Andrew Hastings
@andyshastings.bsky.social
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Trans rights are human rights.
Science is inherently political, whether you like it or not.
"It is every citizen's final duty to go into the tanks and become one with all the people." Chairman Sheng-ji Yang, Ethics for Tomorrow
Trans rights are human rights.
Science is inherently political, whether you like it or not.
"It is every citizen's final duty to go into the tanks and become one with all the people." Chairman Sheng-ji Yang, Ethics for Tomorrow
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Really a devastating blow to the #scicomm community that @robinince.bsky.social has felt pressured to resign from the BBC simply because he is passionate about his political principles, including a firm belief that trans lives are precious. 🧪 #scicomm
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
December 13, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Really a devastating blow to the #scicomm community that @robinince.bsky.social has felt pressured to resign from the BBC simply because he is passionate about his political principles, including a firm belief that trans lives are precious. 🧪 #scicomm
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Control is an illusion, something to let go of while parenting, and maybe, just maybe, something to reclaim while gaming.
Loved writing this short guest essay for @crossplayblog.bsky.social.
www.crossplay.news/p/sick-days-...
Loved writing this short guest essay for @crossplayblog.bsky.social.
www.crossplay.news/p/sick-days-...
Sick Days Are For Video Games and Letting Go
Control is an illusion, even before children. Sometimes, a sick day flips the script.
www.crossplay.news
December 11, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Control is an illusion, something to let go of while parenting, and maybe, just maybe, something to reclaim while gaming.
Loved writing this short guest essay for @crossplayblog.bsky.social.
www.crossplay.news/p/sick-days-...
Loved writing this short guest essay for @crossplayblog.bsky.social.
www.crossplay.news/p/sick-days-...
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do you enjoy Side Story? please tell your most influential or loudest friend
this week's episode of Side Story is a duo edition, as @austinwalker.bsky.social and I sit down to talk about three very different games: Octopath Traveler 0; Blippo+; and No, I'm Not A Human sidestory.show/18-your-moth...
Side Story: 18: Your Mother's Delightful Bonanza
Side Story only exists because of support from listeners like you. Go to to support us! Today we explore a bevvy of different worlds: 2.5D fantasy realms, alien FMV planets, and a land of ...
sidestory.show
December 11, 2025 at 5:25 PM
do you enjoy Side Story? please tell your most influential or loudest friend
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September's Unfair Flips streams are now live on YouTube. The correct way to watch these is side by side, simultaneously youtu.be/pLhFTImRAjQ
Unfair Flips Prime - Jack and Austin
YouTube video by Friends at the Table
youtu.be
December 8, 2025 at 8:30 PM
September's Unfair Flips streams are now live on YouTube. The correct way to watch these is side by side, simultaneously youtu.be/pLhFTImRAjQ
@notquitereal.bsky.social FYI, someone is printing out episodes of Fishteen Minutes and posting them around town.
One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.
December 8, 2025 at 10:00 AM
@notquitereal.bsky.social FYI, someone is printing out episodes of Fishteen Minutes and posting them around town.
The Emperor appears on screen in person for the first time.
Me: who's that guy?
6 yr old: Star Wars!
Me: who's that guy?
6 yr old: Star Wars!
December 6, 2025 at 7:36 AM
The Emperor appears on screen in person for the first time.
Me: who's that guy?
6 yr old: Star Wars!
Me: who's that guy?
6 yr old: Star Wars!
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Folks, the cricket is on (checks notes) today
December 3, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Folks, the cricket is on (checks notes) today
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Cricket tomorrow, is what I am hearing
@chrisoregan.bsky.social Hey Chris, can we get an update on the cricket situation, please?
December 3, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Cricket tomorrow, is what I am hearing
@chrisoregan.bsky.social Hey Chris, can we get an update on the cricket situation, please?
December 3, 2025 at 10:23 AM
@chrisoregan.bsky.social Hey Chris, can we get an update on the cricket situation, please?
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December 2, 2025 at 1:01 AM
We're just getting started. Today, we're offering new readers 25% off our annual subscription which includes access to all of our articles, podcasts, bonus content, FOIA Forum trainings, full text RSS feed, no ads, and support independent journalism.
thank u all for your support <3
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The children are complaining that the Star Wars Holiday Special is 'too blurry'.
November 29, 2025 at 7:17 AM
The children are complaining that the Star Wars Holiday Special is 'too blurry'.
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Spend this evening watching BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE so that you can listen to the new GAME STUDIES STUDY BUDDIES in just a couple days!
November 28, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Spend this evening watching BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE so that you can listen to the new GAME STUDIES STUDY BUDDIES in just a couple days!
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As promised, we have arrived... to a totally normal planet. With totally normal people. In totally normal relationships. youtu.be/xkXR6-UsJ5E
Let's Play KOTOR II - 14 - Finale
YouTube video by A More Civilized Age: A Star Wars Podcast
youtu.be
November 22, 2025 at 7:00 PM
As promised, we have arrived... to a totally normal planet. With totally normal people. In totally normal relationships. youtu.be/xkXR6-UsJ5E
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BIG NEWS:
We are no longer Eggplant. We are, simply:
The Secret Lives of Games
AND ALSO:
We've launched the first episode of All Systems Brough, a year-long, one-a-month series exploring the work of @smestorp.bsky.social. Join us and play along!
secretlives.games/all-systems-...
