Reposted by Barbara 👽Jon Juarez @harriorrihar.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Cover for a story by @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social vandermeer , author of *Southern Reach*. 5481101
Reposted by Barbara 👽Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 21/09/2026The only part of game development I don't care about is the shareholders 9945166
Barbara 👽 @barbsart.bsky.social · 09/09/2026But the blame can’t be put on the boycott here, it’s the company’s responsibility to respond, and their willingness to choose tech hype and stakeholder interests over people’s livelihoods is the issue. AI criticism and activism for workers rights go hand in hand. 130
Barbara 👽 @barbsart.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Max and I will be showcasing our new zine + hypertext fiction game set in our worldbuilding project Diluvium at UGE! Come say hi! 🪶 061
Barbara 👽 @barbsart.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Your bob is so Vulcan chique I knew you were a trekkie 120
Reposted by Barbara 👽adamatomic @adamatomic.bsky.social · 02/07/2026games have been huge success. thats why we're firing every one who makes games. also we are going to make it so players can no longer buy games 4182852496
Reposted by Barbara 👽Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 28/06/2026🔔 cool link alert 🚨 foxglove foxgloveapp.com “Foxglove protects your art before you post it. It strips tracking metadata that platforms use to profile you, embeds a hidden ownership watermark into the pixel data, and applies adversarial perturbation that corrupts AI training.”foxgloveapp.comFoxglove - Beautiful to humans. Poison for machines.Poison your art for AI before you post. Strip metadata, embed hidden messages, disrupt AI training. Everything runs on your device. 28137
Barbara 👽 @barbsart.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Are you ready for #ArtFight yet? It will be my first year participating! Feel free to share your usernames so we can follow each other :) My profile is artfight.net/~barbsart #ArtFight2026 #TeamTragedy 030
Barbara 👽 @barbsart.bsky.social · 17/06/2026This is so evil I’m so sorry.. it feels soooo impossible to make a stable living as an artist knowing all your progress building an audience can be wiped away just like that. I wish people would leave Instagram.. the app hasn’t been supportive of their artist community in a long long time 020
Barbara 👽 @barbsart.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Hello @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social I wanted to share that I created the Biologist and the Crawler in Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream.. they are friends now! I’m in the process of building Area X but the lighthouse building takes a while to unlock! 020
Reposted by Barbara 👽Himbo Beefcake, PhD 🔞💪 @jendrawscomics.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Realistic "draw with me" YouTube video where the artist spends a good 15 minutes browsing their WIP folder, then reorganizes their layers, then real quick checks social media for 35 minutes before drawing a single circle with the eyeline cross on it, then afk for 45 minutes 321884572
Reposted by Barbara 👽Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 22/05/2026At this point, generative AI has to go the way of the dinosaur. It literally has to be rooted out and the companies associated with it driven out of business. The idea that it continue in its current form is intolerable and a complete disaster at a time when we have no margin for error as a species. 10950242
Barbara 👽 @barbsart.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Good luck have fun!! I’m curious about your experience on this train, I’ve booked it for a Berlin trip this summer! 110
Barbara 👽 @barbsart.bsky.social · 29/04/2026The movie was fun and I’m always a sucker for stories about befriending aliens but the above implications leave a sour aftertaste (especially as there’s Amazon money behind the movie) 110
Barbara 👽 @barbsart.bsky.social · 29/04/2026I hate that it falls directly into the “climate change will be fixed by an individual brilliant scientist at the last possible moment” trope and also supports Bezos & Musk’s narratives of we need to go into space to save the planet guys!! Give us money so we can go to mars!! It’s our only hope!! 110
Reposted by Barbara 👽Game Workers Conference @gameworkerscon.bsky.social · 27/03/2026Do you work in the games industry? Join us for the first Game Workers Conference, online May 22nd & 23rd ❤️✊🏽 117499
Barbara 👽 @barbsart.bsky.social · 30/03/2026I’m active on Mastodon at gamedev.lgbt/@barbs btw..gamedev.lgbtBarbara 👽 (@barbs@gamedev.lgbt)50 Posts, 110 Following, 88 Followers · ✩ (concept) artist | gamedev | writer ✩ MA Experimental Publishing @xpub@post.lurk.org ✩ ᴏᴘᴇɴ ᴛᴏ ᴡᴏʀᴋ ✩ loves visionary sci-fi & ecology 🚫 NO GenAI/NFT 000
