Let's reclaim Luddite as a badge of pride, they were a labour movement slandered so effectively their name is a byword for ignorance.

Tom Humberstone@tomhumberstone.com · 2mo ago

The Luddites loved technology. They owned looms at home and would ‘mod’ them to count threads. Their battle was against worker exploitation. The degradation of their rights, safety and wages. They were against a handful of rich businessmen owning the means of production. Sound familiar?

The endless cycles of iteration not to find better but because the people in charge don't know what they want is crippling, expensive, and always leads to studio death

Arvy@arvy.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Many factors at play here - not the least of which is higher-ups (in their infinite wisdom) not being able to commit to anything, or knowing good from bad All the while the economy at large expects the profit line go infinitely up, absolutely ignoring its undeniable tendency to do the opposite

hold on, about to chat with mcconnell

Truly, already, one of the greatest living politicians of our generation

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 2mo ago

Who loves America more than those who have sacrificed to make it free? Happy Fourth of July.

new metaphor just dropped

Insurrectionists pardoned and offered money, but a man moving comics is given 30 years. What a fallen project America is. (Read also, the UK continuing to proscribe Palestine Action)

Ryan Estrada@ryanestrada.com · 3mo ago

A cartoonist named Daniel "Des" Rolando Sanchez Estrada was tried as a terrorist and sentenced to 30 years in prison for having anti-Trump comics in his car. Prosecutors connected him to a 2025 anti-ICE protest he didn't even attend because he was in the same book club as others who were.

SpriteWrench is one of very few game studios based in Kingston, Jamaica. That scarcity only fuels Glen Henry's commitment to fostering community, sharing resources, and making great games. www.mothership.blog/glen-henry-i...

Glen Henry is building his Jamaican micro-studio, one project at a time

The newest release from SpriteWrench, Duppy Detective Tashia, leans hard into Caribbean culture and folklore.

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Started writing a skeet about how omnipresent and inescapable GTA6 discussions, but discarded it because I think my efforts would be better put to talking about upcoming games I'm looking forward to instead. Like the Survival Horror with FMV cut scenes Tenebris Somnia releasing on the 16th of Oct!

Tenebris Somnia on Steam

Tenebris Somnia is a 2D retro survival horror adventure game with live action cutscenes created by an award winning film crew from Argentina. Unveil the depths of a disturbing story by solving puzzles...

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Tag yourself, I'm the guy in the back

Six Planes Games@sixplanes.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Live footage of us editing Daemonologie 2nd edition

People died for the Voting Rights Act, lives were lost in the name of freedom, now I'm not American but I am a black man in the diaspora, and everything we see at work is the mentality of aggrieved slave masters still sorry they couldn't win their chattel war

🌹WeegieFromWA 🍀@onefussyone.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The authors of Project 2025 are only now beginning to find out that they've started more fires than they'll ever be able to extinguish. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

"You have played for 2,621 hours. Would you recommend this game to other gamers?" "No."

📢 SPREAD THE WORD! Tomorrow my best bud @abandonedsheep.com is launching his debut indie game... Schrödinger's Cat Burglar

He's the best! Long live the people!

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 4mo ago

While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.

The one party with a Jewish leader is somehow taking the flack for an attack by a deeply mentally unwell man while Nige gets to coast on a £5 million bribe. The British press is transparent.

Owen Jones@owenjones.bsky.social · 4mo ago

A retweet by Zack Polanski is now the main story across every single media outlet. Two days ago, it was revealed that Nigel Farage failed to disclose a £5 million gift from a crypto-billionaire. It gets nowhere near the media attention, for straightforward political reasons.

This is an attempt with no legal basis into making companies change policy to avoid frivolous lawsuits. She's a thin spirited little prick slobbering on christofascist American boots. I would be willing to crowdfund this charity's defence to see this idiot blather. share.google/O6vpzTbV6NUd...

