Cat Cordeiro
@topmarx.bsky.social
Stuart Hall's most ardent partisan. Theatre, performance, and games scholar. Narrative systems designer. Lesbian disaster. ATX.
As an independent scholar, to access a journal article on a scholarly database I must physically drive to the UT Austin campus library, get a once-per-day pass, and then hope I find it on the extremely small selection of databases open to the public within my 60 minute-per-day time limit.
Unless you have a university affiliation, even just requesting something you can get via interlibrary loan requires you answer the librarians' riddles three and then duel a man to the deal for their entertainment.
February 11, 2026 at 10:36 PM
As an independent scholar, to access a journal article on a scholarly database I must physically drive to the UT Austin campus library, get a once-per-day pass, and then hope I find it on the extremely small selection of databases open to the public within my 60 minute-per-day time limit.
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Getting to write a WHOLE ASS ANIME AF SCENARIO for this, as my first Real Game Narrative job was a truly wild experience.
Go smash that button (and maybe you'll get to do a mf'ing mech heist soon).
Go smash that button (and maybe you'll get to do a mf'ing mech heist soon).
February 11, 2026 at 3:31 PM
Getting to write a WHOLE ASS ANIME AF SCENARIO for this, as my first Real Game Narrative job was a truly wild experience.
Go smash that button (and maybe you'll get to do a mf'ing mech heist soon).
Go smash that button (and maybe you'll get to do a mf'ing mech heist soon).
Another day, another attack from the astrology app.
February 11, 2026 at 7:47 PM
Another day, another attack from the astrology app.
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saying "they wanted it more" in a competitive context is so funny like it's so mean and it doesn't communicate anything of substance and I love saying it when I lose each time
February 11, 2026 at 3:57 PM
saying "they wanted it more" in a competitive context is so funny like it's so mean and it doesn't communicate anything of substance and I love saying it when I lose each time
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So many quotes in here to pull out and share, but this is a such a incisive, startling profile of Mira Nair, one of my favourite ever filmmakers who also just happens to be Zohran Mamdani's mum.
Cannot believe that I got to profile an extraordinary filmmaker, who happens to be the mother of NYC’s new mayor, and think about intersections of art and politics, and how familial love might produce a buffer against the corrosive politics and cynicism of our time. My story about Mira Nair:
What Mira Nair Taught Zohran Mamdani
The mayor’s famous filmmaker mother reveals the origins of his ferocious ambition.
www.vulture.com
February 10, 2026 at 8:35 PM
So many quotes in here to pull out and share, but this is a such a incisive, startling profile of Mira Nair, one of my favourite ever filmmakers who also just happens to be Zohran Mamdani's mum.
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great piece from gita. the NYT reporting is subtextually more about how course-selling predators lie to people who do not have expertise in the field they're trying to cheat into. in the next post i'll link a video i really enjoyed about this topic in a different context.
No, AI written romance novels are not inevitable: aftermath.site/ai-romance-nov...
February 10, 2026 at 8:44 PM
great piece from gita. the NYT reporting is subtextually more about how course-selling predators lie to people who do not have expertise in the field they're trying to cheat into. in the next post i'll link a video i really enjoyed about this topic in a different context.
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🎵F-O-R-T-N-I-T🎵
🎵”Fortnite” spelled without an E🎵
🎵”Fortnite” spelled without an E🎵
February 10, 2026 at 2:18 PM
🎵F-O-R-T-N-I-T🎵
🎵”Fortnite” spelled without an E🎵
🎵”Fortnite” spelled without an E🎵
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BIG AIR IS SO SICK, SNOWBOARDING IS SO SICK
February 9, 2026 at 9:21 PM
BIG AIR IS SO SICK, SNOWBOARDING IS SO SICK
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I feel like bruno is honestly underselling himself here he basically was the lead designer for Fallen London for years and had quite a successful run of cool as fuck features and additions during that time
I'm still looking for full-time or contract work – I'm a narrative design generalist with credits on multiple shipped titles. I focus on taming the complexity of narrative systems, writing prose, and leading narrative teams.
brunodias.dev/bio
brunodias.dev/bio
Bio
Bruno Dias is a game designer and writer. Previous credits include Where the Water Tastes Like Wine, Neo Cab, and Pathologic 2.
brunodias.dev
February 9, 2026 at 8:26 PM
I feel like bruno is honestly underselling himself here he basically was the lead designer for Fallen London for years and had quite a successful run of cool as fuck features and additions during that time
Astrology app, are you okay?
