Microsoft leadership so desperate they're forced onto the last resort: What if we made a product people actually want?

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

A leaked memo shows Microsoft asking publishers nicely to let it. www.theverge.com/games/974773...

Game idea: Lemmings, but it's self driving cars in terrible situations

Lauren McKenzie@themckenziest.gay · 3d ago

Hopecore

Other work of the Ladybird artists ‘Northern Ireland’ Artist: SR Badmin

We have a group chat for trans people in my small city. We use it to provide ride shares, lend tools, organize events, monitor ICE, etc. Just lent a drill to a gal I've never met, for a woodworking project. The world would be a different place, if more people in more cities organized like this.

(a story several millennia old) please be careful with Odyssey spoilers

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calling my drive to work a "perfect seed" after catching every green light

Met a polish man after buying something from him off Facebook marketplace. He & his family were moving back to Poland, saying he didn't feel safe after the racist Belfast riots. Goes to show the chilling effect from the racism and violence is very real, and will worsen NI's decades-long brain drain.

"You can't fire me!!! I quit" what a sad little weasely man. And somehow people will think he has political strength

Two headlines about the same story reveal how the BBC relentlessly launders Farage's reputation, even as the corporate media steps up. In-your-face malfeasance by the national broadcaster.

People making out socialism to be a "big bad" is so funny to me bc what are you afraid of? people sharing??? okay bud

#ArtDecoThursday A lovely Belfast landmark and building - the #ArtDeco former Bank of Ireland premises, now belongs to the City. #SpéirGhorm

UK-based Rockstar game workers formally announce union: aftermath.site/rockstar-games...

What is it with right wing parties and pedophilia?

Sam McBride@sjamcbride.bsky.social · last mo.

Former DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson is a paedophile, a jury has unanimously found: Guilty on all 18 counts, including rape of a primary school girl. Judge says jail is "inevitable" and ex-MP immediately remanded into custody. Full breaking coverage:

On the hills above Belfast ♥️

i reckon if i was a caveman i couldve invented stonehenge no bother

There are people all across Belfast helping relocate people, get them food, clothes, meds and more. You will likely never hear about them on the news. But they are many. And *they* are Belfast.

You get one life on this earth. Thank the heavens I wasn't born one of these stupid, hateful, racist bastards that wastes their life spewing absolute shit

I genuinely do not understand this. How is it that everyone seems to utterly hate programming, and seemingly has fuck-all pride in their work? Sometimes as a programmer I feel like the only person who actually seems to give a shit.....

🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮@unormal.bsky.social · 2mo ago

every other job is like "i am sad ai is replacing me" and every coder is like "destroy me ai ai is destroying me so quickly i cant wait for it to get even better" and that's extremely telling

If agentic LLMs really do help democratise software development, it'll be like what Unity / Unreal did to game development When it's easier than ever to make software, it's harder than ever to stand out The market will be oversaturated, and most software mightnt turn a profit w/o runaway success

Peter Thal Larsen@petertl.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The rise of AI App-slop. Or slopapps, perhaps. www.ft.com/content/8e9a...

In awe of the simplicity of this game - more need to see it!

RPS | Wishlist Fallosophy on Steam!@fallosophygame.com · 2mo ago

Fallosophy is Getting Over It if it was a two-button pinball game. You only have two buttons, but they do everything. Flip. Plunge. Dash. Trigger pistons. Freeze time. Even the menu only uses the same two buttons. The controls are simple. The climb is not.

this is you. this comic is about you.

Weren't climate protesters getting arrested for this kind of thing? Or facing an unbelievable amount of harassment?

Brendan Harkin@brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Live updates on NI fuel protests here. They've blocked one side of the M3 outside Belfast city airport. www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/norther...

What I like best about the Artemis II photos is that it was taken by actual humans. An actual person had to frame it and manually adjust settings. It's their own artistic rendition of what they thought looked best at the time, something no probe, rover or unmanned spacecraft can take. it's art

4 day work weeks and WFH would supercharge the world economy - shame the capitalists in charge dont actually care about healthy economies

jake o'reilly🧋| Starshot Idle👾@jakeoreilly.itch.io · 4mo ago

look at this graph showing how EVERY hobby got started in covid, this is the import of queen bees in ireland (from a Grace Maccormack presentation)

IRELAND: A man climbed onto the wing of a U.S. military Lockheed C-130 Hercules at Shannon Airport and struck it with an axe, causing “extensive” damage before being arrested, authorities said.

I genuinely think Trump could kill every single person on Earth and he would not feel fucking anything

This looks so amazing, i wish i couldve seen it :(

Gaz@rycbar39.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Check out this beautiful tribute created by the BBC that took place on Monday 30 March 2026, using 950 drones, and was broadcast on BBC One Northern Ireland on Thursday 2 April at 8pm — the same time and date the Titanic set sail from Belfast in 1912.

Making a pile of linear algebra the size of God and begging it not to make mistakes, only for it to do exactly that LMAO $400 billion industry btw

Chris Person@papapishu.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I’m fucking crying dude. Asking “pretty please do not introduce a security vulnerability”.

I went back to capture what the astronauts said in full when the clock was stopped at T-10 minutes and they were asked if they were go for launch: This is Victor. We are going for our families. This is Christina. We are going for our teammates. This is Jeremy. We are going for all humanity.

Dr. Jessie Christiansen@aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 4mo ago

"OUTSTANDING."