meghna jayanth
@meghna.bsky.social
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...
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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The ability of the far right to insist that their views - trans people are lying perverts, climate change is a hoax, immigrants are all thieving, raping scum - are necessarily legitimate & must be given a hearing is already a vast victory for forms of extremism beyond the pale not long ago.
What bothers me is that impartiality and balance are two different and incompatible things. Impartiality means that you don't intervene to put your thumb on the scales. Balance necessarily requires that you intervene to artificially make every issue look like a 50/50.
November 10, 2025 at 11:02 AM
The ability of the far right to insist that their views - trans people are lying perverts, climate change is a hoax, immigrants are all thieving, raping scum - are necessarily legitimate & must be given a hearing is already a vast victory for forms of extremism beyond the pale not long ago.
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Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
November 10, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
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Genuine offer: I am not an academic expert on anarchism but I've been around for a little bit, I have a lot of resources and I'm happy to share what I know if anyone wants to learn more about it. For liberals/progressives sick of watching this shit play out again and again, for other leftists, etc
November 10, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Genuine offer: I am not an academic expert on anarchism but I've been around for a little bit, I have a lot of resources and I'm happy to share what I know if anyone wants to learn more about it. For liberals/progressives sick of watching this shit play out again and again, for other leftists, etc
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The true cost of the trans "conversation", which is and always has been just another name for trans persecution. I hope that all the columnists who are obsessed with dissecting trans people's right to exist and participate in all aspects of life see this and examine the harm they're doing.
For @teenvogue.com I wrote about the death of trans athlete Lia Smith and how trans youth kind themselves with central pillars of their lives being constantly ripped away from them because of politics. www.teenvogue.com/story/politi...
Politicizing Transgender Athletes Is Dangerous. Lia Smith Deserved Better.
"Let her passing be an inflection point for how you think about trans rights and trans people more generally."
www.teenvogue.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:32 PM
The true cost of the trans "conversation", which is and always has been just another name for trans persecution. I hope that all the columnists who are obsessed with dissecting trans people's right to exist and participate in all aspects of life see this and examine the harm they're doing.
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"I’m convinced that it’s the cost of living, not immigration, that voters care about. The Green party is the only party honest enough not to try to conflate the two for political convenience."
– @zackpolanski.bsky.social
– @zackpolanski.bsky.social
Zack Polanski: ‘Hope has just won in New York – it can win here too’ | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 8:46 AM
"I’m convinced that it’s the cost of living, not immigration, that voters care about. The Green party is the only party honest enough not to try to conflate the two for political convenience."
– @zackpolanski.bsky.social
– @zackpolanski.bsky.social
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“When American organisations with annual budgets in the hundreds of millions fund UK litigation, there are legitimate questions about whether this serves British democratic interests”
cc @goodlawproject.org @goodlawproject.bsky.social
cc @goodlawproject.org @goodlawproject.bsky.social
Who's Funding the War on Trans Inclusion?
A 40-fold surge in cases and the litigation infrastructure behind it
ajustsociety.substack.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:08 PM
“When American organisations with annual budgets in the hundreds of millions fund UK litigation, there are legitimate questions about whether this serves British democratic interests”
cc @goodlawproject.org @goodlawproject.bsky.social
cc @goodlawproject.org @goodlawproject.bsky.social
who crossed out “jetpacks” and wrote in “climate crisis accelerating plagiarism machine that is also a suicide cheerleader” on their tech wish list? www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:56 AM
who crossed out “jetpacks” and wrote in “climate crisis accelerating plagiarism machine that is also a suicide cheerleader” on their tech wish list? www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
so proud of all the marginalised devs who have refused to shut up and be grateful. the fight for justice continues, all the stronger without "allies" who are anything but
kotaku.com/game-awards-...
kotaku.com/game-awards-...
The Game Awards Quietly Deletes Its List Of Rising Stars In The Industry
A program promoting rising stars in the video game industry has been quietly erased
kotaku.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:04 PM
so proud of all the marginalised devs who have refused to shut up and be grateful. the fight for justice continues, all the stronger without "allies" who are anything but
kotaku.com/game-awards-...
kotaku.com/game-awards-...
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“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion”
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
OpenAI in Danger After Authors Suing It Gain Access to Its Internal Slack Messages
Authors and publishers, who are suing OpenAI, secured access to internal Slack messages and emails discussing the deletion of pirated books.
futurism.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:57 AM
“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion”
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
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It's cool how we keep proving over and over and over again that there's a significant market for narrative-heavy, character-driven, single-player experiences in video games and publishers just categorically refuse to believe us
Dispatch has sold 1 million copies in under two weeks
Dispatch has sold 1 million copies in under two weeks
The episodic superhero comedy features big-name actors like Aaron Paul and Jeffrey Wright.
www.gamedeveloper.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:57 PM
It's cool how we keep proving over and over and over again that there's a significant market for narrative-heavy, character-driven, single-player experiences in video games and publishers just categorically refuse to believe us
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The haters said they couldn't do it. And they were right. Honestly, great call from the haters.