GB News commentator to sue charity for not offering internships to white people

Sophie Corcoran challenging 10,000 Interns Foundation, which works with people from under-represented groups

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Clarence Thomas is a coon deep in his soul, who just sold out Black America so he can keep getting gifts from Bohemian Grove alumni. Stephen from Django levels of coonery.

Ty Morgan@bandit9914.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I use the word "hate" simply to express a dislike for something. But when I say I hate Clarence Thomas,I really hate that muthafucker. "The VRA ended Jim Crow. Full stop. With this decision, it’s open season — once again — on Black and brown voters at the ballot box." www.ms.now/opinion/loui...

Been said many times, but why allow a company named for seeing stones corrupted by Sauron, lord of shadow, to be part of literally anything in civil society?

Nick Dearden@nickdearden.bsky.social · 5mo ago

“If you criticise Palantir’s platform one more time, you are going to lose your job.” Solidarity to all NHS workers opposing this toxic corporation. Shame on those bullying them. But they won’t stop us. We’re going to ditch Palantir. www.ft.com/content/ff70...

Copper peptides? Close enough, welcome back lead based makeup

Not sure why so many people appear to be in an emotional relationship with using fossil fuels.

Roland Smith@rolandmcs.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Morning.

How does this not sound like electoral poison to the Labour party?

Healthwatch@healthwatch.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Ministers plan linking patient data to benefit claims and employment statistics. As Streeting promises to make the NHS "accountable" for whether patients are in work by setting new targets for 'getting people back to work'. That NHSE (DHSC) Palantir contract should help www.ft.com/content/6943...

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

Wait, are they banning Symposium? That's so, so funny, you think Symposium is going to make the kids gay? No, Ryan Murphy already did that

Dave Keating@davekeating.substack.com · 8mo ago

The works of Plato are now being banned at schools in the United States. Tell me again how censorship is a European problem? 🤔

I've been running an indie games studio for 15 years now, and it felt like a good time to boil down what I've learned into 4 pieces of advice: www.pentadact.com/2026-01-08-1... I hope it's of use, not least because goddamn I forgot how long blog posts take to write.

Had an outrageously fun time putting together and playing this silly Hail, Caesar style game

Six Planes Games@sixplanes.bsky.social · 10mo ago

A while ago, someone asked if gumption, moxy, chutzpah, childlike wonder and a certain je ne sais quois could ever be the stats in a ttprg. Here at Six Planes, we said yes, yes they could. Welcome to the Golden Age of Hollywood and the wonder of da moviesh! six-planes.itch.io/arnies-angels

We need to teach people the difference between being uncomfortable and being unsafe. Because the discomfort of the safest people is endangering the most vulnerable, all day every day.

I fell into a rabbit hole about Turkmenistan recently, central Asia's hermit kingdom. Spinning golden idols do feature. And then I found out about Soltan Achilova. I think it's really cool that a super repressive regime is deeply fucking scared of one old lady who tells the truth.

The most dangerous person in Turkmenistan

YouTube video by Fredo Rockwell

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Remember, it's always a joke until it isn't

PatriotTakes 🇺🇸@patriottakes.bsky.social · last yr.

Gutfeld: “We need to learn from the blacks. The way they were able to remove the power from the n-word word by using it. So from now on it’s: What up, my Nazi? Hey, what up, my Nazi? Hey, what's hanging, my Nazi?” Kennedy: “Nazi, please!” Gutfeld: “Thank God you did a hard ‘i’ there.”

So about that 3D printer @hollyanderson.bsky.social

Let's not forget to rag on the UK's deeply punitive immigration policies, not just maintained but deepened by Starmer's government.

UK Home Office tells parents their children should return to Brazil alone

While Ana Luiza Cabral Gouveia and Hugo Barbosa can remain, letter says sons, 11 and eight, must go back to Brazil

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@edzitron.com covered this on Better Offline and the way it made my piss boil I could have run a steam engine off my kidneys