Leon Lawrence

If you just really want to hear me explain why so many publishers are just utterly useless now, here's a talk for you.

Yeah so throwing dildos at women athletes on the court is an actual example of gender-based violence against women in sports—one that transphobes and acquiescent Dems will surely make 1000% less noise about

"Pride - Queer Lights in the Darkness" bundle's banner image. Rainbow colours.

Worth checking out!

This bundle contains 66 works from 38 queer creatives, with a transfeminine majority, from all over the world:

itch.io/b/3065/queer...

Books, graphic novels, games, music!

#Pride2025

Have been in a financial crisis for months and it's starting to get really scary given my recent health issues and medical expenses... would anyone like to bring me on as a freelance writer/copyeditor? I'm doing edits for one of my favorite writers right now, I'd love to help more people 🥺

Front and centre is Vivian Wylde magically pouring tea for her guests. The setting is lush and green, with a bright blue sky, and fluffy white clouds. Other figures are in the background - two sitting on a bench, another two with cards at a table, two in a boat on the lake and more. This is the key art for the upcoming title from Studio Drydock called Wylde Society, a prequel to Wylde Flowers.

Featuring is a build mode style shot in an Edwardian styled room. There is a grid under a wooden four posted bed, with a green outline to show it is in the safe zone. The furnishing are lush and in warm colours like red, gold, navy and beige. This is an early screenshot from a game in development called Wylde Society, a prequel to Wylde Society.

Three women figures are seated on a creamy beige striped couch, in a lush room filled with old fashioned furnishings like golden candles and a red stained glass lamp and a dark green wallpaper. They are chatting, and sitting with blue flowered patterned cups and saucers. This is an early screenshot from a game in development called Wylde Society, a prequel to Wylde Society.

Front and centre is a beautiful multi-level boarding house structure - with dusty red boards, green trims on the windows, a talk light brown brick chimney, a porch, and a special window with stained glass with a half moon and sparkles. This is an early screenshot from a game in development called Wylde Society, a prequel to Wylde Society. The scene is bright and colourful with fluffy white clouds, in a bright blue sky, full bright green trees with a few yellow leaved tree sprinkled in, surrounded by a soft brown fence. There are two feminine figures in old fashioned dress walking away from the boarding house talking to each other.

It will cost you $0 to reskeet our work 👠✨

raise your hand if you think cozy games should have more drama ✋

UVW-CWA United Videogame Workers, a game industry-wide union for North America!

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Worth noting that this is also what the UK government review found, it just ignored all the evidence in its conclusions.

Pink and purple graphic with white text that reads, "Trans liberation is tied to all of our freedoms" with a white ACLU logo.

Free expression is a hallmark of the First Amendment.

All our rights are in jeopardy when trans peoples’ freedom to exist is undermined.

Not sure how to do this. My partner and light of 19 years, @mitzistarkweather.bsky.social has been diagnosed with metastatic (stage 4) breast cancer.

We are hopeful that modern treatment can give her many more years of changing the world.

If you’re able, we could use your help.

gofund.me/99a35bf2

Hey! Just published **rTexPacker v5.0**!

Pack your sprites and font glyphs! Many new features: sprite tags, slicing, collider editor, manual positioning, codepoints loading from text, new UI style...🤯

And fits in a floppy disk! 😄

Try it online: raylibtech.itch.io/rtexpacker

ICE Agents Wait At Edge Of Delivery Table To Deport Newborn

ICE Agents Wait At Edge Of Delivery Table To Deport Newborn

Anecdotally, fucking spot on

Not to mention that the team was about 10 seconds away from meeting god in a Phoenix Hawk 🤣

Thank you!

This was the first of three battles to start an ongoing map campaign with my best friend. I haven't decided if I'll do this level of report for each and every battle, but this moment was so clearly a stand out in an otherwise standard battle that it directly resulted in a win for my friend.

