Mathew Kumar

Pleased to announced that exp. 2602, a new #zine in my exploration of the 1970s releases for the Atari 2600, is available for pre-order NOW at our new online store! Read more: expzine.com/2025/09/16/a...

lol "Her second biggest increase was in Brad's ward."

Every time I read one of these tragic stories I’m struck by the tone of bullshittery AI takes—the exact voice you will recognize if you’ve ever had the misfortune of talking to a tech bro on a topic they don’t understand (or at all, tbh)

You could already see the narrative developing during the live coverage last night that Chow had barely scraped by or struggled to overcome Bradford. The reality is that it wasn't even close. It was a decisive victory and Chow actually has a significant mandate.

Look, I know all the reasons we got here, but we really need to start seriously thinking about what we do in a world where The Markets punish whole countries for voting for decency, compassion, and fairness. We must stop pretending the capitalist machine is an objective, value neutral force.

"more votes than any Toronto mayoral candidate ever" how do you like them apples

“I just thought being a mediocre white man would be enough!” Not even close even with a similarly named candidate trying to ratfuck Chow picking up almost a full percentage point

Lula won in part by banning online gambling

Actions speak louder than words, personally I was in talks with Epic to get all my game assets on their Fab.com marketplace (for free) but cancelled the deal immediately. If they want slop, let them have slop.

The lessons from Brazil and Serbia? Don't concede one inch of ground to the far right. Don't appease. Don't triangulate. Don't grovel. Don't say they have "legitimate concerns". Mobilise your base, and fight them with all the democratic means at your disposal.

during the 2023 WGA strike. a real one.

online today, magazine, imagery (1987) archive.org/details/onli...

Goddamn rest in peace to Eric Bauza. Supremely talented guy, every bit the heir to Mel Blanc. So tragic.

Break Space Issue 7 is available now, featuring all the ZX Spectrum news and reviews you can handle. We interview Denis Grachev from Retrosouls, Chris Smith, Rich Hollins and Graham Relf. Plus a report from Crash Live, and a review of some Spectrum clones breakspace.itch.io/break-space-...

If, in the decades preceding the introduction of the motor car there had been wildly popular and compelling sci-fi stories about wheeled metal carriages murdering people by the thousands, then Ford would've had a weekly announcement about how many children had been killed by cars that week

Hey y'all. I've been let down again on some promised client work that would have tided me over till the end of the month. I've put together this mega-bundle containing all 38 issues of my retro gaming history, features, and community contributions digi-zine. ko-fi.com/s/fab638b683 1/2

People abroad don't understand the level of interference Meta & bots had in these elections. 5 days before the election a far-right politician posted a fake news video that got 157 MILLION views on Instagram in 24hs. For reference, GTA 6's reveal trailer got 90 million views on YouTube in 24hs.

Lula winning is great for the planet, great for Brazil, and great for people who aren't revanchist assholes everywhere in the world, but let's not forget that it's also going to make some of the worst people on Earth extremely sad and mad. We should enjoy that, as a little treat.

Can't sleep, clown will eat me

I think this is my first time appearing in Further Reading! @mathewkumar.com's piece here on Palace Software's Evil Dead is a great read, as are many others here

This week: Authorial intent, trans survival, and the Forbidden Grav-Bong: critical-distance.com/2026/10/25/o...

reading a book I don't like to listen to a podcast about it

This week on The Digital Antiquarian: "An Ion Storm!, Part 2: The Return to Ground Level" www.filfre.net/2026/10/an-i...

A capital finds a technology to make its labour more productive than that of other capitals. It makes a surplus profit. The technology becomes the new norm across all capitals. Surplus profit disappears. Expanding scale now only way to make bigger profit. Next technology comes along. Rinse & repeat.

understanding the tendency of the rate of profit to fall is key to understanding what’s happening right now with AI

Los Angeles Zine Week 2026 starts today! More info on Tumblr: www.tumblr.com/lazinefest/8...

This photo was taken at noon in Pittsburgh in 1944, at the height of steel production. Men who worked in offices wore white shirts to work, and they would routinely take one or two extras in because the collar would be black by mid-day.

Whoops! I forgot to post this on the web store, but the latest issue of Pixels and Polygons Quarterly is now available for purchase! This is a rad one, if I say so myself. Includes contributions from @marcdachamp.bsky.social, @mathewkumar.com, @othatsraspberry.com & more!

On this day in 1999, Cartoon Network aired a 24-hour Scooby-Doo marathon for Halloween. The marathon was filled with little clips between episodes parodying THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT which had been released in theaters just a few a few months earlier. Link below for the first 12hs of the marathon.

anytime someone still gets worked up about that thing Ebert said about games, just imagine Gene Shalit being a hardcore gamer and have a laugh as I do

New exp. for subscribers! A more thinky than spooky game this time around, with Paranormasight: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo: expzine.com/2026/10/22/p... Patreon: www.patreon.com/expzine/post...

I love Slow Horses 😢

We found that as of right now 73% of your campaign donation goes back to the consultants and vendors (!!!), four times more than just 20 years ago. Only 13% to ads. Even I was shocked.

we as a species should not be building these colossal extractive computers

had a dream that I had a cool job and then got promoted to another cool job. definitely something that can only happen in my head anymore

New exp. for subscribers! A more thinky than spooky game this time around, with Paranormasight: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo: expzine.com/2026/10/22/p... Patreon: www.patreon.com/expzine/post...

Unlocked! The exp. spooktacular continues with the surprising story of a video nasty that became a nasty video game. It's Palace Software's take on Sam Raimi's The Evil Dead:

This is the leader of one of the Canada's 3 federal political parties (and I guarantee the only one you'll see speaking about this)

Part of my literal job is to fly out to physical game studios to rescue and recover historical materials that might be endangered and put them in a permanent archive. @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social is a 501(c)3 publicly funded to do that, my DMs are open, and I'm free for the next couple weeks...

Fuck yea—oh. Of course.

It finally happened

I've been trying to write about scary games this month and turns out nothing is scarier than the state of the modern games industry

NEW in our digital archive: Explore a golden age of gaming with the Colin Williamson photography collection, featuring over 300 photos from game events and culture in 2000s Japan. 📸🗾 https://gamehistory.org/williamson-photos/

Unlocked! The exp. spooktacular continues with the surprising story of a video nasty that became a nasty video game. It's Palace Software's take on Sam Raimi's The Evil Dead: