Michael D. Ivey

Nine hours after going live, the itch bundle benefiting our Game Worker Hardship Fund has already raised over $13k! Thank you so much to those who have already purchased. And for those who might be waiting for payday, you’ve still got about two weeks left! Thank you so much 🙏

IF YOU SEE THIS CLOSE THE TAB IMMEDIATELY this is a trick to install malware on your machine. it is not a real captcha system.

And then suddenly it's lunch time and that's all I've managed to do in a morning!!! Just because something has a source on Wikipedia DOES NOT MEAN that source is legitimate. If I corrected every dead citation I came across on wikipedia, it would be my full time job.

Hey folks so I’m not good at this but, I’m a Sr. Producer seeking work! 💼 20 years of game production XP across Netflix Games/Spry Fox, Bungie, Blizzard, Zynga, Riot Games, and more ⭐️ indie, AAA, PC/console/mobile, 8-400 person teams, internal and ex-dev www.linkedin.com/in/cuppycake...

What you need to hear is this: Signal has, for a LONG time now, conformed to the security-critical norms of the cryptography field. It has followed best practices. It has publicly opened itself for scrutiny, and has held up well to it.

In the world of professional cryptographers, the question is a settled matter: as of early 2026, Signal is the best encrypted messaging app for all but the most utterly pathological of edge cases.

Signal will never message you like this. If you get a message like this, SOMEONE IS TRYING TO HACK YOUR SIGNAL. DO NOT GIVE THEM THAT CODE.

today and tomorrow are the last days you can take advantage of the pre-launch sale on subscriptions to mothership.blog! it's a lifetime 15% off deal. LIFETIME. also you should click the link and find out what mothership.blog even is so you can understand why you would subscribe

Hey. While I'm giving y'all the whole "Black people experience this every day, it's not new for us," let me give you one more important Black nugget of info: "You don't have to watch the video." Seriously. You don't. Your life won't be improved by seeing it. Especially if you already oppose ICE.

i think this MLK day the thing to focus on is the strategic focus and tactical brilliance of the civil rights movement and the way it was laser focused on a set of achievable goals

Security folklore of the morning is that no one should share URLs on Signal because it exposes IP addresses and people should use QR codes instead. Please don’t do this! QR codes are much less secure. If you’re concerned about link security, turn off link previews which you can do in Signal settings

today on IHTOV: a really special one from @cooperlund.online on the passing of bob weir and his legacy. you'll want to read this ihavethatonvinyl.com/essays/bob-w...

Exciting news: I’m running a free 15-day Manager Reset Challenge for senior ICs + managers starting Jan 5! 🎉 One short prompt each weekday to reset how you communicate, delegate, prioritize, and lead in 2026. Join here 👉 modernleader.is/reset

Listing any one of her accomplishments feels like it it does it justice, and listing all of them would take hours. What a legend, what a loss.

TO ALL @2xko.riotgames.com ORGANIZERS: The official channel posted this form on the other site so I want to make sure it's here too: riot.com/49KFRII password is letsgo #2xko #FGC

Legendary to see Blacksky represented at the IETF (internet engineering task force) They’re the architects of the modern internet who designed the standards of how computers talk to each other TY @torrho.blacksky.team for representing our team as atproto works through the standardization process

I have finally found the 2025 mystery game I can passionately demand everyone play while enigmatically refusing to tell anyone anything that happens in it to avoid spoilers, driving you as mad as you all drove me

FULL TIME | HFD 0-0 PIT We are heading into penalties #USLPlayoffs | #HFDvPIT

Huge News: @2xko.riotgames.com has joined #FFXVIII2026 as an official partner! 💰Prize Pool is boosted to $50,000! 🏆Top 24 Payout for Mixed Mode, Fri-Sun 🤯Free to enter 💥+$1,000 pot bonus for Duos Thurs. Night! 👉 Register: start.gg/ffxviii More Info: frostyfaustings.com/2xko

