bad news oomf. they just announced a new remake of you at the latest game conference. yeah you got that unreal engine 5 sheen and everything. they changed your entire voice direction and its flat and quirky now. they updated your mechanics. theyre gonna kill you if it doesnt sell one billion copies

Feeling a deep kinship with @hkesvani.bsky.social today. Not because I drank a fine cup of caffeinated soup this morning. Not because I am also a dad (I'm not). Not even because I knew a guy who drank the puddle. But because in the 2010s I had a Communist Party tshirt from Threadless 🤜🤛

They're even more unpopular than data centers.

Young People Hate AI CEOs So Passionately That It's Almost Hard to Believe

A new survey of 1,000 young adults in the US found that nine of the top tech executives are deeply loathed.

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Only dipped a toe into Planetside 2 myself but this anecdote is fascinating

RadiantHostility (he/him)@radianthostility.bsky.social · 2w ago

Back in Planetside 2 this drove the Terran Republic faction, ie the proto-alt-right, *berserk*. All the Vanu (purple and teal alien worshipping spandex clad weirdos) outfits had flat hierarchy and highly flexible tactical organization. Meanwhile the fascists united behind one charismatic leader.

My Indiana prison allows some of us to raise kittens thanks to a partnership with a cat shelter. Lady, a delicate and regal Persian-domestic mix, with short, feathery ebony furis my only friend in this dismal mansion of dejection known as prison.

In My Prison Cell, a Cat Lives Out Its Life

Indiana State Prison allows select residents to care for a feline companion in their cells.

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I’m glad that there’s been more coverage of this, but I must also point out that we - the actual Lebanese - have been saying that Israel’s goal is to make south Lebanon unliveable for nearly 2 years. I said this myself multiple times. We are simply not believed *because* we are Lebanese.

Benjamin Braun@benbraun.eurosky.social · 3w ago

"FT has found evidence of controlled detonations and demolitions by Israeli forces and civilian contractors in dozens of border communities." Most of the destruction happened *after* the April ceasefire when territory was already under Israeli control (dark red dots). www.ft.com/content/25bc...

Demoralized developer's desperate hack came back to haunt him on LinkedIn

Demoralized developer's desperate hack came back to haunt him on LinkedIn

A script that shouldn't have worked, on a project that never ended, for a company that hardly cared

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Overheard on subway: young American woman holding forth to friends about 'soldier eggs'. "You put the egg in a cup like your grandma has and cut the top off then dip bread in it. It's called soldier eggs because the egg in the cup looks like a knight's helmet." said with the air of a subject expert

It's actually quite funny that the real story turns out to be that Harry Potter fans keep despoiling an ecologically sensitive site owned by the National Trust with clutter, despite being asked repeatedly not to

Dan Davies@dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 3w ago

For some reason people lose all critical judgment when interpreting jokes made by infrastructure people at conferences or on a podcast. This just isn't what happened.

I got an email a few months ago about archiving some fan fiction I wrote over 25 years ago. This was delightful - how often does a writer of my calibre get remembered so long after the words were composed - and it prompted a trip down memory lane.

My fanfic origins

Back in June, when I was in Copenhagen with a few friends for Nasty Cut Fest (a small DIY punk festival that I might still write about - it was awesome fun), an email dropped into my inbox: I first stumbled upon your fanfiction when I read your story about the Inquisitors, who only exist as a footnote in the X-COM timeline, on Fanfiction.net back in 2001 or so.

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BOURDAIN (voiceover): I found myself surrounded by discarded objects. An empty soda can, a dead battery. Life becomes death. But death can become life. The simmering pot with its spicy aroma in front of me is proof. BOURDAIN: What's in this dish? ME: Pikmin BOURDAIN: Pikmin. Oh man that's good.

"Musk spends a large part of his free time fomenting violence and spreading the same hateful ideology that motivated some of the deadliest...attacks ever to happen on American soil. It is that fact, and not the cars he builds or the rockets he launches, that ought to define his place in public life"

More evidence that X is basically 4chan with a worse user interface

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · last mo.

The phrase "first the traitors then the invaders" is being used endemically on X to socialise violence ("The future you want will require an unfathomable amount of violence") + to highlight specific targets for intimidation, abuse or murder + to tell people it means they should be targeted.

