Mary Kenney
@marykgames.com
Writer/author raised on a steady diet of Nora Ephron and Dragonlance. Senior Writer on Cyberpunk 2. “The shiny Pokémon of games writers” -Aidan Moher
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Mary Kenney
@marykgames.com
· Oct 18
Hello! Since we’re doing intros again - and because I never really did this over here - a thread of things I’ve worked on in reverse chronological order. Non-exhaustive, but we’ll hit the highlights🎮
First up: Senior Writer on Project Orion at CD Projekt Red
First up: Senior Writer on Project Orion at CD Projekt Red
oh no my bestie’s trying to convince me to get my outer worlds 2 character’s haircut. im too weak for such temptation
November 22, 2025 at 5:28 PM
oh no my bestie’s trying to convince me to get my outer worlds 2 character’s haircut. im too weak for such temptation
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lawyers posting about trump news every day
October 9, 2025 at 5:14 PM
lawyers posting about trump news every day
okay listen—
hard to maintain friendships with game developers because all these motherfuckers have ADHD and forget you exist when you're out of sight (it's me i'm these guys)
November 21, 2025 at 5:43 PM
okay listen—
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The amount of people I know who have been laid off from games industry jobs and are deciding to leave games entirely as a result is not only extremely saddening (of course), but also genuinely scary. We have lost legitimately thousands of years of knowledge and experience in the last four years.
November 21, 2025 at 2:13 AM
The amount of people I know who have been laid off from games industry jobs and are deciding to leave games entirely as a result is not only extremely saddening (of course), but also genuinely scary. We have lost legitimately thousands of years of knowledge and experience in the last four years.
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as bad as shit is, very cool to meet a new folk hero seemingly every week
“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:15 PM
as bad as shit is, very cool to meet a new folk hero seemingly every week
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A must read by @mollyjongfast.bsky.social. And, if you haven't yet subscribed, do it now! mollyjongfast.substack.com/p/sorry-i-go...
...Sorry, I got distracted.
Some Thoughts on Pizzagate, Qanon and Epstein
mollyjongfast.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:56 PM
A must read by @mollyjongfast.bsky.social. And, if you haven't yet subscribed, do it now! mollyjongfast.substack.com/p/sorry-i-go...
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The baby
She destroyed her cage
Yes
YES
The baby is out
She destroyed her cage
Yes
YES
The baby is out
November 20, 2025 at 12:15 PM
The baby
She destroyed her cage
Yes
YES
The baby is out
She destroyed her cage
Yes
YES
The baby is out
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happy transgender day of remembrance
thank you for sticking around in the hardest of times. if you haven't, you are missed dearly
please live 💜
thank you for sticking around in the hardest of times. if you haven't, you are missed dearly
please live 💜
November 20, 2025 at 10:57 AM
happy transgender day of remembrance
thank you for sticking around in the hardest of times. if you haven't, you are missed dearly
please live 💜
thank you for sticking around in the hardest of times. if you haven't, you are missed dearly
please live 💜
remembering when I was deep into being the target of a harassment campaign + a YouTube essayist invited me, over multiple and increasingly pushy emails, to come on his show to “debate” one of my harassers
“I’m here to fairly show both sides” ok then you lost me bud
“I’m here to fairly show both sides” ok then you lost me bud
November 20, 2025 at 12:12 PM
remembering when I was deep into being the target of a harassment campaign + a YouTube essayist invited me, over multiple and increasingly pushy emails, to come on his show to “debate” one of my harassers
“I’m here to fairly show both sides” ok then you lost me bud
“I’m here to fairly show both sides” ok then you lost me bud
“the baby keeps crawling into the hallway”
❌boring
❌doesn’t convey urgency
❌it’s her house she has every right to be there
“the child has escaped containment”
✅appropriately ominous
✅implies containment is not only preferable but necessary
✅is she even human
❌boring
❌doesn’t convey urgency
❌it’s her house she has every right to be there
“the child has escaped containment”
✅appropriately ominous
✅implies containment is not only preferable but necessary
✅is she even human
November 20, 2025 at 11:42 AM
“the baby keeps crawling into the hallway”
❌boring
❌doesn’t convey urgency
❌it’s her house she has every right to be there
“the child has escaped containment”
✅appropriately ominous
✅implies containment is not only preferable but necessary
✅is she even human
❌boring
❌doesn’t convey urgency
❌it’s her house she has every right to be there
“the child has escaped containment”
✅appropriately ominous
✅implies containment is not only preferable but necessary
✅is she even human
2-year-old stole my wallet
“I go shopping!”
He’s disappeared. I think shenanigans are about to ensue
“I go shopping!”
He’s disappeared. I think shenanigans are about to ensue
November 20, 2025 at 12:23 AM
2-year-old stole my wallet
“I go shopping!”
He’s disappeared. I think shenanigans are about to ensue
“I go shopping!”
He’s disappeared. I think shenanigans are about to ensue
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The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
![Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less."
She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards.
They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it.
This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil.
The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option.
"We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents.
