Trick Weekes
@trickweekes.bsky.social
Narrative Designer by day (Mass Effect, Dragon Age), Novelist by night (The Palace Job, Feeder). (they/them, views strictly mine, OC do not steal)
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something from minnesota that i would like people to learn, that i don’t think is hitting people yet:
helping MN is good. people need it. but people in your community need mutual aid too. care. resources. food. outside of times of crisis.
and you can help.
helping MN is good. people need it. but people in your community need mutual aid too. care. resources. food. outside of times of crisis.
and you can help.
February 12, 2026 at 10:02 PM
something from minnesota that i would like people to learn, that i don’t think is hitting people yet:
helping MN is good. people need it. but people in your community need mutual aid too. care. resources. food. outside of times of crisis.
and you can help.
helping MN is good. people need it. but people in your community need mutual aid too. care. resources. food. outside of times of crisis.
and you can help.
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Every game worker, but especially those working remotely should be paying attention to and supporting this strike.
Over 1,000 Ubisoft workers around the world have walked off the job.
In response to a return-to-office mandate, layoffs, and the cancellation of several games, workers launched a three-day strike.
The workers walked out in response to five French unions issuing the strike call.
In response to a return-to-office mandate, layoffs, and the cancellation of several games, workers launched a three-day strike.
The workers walked out in response to five French unions issuing the strike call.
Ubisoft workers are on strike: 'We are treated like children'
The strike comes after the publisher revealed plans to cut up to 200 jobs and ordered remote workers back into the office
www.polygon.com
February 12, 2026 at 10:57 PM
Every game worker, but especially those working remotely should be paying attention to and supporting this strike.
I would vote for the folks making the whistles in most Democratic primaries.
The professional grade logistics of the 9,723 individual pop-up leftist supply depots are running laps around the people paid to do these jobs
Kind of think that locally we’re entering into a political moment where the idea that someone in public office credibly claiming they are a more complex or pragmatic thinker than the average citizen has become untenable. The only question will be what did you do.
February 12, 2026 at 10:53 PM
I would vote for the folks making the whistles in most Democratic primaries.
My partner did an amazing job getting a big chunk of the basement cleared after last year's flood, and then they and younger son got mats back down, so I can finally do Kenpo indoors during the winter again.
Rough start back as expected after months of not being able to do it, but WE'RE ON OUR WAY.
Rough start back as expected after months of not being able to do it, but WE'RE ON OUR WAY.
February 12, 2026 at 9:21 PM
My partner did an amazing job getting a big chunk of the basement cleared after last year's flood, and then they and younger son got mats back down, so I can finally do Kenpo indoors during the winter again.
Rough start back as expected after months of not being able to do it, but WE'RE ON OUR WAY.
Rough start back as expected after months of not being able to do it, but WE'RE ON OUR WAY.
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It feels like a good day to share some great writing by trans authors. Here are some favourites from @ninocipri.bsky.social,
@aprildaniels.bsky.social, @caseyplett.com, Meredith Russo and Vivak Shraya.
Any stories or authors you'd add to my list? 🌈📚 💙📚💬
@aprildaniels.bsky.social, @caseyplett.com, Meredith Russo and Vivak Shraya.
Any stories or authors you'd add to my list? 🌈📚 💙📚💬
February 12, 2026 at 2:31 PM
It feels like a good day to share some great writing by trans authors. Here are some favourites from @ninocipri.bsky.social,
@aprildaniels.bsky.social, @caseyplett.com, Meredith Russo and Vivak Shraya.
Any stories or authors you'd add to my list? 🌈📚 💙📚💬
@aprildaniels.bsky.social, @caseyplett.com, Meredith Russo and Vivak Shraya.
Any stories or authors you'd add to my list? 🌈📚 💙📚💬
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Okay gang
*youth pastor chair rotate, serious face*
We need to talk about IQ. i had my IQ tested when I was very young. It came out wicked high, because I am very good at maths and even better at pattern recognition.
IQ is eugenicist bullshit.
*youth pastor chair rotate, serious face*
We need to talk about IQ. i had my IQ tested when I was very young. It came out wicked high, because I am very good at maths and even better at pattern recognition.
IQ is eugenicist bullshit.
February 12, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Okay gang
*youth pastor chair rotate, serious face*
We need to talk about IQ. i had my IQ tested when I was very young. It came out wicked high, because I am very good at maths and even better at pattern recognition.
IQ is eugenicist bullshit.
*youth pastor chair rotate, serious face*
We need to talk about IQ. i had my IQ tested when I was very young. It came out wicked high, because I am very good at maths and even better at pattern recognition.
IQ is eugenicist bullshit.