Reposted by Barbara 👽Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 17/03/2026There is a massive disconnect between the indie games community and the technoloy industry at large, Paul - the disconnect being that indies try to make games and a large part of the technology sector makes disposable startups to flip as much VC money as possible at the expense of everything. 18856133
Reposted by Barbara 👽Stevoisiak @stevoisiak.bsky.social · 03/02/2026I made a filterlist for uBlock Origin to remove Generative AI features on websites. Includes blocks for * Google AI Summaries * YouTube Ask button & chat summaries * GitHub Copilot * Facebook AI chat * X's Grok buttons * Deviantart DreamUp * Booru AI images * And more github.com/Stevoisiak/S... 3122405811924
Barbara 👽 @barbsart.bsky.social · 20/02/2026woman of tomorrow #supergirl #supergirlwomanoftomorrow #art #sketchbook #dccomics 071
Reposted by Barbara 👽Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 16/02/2026Godot's marketing strategy for 2026: let Unity exist.gamedeveloper.comUnity says its AI tech will soon eliminate the need for codingCompany CEO Matt Bromberg claims AI will empower non-coders and seasoned developers alike. 23725112
Reposted by Barbara 👽Natalia Zaitseva @nataliadraws.bsky.social · 07/01/2026Luckily, I've gotten much better at this lately! 5154801228
Reposted by Barbara 👽Matthew Gault @mjgault.bsky.social · 05/02/2026economists ran the numbers and, uh, it's bad!404media.coVibe Coding Is Killing Open Source Software, Researchers Argue‘If the maintainers of small projects give up, who will produce the next Linux?’ 927088
Barbara 👽 @barbsart.bsky.social · 15/01/2026But welcome to the insta-less club?? :o What made you decide to uninstall? 100
Barbara 👽 @barbsart.bsky.social · 15/01/2026It’s sooo annoying, all these social media make their websites unusable so you will download their app.. i also hate when you HAVE to log in to an account to view a post at all 200
Reposted by Barbara 👽adelle k. @ RCCC I-46 @klimtsonian.bsky.social · 29/12/2025this was my heated rivalry etc etc 943345
Reposted by Barbara 👽rob pike @robpike.io · 25/12/2025Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry. 10081872203
Barbara 👽 @barbsart.bsky.social · 11/12/2025Over the weekend @bunkes.bsky.social and I participated in the B1T JAM! We were only allowed to use 2 colors for this game. In Webgardener, you are a gardener caring for your website. Plant links to explore the world wide web! dionpeek.itch.io/webgardenerdionpeek.itch.ioWebgardener by Dion Peek, Barbara MathijssenYou are a gardener caring for your website. Plant links to explore the world wide web! 010
Reposted by Barbara 👽Ika Willis @ikax.bsky.social · 12/11/2025Read this, on software, maintenance, political community, Ursula Le Guin, and the public good. You will be pleased that you did!wrecka.geSparks fly upOnce you’ve seized the tools of political life to build communal power, it’s hard to forget what a hammer feels like in your hand. 063
Reposted by Barbara 👽Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social · 11/11/2025I went to meet the 'Rockstar 31', the developers who were suddenly fired from their work on GTA 6 for what the studio has described as gross misconduct. That's not what the workers call it though. They have another couple of words they prefer to use: union busting. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nO...youtube.comThe Rockstar Workers Fired Before They Could Finish GTA 6YouTube video by People Make Games 1620951057
Reposted by Barbara 👽Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 13/09/2025The Groyper Wars 8647302235
Reposted by Barbara 👽Dion Peek @bunkes.bsky.social · 11/09/2025One of the first sketches I ever made for Bloody Hell 2. This was also one of my first ever isometric sketches, and I quickly learned that overdrawing engine blockouts was way quicker than doing it all by hand :)) Check out @punintendedgames.bsky.social for more! #pixelart #gamedev #isometric 0135
Reposted by Barbara 👽Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 08/09/2025We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words. 0363150
Reposted by Barbara 👽Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 05/09/2025Um... I may have gotten carried away in writing my review of Strange New Worlds season 3... 3246573
Barbara 👽 @barbsart.bsky.social · 19/08/2025!!!! I’m in the middle of watching Korra as well! Currently at season 4! 110
Reposted by Barbara 👽innes mck @innes.bsky.social · 13/08/2025still rattled by the sheer giddy glee with which some queers are coming for itch.io, one of the largest collections of queer games in existence. i know it's scary to accept, but we do actually have good things worth defending. we have things it would damage us to lose 3710148