Douglas Wilson
@doougle.net
🎮 Mutazione, Saltsea Chronicles, Sportsfriends, JS Joust
🎓 Senior Lecturer (in Games)
🎭 Clown+Theater w/ @melmcglensey.bsky.social
🎙️ Co-host @ https://eggplant.show/
🌏 Naarm/Melbourne (by way of NJ/NY)
he/him
🎓 Senior Lecturer (in Games)
🎭 Clown+Theater w/ @melmcglensey.bsky.social
🎙️ Co-host @ https://eggplant.show/
🌏 Naarm/Melbourne (by way of NJ/NY)
he/him
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Since the ceasefire took effect one month ago, Israeli attacks have killed at least 242 Palestinians and injured 622.
How many times has Israel violated the Gaza ceasefire? Here are the numbers
Since the ceasefire took effect one month ago, Israeli attacks have killed at least 242 Palestinians and injured 622.
bit.ly
November 11, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Since the ceasefire took effect one month ago, Israeli attacks have killed at least 242 Palestinians and injured 622.
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Happy 50th anniversary of the day Australia came fully under the US' imperial control
Whitlam Dismissal take
The greatest achievement of the Dismissal has been the crushing of the ALP’s ambition to actually bring a better world into being.
Hawke sealed the deal by making the mark of success decent management of a capitalist economy.
Now it’s just ambition to be in government.
The greatest achievement of the Dismissal has been the crushing of the ALP’s ambition to actually bring a better world into being.
Hawke sealed the deal by making the mark of success decent management of a capitalist economy.
Now it’s just ambition to be in government.
November 11, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Happy 50th anniversary of the day Australia came fully under the US' imperial control
“modelling showing many residents of suburbs including Coburg and Brunswick could soon be forced to drive to work”
Yeah no shit mate, it’s almost like the ALP shouldn’t have abandoned their promise to upgrade the Upfield
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Yeah no shit mate, it’s almost like the ALP shouldn’t have abandoned their promise to upgrade the Upfield
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Victoria urged to ramp up train, tram and bus services – and make off-peak transport cheaper
Infrastructure Victoria urges Labor to boost public transport in key Melbourne suburbs
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:33 AM
“modelling showing many residents of suburbs including Coburg and Brunswick could soon be forced to drive to work”
Yeah no shit mate, it’s almost like the ALP shouldn’t have abandoned their promise to upgrade the Upfield
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Yeah no shit mate, it’s almost like the ALP shouldn’t have abandoned their promise to upgrade the Upfield
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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most people don't care about IGF inside baseball stuff i guess and there are many good reasons to have misgivings about award shows. but what OP is saying does reflect a general feeling of the space becoming more just kind of... transactional, depersonalized, and disconnected from itself in general
November 11, 2025 at 6:42 AM
most people don't care about IGF inside baseball stuff i guess and there are many good reasons to have misgivings about award shows. but what OP is saying does reflect a general feeling of the space becoming more just kind of... transactional, depersonalized, and disconnected from itself in general
50 years ago today, the Prime Minister of Australia was *sacked* under very cooked Survivor-esque circumstances, probably changing the course of Australia forever.
Here's a good podcast about the history:
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Here's a good podcast about the history:
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
The Eleventh with Alex Mann - ABC listen
The Eleventh is an explosive thriller teasing out everything you never knew about one of the most famous chapters of Australian political history — the dismissal of Australian Prime Minister Gough Whi...
www.abc.net.au
November 11, 2025 at 6:42 AM
50 years ago today, the Prime Minister of Australia was *sacked* under very cooked Survivor-esque circumstances, probably changing the course of Australia forever.
Here's a good podcast about the history:
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Here's a good podcast about the history:
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
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The US should not be allowed to make Australia complicit in nuclear war. 50 years ago Whitlam believed that and he was right.
It’s time to end AUKUS. Close Pine Gap.
It’s time to end AUKUS. Close Pine Gap.
November 11, 2025 at 6:27 AM
The US should not be allowed to make Australia complicit in nuclear war. 50 years ago Whitlam believed that and he was right.
It’s time to end AUKUS. Close Pine Gap.
It’s time to end AUKUS. Close Pine Gap.
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It wasnt our enviro laws that were too weak to protect the Skate or stop the North West Shelf, it was our Ministers.
Thats why Labor is trying to get the Coalition to help them water them down…to save Enviro Ministers the embarrassment of always saying yes #climate
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Thats why Labor is trying to get the Coalition to help them water them down…to save Enviro Ministers the embarrassment of always saying yes #climate
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
It wasn’t the laws that were too weak to stop those projects, it was the ministers
The Prime Minister is betting that by 2028 people will forget the North West Shelf and EPBC backflips, but it would be a brave backbencher willing to make that same bet.
thepoint.com.au
November 4, 2025 at 12:30 AM
It wasnt our enviro laws that were too weak to protect the Skate or stop the North West Shelf, it was our Ministers.
