Kazuma Hashimoto

How is it a publisher with millions of dollars and a large staff can't pay me on time ever but the indie TTRPG crews have paid out invoices in less than 48 hours?

Did the buy go through..

Woosah

ofc ofc!!

She’d Never Changed Her Gender Marker. Kansas Invalidated Her License Anyway. — Assigned A trans Kansas resident recently changed her name but not her gender marker on her license, fearing what Kansas may do if she did. The Kansas DMV still flagged her ID.

This story, from @natezuke.bsky.social, is absolutely wild. A trans woman who never changed her gender marker was issued a letter invalidating her license. At the DMV they cut up her license, which had an "M" marker.

www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

this is gorgeous......

I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

A photograph of a cathedral in Achen, Germany.

A photograph of a church tower in Achen, Germany.

A photograph of a cathedral in Achen, Germany.

A photograph of a restaurant with a late 1600's facing Achen, Germany.

went for a walk during lunch.

That would also be ideal OTL

really hoping i grow out of having intense anxiety when any kind of meeting pops up on my google calendar. games industry really does a fucking number on people doesn't it.

The strange psychology when as soon as your game has a start screen, it suddenly feels more real.

I have tang yuan (mandarin pinyin ver. of it) at home so if you don't have it for the last day of the new year, then play this game.

I honestly might LOL

This German hotel I'm staying at not having a "Do not disturb" sign is diabolical.

Very interesting to see Expedition 33 analyzed in the context of French history & politics. Turn on those subtitles and listen to voices from all across the world - they'll expand your horizons and help you grow.

In May '25, a beloved Australian games website was sold off. It went dark then, a month later, rose from the dead but stuffed full of gambling links and AI authors.

It wasn't the first time, or the last time, this exact thing had happened. And it's still happening.

My months-long investigation 👇

Literally same

2026 is the year of media drenched in nostalgia and we're three months in and I'm already over it. So much of it feels unearned and like an attempt to "move on" from legacy stories which I genuinely don't think will happen despite the effort.

Anywho, there's no better time than now to put your ideas out there and invite other people to do things with you. Might as well try. You don't have to know everything before starting. You can just start.

Having to fix AI/machine translation is more work than just translating from scratch.

We should! Especially while I'm in the EU

A man can only dream of their power...

SAME!!!!

For years we said they’re going for a genocide of trans people and for years we were told to “stop being so dramatic.”

Now we’re at the point of human experimentation with the explicit goal of eradicating us.

Can we call the genocide a fucking genocide now?

I still go back and play HoMM2 and HoMM3 on occasion. Genuinely timeless classics. Olden Era seems like it could be too...

To understand what's happening in Iran today, you have to know about the history of Western intervention in the country.

In the early 1900s, the British secured oil rights in the country until 1993, where they only agreed to pay Iran 16% of the total profits.

This was seen as an unfair deal. 🧵

one of the best games of all time...

The thing with Japanese companies buying international manga publishers is not only that they have near infinite trust in AI and will keep pushing it, they think if every manga is available, sales numbers will rise accordingly.

If translation *alone* took six months, the pay rate would be so huge, it'd eclipse the golden years of the 90s and every manga translator I know wouldn't be juggling 10+ series. But no, it's one of the quickest, cheapest parts, for worse and for worse. You're drawing blood out of a stone, dinguses.

gee I wonder