I fear we might see a new alignment between a radical right death cult and a rural revivalist "simplicity" drive, which views collapse and a return to "organic" communities as a solution to decadent urbanism. A century ago this convergence led to a very bad place. www.monbiot.com/2023/10/04/t...
The Cruel Fantasies of Well-Fed People
The astonishing story of how a movement’s quest for rural simplicity drifted into a formula for mass death
monbiot.com
If SCREEN were to pass, you'd be required to scan your face and upload an ID to access this site because it allows "harmful" material. This affects you even if you don't care about sex work or porn.
404 Media@404media.co · 23h agoMike Lee's SCREEN Act, which heads to Senate Commerce Committee for markup on Wednesday, would expand age verification requirements to a nearly limitless scope of websites, and is supported by the architects of Project 2025.
This is a pretty good summary of why this stuff has zero appeal to anyone who actually enjoys making anything, and there will never be anything Ai companies can do about that. (Green absolutely torching his own credibility is just an astonishing unforced error. Write your own words!)
Mike Bithell@mikebithell.bsky.social · 10h agoThe specific focus in this video on the way these tools get under your skin and train you to depend on them is an aspect I personally find existentially terrifying. youtu.be/TtvICev9sBE?...
Got a spare $10? Net yourself almost 150 games and help support laid off game devs with the game industry hardship fund bundle. https://bit.ly/4wGDzDk
Medicinema is absolutely incredible. Free movies aired within hospitals for patients and family staying with them. We lived in hospital for a month as a family and taking my daughter to see a movie was one of the only bright moments Kids loved seeing Paw Patrol today, all money going to Medicinema
Devs, pay attention to who is actually, practically offering support to our laid off colleagues. It’s not the companies, it’s not the ESA, it’s the union, it’s us.
United Videogame Workers-CWA@videogameworkers.bsky.social · 6d ago🎉 IT'S LIVE 🎉 The game industry hardship fund itch bundle made in partnership with @necrosoftgames.com is HERE. Over 100 games for $10+ bucks: all funds (save for itch fees) go directly to the UVW-CWA Game Worker Hardship Fund. GOOD GAMES FOR A GOOD CAUSE👇 itch.io/b/3802/game-...
can't beat it for a day out in east london
Clapton CFC@claptoncfc.co.uk · 5d ago🎟️ 2026/27 admission prices 🎟️ As the new season begins, we can confirm admission prices at @oldspotteddog.bsky.social are frozen once again to the lowest amount allowed: Standard: £5 Concessions: Pay what you can Under 13s: Free www.claptoncfc.co.uk/2026/07/31/a...
In response to the unprecedented number of game developers laid off this year, we have created a bundle on itch to benefit a Game Industry Hardship Fund, managed by @videogameworkers.bsky.social. More than 100 games for 10+ bucks! Please share widely and donate generously! itch.io/b/3802/game-...
OI! This bundle has over 100 games including the extremely very good Arranger. Check it out! it goes to a good cause
Kotaku@kotaku.com · 5d agoIf you're looking for a direct way to help laid-off devs, check this out https://kotaku.com/itchio-game-developer-hardship-bundle-necrosoft-games-layoffs-unionization-2000720782
Nine hours after going live, the itch bundle benefiting our Game Worker Hardship Fund has already raised over $13k! Thank you so much to those who have already purchased. And for those who might be waiting for payday, you’ve still got about two weeks left! Thank you so much 🙏
Remember when people used to share starter packs go.bsky.app/Gkw7ReA
One thing I never did was a post-mortem of Sir. Perhaps this is as good a time and place as any to talk about some of that. It started in 2010 when Channel 4 had some money to spend on making educational games. For some reason they asked me. ->thread
Jim Rossignol@rossignol.bsky.social · 2w agoIn surprising computer game news: Sir, You Are Being Hunted finally made it to console, just fourteen years after release on PC. It's out now on Switch, PS5, and Xbox. (And Steam and GoG, of course.)
look mum we’re in the news thanks @schillingc.bsky.social for chatting with us! www.theguardian.com/games/2026/j...
‘An anthem for the co-dependent’: Bad Magpie’s corvid carnage with a side of existential angst
Going by the mantra, if you want to make someone laugh, make them cry first, the game’s developers have created a lonely magpie who fills the void by wreaking havoc
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maybe we joke about it being a radical communist miracle that NYC is getting big trashcans and filling potholes and balancing its budget and etc. etc. etc. and maybe some people believe a pied-à-terre tax is socialist fuckery but at the end of the day it's just a gov't actually functioning.
This is something even an inveterate liberal like Jon Stewart can pick up on. In his interview with Mayor Mamdani he straightforwardly observed that the shit Mamdani had already accomplished as part of his affordability agenda was fundamentally *fiscally conservative and pro-capitalist* in nature.
Ding dong! New album announce - AT/DC by Andrew Tuttle and Darren Cross ( @d-c-cross.bsky.social), out 2 October via @room40.bsky.social. Check out lead track below via @cyclicdefrost.bsky.social! www.cyclicdefrost.com/2026/07/watc...
Delighted to announce ‘AT/DC’, debut duo album by @tuttscorp.bsky.social and @d-c-cross.bsky.social Out 2 October on Someone Good / @room40.bsky.social . Video below at Cyclic Defrost Me- "Straddling the realms of happy and sad. It's a very pretty listen". www.cyclicdefrost.com/2026/07/watc...
Hannah Ferguson says she intends to run for parliament in his inner-west Sydney seat of Grayndler www.afr.com/companies/me...
The social media commentator planning to challenge Albanese’s seat
The founder and face of Cheek Media says she will spend the next 18 months speaking to inner-west Sydney locals intending to launch a bid for Grayndler.
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