Rebecca Heineman's source code disks for Apple II, Apple IIGS, and C64 versions of "Tass Times in Tonetown" were recently imaged at KansasFest 2026 and are now archived. Burger Becky was an incredible and beloved engineer and raconteur who we sadly lost last year. archive.org/details/tass...

This is the logical endpoint of the neoliberal model of education. They think that education is only about “getting a job” rather than actually being educated.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d ago

President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v

It’s weird that Bluesky, which I look at about once every two months, 1st decided I couldn’t use it unless it face scanned me or ? for an age verification and now seems to no longer care. Anyway, I am only here to say if you know me and live in Montreal, I am moving there in two weeks, look me up.

are there a lot of other industries where after a very successful project all the people post "it almost killed me and was driven past the brink of sanity that dark abyss beyond which light cannot reach and now im looking for work also check my linkedin"?

Dwarf Fortress is still an amazing game www.pcgamer.com/games/sim/dw...

Dwarf Fortress forensic specialists blame mysterious case of spontaneous human combustion on a historical artifact that suddenly remembered it's four times hotter than the surface of the sun

It's always right when you get back home from a road trip that you realize you've been carrying a thermonuclear hazard.

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So extremely amped that The Strong Museum acquired these Fantastic Arcade cabinets, including Grass Stains!! I made this little co-op soccer game w/ my buds Aaron Freedman, @radstronomical.bsky.social and @amosroddy.bsky.social for Fantastic Arcade back in 2018. So proud of our little cabinet ❤️

Telemelt 2 is a networked multi-system browser emulator designed to recreate the experience of playing console games with a single controller in a room full of friends. We worked hard to make the shared experience we wanted to use.

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Telemelt is a multi-console emulator built around passing a controller

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Vermithrax Pejorative - Dragonslayer (1981) prop after restoration.

Just in case it’s not already clear that ICE is a white supremacist thug army, Homeland Security is recruiting with a “defend your culture” slogan.

🚨 ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨 After 4 years of work, my solarpunk game finally has a title, a trailer, and a Steam page! Wishlist... Future? No Thanks! 👉 futurenothanks.com

they're just ceding the entire framing of the argument to the right wing. if you accept it's appropriate to censor exceptionally obscene forms of artwork, then all they need to do is argue that the stuff they actually want to censor (read: all LGBT work) is in fact also exceptionally obscene

AmericanTruckSongs10@ethangach.bsky.social · last yr.

IGDA calls for a "dialogue" between developers and advocacy organizations about censorship of sex games. "The issue is not a lack of safeguards, but a lack of proportionate, informed, and transparent enforcement"

Labyrinth of the Minotaur, from Lambert of Saint-Omer, Liber Floridus, Saint-Omer, 1121 CE.

I know, probably couldn't hurt an evil tech giant like this, but also couldn't hurt to share this again anyhow.

Boycott Microsoft's Xbox

Microsoft is perhaps the most complicit tech company in Israel’s illegal occupation, apartheid regime and ongoing genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza – which is why Microsoft is a now pr...

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Adam McKay@ghostpanther.bsky.social · last yr.

This is so far over the line it’s disorienting.

The winner for Best Student Game at #IGF2025: Slot Waste (Vinny Roca) #GDC2025

"My name is Mahmoud Khalil and I am a political prisoner. I am writing to you from a detention facility in Louisiana where I wake to cold mornings and spend long days bearing witness to the quiet injustices underway against a great many people precluded from the protections of the law."

Stephen's games and writing that cost money from the last decade basically are on sale, and you should buy them bc he's a handsome intelligent genius itch.io/s/149509/the...

The Deals Strangler by thecatamites

A bundle by thecatamites, $15.00 for 6 games

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I've been thinking about this for a few years now and it's probably not politically feasible or even scientifically possible but I think the US needs an opposition party

goood morning y'all! DID YOU KNOW i've been making a bunch of browser games in #PICO8 and a bunch of them are nice to do on your phone!! adamatomic.itch.io

When the universities close, their presidents will be hired into consulting firms for their skill at cutting budgets This is why they aren’t speaking up

#ICYMI: We previously reported on Illinois’ “no-schoolers,” children pulled from public school who receive almost no education in homeschool. One 9-year-old told authorities he was beaten and denied food once his parents decided to be his teachers.

His Parents Said They Would Homeschool Him. Lax State Oversight Kept His Abuse Hidden.

At 9 years old, L.J. started missing school. His parents said they would homeschool him. It took two years — during which he was beaten and denied food — for anyone to notice he wasn’t learning.

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ProPublica@propublica.org · last yr.

NEW: Following a ProPublica and Capitol News Illinois investigation, an Illinois lawmaker introduced a bill that aims to protect homeschooled students from abuse or neglect. “Illinois has zero regulations regarding homeschooling — we are not the norm at all,” she said.

If you live in Austin, you should check out the multi-channel version of Andrew Bujalski’s *There, There* at The Museum of Human Achievement. It’s running this week and I helped work on this version (as a tech, not an actor) moha.wiki/There_There

There There - MoHA WikiThe Museum of Human AchievementThe Museum of Human AchievementThe Museum of Human Achievement

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Palestinians in Gaza fear starvation during Ramadan after Israel blocked aid following Hamas’s rejection of extending the first phase of the ceasefire, which expired Saturday. 🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage:

Fears of ‘famine, chaos’ in Gaza as Israel cuts off all aid during Ramadan

Netanyahu says new weapons will help ‘finish the job’ as Israel blocks all ‘goods and supplies’ from reaching Gaza.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · last yr.

“Generative AI can assist our journalists in uncovering the truth and helping more people understand the world. Machine learning already helps us report stories we couldn’t otherwise, and generative AI has the potential to bolster our journalistic capabilities even more…” editorial guidelines say.

If University administrators had any spines they'd all start cancelling football and basketball seasons, stat and blame it on Trump/Musk

David F. Warner@dwarnersoc.bsky.social · last yr.

⚠️ Effective Monday 2/10/25, NIH indirect rate capped at 15%. Applies to existing & future grants. —> Deep budget cuts & program closures coming to a university near you. Is this the break the glass moment for university administrators who have been silent so far about the attack on science?

“Audacious.” What the fuck are these people doing.

if I understand American politics correctly, progressivism is something that requires 60 senate votes to work, while national conservatism doesn’t require any votes at all