Reposted by wickKoshi @koshirano.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Friendly reminder to not play this bullshit. Not only is it a blatant LoR ripoff it also uses Gen AI and gets promoted by some of biggest NFT parasites in the card gaming sphere. 1136
Reposted by wickMegan Piontkowski Illustration @meganpiont.bsky.social · 25/08/2025New "How to Report ICE" zines up today for free printable download! California (by county/area) Chicago Colorado DC Metro Area (DMV) Massachusetts North Carolina Triangle Area NYC Philly Pittsburgh Portland, OR St. Louis Metro Area Washington State Please share! drive.google.com/drive/folder... 9440023274
Reposted by wickMike Masnick @masnick.com · 29/08/2025Wrote about Comer/Mace attempting to doxx and intimidate Wikipedia editors in an effort to force their own viewpoint onto Wikipedia. 172014686
Reposted by wickNayan Ramachandran @thetrin.blacksky.app · 29/08/2025The #1 thing I've learned talking to ppl who subscribe to this kind of legislation is that they truly believe that the homeless do not want to be helped, and are incapable of improving their material conditions. Basically, they give up before ever trying anything that WE ALL KNOW WORKS. 3246
Reposted by wickmakena kelly @makenakelly.bsky.social · 29/08/2025NEW: SSA CDO Chuck Borges says he was 'involuntarily' forced out Friday, days after filing a whistleblower complaint. About 30 min after his resignation email went out, it vanished from inboxes. w/ @davidgilbert.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/charle...wired.comSSA Whistleblower’s Resignation Email Mysteriously Disappeared From InboxesLess than 30 minutes after the Social Security Administration’s chief data officer resigned following a whistleblower complaint, recipients could no longer access the resignation email. 5314118
Reposted by wickSiobhan Thompson @vornietom.bsky.social · 20/08/2025Silicon Valley doesn’t sell tech, it sells the concept of innovation 557484
wick @wickhelm.com · 19/08/2025Pour overs like the v60 allow for so much more skill expression than immersion brewers like French presses lol 000
Reposted by wickJoseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 19/08/2025New: the inside story of how Tea collected millions of women's secrets, then exposed them to the world. We've found Tea raided women safety groups to get users; paid influencers to undermine others, much more. The “motive is money, not actually to protect people.” www.404media.co/how-teas-fou...404media.coHow Tea’s Founder Convinced Millions of Women to Spill Their Secrets, Then Exposed Them to the WorldA 404 Media investigation reveals how the man who started Tea, the ‘women dating safety’ app, tried to hire a female ‘face’ for the company and then hijack her grassroots community. 15586279
Reposted by wickJenna Park @jennapark.bsky.social · 18/08/2025Every once in a while I miss being an active designer in a community where we critique the shit out of a rebrand. Holy hell this is bad. Kerning that makes it look like a feminist mag, the flag shape, lines in the tagline that read like navigation. This is supposed to look like a source we trust? 4151
Reposted by wickSusan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 18/08/2025New: Lizelle Gonzalez is suing officials who wrongly charged her with murder for an abortion—and depositions with investigators show that, if given the chance, they would handle future cases the same way Police and sheriffs have so much power to ruin people’s lives by manipulating the legal processballsandstrikes.orgTexas Cops: We Wrongly Tried to Get a Woman Charged With Murder For an Abortion, and We’d Do It AgainGenerally speaking, it is not a great sign when when cops admit things like “I don't know what the law states right now” under oath. 141254497
Reposted by wickMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 16/08/2025New — I wrote about the violent assault on a DC delivery worker this morning by masked federal agents, and how these agents have made the disturbing turn from quiet thugs to playing for the cameras.thehandbasket.coFederal agent during violent DC arrest: “Liberals already ruined” this countryTrump's thugs are proving their skull-bashing loyalty in broad daylight. 11731011312
Reposted by wickYour Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 14/08/2025I know a lot of things feel like escalations these days but this *really* feels like an escalation 6382105
Reposted by wickDoctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 13/08/2025Immigration is good, actually. Cities are good, and if you don't like them you don't have to live in them. 339287
Reposted by wickDominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 13/08/2025More and more people reporting today that Stripe - the payment processor that Itch said were putting the most pressure on them - now have staff actively confirming that yes, they are censoring LGBT content, adult or otherwise. That this is official company policy. This seems kinda significant. 5979194021
Reposted by wickProPublica @propublica.org · 13/08/2025In agency after agency, the U.S. government is losing its capacity to measure how American society is functioning, making it much harder to gauge the nature and scale of the problems we are facing and the effectiveness of policies. (Published April)propublica.orgTrump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and MoreBy slashing teams that gather critical data, the administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose… 711209530
Reposted by wickBrennan Lee Mulligan @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social · 13/08/2025For everyone waiting to binge Book One of The Wizard, the Witch and the Wild One, @worldsbeyondnumber.bsky.social’s first campaign - the Finale is HERE! Umora is my love letter to the worlds I grew up loving, and it is the honor of a lifetime to have gotten to tell this story with these people. 3166855
