i am honestly very here for the nicola coughlan bandwagon; she’s on a massive press tour and the two biggest messages from her have been free palestine and enjoy the tiddies - absolutely iconic behaviour

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Please engage with the work done by Writers Against the War on Gaza, by Book Workers for a Free Palestine, and by Gaza Poets Society. If you haven’t already, please seek out these groups and others like them. They are where the bloodied heart of literature is in this hour, and they need you.

Jessica Wick is one of my dearest friends; she co-founded Goblin Fruit with me, & is very much family. She lost her mother last month, & it's been harrowing to witness all the ways in which vicious systems essentially paywall the right to grieve.

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The cruelest myth of European colonization, whether in the subcontinent or the Levant or west Africa, remains the idea that we had nothing, that we didn’t build our societies & our peoples - that we would be wandering & wallowing in filth, were it not for their gracious violence.

using this juncture in history not to slow down an extinction event, but instead to accelerate it, in service of building machines whose primary purpose is to render humans obsolete. silicon valley makes sense as a grand death drive project, a compulsion towards self annihilation

Notions of "objectivity" in video game discourse remain an absolute scourge. Why on earth would you not "recommend" a game you think is amazing?

This undercounting—deliberate undercounting as censorship and disinformation—is precisely how it played out (and is still in effect) in the Sri Lankan genocide as well. These are well-worn and much-bloodied techniques. Being able to recognize them is essential.

>be a small/midsize studio >make a game that sells for $39.99 >It sells ~15 million copies >gross nearly half a billi on Steam alone >like $4m per employee >daily peak ccu still at 45k >guy with a Joker Garfield avi goes viral for suggesting you have failed MAKE IT MAKE SENSE

Tim Bender, CEO of Hooded Horse, with a fantastic response to someone saying “Manor Lords is a pretty interesting case-study in the pitfalls of Early Access”. I didn’t think Hooded Horse could get any cooler but here we are 👑

I AM SO EXCITED FOR THIS PUT IT DIRECTLY INTO MY VEINS

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This is what it’s like when you critically fail the last speech check in a dialogue tree in Disco Elysium

We are the first human beings to see a Mars sunset.

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ppl accusing this woman of killing her husband with COVID bc they had a wedding when he was dying of cancer… what if i said some ppl’s politics re: COVID are rooted not in sincere empathy and collective care but in a weird sanctimonious purity culture. what then

Just as the lies were vomited, just as the congresspeople frequently applauded, an air strike killed six people in my city of Beit Lahia. A school principal I worked with briefly was murdered. His name is Darwish Al-Ghirbawi. He was murdered in front of his house with his son,