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Best of the Web. Game Designer on [unannounced] at Double Fine. Previously: Psychonauts 2, Dead Space (2008), Babycastles. He/him.
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After the NPR coverage of an early playtest of Fight For America, the January 6th war game/art installation, I hadn’t heard any mention of its official premier in London, which started on June 10th. Has anybody gone to check this out? youtu.be/cwfBpKh8WZY?...

I have decided that there should be a Columbo reboot where Columbo is played by Sabrina Carpenter

I’ve been skeptical of “Abolish ICE” as practical policy since everything ICE does would get reshuffled to a dozen other federal agencies, but with this budget, there’s real value in separating those missions from this funding.

The Star Tribune is providing live coverage of the Hortmans’ funeral.

Melissa and Mark Hortman’s beloved golden retriever, Gilbert, was the first dog in Minnesota history to lie in state. His ashes sat in an urn between the Hortmans in the Capitol rotunda.

I keep seeing posts about how no one talks about these murders, while the UHC executive’s killing was news for months, and note that one of these stories happened in the heart of the national media in Manhattan, and the others were off in the provinces, covered by local journalists you don’t read

Mark and Melissa lie peacefully at the center of our state and our hearts today. Their memorial, guarded by service dogs and men and women in uniform, casts a momentary shadow over L'Étoile du Nord as we honor their life’s work to make Minnesota shine brighter for all.

Yes, this is bad for porn. But porn famously has no clear legal definition. As such: This is a direct path to censoring anything the GOP wants to censor and can argue is “adult” - info on birth control, queer identity, anything about trans people or gender diversity or safe sex or HIV or drag or

Movie night at Double Fine tonight was The Fall, and it still slaps. youtu.be/OTn5XUFP_iA?...

Graphics card companies have the technology to make all games be in Squiggle-vision, but choose not to. This is because they are all cowards.

"The Mamdani campaign’s identity is the work of a tiny design co-op called Forge, and specifically its designer Aneesh Bhoopathy, formerly of Queens and now living in Philadelphia" — a little bit Bollywood, a little bit bodega :)

this is why i am pretty confident there will not be a meaningful attempt to do an end run around mamdani. a lot of elite cuomo support seemed to be based on “well, he’s probably going to win and he’s a vindictive asshole and i don’t want to be on his bad side.”

june outdoor games this sunday at 2pm, brought to you in collaboration with www.layerhythm.org feat. dj ruggz! in mclaughlin park in downtown brooklyn this time. nice menu of games prepared, two parachutes, and it's supposed to be less hot than today! rsvp link in thread if you're coming!

LAST DAYS to catch the SCOTT C. BIG SHOW RETROSPECTIVE at Spoke Art in NYC! June 28th is the last day you will be able to see everything on the walls and get whatever prints and merch they have left in the gallery! Don’t miss it! 🙌🙌🙌🙌 See @spoke-art.com for gallery hours and details.

The real headline from NYC today: CARTOONIST'S HUSBAND WINS DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY (h/t: @adamszym.bsky.social & @pang5.bsky.social)

Just saw this in the Americans in Copenhagen FB group and… we’re so cooked, man

"And the advancement of that movement—for socialism, for freedom, for social peace, for the unity of the multiethnic working class—is how we end the 9/11 Era." www.forever-wars.com/this-is-the-...

They got nothing.

A story that got less attention was the incredibly cynical primary of my amazing Councilwoman—the first Muslim woman ever elected to the NYC Council—by a billionaire, corporate-backed candidate also lobbing gross accusations of antisemitism. Anyway, the challenger got trounced. Hell yea.

“A Man, Finally Canceled For Real This Time”

JUST IN: Andrew Cuomo has conceded the Democratic primary for New York City mayor to Zohran Mamdani. Candidates backed by the Working Families Party also won mayoral primaries in Buffalo and Syracuse. Keep up with our guide to tonight's many elections. boltsmag.org/whats-o...

I was bracing to need to worry about years of recall elections if Mamdani won in a late round, since billionaires fund those for fun, but sailing to victory like this in a few hours gives me hope that a Mamdani administration could actually get some work done.

A Muslim son of immigrants might become mayor of NYC in part because he cross endorsed and supported a Jewish candidate and Black candidate, and vice versa. It's a beautiful American story for the rest of us. A nightmare for all the right people ;) It's so New York.

Recommend the alt-text on this one.

accepting this perfect stoopfind as a blessing today

excited to see you on Friday for the opening of Modern Trans Narratives in Games, You can read about one of the games featured, Wingless Fairies by Lily Belmira in this article by our friend @mlupetti.bsky.social www.the-bunker.it/en/how-to-qu...

Latest comic in the Frame by Frame series from illustrator Hannes Pasqualini and me. It's the 16th. Full archive at disquiet.com/fxf.

The Strib published a profile of Vance Boelter over the weekend. www.startribune.com/a-devout-chr...

A Dem lawmaker and her husband were killed by a guy for their political views and it’s already out of the news.

www.levernews.com/dems-crypto-...

Stage hands working on The Incredible Shrinking Man, 1957

The kind of timeline synchronicity you wait your whole life for.

This is the sort of project that I think shows what’s possible when you pull AI technology away from exploitative business models. I wonder if AI boosters would even consider it “AI” at all though. arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/m...