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No Escape from the Tyranny of Virtue 🏴🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @noescapevg.com · 6h

"it's not artificial intelligence it's super intelligence now" shut the fuck up please god just shut the fuck up

No Escape from the Tyranny of Virtue 🏴🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @noescapevg.com · 16h

I think what really gets my ass is like, nobody currently working in games media in a hiring or commissioning position will admit it, but the severe gendering of who gets to write and produce content in this space is part of an explicitly male chauvinist, right wing cultural movement.

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Keza MacDonald @mackeza.bsky.social · 18h

Apropos of nothing, here's the callout I wrote for Eurogamer about the glaring lack of female voices in the games media. I wrote this in *2018*. Things did seem to get better for a while but now we're backsliding again and the reasons for it haven't changed. www.eurogamer.net/why-the-game...

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Why the games media has a diversity problem - this website especially

Eurogamer has far too low a proportion of articles by female writers. Keza MacDonald, the Guardian's games editor, explains why this happens and what can be don

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No Escape from the Tyranny of Virtue 🏴🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @noescapevg.com · 17h

oh and inb4 dan st*pleton but there are so many talented, qualified and dedicated writers who are women. I could swing a dead cat inside the Critical Distance archives for the past 12-18 months and easily present a baker's dozen excellent posts from women critics, writing about all sorts of rad shit

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Rollin Bishop @rollinbishop.com · 18h

it has been an honor and privilege to field ashley's wild pitches and edit her even wilder copy. in a field full of stellar talent jockeying to be heard, ashley's voice remains absolutely one of a kind. to use her own words, i am fly-swatted to see her go. let our loss be your gain: hire ashley

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Ana Diaz @pokachee.bsky.social · 18h

There is a real psychological effect when you see how white, how male-dominated this space has become in the past two years alone. It’s about paying the bills but it’s also about who can imagine themselves doing this work. Please advocate for the people who have always made this field special.

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Ana Diaz @pokachee.bsky.social · 18h

If you are in a position where you can do anything at all about this, please, please advocate for women of color in media. There are so few women and nonbinary people period. Even less of them are non-white.

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No Escape from the Tyranny of Virtue 🏴🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @noescapevg.com · 18h

the way games media has become so heavily gendered even beyond what it was a decade ago kinda fucking sucks man

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No Escape from the Tyranny of Virtue 🏴🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @noescapevg.com · 19h

currently in the middle of doing a job assessment. for my old job. different company, same situation. (less pay but it'd be familiar.) I'd rather be here than wading through another billion job postings and whatever the fuck is going on with Oklahoma's unemployment situation

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Rik Godwin @rikgodwin.bsky.social · 19h

Oh shit Nivalis Night's is out today?!

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Nivalis Nights is OUT NOW on Steam!

YouTube video by 505 Games

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grace @gracemachine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

For obvious reasons, I haven't talked much about it on here, but my father died suddenly while cycling. Grateful to @sltrib.com for letting me eulogize him and write about the absolute moral necessity of making roads safer for pedestrians and bikers.

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Voices: Deaths like my father’s are not anomalies. They are the bloody cost of our car-obsessed world.

“We can, we must, take action now, before some new senseless death proves the need for change all over again,” Grace Benfell writes in an op-ed.

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No Escape from the Tyranny of Virtue 🏴🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @noescapevg.com · 28/09/2026

Fairly certain I got one of these last week only they didn’t disclose. AI pitches: not even once

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Kinell @sinistercinemastudios.art · 28/09/2026

Sorry are you completely out of your fucking mind

From the Steam page for Active Matter

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Al Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses Al Generated Content like this:

In-game Al character Ms. Second is using Al generated voice. Using humans voices for Al character would be cultural appropriation

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No Escape from the Tyranny of Virtue 🏴🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @noescapevg.com · 28/09/2026

it's very funny to me to see people talking about the most normie shit on planet earth like "if you're not KEYED INTO the ZEITGEIST you're hiding yourself away in a BUBBLE" we're talking about fucking Shape of You not このスピードの先へ. shut the fuck up.

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shy🎀 @shy.center · 27/09/2026

Lost one of my heroes today. Slinger Francisco, also known as Mighty Sparrow, passed away at 91. Trinidad's most famous calypsonian, always infusing his songs with sharp political wit and humor. A friend and influence to many, including Van Dyke Parks. Here he is performing "Jean & Dinah."