"We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreiber7g4o5pujmzmjjzsp5dkz7blfexburuwjispfpv6dki7akjb7a@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
Love you @scrivenerapp.bsky.social, glad you’re not buying into this shit
Not satisfied with just destroying their own brand goodwill, OS companies are now using AI to try to destroy the good names of the apps users install. (Scrivener taking out adds to explain how it has no AI but Apple adds some anyway.)
November 19, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Love you @scrivenerapp.bsky.social, glad you’re not buying into this shit
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remember when SEO ruined most of the internet the first time well in case you hadn't realized the internet is being ruined in new ways now trying to figure out what to put where online so people asking chatgpt for best protein powder or investment company or movie or bread brand get a certain answer
I meet adults who are frustrated by the inability of young people to google things how we did at their age, seems to be from losing touch with how it's all trash now. our lives either don't need it as often or we take for granted we gradually learned to work around slop as it festered
with alt text
with alt text
November 19, 2025 at 9:18 PM
remember when SEO ruined most of the internet the first time well in case you hadn't realized the internet is being ruined in new ways now trying to figure out what to put where online so people asking chatgpt for best protein powder or investment company or movie or bread brand get a certain answer
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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.
Obituary: Interplay co-founder Rebecca Heineman has passed away at 62
Obituary: Interplay co-founder Rebecca Heineman has passed away at 62
The ground-breaking programmer and game designer heralded as the 'first-ever video game champion' has passed away.
www.gamedeveloper.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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.
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So Harvard is keeping this guy, but Claudine Gay had to step down over ginned up plagiarism accusations and bad-faith accusations of anti-Semitism.
Got it.
Got it.
Larry Summers tells @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.”
He will continue teaching.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.”
He will continue teaching.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 18, 2025 at 5:10 AM
So Harvard is keeping this guy, but Claudine Gay had to step down over ginned up plagiarism accusations and bad-faith accusations of anti-Semitism.
Got it.
Got it.
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It's like the boot camp for narrative designers: you have to make a game where the protagonist can't do a single the player doesn't precisely specify using generally available verbs, and after that you're allowed to use cutscenes and text dumps
November 18, 2025 at 12:35 PM
It's like the boot camp for narrative designers: you have to make a game where the protagonist can't do a single the player doesn't precisely specify using generally available verbs, and after that you're allowed to use cutscenes and text dumps
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My trailblazing game industry bad-ass friend Rebecca Heineman has passed away.
Fuck cancer.
Friends, let’s not forget her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca...
Fuck cancer.
Friends, let’s not forget her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca...
Rebecca Heineman - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 17, 2025 at 9:52 PM
My trailblazing game industry bad-ass friend Rebecca Heineman has passed away.
Fuck cancer.
Friends, let’s not forget her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca...
Fuck cancer.
Friends, let’s not forget her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca...
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I'm regularly asked about how authors can get involved writing for their favorite franchises like Star Wars and Star Trek. WELL HERE YOU GO, I break it all down in this one-hour discussion with the excellent @andibartz.bsky.social as part of her Substack. open.substack.com/pub/andibart...
"Professionals associated with that IP are gonna be like, 'I don't want to work with that person. They seem like a dick.'"
A detailed, candid convo about writing IP books with bestseller Mike Chen
open.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:57 PM
I'm regularly asked about how authors can get involved writing for their favorite franchises like Star Wars and Star Trek. WELL HERE YOU GO, I break it all down in this one-hour discussion with the excellent @andibartz.bsky.social as part of her Substack. open.substack.com/pub/andibart...
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@marykgames.com I was at my local library today and saw that our books are neighbors!
November 17, 2025 at 7:42 AM
@marykgames.com I was at my local library today and saw that our books are neighbors!
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Lol yeah man all that panic over "a Big Mac will cost $15!" if we raise the minimum wage. Well we didn't raise the minimum wage but a Big Mac is $15 now.
November 16, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Lol yeah man all that panic over "a Big Mac will cost $15!" if we raise the minimum wage. Well we didn't raise the minimum wage but a Big Mac is $15 now.
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The reason why most women my age couldn't care less if Bill Clinton goes down with the ship is that we were teens & young women when the Anita Hill and Monica Lewinsky scandals happened. It's rotten to the core. All the way down. Your "lost" era is not ours.
November 16, 2025 at 1:41 PM
The reason why most women my age couldn't care less if Bill Clinton goes down with the ship is that we were teens & young women when the Anita Hill and Monica Lewinsky scandals happened. It's rotten to the core. All the way down. Your "lost" era is not ours.
my daughter starring as a whole-ass mood
November 15, 2025 at 3:52 PM
my daughter starring as a whole-ass mood
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Those claiming Dems should retreat on racial justice aren't hard-headed realists, they're pushing against the electoral tide rather than leaning into it. The story of Gen Z isn't about racist backlash or red-pilled young men. It's the most racially progressive generation in American history. 🧵
November 14, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Those claiming Dems should retreat on racial justice aren't hard-headed realists, they're pushing against the electoral tide rather than leaning into it. The story of Gen Z isn't about racist backlash or red-pilled young men. It's the most racially progressive generation in American history. 🧵