Right, I've made a very negative thread, so I'm gonna follow it up with a thread of upcoming games I'm looking forward to! 1. Entropy Really enjoyed the demo of this during the recent Steam Nextfest, it's the new game from the developer of Dread Delusion, a party based RPG this time around.

Entropy on Steam

Entropy is a tactical turn-based RPG inspired by classic JRPGs. Assemble your party of mercenaries and forge your own path towards an expedition into hell to stop the demonic incursion. Choices you ma...

store.steampowered.com

I've heard that the GC event in Belfast encouraged people to join trans supportive groups in order to change 'hearts and minds' from within. Organisations need to take note that this is most certainly a problem and it needs nipped in the bud.

This is definitely a plan here and I'd assume the DUP will help where they can

@transmetalmum.bsky.social · 3h ago

I've heard that the GC event in Belfast encouraged people to join trans supportive groups in order to change 'hearts and minds' from within. Organisations need to take note that this is most certainly a problem and it needs nipped in the bud.

An utterly brilliant piece on Israel's Nova festival: "Music scenes often develop through the same dynamics of resource enclosure and commercial exchange that those who live through them typically ignore." www.currentaffairs.org/news/israels...

Israel’s Rave Music Drowns Out the Sound of its Victims

For decades, a combination of EDM and drug culture have helped to numb the horror of occupation, apartheid, and genocide.

currentaffairs.org

Hey folks, Lottie's raising money for LGBTQIA+ Switchboard right now, please go give her all the support!

CHARITY MARATHON STREAM NOW @Lottsoflottie ON TWITCH@lottie.bsky.social · 10h ago

The EHRC code has become law and I'm actively pissed so in leiu of this we're raising money for LGBTQIA+ Switchboard and we're going to be streaming until we reach the goal of 10K. BOOST THIS STREAM LIKE CRAZY WE CAN HIT THE GOAL. www.twitch.tv/lottsoflottie

Today's reminder that the current genAI boom is powered by GPUs manufactured with a mineral called coltan (and other rare earths, and cobalt) mined through the labor of enslaved children in Congo, and the US and UAE fund the paramilitaries which protect those mines and keep those children enslaved.

The High Court has introduced new rules governing the use of artificial intelligence in legal proceedings, warning that lawyers who submit inaccurate AI-generated material could face sanctions, personal costs orders or even referral to the national legal regulator jrnl.ie/7122048

Using AI in court? High Court warns lawyers to verify every word or face sanctions

From September, lawyers who submit inaccurate AI-generated material could face costs orders and referrals to a legal regulator.

jrnl.ie

Today's daily reminder that the UAE is currently engaged in a genocide in Sudan using weapons they receive from the US and money they receive from our tourism dollars, and every celebrity who lives or vacations in Dubai or Abu Dhabi is knowingly funding it.

Hey there's a fundraising gig coming up to help my friend Rose remain in Ireland and not gave to return to the USian hellscape as a trans woman. You should come if you can but if you can't consider donating to her GFM www.gofundme.com/f/urgent-hel...

Sucks that the cultures in the Indian subcontinent were more sexually liberated 100s of years ago than now.

Scroll@scroll.in · 4h ago

The Kelkar Museum’s risqué sarotas are not merely titillating curiosities but represent a pedigreed lineage of erotic imagery intertwined with the consumption of areca nuts as part of the sophisticated cultural practice of betel chewing. scroll.in/magazine/109... ✍️Kamayani Sharma

st Peter don't you call me cause I can't go... suspiciously green bananas from the government store...

onion person@junlper.beer · 21h ago

suspiciously green bananas is sadly one of the funniest things i’ve read in awhile

Rape is the central pillar of the right-wing agenda, the right to terrorize other people in the most intimate way possible.

Task & Purpose@taskandpurpose.com · yesterday

Army ends anonymous reporting for harassment complaints trib.al/oQU93m2

A conspiracy theory that "The Real IRA" are coming out of retirement, joining forces with Loyalist paramilitaries to ethnically cleanse Northern Ireland of migrants is doing the rounds on social media. And like would yis ever cop yourselves on.

Packing up these orders for delivery! It always helps the shop to place an order if you can't make the trip to Dublin. Littledeercomics.ie

Not speaking ill of the dead is how Jimmy Saville got something approaching a state funeral.

When a journalist who was basically anti teenager died, my Irish teacher reported me to the Principal for "speaking ill of the dead" by saying I wouldn't mourn him. They made me write a letter to his widow, informing her for what I said. I was a 15 year old. Didn't make sense then, doesn't now.

