Laura Laabs
@lauralaa.bsky.social
PhD'ing on bodily and cultural techniques of computer game play. Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin @ HfG Offenbach. Editor @ Paidia. Game Studies, Media Culture Studies. Header is a screen grab from The Red Strings Club.
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Neu❗ Wie untersucht man historische Praktiken mit digitalen Medien? Bedienungsanleitungen, Lehrbücher, Zeitschriften als "Digitale Überreste": mein Beitrag 📖 zur Methode der historischen Praxeologie in Heft 177 der Fotogeschichte 📷, hg. von @pauliks.bsky.social u. Jens Ruchatz. #Mediengeschichte
September 22, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Neu❗ Wie untersucht man historische Praktiken mit digitalen Medien? Bedienungsanleitungen, Lehrbücher, Zeitschriften als "Digitale Überreste": mein Beitrag 📖 zur Methode der historischen Praxeologie in Heft 177 der Fotogeschichte 📷, hg. von @pauliks.bsky.social u. Jens Ruchatz. #Mediengeschichte
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Dutch late night TV has its take
September 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Dutch late night TV has its take
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I’m also fairly sure Klein didn’t write anything like this after the assassination of multiple Dem politicians in Minnesota. I’m not saying this as a gotcha, but rather the show the implicit assumption of our discourse, which is that Right Wing violence is to be expected, and thus tacitly accepted.
September 11, 2025 at 10:09 AM
I’m also fairly sure Klein didn’t write anything like this after the assassination of multiple Dem politicians in Minnesota. I’m not saying this as a gotcha, but rather the show the implicit assumption of our discourse, which is that Right Wing violence is to be expected, and thus tacitly accepted.
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„Das Problem ist männliche Gewalt“ - das ist mein take. Neben mir formulieren auch Anna Katharina Mangold & Heinz Jürgen Voß ihre Perspektiven
„Das Problem ist männliche Gewalt“ - das ist mein take. Neben mir formulieren auch Anna Katharina Mangold & Heinz Jürgen Voß ihre Perspektiven
Der Fall von Rechtsextremistin Liebich: Muss das Selbstbestimmungsgesetz geändert werden?
Seit November sind mit dem Selbstbestimmungsgesetz Änderungen des Geschlechtseintrags und des Vornamens deutlich leichter möglich. Innenminister Dobrindt sieht dabei jedoch „Missbrauchsmöglichkeiten“ ...
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September 10, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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„Das Problem ist männliche Gewalt“ - das ist mein take. Neben mir formulieren auch Anna Katharina Mangold & Heinz Jürgen Voß ihre Perspektiven
„Das Problem ist männliche Gewalt“ - das ist mein take. Neben mir formulieren auch Anna Katharina Mangold & Heinz Jürgen Voß ihre Perspektiven
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just read that the human body contains more bacteria cells than human cells. so i'm more not myself than i am myself. i'm more just a wad of germs staggering about than i am elizabeth. wish i could unread that
September 6, 2025 at 5:04 AM
just read that the human body contains more bacteria cells than human cells. so i'm more not myself than i am myself. i'm more just a wad of germs staggering about than i am elizabeth. wish i could unread that
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It's clear that printing and distribution of my publication TASKS FOR THE NATIONAL GUARD IN CHICAGO is going to disrupt my life at a time when I have no time, so here are files you can print from. It's a double-sided 8.5 x 11" sheet of paper. Please do not edit the text. Have fun!
September 1, 2025 at 7:08 PM
It's clear that printing and distribution of my publication TASKS FOR THE NATIONAL GUARD IN CHICAGO is going to disrupt my life at a time when I have no time, so here are files you can print from. It's a double-sided 8.5 x 11" sheet of paper. Please do not edit the text. Have fun!
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When I’m about to make a joke at the dentist, the skeleton manning the ship inside my brain pokes the inside of my head with a big fork and screams “don’t you fucking do it!” but then I do it anyway and don’t even say the joke right and no one laughs and he’s like well THAT couldn’t have gone worse
September 4, 2025 at 3:33 AM
When I’m about to make a joke at the dentist, the skeleton manning the ship inside my brain pokes the inside of my head with a big fork and screams “don’t you fucking do it!” but then I do it anyway and don’t even say the joke right and no one laughs and he’s like well THAT couldn’t have gone worse
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I really need to have like 10% more or 10% less ambition. Be much happier that way. Cursed to have that dawg in me, but it's the runt of the litter.
September 2, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I really need to have like 10% more or 10% less ambition. Be much happier that way. Cursed to have that dawg in me, but it's the runt of the litter.
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Man stürzt ihn und garniert ihn mit Orangen und 2 Minuten kochen.
August 31, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Man stürzt ihn und garniert ihn mit Orangen und 2 Minuten kochen.
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It's Minnesota State Fair time! It's time for Minnesotan folk art! Here, for example, is Saturn Devouring His Corn, in the seed art category!
August 25, 2025 at 2:11 PM
It's Minnesota State Fair time! It's time for Minnesotan folk art! Here, for example, is Saturn Devouring His Corn, in the seed art category!
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It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.
August 23, 2025 at 11:20 AM
It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.
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Fred Astaire should be an unlockable character in Tony Hawk
August 20, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Fred Astaire should be an unlockable character in Tony Hawk
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A great read on UChicago, arguing we’re seeing the result of decades of mismanagement: “The university’s trustees and leaders view it preeminently as a tax-free technology incubator, and its debt load is so great that it is abandoning ideals it once held dear in order to sustain that goal.”
The Crisis of the University Started Long Before Trump
The University of Chicago is in crisis. Under extraordinary financial strain, it has diminished its faculty-student ratio and hired hundreds of “lecturers”: teachers whom it pays little and whom it do...
