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i block randos who try to follow me :)

Gentle reminder for all that if you have books that are water damaged, crawling with bugs, physically broken, or giving you travel advice for a country that hasn’t existed since the 90s, you can safely throw them away, you don’t need to make them your local thrift store’s problem.

Got really carried away making my Pentiment layoff protest sign for the Irvine CWA rally outside Obsidian offices today 🥹 it was so nice to meet folks from more Microsoft units. You all put so much heart and passion and craft into making video games. You all deserve so much better.

Traditionally illustrated poster drawn in the woodcut-style of the Obsidian developed video game Pentiment. It features the main character, a scribe named Andreas with a rust-red cap and shoulder length wavy blond hair, sitting at his lectern with a pen in his hand. He is looking worriedly up at an executioner’s blade which dangles above his head (an homage to the Sword of Damocles). Behind him is a mass of shadowy figures with dozens of swords over their heads or stabbing into their collapsed bodies. 

It is captioned “Death by 1600 cuts”, a reference to the 1600 Xbox workers laid off by Microsoft on July 6 2026 (this also includes many Obsidian devs). The ‘T’ in “Death” is the executioner’s blade. There is gold embellishing on the font.
United Videogame Workers-CWA@videogameworkers.bsky.social · 4w ago

The bosses are stealing our game industry, and we aim to take it back! We’re calling game workers, allies, and fans alike to join emergency rallies on WEDNESDAY, JULY 15th! Check this thread for times and locations as they’re established: 🧵

An illustration, done in a flat graphic style depicting a menacing executive with a sickly smile, towering over scores of downtrodden workers carrying boxes of their belongings out of frame. Below, a call to action:

SAVE OUR DEVS
JULY 15 - Rallies across US & Canada
END MASS LAYOFFS NOW

Dallas, Texas (Richardson) - Id Software
Austin, Texas - Id Software
Montréal, Quebec - Bethesda Games Studio Montréal
Rockville, Maryland - Bethesda Softworks
Irvine, California - Obsidian Entertainment

For all of the same reasons that someone with a history of embezzlement shouldn't be made an org's treasurer. You are free to become a better person and grow from your past! But you are not entitled to any positions of power over others. For Some Odd Reason™ white people really struggle with this.

Two things are true, imo. Comics journalism lacks the resources for adequate coverage of most things and also so so so many people in comics, from readers to creators to journalists, are extremely racist and simply default to pretending Black people don't exist in the scene.

went down to the centrist convention. they’re all shaking and crying, I heard one guy say “I’m starting to think a better world IS possible.” the lady next to him slapped him in the face

The rise of larger vehicles like SUVs and pickup trucks, with their taller hoods and larger blind zones, has contributed to a 75% increase in pedestrian and cyclist deaths since 2009. Until we design better streets and ban these vehicles, people outside these vehicles will keep dying.

The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.s (Gift Article)

The vehicles on American roads have grown larger — and they are killing thousands more pedestrians, a Times investigation found.

nytimes.com