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Theatre PhD. Independent games and media scholar. QA Analyst. Marxist-Leninist.
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With the Oblivion remaster taking up the hype cycle, it's probably a good time to re-up that the Palestinian-led BDS movement has asked for a boycott of Microsoft's gaming products due to the company's ongoing and enthusiastic technical support for the IDF's ongoing genocide in Gaza.

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spoke to badru, the indie dev who recently decided to pull a game he considers his "baby" from xbox in solidarity with bds. he told me the team has received such enthusiastic support that they've already made back money lost, and he hopes other indies will follow their lead

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Purported ICE agents raid a courthouse in Charlottesville in plain clothes without badges, ID or warrants, cart off two men without explanation. One of the three men was masked and the detainees were ushered into unmarked van. Video in the article. dailyprogress.com/news/local/c...

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Trump Announces Seal Team 6 Killed U.S. Protester In Daring Overnight Raid

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@xoxogossipgita.bsky.social my goat

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enjoyed this GDC writeup of the Avowed QA analysis talk by David Benefield -- about doing more white box QA to proactively review game code and scripts for bugs www.gamedeveloper.com/programming/...

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I bet being a Tesla investor is a lot like being a labrador retriever, it's probably fun as hell

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fighting tears

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For three weeks: “For the first time in the U.S., our film #NoOtherLand is available to stream online. It doesn’t just show our past — it captures our ongoing struggle. Watch it now -- all proceeds go to support the communities of Masafer Yatta.” - Basel Adra supportmasaferyatta.com

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young men don’t need a “left Joe Rogan” they need sports betting regulation

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What's going on is extraordinary rendition, but making that point by saying that ordinary deportations are safe and free is straight up evil. Absolutely fucking depraved.

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Things are addicted to happening

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voiceofsandiego.org/2025/04/14/a...

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Some Luigi Mangione news: The Italian Greens and Left Alliance officially requested that PM Meloni intervene as Mangione holds the Italian citizenship; adding that Italy has banned the DP in 1948 and has always worked to protect its citizens from execution. My translation of the MP’s post:

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It never ceases to amaze me that tech bros are so lazy they literally made a machine to automate all those times they chuckle and are like "let me correct you about something I'm wrong about and refuse to understand"

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Chinese govt officials have been posting Mao memes nonstop since the tariff shit started. You absolutely can shitpost your way into a trade deal with them, you just need to be on the right side of history.

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the last few days has been a reminder that people really want to believe that not only is there this real thing called a “criminal,” and that if they need to, anyone can just prove they aren’t one

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Given that habitat loss is demonstrably the single biggest threat to endangered species, this move effectively ends protection for most species, and a lot of things will go extinct.

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