Riley MacLeod
@rcmacleod.bsky.social
Co-founder of Aftermath, a worker-owned site about video games, the internet, and everything that comes after. riley [at] aftermath [dot] site. Previously: Kotaku, Washington Post. Trans; he/him
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“Don’t gather some of the most brilliant activists in the industry, treat us like crap, and then expect us to do nothing about it.” After the Game Awards cancelled its Future Class programme, @alyssamerc.bsky.social talked to its former honorees
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“We were effectively props”: young stars of game development feel let down by the ‘gaming Oscars’
Announced in 2020 by the Game Awards as an inclusive programme for the industry’s next generation, the Future Class initiative has now been discontinued. Inductees describe clashes with organisers and...
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November 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
“Don’t gather some of the most brilliant activists in the industry, treat us like crap, and then expect us to do nothing about it.” After the Game Awards cancelled its Future Class programme, @alyssamerc.bsky.social talked to its former honorees
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November 11, 2025 at 1:23 AM
If you want to support a site governed by the ethics of me, the quiet religious guy who dies first in war movies, Aftermath has a sale on! $1 for your first month of our reader tier! aftermath.site/11-06-2025-0...
Good day to financially support subscription games and tech websites that do the right thing across the board. CHEERS.
November 11, 2025 at 1:19 AM
If you want to support a site governed by the ethics of me, the quiet religious guy who dies first in war movies, Aftermath has a sale on! $1 for your first month of our reader tier! aftermath.site/11-06-2025-0...
WHAT A DAY!!!!
🚨BREAKING: STRIKERS WIN!
The order affirms what we’ve said all along: The PG’s lawless union-busting cannot stand. We made sure it didn’t. We’re taking back what they stole from us. We won this strike.
The order affirms what we’ve said all along: The PG’s lawless union-busting cannot stand. We made sure it didn’t. We’re taking back what they stole from us. We won this strike.
November 10, 2025 at 6:14 PM
WHAT A DAY!!!!
It's a great time to get in on Aftermath, so we've got a sale for you: $1 off your first month of our Reader tier, which now gives you access to our comments! We're really excited to be bringing the conversation to more people and hope you enjoy!
For non-subscribers, here's a gift: For the next 30 days, Aftermath subscriptions for new readers are on sale at $1 for your first month:
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November 10, 2025 at 4:05 PM
It's a great time to get in on Aftermath, so we've got a sale for you: $1 off your first month of our Reader tier, which now gives you access to our comments! We're really excited to be bringing the conversation to more people and hope you enjoy!
Slightly later in the morning than planned: we have a new website!! You should receive an email with everything you need to know, but let us know how it goes for you. We've worked so hard to bring this to you (especially Luke!) and we're so excited about it!
Despite the ravages of age and an internet steeped in misinformation, your eyes – in this one case – do not deceive you: Website different. It’s taken an immense amount of time and effort, but welcome to Aftermath version 2.0:
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November 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Slightly later in the morning than planned: we have a new website!! You should receive an email with everything you need to know, but let us know how it goes for you. We've worked so hard to bring this to you (especially Luke!) and we're so excited about it!
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Via ProPublica, Fort Worth Report and The Texas Tribune, led by a reporter who was an @rns.org reporting fellow last year: “No Separation Between Church and State”: Inside a Texas Church’s Training Academy for Christians Running for Office fortworthreport.org/2025/11/10/f...
A Texas church’s online class trains Christians to run for office. Now it may go national
Fort Worth’s Mercy Culture Church aims to get more conservative Christians elected through its online Campaign University.
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November 10, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Via ProPublica, Fort Worth Report and The Texas Tribune, led by a reporter who was an @rns.org reporting fellow last year: “No Separation Between Church and State”: Inside a Texas Church’s Training Academy for Christians Running for Office fortworthreport.org/2025/11/10/f...
