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autumn wright 🍂@autumn-wright.com · 4mo ago

feels like an especially irresponsible moment to ignore BDS when Game Pass is the easiest, level one way to participate in the boycott and BDS just called for renewed pressure after Israel passed a law on executing Palestinian and Arab in prisons that use Microsoft cloud services

Palestinian Prisoners’ Day 2026: Escalate BDS pressure now to free them all.

The Palestinian-led BDS movement calls for intensifying BDS pressure against companies involved in genocidal Israel’s prison complex and its crimes against Palestinian prisoners, particularly Microsof...

bdsmovement.net

Ashley Schofield is looking for work! 🐉@ashlikeadragon.bsky.social · 4mo ago

apropos of nothing at all, thinking again about what i wrote for the startmenu awards late last year on @autumn-wright.com's essay (aftermath.site/microsoft-bd...) and games media as a whole

There is simply no conceivable way I could have chosen anything else as the most important piece of writing on games this year. Autumn’s writing, despite first being published in April, has remained relevant right up until this very moment, and sadly will likely continue to long after. The split between the vocal opinions of games journalists, both freelance and staff, and the silence of the larger, corporate-owned sites they may write for, is still noticeable. News, reviews, previews, guides, and general hype covering the products of Xbox continue to be published relentlessly in complete ignorance of the boycott, stained by blood. Some writers, gratefully, choose (and are permitted) to at the very least include references and links to the BDS boycott itself and Palestinian relief campaigns within coverage of Xbox as an olive branch — an implicit “look, I’ve gotta do my job, but I do care.” As Autumn writes, “Writers, staff and freelance alike, must also pay rent.” We may be limited by our financial and career positions. We may occasionally be in positions that necessitate mention of Xbox products — to be addended with said references and links, yes, but it still feels…wrong. No writer has communicated all this context, nuance, and necessary introspection quite like Autumn has here. “Games journalists and critics are writers of and within empire. Therefore we must make the conditions for revolution inevitable, and we must see the liberation of the Palestinian people within our lifetime. There are many of you who know games are political and feel at a loss for what to do right now in ways greater than interpreting bulleted lists of correct behaviors, who cannot imagine that writing about games could at all align with moving the world towards justice. [...] But then I remember what others’ words have done for me already. [...] Our writing must also do the work to shape how others understand the world. We can move with compassion and with interest when we write about…
404 Media@404media.co · 4mo ago

NEW: Thomson Reuters, the media company which is also a data broker, has long provided personal data for ICE tools, according to documents obtained by 404 Media and sources. There are also indications its data is now part of the Palantir system ICE uses to find which neighborhoods to target.

How Thomson Reuters Powers ICE and Palantir

Thomson Reuters’ data, which can include peoples’ addresses and details on their ethnicity, is linked to tools used ICE.

404media.co

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 5mo ago

Listened to this at 6 minutes in or so. It’s not directly stated, but it appears the reason that Mamdani has not directed H+H to absorb trans patients is out of fear of the federal government. “It’s part of the game we have to play with the federal government .” It’s the EXACT logic NYU is using.

Rich Mendez@richmen.bsky.social · 5mo ago

your reporting inspired me to pitch this segment, so we invited someone on mamdani's health committee to answer these questions! :) youtu.be/Yg3ODFhhJTk?...

mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · 5mo ago

the thing about this is that it would make a huge chunk of New Yorkers who consider free curb space to store their cars to be an inalienable right absolutely nuclear-level lose their shit, but also that group of people voted 95% for cuomo or sliwa anyway

Streetsblog NYC@nyc.streetsblog.org · 5mo ago

NEW: Mamdani's City Hall is discussing charging fees for currently free on-street parking — a policy change that would not only create a new revenue stream but also seize a once-in-a-generation opportunity to improve the streetscape. buff.ly/9C0Iq34

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 5mo ago

Still not a peep on the things Mamdani can do for trans youth after hospital closures. No activation of H+H to take patients. Trans patients are a rounding error for the $10B program. No movement on human rights complaints. No promise to restore care. Rarely have I been so disappointed.

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 5mo ago

1. Its been a week since NYU Langone ended its trans youth care program. Then Sinai followed a few days ago. There are immediate steps Mamdani can take, and he refuses to do so. When asked about those steps, his office has chosen not to comment repeatedly. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Stella Sacco@antlervel.vet · 5mo ago

FYI for fellow narrative designers/game writers: the studio in question is Sentona Games and it’s my understanding they are currently interviewing to replace me. Be very careful with them. They were very nice to me and easy to work with right up until I needed the money I was promised.

Stella Sacco@antlervel.vet · 5mo ago

On Monday I sent a plea to the client who owes me $24k for months and months of work, owed to me since September, saying that if they do not pay me by the end of the month I will lose my apartment and that they should show some humanity and pay the invoice They of course have not paid the invoice

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 5mo ago

Additionally, I want to speak directly to Iranian New Yorkers: you are part of the fabric of this city — you are our neighbors, small business owners, students, artists, workers, and community leaders. You will be safe here.