Heartbreak Welkin
@umabreakdown.bsky.social
Quake shirt with a French tuck. www.umabreakdown.com
https://linktr.ee/Umabreakdown
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For new follower: I'm an artist/researcher/writer/game designer based in north east England. My interests are mostly between ludology, horror studies, and ecriture feminine. Long term foci are trans readings of Cixous, + TTRPG manuals as experimental literature and model for audience agency in art.
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No, that's too stupid.
February 6, 2026 at 7:02 PM
No, that's too stupid.
The only way to even plausibly make this case is if you're so disinterested in art that you have never considered it beyond this kind of thought experiment. The entirety of Modernism is a refusal of "professionalism".
Also, these are KVs illustrations from BoC.
Can't believe we're doing this again
Also, these are KVs illustrations from BoC.
Can't believe we're doing this again
February 6, 2026 at 6:45 PM
The only way to even plausibly make this case is if you're so disinterested in art that you have never considered it beyond this kind of thought experiment. The entirety of Modernism is a refusal of "professionalism".
Also, these are KVs illustrations from BoC.
Can't believe we're doing this again
Also, these are KVs illustrations from BoC.
Can't believe we're doing this again
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Revisiting this excellent essay @umabreakdown.bsky.social wrote about Infinity Pool and Crash. The libidinal desire for violence and transgression (like the imperial boomerang) always comes back around to target the in group when violence against the out group ceases to be transgressive.
Infinity pool and Crash
Short essay on domination
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February 6, 2026 at 3:38 PM
Revisiting this excellent essay @umabreakdown.bsky.social wrote about Infinity Pool and Crash. The libidinal desire for violence and transgression (like the imperial boomerang) always comes back around to target the in group when violence against the out group ceases to be transgressive.
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I melted my brain with gamedev, and then multiple evil life situations started happening back to back, I'm going to go crawl into a hole for a while now.
February 6, 2026 at 8:31 AM
I melted my brain with gamedev, and then multiple evil life situations started happening back to back, I'm going to go crawl into a hole for a while now.
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January 9, 2026 at 8:22 AM
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'Seven Samurai - Battle of Mt. Ishibashi' - Katsukawa Shuntei. Print is said to depict Minamoto Yorimoto (who defeated the Taira and later established the Kamakura shogunate) and his six retainers fleeing from the Taira warriors, going down the steep slope of Mt. Ishibashi.
#JapaneseArt #ukiyoe
#JapaneseArt #ukiyoe
January 14, 2026 at 1:48 PM
'Seven Samurai - Battle of Mt. Ishibashi' - Katsukawa Shuntei. Print is said to depict Minamoto Yorimoto (who defeated the Taira and later established the Kamakura shogunate) and his six retainers fleeing from the Taira warriors, going down the steep slope of Mt. Ishibashi.
#JapaneseArt #ukiyoe
#JapaneseArt #ukiyoe
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SERIOUSLY WHERE THE FUCK IS THE FOURTH RIDDICK MOVIE
February 6, 2026 at 5:07 AM
SERIOUSLY WHERE THE FUCK IS THE FOURTH RIDDICK MOVIE
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The only take on Asimov that matters is @zsamudzi.bsky.social's, which is that his "Three Laws of Robotics" are just chattel slave laws, and that the ubiquity of these "Laws" in culture is dangerous
February 6, 2026 at 8:29 AM
The only take on Asimov that matters is @zsamudzi.bsky.social's, which is that his "Three Laws of Robotics" are just chattel slave laws, and that the ubiquity of these "Laws" in culture is dangerous
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Over the past two weeks I've begun to realize that rich people only started funding chatbots once they could no longer email Jeffrey Epstein
February 5, 2026 at 10:02 PM
Over the past two weeks I've begun to realize that rich people only started funding chatbots once they could no longer email Jeffrey Epstein
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jeffrey epstein being the first domino for the financial crash, video game micro transactions, and Gamergate is making me lose my mind
February 6, 2026 at 3:57 AM
jeffrey epstein being the first domino for the financial crash, video game micro transactions, and Gamergate is making me lose my mind
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Isaac Asimov was a founder of modern science fiction. His work and ideas inform almost everything.
He was also a serial sexual harasser, something confirmed by multiple first-person accountings from members of East Coast fandom.
He was also a serial sexual harasser, something confirmed by multiple first-person accountings from members of East Coast fandom.
February 5, 2026 at 8:59 PM
Isaac Asimov was a founder of modern science fiction. His work and ideas inform almost everything.
He was also a serial sexual harasser, something confirmed by multiple first-person accountings from members of East Coast fandom.
He was also a serial sexual harasser, something confirmed by multiple first-person accountings from members of East Coast fandom.
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reading lotr for the first time. its very funny that gandalfs plan is for the hobbits to meet him at the weed smoking capitol of the world
February 5, 2026 at 3:49 AM
reading lotr for the first time. its very funny that gandalfs plan is for the hobbits to meet him at the weed smoking capitol of the world
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Hey folks, I've just added VERHO - CURSE OF FACES to my Steam curator page.