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"How could Dems cave like this after last Tuesday's victory?" But it wasn't a victory for Schumer. His candidate -- the Trump-supported one -- lost. The jubilation and hope folks feel about Mamdani? Chuck feels the opposite. To sum up: he sucks.
November 10, 2025 at 3:15 AM
"How could Dems cave like this after last Tuesday's victory?" But it wasn't a victory for Schumer. His candidate -- the Trump-supported one -- lost. The jubilation and hope folks feel about Mamdani? Chuck feels the opposite. To sum up: he sucks.
It's me, one of the people losing their health insurance!
Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous
November 10, 2025 at 2:24 AM
It's me, one of the people losing their health insurance!
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agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
November 10, 2025 at 12:36 AM
agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
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BROOKLYN WE ARE GOING TO CHUCKS! Join us across from 9 PPW at 8:30 *tonight*
Bring pots and pans, let’s make some noise about Chuck folding (again).
Not another #SchumerSurrender
@indivisible.org @riseandresist.bsky.social @50501newyork.bsky.social @handsoffnyc.bsky.social
Bring pots and pans, let’s make some noise about Chuck folding (again).
Not another #SchumerSurrender
@indivisible.org @riseandresist.bsky.social @50501newyork.bsky.social @handsoffnyc.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 12:55 AM
BROOKLYN WE ARE GOING TO CHUCKS! Join us across from 9 PPW at 8:30 *tonight*
Bring pots and pans, let’s make some noise about Chuck folding (again).
Not another #SchumerSurrender
@indivisible.org @riseandresist.bsky.social @50501newyork.bsky.social @handsoffnyc.bsky.social
Bring pots and pans, let’s make some noise about Chuck folding (again).
Not another #SchumerSurrender
@indivisible.org @riseandresist.bsky.social @50501newyork.bsky.social @handsoffnyc.bsky.social
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Yeah, I'm sorry, but you do not keep the government shut for more than a month and then NOT get a deal on the main item you have been messaging on without completely shifting the blame dynamic.
Major concession from Democrats here is enhanced ACA funds aren’t extended. Preserving them was Dems’ central demand in this fight. They secured a promise of a vote (which Thune has been offering for weeks), but that could still fail. Even if it passes, Johnson has made no promise of a House vote.
Tentative Senate deal to end shutdown, multiple sources tell me & @frankthorp.bsky.social:
—CR through Jan 30
—Approps minibus
—Fully funds SNAP
—Reverses Trump’s shutdown RIFs
—Promise of Senate vote on ACA subsidies by Dec second week (details/outcome uncertain)
—Led by King/Shaheen/Hassan
—CR through Jan 30
—Approps minibus
—Fully funds SNAP
—Reverses Trump’s shutdown RIFs
—Promise of Senate vote on ACA subsidies by Dec second week (details/outcome uncertain)
—Led by King/Shaheen/Hassan
November 10, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Yeah, I'm sorry, but you do not keep the government shut for more than a month and then NOT get a deal on the main item you have been messaging on without completely shifting the blame dynamic.
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Trying to imagine the political fallout of caving for nothing, thus implying that you really were the party obstructing the government for no reason. They’re gonna get so goddamned burned by this for no fucking reason.
November 9, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Trying to imagine the political fallout of caving for nothing, thus implying that you really were the party obstructing the government for no reason. They’re gonna get so goddamned burned by this for no fucking reason.
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The BBC said that director-general Tim Davie and head of news Deborah Turness have resigned after criticism of the broadcaster's editing of a speech by U.S. President Donald Trump. n.pr/3LSvI2E
BBC director resigns after criticism of the broadcaster's editing of a Trump speech
The BBC said that director-general Tim Davie and head of news Deborah Turness have resigned after criticism of the broadcaster's editing of a speech by U.S. President Donald Trump.
