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  1. the things that i love to do tend to be fringe or frivolous, and in the face of events like this week’s it can feel hard to keep doing them
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      making games → makes me very happy, won’t stop fascism building expressive programming tools → makes me very happy, won’t stop fascism
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        but idk, growing up i learned that the struggle and effort to maintain a normal life is its own resistance
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          your life and passion derailed is their victory
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            its not an option for most, and a privilege to those like me that have it
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              but an arab muslims cowering in fear is what they want and i can at the very least try and deprive them of one
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                so 1) i am going to keep making games, compilers, tools, im going to keep tweeting about them, im going to keep trying to live a normal life
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                  and 2) i am going to try my best to help those who cannot do the same
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                    thats the best way i can think of resisting this bullshit
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                      because you know what? i made a game framework with @timsgardner & people are making fucking amazing things with it @poly_rhythm/796583119436529664
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                        so im going to keep doing that ❤️✊λ