The FAILED DEFENSE of NEW ATHENS and loss of LIEUTENANT EIYLIN BOYD, callsign "SPARKY". INCITING INCIDENT: On 2950-01-03 four dropships bearing the iconography of HOUSE MARIK made landfall 28 clicks southeast of NEW SPARTA. House command immediately mustered three Lances for the defense of the region, Castle, Galactica, and Tinderbox. I personally led Lance CASTLE with our supporting regiment, the 191ST LYRAN MILITIA, ECHO COMPANY in the defense of NEW ATHENS. LIEUTENANT EIYLIN BOYD in her Orion ON1-K pushed past SERGEANT AVERY BLACK, callsign "Bugsie", along the highway to engage the hostile MARAUDER-3M that had been identified as the commander for the lance. During her push, LIEUTENANT BOYD was intercepted by an Atlas AS7-D which had charged forward to defend their commander. The enemy ATLAS smashed into LIEUTENANT BOYD with enough force to break almost half of the armor on her Orion. LIEUTENANT BOYD stumbled backward and attempted to correct and counter in melee, but her attack was ineffective. Unfortunately the ATLAS had closed in too quickly, and before LIEUTENANT BOYD could react it brutally smashed LIEUTENANT BOYD in her cockpit, instantly killing her. ECHO COMPANY lost morale, and were quickly wiped out by remaining House Marik forces. I ordered CASTLE to engage in a tactical withdrawal, resulting in the total loss of ECHO COMPANY and her armored column. I advise LIEUTENANT BOYD be honored by awarding her a posthumous MCCLEARY AWARD FOR HEROISM for her sacrifice to ensure her Lancemates’ survival. Attached is a photo of the final moments of LIEUTENANT BOYD, taken by SRM TEAM ECHO ONE who were overlooking the battle. The transmission from the head-cams of Echo One terminated shortly after the order for withdrawal, as a hostile PHOENIX HAWK jumped atop the tower. Signed CAPTAIN ARJA LARSON

Black and white depiction of the final moment of Lieutenant Eiylin "Sparky" Boyd in her Orion

Colored depiction of the final moment of Lieutenant Eiylin "Sparky" Boyd in her Orion

Monochromatic depiction of the final moment of Lieutenant Eiylin "Sparky" Boyd in her Orion

Please enjoy this battle report I wrote from the perspective of my mech company captain, as though she were writing an after action report.

#BattleTech #BattletechClassic #BattleReport #HouseSteiner

We just wanted to take a moment to thank all our new supporters! Tomorrow, there will be more of us!

Every person on Bluesky should know:
* Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever
* Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies
* Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured
* Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic

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Starting this week, we’ll all pay more at the store because of the Trump tariffs, even while he’s finalizing a multi-trillion-dollar tax cut for the wealthy.

All the bluster is meant to get us talking about literally anything else.

Moreover, trans people — a <1% minority — are under attack and need your assistance right now.

That means tips to creators, fighting alongside us, pro bono representation, & general everyday acts of kindness.

You can't just be a good person by virtue signaling. Goodwill takes practice and action.

Every democrat who doesn’t support trans rights and would dare to say this to the parent of a trans child can go straight to hell.

Just once I'd like for one of these 'we are witnessing history' moments to be a good thing.

my son is so fucked up!!!!!!

Nearly everyone I know in games is plotting their backup career. Not because they don’t love what they do, but how many times can you get axed before you get sick of it?

Creatives could be spending that time improving their skills + pitching cool things, but no. The brain drain is gonna be real

I do love my chosen profession, but lately

And no, as an indie: Indies aren't gonna save games. No indie will be able to employ the amount and type of talent out there. Indies can't begin to design the type of games these gorgeous human beings are able to create.

It's like burning down a forest and go 'the petting zoo will save us!'

AAA is fucked. AAAA is fucked. AA is fucked. Indie is fucked. It's all fucked. I've never seen more across-the-board devastation in this industry in the decade-and-a-half I've been here.

Please do not create a Proton (.me) email and use it to send an email to HR@OPM.GOV just to send photos of your meals, or a textual list of reasons why they suck, or joke lists of five things you accomplished. Elon Muskolini says it's for serious things only. Let's be responsible Americans, folks.

a screencap from some late-90s-early-aughts Nickelodeon animated television show depicting a girl with blond hair, most of it in a bun at the top of her head, save for a piece laying over her right eye, leaning back and away - uncomfortable - with the piece of meat on a fork being presented to her by another person with red painted nails and a bright orange shaggy sweater. text from left to right reads: "complete strangers" "overfamiliar playful rudeness" "me"

hey

stop it