Tof Eklund
@tofeklund.bsky.social
Autoscepical, metænarchic, postnihilist, parastructural, secular occultist, televisionary, neonerd, unspeakable, and talented queerdo. Take as you see fit at your own risk with a large glass of water. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️👾 🇵🇸🇺🇦
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Tof Eklund
@tofeklund.bsky.social
· Nov 22
🎄Gamer Holiday Shopping Tips🎄
1. Boycott Microsoft and EA
2. Buy cool indie games instead
3. Donate the money you saved to support the people of Palestine, Sudan, and Ukraine, and to trans folk who need help.
4. Enjoy!
1. Boycott Microsoft and EA
2. Buy cool indie games instead
3. Donate the money you saved to support the people of Palestine, Sudan, and Ukraine, and to trans folk who need help.
4. Enjoy!
Gender static. From Asajiro no
Saudade ("Pale Blue-green Longing") by Sakutato. Scanlation by Rehashed Scans.
Saudade ("Pale Blue-green Longing") by Sakutato. Scanlation by Rehashed Scans.
January 1, 2026 at 11:28 PM
Gender static. From Asajiro no
Saudade ("Pale Blue-green Longing") by Sakutato. Scanlation by Rehashed Scans.
Saudade ("Pale Blue-green Longing") by Sakutato. Scanlation by Rehashed Scans.
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Also for one reason or another this was a big year for Theseus over at GwG - not too bad for a guy who doesn't even have a ship anymore (or DOES HE?). Thinking about this great review from @exalclaw.bsky.social earlier this year.
www.gamerswithglasses.com/impressions/...
www.gamerswithglasses.com/impressions/...
Nitro Gen Omega and the Mech of Theseus — Gamers with Glasses
If I eventually replace all the original nuts, bolts, and crew of my mech, is it still the same mech? Is it possible to play something that’s both a game and a cartoon? What does it feel like to get...
www.gamerswithglasses.com
December 30, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Also for one reason or another this was a big year for Theseus over at GwG - not too bad for a guy who doesn't even have a ship anymore (or DOES HE?). Thinking about this great review from @exalclaw.bsky.social earlier this year.
www.gamerswithglasses.com/impressions/...
www.gamerswithglasses.com/impressions/...
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What does it mean to embrace the evolution of a franchise? Especially when that franchise is something like Pokémon, which basically defined a genre and then...changed a lot? @srtrzinski.bsky.social explores the big questions, just in time for the New Year!
www.gamerswithglasses.com/features/shi...
www.gamerswithglasses.com/features/shi...
The Ship of Xerneas — Gamers with Glasses
After years and years of iterations, how can we tell if Pokémon still Pokémon? What is the relationship between franchise and genre? By some definitions, is Super Smash Bros . technically a Pokémon...
www.gamerswithglasses.com
December 30, 2025 at 4:31 PM
What does it mean to embrace the evolution of a franchise? Especially when that franchise is something like Pokémon, which basically defined a genre and then...changed a lot? @srtrzinski.bsky.social explores the big questions, just in time for the New Year!
www.gamerswithglasses.com/features/shi...
www.gamerswithglasses.com/features/shi...
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It's December 29th in California, and that means that @optional.bsky.social is thinking about... Halloween. It's time to talk about @draknek.bsky.social's Spooky Express.
Spooky Express' Halloween Logic — Gamers with Glasses
Spooky Express is an admirably coherent puzzle game that fits neatly into the groove made by its predecessors. Its designers smoothly translated its Halloween theme into puzzle mechanics. But it coul...
www.gamerswithglasses.com
December 29, 2025 at 8:12 PM
It's December 29th in California, and that means that @optional.bsky.social is thinking about... Halloween. It's time to talk about @draknek.bsky.social's Spooky Express.
Having lost or broken all their gods, they decided to worship arrogant assholes. That went about as well as you might have expected.
December 30, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Having lost or broken all their gods, they decided to worship arrogant assholes. That went about as well as you might have expected.
