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Solar has overtaken nuclear. A decade ago it supplied 1% of the world's power. In 2025 it met three quarters of global demand growth. Almost nobody saw it coming. I spoke to Jocelyn Timperley at BBC Future about why. www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

Mass Effect fans are calling for a boycott of all EA products and services in protest of the company closing down BioWare and canceling the next Mass Effect game.

We are letting one greedy insecure k-hole Nazi fuck it up for 8 billion of us. He’s killing millions bc his daddy was mean to him and he loathes himself. Remember when Elon told Tucker Carlson if Trump didn’t get elected he was “fucked” and going to prison? Yeah, we can still do that. We must.

I literally don't have words for the news of EA closing Bioware. Unconscionable, incompetent, soulless decision-making. May everyone involved in these decision suffer Renegade interrupts for the rest of their lives.

Consolidation is killing our industry. The Gamergaters who make money off the rage game will have you think this is a victory. This is purely a loss. A loss of work and art and fun and expression in a space that desperately needs it. Massive fucking bummer.

Just been such a revolution in my worldview to realise that people like Musk actually believe this, this isn't just the nonsense they feed the rubes so they can do coldly rational mercantile calculations in smokey rooms among themselves. No. It's rubes all the way down, they're that stupid.

The very last task I had at BioWare before I left to pursue a new opportunity was to paint this pose of Solas embracing the Inquisitor (I didn't paint this entire image, it was just the figures). Even at the time it felt poignant that this would be my last contribution to Dragon Age.

BioWare closing is so depressing. Compounding it for me is how predictable it is at a time where creative institutions --studios where artists were nurtured, resourced and trusted to MAKE THINGS -- are being harvested for parts. Emblematic of a soul-sick world.

More than anything, i count it a blessing BioWare got to say goodbye with The Citadel/Trespasser DLC/Veilguard THEY WERE TELLING YOU GOODBYE OKAY

Thank you, BioWare, for everything. You deserved better.

EA's closure of BioWare is transparently a vile move to shutter the studio that made by far their queerest titles. In the wake of this, I implore you: MAKE MORE QUEER ART. Make it trans. Make it horny. Make it scary. Make it loving. Make it with every inch of yourself. Flood the world with it!

many centrists are as disdainful of science as MAGA these days. virtually every study on the topic, and there have been many, show that youth programs reduce crime. it's a settled question. this is no different from claiming vaccines are a hoax.

Well this is garbage. They're leading the industry down a dark path.

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

Absolutely stunning that in the NYT’s latest major story on Elon Musk single-handedly trying to save the GOP there is NOT ONE WORD about how he is the world’s most vocal white supremacist and advocate of ethnic cleansing.

the fact that like two weeks after a massive gang rape story breaks a fifteenth rate comedian can wander onto national television and call women whores and there are no repercussions and really not much outcry is a big problem for me.

I double-checked this on a couple of Xitter stat sites and it's true. Average views of the main AfD account dropped 90% and average engagement dropped by 60%. This is commercial social media for you: bots, damn bots and Russian bots.

Today, I resigned as Vice Chair of the ODP Pride Caucus. The state party expects us to be a sales team, censoring our voices when we beg candidates not to trade on trans lives. I am still a Democrat, but I will not value party approval over true, defiant advocacy. Full text below. 👇

This 33-year-old nurse told the FBI she knew she was “going to set him free” after border patrol agents brought in a man whose face was bloodied and seriously injured. She treated him and helped him escape, and she faces charges now. He got away, and they never relocated him.

Well well well, someone said the quiet part out loud

Happy Batman Day. Here he is breaking the arm of a white supremacist.

Genocide is wrong. Criticising perpetrators of genocide is right. Never, ever forget that.

Super excited for Exodus and Fate of the Old Republic, but where are my ex-BioWare devs working on a spiritual successor to Dragon Age??? 😭 #BioWare #DragonAge #BoycottEA

"Let's all unite to win this unjust, immoral imperialist war that everybody hates" is not a new position for the Democrats, alas

Adidas selects an IDF soldier who was part of an operation that killed 232 Palestinian civilians to be its spokesperson for its new campaign on amputees — meanwhile Gaza has the highest rate of amputees of any place in modern history due to IDF soldiers and genocide. Barbaric. Stop buying Adidas.

As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.

i want games made by people who get to keep their jobs

We spoke with The Talos Principle III's writers about generative AI: 'It's just a plagiarism machine that makes people lose their jobs'. You can read the interview excerpt right here. gameinformer.com/interview/20...

Trump is not just the worst president, but the worst US citizen of my entire lifetime. A world historical failure of humanity and morality. He and his wicked entourage have burdened us with the task of repairing his damage and eradicating his evil legacy for the rest of our lives.

Israel’s national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, called for Israel to kill 30 or 40 Palestinians a day, saying there are people in Gaza who “shouldn’t live” and are “not even people.” @premthakker.bsky.social reports on Ben-Gvir’s comments. Read the full article: zeteo.com/p/itamar-ben...

I don't think people understand the extent to which this has been a decade plus long billionaire funded campaign (obviously Thiel is involved). We've tried to ring the alarm about these eugenicists but it is too easy for them to get parroted by the mainstream media. bylinetimes.com/2026/08/18/t...

Northwest detention center in Tacoma WA is not providing detainees with edible food. Please share, fuck ice

A bunch of cops cheering at a political rally — in uniform — as the president and AG endorse a candidate and attack their political opponents is not normal. And it is not okay.

Here is hoping that EA sells BioWare and Respawn ASAP so I can play the next Star Wars Jedi and Mass Effect game

Just a reminder that purchasing an EA Game going forward is directly funding the horrific Saudi Arabia monarchy, as well as Trump's son-in-law. I will never spend another penny on them

I dont think that's ridiculous to say

It's hilarious when pundits call DSA the "left's MAGA." As though a desire for universal healthcare is just the mirror-image version of ... explicit support for rape & sex trafficking.

appears the US war apparatus is pivoting from general war crimes to a more openly genocidal strategy

The US is adopting a strategy of attacking water storage and desalination plants designed to render the region uninhabitable. If continued, this strategy will make the Gulf littoral uninhabitable in the coming decades. Yet there is no discussion of these tactics and their repercussion in the US.

Peter Larsen (48) approached a Muslim American named Sohail and asked him if he was Muslim. Sohail confirmed that he was. Larsen, a Trump supporter, pulled out a knife and stabbed Sohail 15 times, telling police he intended to kill him and all Muslims. www.qasimrashid.com/p/a-white-su...

The Supreme Court Gives Donald Trump Full Control Over the Executive Branch, Except the Part of It that Impacts Their Retirement Portfolios

Effectively declares that the Constitutional Convention, the Federalist Papers, Washington, Adams, other presidents, centuries of jurisprudence, and many others were wrong about the presidency, and that the only ones who ever understood it correctly were Richard Nixon, Donald Trump, and their fans.

I think we all know this is one challenge that Musk won't accept even if he lives to 150