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meghna jayanth

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narrative design | 🌏ALL✊🏾WILL⚖️RISE🌍 | Thirsty Suitors / 80 Days / Sable | pleasures counter to capitalism-colonialism | technopolitics 🍞+🌹 liberation

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meghna jayanth @meghna.bsky.social · Jun 7

The river is a god & they killed her. It’s time for ordinary people to hold them to account.

Excited to share the first trailer for our new game about dead gods & taking billionaires to court — All Will Rise 🌏⚖️✨

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXQa...

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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 5h

Friends if you work at a creative tech/games/etc company in and around London, and you'd be willing to hire some internship/placement students for 2-3 months over summer, please let me know! I have incredibly smart and engaged undergrads looking for summer opportunities.

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Oftentimes Jack 🎃 @pepsffk.bsky.social · 7h

I wish I had reach because there is so much need and no one to ask who isn't already overwhelmed.

If any artists out there would be willing to do simple illustrations in support of Palestinians it would be of immeasurable help in catching people's attention.

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jenny @qdork.bsky.social · 21h

i’m manifesting the house i will live in once Consume Me sells one million copies #gaming #indiegames #videogames #gamedev #indiedev

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Steven Yau @yaustar.bsky.social · 9h

Almost 200 pages of game dev resources including:

🧑‍🏫 pitch decks
📢 marketing
🎨 art assets
🖥️ programming tools
🗣️ conference talks
🔎 job searching/careers
💰funds and more! 👾

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 15h

This is an alarming compression of the planetary destruction timeline: with the massive growth of the AI bubble, data centers are expected to consume up to 12% of total US electricity by 2028, up from 4.4% in 2023.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/t...

Sora 2 and ChatGPT are consuming so much power that OpenAI just did another 10 gigawatt deal | CNN Business

OpenAI is partnering with Broadcom to design and develop 10 gigawatts of custom AI chips and systems, a massive amount of power that will use as much electricity as a large city. The move further high...

www.cnn.com

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 13h

‘Frightened to get out of their cars’: Britain’s toxic race debates threaten overseas care workers

Staff are being advised to travel in mixed groups and carry panic alarms as incidents of intimidation spread

www.theguardian.com

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 12h

"two incidents.. have horrified the Sikh community.. an attack on two taxi drivers near a train station & the rape of a young woman.. both incidents are being investigated as racially motivated"

A report by Lisa Holland on a Sikh community facing increased racist abuse.

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 13h

Excellent Guardian piece on Aadhar, India's digital ID system, that captures the dilemma extremely well. Digital-by-default methods create huge convenience for some, double-down on social exclusion for others, and it is easy for their scope to rapidly expand www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

‘Your basis to live is checked at each and every step’: India’s ID system divides opinion

Keir Starmer is considering Aadhaar as model for UK, but detractors warn of ‘digital coercion’ and security breaches

www.theguardian.com

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Richard Cobbett @richardcobbett.bsky.social · 1d

What is Nighthawks? It's a vampire game where the vampires have been exposed to the world... but it's also different in tone from most. Vampire games tend to be cold and cynical, but this time, being a light in the darkness can be the real adventure.

store.steampowered.com/app/1221950/...

Nighthawks on Steam

The secret is out. Vampires have been exposed to the world… and you’re one of them. Seize the night as a modern monster, stepping out of the shadows to build a thriving nightclub empire through fear, ...

store.steampowered.com

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 1d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Jaakko Stenros @jaakkostenros.bsky.social · Feb 4

I have 11 books about games out as author or editor. Ten of them are available as free pdfs. Check out the full list here: jaakkostenros.wordpress.com/books/

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Rebecca McCarthy - Writing & Narrative Design @rebeccamwrites.bsky.social · 1d

I have a big backlog project written in Ink, which stalled a while back as I couldn't quite get everything I wanted working. I was looking through the InkJam resources list and this web template was listed.

Does pretty much everything I need!
remy-vim.itch.io/ink-template

Ink IF Story Template by Rémy Vim

A free template for Ink stories

remy-vim.itch.io

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 1d

A reminder.

