Climate change is real.

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PSA on the Victoria Line tube in London. Phillipson and every other GC weirdo needs to take note.

Yup … technology is not all it’s cracked up to be … #cdnpoli

Got an hour to spare today or tomorrow? Leave some kind comments on things you enjoy. Tell a developer they're doing a great job, or let an artist know their work is incredible. It can make a big difference in someone's day, trust me.

My indie game launches in 28 days. Algorithm, please carry the signal. My indie game launches in 28 days. Algorithm, please carry the signal. My indie game launches in 28 days. Algorithm, please carry the signal.

So, just to be clear, Asha wants 12% of the POPULATION OF THE WORLD to be on Xbox every day?? In this economy?? When Xbox hasn't even sold 200 million units across all generations? This is just embarrassing 🫠

Colin Spacetwinks@spacetwinks.bsky.social · last mo.

asha sharma going "we want 1 billion players a day" a nice reminder that these execs are fundamentally incapable of understanding that their customers do not have infinite money or even just that time is finite. they just think you haven't been fed the right marketing yet to get you on board

the problem with the games industry is that it makes money in a sustainable way by creating stuff that people want to pay for this is in contrast to how big capital would prefer to make money, by trying to scale fake numbers to infinity using gambler brained investors lured in by impossible claims

Run on this! It's a real thing! People want to hang out IRL but hanging out IRL is too expensive.

kottke.org@kottke.org · last mo.

The Fun Shortage Is Real, and It’s Making America Miserable. “With fewer places to relax and socialize, and steeper prices for entry, having fun is quantifiably harder than it used to be.” [bloomberg.com]

CEO pay is up 1,094% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 26%. Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?

Hot take: lecturing people about their a/c use and commercial airplane flights is a psyop to make us feel climate doom instead of climate rage

Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · last mo.

I'm sick of these movies being so on the nose.

This is Holly. Every day for the past 5 years, she picks out a stick and brings it to her favorite spot for “zen time.” While her stick may change, her routine never does. 13/10 (IG: hollythebluestaffy)

Right now the world is full of people who want to code and write and paint and film stuff and people who want to play and read and look at and watch stuff and nobody is allowed to do any of that because some unrelated third guy isn't making enough money off the deal

Rami Ismail (رامي)@ramiismail.com · last mo.

Our games industry is people. Our studios are people. Our teams people, our games by people for people. Our games are made by people, in groups of people, in teams of people, making people things for people. The magic is people, and the people deserve so much better than all this. I am so sorry.

This is why cities need trees. Hard surfaces and parked cars can reach extreme temperatures, while shaded grass and tree-covered areas stay dramatically cooler. This is the urban heat island effect in one image: hard surfaces absorb and radiate heat, while vegetation and shade reduce it.

Stuart Dunkel (American Artist, born 1952) "Hero", 2020. Oil on Panel, 4 × 5 inches. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Given all of the recent genAI discussion, I wish to repost this.

saw this cap on tumblr and god it really is like that

everyone please stop using all these garbage platforms as your Only Existence Online make a little website bimbo can help iznaut.itch.io/bimbo

bimbo by izzy kestrel

a static site generator for dumb girls

iznaut.itch.io

Bruno Dias@brunodias.dev · 2mo ago

grabbing every small business owner I can find by the shoulders and yelling directly into their faces that IF I DON'T HAVE AN INSTAGRAM ACCOUNT I CAN'T SEE ANY OF YOUR SHIT GET A FUCKING WEBSITE

Commentary: I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake

I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake

Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where the...

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Imagine if a woman president crashed the economy and started a war with no end in sight, and her biggest, seemingly ONLY concern was building a ballroom and redecorating the White House.

i feel like this is incredibly relevant to the indie game space too, especially with how discourse heavy + online it can be: web.archive.org/web/20260515... good food for thought. a big reason i don’t trust discourse topics in online discussion anymore is because narrative matters more than reality.

The Feed Is Fake

What if every viral song, movie, meme, influencer, and celebrity drama in recent memory was the result of a stealth marketing campaign?

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still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them