Thats why Labor is trying to get the Coalition to help them water them down…to save Enviro Ministers the embarrassment of always saying yes #climate
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Thats why Labor is trying to get the Coalition to help them water them down…to save Enviro Ministers the embarrassment of always saying yes #climate
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
My partner is a clown and this is exactly the core conversation that she and her peers are having all the time - about how to design situations for yourself to thread the needle on this paradox. (In her French clown school, they called this being at your most "beautiful")
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I'm having a revelation.. I think treating evil game design, player-hostile design, quality of death, etc. as goals, while aligned with my values on a surface level, is kind of like when someone intentionally sets out to make a "bad" movie. It will not be as beautiful as the sincere "bad" movies.
November 11, 2025 at 2:08 AM
My partner is a clown and this is exactly the core conversation that she and her peers are having all the time - about how to design situations for yourself to thread the needle on this paradox. (In her French clown school, they called this being at your most "beautiful")
bsky.app/profile/sylv...
bsky.app/profile/sylv...
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By not just giving up, but giving up *randomly*, *in exchange for nothing*, Schumer's Democrats create two problems for themselves.
1. The argument the Republicans, not them, caused the shutdown collapses: bsky.app/profile/did:...
2. The Repubs will *absolutely* do this again next time; it worked:
1. The argument the Republicans, not them, caused the shutdown collapses: bsky.app/profile/did:...
2. The Repubs will *absolutely* do this again next time; it worked:
Not that he didn’t already know, but now Trump knows for sure he can roll the Dems every time and there’s no need to negotiate for anything
November 10, 2025 at 5:20 PM
By not just giving up, but giving up *randomly*, *in exchange for nothing*, Schumer's Democrats create two problems for themselves.
1. The argument the Republicans, not them, caused the shutdown collapses: bsky.app/profile/did:...
2. The Repubs will *absolutely* do this again next time; it worked:
1. The argument the Republicans, not them, caused the shutdown collapses: bsky.app/profile/did:...
2. The Repubs will *absolutely* do this again next time; it worked:
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the new york times relies on its immensely popular games to both drive subscriptions AND generate ad revenue from non-paying subscribers. stop playing wordle, even if it's free.
November 10, 2025 at 3:28 PM
the new york times relies on its immensely popular games to both drive subscriptions AND generate ad revenue from non-paying subscribers. stop playing wordle, even if it's free.
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Israeli soldiers speak out on killings of Gaza civilians
Israeli soldiers speak out on killings of Gaza civilians
IDF soldiers tell documentary of opening fire unprovoked and arbitrary designations of who was an enemy
Israeli soldiers have described a free-for-all in Gaza and a breakdown in norms and legal constraints, with civilians killed at the whim of individual officers, according to testimony in a TV documentary.
“If you want to shoot without restraint, you can,” Daniel, the commander of an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) tank unit, says in Breaking Ranks: Inside Israel’s War, due to be broadcast in the UK on ITV on Monday evening. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Israeli soldiers speak out on killings of Gaza civilians
btw I'm giving the closing talk at Playtopia next month on exactly this topic (playtopiafestival.co.za/program-satu...). Taking a big swing at this issue in terms of the evolution of my own installation games practice, happy to called out on my bullshit if I miss the mark.
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November 10, 2025 at 10:49 AM
btw I'm giving the closing talk at Playtopia next month on exactly this topic (playtopiafestival.co.za/program-satu...). Taking a big swing at this issue in terms of the evolution of my own installation games practice, happy to called out on my bullshit if I miss the mark.
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Finally started diving into Ring Racers.
Holyyyy shit, this is so wild. Any Mario Kart 64 sickos out there should take a look at this (running in the Doom engine?!)
bsky.app/profile/domi...
Holyyyy shit, this is so wild. Any Mario Kart 64 sickos out there should take a look at this (running in the Doom engine?!)
bsky.app/profile/domi...
After NINE RELEASE CANDIDATES and over a month of intensive testing, Robotnik's Ring Racers v2.4 is out now.
www.kartkrew.org/index.html
Crossworlds is cool and all but this fangame is designed by and for kart racing and fighting game sickos. Big drop in/drop-out online MP and a huge solo mode too
www.kartkrew.org/index.html
Crossworlds is cool and all but this fangame is designed by and for kart racing and fighting game sickos. Big drop in/drop-out online MP and a huge solo mode too
Dr. Robotnik's Ring Racers - Promo (2024)
YouTube video by Kart Krew Dev
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Finally started diving into Ring Racers.
Holyyyy shit, this is so wild. Any Mario Kart 64 sickos out there should take a look at this (running in the Doom engine?!)
bsky.app/profile/domi...
Holyyyy shit, this is so wild. Any Mario Kart 64 sickos out there should take a look at this (running in the Doom engine?!)
bsky.app/profile/domi...