"it wouldn't be the way if there weren't jokes about it"
December 29, 2025 at 11:15 AM
"it wouldn't be the way if there weren't jokes about it"
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We're just over the moon to be sharing this with you: the one and only @hannahnicklin.bsky.social on South of the Circle and how developers use in-game choices to give players space in which to perform the story.
www.gamerswithglasses.com/features/per...
www.gamerswithglasses.com/features/per...
Performing Peter: South of the Circle and Fuzzy Choice — Gamers with Glasses
How do game designers make player choices feel meaningful? Hannah Nicklin, author of Writing for Games: Theory and Practice , describes here how the act of choosing allows players to perform a charac...
www.gamerswithglasses.com
December 22, 2025 at 7:11 PM
We're just over the moon to be sharing this with you: the one and only @hannahnicklin.bsky.social on South of the Circle and how developers use in-game choices to give players space in which to perform the story.
www.gamerswithglasses.com/features/per...
www.gamerswithglasses.com/features/per...
Getting off of bsky for the rest of the day after being jumped one too many times by the Jake Paul KO clip. I'm not defending Paul, I'm not even criticising people for wanting to watch that repeatedly. All I'm saying is that I f*cking don't watch boxing for a gods-dammed reason.
December 21, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Getting off of bsky for the rest of the day after being jumped one too many times by the Jake Paul KO clip. I'm not defending Paul, I'm not even criticising people for wanting to watch that repeatedly. All I'm saying is that I f*cking don't watch boxing for a gods-dammed reason.
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a little bit of hope means you want to know about the world, no matter what it's done to you
December 20, 2025 at 11:24 PM
a little bit of hope means you want to know about the world, no matter what it's done to you
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I had to watch Alabama's ban on gender affirming care for minors go into effect. It impacted multiple people in my life. It is cruel beyond words.
Pick up the phone. Call all of your reps. Don't tell me it won't matter--I call Tommy Tuberville. EVERY FUCKIN' TIME. I won't gift them silence on this.
Pick up the phone. Call all of your reps. Don't tell me it won't matter--I call Tommy Tuberville. EVERY FUCKIN' TIME. I won't gift them silence on this.
This is possibly the most significant attack on trans rights in this country yet, and I can count the number of posts on my timeline about this on my hands.
If you're trying to dismiss this thinking "It'll die in the senate," DON'T! Sound the alarms now!
If you're trying to dismiss this thinking "It'll die in the senate," DON'T! Sound the alarms now!
Bluesky tonight is neatly divided between trans people and family members appropriately angry and freaking out and everyone else who has barely noticed.
December 18, 2025 at 4:52 AM
I had to watch Alabama's ban on gender affirming care for minors go into effect. It impacted multiple people in my life. It is cruel beyond words.
Pick up the phone. Call all of your reps. Don't tell me it won't matter--I call Tommy Tuberville. EVERY FUCKIN' TIME. I won't gift them silence on this.
Pick up the phone. Call all of your reps. Don't tell me it won't matter--I call Tommy Tuberville. EVERY FUCKIN' TIME. I won't gift them silence on this.
Go PATHS! Go community solidarity 💖🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️! Go Aotearoa! We can win this.
17 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- New Zealand's new ban on pediatric blockers, announced last month by the govt and due to go into effect this week, has been stayed pending judicial review after a suit brought by Professional Association for Transgender Healthcare Aotearoa (PATHA). Go PATHs!
Puberty blockers ban delayed by judicial review
The ban on new prescriptions of puberty blockers to treat gender dysphoria in young people was due to come into effect this week.
www.rnz.co.nz
December 17, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Go PATHS! Go community solidarity 💖🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️! Go Aotearoa! We can win this.
"What, me worry?"
December 16, 2025 at 10:49 PM
"What, me worry?"
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Tokyo Godfathers is now available to watch on the Criterion Channel ❤️
December 15, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Tokyo Godfathers is now available to watch on the Criterion Channel ❤️
It seems there are exactly two kinds of stories about generative AI:
1) wildly exuberant stories about what this stuff will do sometime really soon (trust us!), and
2) stories like this about how some actual use of gen AI fails fantastically
oh, wait, I forgot:
3) gen AI is pretty good at fraud
1) wildly exuberant stories about what this stuff will do sometime really soon (trust us!), and
2) stories like this about how some actual use of gen AI fails fantastically
oh, wait, I forgot:
3) gen AI is pretty good at fraud
“Internal tests found that the AI was generating podcasts riddled with errors and bias, with anywhere between 68 and 84 percent of the scripts deemed unpublishable by evaluators across three rounds of testing.”