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No Escape from the Tyranny of Virtue 🏴🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @noescapevg.com · 27/09/2026

Castlevania by way of Pennywise if they'd learned how to chiptune

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No Escape from the Tyranny of Virtue 🏴🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @noescapevg.com · 26/09/2026

unless they do something drastically stupid to Dylan's characterization in the next 40-50 hours, I dunno y'all, I just feel very endeared to him. he's out here making robots out of vending machines and drawing them kaiju-sized in a forest. he's doing side quests for weird survivalists.

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No Escape from the Tyranny of Virtue 🏴🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @noescapevg.com · 26/09/2026

I dunno man I think it's good if your political organization can make time and space for work outside of discussing political/electoral strategy, e.g., host potlucks and bar trivia and library movie days for kids and shit. like if we're talking pure organizing strategies that seems like a good move

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𝔇𝔢𝔢𝔭 𝔇𝔢𝔩𝔳𝔢𝔯 - ℑ𝔰𝔢𝔨𝔞𝔦𝔷𝔢 𝔐𝔢, ℭ𝔞𝔭𝔱𝔞𝔦𝔫! @therunepony.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

So uh, yeah. Dverghold is fuckin radioactive. Just FYI to any CRPG/Dungeon Crawler peeps who might see this.

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𝔇𝔢𝔢𝔭 𝔇𝔢𝔩𝔳𝔢𝔯 - ℑ𝔰𝔢𝔨𝔞𝔦𝔷𝔢 𝔐𝔢, ℭ𝔞𝔭𝔱𝔞𝔦𝔫! @therunepony.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Who are KVLTGAMES? Well, according to a German-only Wikipedia page... Nazis. Like literally neo-nazis who made a Turner Diaries simulator that got their previous publisher banned from Steam.

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𝔇𝔢𝔢𝔭 𝔇𝔢𝔩𝔳𝔢𝔯 - ℑ𝔰𝔢𝔨𝔞𝔦𝔷𝔢 𝔐𝔢, ℭ𝔞𝔭𝔱𝔞𝔦𝔫! @therunepony.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Steam lists Dverghold as their only game, and I'm not making another Xitter account, so I had to do some websearching. Turns out "Team Sorgarn" are actually an outfit called "KVLTGAMES"

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𝔇𝔢𝔢𝔭 𝔇𝔢𝔩𝔳𝔢𝔯 - ℑ𝔰𝔢𝔨𝔞𝔦𝔷𝔢 𝔐𝔢, ℭ𝔞𝔭𝔱𝔞𝔦𝔫! @therunepony.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"DEI free", "based dev", "pro western values", "rejects modern progressive fantasy". These types don't say this sort of thing about actual[1] apolitical media. These responses imply they perceive the developer as actively one of them. [1]by which I mean media whose themes went over their heads.

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𝔇𝔢𝔢𝔭 𝔇𝔢𝔩𝔳𝔢𝔯 - ℑ𝔰𝔢𝔨𝔞𝔦𝔷𝔢 𝔐𝔢, ℭ𝔞𝔭𝔱𝔞𝔦𝔫! @therunepony.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I didn't find any, but just out of curiosity I decided to look at what the Curators had to say... Huh, we got a lot of... i n t e r e s t i n g opinions here.

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𝔇𝔢𝔢𝔭 𝔇𝔢𝔩𝔳𝔢𝔯 - ℑ𝔰𝔢𝔨𝔞𝔦𝔷𝔢 𝔐𝔢, ℭ𝔞𝔭𝔱𝔞𝔦𝔫! @therunepony.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

So this game called "Dverghold" came across my Steam homepage. Interesting retro vibes, apparently collabing with a dungeon synth artist for the OST. The art was kinda tickling my AI-dar though, so I scrolled down to look for any disclaimers.

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No Escape from the Tyranny of Virtue 🏴🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @noescapevg.com · 26/09/2026

my very initial impressions of Control Resonant are that I'm very taken by a lot of the mood, world- and character-building happening in this game. The music in particular is doing a lot to hit an elegiac vibe. It feels like a COVID game through and through. Plenty of room for all that to change ofc

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No Escape from the Tyranny of Virtue 🏴🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @noescapevg.com · 25/09/2026

After a week or so away to do Real Journalism I’m gonna stream Control Resonant tonight

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No Escape from the Tyranny of Virtue 🏴🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @noescapevg.com · 25/09/2026

personally I think it's been past time that folks need to work out their traumas around so-called "wokescolds"

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Ana Diaz @pokachee.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Very random (but important) question: What are your favorite non-profits doing work in media, journalism, and (for my own interests) video games? Looking to get a better idea of the kind of work happening out there for a larger project. Likes and RTs appreciated.✨

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No Escape from the Tyranny of Virtue 🏴🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @noescapevg.com · 24/09/2026

as gently as I can be, I have genuinely never heard the argument that free readers *lose money* for a website. That's brand new to me.