I can’t believe I just watched Hartford Athletic win a trophy. It never felt like a real possibility, especially not two years ago when this team finished in the basement of the USL Championship. Build a statue of Brendan Burke on Huyshope Avenue.

i wrote about atproto and why it matters

-cease and desist -null and void -aid and abet -free and clear -ways and means Why is law stuff like this always two words? These are called ‘legal doublets’ and we can once again blame the Normans. 🧵⬇️

The deletion of Typepad means that millions of blogs will disappear. Or, it would normally mean that, if not for Archive Team: tracker.archiveteam.org/typepad/ Look at them go.

I love seeing all the wild combos on the 2XKO feed, and they really reinforce how good some of the players are, and how not good I am. bsky.app/profile/did:...

Profile.

signal boosting from the official LoR twitter: "Hey folks! Glory Store prices are currently incorrect. Please hold off on spending in the Glory Store until we can send through a fix. We will notify y’all once this comes through!"

Dispatch from fighting game land: 2XKO is out in Closed Beta today, which means for some people it exists forever, and for everyone else it will exist forever soon, and I simply cannot believe it. I love this game, I am very grateful I got to spend a good chunk of my life making it.

2XKO closed beta starts today got all my dashboards up to keep an eye on stuff, and making a Dunkin run after lunch if you get in and want to play (and probably embarrass me) hit me up

v1.108 is rolling out today 🚚 Now live, at long last: Bookmarks, aka Saved Posts. For all those posts you'll definitely plan to come back to! Update the app and give it a try. The button is right down there 👇

Signal Secure Backups are here 🙌

Hi! I was laid off from Firaxis this morning. I wrote leaders and civs for Civilization VII (NDA for now) and Deadpool and Storm for Marvel's Midnight Suns. I also wrote the award-nominated Hindsight. I'm available for full time, remote work starting ASAP. DMs are open: emmkid.info

new site from ex-polygon folks just launched. hell yeah

I didn’t cut any dahlias this week, leaving them out to enjoy in the yard. Here’s a Walter Hardisty (only bloom I have of this, so far) that someone nibbled on but still looks good.

The bsky team is heading to @ietf.org in Montreal in November. The team has requested a "birds of a feather" (BOF) session at #IETF124 - a part of the process for having ATProto admitted as a standard. We're also planning community gatherings. RSVP here if you're interested.

Luck be a Landlord is 40% off on mobile! iOS: apps.apple.com/us/app/luck-... Android: play.google.com/store/apps/d...

There's a Star Citizen free fly event going on right now where you can fly and try out some of the most popular ships. A good way to try out the game. Been having a blast with the crew lately doing "end game" activities. Check it out here: twitch.tv/trexcapades

It's that time of year again when I need to call out professors and teachers who keep asking their students to cold email developers to interview them for a class assignment. Stop assigning this to students. No really. STOP. Please stop. I have other suggestions for you- stay with me...

Can folks do me a favor? I was on Bluesky early & it was great. Mostly porn. I never left, many colleagues are here, but still don’t know I am. I created Anime for Southerners and Cooking with Lu Bu. I am drugs. Here’s two favorite pictures of things. Repost? I am in the wilderness.

Today’s dahlia haul

my only criticism of zohran’s campaign rn is we’ve been working on a campaign scavenger hunt for months and now we look like copycats 😔

since Bluesky is chock full of Newsom-stan-bots insisting that "Dems should compromise on trans issues", I will re-up my November essay about why this is not only immoral & unempirical, but BAD POLITICS. Dems WILL LOSE if they do this, here's why (no paywall): juliaserano.medium.com/should-democ...

Steve Shirley escaped the Holocaust as a child & went on to found one of the earliest software startups. The really impressive part? She employed women programmers who had been pushed out of the workforce after having kids, & allowed them flexible, family friendly, work from home jobs—in the 1960s!

#ReleaseTheCuomoList

The streaming service bet big on the spooky sitcom