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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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PAYPHONE - You're not a revolutionary, Harry... You're drunk.
February 7, 2026 at 9:51 PM
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coming up with a new idea called "driving like shit olympics". no more bland, unprovable statements like "california drivers are the WORST" allowed. whichever state wins every 4 years gets a moonshot-sized public transit investment to get those fuckers off the road
February 7, 2026 at 5:34 PM
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February 7, 2026 at 2:57 PM
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February 7, 2026 at 11:51 AM
It's really fucked that I can't just use a phone like this anymore
February 7, 2026 at 10:58 AM
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"I need AI to make art, human art is only for the rich and privileged-"
February 6, 2026 at 7:29 PM
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I killed everyone on mad at you island. no. you're not off the hook. that's not why I was there.
February 6, 2026 at 6:53 AM
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GM: Charisma check.

Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]

GM: that’s a d6 how did you

Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
February 7, 2026 at 5:01 AM
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Breaking: We have brought more than 140 feminist and LGBTQ+ organisations together to urge our politicians to act and protect inclusive spaces from expensive lawfare ⚖️

Read more in @the-independent.com:

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Protect inclusive spaces from gender-critical legal battles, Starmer told
Exclusive: Sir Keir Starmer and Bridget Phillipson have been urged by more than 140 feminist and LGBT+ organisations to protect trans-inclusive spaces
www.independent.co.uk
February 7, 2026 at 8:53 AM
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Sasquatch Diaries 4th Feb
sasquatchdiaries.neocities.org
February 6, 2026 at 6:18 PM
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If there is one thing Chance The Rapper fans love it’s bare metal compute. Absolutely perfect market. Just check out how enthusiastic his fans are! They love it and they’re ready to move their cloud infrastructure.
February 7, 2026 at 6:48 AM
While I regret to inform you that the Brits are at it again, stuff like this is extra depressing because even though such a rail line could be amazing, history has shown projects like this are just ways of moving (public) money around (to private banks). Absolutely nothing would be built.
February 7, 2026 at 9:33 AM
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Nice circus, dude. That’s probably, what, like two rings? Oh it’s one ring? That’s crazy. Oh no mine has three yeah. No I don’t really bring it up it’s like people think I’m bragging I guess. A one ring circus is cool though man.
February 6, 2026 at 7:12 AM
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Guile... Guinan... Guilenan
February 6, 2026 at 9:15 PM
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You’re not crazy. The anti-trans movement is not organic; it was funded by pedophilic billionaires like Jeffrey Epstein who backed a network of conservatives to accuse the same people they were sexually abusing of being the real danger. @madycast.com exposes the truth in our in-depth report.
Epstein Backed ‘Billionaires’ Dinner’ Network of Prominent Anti-Trans Figures
Lawrence Krauss, Richard Dawkins, Steven Pinker and other anti-trans influencers personally benefited from a right-wing academic social group backed by infamous human trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, somet...
transnews.network
February 6, 2026 at 8:12 PM
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Isn't it super random that all of the "anti-woke" cancel culture academics who all leaned into transphobia and race science later in their careers all seem to be connected through Jeffrey Epstein?
February 6, 2026 at 9:08 PM
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No, that's too stupid.
February 6, 2026 at 7:02 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
February 6, 2026 at 6:45 PM
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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
doggang.substack.com
February 6, 2026 at 3:38 PM
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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
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'Ghost Mother and Child' - unknown Japanese artist, ca. 1890s.
#PhantomsFriday #JapaneseArt
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
January 14, 2026 at 1:48 PM
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SERIOUSLY WHERE THE FUCK IS THE FOURTH RIDDICK MOVIE
February 6, 2026 at 5:07 AM
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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