The Washington Post Deployed Its Disastrous AI-Generated Podcasts Even After Internal Tests Showed It Was Failing Miserably
Semafor reported that the Washington Post launched its controversial AI podcast feature despite knowing it was severely flawed.
futurism.com
December 16, 2025 at 1:47 AM
It seems there are exactly two kinds of stories about generative AI:
1) wildly exuberant stories about what this stuff will do sometime really soon (trust us!), and
2) stories like this about how some actual use of gen AI fails fantastically
oh, wait, I forgot:
3) gen AI is pretty good at fraud
1) wildly exuberant stories about what this stuff will do sometime really soon (trust us!), and
2) stories like this about how some actual use of gen AI fails fantastically
oh, wait, I forgot:
3) gen AI is pretty good at fraud
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People keep telling me their reaction to reading it is a renewed interest in their own creativity and rediscovering the delight of really thinking about something, which is such a gift to me, but really it's a gift they're giving themselves and that is everything to me.
Thank you so much to everybody who has gotten a copy of BRAINS already or shared the comic, I really appreciate it! For 2 more days it will be pay what you wish on itch, so you can get it for FREE right now!
BRAINS is my love letter to the brain + the joy of thinking and perceiving and being human.
BRAINS is my love letter to the brain + the joy of thinking and perceiving and being human.
BRAINS by Alexandra Gallant-Lee
A love letter to the brain and hate mail to AI
alexandragallant.itch.io
December 15, 2025 at 6:21 PM
People keep telling me their reaction to reading it is a renewed interest in their own creativity and rediscovering the delight of really thinking about something, which is such a gift to me, but really it's a gift they're giving themselves and that is everything to me.
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So there is already an ai-generated whitewashing campaign to bury the name of the Muslim man, Ahmed al Ahmed, who disarmed one of the Bondi Beach shooters, and replace his identity with a white guy name and that’s why even a thimble of our potable water powering this tech is too fucking much.
December 14, 2025 at 5:42 PM
So there is already an ai-generated whitewashing campaign to bury the name of the Muslim man, Ahmed al Ahmed, who disarmed one of the Bondi Beach shooters, and replace his identity with a white guy name and that’s why even a thimble of our potable water powering this tech is too fucking much.
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When we say “billionaires should not exist,” what we mean is:
Instead of billionaires…
Everyone should have healthcare.
Everyone should have housing.
Everyone should have access to healthy food and clean water.
Billionaires are a policy failure.
Instead of billionaires…
Everyone should have healthcare.
Everyone should have housing.
Everyone should have access to healthy food and clean water.
Billionaires are a policy failure.
December 13, 2025 at 10:30 PM
When we say “billionaires should not exist,” what we mean is:
Instead of billionaires…
Everyone should have healthcare.
Everyone should have housing.
Everyone should have access to healthy food and clean water.
Billionaires are a policy failure.
Instead of billionaires…
Everyone should have healthcare.
Everyone should have housing.
Everyone should have access to healthy food and clean water.
Billionaires are a policy failure.
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epic will pay for every game that gets claimed this way so yes, you are still giving money to rowling (and by extension an international campaign against trans people) by claiming this
there are other, better franchises - let this one go
there are other, better franchises - let this one go
Epic Games partnered with The Game Awards to give away this week's free game on the Epic Games Store.
Hogwarts Legacy is now at the right price: $0
Epic Games partnered with The Game Awards to give away this week's free game on the Epic Games Store.
www.polygon.com
December 13, 2025 at 5:27 PM
epic will pay for every game that gets claimed this way so yes, you are still giving money to rowling (and by extension an international campaign against trans people) by claiming this
there are other, better franchises - let this one go
there are other, better franchises - let this one go
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Having a meltdown over every email and article I've ever written and then eventually bludgeoning my way through it is what made me the writer I am, and if I can still keep doing that to this day, so can you. Fuck AI.
