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Stephen Graves @stephengraves.co.uk · 25/07/2025
What an utterly dogshit rebrand. Take something unique, characterful and distinctive and make it look like every other bland corporate unbrand out there.
On the left: the text "GAMES WORKSHOP" rendered in a vibrant red and yellow angular typeface. On the right: the words "GAMES WORKSHOP" rendered in the same bland Gill Sans-esque capitals that every bloody brand uses these days.
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daffodil 🇵🇸 🇱🇧 @daff.space · 25/07/2025
Action for Australian folks bsky.app/profile/did:...
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PSX Bunlith 🪄🏳️‍⚧️ E2 OCT 16TH!!!! 🐰🌱 BLM ACAB 🇵🇸 @b0tster.yeag.gay · 24/07/2025
itchio saying "WARNING: ITCHIO IS NOT FOR PRUDES. IF U CLICK ON OUR LINK PLEASE BE CAREFUL ABOUT WHAT U MIGHT SEE"

master card replying "...and i took that personally"
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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Itch.io was the second platform targeted by antiporn groups pressuring them to ban mature content. It has removed or shadowbanned games with adult content. Credit card processing is a vulnerability exploited by censors to bypass creators’ First Amendment protections. But it’s still censorship.
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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 24/07/2025
so when you… • force this tech on most everyone • block it from acknowledging trans people even exist • remove lgbtq people from human rights reporting & allow ICE to conceal info on trans people in custody …it seems like a good time for cis folks to stop considering political “compromises.”
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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Two months after Xbox said upcoming RPG The Outer Worlds 2 would cost $80, it is reversing course. The shift to $80 video games is not going as smoothly as publishers hoped
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Mat Piscatella @matpiscatella.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
June 2025 U.S. Video Game Market Highlights from Circana - Nintendo Switch 2 debuted as the fastest selling video game hardware device in US history, while consumer spending in both video game hardware and accessories reached new all-time June records.
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Keith Stack-o'-lantern @keithstack.com · 23/07/2025
This is wild considering Deltarune isn't even a Switch 2 exclusive. What a feel good indie success story. Bigger than Mario!
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Chris Kerr @kerrblimey.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
NEW: Multiple employees at ZeniMax, including two union members, have accused Microsoft of once again failing workers with its latest round of layoffs. Sources described the way the company handled the cuts as "inhumane" and claimed work will be hampered after the loss of key talent. More below:
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ZeniMax staff lambast chaotic Xbox layoffs: 'It's difficult to work when you're looking at a graveyard'
Employees at The Elder Scrolls maker ZeniMax explain how Microsoft's latest round of colossal layoffs unfolded and what they mean for the studio and its developers.
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 21/07/2025
Waypoint writers quit over removal of articles related to new Steam policy aftermath.site/waypoint-quit-...
A webpage on the site Vice reading "Not Found. We’re sorry, the page you’re looking for could not be found. Please use your browser’s ‘Back’ button or use one of the navigation links on this page."
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Iron Pineapple @ironpineapple.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
punching through a rock in donkey kong bananza might be the most satisfying action of all time in a video game
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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
you gotta be fucking kidding me
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Mat Piscatella @matpiscatella.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Always love when NPR puts out a new list like this. Never fail to discover a handful of incredible games I never knew existed. www.npr.org/2025/07/16/n...
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The best games of 2025 so far, picked by NPR's staff
From indies like Blue Prince to big console exclusives like Donkey Kong Bananza, NPR staff and contributors round up their favorite games of the year so far.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Media outlets can't pivot to AI to save themselves. It's not a business strategy and it's not going to work. The only path forward is for journalists to lean into their humanity, to do things AI can't, and to make clear they are writing for people, not algorithms: www.404media.co/the-medias-p...
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The Media's Pivot to AI Is Not Real and Not Going to Work
AI is not going to save media companies, and forcing journalists to use AI is not a business model.
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Lisa Schaeffer @silversober.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
by @mikedrucker.bsky.social www.thegamer.com/im-starting-...
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I’m Starting To Worry This Industry Has No Respect For The People Who Work In It
Once your stock options were fully vested, did you sell off all the shares in your humanity?
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Jewish orgs Keshet and the Hebrew Free Loan Association are giving out interest-free loans to LGBTQ+ folks who need to re-locate but can’t afford it. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE JEWISH. “The idea that people were having to pick up and flee their homes was something that resonated Jewishly.”
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Persecuted for being LGBTQ+ in Trump country, they now have a chance to start over someplace new
Keshet and the Hebrew Free Loan Society are fighting persecution by offering loans to those who need to flee,
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/07/2025
the singular message of this ad is "zohran loves new york city" and it is incredibly effective
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Romero Games @romerogames.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Update (July 7, 2025)
We want to address recent reports regarding the status of Romero Games. These reports have contained inaccuracies, and we feel it's important to set the record straight.
• The funding for our project was pulled, and our game was canceled.
• Due to confidentiality agreements, we cannot disclose the publisher's identity, though some may infer it from public information.
• As a result, we now have to reassess the entire staffing of our studio.
• Romero Games is not closed, and we are doing everything in our power to ensure that it does not come to that. Any suggestion otherwise is factually incorrect. Indeed, we were in the studio today to discuss next steps with the team.
• We've been contacted by several publishers interested in helping us bring the game across the finish line, and we're currently evaluating those opportunities.
We appreciate the outpouring of support and will share further updates as we are able.
Romero Games
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Reading through some of the top comments on the NYTs latest story about Zohran Mamdani
Yale from New Haven says: “This is insanely low, racist, and desperate. Glad to see they’ve just decided to be a tabloid. It sounds like he clarified it well enough with writing in “Ugandan.” Truly insane (and just unacceptable) that this was framed like this. Or reported at all! Who cares!”

