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Ryan Cadrette
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Just a clown that pours beers.
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technofeudalism on tumblr: "if you wiped every ICE agent off the face of the earth, a hundred million people would become safer overnight. if you wiped every furry off the face of the earth, the entire internet would collapse for good in a matter of hours. i know where my allegiances lie."
September 30, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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i do not think therefore i do not am
December 4, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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The Journal of Games Criticism has published a new issue!! Come and read 6 great new open-access game studies articles!

gamescriticism.org/issue-6-1/
#gamestudies
VOLUME 6, ISSUE 1 (JANUARY 2026) The Wounds That Never Healed: Videoludic Trauma in Cry of Fear by Samuel Poirier-Poulin This article offers a conceptualization of trauma in horror video games, arguing that games can cut across the reality/fiction divide, deeply affect the emotional organization of the player, and leave them with wounds that take time to heal. More specifically, it develops the idea that Cry of Fear (Team Psykskallar, 2013) can induce a form of trauma in the player by putting them in horrifying and intense situations. Character Affectivity in Newton and the Apple Tree by Henri M. Nerg This paper studies character affectivity and temporality in the Japanese visual novel Newton and the Apple Tree (Laplacian, 2017). The paper analyzes different affects and emotions that game characters evoke in players. Importantly, affect is understood here as a neuropsychological concept. Black Sun in the Land of Shadow: DLCs and Textual Depletion in Shadow of the Erdtree (2024) by Max Coombes This article explores the relationship between downloadable content (DLC) and base games in producing ‘lack’ in the player and text, using Shadow of the Erdtree (2024) as its focus. Investigating Development Crunch in Games and its Impact on Creative Expression by Shaif Hemraj This article explores the often negative and detrimental relationship between “crunch” and creative expression and synthesizes academic and industry conversations into a serious game prototype, Game Maker Mayhem A Contemporary Take on Victorian Lunacy: Representations of the Asylum in the Neo-Victorian Video Game Alice: Madness Returns by Jéssica Iolanda Costa Bispo Considering the historical reality of Victorian asylums, this article explores Alice: Madness Returns, as it encourages a critical look at these institutions through the lens of neo-Victorianism, demonstrating a potentiality for reinterpreting the Victorian historical narrative. Goblins for Slaughter: The Perpetuation of Racism and Classism in Baldur’s Gate 3 by Benjamin J.M. Horn This article explores how Baldur’s Gate 3 has perpetuated Victorian-era racism and classism. To demonstrate this, the article discusses current literature on racism and monstrosity, delves into the history of the goblin, and conducts a close reading of Baldur’s Gate 3’s first act.
December 5, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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Hey what a lovely alternative to supporting the NYT
thinkygames.com Thinky Games @thinkygames.com · 2d
We’re very excited to announce Thinky Dailies! 🎉 Follow our thinky friend on an adventure through handcrafted daily puzzles!

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December 4, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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The Institute of Museum and Library Services, the federal agency that provides funding for America's libraries, has announced it is reinstating all grants it had previously terminated, including those to libraries and library organizations across the U.S.

Read more: https://bit.ly/4496W4V
Photo of a banner featuring the logo for the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Photo credit: Shannon Finney / Institute of Museum and Library Services. Text below reads: "ALL PREVIOUSLY CANCELED FEDERAL LIBRARY GRANTS HAVE BEEN RESTORED: Following a court decision, the Institute of Museum and Library Services—the federal agency that provides funding for America’s libraries—announced it had reinstated all grants that it had previously terminated." Logos for I Love Libraries and the American Library Association.
December 4, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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DEADLINE APPROACHING

The first position with the Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods at the University of Oxford has a deadline this Friday at noon UK time. Come be the first member of the team who are going to revolutionise methods training at Oxford!

www.politics.ox.ac.uk/opportunity/...
December 3, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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Raccoon gets drunk at a Virginia liquor store and passes out in bathroom
Raccoon gets drunk at Ashland ABC store and passes out in bathroom
Talk about a trashed panda.
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December 2, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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The richest companies on earth have discovered how to monetize hatred, and the results are as you would expect.

