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HORSES cover with a banned from Steam logo

Our upcoming game HORSES was preemptively banned from Steam, with no path to appeal. The game will still launch next week on December 2nd and will be available on EGS, GOG, Humble, and Itch for $4.99. Here is a detailed FAQ covering what happened: horses.wtf/BannedFromSt...

"device hoarding" also known as: When someone hasn't replaced the one phone that they have in a few years because they had no reason to. Words used to mean things.

Having lived through this once (anti-gay rhetoric in the 80s), if you’re a young journalist going after the glory of a big story that’s actually just a front for bigotry, can I suggest you think about what the rest of your career looks like when this fever finally breaks?

Twitch Twitch is the world

Going live with Valery North: Football Manager! It's the end of the season, just the play-offs (which my team are not in) to go. So, it's time to plan for the future this week: www.twitch.tv/valerynorth

CrowdStrike catches insider feeding information to hackers American cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike has confirmed that an insider shared screenshots taken on internal systems with hackers after they were leaked on Telegram by the Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters thre...

Wow.

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Graphic of Blake (a white non-binary person with short hair) wearing a leather and lace sleeveless outfit with revealing cutouts, against a background of stars and galaxies. Their own mirror image is visible in the background.

What if your "shameful" fantasies are actually maps showing you what parts of you need attention?

The Erotic Alchemy Experience: 5 live calls, shadow work, Tarot, somatic practices, Winter Solstice ritual.

Starting this Friday. Only $33.

Text reads: "7 Perfect Games You Can Finish in One Night" next to an image of Indika, the nun from the video game of the same name.

Don't have time to sink into a super long game? Have someone you want to introduce to video games but not scare them off with something that's 100hrs?? We've got you:

7 Best Bite-Sized Games You Can Finish in One Night youtu.be/5rfsI6S0D_o

Fucking gross to hear multiple podcasters choosing to voice ads for Transphobe-Rowling's audiobook series
You gross, soulless, money-grubbing little shits

You cannot honestly be ignorant about this bigot in 2025 unless you have no trans people in your life
And no fucking wonder at that, eh?

when trying on pants, do this in the store. then tell the sales associate "the menswear guy told me to do this."

IG mr.funkys0ul

Stop using AI for placeholder assets.
Use sketches. Use lorem ipsum. Use bright pink materials. Use programmer art for fucks sake, literally anything else.
If your studio is using AI even for temp, even if they think they've covered their tracks, SPEAK UP because people WILL FIND IT

A six-panel comic. In the first panel, a yellow warbler says "Hey so I'm going to go out on a limb here." In panels two through five, the warbler hops along a long branch against a blue sky with clouds. In panel 6, it stops at the end of the branch and sings.

As the year comes to an end, I'm reposting some of the comics I made this year, including this ridiculous thing.

The Headmistress' Paddle Obsession - Dreams of Spanking She gives herself a good hard seeing-to - but, alas, it’s got nothing on her obsession; the walloping she’s still daydreaming about!

CNs: self-spanking with a heavy wooden paddle 🏓

When you warn your warlocks about the consequences… but they do THE THING anyway 🙃 #dnd

Goddess Kolor, a thick Black transfem, with her hands behind her head, armpits exposed, in a blurred red room. She is wearing black leather restraints around her wrists, a Black n95 respirator with gold chain, a silver chain necklace, a black onesie with an unconventional shape, and a black thigh strap. Her thighs look juiced up and ready for crushing.

Get you a curvaceous muscle dyke with thick thighs and luxurious pits to drag that lust out of you by the ankles. 😏

Whose skull aches to be crushed first? fans.ly/KolorfulLust

#goonerbait #goddess #trans #blacktrans #transgender #queer #lesbian #covidcautious #sexy #fansly #femdom #ebonygoddess

YouTube video by Rudy Ayoub HABIBI METAL (FULL VERSION)

Today's Music: youtu.be/7ewh_ganrQw?...

NEVER STEAL BOOKS.

GO TO PUBLIC LIBRARIES.

GO TO GODDAMN FREE! LIBRARIES.

TELL A BOOKSTORE OWNER YOU ARE DESPERATE.

DO. NOT. STEAL. FROM. WRITERS.

ppl say of bigoted comedians like ricky gervais: oh he's not a bigot! he makes fun of EVERYONE!

first of all thas not true. when did you ever hear gervais doing 5-10 minutes on straight white guys?

secondly... yeah bigots usually are pretty inclusive of all minorities. bigotry is rarely exclusive.

post by @zoejayw I think every male writer needs a pervert lesbian with a gun overseeing every choice he makes for a female character and if she doesn't like it she gets to shoot. this will improve the across-the-board quality of all fiction by an orded of magnitude specifying pervert lesbian because there are times when something is sexy enough to outweigh being kind of unwoke and you have to know when to make those tough calls

I want to apply for this job.

It's giving Golgafrinchan Ark Fleet Ship B www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

All the supposedly progressive people saying 'Nigel Farage's racism doesn't matter. His fans love it'.

It matters whether the leader of the party leading all the opinion polls is an outright racist. It matters if he called black people 'wogs' and said 'gas them' to Jews. Not everything is a game

A mathematical ceiling limits generative AI to amateur-level creativity A new study argues that the algorithms driving tools like ChatGPT impose a hard limit on originality. By prioritizing probable answers, these models are structurally confined to producing amateur-leve...

tl;dr - people of below-average creativity find gen-ai impressive. those of above-average creativity realise that it's not. and it's never going to get better than that.

A color illustration of buntglas's oc Misam, a cosmic bunny lady. She has deep brown skin with light freckles and pale violet palms, shining eyes, a golden eye tattoo on her forehead, bunny ears, and long violet hair in a braid that trails into a star. She is dressed in a deep purple top and skirt with elegant gold trim, a sheer sari with intricate embroidery edges, and lots of gold and white accessories evoking stars and moons. The background is a gold and purple art nouveau-like graphic, prominently featuring a shining eye and celestial motifs.

Been chipping away at this for a while, my half of an art trade with the very esteemed @buntglas.bsky.social featuring their gorgeous oc Misam 🌙🌟🌌

#art

if you’ve got a little extra this month, please consider helping out my fiancee katie, who just keeps having major appliances die on her 😭

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j.paulmonter All you are saying is that you want to gatekeep creativity. That's not good. cinema_nasties Al defenders are so embarrassing drrachelbarr Neuroscientist here... creativity is a process. A process. A FUCKING PROCESS. Not an output. Nobody is gatekeeping the process - Al simply invites you to skip to the end, to the output. Which, as mentioned, is not creativity. Nobody cares if the output is aesthetically pleasing, because the process, the act itself, the limitation of a single human mind and the resulting creations that capture that one single inimitable human experience... is what makes a creation worth paying attention to.

I'd love to join in but this is pretty much the four I would choose, so *shrugs*

Sure! Mastercard, Visa, Stripe + Paypal are further restricting what kinds of perfectly legal adult content you can buy through their processor (they cracked down on itchio and steam over the summer, not to mention Patreon a few years ago). We're tired of them acting like dictators instead of tools.

I’m not doomscrolling.

I’m surfing for trans folks who might need a boost, a bit of encouragement, a witty reply, or a monkey hug gif.

I think shiny looks good on me, don’t you think?

A white person with glasses and short brown hair, wearing a red velvet dinner jacket with black satin lapels, a grey-silver cravat, and gold cufflinks

Spanking can lead us into something like an altered state of consciousness. Done well it’s an intense psychological experience, practically a drug in its own right.

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