NEW: The End of the Line: the centrepiece of Saudi Arabia’s Neom gigaproject - a 500m tall, 170km long wall-like building intended ultimately to house 9 million people - can’t get out of the ground, say more than 20 former Neom architects, engineers and senior executives.
ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled
Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance
ig.ft.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:08 AM
The haters said they couldn't do it. And they were right. Honestly, great call from the haters.
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Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
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Uninstall Grammarly NOW. They've partnered with an AI company and actively scrape your writing to train its models.
HEAD'S UP FELLOW #CREATIVES!
If you haven't heard, #Grammarly is changing...and one change that doesn't pass the smell test is the incorporation of the ocean-boiling plagiarism machine that is #AI. 😒
I'm ditching Grammarly TONIGHT. #Writing #Writers #NoAI
www.grammarly.com/blog/company...
If you haven't heard, #Grammarly is changing...and one change that doesn't pass the smell test is the incorporation of the ocean-boiling plagiarism machine that is #AI. 😒
I'm ditching Grammarly TONIGHT. #Writing #Writers #NoAI
www.grammarly.com/blog/company...
Grammarly Rebrands Company as Superhuman, Introduces Superhuman Suite and Superhuman Go
Superhuman Platform delivers proactive, context-aware AI agents that work in the flow of work, wherever people work Grammarly today announced it is changing its company…
www.grammarly.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Uninstall Grammarly NOW. They've partnered with an AI company and actively scrape your writing to train its models.
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In one of the most shameless instances of union-busting Rockstar Games fired 30+ IWGB union members for NO OTHER REASON than to terrorize & silence them.
Join the IWGB protest!
Demand reinstatement!
📅 Thursday, 6 November
🕙 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
📍Take-Two House, 30 Cleveland Street, London, W1T 4JD
Join the IWGB protest!
Demand reinstatement!
📅 Thursday, 6 November
🕙 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
📍Take-Two House, 30 Cleveland Street, London, W1T 4JD
November 5, 2025 at 2:39 PM
In one of the most shameless instances of union-busting Rockstar Games fired 30+ IWGB union members for NO OTHER REASON than to terrorize & silence them.
Join the IWGB protest!
Demand reinstatement!
📅 Thursday, 6 November
🕙 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
📍Take-Two House, 30 Cleveland Street, London, W1T 4JD
Join the IWGB protest!
Demand reinstatement!
📅 Thursday, 6 November
🕙 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
📍Take-Two House, 30 Cleveland Street, London, W1T 4JD
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Friends, we're back to self-publishing (which is both fun and scary). We'd be really happy if you wishlist the Simogo Legacy Collection if you have any interest in it! store.steampowered.com/app/3817040/...
Simogo Legacy Collection on Steam
From cute arcade novelties to innovative text-based thrillers and acclaimed fourth wall-breaking stories, Simogo Legacy Collection is an eclectic celebration of Simogo's past, featuring faithful rendi...
store.steampowered.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Friends, we're back to self-publishing (which is both fun and scary). We'd be really happy if you wishlist the Simogo Legacy Collection if you have any interest in it! store.steampowered.com/app/3817040/...
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[PLEASE RT] If you worked on an aid bundle on itch.io could you please reply? @spritewrench.com and I are hopefully going to start working on one for Jamaica after Hurricane Melissa! (Also if you're interested in adding your game, reply as well!)
November 5, 2025 at 9:22 PM
[PLEASE RT] If you worked on an aid bundle on itch.io could you please reply? @spritewrench.com and I are hopefully going to start working on one for Jamaica after Hurricane Melissa! (Also if you're interested in adding your game, reply as well!)
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I you use an ad blocker (I hope you do), consider checking out AdNauseum, same functionality as ublock and it feeds advertisers garbage data, obfuscating their analytics. The more useless their data becomes, the less incentive they have to collect the data.
adnauseam.io
adnauseam.io
AdNauseam - Clicking Ads So You Don't Have To
A browser extension that clicks on every blocked ad to fight advertising surveillance.
adnauseam.io
November 5, 2025 at 8:39 PM
I you use an ad blocker (I hope you do), consider checking out AdNauseum, same functionality as ublock and it feeds advertisers garbage data, obfuscating their analytics. The more useless their data becomes, the less incentive they have to collect the data.
adnauseam.io
adnauseam.io
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anyway for my fellow devs I recommend filling out the state of the industry survey, it's imperfect but about as good as we get in trying to get a yearly pulse of the industry
gdconf.typeform.com/SOTI26
gdconf.typeform.com/SOTI26
2026 State of the Game Industry
The gaming industry's most comprehensive annual survey is back, and we're casting a wider net than ever before. Whether you're a developer, executive, investor, marketer, educator, or any other profes...
gdconf.typeform.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:41 PM
anyway for my fellow devs I recommend filling out the state of the industry survey, it's imperfect but about as good as we get in trying to get a yearly pulse of the industry
gdconf.typeform.com/SOTI26
gdconf.typeform.com/SOTI26
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PR firm 'planted story' about Iran funding Palestine Action in media, report says
Head of CMS Strategic, which works for Israeli arms firm Elbit Systems, was allegedly heard by witness saying she placed story in The Times before group's proscription
www.middleeasteye.net/news/pr-firm...
