Kit (is unpacking)
@criticalkit.bsky.social
they/them. Scholar at the intersection of children's literature and video games. Incorrigible nerd. My footnotes have footnotes.
Beginning to suspect I gave myself tendonitis getting my last few achievements in Hades II.
November 19, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Beginning to suspect I gave myself tendonitis getting my last few achievements in Hades II.
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For the airplane + red aurora + big dipper fans. 😍
November 12, 2025 at 6:11 AM
For the airplane + red aurora + big dipper fans. 😍
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The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Why Elon Musk Needs Dungeons and Dragons to Be Racist
The fantastical roots of “scientific racism”
www.theatlantic.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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![Zohran text:
"The Angel of History must look just so. His face is turned towards the past. Where we see the appearance of a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe, which unceasingly piles rubble on top of rubble and hurls it before his feet. He would like to pause for a moment so fair [verweilen: a reference to Goethe’s Faust], to awaken the dead and to piece together what has been smashed."
—Walter Benjamin, "On the Concept of History"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:474ldquxwzrlcvjhhbbk2wte/bafkreih7sdkpsszpqppnq2hwsbjpfln5uhunb7xu4bsutf2uxgkkysjbdm@jpeg)
the real benefit of a food puzzle for cats is not the ten minutes of engagement it takes them to find the treats, but the many hours they'll spend later making sure they didn't miss one
November 9, 2025 at 1:26 AM
the real benefit of a food puzzle for cats is not the ten minutes of engagement it takes them to find the treats, but the many hours they'll spend later making sure they didn't miss one
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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!
hot new discipline: we're nothing like you. we're the Cool Kids. we're brand spanking new. here is our reinvented Russian Formalism
November 8, 2025 at 3:18 AM
hot new discipline: we're nothing like you. we're the Cool Kids. we're brand spanking new. here is our reinvented Russian Formalism
We've been so busy every day going over to our condo to unpack and make it cat-ready that our cats have been missing us and acting out at my parents' place. Leading to the following realization:
We've been Cat's in the Cradle-ing our cats.
We've been Cat's in the Cradle-ing our cats.
November 8, 2025 at 12:28 AM
We've been so busy every day going over to our condo to unpack and make it cat-ready that our cats have been missing us and acting out at my parents' place. Leading to the following realization:
We've been Cat's in the Cradle-ing our cats.
We've been Cat's in the Cradle-ing our cats.
don't ask me to explain why, but i know in my heart of hearts that topology is the devil's math. it's what they study in Pandemonium.
November 7, 2025 at 7:12 PM
don't ask me to explain why, but i know in my heart of hearts that topology is the devil's math. it's what they study in Pandemonium.
Do you have $10? $20? This is the perfect chance to grab books that will help you to understand, survive, and reforge our broken world.
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Haymarket Ebooks on sale for $2!
At Haymarket, our mission is to publish books that contribute to struggles for social and economic justice. We strive to make our books a vibrant and organic part of social movements, and we believe t...
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November 5, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Do you have $10? $20? This is the perfect chance to grab books that will help you to understand, survive, and reforge our broken world.
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I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.
November 5, 2025 at 12:13 PM
I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.
don't be fooled by how cute he is; this bugger figured out how to find and chew through treat bags
November 1, 2025 at 1:18 AM
don't be fooled by how cute he is; this bugger figured out how to find and chew through treat bags
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On Saints Row we had a debug npc named Skinballs (lol) that was literally just four spheres wrapped in different shades of skin texture so we could test lighting for different skin tones during development. But teams need to plan for that kind of testing with intentionality, and not enough do.
October 31, 2025 at 3:23 PM
On Saints Row we had a debug npc named Skinballs (lol) that was literally just four spheres wrapped in different shades of skin texture so we could test lighting for different skin tones during development. But teams need to plan for that kind of testing with intentionality, and not enough do.
putting on my mushroom pants with a black top and telling people my costume is decay existing as an extant form of life
October 31, 2025 at 11:23 AM
putting on my mushroom pants with a black top and telling people my costume is decay existing as an extant form of life
Michael Emerson poured so much talent into making Leland in Evil the most punchable POS ever, and Mike Johnson exceeds that effortlessly.
Q: Just last week a minister was shot directly in the face with a pepper round by a DHS agent that left his face bloodied. Are you concerned that this is a religious freedom issue?
MIKE JOHNSON: I can't comment on any of those instances. I haven't seen or heard any of those videos
MIKE JOHNSON: I can't comment on any of those instances. I haven't seen or heard any of those videos
October 29, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Michael Emerson poured so much talent into making Leland in Evil the most punchable POS ever, and Mike Johnson exceeds that effortlessly.
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I've written my versions of this essay. But until the problem goes away, we need to keep hammering at it, and this piece by a Black woman in the NYT is a superb version that should have some impact. lithub.com/rebecca-soln...
Rebecca Solnit: Whose Story (and Country) Is This?
Watching the film Phantom Thread, I kept wondering why I was supposed to be interested in a control freak who is consistently unpleasant to all the people around him. I kept looking at the other ch…
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October 29, 2025 at 12:46 PM
I've written my versions of this essay. But until the problem goes away, we need to keep hammering at it, and this piece by a Black woman in the NYT is a superb version that should have some impact. lithub.com/rebecca-soln...
look, it's been a hard year to be normal about video games
October 28, 2025 at 10:51 PM
look, it's been a hard year to be normal about video games
funniest thing I ever did in grad school—besides making a pun so bad the professor called class break early—was put on a playlist for our Halloween party that played Monster Mash every third song.
October 27, 2025 at 12:26 PM
funniest thing I ever did in grad school—besides making a pun so bad the professor called class break early—was put on a playlist for our Halloween party that played Monster Mash every third song.
I was right.
I can already tell I am not going to be normal about this character.
October 27, 2025 at 1:48 AM
I was right.
I finally drag my chronically ill ass into the office on a Friday and get rewarded with a shelter in place order because of a drive by shooting by a man on bicycle.
October 24, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I finally drag my chronically ill ass into the office on a Friday and get rewarded with a shelter in place order because of a drive by shooting by a man on bicycle.
being chronically ill is so silly. like, yeah i heard too many noises yesterday so now I can't talk. oh that? that's just low-iron wobble. why am i throwing up? oh haha that just happens if I start my day too early.
October 24, 2025 at 2:18 AM
being chronically ill is so silly. like, yeah i heard too many noises yesterday so now I can't talk. oh that? that's just low-iron wobble. why am i throwing up? oh haha that just happens if I start my day too early.
idk know why the petty AI poop video is the last straw for me as opposed to all the previous egregious fascist bullshit, but i really feel like we need to nix the presidency and do some new government now. like, how can a future president have any credibility after the utter debasing of the office?
October 19, 2025 at 3:43 AM
idk know why the petty AI poop video is the last straw for me as opposed to all the previous egregious fascist bullshit, but i really feel like we need to nix the presidency and do some new government now. like, how can a future president have any credibility after the utter debasing of the office?
concept: i stop getting migraines on protest days
October 18, 2025 at 3:25 PM
concept: i stop getting migraines on protest days
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