Humanity has never removed an atmospheric pollutant at a global, continental or, even, regional scale — we have only ever shut down the source and let nature do the clearing up. This is the case for chlorofluorocarbons and stratospheric ozone destruction, for sulfur dioxide and acid rain, and for sulfur and nitrogen oxides and photochemical smog. We must be prepared for CDR to be a failure, leaving us to rely on the environment to stabilize atmospheric CO₂ over thousands of years. This is another argument for rapid decarbonization.

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Berin @berinfw.bsky.social · 1d

23k more members and we beat the Tories!

How quickly can we beat the conservatives?

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Lower Bills.

Protect our NHS.

And invest in our communities.

Let's make hope normal again.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Green party reaches 100,000 members for first time after Polanski becomes leader

Green party in England and Wales has had near-50% rise in membership since since Zack Polanski took over last month

www.theguardian.com

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meghna jayanth @meghna.bsky.social · 2d

what a refreshing change to see a politician stand firmly on trans rights, refuse to concede the right-wing framing of trans people as "a problem", and rightly call out ridicule and bigotry in the guise of "common sense"

Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 3d

Solidarity with all trans and intersex people having their existence debated every time a tv host hasn't done their prep and can't think of any more questions

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Spocko @spocko.bsky.social · 3d

The #AntiFascistFrog speaks!

"So I'm out here protesting in a frog costume to, especially in a Frog costume, just to show how ridiculous the notion that we are violent terrorists is. It's just to showcase how that narrative is wrong."

#Portland #Antifa #Frog

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 3d

“The situation has gone beyond disaster and genocide inside the city, and the world remains silent.”

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Militia drone strike kills at least 30 in Sudan displacement camp, says El Fasher group

RSF paramilitary group hit Dar al-Arqam shelter on university grounds in western city, says resistance committee

www.theguardian.com

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Mark | Buy AXYZ on Steam today! @lithiumproject.bsky.social · 3d

LOOK AT THIS LINEUP.

A poster for a game showcase with lots of cool games.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3d

Greens growing. Reform ratttled.

PS - I changed my name back to my family's original Jewish name because I'm proud of being Jewish. If Tice think that makes me a weirdo, I think that makes him an antisemite.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Tice "green party leader Zack Polanski is a weirdo. Changed his name, claimed hypnosis could increase women's breast size, thinks me should compete in women's sport, thinks women can have a penis. Other than that he's fine. Vote Green. Get weirdo."

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Adil Ray @adilray.bsky.social · 3d

A one-year-old boy with his father were subjected to an alleged racially aggravated attack outside their home in Worcester. West Mercia Police confirmed a man and child were sprayed with an unknown substance and racially abused with "threats to kill" which led to a 77 year old woman being arrested.

Muslim leaders speak of shock after 'racist' spray attack on baby

Muslim leaders at Worcester Mosque spoke of their 'shock and sadness' following the alleged racist attack when a baby was sprayed with an unknown…

www.worcesternews.co.uk

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 3d

The UK successfully criminalized climate and genocide protests recently. It's obvious that the Trump regime would also criminalize peaceful protests in the US. Kiss goodbye to the First Amendment.

All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 3d

WATCH- @chrislhayes.bsky.social on the "incredibly dishonest and downright dangerous new talking point being pushed by MAGA:"

“Republicans on Capitol Hill are claiming that peaceful protesters are part of a terrorist network hell bent on destroying America.”

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meghna jayanth @meghna.bsky.social · 3d

“it’s about eating your time”

Aftermath @aftermath.site · 3d

The Assassin’s Creed series was a canary in the coal mine for our modern, engagement-obsessed world. @ckunzelman.bsky.social explains:

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Slackermom @slackermom.bsky.social · 3d

Was just at a neighborhood school at dismissal. Hundreds of people with whistles surrounding the school and stationed down every block making sure ICE doesn’t snatch anyone. The same is happening at all the schools around here. I love my neighborhood and I love Chicago.

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 3d

If youre in the UK and havent signed this petition, please do despite their response here. At 100k sigs they have to discuss it again

Petitions arent a silver bullet on their own, but they help communicate how many people do/dont support something. Its low commitment and worth doing!

GamesMarket @gamesmarkt.bsky.social · 4d

UK Gouvernment: Payment Processors Can Ban NSFW Content
According to the UK treasury, payment processors are in the right and the gouvernment has no plans to step in. This puts it in direct contrast to what artists and the UK games industry have asked for.
www.gamesmarket.global/en/business/...

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 4d

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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