Head of CMS Strategic, which works for Israeli arms firm Elbit Systems, was allegedly heard by witness saying she placed story in The Times before group's proscription
www.middleeasteye.net/news/pr-firm...
PR firm 'planted story' about Iran funding Palestine Action in media, report says
Head of CMS Strategic, which works for Israeli arms firm Elbit Systems, was allegedly heard by witness saying she placed story in The Times before group's proscription
www.middleeasteye.net
November 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
PR firm 'planted story' about Iran funding Palestine Action in media, report says
Head of CMS Strategic, which works for Israeli arms firm Elbit Systems, was allegedly heard by witness saying she placed story in The Times before group's proscription
www.middleeasteye.net/news/pr-firm...
Head of CMS Strategic, which works for Israeli arms firm Elbit Systems, was allegedly heard by witness saying she placed story in The Times before group's proscription
www.middleeasteye.net/news/pr-firm...
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Strongly recommend folks Profoundly Waste their Time with the upcoming APWOT issue 6 in which I’ll be writing about some of my favourite alt game scene events, collectives & weirdos from around the world.
🗺️ 📍
🗺️ 📍
🤖🌟 Issue 6 of APWOT is live on Kickstarter! 🌟🤖
Featuring a beautiful lenticular cover of Astro Bot marking both our feature interview with the game’s director, Nicolas Doucet, and the 30th anniversary of PlayStation.
Get in there!
💫 kck.st/4i1GAHT 💫
Featuring a beautiful lenticular cover of Astro Bot marking both our feature interview with the game’s director, Nicolas Doucet, and the 30th anniversary of PlayStation.
Get in there!
💫 kck.st/4i1GAHT 💫
November 5, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Strongly recommend folks Profoundly Waste their Time with the upcoming APWOT issue 6 in which I’ll be writing about some of my favourite alt game scene events, collectives & weirdos from around the world.
🗺️ 📍
🗺️ 📍
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Last week, 30 employees in the United Kingdom and Canada of GTA VI developer Rockstar working to organize for better working conditions were unexpectedly and unfairly dismissed.
Linked below is a fundraiser to help them out in the coming weeks and days.
actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...
Linked below is a fundraiser to help them out in the coming weeks and days.
actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...
Support Rockstar Workers Fighting Unfair Dismissals!
Last week over 30 members of staff at Grand Theft Auto VI developer Rockstar were fired en masse in a “calculated attack on workers”. The IWGB described Rockstar’s actions as ‘the most blatant and rut...
actionnetwork.org
November 5, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Last week, 30 employees in the United Kingdom and Canada of GTA VI developer Rockstar working to organize for better working conditions were unexpectedly and unfairly dismissed.
Linked below is a fundraiser to help them out in the coming weeks and days.
actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...
Linked below is a fundraiser to help them out in the coming weeks and days.
actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...
time for my perennial scream that “leaders” in the games industry would be better off learning abt soft skills than AI and recognising that technical brilliance does not magically grant you the ability to maintain morale & motivate people & manage your own ego
www.gamedeveloper.com/production/h...
www.gamedeveloper.com/production/h...
How poor leadership slows down game development
No tool—AI or otherwise—can speed up game development if leaders don't rise to the occasion.
www.gamedeveloper.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:17 PM
time for my perennial scream that “leaders” in the games industry would be better off learning abt soft skills than AI and recognising that technical brilliance does not magically grant you the ability to maintain morale & motivate people & manage your own ego
www.gamedeveloper.com/production/h...
www.gamedeveloper.com/production/h...
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London folks, the brilliant Darshana Jayemanne will be coming to @kingscmci.bsky.social on Nov 5th to discuss the GAME-ER project's ongoing research on game production clusters. Why do certain cities, from Dundee to Brno, become gamedev hubs? Come & find out! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cmci-resea...
CMCI Research Seminar: Dr. Darshana Jayemanne on Game Production Clusters
Dr. Darshana Jayemanne shares insights from a project on the emergence, development, and sustainability of European video game clusters
www.eventbrite.co.uk
October 23, 2025 at 12:24 PM
London folks, the brilliant Darshana Jayemanne will be coming to @kingscmci.bsky.social on Nov 5th to discuss the GAME-ER project's ongoing research on game production clusters. Why do certain cities, from Dundee to Brno, become gamedev hubs? Come & find out! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cmci-resea...
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Do you know about a game being developed or maybe released right now that aims to do something good for society while being firmly in the entertainment game space, engaging as hell? We're curious to find peers #indiegames #indiedev #gamedev
Calling all game developers working on making the future a better place, or addressing the bullshit of our current time in some creative way! Where are you? Let's connect and team up.
November 4, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Do you know about a game being developed or maybe released right now that aims to do something good for society while being firmly in the entertainment game space, engaging as hell? We're curious to find peers #indiegames #indiedev #gamedev