Jennifer from Oregon says: “Please, please do not do hit pieces on this man who is one of the few sources of hope that most of us have in this country. Just stop.”PD from Brooklyn says: “This really does not feel newsworthy, when you see he made his best effort to clarify the check-box identity markers he was offered.”

Paul from Ohio says: “I’m a middle-aged white dude from the midwest. Not a socialist or communist, and never heard of Mr. Mamdani prior to this mayoral race.

But I have to say that the coverage of this guy, including by these reporters, seems biased against him.

Who cares what boxes he checked on a college application for a college to which he did not even get admitted? It tells us some things about some people. But none of them are Mr. Mamdani.”Taylor from New York says: “The media is desperately looking for anything they can use to smear this man. Adams and Cuomo have well-documented scandals that have landed them in legal trouble. How about we focus on the real corruption in this city”Ed the Rabbit from Baltimore says: “So you got a hot tip from a eugenicist and gave him anonymity in order to "out" an Asian person who was born in Africa as a person who checked some boxes on a form and thereby claimed to be "Asian" and "African American" before he officially became American, in an attempt to gain admission to a University his mother already worked at—and failed. 

This is not your finest hour.”

Robin from Greenpoint says: “Yep. More qualities about Zohran that I identify with. More nuances I see reflected in more New Yorkers.”
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John Linneman @dark1x.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Honestly, for me, this feels like the final straw. I get it - Microsoft is there to make money blah blah, but this truly feels like Xbox is over. The Switch 2 already took the spot of the Series X in my setup. I've been using more Linux and MacOS too. www.videogamer.com/news/doom-co...
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DOOM co-creator John Romero’s entire Romero Games studio has been let go following Microsoft layoffs as Xbox cuts funding for new FPS
Microsoft layoffs have resulted in cut funding for independant studio Romero Games as the studio lays off its entire workforce.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 02/07/2025
1. Good news for trans people: I have independently confirmed that the Trump admin is now processing passport updates in compliance with a court order. Multiple trans people have gotten their gender markers updated. There are important caveats though, read on. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Trump Admin Begins Processing Some Trans Passport Updates, Though It Will Maintain Data On Requests
On Wednesday, at least some transgender people applying for passports in person at passport offices for urgent travel have received updated passports with correct gender markers.
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Knoebel @knoebel.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Microsoft cuts 9000 workers.
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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
BREAKING: Mass layoffs at Xbox have started. Candy Crush maker King told employees that it is cutting 10% of staff, or 200 jobs. Bethesda's Europe offices were hit too. U.S. offices are expected to inform people this morning. More to come shortly www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Microsoft Begins Deep Job Cuts Across Xbox Division
European subsidiaries such as King were informed about the job cuts on Wednesday
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Nikki McCann Ramírez @nikkimcr.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Karoline Leavitt indicates the administration is open to a denaturalization-oriented investigation against Zohran Mamdani
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 30/06/2025
Today, senator Ron Wyden will raise a point of order to remove the Medicaid and CHIP ban on gender affirming care. The Republicans need 60 votes to keep it in but they only have 53. Call your Dem senator today and urge them to vote to strip the ban from the bill. Senate switchboard 202-224-3121.
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WholesomeMemes @wholesomememe.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
A joy to march in NYC Pride with the people's champ Tish James 🏳️‍🌈
Zohran and Attorney General Tish James marching together in NYC Pride.
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gita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Zohran Mamdani with a trans flag at the pride parade 🥹
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New York Shit Post @nyshitpost.com · 29/06/2025
Kim Kardashian Not Fooled By Anonymously Gifted Flowers Arranged In The Shape Of Swastika
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NINA 🍊「ニーナ」 @27orangelily.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
I'm beyond happy to share that @teamfourstar.bsky.social has voiced my Vegeta Pride comic!! 🪩🕺 A huge thank you to @kaiserneko.bsky.social and everyone over at TFS for bringing my comic to life, it's like a dream come true! Happy Pride!! 😁🫶❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
I've been banging this drum for years now, I know, but Zohran's Big Night is a clear illustration of the power of giving people a vision of the future that boldly contradicts the rhetoric of Republican fearmongers. Not just "disagrees on policies," but actively paints a different image of the world.
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404 Media @404media.co · 24/06/2025