December 12, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Having a meltdown over every email and article I've ever written and then eventually bludgeoning my way through it is what made me the writer I am, and if I can still keep doing that to this day, so can you. Fuck AI.
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This is doing really well and I want it to continue doing really well. The ban is stupid as hell and I think we should choose to stop making the world worse, because that would be a cool thing for humanity to do.
If you know anyone who would be interested in the bundle, give them a shout.
If you know anyone who would be interested in the bundle, give them a shout.
Have a look at some of the ttrpgs that are part of our bundle, there's an amazing breath of creativity in the kiwi ttrpg scene!
There's something for everyone and the money goes to helping roll back bigotry: itch.io/b/3421/ban-t...
#kiwirpg #dnd #ttrpg
There's something for everyone and the money goes to helping roll back bigotry: itch.io/b/3421/ban-t...
#kiwirpg #dnd #ttrpg
December 10, 2025 at 11:59 PM
This is doing really well and I want it to continue doing really well. The ban is stupid as hell and I think we should choose to stop making the world worse, because that would be a cool thing for humanity to do.
If you know anyone who would be interested in the bundle, give them a shout.
If you know anyone who would be interested in the bundle, give them a shout.
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In other news, the whole thing about Calibri v. TNR isn't about a font face, it's about the fact that Calibri is easier for people with some disabilities to read.
They think any accommodation, however painless, should stop.
They think any accommodation, however painless, should stop.
December 10, 2025 at 3:08 PM
In other news, the whole thing about Calibri v. TNR isn't about a font face, it's about the fact that Calibri is easier for people with some disabilities to read.
They think any accommodation, however painless, should stop.
They think any accommodation, however painless, should stop.
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I always think about the fact that there is probably an absolute gem of a game out there that I just don't know about because it has been buried by everything else.
It's the sad reality of gamedev that even a brilliant game can be lost to the ages for a million different non game related reasons.
It's the sad reality of gamedev that even a brilliant game can be lost to the ages for a million different non game related reasons.
December 10, 2025 at 11:43 PM
I always think about the fact that there is probably an absolute gem of a game out there that I just don't know about because it has been buried by everything else.
It's the sad reality of gamedev that even a brilliant game can be lost to the ages for a million different non game related reasons.
It's the sad reality of gamedev that even a brilliant game can be lost to the ages for a million different non game related reasons.
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tired: Amelia Bedilia was silly and foolish and excessively literal
wired: Amelia Bedilia was engaging in malicious compliance and class solidarity against the oligarchs
wired: Amelia Bedilia was engaging in malicious compliance and class solidarity against the oligarchs
Amelia Bedilia was RIGHT rich folks DO want things done strangely
December 10, 2025 at 7:52 PM
tired: Amelia Bedilia was silly and foolish and excessively literal
wired: Amelia Bedilia was engaging in malicious compliance and class solidarity against the oligarchs
wired: Amelia Bedilia was engaging in malicious compliance and class solidarity against the oligarchs
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I'm a trans author in the global south.
Please back my Kickstarter for Legendary X-Knights, a superhero story about queer heroes of different ages and backgrounds saving the world from war.
Together we can make a better future for queer people across the world.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/jam...
Please back my Kickstarter for Legendary X-Knights, a superhero story about queer heroes of different ages and backgrounds saving the world from war.
Together we can make a better future for queer people across the world.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/jam...
December 10, 2025 at 8:05 PM
I'm a trans author in the global south.
Please back my Kickstarter for Legendary X-Knights, a superhero story about queer heroes of different ages and backgrounds saving the world from war.
Together we can make a better future for queer people across the world.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/jam...
Please back my Kickstarter for Legendary X-Knights, a superhero story about queer heroes of different ages and backgrounds saving the world from war.
Together we can make a better future for queer people across the world.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/jam...
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This is like Mr Rogers picking up Mjolnir
We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over
December 6, 2025 at 7:59 PM
This is like Mr Rogers picking up Mjolnir