I've been greatly enjoying this King's Field inspired RPG lately. If you liked the likes of Lunacid and Dread Delusion, this is another excellent addition to the Kingslike subgenre.
store.steampowered.com/app/3017330/...
I've been greatly enjoying this King's Field inspired RPG lately. If you liked the likes of Lunacid and Dread Delusion, this is another excellent addition to the Kingslike subgenre.
store.steampowered.com/app/3017330/...
Verho - Curse of Faces on Steam
Verho, a Dark RPG following the tradition of the King’s Field series, takes place after the catastrophic Era of Solitude, where masks have become the only protection against the Curse of Faces. Travel...
store.steampowered.com
February 5, 2026 at 9:38 PM
Hey folks, I've just added VERHO - CURSE OF FACES to my Steam curator page.
I've been greatly enjoying this King's Field inspired RPG lately. If you liked the likes of Lunacid and Dread Delusion, this is another excellent addition to the Kingslike subgenre.
store.steampowered.com/app/3017330/...
I've been greatly enjoying this King's Field inspired RPG lately. If you liked the likes of Lunacid and Dread Delusion, this is another excellent addition to the Kingslike subgenre.
store.steampowered.com/app/3017330/...
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Miami Vice: The Game (2006, PSP)
February 5, 2026 at 9:07 PM
Miami Vice: The Game (2006, PSP)
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These people convinced you vaccines were dangerous and that scientists were lying and clinical trials weren’t real. That you could cure cancer with beet roots. That you could pay $1000 to have a shaman pray away your diabetes.
You all let a group of pedophiles convince YOU to kill your own kids.
You all let a group of pedophiles convince YOU to kill your own kids.
February 5, 2026 at 2:46 PM
These people convinced you vaccines were dangerous and that scientists were lying and clinical trials weren’t real. That you could cure cancer with beet roots. That you could pay $1000 to have a shaman pray away your diabetes.
You all let a group of pedophiles convince YOU to kill your own kids.
You all let a group of pedophiles convince YOU to kill your own kids.
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Hollywood producer Barry Josephson to Jeffrey Epstein:
“I've been thinking a lot about that question that you asked bill gates 'how do we get rid of poor people as a whole'"
“I've been thinking a lot about that question that you asked bill gates 'how do we get rid of poor people as a whole'"
February 5, 2026 at 2:45 PM
Hollywood producer Barry Josephson to Jeffrey Epstein:
“I've been thinking a lot about that question that you asked bill gates 'how do we get rid of poor people as a whole'"
“I've been thinking a lot about that question that you asked bill gates 'how do we get rid of poor people as a whole'"
2. Fuck. I didn't even have to go via my improbable Marilyn Manson connection
Your "Epstein Number" is the number of hops between you and someone sending a chummy email to notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein
February 5, 2026 at 5:29 PM
2. Fuck. I didn't even have to go via my improbable Marilyn Manson connection
Note, this sequence is actually a story Melania is telling a young Barron while the two of them are hiking up a railway line to see a dead body (Ivana Trump in a sand trap)
The best thing about nobody buying tickets to Melania is you can just make up stuff that happens in the movie and people will believe you. My favorite part is when she throws up in her purse after the hot dog eating contest
February 5, 2026 at 4:05 PM
Note, this sequence is actually a story Melania is telling a young Barron while the two of them are hiking up a railway line to see a dead body (Ivana Trump in a sand trap)
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A new tool lets you search the Epstein files for mentions of your LinkedIn contacts. Tried it out, does work. Outputs a report with links to the material on the DOJ website.
www.404media.co/this-tool-se...
www.404media.co/this-tool-se...
This Tool Searches the Epstein Files For Your LinkedIn Contacts
EpsteIN—as in, Epstein and LinkedIn—searches your connections on the social network for names that match those in the released files.
www.404media.co
February 5, 2026 at 3:37 PM
A new tool lets you search the Epstein files for mentions of your LinkedIn contacts. Tried it out, does work. Outputs a report with links to the material on the DOJ website.
www.404media.co/this-tool-se...
www.404media.co/this-tool-se...
Just one more Townes Van Zandt album bro, it will absolutely fix your depression I promise you.
February 5, 2026 at 3:55 PM
Just one more Townes Van Zandt album bro, it will absolutely fix your depression I promise you.
P crazy that the entire western world during the lifetime of millennials, was being propped up by one load bearing paedophile
February 5, 2026 at 3:33 PM
P crazy that the entire western world during the lifetime of millennials, was being propped up by one load bearing paedophile
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We need access to Mandelson's financial affairs to check that eg Government contracts with Palantir were not entered into because he was paid to lobby for them.
February 5, 2026 at 2:56 PM
We need access to Mandelson's financial affairs to check that eg Government contracts with Palantir were not entered into because he was paid to lobby for them.
Depressed by private endo draining all the money I had to finish laser, so trying to cheerqaa myself up by shopping for a new bench vice and lab power supply.
February 5, 2026 at 2:27 PM
Depressed by private endo draining all the money I had to finish laser, so trying to cheerqaa myself up by shopping for a new bench vice and lab power supply.