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No Escape from the Tyranny of Virtue 🏴🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @noescapevg.com · 24/09/2026

These motherfuckers are subjecting themselves and the rest of the world to the technological equivalent of a boot party and going “it’s fine if they wake up with brain damage”

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퓨̸크̸ Games 'n Junk - Puke @puke.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If you weren't awake at 3AM, I wrote about generation 4 in Pokémon. I had a bad time, which is a first in Pokémon, in one of the core series, not like Pokémon Snap or whatever At least I'll be able to sell my loose cartridge for triple what I paid for it. Video games are fun now

The prices for Pokémon Platinum on the second hand market. $95 for a cartridge and $108 CIB. I don't know why you wouldn't just get it complete, at that point

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 23/09/2026

Apply Heat, Melt ICE: A Guide to Resisting ICE around the Country this October crimethinc.com/MeltICE In this overview, we present calls to action to participate in or support mobilizations against ICE in Arizona, Minnesota, and Vermont, and reports from clashes in Austin, TX and Frederick, MD.

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Apply Heat, Melt ICE: Flashpoints in the Fight

Three upcoming mobilizations against ICE and reports from two recent confrontations with federal mercenaries.

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No Escape from the Tyranny of Virtue 🏴🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @noescapevg.com · 23/09/2026

I told someone I was agender and bisexual once and they were like “oh so you’re NEVER gonna figure out what you want for dinner on a date are you”

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The State Between Us podcast @thestatebetweenus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Paris Tofu Grinder! Laura rejoins TSBU to discuss the history of Chinese anarchism in a two-part discussion. Check it out free at patreon.com/TheStateBetweenUs

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Úna-Minh's ✨ Open to Work ✨ @unaminh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Please support this fundraiser for Eoghan Sweeney's family. Eoghan was a pioneer in early digital journalism and gave back to many so generously and inspired so many journalists in their careers, including mine! Donate if you can, but please do share if you can't.

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Kate Sánchez @ohmymithrandir.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Anyway if anyone wants to venmo out of the kindness of your heart I am @ohmymithrandir on there lol

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No Escape from the Tyranny of Virtue 🏴🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @noescapevg.com · 23/09/2026

it's funny. some nobody quote posted me last night like "why is anyone trying to rehabilitate Woke 1 as anything but a horrible time full of nasty scolds" and this morning folks are pointing and laughing at that Boston Globe story about a lesbian bar's masking policy fight. what a time we live in

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Andrew | BUY INDIEPOCALYPSE ➡️ BostonFIG @pizzapranks.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The 6th annual Indiepocalypse Pledge Drive is live with the ever present goal of Breaking Even! (and more so supporting the whole catalog of contributors) Any support, whether it's contributing to the drive or spreading the good word, is very much appreciated! pizzapranks.itch.io/indiepocalyp...

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Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh.com · 22/09/2026

Don’t call layoffs and closures stuff like “reset” or “refresh” or “rejuvenation” or “rejigger” or “reshuffle” unless you’re trying to get clapped.

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No Escape from the Tyranny of Virtue 🏴🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @noescapevg.com · 22/09/2026

This is what the Associated Press is doing with its time and money btw

How are newsrooms rethinking election
coverage?

Your exclusive invitation
How are newsrooms rethinking election coverage?
As the U.S. midterm elections approach, news organizations are balancing a nonstop news cycle with the demands of preparing for one of the biggest stories of the year. How are newsrooms adapting their strategies, technologies and workflows to meet the moment?

In this AP Forward session, David Scott, Vice President of AP Elections at The Associated Press, will moderate a conversation with Josh Lawson of OpenAI, Kimbriell Kelly of Chicago Public Media, Maritza L. Félix of Conecta Arizona, and Arnon Mishkin, who leads the Fox News Decision Team.

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 22/09/2026

microsoft have essentially bought up and bulldozed almost an entire american arts industry as a half-hearted distraction from their main project of trying to monopolise and rent-seek global digital infrastructure and military contracts

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 22/09/2026

other than call of duty and wow i genuinely think the smart move is to assume that any other xbox game thats more than a year away is never coming out. ‘mass layoffs and activision taking over halo’ just doesn’t describe how disastrous and destructive microsoft’s actions have been

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