Antonio Pomposini
@drpompo.bsky.social
🇵🇪 Philosophy, game studies & media ✨💚
🇫🇮 MSoc Game Studies at Tampere University
I paint lil plastic fellas sometimes.
🇫🇮 MSoc Game Studies at Tampere University
I paint lil plastic fellas sometimes.
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Now it is official! The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Games is now, like, actually, surely, coming out! (This has been in the pipeline since 2018.) I have a piece here on this brand new thing called 'magic circle'. Everyone will be talking about it.
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Games
Playing games is a basic human activity, and games raise a great number of fascinating philosophical questions. What, exactly, are we doing when we play a game? What is the value of games for human li...
www.routledge.com
October 23, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Now it is official! The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Games is now, like, actually, surely, coming out! (This has been in the pipeline since 2018.) I have a piece here on this brand new thing called 'magic circle'. Everyone will be talking about it.
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The people dominating our political landscape, culture, and economy are just so stupid and full of shit it's almost impossible to describe
August 18, 2025 at 10:42 PM
The people dominating our political landscape, culture, and economy are just so stupid and full of shit it's almost impossible to describe
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Mary Shelley doesn't get enough credit for not only anticipating the silver-spooned narcissist techbro who recklessly creates technology without thinking through the consequences, but also for knowing that said techbro would be an absolutely terrible father.
May 17, 2024 at 6:09 PM
Mary Shelley doesn't get enough credit for not only anticipating the silver-spooned narcissist techbro who recklessly creates technology without thinking through the consequences, but also for knowing that said techbro would be an absolutely terrible father.
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Damn you mean itch didn’t actually just abandon these creators but has been working hard with its limited resources to figure out how to continue supporting them? How surprising
July 29, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Damn you mean itch didn’t actually just abandon these creators but has been working hard with its limited resources to figure out how to continue supporting them? How surprising
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There is no acceptable sacrificial lamb to appease purity culture. Whatever weird little pervert you are personally icked by should not be collateral damage in a discussion where, essentially, banks are vying to be the arbiters of morality so they can decide whose dirty evil money they get to pocket
July 24, 2025 at 2:40 PM
There is no acceptable sacrificial lamb to appease purity culture. Whatever weird little pervert you are personally icked by should not be collateral damage in a discussion where, essentially, banks are vying to be the arbiters of morality so they can decide whose dirty evil money they get to pocket
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payment processor censorship is one reason we must resist the idea of a cashless all-digital society
July 24, 2025 at 3:16 AM
payment processor censorship is one reason we must resist the idea of a cashless all-digital society
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Can confirm that most of the works by @radiatoryang.bsky.social, as well as my own card game (but not the extras, ironically) no longer show up in itch.io search results, much like anything else tagged NSFW, it seems. Good enough art for museums... But not payment processors!
itch.io/search?q=Rob...
itch.io/search?q=Rob...
Search results for 'Robert yang'
itch.io
July 24, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Can confirm that most of the works by @radiatoryang.bsky.social, as well as my own card game (but not the extras, ironically) no longer show up in itch.io search results, much like anything else tagged NSFW, it seems. Good enough art for museums... But not payment processors!
itch.io/search?q=Rob...
itch.io/search?q=Rob...
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hey! In case you missed it— in my lastest interview, @infrabeige.bsky.social share all details about the second edition of his game! #osr #nsr #ttrpg
We had a great chat with @infrabeige.bsky.social about the second edition of Vaults of Vaarn.
#osr #ttrpg #nsr
newsletter.laesquinadelrol.com/p/an-intervi...
#osr #ttrpg #nsr
newsletter.laesquinadelrol.com/p/an-intervi...
An Interview with Leo Hunt!
This time we talked about the second edition of Vaults of Vaarn!
newsletter.laesquinadelrol.com
July 15, 2025 at 12:52 PM
hey! In case you missed it— in my lastest interview, @infrabeige.bsky.social share all details about the second edition of his game! #osr #nsr #ttrpg
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Reading is the core practice of humanities research. But I have never had a professional or academic role that factors reading time into workload. We're meant to do it in 'spare time'. Now we're being told to let machines do it for us.
The thing that makes my research work is I read whole books, and sometimes everything a great thinker has written. It's not possible to think, synthesise, and write well in long form (or, indeed, at all) without reading deeply and well.
You basically cannot.
July 7, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Reading is the core practice of humanities research. But I have never had a professional or academic role that factors reading time into workload. We're meant to do it in 'spare time'. Now we're being told to let machines do it for us.