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We’re Done Playing! Standing up for Video Game Workers
We’re Done Playing! Standing up for Video Game Workers
MONTREAL (Feb. 11, 2026) – CWA Canada members from Ubisoft Halifax, BGS Montreal, United Videogame Workers, and Game Workers Unite held an information picket today outside the office of video game …
cwacanada.ca
February 11, 2026 at 10:33 PM
We’re Done Playing! Standing up for Video Game Workers
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"It's a competent loop of heist setup and escape execution. But even when I piloted Nomali through a flawless getaway, I found myself more interested in being able to return to the relooters' hideout to learn more about the game's 70 reclaimable artifacts and their very real histories."
Relooted is a fine heist game—but it's a better history lesson
Correcting dark historic wrongs can feel surprisingly bright.
www.pcgamer.com
February 10, 2026 at 10:06 PM
"It's a competent loop of heist setup and escape execution. But even when I piloted Nomali through a flawless getaway, I found myself more interested in being able to return to the relooters' hideout to learn more about the game's 70 reclaimable artifacts and their very real histories."
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Khaless wept, if this isn't a fucking word.
"...that place you're softly stepping your way towards is full of the bodies of our dead friends, put there by folks just asking questions about our humanity."
"...that place you're softly stepping your way towards is full of the bodies of our dead friends, put there by folks just asking questions about our humanity."
We are hostile to anyone being less than supportive because we understand where this two step you're doing into transphobia leads.
And that place you're softly stepping your way towards is full of the bodies of our dead friends, put there by folks just asking questions about our humanity.
And that place you're softly stepping your way towards is full of the bodies of our dead friends, put there by folks just asking questions about our humanity.
February 12, 2026 at 5:39 AM
Khaless wept, if this isn't a fucking word.
"...that place you're softly stepping your way towards is full of the bodies of our dead friends, put there by folks just asking questions about our humanity."
"...that place you're softly stepping your way towards is full of the bodies of our dead friends, put there by folks just asking questions about our humanity."
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@schiff.senate.gov As a Californian, I am telling you that if you want my vote you need to follow Senator Markey's lead here. This administration is building concentration camps.
I will not support any funding deal that puts money in the hands of Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, and this violent agency. Defund and abolish ICE now.
February 12, 2026 at 4:05 AM
@schiff.senate.gov As a Californian, I am telling you that if you want my vote you need to follow Senator Markey's lead here. This administration is building concentration camps.
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Discworld QOTD, from Wyrd Sisters
February 11, 2026 at 9:33 PM
Discworld QOTD, from Wyrd Sisters
Honestly, it probably tested great with people who already like AI for exactly this reason.
"AI: For Non-Thinkers"
"AI: For Non-Thinkers"
It makes sense if you don’t think about it!
February 11, 2026 at 8:03 PM
Honestly, it probably tested great with people who already like AI for exactly this reason.
"AI: For Non-Thinkers"
"AI: For Non-Thinkers"
My "favorite" Super Bowl ad up in Canada was a sober visionary monologue saying that they didn't call it the industrial revolution while it was happening, nobody could predict it at the time, and that's why you should support AI, a thing that AI bros are saying is definitely happening right now.
February 11, 2026 at 8:01 PM
My "favorite" Super Bowl ad up in Canada was a sober visionary monologue saying that they didn't call it the industrial revolution while it was happening, nobody could predict it at the time, and that's why you should support AI, a thing that AI bros are saying is definitely happening right now.
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Do you like sapphic Wodehouse aunts solving crimes on a cruise ship in space, alongside their winsome yet irksome nephews? Do you like books on sale? Good news on both fronts — Murder by Memory is $2.99 this week!
Murder by Memory (Dorothy Gentleman Book 1)
Murder by Memory (Dorothy Gentleman Book 1) - Kindle edition by Waite, Olivia. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Murder by Memory (Dorothy Gentleman Book 1).
www.amazon.com
February 9, 2026 at 6:37 PM
Do you like sapphic Wodehouse aunts solving crimes on a cruise ship in space, alongside their winsome yet irksome nephews? Do you like books on sale? Good news on both fronts — Murder by Memory is $2.99 this week!
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Speed Dating for Ghosts is a wonderfully charming game. This is a great excuse to check it out!
From now until the 17th, every penny I get from Speed Dating for Ghosts on Steam goes directly to the dang @americanheart.bsky.social as part of their rad @wholesomegames.com collab. Lots of great games here. <33333 Give that punk who ghosted you some ghosts! store.steampowered.com/curator/4590...
