this sucks so hard

Kotaku hires Rebekah Valentine as Senior Reporter as site expands under new ownership Owner Keleops says that traffic has doubled in under a year; further hires planned to drive further growth

I work at Kotaku now! :)

You can go watch back today's KFGD to hear me talk about it a little if you want. You could also read my alma mater @gibiz.bsky.social to learn more! www.gamesindustry.biz/kotaku-hires...

In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

A lot of people are still in the denial about how much the median Democratic voter, the median Democratic volunteer, and the median Democratic activist has shifted on a variety of issues. Well here's the handpicked candidate of Chuck Schumer being booed, about Gaza, at the Dem convention.

They should give this guy another video game

If you are able to help support our site migration that would be amazing! I am very bad at asking for help but right now, @butwhytho.net needs it.

We have to get set up on a new host, work with a dev, and our old host still has not refunded us the $3k they took.

Anything helps!

Off is the only answer. The dogs are free at home

A traitor to both his party and his country.

data centers: less popular than nazis

Yeah i think we've let gamers be too horny on main for long enough

Mamdani: If the NYC apartment you keep solely for bi-yearly affairs with your mistress costs over 5 million dollars, you gotta pay more tax

NYPD officer who’s been on disability since 2006 because he stomped too hard on a lady during an arrest and fucked up his ankle: This is a travesty

I want a shiny psyduck plush

The degree to which the entire U.S. government is going to try to spin any and all of this as a win for them is going to be a) bought by basically nobody and b) so fucking irritating

Palestinian Prisoners’ Day 2026: Escalate BDS pressure now to free them all. The Palestinian-led BDS movement calls for intensifying BDS pressure against companies involved in genocidal Israel’s prison complex and its crimes against Palestinian prisoners, particularly Microsof...

Today, on Palestinian Prisoners' Day the BDS movement calls for intensifying BDS pressure against companies involved in genocidal Israel’s prison complex and its crimes against Palestinian prisoners, particularly Microsoft, HP, and Cisco.

#FreeThemAll

bdsmovement.net/news/Palesti...

I bring a sort of Forbidden Vibe to InternalServerError that Rate Limit Exceeded don't really like

trying to post through it rn

Worth thinking about how Schumer voted against the supermajority of his party in two back to back votes just now because he agrees with the Trump administration that Israel should be given unlimited, unconditional, essentially free military assistance.

JUST IN: John Eastman, the conservative attorney who helped devise President Trump's last ditch strategy to overturn the 2020 presidential election, has officially been disbarred, per the California Supreme Court:

A second lego set has hit the household

Ice cold Frescee

Live Nation illegally monopolized the market for tickets, jury finds A jury has reached a verdict in the antitrust case against Live Nation, the live event entertainment company.

Live Nation illegally monopolized the market for tickets, protecting its position through pressure and leverage, jury finds

The reason that there are so many dad games is that some men had careers long enough that they both 1) gained the political capital to pitch and then execute a project with those themes 2) were able to sustain a career long enough that it was viable for them to parent while still work* in games.

So the big studios are abandoning the US and turning the staff workers into contractors to get out paying for healthcare.

The United States is losing one of its defining industries because of not having universal healthcare and the people are going to be even more vulnerable to the industry.

yeah sure

Longtime Immigration Court Interpreter Arrested by ICE at South Texas Airport The state’s only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years.

Texas' only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years: www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...

Trump's DOJ is trying to erase the most serious charges against members of the Proud Boys & Oath Keepers for helping plan Jan 6.

These are the people who beat Capitol Police bloody & tried to overturn an election. And the Trump Admin wants to let them get away with it.

www.cnn.com/2026/04/14/p...

So I was just laid off from Vicariously.

If you‘ve got an opening in PR/marketing and want to hire someone who does good work and has a family to support, I’m your guy.

Any reposts super appreciated.

GODZILLA MINUS ZERO | First Look Teaser YouTube video by GODZILLA OFFICIAL by TOHO

Its so peak www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-ND...

BREAKING: Maryland is about to become the first state in the nation to ban the use of surveillance data and dynamic pricing at grocery stores.

The Maryland House has just passed the Protection from Predatory Pricing Act.

Governor Wes Moore plans to sign the bill.

‘Everyone is Replaceable’: Death Rattles Oregon Amazon Facility A worker died at Amazon’s Troutdale warehouse last week. Employees were told to look away.

A worker died at an Amazon warehouse in Oregon last week.

For more than an hour, workers were instructed to continue working as the man lay dead.

One worker wanted to help, but a manager told them to “Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work," according to @thewesternedge.bsky.social.

hitting this button over and over again. in fact i think its useless and counterproductive how people try to reduce this to isolated alien events, "oh its just this one fandom that has issues" no bro the entire fucking culture has shifted right. people feel like they own you