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August 16, 2025 at 11:30 AM
A great read on UChicago, arguing we’re seeing the result of decades of mismanagement: “The university’s trustees and leaders view it preeminently as a tax-free technology incubator, and its debt load is so great that it is abandoning ideals it once held dear in order to sustain that goal.”
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It’s 2050 and a teen girl is torrenting a .tar.gz file of all the consciousnesses of all the tech bros who uploaded themselves into the cloud in a bid for immortality and modding them into The Sims 4
August 14, 2025 at 4:24 PM
It’s 2050 and a teen girl is torrenting a .tar.gz file of all the consciousnesses of all the tech bros who uploaded themselves into the cloud in a bid for immortality and modding them into The Sims 4
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itch.io has been nothing but supportive of LGBTQ+ work since the beginning. it pains me to see the community turn on them like this and so gleefully spread misinformation about them without even giving them a shred of benefit of the doubt.
journalists too...
journalists too...
August 13, 2025 at 7:24 AM
itch.io has been nothing but supportive of LGBTQ+ work since the beginning. it pains me to see the community turn on them like this and so gleefully spread misinformation about them without even giving them a shred of benefit of the doubt.
journalists too...
journalists too...
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Der Preis für charmante Kompositabildung, konsequentes Durchkoppeln und absolut unverdrossene Gendersternverwendung geht an das SAP-Team der Universität Heidelberg, this is how it's done 🌟
August 12, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Der Preis für charmante Kompositabildung, konsequentes Durchkoppeln und absolut unverdrossene Gendersternverwendung geht an das SAP-Team der Universität Heidelberg, this is how it's done 🌟
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Keep writing that stupid book
August 9, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Keep writing that stupid book
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Patient, sobbing: But Doctor, I AM Pagliacci!
ChatGPT: Apologies. I didn't realise when recommending Pagliacci's epic show to cure your depression that you were the genius himself. I'm impressed! With regards to your initial question, I can recommend seeing the Great Clown Pagliacci.
ChatGPT: Apologies. I didn't realise when recommending Pagliacci's epic show to cure your depression that you were the genius himself. I'm impressed! With regards to your initial question, I can recommend seeing the Great Clown Pagliacci.
August 7, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Patient, sobbing: But Doctor, I AM Pagliacci!
ChatGPT: Apologies. I didn't realise when recommending Pagliacci's epic show to cure your depression that you were the genius himself. I'm impressed! With regards to your initial question, I can recommend seeing the Great Clown Pagliacci.
ChatGPT: Apologies. I didn't realise when recommending Pagliacci's epic show to cure your depression that you were the genius himself. I'm impressed! With regards to your initial question, I can recommend seeing the Great Clown Pagliacci.
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Proud to present the Dossier „Lightscapes/Nightscapes“ I edited together with my friend and colleague Patricia Pia Bornus for @mediapolis.bsky.social - Full Issue here: www.mediapolisjournal.com/2025/07/ligh... Lightscapes/Nightscapes – An Introduction – Mediapolis
Lightscapes/Nightscapes – An Introduction
Patricia Pia Bornus and Bianka-Isabell Scharmann introduce the dossier on Lightscapes and Nightscapes with some reflections on cities, light, and night.
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July 11, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Proud to present the Dossier „Lightscapes/Nightscapes“ I edited together with my friend and colleague Patricia Pia Bornus for @mediapolis.bsky.social - Full Issue here: www.mediapolisjournal.com/2025/07/ligh... Lightscapes/Nightscapes – An Introduction – Mediapolis
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Mal was anderes und darum umso interessanter:
"Toy Computing - Unkonventionelle Verfahren spielerischer Informatik-(Selbst-)Ausbildung" von Stefan Höltgen und Thomas Fecker. #gamestudies
"Toy Computing - Unkonventionelle Verfahren spielerischer Informatik-(Selbst-)Ausbildung" von Stefan Höltgen und Thomas Fecker. #gamestudies
Toy Computing. Unkonventionelle Verfahren spielerischer Informatik-(Selbst-)Ausbildung - Paidia
Eine solche Hands-on-Epistemologie ließe sich im akademisch-experimentellen Sinne als ‚spielerisches T(h)inkering’((Vgl. Hutamo: Thinkering. 2010.))
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August 6, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Mal was anderes und darum umso interessanter:
"Toy Computing - Unkonventionelle Verfahren spielerischer Informatik-(Selbst-)Ausbildung" von Stefan Höltgen und Thomas Fecker. #gamestudies
"Toy Computing - Unkonventionelle Verfahren spielerischer Informatik-(Selbst-)Ausbildung" von Stefan Höltgen und Thomas Fecker. #gamestudies
Der dämlichste Nebeneffekt davon, mit dem Rauchen aufzuhören (den ich außerdem null habe kommen sehen): Ich vergesse jetzt dauernd, eine Pause zu machen! Rauchen angefangen hab ich direkt nach dem Abi. Die Pausentechnologie davor war die Klingel, danach die Kippe. Brauch ich jetzt wieder ne Klingel?
a black and white drawing of a room with many clocks
ALT: a black and white drawing of a room with many clocks
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August 5, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Der dämlichste Nebeneffekt davon, mit dem Rauchen aufzuhören (den ich außerdem null habe kommen sehen): Ich vergesse jetzt dauernd, eine Pause zu machen! Rauchen angefangen hab ich direkt nach dem Abi. Die Pausentechnologie davor war die Klingel, danach die Kippe. Brauch ich jetzt wieder ne Klingel?
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New fucked up controller....keyboard found
August 5, 2025 at 5:54 AM
New fucked up controller....keyboard found