Games With Heart
Share the love this Valentine's Day, and help raise money for the American Heart Association!
store.steampowered.com
February 10, 2026 at 9:25 PM
Speed Dating for Ghosts is a wonderfully charming game. This is a great excuse to check it out!
Karin played me a lovely song one of her choruses is doing, and I‘d heard it before, and lemme tell you, trying to hunt down track listings of 30-year-old a cappella group albums is an exercise.
But I did PROVE that a group we heard 25-ish years ago had done it on a CD we lost several moves ago.
But I did PROVE that a group we heard 25-ish years ago had done it on a CD we lost several moves ago.
February 11, 2026 at 6:08 AM
Karin played me a lovely song one of her choruses is doing, and I‘d heard it before, and lemme tell you, trying to hunt down track listings of 30-year-old a cappella group albums is an exercise.
But I did PROVE that a group we heard 25-ish years ago had done it on a CD we lost several moves ago.
But I did PROVE that a group we heard 25-ish years ago had done it on a CD we lost several moves ago.
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Good evening from the Whistle Witch!
We have shipped over 250,000 whistles in the first 10 days of February. We've also managed to streamline our production. Because of that, and your generosity supporting us with filament gift cards, we can now ship up to 3,000 whistles. 💓
whistlecoven.com
We have shipped over 250,000 whistles in the first 10 days of February. We've also managed to streamline our production. Because of that, and your generosity supporting us with filament gift cards, we can now ship up to 3,000 whistles. 💓
whistlecoven.com
3D Printed Whistles | Linktree
We ship community protection whistles for free. Need some? Click the email link below & tell us how many you need (between 100 - 3000) & where to send them.
whistlecoven.com
February 11, 2026 at 12:35 AM
Good evening from the Whistle Witch!
We have shipped over 250,000 whistles in the first 10 days of February. We've also managed to streamline our production. Because of that, and your generosity supporting us with filament gift cards, we can now ship up to 3,000 whistles. 💓
whistlecoven.com
We have shipped over 250,000 whistles in the first 10 days of February. We've also managed to streamline our production. Because of that, and your generosity supporting us with filament gift cards, we can now ship up to 3,000 whistles. 💓
whistlecoven.com
Agent: I'd like to see your first hundred pages.
Me, visibly sweating: Howwwww about the first hundred and FIVE?
Me, visibly sweating: Howwwww about the first hundred and FIVE?
February 10, 2026 at 9:22 PM
Agent: I'd like to see your first hundred pages.
Me, visibly sweating: Howwwww about the first hundred and FIVE?
Me, visibly sweating: Howwwww about the first hundred and FIVE?
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I want to leave you with this, from @mostlybree.kitrocha.com:
February 9, 2026 at 9:48 PM
I want to leave you with this, from @mostlybree.kitrocha.com:
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I have a lot of thoughts about the "I can generate 200 books a year you can only do 2 at most if you actually write the things, I win" bullshit, and no time to yell about all of it. So I'll just say this:
February 9, 2026 at 3:50 PM
I have a lot of thoughts about the "I can generate 200 books a year you can only do 2 at most if you actually write the things, I win" bullshit, and no time to yell about all of it. So I'll just say this:
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really like her!
Lesbian singer Brandi Carlile sets up $25k grant to support Minnesota ICE detainees https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/05/lesbian-singer-brandi-carlile-sets-up-25k-grant-to-support-minnesota-ice-detainees/?utm_content=1770616800&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
Brandi Carlile sets up $25k grant to support Minnesota ICE detainees
Lesbian rock and country star Brandi Carlile has announced that she set up a $25,000 grant to help people detained by ICE in Minnesota.
www.thepinknews.com
February 9, 2026 at 6:17 AM
really like her!
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I know Ricky Martin was there because he's a Puerto Rican icon, but I really appreciated that Bad Bunny made a pointed choice to give a gay man a moment in the spotlight in his vision of America
February 9, 2026 at 1:41 AM
I know Ricky Martin was there because he's a Puerto Rican icon, but I really appreciated that Bad Bunny made a pointed choice to give a gay man a moment in the spotlight in his vision of America
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Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous
February 9, 2026 at 1:38 AM
Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous
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English speakers like "that was less political than I thought" lol they had ricky martin singing "dont do us like you did hawaii"
February 9, 2026 at 2:43 AM
English speakers like "that was less political than I thought" lol they had ricky martin singing "dont do us like you did hawaii"
Or I guess not watching the Super Bowl because Crave decided it just wasn't gonna work?
Olympics it is!
Olympics it is!
February 8, 2026 at 11:41 PM
Or I guess not watching the Super Bowl because Crave decided it just wasn't gonna work?
Olympics it is!
Olympics it is!