Reposted by wickJen @ladyjenpool.bsky.social · 12/08/2025Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you: Our funding depends on usage. So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge. 209136295952
Reposted by wickAlex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 12/08/2025“Delete your old emails to save water” isn’t bad because it’s individualising the climate crisis, it’s bad because it’s complete nonsense from top to bottom. It’s like saying “eat less lettuce to save water”, you can see the thought process but it’s that of a child who knows two facts 281786404
Reposted by wickDieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 12/08/2025remember to call Stripe at 1+ 888-926-2289, and say youre from "California" when prompted. try to get clarification on where Stripe stands on LGBTQ content on online storefronts 92661924
Reposted by wickDamion Schubert @zenofdesign.com · 12/08/2025"I'm not racist, I just run a racist Twitter account" is quite the defense. 2284
Reposted by wickTerra Field @rainofterra.gay · 12/08/2025A few years ago we went to a family law firm in SF and said “we want every document that will give our family the same rights a monogamous couple would have” and their reply was roughly “we’ve been doing gay marriage equivalency since the 80s, we’ve got this” 06426
Reposted by wickRami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 12/08/2025Israel has no "Gaza War" - not for Gaza, nor for narrative. Israel massacres Palestine as its fascist genocidal solution to the Nakba's echoes, and massacres the truth with US/EU support. Journalists, aid workers, infants, educators, athletes, poets, artists - they're obstacles to extermination. 419252
Reposted by wickGame Developer @gamedeveloper.bsky.social · 12/08/2025'Microsoft has no place being accomplice of a genocide:' Arkane union workers demand Xbox maker sever ties with Israelgamedeveloper.com'Microsoft has no place being accomplice of a genocide:' Arkane union workers demand Xbox maker sever ties with IsraelArkane Studios' STJV section in France has published an open letter in support of the Palestinian-led BDS movement. 1943271675
Reposted by wickSam Reich @samreich.bsky.social · 12/08/2025who knew all this time the inequality guy just wanted 3 dollars 17122677
wick @wickhelm.com · 12/08/2025@plante.bsky.social you mention how physical games won’t be flooding Walmarts and targets but I’ll raise you vinyls being carried by both! 000
Reposted by wickAccursed Dirt Beast 🔞 @aftermoles.bsky.social · 12/08/2025UK folks - reiterating that it's super important that you download Wikipedia for offline use like now-ish if you want to guarantee you can keep having that incredible resource!! www.howtogeek.com/260023/how-t...howtogeek.comHow to Download Wikipedia for Offline, At-Your-Fingertips ReadingWho doesn't want a personal copy of the largest encyclopedia in human history? 4124731902
Reposted by wickJoanna "Ms. Crow" Blackhart [They/Them] @joannablackhart.com · 12/08/2025This is not a joke. Consider this. Its 150 gigs for images and all. That's literally less than one AAA game. 4650043290
Reposted by wickBrent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 12/08/2025“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” It costs a lot less to house people.thebetter.newsFinland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.meIn Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness. 8244991824
wick @wickhelm.com · 12/08/2025Me breaking into the local music scene solely because no one drums 000
wick @wickhelm.com · 12/08/2025Local bar is using ai art marketing and I almost bitched to the bar tender about fuck me 110
wick @wickhelm.com · 12/08/2025Anyone got a set of white pearl drums with cymbals for sale please I’m begging you 000
wick @wickhelm.com · 12/08/2025If I could have two regrets it would be that I sold my white pearl 69 drum set twice 100
Reposted by wickGame Changer @gamechanger.dropout.tv · 12/08/2025Out now on @dropout.tv: the season finale of Game Changer! 🚨 Watch as host Sam Reich moderates a debate with 5 titans of Dropout (Brennan Lee Mulligan, Aabria Iyengar, Vic Michaelis, Ally Beardsley, Demi Adejuyigbe) in front of a live audience for the ULTIMATE PRIZE #GameChanger 2376873
Reposted by wickArlen Pringle @arlenpringle.bsky.social · 12/08/2025I'll have a bit to share about fun design work for this episode in a couple days after people have had a chance to watch it! For now let me leave you with a cutout of @briamgilbert.bsky.social I made for the episode's user flow. 021
wick @wickhelm.com · 12/08/2025Dropout is going to absorb all the cool Internet creators that’ll be lit. 000
wick @wickhelm.com · 11/08/2025I love when people don’t understand me and also don’t want to listen to me try to explain myself, so I just have to concede and apologize for being wrong and apologize for whatever narrative this person has crafted about me 000
wick @wickhelm.com · 11/08/2025me when i accidentally forget to post the link when im shaming someone for not posting the right link 010
Reposted by wickJeffrey Doering @jdoeringdev.bsky.social · 11/08/2025Gonna start off the week with a wild shot, but hey, @samreich.bsky.social and @dropout.tv, if you're interested in publishing an indie video game...hit me up! 1135
Reposted by wickFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 11/08/2025another way in which LLMs make me feel like an alien as compared to their many fans: I find their default fawning conversational tone to be intensely, viscerally repulsive and suspicious. 1152530373
