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@gracemachine.bsky.social
Writer, critic, co-editor @tier-review.com
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Hi! you can buy the ebook for Killing Our Gods on itch RIGHT NOW. It's a collection of essays on Christianity, religion, and video games! @dialacina.com wrote a introduction for it! It's good!
graceinthemachine.itch.io/killing-our-...
Killing Our Gods: Essays on Religion, Christianity, and Video Games - ebook by graceinthemachine
criticism and rambling on digital media and its divine discontents.
graceinthemachine.itch.io
Really frustrating game because it both constantly evokes worse games than it AND suggests something better than it is… yet… the love story fucking cooks.
December 30, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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SIGN OUR BOYCOTT XBOX PLEDGE: We are asking gamers, game workers, streamers & journalists to join us in boycotting & divesting from Xbox, to force Microsoft to end its complicity in the genocide of Palestinians.

We’ve provided concrete actions everyone can take. Sign here: nogamesforgenocide.com
December 2, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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I wrote a little something for @tier-review.com

On 24 Killers and what a home really is

Thank you to @gracemachine.bsky.social and @phoenixsimms.bsky.social for the opportunity and the great edits.
THE WORLD IS NOT MY HOME
As someone who has moved around a lot, across different states and even countries, I long for the stability of home, a house to call my own. Political and economic situations have dashed my dreams, or...
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December 18, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Just posted a big update on behalf of my collaborator Gina about the physical Killing Our Gods book. It is happening!!!!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/gin...
Update 10: EOY 2025 Physical Edition Update · Killing Our Gods
Hi everyone! It’s been a long time since you had an update from me and I want to let you all know where we are currently. The world has obviously changed quite a bit since Grace and I first started ta...
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December 18, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Put a good deal more time into this game after writing this and it continues to reveal how special it is... Rare to play something that feel so good as a toy and yet mature.
December 15, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Yooooo! My girl @gracemachine.bsky.social got to write about Angeline Era so I'm not even mad I didn't get to!

Go read it! GO READ IT!
December 15, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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🚨PLEASE BOOST🚨Salem and I got informed by our landlord about their intentions to bring us to court in three days if we don’t have our rent paid by then. We still need $1350. Any boosting would mean the world to two trans disabled lesbians so we can get out of this situation! #MutualAid
December 8, 2025 at 8:05 PM
this game was fun :) I like when I’m a girl and have a shotgun.
December 9, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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Podcast time. You don't want to miss us talk about the Return to Silent Hill trailer!
December 8, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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🚨EMERGENCY🚨 We are TWO days late on rent and still need about $1350!! We are desperate for help and would extremely appreciate every repost we can get! Please boost to help out two disabled trans lesbians! #MutualAid #TransCrowdfund
December 7, 2025 at 12:11 PM
You still got a few hours! Send in questions!
We are recording our pod today on SILLY POLLY BEAST ask us anything questions@spookygame.club
December 7, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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We are recording our pod today on SILLY POLLY BEAST ask us anything questions@spookygame.club
December 7, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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work has cut my hours to less than 3 days a week, leaving me barely able to pay bills

could use any help while I figure out a way to get out of this shit show

www.paypal.com/paypalme/sie...
Pay Omar Elaasar using PayPal.Me
Go to paypal.me/siegarettes and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.
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December 3, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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"Through ecocide, you are killing the future." Razan Zuayter of the Arab Group for the Protection of Nature explains ecocide after the International People's Tribunal on Palestine finds Israel and Western governments guilty of the crime at an event in Barcelona.
November 28, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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TWO YEAR ANNIVERSARY EP!!! Marcy is back from her 2 month long reward challenge to discuss Australian Survivor with AP! Tune in to hear about queer Survivor icon Kirby!
The Survivor Episode ;)
Podcast Episode · dovewhether · 11/24/2025 · 1h 10m
podcasts.apple.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Moments ago: tenants of the South Shore apartment building that federal immigration agents raided at the end of September held a presser to announce they're forming a tenants union.

They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.

More updates TK.
November 24, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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A snowy owl preening. November 22, 2025, Chicago.
November 23, 2025 at 5:09 PM
It is legitimately astounding to me how much some use Social media primarily as a platform for scolding.
November 23, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Nothing yet!! We’re really running low on food and would appreciate any help getting through the week!
Hi all, Salem and I could really use some help with groceries and meds for the rest of the week. $250 would mean a lot to us. Any boosting would be extremely appreciated! #MutualAid #MutualAidBoost
November 22, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Our current issue comes to a close with a new article on Silent Hill f, by @zweiteturm.bsky.social bulletpointsmonthly.com/2025/11/19/p...
November 19, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Dragon Age: Origins is at once a game that is obnoxiously of its time, silly, juvenile, and ugly as sin. Yet, it is also forward-looking and adult in a way that AAA rpgs can struggle to be...

It helps a lot to have Morrigan lol. Flat out one of the best-written characters in video games
November 18, 2025 at 10:35 PM
I would encourage anyone offended at the mere *sight* or /knowledge/ of a trans woman in their midst to follow the instruction of Jesus and pluck out their eyes.
November 16, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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This is easily one of our favorite Safe Room episodes. Silent Hill f is a rich horror game with plenty to dig into, and @bluestrose.bsky.social and @gracemachine.bsky.social do an amazing job dissecting the good and the bad.
November 12, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Hello. This is probably the best episode of The Safe Room podcast. Give it a listen and tell your pals. Thank you
November 10, 2025 at 10:58 PM