Two hooded figures with lamps approach a moonlit, isolated cottage. A woman answers the door. We have come for the child, says the hooded figure So soon? she asks It is time, says the hooded figure. The woman is distraught. We should never have got him a library card! What is done cannot be undone, says the hooded figure We couldn’t see the harm! We just wanted him to enjoy reading! For most, it ends there, says the hooded figure, turning away and walking into the wilderness Oh lord, What have I done! says the woman, the child walks past her and out into the darkness with them. Do not cry mother. I am a writer now.

my latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

And this beautiful game on grief is out now! If you want to support Arab-made work about the Arab world, history, arts, and culture -especially in a time of destruction and erasure towards our people- I cannot recommend this game more.

store.steampowered.com/app/3451680/...

Happy Birthday!!!

Happy Anniversary Masao!

It is a miracle that any game ships, ever.

Interesting how temp assets shipping never seemed to be a real problem but now suddenly teams using genAI always "forget" to remove those assets.

Either you're a liar (likely) or using the slop machine has made you careless and lazy (likely).

the media is now telling people to work from home to save on gasoline, immediately after their years-long crusade to tell us why returning to office is best for everyone. this isn't a gotcha, it's an example of how contradicting demands allow the ruling class to blame us no matter what we do

A reminder that I’m STILL available for work.

Thank you so much! 🩷 It's a rough time in the industry, tbh. Fingers crossed we'll come out of it stronger.

Thank you so much!

Hey all!

As of today I'm no longer at WB and looking for a new role in the games industry.

My goal is, and always has been, to make cool games with cool people.

If you're looking for a Narrative Director or Lead who thrives on collaboration and is passionate about games story, please reach out!

NO NO NO YOU DON’T

GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA

federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL

tell everyone you know

www.freetaxusa.com

Time is so fake, “oh we added more daylight” no you didn’t, daylight is portioned by the cosmos repent of your hubris

Yes this is a hockey post.

If you’re mad at the NHL but still would like to get into watching hockey, maybe you would like the PWHL?

You know it’s really amazing how many times I can hear shitty men make noises that sound like apologies but aren’t actually apologies.

Try: “That was a crappy thing to do and I’m sorry. It won’t happen again”

Anything less says you aren’t really sorry, you’re just sorry you got called out.

One of my least favorite things around AI in video games is when these LLM idiots try to say that "AI has been in video games for decades," as if the routines that tell ghosts to chase Pac-Man are exactly the same as the chat bot claiming there are nine Rs in strawberry.

ICYMI, a new episode of the podcast that we're doing dropped yesterday!

Hey, listen! "Noting the Difference" Is out for your listening enjoyment. Come through and hear us yap! Also support the homie @deejayknight.bsky.social on Ko-Fi! Link in the show notes.

Fraiser: And how is your work going in Gotham, cousin Johnathan? What do you have there, is it a Batman or a Man-bat?

Scarecrow: We have both.

Niles: How exciting for you.

Dear US Men's team....Take notes.

“Make bad game? Fired. Make good game? Fired. Make incredibly successful game? Believe it or not, also fired.” Original source of meme is from Parks and Recreation.

the video game industry is a mess

Let's try this again 👋

Hi Bluesky - I'm Massachusetts' Attorney General. You might know me from suing President Trump nearly 50 times, beating Uber and Lyft in court, or being the first woman of color elected to statewide office in MA.

I officially left X today - help me find my MA people?

Letterpress printed posters. The background of each poster is a gigantic "12" -- the number 1 printed in blue and the 2 printed in green (Seahawks colors). Each poster is overprinted with black ink reading "The only thing more powerful than hate is love" in either Spanish or English.

When you're a letterpress studio, but you're on the Seahawks victory parade route.

Macbeth: SHIT

@annlemay.bsky.social You need to see this.

The cover of Deal With the Devil on a background featuring the heroine, Nina, standing on rubble with books in one arm and a gun in the other hand. The ebook cover is on a table with a "Now a Major Motion Picture" sticker that has an asterisk. Next to it is "* actually we're just kind of awkwardly living out the plot in real time but if we pretend it's a movie maybe that makes it more exciting?"

In 2020 @totallydonna.kitrocha.com & I started a trilogy about 3 book nerds (w/ superpowers) who just want to build a library for their community but shitty tech bros suck so they have to keep doing crimes.

Tor was kind enough to put book one on sale for $5.99!

www.kitrocha.com/book/deal-wi...

I want smaller newspapers with actual fact-based reporting made by people who are paid more to work less and I'm not kidding.

I did a little dance of delight when this popped up in my downloads this morning. (Preorders are like a little present from past-me!)

Can’t wait to read it.

Important.

Don't fight them. They want us to fight them. They want to troll us. They came over here because they're sad they can't taunt us. Nothing will make them more angry than becoming the most blocked account on this site and hearing the wind whistle by as we consign them to invisibility.