which they should be penalised, but a misfortune the cost of which should be shared by the community."

I don’t want this point to be lost in the discourse. Going digital-only means inequity for people who cannot afford internet or constantly purchasing new games. Libraries provide opportunities for people to experience games they otherwise wouldn’t be able to afford, and that will be lost.

ErikT@erik45824291.bsky.social · last mo.

My child loves going to the library and checking out a new video game every week. Going digital only eliminates libraries as a way people can access games.

Saying we should all go back to physical media I think misses the point. I actually *like* buying games and movies digitally for a bunch of reasons. What we need is better consumer protections so the things we do buy digitally are actually owned and companies cant delete/revoke access!

being transgender is amazing and beautiful, transitioning is one of the greatest choices you can ever make and i hope more people realize that its not dangerous or evil, but liberating