how the fuck is this tweet still up 13 hours later and this motherfucker not banned? @safety.bsky.app

No matter what happens tonight the fight for building an independent socialist movement capable of seizing political and economic power continues. Join the fight instead of watching from the sidelines!! DSAusa.org/join There are no guarantees we will win!

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A classic book on AAVE is Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English by John Russell Rickford and Russell John Rickford (who are, delightfully, father and son), but I'll retweet this in case other people also have recommendations!

So@solene314.bsky.social · yesterday

@lingthusiasm.com I've learned about a nice feature of AAVE here: www.youtube.com/shorts/-ble0... I'd be delighted to learn more about AAVE, mostly the grammar, but also the history and the social bits. Would you know good resources? I'd rather have books or podcasts 🙂 Thanks ❤️

EA is now owned by Saudi Arabia and Donald Trump's son-in-law

EA is now owned by Saudi Arabia and Donald Trump's son-in-law

The U.S. publisher has been taken private in a deal worth $55 billion.

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"saudi arabia owns EA" is going to be the headline you see basically everywhere for this one but "jared kushner is about to use EA as a vehicle for trump administration bribes" is equally relevant imo

Wario64@wario64.bsky.social · 24h ago

EA Announces Completion of Acquisition by PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners www.ea.com/news/ea-anno...

I'm looking for more work in the upcoming months! Here's a couple games I've worked on but I also provide the following complimentary services: 👑Your teams biggest cheerleader ✨Can work booths 🎤Speaker 💬My job requires a lot of networking -> Found opportunities for my games that way

I swear this guy has the most jaw-droppingly privileged takes. Only a person who has never had to worry about the cost of replacing something that falls apart could say something like this.

katie@supermathskid.bsky.social · yesterday

okay now he's gone too far

'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)

42 days to go!!! So happy with how the cover turned out, posting a making-of soon! Pre-order available in most book stores: linktr.ee/adhdalien

I adored @capycastaway.com from Toronto's @kittencupstudio.bsky.social. The art style is delightful, the animal interactions are adorable and the wonderfully cozy vibes were much-needed. But above all else, it was genuinely lovely to see how much of Toronto and Canada as a whole is in the game. 🍁

Toronto-made Capy Castaway is a joyous tribute to wildlife and Canadiana

The cozy game amusingly draws inspiration from Toronto's infamous Bonnie and Clyde capybara escape, but its charms extend well beyond that.

mobilesyrup.com

As of this morning, the itch bundle officially broke 100k. This is a lifeline to our fellow workers and proof that solidarity extends beyond borders, both literal and figurative. Never let anyone tell you that things cannot change.

United Videogame Workers-CWA@videogameworkers.bsky.social · 3d ago

You’ve helped us raise over 80k for laid off gamedevs in need so far, and we still have plenty of time left in the bundle’s drive. Everyone who organized this effort was doing so on their own time for the benefit of others. If these companies wanted to, they would. They don’t. We do. Join us. ✊

this right here is the dynamic I want in a parnership, in a relationship. If I can be the annoying yelling explaining girl, to some guy's soul patch sunglasses douchebag, that's where I want to be. I want this for me

dr. hazel 🕯️@hazelmonforton.com · 2d ago

talking about warhammer in our household (more accurate)

Itch-exclusive Sale for Demon King Daughter books 1 and 2! From July 3rd through July 9th, get 25% off both books. If you haven't grabbed them yet, this is a great chance to get the whole released story! itch.io/s/197483/dem... #booksky 📢📚

Please stop saying “lockdowns.” There were never true lockdowns in the US, and it fuels far right narratives to repeat this inaccurate statement. You can say closures, you can say restrictions, or better, you can say public health measures which saved many lives.

Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 6d ago

People still complain about “lockdowns” but we had none in the US. We had stay-at-home orders, where although businesses were closed, you could still go outside whenever you wanted. Other countries had far stricter rules, and yet have been much more accepting of them as they saved many more lives.

"I'm entitled to whatever I want whenever I want it for any reason and I don't care what satisfying these urges does to me or the world" well okay dude, seems like there's something deeper going on here, but that's just my take

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I have, with my own eyes, watched my tax dollars in the form of missiles as they hit buildings inhabited by civilians. I'd much prefer subsidizing a grocery story I don't use.

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

Turns out I never posted this here when I made it in 2024. Québécois Miku Ça bien l'air que je n'ai jamais posté ça quand j'lai dessiné en 2024. Miku Québécoise.

This is 100% the Film Production playbook that investors and execs are drooling over. Form a company to build and release a thing, and then immediately shut it down once work is complete. Spin up a new company for the next project and so on.

Aftermath@aftermath.site · 2d ago

Just after CEOs praised Netflix's FIFA game, its developer has reportedly been shut down aftermath.site/netflix-delphi...

another tutorial about the way i think about color (1/7)

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...

More than 80% of kids still using social media despite ban, new eSafety report finds

The report provides more evidence Australia’s world-leading social media ban isn’t going to plan.

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But they will be

Steffen Rayburn-Maarup@rayburnmaarup.bsky.social · 3d ago

I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.

Mark Carney has: -scrapped consumer carbon tax -scrapped oil/gas emissions cap -cut $1.3B from environment Canada -weakened industrial carbon pricing -axed 2 billion trees program -approved 1M barrels/day pipeline -weakened greenwashing laws While this is happening:

Hekki grace, sisters! The Fixer Plushie campaign has been EXTENDED until August 8. www.makeship.com/products/fix...

I agree strongly with this -- in that difficult moment, the possibility of collective effort was conceivable. Not everybody felt it, but many did. I think the political class did not like this one bit.

Dave Andress@davidandress.bsky.social · 4d ago

Covid lockdowns demonstrated, in a deeply imperfect way, the possibility of large-scale social solidarity for a higher cause. That is a prime reason why so many powerful people want us to run screaming away from them into the comforting arms of selfish individualist competition.

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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

Sam Cole@samleecole.bsky.social · 5d ago

a bunch of popular ASMR artists lost their channels forever this week, after YouTube cited them for violating terms against "sexually gratifying" content: www.404media.co/youtube-asmr...

The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.

The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor

The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.

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GameDev MEGA Bundle ⚡️ 32 Items ⚡️ 90% OFF !! Get here > itch.io/b/3817 Now includes a 5000 Retro SFX pack and SpriteMancer by @codemanu.bsky.social ‼️ DRM FREE & UP to 4 Steam Keys. 32 items: Games, Tools, SFX, Textures... #GameAssets #Gamedev #Indiedev

I hate this logic from pro-AI people. Even if LLMs fulfilled the same role as calculators (they don't, they're not deterministic), you're still supposed to learn math yourself before using a calculator. AI companies just want a monopoly on skills and information.

Dr. Damien P. Williams has to go the way his blood beats@wolven.blacksky.app · 4d ago

…to question or check the outputs of these systems even if they WANTED to, then what happens in 20, 30 years when the only people in position are ones who only know how to prompt a system from existing questions? Because i see ppl saying what's next isn't knowing the answer but the right question,…