They are even are trying to make "Empathy" a bad thing now.
70sbachchan.bsky.social Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 5d
“America’s Polarization Has Become the World's Side Hustle”

too many people just focus on supply side of foreigners using tech for disinformation. Its the demand side - American society is broken yet wealthy - that makes it a business model
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America’s Polarization Has Become the World's Side Hustle
The 'psyops' revealed by X are entirely the fault of the perverse incentives created by social media monetization programs.
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December 2, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Me first thing when I wake up
takahanazawa.bsky.social Taka Hanazawa 🎄🎁 @takahanazawa.bsky.social · 5d
im so excited to go to sleep
December 2, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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who decided to call it Secret Santa when Nondisclosure Claus was right there
December 1, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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Roland Barthes on writing as something that ‘perhaps reaches a goal you didn't have in mind’:
That's what writing is—it's a solitude that doesn't reach its goal, but perhaps reaches a goal you didn't have in mind.
November 29, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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Few patients appeal a health insurance denial, but a little-known process that requires insurers and plans to seek an independent opinion can force insurers to pay for what can be lifesaving treatment.

Here’s what experts say you need to know.
This Little-Known Appeal Could Force Your Insurer to Pay for Lifesaving Care. Here’s How to File It.
When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here are six steps experts sugges...
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November 28, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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😢 MELIA will spend her second Thanksgiving at the shelter. She wants a home for Christmas. She can live with cats, no dogs. Low traffic home, adult only. Needs training. Please adopt her. 😢

Hempstead Animal Shelter
(516) 785-5220
Adoption@hempsteadny.gov
3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit
Wantagh, NY 11793
November 27, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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Thieves take €90,000 of snails meant for Michelin-starred restaurants

“It’s very surprising because they stole 450 kilos of snail meat.”
Thieves take €90,000 of snails meant for Michelin-starred restaurants
French police are on the trail of ‘experienced’ criminals who stole a whole year’s worth of produce from Jean-Mathieu Dauvergne’s L’Escargot des Grands Crus
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November 28, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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404media.co
The 'psyops' revealed by X are entirely the fault of the perverse incentives created by social media monetization programs.
America’s Polarization Has Become the World's Side Hustle
The 'psyops' revealed by X are entirely the fault of the perverse incentives created by social media monetization programs.
www.404media.co
November 24, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Truth Coming Out of Her Well to Shame Mankind
November 27, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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URGENT: Cheese Recall - Listeria
Walmart & Sam’s Club pecorino romano recalled for possible Listeria. Brands: Locatelli, Boar’s Head, Member’s Mark, Ambriola, Pinna Dates: Expires Feb-May 2026DO NOT EAT. Throw out or return. Dangerous for pregnant women, elderly, immunocomp. flip.it/nqYAxK%E2%80...
Walmart and Sam’s Club Just Recalled Cheese in a Total of 31 States and Washington, D.C.
The recall effort seems to be growing rapidly amid Listeria bacteria concerns as other retailers also alert customers.
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November 27, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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Today marks the 9 year anniversary of The Webcomic Library! It's genuinely incredible that we're still gathering and sharing stories together after all this time. I'm grateful every day I get to do this. I sincerely hope to keep helping yall find amazing comics! tagpacker.com/user/webcomi...
Webcomic Library | Tagpacker
A lover of webcomics who wants to share that passion with others! Archived by the Library of Congress linktr.ee/WebcomicLibrary
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November 26, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.
'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 2022
Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.
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November 26, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.
'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 2022
Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.
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November 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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abutterflyobsession me: I will do things when I am less tired me: *never becomes less tired* me: oh no thatwritergirlsblog I have never seen anything more accurate in my life
October 24, 2024 at 10:46 PM
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Dainty and mindful
artologica.net Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 11d
Big news! The groundhog is back at my sister's and she gave him a plum
November 25, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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tfw you’re fucking the lasagna man for lasagna
•*• Funny-Presence4228 LPT: How to win as a guest and make new friends at a raging, alcohol fuelled party Food & Drink I'm getting older now, and some of my friends' kids have recently started college. I've been reliably told that alcohol-fuelled parties are still happening, and I shared this advice about how to make new friends and be a hero. One of them took my advice, and now has a new girlfriend because of this. The key to the following advice is an element of secrecy because the surprise makes it even better. Arrive late and sneak Lasagna into the party. I mean, taking a large, catering-sized tray of lasagna, along with a stack of paper plates and forks, to a raging house party. I used to do this back in college. I'd make one, sometimes two, in the afternoon in big foil trays before goin to a party. Show up around 10.30pm, and slip them into the oven without asking permission telling anyone. Medium heat for 30 minutes to warm it up. Get my paper plates out, and shout: "Lasagna is ready" to a packed house of drunk people, and hand them all a fork. It's cheaper than bringing beer, no clean-up, and I got laid pretty often. Important note: Make sure the person who owns the oven is the first in the line, and don't make a mess. Maybe make one meat and one vegan or something... This last point was less of a concern back in my day, but we must move with the times.
November 25, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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any time i see someone interacting with chatgpt
November 24, 2025 at 10:19 PM