Donate to Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover, organized by Lexi McMenamin More than half the team at Teen Vogue was laid off this week by our parent co… Lexi McMenamin needs your support for Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover

thank you for the outpouring of support!

those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.

Tried something

ANOTHER ONE
#laimuart #illustration

oh you know...
#いい推しの日

How poor leadership slows down game development No tool—AI or otherwise—can speed up game development if leaders don't rise to the occasion.

How poor leadership slows down game development

NEW: After my last piece about what's slowing down game development, folks wrote in to ask "why didn't you talk about bad leadership?"

It uhhhh never came up. So I returned to the well and asked devs to explain why better leadership—not AI or any other tool—is vital to efficient game development.

Kawakami..

"The best RPG session I've ever played."

See what all the hype is about with TIME FOR CHAOS - a Masks of Nyarlathotep actual play from our friends at the Glass Cannon!

youtu.be/NnPz6tKQ92g

Mei Mei is preparing something

Dick Cheney died. He was the most consequential vice president. As such, there's a ton of misconceptions about him. The Vice movie illustrates that with a ton of conspiracism. Seems appropriate to rewatch my review of that: youtu.be/K71JiqGcrSg

POLITICO Pro: Judge rules Trump administration can’t tie transportation funding to immigration Judge John McConnell previously issued a preliminary injunction blocking the Transportation Department directive.

Major news for transportation funding: Chief US District Judge John McConnell ruled that the US DOT cannot deny transportation funding to states that refuse to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement.

A PC-98 style pixel art illustration of Tifa Lockhart, based on a scene from Final Fantasy VII Remake. She's leaning against the bar at 7th Heaven and looking at the viewer.

"Well? Most people would say something sweet right about now."
#pc98 #FinalFantasyVII #TifaLockhart

2 0 2 5 Updates Key Races N.Y.C. Mayor Va. Gov. County Margin Shift from 2024 pres. T Votes Loudoun Spanberger +29 * 12 pts. 164,366 Prince William Spanberger +34 × 16 pts. 161,419 Portsmouth Spanberger +47 * 8.1 pts. 29,956 Washington Earle-Sears +49 * 4.5 pts. 20,927 Louisa Earle-Sears +20 * 6.5 pts. 18,719 Orange Earle-Sears +15 * 9.3 pts. 17,127 Powhatan Earle-Sears +40 * 4.4 pts. 16,957 Pulaski Earle-Sears +38 * 7.1 pts. 12,466 Dinwiddie Earle-Sears +17 ~ 6.3 pts. 11,974 Harrisonburg Spanberger +41 × 15 pts. 11,753 Manassas Spanberger +30 * 16 pts. 11,514 Carroll Earle-Sears +57 ~ 6.1 pts. 11,277 Wise Earle-Sears +59 ~ 4.6 pts. 10,962 Fairfax City Spanberger +45 * 11 pts. 10,232 Fredericksburg Spanberger +43 * 11 pts. 10,191 Salem Earle-Sears +12 6.9 pts. 9,374 King William Earle-Sears +34 * 7.1 pts. 8,999 Russell Earle-Sears +63 * 4.9 pts. 8,860

Every single county in Virginia shifted Blue.

rise and shine dearest doto

map of the five boroughs of New York, color-coded to which candidate they've voted for down to the Election District level of granularity

Check THE CITY's tracker for actual district breakdowns instead of the maps that just color code an entire borough which are a joke
www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/04/e...

I know we're all focused on Mamdani, but this vote was the most important one in the country today.

The relief I feel right now.

Zohran Mamdani wins the New York City mayoral race Mamdani will be the youngest New York mayor in a century, NBC News projects, after a rapid rise past Andrew Cuomo and other opponents.

Hope...is kindled.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...

They are destroying what SHE built.

#TeenVogue

Not sure if this thread is about the videogame or TTRPG, but I agree: playing a vampire is about being a monster, not a superhero.

I will FOREVER be mad that our V:tR game fell apart just before my high-Humanity Daeva woke up next to a human he honestly cared about with only ONE blood point.

Studio Ghibli, Bandai Namco, Square Enix demand OpenAI stop using their content to train AI No more Spirited Away and Demon Slayer in Sora 2.

Studio Ghibli, Bandai Namco, Square Enix demand OpenAI stop using their content to train AI

A reminder that less than two months ago, the Trump administration abruptly ended the federal government's 27-year practice of collecting data on hunger and food insecurity.

We strongly condemn @CondéNast’s consolidation plans for Teen Vogue, a move that is clearly designed to blunt the award-winning magazine’s insightful journalism at a time when it is needed the most. More from our statement:

today’s information came out piecemeal, and people should be able to share their own situations on their own time, but I could share this much ^ as it is pretty cut and dry on the facts.

Teen Vogue also no longer has any trans staffers as of today.

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.

now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

The linked article is for context. The information is from an anonymous source I am in contact with (I'm a journalist who has covered this exact issue for over half a decade)

How is Mastercard Preventing Payment Fraud at Scale? Announcing Threat Intelligence at Money 20/20 US, Mastercard showcases its latest technology in preventing fraud, combining insights from Recorded Future

MasterCard is marketing its new MasterCard Threat Intelligence platform to issuers & acquirers. A source familiar w/ MasterCard’s internal operations told me MTI is flagging anime, VTubing, adult content, tabletop, video games as potentially “high fraud risk”

fintechmagazine.com/news/how-is-...

wait WHAT??? This is actually an insane thing, Teen Vogue was doing such incredible work that the only actual reason this could be happening is suppression. Fuck this.

Solo Tabletop Bundle logo

Now that itchio is back, I can tell people about this solo ttrpgs bundle that I'm hosting.

It's got my single player game about being a swamp monster, complete with branching endings and eating people.

itch.io/b/3361/sprin...

Kodak Quietly Begins Directly Selling Kodak Gold and Ultramax Film Again Kodak appears to be taking back control over the distribution of its film.

Timeline cleanse:

Kodak will begin selling two famous types of film stock—Kodak Gold 200 and Kodak Ultramax 400—directly to retailers and distributors in the U.S., another indication that the historic company is taking back control over how people buy its film.

People blocking you, whether artisinally or via blocklist, are doing you the courtesy of signaling that you will not vibe well with each other and self-selecting out of the pool of people on Bluesky you will potentially have to deal with.