We are no longer Eggplant. We are, simply:
The Secret Lives of Games
AND ALSO:
We've launched the first episode of All Systems Brough, a year-long, one-a-month series exploring the work of @smestorp.bsky.social. Join us and play along!
secretlives.games/all-systems-...
The Secret Lives of Games: All Systems Brough - Introduction
We're joined by Frank Lantz (Q-UP) and Mare Sheppard + Raigan Burns of Metanet (N++) for the first episode of All Systems Brough, a year-long exploration of the work of Michael Brough. We share our th...
secretlives.games
November 21, 2025 at 9:32 PM
BIG NEWS:
We are no longer Eggplant. We are, simply:
The Secret Lives of Games
AND ALSO:
We've launched the first episode of All Systems Brough, a year-long, one-a-month series exploring the work of @smestorp.bsky.social. Join us and play along!
secretlives.games/all-systems-...
We are no longer Eggplant. We are, simply:
The Secret Lives of Games
AND ALSO:
We've launched the first episode of All Systems Brough, a year-long, one-a-month series exploring the work of @smestorp.bsky.social. Join us and play along!
secretlives.games/all-systems-...
Heads up @friends-table.bsky.social, someone let Laser Ted know.
i need a pretty simple 3d printed part made for my risograph printer repair odyssey. has anyone used any of those online "3d print me this part" services and are any of them worth using? alternatively does anyone want to 3d print me something? will venmo you for your time/effort
November 18, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Heads up @friends-table.bsky.social, someone let Laser Ted know.
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Ain't nothing to call this but transphobic bullshit
The International Olympic Committee is set to ban trans and intersex women from competition. This is despite the fact that for 20 years, the IOC has allowed trans athletes to compete and only 1 has ever competed and none have ever won a medal.
www.the-independent.com/sport/olympi...
www.the-independent.com/sport/olympi...
IOC set to introduce blanket ban on transgender women in female sport
The ban is reportedly expected to come into effect early next year
www.the-independent.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Ain't nothing to call this but transphobic bullshit
Conversation with the six yr old:
Me: What did you learn at school today?
6: I had P.E.! We did a chicken race.
Me: What's a chicken race?
6: It's a race where you hold a chicken! Not a real chicken. A rubber chicken.
Me: Did it have a pulley in the middle?
6: What's a pulley?
Me: What did you learn at school today?
6: I had P.E.! We did a chicken race.
Me: What's a chicken race?
6: It's a race where you hold a chicken! Not a real chicken. A rubber chicken.
Me: Did it have a pulley in the middle?
6: What's a pulley?
November 11, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Conversation with the six yr old:
Me: What did you learn at school today?
6: I had P.E.! We did a chicken race.
Me: What's a chicken race?
6: It's a race where you hold a chicken! Not a real chicken. A rubber chicken.
Me: Did it have a pulley in the middle?
6: What's a pulley?
Me: What did you learn at school today?
6: I had P.E.! We did a chicken race.
Me: What's a chicken race?
6: It's a race where you hold a chicken! Not a real chicken. A rubber chicken.
Me: Did it have a pulley in the middle?
6: What's a pulley?
How the hell do you get anything done without a binding caucus? Madness.
November 10, 2025 at 1:32 AM
How the hell do you get anything done without a binding caucus? Madness.
Why does the AFL feel the need to play the national anthem before finals games but not any other games
November 8, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Why does the AFL feel the need to play the national anthem before finals games but not any other games
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Year of the Ring, babyyyyy
time to talk about these books that have deeply shaped all of fantasy fiction, and which a bunch of reactionary techboys actively and eagerly misunderstand
time to talk about these books that have deeply shaped all of fantasy fiction, and which a bunch of reactionary techboys actively and eagerly misunderstand
Let's make it official:
SHELVED BY GENRE's next unit, spanning ALL of 2026, will be a delve into the depths of modern genre with J.R.R. Tolkien's THE HOBBIT, THE LORD OF THE RINGS, and THE SILMARILLION.
If you don't have those, you can grab them through our Bookshop:
bookshop.org/lists/shelve...
SHELVED BY GENRE's next unit, spanning ALL of 2026, will be a delve into the depths of modern genre with J.R.R. Tolkien's THE HOBBIT, THE LORD OF THE RINGS, and THE SILMARILLION.
If you don't have those, you can grab them through our Bookshop:
bookshop.org/lists/shelve...
Shelved By Genre
These are books discussed on the podcast Shelved by Genre!
bookshop.org
November 7, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Year of the Ring, babyyyyy
time to talk about these books that have deeply shaped all of fantasy fiction, and which a bunch of reactionary techboys actively and eagerly misunderstand
time to talk about these books that have deeply shaped all of fantasy fiction, and which a bunch of reactionary techboys actively and eagerly misunderstand
Toula got the assist kill on Polyphemus, but no chievo 😢
November 7, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Toula got the assist kill on Polyphemus, but no chievo 😢