February 9, 2026 at 8:08 PM
Astrology app, are you okay?
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Rachel Lacey, Reigning Queen of the Fucked Up Meet-Cute 2026 (complimentary)
February 9, 2026 at 3:18 AM
Rachel Lacey, Reigning Queen of the Fucked Up Meet-Cute 2026 (complimentary)
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Every Super Bowl ad is for the door in the forest. It’s annoying. “You must walk through the door.” Yeah thanks, I know that already. I dream of the door every night
February 9, 2026 at 12:38 AM
Every Super Bowl ad is for the door in the forest. It’s annoying. “You must walk through the door.” Yeah thanks, I know that already. I dream of the door every night
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They would have played all nine minutes of Jesus of Suburbia if the NFL weren't goddamn cowards.
February 8, 2026 at 11:16 PM
They would have played all nine minutes of Jesus of Suburbia if the NFL weren't goddamn cowards.
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I never noticed this either.
February 8, 2026 at 7:09 PM
I never noticed this either.
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Polymarket founder Shayne Coplan once said Polymarket "predictions" are second in accuracy only to a crystal ball
The reason it's gone up is because they made a different market for whether the Jesus market will reach 5c at any point, so people are buying Y on the Jesus market in the hopes that Y holders in the derivative market will pump the Jesus market to 5c.
February 8, 2026 at 9:36 PM
Polymarket founder Shayne Coplan once said Polymarket "predictions" are second in accuracy only to a crystal ball
If anything, I think being unable to write romance is a real red flag for a writer. It's fine to not be interested in it, but being bad at romance raises questions abt character interaction and internality.
This is 100% true. Also the idea that romance writers are vapid and it’s not real writing…I know so many romance writers who have advanced degrees. They’re lawyers, doctors, hell, one of them one money on Jeopardy.
Writing a good book is hard, no matter the genre.
Writing a good book is hard, no matter the genre.
February 8, 2026 at 10:48 PM
If anything, I think being unable to write romance is a real red flag for a writer. It's fine to not be interested in it, but being bad at romance raises questions abt character interaction and internality.
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I don't really have a marketing team or anything, and social media has been cataclysmic for my psyche, so word of mouth is a huge help for me. here's the title poem. pulling punches is against my artistic code of conduct. trans is potent and trans is revolutionary.
February 6, 2026 at 6:29 PM
I don't really have a marketing team or anything, and social media has been cataclysmic for my psyche, so word of mouth is a huge help for me. here's the title poem. pulling punches is against my artistic code of conduct. trans is potent and trans is revolutionary.
Hey can you chill the fuck out, astrology app?
February 8, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Hey can you chill the fuck out, astrology app?
Fantasy romance loves to be like "their only weapons are their love, their devotion, and their ability to bend the metaphysical properties of reality to their will."
February 8, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Fantasy romance loves to be like "their only weapons are their love, their devotion, and their ability to bend the metaphysical properties of reality to their will."
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Please don't forget amid *gestures generally at all the fascism* that Trump is continuing to criminalize and target trans people for literal extermination.
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
She Was Honored With A Human Rights Award. Then She Says ICE Tricked And Arrested Her.
A HuffPost investigation found how the Trump administration systematically destroyed safeguards for detainees, subjecting them to abuse and neglect.
www.huffpost.com
February 8, 2026 at 3:20 PM
Please don't forget amid *gestures generally at all the fascism* that Trump is continuing to criminalize and target trans people for literal extermination.
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
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Sama'a's baby girl is sick, and Gaza is cold and starving. Please give what you can.
chuffed.org/project/157569
chuffed.org/project/157569
February 8, 2026 at 3:25 PM
Sama'a's baby girl is sick, and Gaza is cold and starving. Please give what you can.
chuffed.org/project/157569
chuffed.org/project/157569
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Sabrina Carpenter you should star in every Muppet movie and every movie about submarines in World War II, between the two of them everyone will love you
I got some flak from a friend a while ago because I said 4’11” isn’t pop star height but I somehow failed to consider the fact that it’s a perfect height to frame with a muppet. I take it back, no celebs over 5’2”
February 7, 2026 at 2:40 PM
Sabrina Carpenter you should star in every Muppet movie and every movie about submarines in World War II, between the two of them everyone will love you