Kevin Veale 😷 (Toitū Te Tiriti)

But anyway, if you've got a blog or podcast that's not fueled by hate, I would love to talk to you after the publisher announces my new game tomorrow. Particularly if you're interested in talking about fiction-first, narrartively oriented games. Which I think will be a first for this publisher.

My theory is similar in that many men view women/girls as objects to fear, possess and control; the only people they see as human are other men, which explains the dehumanising, active targeting of women and consistent protection of the relationship with the man at the centre of the files, Epstein.

What's revealed in the latest Epstein files release – and what's redacted The Department of Justice released its latest, and likely last, batch of files related to investigations into Jeffrey Epstein. It comes more than a month after the missed deadline set by Congress. The...

People who reply "this point is not new", it's hard to begin to understand the extent of the damage to countless girls and women over many decades when the latest addition to the Epstein files database included "more than 3 million pages, 2,000 videos and 180,000 images". www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

If I think about the Epstein files and the layoffs too much, I won't apply for jobs and reply to emails. But it's hard trying to function "like normal" when things are devastating on so many levels, besides remembering why I became a reporter, and that I need to be a reliable person for myself too.

How many opportunities did I lose because men I encountered or worked with did (or didn't) think of me as someone they could get in bed? What was the point of a reporter willing to cover an active warzone if they were still laid off after bad decisions made by the paper's senior managers and owner?

It's hard, as both a woman and a journalist, to understand both of these things and figure out a path forward. I can't mitigate them through more personal effort, education or professional experience. And it's galling to read the defenses for the layoffs and the people named in the Epstein files.

At the same time, the extent of the Washington Post layoffs highlight how it didn't matter how hardworking, loyal, smart, collaborative, award-winning, competitive, knowledgeable and devoted so many of the staff were. It wasn't enough to prevent being laid off by one of the richest men in the world.

It doesn't matter what the women said or did, how educated or successful they are, how faithful she is to her partner, anything. The Epstein files explicitly detail how these men (and their allies) emailed each other for advice and strategy on sex with girls and women, as well as helping each other.

the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex

cops: sex trafficking victims are impossible to find! most of them don’t even know they’ve been trafficked.
dozens of women over decades: here’s our sworn statements about jeff epstein
cops: …
prosecutors: …
anti-trafficking task forces: …
cops: we have no choice but to do a craigslist sting

cannot possibly convey how actually crazy-making it can feel, after spending 20 years monitoring all these orgs blaming sex workers and the internet for enabling a vast sex trafficking network, to now see Jeffery Epstein’s inbox

oh boy, needing this reminder myself again.

You also have to avoid energy vampires. I'm sorry even the morally aligned ones. You cannot craft a strategy for your family to achieve beyond your ancestors' dreams & your little queer rocketship cannot blast out into escape velocity if all you have in your ear is people screaming NOTHING WILL WORK

While reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot.

I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.

Jeffrey Epstein’s Money Mingled With Silicon Valley Start-Ups

Epstein had many known connections to Silicon Valley CEOs, but less known was how he made money from those relationships.

We did a deep dive into how he got dealflow in Silicon Valley, giving him shots to invest in Coinbase, Palantir, SpaceX and other companies.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/b...

I wanna personally congratulate Hunter Biden for not only being nowhere near the Epstein files but for having rock-solid reviews from sex workers for respectfulness and tipping

The word "sloppy" means something different now

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if you haven't played it already, definitely check out The Seven Mysteries of Honjo!!

the ost by hidenori iwasaki is fantastic. i'm really looking forward to the new game's tunes

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the original paranormasight is one of my favorites... so so glad it's getting another entry!!

i have a hot take and it's that expressing an opinion like this about students or colleagues should probably be fireable regardless of tenure status or whatever else.

a poorly cut image of Josh, a Black man with salt-and-pepper hair wearing a macaroni-and-cheese hoodie, against the backdrop of an animated cave from Scarlet Hollow. The Scarlet Hollow logo is in the lower-right corner

Excited today to do some coworking and then explore @blacktabbygames.com 's Scarlet Hollow! I loved Slay the Princess, and Scarlet Hollow's their 6-episode visual novel!

Episode 5 drops next week, so I'm getting started with Ep 1 today at 11:30a PT!

See you there: twitch.tv/intelligame

Polanski is a pleasure to interview because he will answer any question about anyone. Wes Streeting? “Wes is attacking me every day on social media because I’m another gay man in politics who is not willing to throw the trans community under the bus and that exposes his abject immorality. He must know what it’s like to be othered but he’s more bothered about power than protecting the other. It’s disgraceful.”

Okay but Zack Polanski has been coming out with bangers

"the perfect is the enemy of the good" mainly comes up when the "good" thing on offer is extremely not good

First Rule of Blades '68:
There will be no mention of The Forbidden Touchstone.

This is really it! Getting emergency rental assistance approved helps landlords! Typically, the payments are made directly to them! Back rent of evicted tenants is rarely recovered! If the council moderates actually supported landlords, they'd rush to get this approved. They just hate poor people

it’s criminal!! criminal!!

my most peepaw-coded trait is that I angrily refuse to use DoorDash (and similar apps) because I know the markup is so insane versus “picking the food up myself” - and that money doesn’t go to the restaurant.

By god, I will drive or walk my ass over to the restaurant and get it myself.

mainly, I want to help more people learn to cook simple meals because it makes me *real* mad to see parasites like DoorDash and Uber Eats making big bucks off price-gouging both small restaurant businesses and stressed out normal people.

Vidkun Quisling - Wikipedia

Lots of people using the word quisling, without mentioning that he absolutely did face the firing squad. That was a thing that happened, kinda important to remember he very much did get executed for his collaboration.

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Alex Burghart MP has now called for a review of the circumstances around the award of Palantir's £240m defence contract, and asked why Mandelson's visit to Palantir's offices in Washington was kept off the books while the company was being represented by his firm, Global Council.