Fansly Just Banned Furries 🔗 www.404media.co/fansly-ban-f...
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Massive Creator Platform Fansly Bans Furries
Blaming payment processor restrictions, Fansly—a platform creators flocked to after OnlyFans announced it'd ban sex—announced it's changing the rules for multiple types of content.
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Adam @goldmanadamj.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Cool NPR posted this, but also insane that NJ/NY is getting this hot in June.... www.npr.org/sections/goa...
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How to stay cool in extreme heat without air conditioning
How do you stay cool when it's 120 degrees and there's no AC? Dr. Gulrez Shah Azhar, who grew up in India, shares strategies from the Global South.
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people: 1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money 3) We won’t need a lot of troops 4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq 5) We’ll find WMDs 6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators 7) It will be easy 8) It won’t take long All lies.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
I got mad and I wrote about it.
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The appalling smearing of Zohran Mamdani as 'anti-semitic'
It's Islamophobic. It's racist. It's also completely untrue.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/06/2025
I couldn't let that Confessore piece slide. It was such a disgusting hit piece on a vulnerable community in a moment of crisis. I dissected the article and why its framings are dishonest at best and outright lies of ommission at worst. www.thedissident.news/anatomy-of-a...
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Anatomy of a Hit Piece: Deconstructing The New York Times' Attack on Transgender Rights in U.S. v. Skrmetti
Seemingly not content with the US v. Skrmetti decision issued by the court siding with Tenessee to ban gender affirming care for trans youth, the New York Times was ready to pour salt on the fresh wou...
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/06/2025
Seeing so many people gleefully celebrating bombs hitting Tel Aviv is gross. I've seen Palestinians massacred for nearly two years by Israeli bombs and munitions. I want it all to stop and people to live safely, not the same thing to happen to Israelis. Don't let war hollow out your soul.
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🍓🍒𝕱𝖗𝖊𝖉 𝕯𝖚𝖗𝖘𝖙 & 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝕯𝖎𝖆𝖒𝖔𝖓𝖉𝖘🍎🍉 🔜 🤕😔 @seconddeath.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
posting this bc if I see one more doomer take im going to kill someone with hammers
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 19/06/2025
After watching the difference between Israel bombing EVERY HOSPITAL in Gaza INTENTIONALLY for TWO YEARS STRAIGHT, and what seems like a Iranian stray missile hitting an Israeli hospital (which is bad, too!) - I'm done with Western media. This isn't journalism. It is complicity in genocide.
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Crisppyboat @crisppyboat.ca · 18/06/2025
Donkey Kong Bananza 🍌✨
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ACLU @aclu.org · 18/06/2025
The court got it wrong. Denying transgender youth the health care they need solely because they’re trans is discriminatory, and we will keep fighting.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Justice Sotomayor's dissent in Skrmetti (which she's now reading from the bench) is deeply pained, accusing her colleagues of abandoning "transgender children and their families to political whims" and badly damaging "bedrock" principles of equal protection. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
Tennessee’s law expressly classifies on the basis of sex
and transgender status, so the Constitution and settled
precedent require the Court to subject it to intermediate
scrutiny. The majority contorts logic and precedent to say
otherwise, inexplicably declaring it must uphold Tennessee’s categorical ban on lifesaving medical treatment so
long as “‘any reasonably conceivable state of facts’” might
justify it. Ante, at 21. Thus, the majority subjects a law
that plainly discriminates on the basis of sex to mere rational-basis review. By retreating from meaningful judicial
review exactly where it matters most, the Court abandons
transgender children and their families to political whims.
In sadness, I dissent.
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Adam @goldmanadamj.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
My Brain really picked a good time to have Gender dysphoria questions. 10/10 timing. Go me 😞
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 18/06/2025
I can't begin to tell you just how incredibly fucked trans people are here. This will pour gasoline on the Trump administration's attacks on trans people and they will get even harsher and more cruel. The Supreme Court is greenlighting the eradication of trans people from society.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 18/06/2025
Breaking: Transgender people lose Skrmetti, SCOTUS rules that Tennessee's law banning gender affirming care is not subject to heightened scrutiny. I'll be reading and reporting more fully today. Terrible day for transgender people. Full decision here: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
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Adam @goldmanadamj.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Kid Pauline is adorable and I can't wait to play the new DK game. Also that fast travel system is 👀👀👀
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