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when the nice indie software begins telling you to "supercharge your productivity" and a sparkle icon appears
July 6, 2025 at 8:48 AM
when the nice indie software begins telling you to "supercharge your productivity" and a sparkle icon appears
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I've been saying for a while now that the true crisis here is a crisis of taste, not a crisis of creativity. The question (and the struggle, if you really need another one) is to create and shape tastes atop the vast smooth plain of latent space, with its Unlimited Tendies
July 4, 2025 at 8:01 PM
I've been saying for a while now that the true crisis here is a crisis of taste, not a crisis of creativity. The question (and the struggle, if you really need another one) is to create and shape tastes atop the vast smooth plain of latent space, with its Unlimited Tendies
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Remember this image every time someone tells you that protesters are "hurting their cause."
Those people are the red bars. In 40 years, we'll look back at them the same way.
Those people are the red bars. In 40 years, we'll look back at them the same way.
June 10, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Remember this image every time someone tells you that protesters are "hurting their cause."
Those people are the red bars. In 40 years, we'll look back at them the same way.
Those people are the red bars. In 40 years, we'll look back at them the same way.
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Great article from @aftermath.site
Personally, AI in some games makes it hard for me to enjoy any game. It soils the entire industry because it undermines it as an art form.
aftermath.site/the-alters-a...
Personally, AI in some games makes it hard for me to enjoy any game. It soils the entire industry because it undermines it as an art form.
aftermath.site/the-alters-a...
I'm Getting Real Tired Of Not Being Able To Trust That A Video Game Doesn't Have AI Crap In It - Aftermath
It sucks that players are having to scour every asset and line of dialogue
aftermath.site
July 1, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Great article from @aftermath.site
Personally, AI in some games makes it hard for me to enjoy any game. It soils the entire industry because it undermines it as an art form.
aftermath.site/the-alters-a...
Personally, AI in some games makes it hard for me to enjoy any game. It soils the entire industry because it undermines it as an art form.
aftermath.site/the-alters-a...
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Starting off with a #ShitpostTTRPG that FINALLY gives you a way to be productive during virtual meetings.
This Meeting Could Have Been a Dungeon is a dungeon builder that translates various common virtual meeting events into aspects of a dungeon.
This Meeting Could Have Been a Dungeon is a dungeon builder that translates various common virtual meeting events into aspects of a dungeon.
November 7, 2024 at 5:15 PM
Starting off with a #ShitpostTTRPG that FINALLY gives you a way to be productive during virtual meetings.
This Meeting Could Have Been a Dungeon is a dungeon builder that translates various common virtual meeting events into aspects of a dungeon.
This Meeting Could Have Been a Dungeon is a dungeon builder that translates various common virtual meeting events into aspects of a dungeon.
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My latest piece, written for the Kettering Foundation.
I urge organizations, nonprofits, and companies to end the cycle of over compliance with Trump threats, and show how doing so ushers in fascism.
Some lessons from what we have seen in the trans community.
kettering.org/do-not-compl...
I urge organizations, nonprofits, and companies to end the cycle of over compliance with Trump threats, and show how doing so ushers in fascism.
Some lessons from what we have seen in the trans community.
kettering.org/do-not-compl...
Do Not Comply: A Lesson from the Last Three Months of Anti-Trans Attacks
kettering.org
April 14, 2025 at 8:12 PM
My latest piece, written for the Kettering Foundation.
I urge organizations, nonprofits, and companies to end the cycle of over compliance with Trump threats, and show how doing so ushers in fascism.
Some lessons from what we have seen in the trans community.
kettering.org/do-not-compl...
I urge organizations, nonprofits, and companies to end the cycle of over compliance with Trump threats, and show how doing so ushers in fascism.
Some lessons from what we have seen in the trans community.
kettering.org/do-not-compl...
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This, and all the rest of the Print It Yourself series, RULE
DIY FOREVER
DIY FOREVER
ISSUE 3 of Print It Yourself is just as free as the rest of the series.
This one has an interview with @oddsandents.bsky.social because she introduced me to a new zine format that HOLDS ITSELF TOGETHER WITH HANDOUTS.
Also: custom stamps made from erasers!
shoutingcrow.itch.io/human-finger...
This one has an interview with @oddsandents.bsky.social because she introduced me to a new zine format that HOLDS ITSELF TOGETHER WITH HANDOUTS.
Also: custom stamps made from erasers!
shoutingcrow.itch.io/human-finger...
Human Fingerprints by Shouting Crow
A guide to making a unique zine format... and custom stamps
shoutingcrow.itch.io
April 3, 2025 at 10:44 AM
This, and all the rest of the Print It Yourself series, RULE
DIY FOREVER
DIY FOREVER
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I think most of who have worked in writing or entertainment know that piracy is a fact of life, and has been for a long time now.
But there’s a difference between a broke student downloading a PDF of your book, and a multibillion dollar company stealing your work for its own bullshit purposes.