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November 9, 2025 at 6:56 PM
The BBC said that director-general Tim Davie and head of news Deborah Turness have resigned after criticism of the broadcaster's editing of a speech by U.S. President Donald Trump. n.pr/3LSvI2E
Took a break from the overwhelming stress of my day to go to the farmer's market, and ended up just swapping co-op woes with the guy at the co-op mushroom stand
November 9, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Took a break from the overwhelming stress of my day to go to the farmer's market, and ended up just swapping co-op woes with the guy at the co-op mushroom stand
"The mystery is why Schumer keeps flirting with capitulation in exchange for nothing."
SCOOP: Schumer was more involved than reported with the attempted cave on the government shutdown. The Gang of 8 Senate Dems had his approval & he was getting daily updates.
In Thursday's caucus meeting, the Gang claimed they had 10 votes to cave. The caucus went nuts, leading to the new proposal.
In Thursday's caucus meeting, the Gang claimed they had 10 votes to cave. The caucus went nuts, leading to the new proposal.
Why Does Schumer Keep Trying to Cave? - The American Prospect
Most commentators, including me, concluded that the Tuesday election victory saved Democrats from capitulating to Republican demands to pass a simple continuing resolution to re-open the government, i...
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November 9, 2025 at 12:25 AM
"The mystery is why Schumer keeps flirting with capitulation in exchange for nothing."
My Anti-Communism Week is in memory of all those times that one activist group showed up at protests I organized and unfurled their banner in the front like it was their protest and it was super annoying
Trump’s proclamation that “Anti-Communism Week” runs Nov. 2-8 is dated Nov. 7.
This really is the time traveling administration
This really is the time traveling administration
Anti-Communism Week, 2025
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION This week, our Nation observes Anti-Communism Week, a solemn remembrance of the
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November 8, 2025 at 8:56 PM
My Anti-Communism Week is in memory of all those times that one activist group showed up at protests I organized and unfurled their banner in the front like it was their protest and it was super annoying
Tidying up CMS things in the new site while occasionally taking breaks to work on my Irish, and I just need everyone to recognize the number of Irish words I have *not* accidentally pasted into blogs
November 8, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Tidying up CMS things in the new site while occasionally taking breaks to work on my Irish, and I just need everyone to recognize the number of Irish words I have *not* accidentally pasted into blogs
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Something we talked about in my prison chaplaincy class at div school was that sometimes the people you work with will try to scam you, and while there's a lot of complexity that goes into why and how to respond, you are also not obligated to let yourself get scammed
i don’t think the main problem with the american church is “too many of them refuse to be scammed by a lady who is obviously lying.”
There is a lady on TikTok pretending to have a baby that has gone without formula all night — she is calling churches around the country to ask if they can help.
Some of them are really embarrassing themselves. Especially the mega-churches.
Some of them are really embarrassing themselves. Especially the mega-churches.
November 8, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Something we talked about in my prison chaplaincy class at div school was that sometimes the people you work with will try to scam you, and while there's a lot of complexity that goes into why and how to respond, you are also not obligated to let yourself get scammed
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November 8, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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Aftermath’s first two years have been packed with highlights, like the time @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social published a story about breast milk rivers, and then a student emailed us to say we couldn’t post anything weird/horny for a day (they were trying to make us look credible to their professor):
November 7, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Aftermath’s first two years have been packed with highlights, like the time @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social published a story about breast milk rivers, and then a student emailed us to say we couldn’t post anything weird/horny for a day (they were trying to make us look credible to their professor):
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November 7, 2025 at 11:28 PM
We're doing some work behind the scenes and the site is currently unavailable. Sorry! We'll hopefully be back soon!
What I enjoy is a customer support that's an AI bot that just repeats what I'm telling it back at me, and then after I demand repeatedly sends me to a human, who also just repeats what I'm telling them back at me
November 7, 2025 at 11:02 PM
What I enjoy is a customer support that's an AI bot that just repeats what I'm telling it back at me, and then after I demand repeatedly sends me to a human, who also just repeats what I'm telling them back at me
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November 7, 2025 at 9:41 PM