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Either transgender Americans are important enough to warrant year after year of breathless coverage questioning their healthcare and existence, or they're so insignificant that destroying their rights is the "least consequential" action of a presidency. www.readtpa.com/p/not-exactl...

submitted 6 days ago • 17 comments

Public comment is now open for passport gender marker changes. You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment. My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc. www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...

submitted 17 days ago • 135 comments

Wrote a blog post about making my latest jam game. I feel like I'm in a weird place in my hobbyist/indie game dev "career" (eg, "do I even want to make games anymore?"), and doing a jam again has helped me start to unpack some things.

submitted 17 days ago • 4 comments

New game! Bug Mystery? The Explosion Speaks! A short visual novel/adventure thing made for the 2024 Glorious Trainwrecks Sekret Santa Jam! alchiggins.itch.io/bug-mystery-...

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

If you’re confused about why academics are panicking about the NIH overhead budget cut, this thread is a good primer, but especially this point. This budget cut will decimate universities across the country and the students, employees, researchers, and communities they serve

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

I spent over two hours watching 'Emilia Pérez,' time I will never get back, so I wrote down all my thoughts about the film. Thank you as always for your support! From penis to vagina! johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/all-my-tho...

submitted 32 days ago • 45 comments

1. Multiple hospital systems are complying with an unlawful executive order with dubious enforcement mechanisms and pulling their trans kids off care. While most have not, those that have are harming their trans patients. The latest from Mira Lazine. Subscribe to support our journalism.

submitted 34 days ago • 52 comments

my new 11ty blog template, strawberry starter, is out ✨🍓 🧑‍💻 - zero HTML experience required - only edit config files and markdown 🔄 - a local server to preview your changes live 🛜 - built-in RSS feed 🐈 - upload your blog to neocities with a single command strawberrystarter.neocities.org

submitted 35 days ago • 14 comments

"I've been using this software for 20 years, how hard could this be - "

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submitted 45 days ago • 144 comments

www.cavestory.org/download/cav... Reminder that Cave Story is free and available with a bunch of different translations! Do not give Nicalis your money! Buy Kero Blaster and also check out Pixel's other games!!

submitted 78 days ago • 4 comments

youtube is a "cosmic horror" that granted me unlimited knowledge of all the music in the world in exchange for filling the planet with misinformation

submitted 88 days ago • 2 comments

I'm blogging about media again! All the recommendations this time around are queer; most of them are spooky. alexandrah.neocities.org/blog/posts/2...

submitted 89 days ago • 1 comment

I kid you not, @itch.io has been taken down by Funko of "Funko Pop" because they use some trash "AI Powered" Brand Protection Software called Brand Shield that created some bogus Phishing report to our registrar, iwantmyname, who ignored our response and just disabled the domain

submitted 90 days ago • 695 comments

"Wait so in Kingdom Hearts is his name Leon Squallheart?"

submitted 91 days ago • 1 comment

Now that everyone has migrated to Bluesky, I am just now realizing that I should probably post about my RPG Maker epic again. Animals! Devils! Escape a prison! Sassy banter! Destroy a prison! Confront the past! Fight a totally normal horse! Your apartment has four floors this time!

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

PLEASE REPOST Were you part of the community surrounding Mark Overmars' Game Maker from 1999 to 2006? Did you use sites and forums like Game Maker Games, Games Showcase, etc? I'd like to chat with you about the games and culture from that era for a video. Please reach out!

submitted 96 days ago • 21 comments

If you don't love ANY bad square games then you don't have a heart, if you love EVERY bad square game then you don't have a brain

submitted 111 days ago • 2 comments

New game ☺️ Heeheehee, I really like this one y'all. Partner played it for like an hour last night and had fun the whole time. Give it a play, try to beat my high score: www.glorioustrainwrecks.com/node/12447

submitted 114 days ago • 3 comments

Here is something to keep in mind tonight as the returns come in:

submitted 123 days ago • 27 comments

Aight, new project alert: I pecked away at this while working on Jailbird Nocturne, but I'm finally making a Card Games vs Literary Characters at the End of the World sequel in earnest.

submitted 128 days ago • 1 comment

Born under a yellow sign Been eating waffles since I began to crawl If it wasn't for Waffle House I'd have no house at all

submitted 133 days ago • 0 comments

wrote some comments reflecting on the existence of UFO 50 and the lost innocence of games for no one in particular in a judge chat. this is exactly the sort of thing i'd repost on cohost, but whoops... doesn't exist anymore. so just made a pastebin if anyone wants to read it: pastebin.com/538TpwCp

submitted 142 days ago • 4 comments

"the player's entire in-game apartment is only the kitchen and a stairwell, 2.5/5"

submitted 173 days ago • 0 comments

A little bit overdue, but I've finally make a proper trailer for Jailbird Nocturne! Check it www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_4d...

submitted 175 days ago • 0 comments

I often think about the DIY indie game marketing roundtable I attended and how I'm pretty sure only one person suggested "helping each other" or "promoting someone else's work". Collaboration seems like the 1st DIY step!!!

submitted 183 days ago • 1 comment

New games up in the PIZZA PRANKS Videogame Tape Market! ///Aleph by Fin Deevy Jailbird Nocturne by @alexandrah.bsky.social Get them (and many more games) and apply to have your game physically published at: pizzapranks.com/tapemarket/

submitted 190 days ago • 2 comments