But there’s a difference between a broke student downloading a PDF of your book, and a multibillion dollar company stealing your work for its own bullshit purposes.
Search the LibGen database here, and peer inside a pirated library of millions of books and research papers used by Meta and others:
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
March 21, 2025 at 11:45 PM
I think most of who have worked in writing or entertainment know that piracy is a fact of life, and has been for a long time now.
But there’s a difference between a broke student downloading a PDF of your book, and a multibillion dollar company stealing your work for its own bullshit purposes.
But there’s a difference between a broke student downloading a PDF of your book, and a multibillion dollar company stealing your work for its own bullshit purposes.
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The PokéStop Showcase is up and running. We have Barcelona working! We're really confident this is one of the biggest urban art databases for the city.
@jruizcabrejos.bsky.social
pokestops.perulainen.com/barcelona
@jruizcabrejos.bsky.social
pokestops.perulainen.com/barcelona
PokéStop Showcase - Preservation of Urban Art in Pokémon Go Wayspots
PokéStop Showcase is a project by Mauricio Castro Valdez and Jorge Ruiz-Cabrejos dedicated to preserving and archiving the urban art found at Pokémon Go Wayspots.
pokestops.perulainen.com
March 16, 2025 at 11:04 AM
The PokéStop Showcase is up and running. We have Barcelona working! We're really confident this is one of the biggest urban art databases for the city.
@jruizcabrejos.bsky.social
pokestops.perulainen.com/barcelona
@jruizcabrejos.bsky.social
pokestops.perulainen.com/barcelona
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well this made me cry over breakfast. to any democrats holding even a shred of power right now: look at what’s possible from people far more endangered and vulnerable than you and grow a spine, you fucking cowards www.erininthemorning.com/p/powerful-s...
Powerful Speeches From Trans Dems Flip 29 Republicans, Anti-Trans Bills Die In Montana
Transgender Reps Zooey Zephyr and SJ Howell delivered powerful speeches on the Montana House floor on Thursday. Republicans defected en masse to join them in voting against anti-trans bills.
www.erininthemorning.com
March 7, 2025 at 12:30 AM
well this made me cry over breakfast. to any democrats holding even a shred of power right now: look at what’s possible from people far more endangered and vulnerable than you and grow a spine, you fucking cowards www.erininthemorning.com/p/powerful-s...
This is beyond belief. Blatant totalitarism in display
Right after Trump said he'd stop federal funding, "for any College, School, or University that allows illegal protests. Agitators will be imprisoned/or permanently sent back to the country from which they came. American students will be permanently expelled or, depending on on the crime, arrested."
“New York Police Department officers with helmets and zipties entered Barnard’s campus and began detaining protesters…Protesters began the sit-in around 1 p.m. on Wednesday, calling for the reinstatement of three Barnard students reportedly expelled.”
www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/03...
www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/03...
March 6, 2025 at 1:27 AM
This is beyond belief. Blatant totalitarism in display
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Remind me again how Trumpists were so very sincerely offended by Zelenskyy's lack of sufficient diplomatic courtesy as to legitimize a fundamental reordering of geopolitics, how important they think a respectful bearing is in international politics.
www.montrealgazette.com/news/provinc...
www.montrealgazette.com/news/provinc...
March 5, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Remind me again how Trumpists were so very sincerely offended by Zelenskyy's lack of sufficient diplomatic courtesy as to legitimize a fundamental reordering of geopolitics, how important they think a respectful bearing is in international politics.
www.montrealgazette.com/news/provinc...
www.montrealgazette.com/news/provinc...
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Dear Scientists, I'm a Humanist, I work in a Humanities department, and I teach the Humanities and I'm fighting for you! When this crisis is past, help the Humanities.
We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country.
This Friday, where will you be?
standupforscience2025.org
This Friday, where will you be?
standupforscience2025.org
March 2, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Dear Scientists, I'm a Humanist, I work in a Humanities department, and I teach the Humanities and I'm fighting for you! When this crisis is past, help the Humanities.
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“My mission as a journalist is to do right by my readers and do right by the people who the new administration is attempting to grind to dust. I won’t allow them—and nor will the brave public servants sounding the alarm on this onslaught of governmental abuse—to be beaten into submission.”
Breaking: The Handbasket is first to report catastrophic OMB funding memo
Posted on Bluesky earlier this evening, other major outlets have since confirmed.
www.thehandbasket.co
January 28, 2025 at 4:58 AM
“My mission as a journalist is to do right by my readers and do right by the people who the new administration is attempting to grind to dust. I won’t allow them—and nor will the brave public servants sounding the alarm on this onslaught of governmental abuse—to be beaten into submission.”