Scott Jon Siegel

A banner that reads "Game Workers Conference" in white text on a pink and blue background, alongside the ball and threads logo.

Do you work in games? Are you tired of corporate greed taking over our industry? Do you miss when industry events were by workers, for workers?

The United Videogame Workers of CWA, in partnership with other unions and worker-centered organizations, announce the #GameWorkersConference. May 22-23 ❤️‍🔥

The Singularity is upon us: Apple's AI summarized a text message that read "I'm still down to clown if you are" to.... "clown event still possible."

A photo of the Yerba Buena Gardens. Food stands are set up with picnic tables

FYI for folks at home—the gardens aren’t blocked off. Now that setup’s complete, the barriers are behind the food stands for health/safety reasons.

The area will stay open the rest of the day after lunch wraps up.

they FENCED off a part of Yerba Buena? Are they checking badges? wtf

How to Talk to Someone Experiencing 'AI Psychosis' Mental health experts say identifying when someone is in need of help is the first step — and approaching them with careful compassion is the hardest, most essential part that follows.

There’s no handbook or program for how to talk to a friend or family member who is falling into AI psychosis. So after many people contacted us clearly suffering from these delusions, we spoke to mental health experts. Here’s what they suggest: www.404media.co/ai-psychosis...

No GDC for me this year! I’ll miss everyone! 💜

The meme with a guy and two girls. The guy is labeled 1:59 AM. His girlfriend islabeled 2 AM. The cute girl coming the other way is labeled 3AM.

The US and Canada go to Daylight Savings Time tomorrow morning.

I fucked up

LOGGING ON

My message: Mayor Mamdani, Please keep your promise and allocate 0.5% of the city budget to public libraries. Libraries are an engine of community and democracy. They provide important services all over the city to everyone. Plus they're just great places to hang out. Fund libraries!

HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.”

hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...

mybadgames.website/post/3710285...

There's exactly one normal man left on planet Earth.

This is the best explanation I've seen of why AI art feels dishonest (in addition to the myriad ways it is anti-human and unethical)

zooming in was more of a treat than I anticipated

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

btw indies, you should really hire @thisisstar.bsky.social if you can for trailers - her trailer for TR-49 is up on GameTrailers where it has 10x the views of anything released around the same time (except, I think, Warhammer). And for a game which is *really* hard to trailer too...

A riff on the classic “I heart NY” sign. This one says “NY heart U”

I don't think anyone at Board said that we're replacing your board game collection... Why compete with a beloved medium when we can create an entirely new category of play?

Board games are great, but games on Board are truly special, and unlike anything else out there, digital or non-digital.

Jan 1: this is the year of new Me

Jan 12: [eating shredded cheese directly from the bag] new years resolutions are a bourgeois construct for disciplining bodies into productive units for capital

oh no

keep him out of boats

New Years is a great time to tell someone you love them.

(It’s you. Tell yourself that you love them)

Lemon pigs from last year. If you have tricks to make them last longer, lmk. We used toothpicks instead of matches because I convinced myself they’d burst into flames.

Image depicts the following, which is the text transcription. It's very cute! "Lemon Piglet (11) For good luck in the New Year, a lemon piglet is a must! Insert four toothpicks into a lemon for legs. Slit pointed end for mouth to hold shiny penny, and two cuts for the ears. Eyes are cloves. Crush and curl foil for silly tail."

Remember to stock up on lemons today for your New Year Lemon Pig-making needs! 🍋

Comic. [Banner: Mathematical Society: 2025 Meeting.] PERSON 1 with bun: Any other new developments from the year to cover before we wrap? PERSON 2: Oh, the teens picked a new funny number. PERSON 3 with short hair: Aww, I’m glad to hear they’re still doing that. PERSON 4 with ponytail: I’ll add it to the list. [List: 23 (skidoo!; 42; 69; 420; 1,337; 58,008; [circled]: 67]

Funny Numbers

xkcd.com/3184/

🤌 Duloxetiné!

🤌 Methylphenidaté!

🤌 Risperidoné!