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It was harder getting endorsements for Zohran Mamdani from Democrats than them caving to Republicans to mutually strip us of healthcare
November 10, 2025 at 3:06 AM
It was harder getting endorsements for Zohran Mamdani from Democrats than them caving to Republicans to mutually strip us of healthcare
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genuinely worried the internet is about to be abandoned as a place unbearably hostile to human connection and creativity
November 10, 2025 at 2:46 AM
genuinely worried the internet is about to be abandoned as a place unbearably hostile to human connection and creativity
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Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous
November 10, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous
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I don't think it's cowardice. I think that they are OK with what the GOP is doing. The sooner folks reconcile with this, the better.
November 10, 2025 at 12:17 AM
I don't think it's cowardice. I think that they are OK with what the GOP is doing. The sooner folks reconcile with this, the better.
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Trump: I'm dismantling the Constitution, building a paramilitary fascist army loyal only to me, demolishing the White House, and blowing up the US economy for my billionaire cronies
Schumer: Okay, but you have to extend subsidies for corporate health care
Trump: No
Schumer: Okay
Schumer: Okay, but you have to extend subsidies for corporate health care
Trump: No
Schumer: Okay
November 9, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Trump: I'm dismantling the Constitution, building a paramilitary fascist army loyal only to me, demolishing the White House, and blowing up the US economy for my billionaire cronies
Schumer: Okay, but you have to extend subsidies for corporate health care
Trump: No
Schumer: Okay
Schumer: Okay, but you have to extend subsidies for corporate health care
Trump: No
Schumer: Okay
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In the name of protecting Jews, Jews have their funding cancelled, get kicked out of seminars, and are removed from leadership positions in Jewish Studies to be replaced by non-Jews.
Latest write-up about outrageous administrative over reach at IU. www.jta.org/2025/11/07/u...
In Indiana, a vaunted Jewish studies program is upended by red-state politics over Israel and speech - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
A leadership shakeup, a defunded graduate student and political pressure from above have turned a storied program into a flashpoint for Trump-era campus politics.
www.jta.org
November 8, 2025 at 3:58 AM
In the name of protecting Jews, Jews have their funding cancelled, get kicked out of seminars, and are removed from leadership positions in Jewish Studies to be replaced by non-Jews.
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I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 8, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
Oooh just tried Q-UP, here are my two takes:
1. Lots of projects chasing Balatro these days, but I reckon this is the most interesting post-Balatro game I've seen so far
2. I'll play any game with a good D&B soundtrack
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1. Lots of projects chasing Balatro these days, but I reckon this is the most interesting post-Balatro game I've seen so far
2. I'll play any game with a good D&B soundtrack
bsky.app/profile/flan...
The biggest day in esports has arrived. Q-UP is out. store.steampowered.com/app/3730790/...
Save 10% on Q-UP on Steam
Sick of long queues, unfair matchups, and arbitrary reflex tests? Try Q-UP, the coin flipping eSport. It's one part clicker, one part multiplayer strategy game, one part demented capitalism simulator,...
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November 8, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Oooh just tried Q-UP, here are my two takes:
1. Lots of projects chasing Balatro these days, but I reckon this is the most interesting post-Balatro game I've seen so far
2. I'll play any game with a good D&B soundtrack
bsky.app/profile/flan...
1. Lots of projects chasing Balatro these days, but I reckon this is the most interesting post-Balatro game I've seen so far
2. I'll play any game with a good D&B soundtrack
bsky.app/profile/flan...
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Israel’s underground jail, where Palestinians are held without charge and never see daylight
Israel’s underground jail, where Palestinians are held without charge and never see daylight
Exclusive: Detainees at Rakefet include nurse and teenager who have been deprived of natural light since January
Israel is holding dozens of Palestinians from Gaza isolated in an underground jail where they never see daylight, are deprived of adequate food and barred from receiving news of their families or the outside world.
The detainees include at least two civilians who are being held without charge or trial: a nurse detained in his scrubs, and a young food seller, according to lawyers from the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI) who represent both men. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Israel’s underground jail, where Palestinians are held without charge and never see daylight
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Tonight, over 240,000 Venezuelans will lose Temporary Protected Status.
The Trump administration is dismantling our core humanitarian protections, leaving hundreds of thousands at risk of detention, deportation, and harm.
Congress must protect TPS holders and pass a pathway to citizenship now.
The Trump administration is dismantling our core humanitarian protections, leaving hundreds of thousands at risk of detention, deportation, and harm.
Congress must protect TPS holders and pass a pathway to citizenship now.
November 7, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Tonight, over 240,000 Venezuelans will lose Temporary Protected Status.
The Trump administration is dismantling our core humanitarian protections, leaving hundreds of thousands at risk of detention, deportation, and harm.
Congress must protect TPS holders and pass a pathway to citizenship now.
The Trump administration is dismantling our core humanitarian protections, leaving hundreds of thousands at risk of detention, deportation, and harm.
Congress must protect TPS holders and pass a pathway to citizenship now.
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we recorded like 4 hours with @eggplantshow.bsky.social and it was not enough time
November 8, 2025 at 7:18 AM
we recorded like 4 hours with @eggplantshow.bsky.social and it was not enough time