Dario
@dario006.bsky.social
He/him App developer & OU student. Trying to learn everything. Contributor to Geek Chocolate
Yeah, I hate this because I liked a fair number of games under EA. American McGee's Alice, Dead Space, Dragon Age, Mass Effect, Mirror's Edge, SIMS, heck Shadow of the Beast was under them... *sighs* Corporate folks ruin everything.
Kotaku@kotaku.com · yesterdayWell, I guess Electronic Arts belongs to Saudi Arabia, private equity, and Jared Kushner now. https://kotaku.com/electronic-arts-officially-belongs-saudi-arabia-jared-kushner-now-2000721666
Crop yields down, our countryside scorched and over 2800 people are dead due to this summer's heatwaves. Meanwhile fossil fuel giants are raking in record profits. We must end this rampant profiteering, and cut fossil fuels from our energy mix as soon as possible.
Damian Carrington@dpcarrington.bsky.social · 2d agoBP profits more than double to $5.7bn in three months as Iran war sends oil prices soaring - "While BP banks enormous profits, millions of households are paying the price" #energycrisis #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Here are 69+ ways to support LGB and especially T people ... If you have money to blow on Harry Potter crap, consider giving it instead to trans-led people/causes ... whats-helping-today.beehiiv.com/p/69-ways-to...
69+ Ways to Support LGB and especially T People
“ ... start being meaner to your transphobic family and coworkers”
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Sandy Ernest Allen@sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 5d agoIf you're cis and your biggest problem is how you're still going to consume Harry Potter, perhaps contemplate for more than three seconds how it might feel to be trans in the UK or US right now.
Man, must be gutting for all global dictators to discover that they could’ve simply silenced any criticism of their practices from Amnesty International by simply threatening them with a SLAPP suit via Twitter.
Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 5d agoAmnesty International has now issued a public groveling apology to JK Rowling's organization and has pulled her another report documenting the anti rights platform of gender critical organizations. www.amnesty.org.uk/latest/an-ap...
keep thinking about the evil of this. It's not just destroying the physical books, bad as that is. They are trying to remove the underpinnings of knowledge, destroy all the accumulated wisdom - and silliness, and creativity, and whatever else humans have thought worthy of writing down.
Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · last wk.No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.
Just a reminder, transphobes suck. Bugger off with your bigotry. Trans rights! 🏳️⚧️ #transrightsarehumanrights🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
I worked at Disney a while ago. Do you know why theme parks are so safe? Because OOSHA reps can walk the track on any ride at any time and any safety violation they see is a $10,000 fine. Each. Theme parks are not safe because the company cares. They're safe because it's cheaper to comply.
Jon of The North@krauza.bsky.social · last wk.Turns out that food companies were only checking their food because the government told them to, which is exactly why we need government regulations.
Long overdue for The Spectator's Islamophobia to come under the microscope. Excellent piece from Peter Oborne here doing just that. It is now, he writes, just "an upmarket version of GB News" (same owner, of course)
Exposed: The Rabidly Islamophobic Magazine at the Heart of the British Establishment
For almost 200 years, 'The Spectator' stood for civilised, bravely heretical discourse. But a new report reveals how it now spews out anti-Muslim hatred week after week to its upmarket audience
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Just caught up with the new season of #StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds What an incredible season opener! Great story, great twists. Thoroughly enjoyed it. If you haven’t seen it yet, you’re missing out. #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds
Captain Pike's 'Hit It' in Star Trek: Subrote
Alt: Captain Pike's 'Hit It' in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
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Just be grateful for Donarrhea's astonishing incompetence.
Murderbot's latest escapades have arrived in Platform Decay by @marthawells.com! More incredibly satisfying explosive action, humour, and a heartwarming core. We all love #Murderbot 🤖 #SFF 💙📚🪐
This is why I won’t read your Substack, people.
Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 3w agoAnd as a commenter welcomes, guess who just welcomed Andrew Tate onboard? Yep, Substack.
Rowling will be SEETHING over this, but it won't stop her from conducting lawfare on any org that shows a scintilla of support for trans people. It won't stop until there is a case establishing that "gender critical beliefs" are simply transphobia by another name.
Them Fatale,@mxthemfatale.bsky.social · 3w agoBBC burying the lede here until paragraph 3 - JKR bankrolled this and LOST. I repeat - JKR bankrolled this lawfare against the Belfast Film Festival and... LOST. It can be done! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
This is the thing. It should be easy to reassure about the grid, about energy use, about water use. The benefits of datacentres to Irish people could be set out. Doing neither gives the strong impression they aren't doing this because they can't.
The Foggy Jew@hmcevansoneya.bsky.social · 3w agoI wasn't convinced that data centres are using *that* much drinking water, but the refusal of the government to even look into it makes me way more suspicious tbh
“Not as bad as Vietnam” remains incredible branding for this illegal debacle of a war.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w agoCOLLINS: The US is bombing Iran again. You've been bombing Iran for months now. Is this just the new normal for the American people TRUMP: Well, we were in Vietnam for 19 years. We're here for four months.
This was 3 different people, 3 different incidents. Boom. Boom. Boom. If it happens again tomorrow, I'm calling them on it. Fuck decorum. They certainly have. Oh, and these were the comics in question: ryandart-shop.fourthwall.com
Ryan's comic book stand
The official online shop for cartoonist Ryan Dunlavey.
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Today at the con, someone flipped through my comic, laughed out loud, TOOK A PICTURE OF THE COMIC THAT MADE THEM LAUGH WITH THEIR PHONE, then walked away. No purchase, not even a thank you. I was speachless. Then it happened again. TWICE. I'm furious. My comic is 5 lousy bucks. Is this a new thing?
(if you’re worried, don’t: i checked before posting. “A rodeo spokesperson told KCRA 3 that the skydiver is doing well aside from a small cut over his lip and that he will be jumping again this Friday evening.”)
Hard-hitting but entirely accurate opinion piece. It's crazy how sometimes this industry seems to hate itself. #gaming
Game Informer@gameinformer.com · last mo.Opinion: The PS5 and Xbox Series X generation has been a race to the bottom buff.ly/RFKva6J
This is exactly why digital-only is such bad news for gamers It's 2029 and you want to redownload a game you played a few months ago but WHOOPS, PS6 servers are down so I guess YOU JUST CAN'T. I'm not having a go at EA for the Sony news - it just makes for a very timely example
The plan is to put everyone on the scrapheap
evacide@evacide.bsky.social · last mo.Ford rehires "greybeard" engineers after its push for AI automation backfires. "Mistakenly, we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence and ingesting the design requirements that we had, that that would produce a high-quality product." www.the-independent.com/tech/ford-ai...