The phrase "first the traitors then the invaders" is being used endemically on X to socialise violence ("The future you want will require an unfathomable amount of violence") + to highlight specific targets for intimidation, abuse or murder + to tell people it means they should be targeted.

Legions Imperialis: the Battle of Sanitary Nexus 1600-Theta A battle report for the epic-scale grognards...

Legions Imperialis: the Battle of Sanitary Nexus 1600-Theta

I recently had the great pleasure to play another game of Legions Imperialis; I've written about some previous games here. This time I brought what I expected to be a decidedly unbalanced and thoroughly uncompetitive, but hopefully fun and destructive, 2000pt list.

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I've made all my writing about the Horus Heresy accessible to everyone but if you'd like to support more weird philosophy writing about Warhammer 40K please think about becoming a subscriber for $1! Part One: www.patreon.com/TheLitCritGu...

On the Dialectic of Nature and the Warp: The Horus Heresy Thus Far | TheLitCritGuy

If you’ve been following my reading thread over on bluesky you will have noticed that over the last few weeks I’ve been spending a great dea

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I especially love this diagram.

(pitching Mr Magoo) He's this old guy who's partially sighted but lacks insight into his disability - he's also showing early signs of dementia - so he's continually at risk of hurting himself & others Exec: & this is for kids? Writer: yeah like my last show the Skunk Who Doesn't Understand Consent

I think since being prime minister of the UK has such a high regret rate, we should: * Open Prime Minister Identity Clinics with 2-250 year wait lists * Ask candidates how they masturbate * Allow them to stand for the election only while they undergo talk therapy to convince them that they can't

Sick of this crap? Us too. Hit us up. 💪 uvw-cwa.org

UVW-CWA

United Videogame Workers, a game industry-wide union for North America!

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Striking graphic in this latest Reuters piece, which finds that while President Trump and his family have profited by at least $2.3 billion since he retook the presidency, their more than a million investors have suffered $2.3 billion in net losses. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

I thought people were kidding, turns out Elon really did axe the screwworm containment program back in March 25. fucking imbecile www.agri-pulse.com/articles/226...

Bird flu, screwworm monitoring among foreign aid programs killed by Trump

Among the more than 5,300 grants and programs killed as a result of the Trump administration’s USAID cuts are a slate of U.S.-funded programs at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, including eff...

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ah, I was wondering why the NYT was having a panic attack yesterday lol

John Blanche has died. Absolutely devastating news. I have no words right now. It will have to wait. Farewell, old friend.

Friedrich Nietzsche: *weeping, arms around a horse* Gordon Ramsay, in the distance: Fuck me, is he crying on that horse? Nietzsche: *losing consciousness* Gordon Ramsay, still some way off: Perfect. Your horse is fucking soaking and now big boy has passed out. No wonder this place is going under.

This is terribly sad news. RIP to an absolute bloody legend

Tabletop Battles@tabletopbattles.com · 3mo ago

In memory of John Blanche, 1948-2026. www.tabletopbattles.com/in-memorium-...

May flash fiction: Ludictaur / Time Clops A pair of very silly micro stories. I hope you enjoy, or hate them in a way you find interesting

May flash fiction: Ludictaur / Time Clops

These very short stories were written for the May SFF Chronicle forums writing challenges. Ludictaur was written for the 75 word challenge, for which the theme was "games". Unfortunately I then neglected to submit the story in time. Time Clops was written for a 100 word challenge for which the cue was "time warp with a horse". Unfortunately after editing the story down to the word count, I realised that I had mistakenly used a cue from 2020, instead of the current one from 2026.

dislocated.space

I met Ian Watson once, briefly, at a science fiction convention. He reminisced over the inclusion of bum-branding in his 40k novel Space Marine (edited out, I gather, in reprints). Legend.

Queen of Grimdark@annasmithspark.bsky.social · 4mo ago

A lovely obituary of Ian Watson on the Guardian website today. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

The fact that a neo-Nazi teenager who attempted to behead a Kurdish barber in Bristol last year has just been sentenced to almost 20 years in prison isn’t *national* news is enormously telling. It’s really not just a South West story, is it?

the right wing takeover of corporate media catapulting aljazeera +160% year over year is kind of incredible tbh