Kate Watson@loreandordure.com · 3y ago

Once again for those at the back: ‘Don’t speak ill of the dead’ is about your great aunt Elsie, who liked a long gin with a short tonic at elevenses, and blew your inheritance money betting on the horses. Speaking ill of absolute monsters is a moral obligation, actually.

It's so infuriating that the same media who constantly & incessantly lie about my community, who say we are a threat to other women & children, try ban us from toilets, sports & healthcare, will simultaneously & shamelessly eulogise a bunch of dead nonces & misogynists while silencing their victims.

Department of Education will no longer track the bullying of trans & non-binary kids www.lgbtqnation.com/... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Department of Education will no longer track the bullying of trans & non-binary kids

The lack of data collection will leave harm to the children left unreported.

lgbtqnation.com

You only have to look at the veneration of the recently deceased Rod Liddle by prominent women in the "gender critical" movement (Kathleen Stock, Rosie Duffield etc.) to know that their claim to be "protecting women" is utter nonsense.

What people using AI crave at root is an end to the uncertainty of human interaction and connection and its replacement with endless hollow affirmation and instant gratification. They should be pitied but never enabled or excused.

First lightning strikes just off the South coast now.

Oh no. Exactly what everyone who knows literally *anything* about it said would happen did in fact happen. Wow. So now all the other know nothings in other governments around the world who are planning on giving away everyone's privacy will stop and think for a single second, right? Right??

Ben Schwarz@benschwarz.bsky.social · 2d ago

Australia’s eSafety commissioner buried a report (released Friday afternoon) that shows the under 16 social media ban didn’t tangibly reduce teen social media use, and also resulted in parents tuning out of kids usage. We traded our privacy for no reason. theconversation.com/more-than-80...

Why is housing like this not considered organised crime? Or human trafficking?

Sam Tranum@samtranum.bsky.social · 3d ago

Come on now, don't be ridiculous we weren't housing 34 people who work in our trendy Chinese restaurants in that four-bed house, only a mere 26. www.independent.ie/irish-news/i...

None of us is more important than a Palestinian child being bombed by Israel, or a Sudanese woman being assaulted by the RSF, or a Congolese child being enslaved so you can use a smartphone and AI, or an immigrant being tortured in ICE detention, or a detainee in Riker's who can't afford bail.

That "men should be allowed, without judgement or consequence, to do an amount of harm to women and girls that I personally deem acceptable" seems to be a genuine opinion still held by too many people in the year two thousand and twenty six is incredibly grim

The desertification of land globally is not a big enough story, or more to the point, our nations are not acting fast enough or with the correct level of gravitas to food shortages. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘It’s too fast, too big’: speed of climate crisis is devastating crops, say farmers

Drought and extreme heat are killing plants, driving up prices while also making some farms economically unviable

theguardian.com

‘The market’ didn’t decide that AI would be our future. Capital did. And when the devastating consequences of their decisions become clear, capital must be made to pay. graceblakeley.substack.com/p/data-centr...

Data Centres and Democracy

The AI boom was planned by capital. When it collapses, capital must be made to pay.

graceblakeley.substack.com

Ahmad & Samar got married in defiance of Israel's genocide, and are expecting a child. They're still trapped in their home of Gaza, now turned to rubble and desolation by Israel's genocide. Please share & give to help them ensure a future for their child. They're not getting enough support:

Our Baby Deserves Safety: Help Ahmad& Samar to Start Again

Hi, I'm helping my dear friends Ahmad and Samar who are seeking your support to build a secure and stable future for themselves and their growing family. Please read their story and consider supportin...

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AHMAD_JOHAR🕊𓂆🇵🇸@ahmadjohary16.bsky.social · 3d ago

I’ve carried the weight of Gaza on my shoulders, along with the silence that followed. All I dream of is a new beginning and a safe life for my wife, our baby girl arriving in two months, and me.♥️ Please help us reach that dream. Your donation is the light we hold on to for our daughter's future.🕊

So fun fact, these websites that are controlling what NSFW folks MIGHT do off-platform would not do anything about a person who was using their platform to continue stalking and harassing me, because a majority of his stalking had previously happened off-platform. Food for thought!

Suzanne ✨🌑@tendermiasma.com · 4d ago

The TOS being so strict that they control you offsite is the problem; sites like Patreon and Kofi have offsite clauses too. The social criminalization of the suggestion that somewhere you might be doing nsfw is a problem. It's branding a person as obscene and we need consumers to stand up for us