Galactic Firepup

Galactic Firepup

@galacticfirepup.bsky.social

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NEW: I spoke with current and former EA employees to understand how the latest layoff round played out and the realities of daily life at the U.S. publisher. The short version? EA is controlled by an executive class that "cannot fail, only be failed." Workers, then, will always pay the price.

Vertical Slice@verticalslice.news

"I don't want to work at this place anymore:" EA workers decry mismanagement and corporate greed after mass layoffs Current and former EA employees paint a bleak picture of daily life at one of the video game industry's most prominent publishers

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i am inviting anyone from a legacy media organization to explain to me why the house judiciary dems report on trump’s epstein’s ties and multiple allegations of rape isn’t worthy of extensively reporting on. i’m serious. i want to understand.

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I appreciate that people want a new Mass Effect, but the future where fans advocate for the work itself and not the people who make it is the one the vultures at EA want. If you'll take it however you get it, they can keep treating people who make what you love as expendable.

kotaku.comWhat Does It Even Mean To ‘Save’ Mass Effect? - KotakuThousands of fans are rallying around a campaign to save the series after BioWare's shutdown, but what does that look like?

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Politico wrote up Zohran playing basketball with the uncovering-a-big-scandal tone the same day the NYTimes wrote up "credible allegation that The President of the United States raped a woman" as a political strategy story. Broken media in a nutshell

Chris Sommerfeldt@c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social

New: Mayor Zohran Mamdani and a group of his friends have been secretly using the NYPD Police Academy’s gymnasium in Queens to play pickup basketball — scrambling some operations at the facility. w/ @grahamrayman.bsky.social & Joe Anuta www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

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When trans creators are subtle, people dismiss the trans subtext as “headcanon.” When trans creators are loud and proud, people call it “obnoxious” and “cringe.” They just don’t want us to be represented in media at all. Because they don’t want us to exist at all.

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Congrats to Lula on overcoming Mark Zuckerberg and Donald Trump to defeat Hospital Pervert Jr., even as his opposition literally blocked off roads and turned off bus service during election day. Fascists are scary but they are always, 100% of the time, ultimately gigantic fucking losers.

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Replying to @kevvwill.bsky.social

What a day. There’s so much other countries can learn from the political organisation in Brazil’s second round

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between serbia, brazil, and hopefully november 3, a good reminder: voting works it’s not the end, there’s always work to be done after the vote, but if you want to beat the motherfuckers and keep them out of power: vote your asses off

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Replying to @tubazef.com

The only exception is when they themselves engaje with our content, then you should let them react and even incentivize them to do so. The algorithm on Instagram/TikTok/Youtube will understand that as them liking that content and wanting to see more of it

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During the brazilian elections we learned one obvious but important tactic to defeat the far right on the Internet and I think everyone should know it: IGNORE THEM! DON'T ENGAGE WITH THEIR CONTENT! DON'T MAKE CONTENT REACTING TO THEM! DON'T HATE QRT! LET THEM ALONE IN THEIR BUBBLE!

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we're curing like, just every fuckin cancer. we're out here curing diseases that would've doomed people in months. it's crazy. I look at how brutal COVID was, but it gave us the mRNA medications that allowed this to happen. I almost wonder if it was worth it for how many lives it will now save?

Social media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?

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Replying to @phantomarine.bsky.social

I will wait five years for Gaslight if it means the team gets to make it as mindbendingly cool as humanly possible

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The equivalent of every soul in the towns of Athlone, Portlaoise, Kenmare and then some combined being wiped out. Imagine the reaction if so many were murdered in a terrorist attack. Yet fossil fuels continue to be massively subsidised, and emissions to rise, because NOTHING must limit profit.

Bob Berwyn@bberwyn.bsky.social

At least 50,000 heat deaths last summer. Imagine nearly all the people in a mid-size town dying over the course of a few months; Freising in Bavaria, or St. Pölten in Austria ...

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70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

theatlantic.comThe Man Who Saved the Internet YesterdayOndřej Surý was a relatively anonymous volunteer working on PHP security. Then the internet exploded.

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Replying to @erinbiba.bsky.social

The point of correcting people is kind of lost now that the autocorrect function is so fucking broken, anyway. Like, did somebody make an error, or did their phone decide what to autocorrect despite spelling accuracy??

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AOC: "As AI begins to encroach in our society, their goal is to take your cognition away from you. AI's goal is to take your thoughts away from you, your ability to think away from you, so that you become dependent on a machine ... reading books is active resistance"

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Canadians can’t afford rent. Food bank use is at a record high. Wages are stagnant while the rich are getting richer than ever before. Of all the people who could use this kind of federal support right now, venture capitalists are at the bottom of that list. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

theglobeandmail.comOttawa kicks off process to give $1.75-billion boost to venture capital sectorIndustry Minister Joly shares more details about how government plans to allot funding to firms that back fast-growing startups

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“NDP MP Leah Gazan said the Liberal government is ‘using consultation as a weapon’ and consulting selectively for political reasons, noting the Carney government is sitting on S-2 while expediting its bill to streamline major project approvals with minimal or no consultation.”

cbc.caAdvocates, lawmakers condemn Carney government's stalling on Indian Act reform bill | CBC NewsIndigenous women's rights advocates and parliamentarians of all stripes are urging the Carney government to stop stalling and pass historic proposed legislation to end the "second-generation cut-off" ...

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here's a fantastic rundown of the scary PHP "the internet is hacked!" situation, thank you so much:

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