Galen
@gbergsten.bsky.social
Accessibility advocate, manga-reader, and indie game enthusiast. 💜🌱
gbergsten.github.io
gbergsten.github.io
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“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
November 15, 2025 at 6:15 AM
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
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A plea for help. 🙏
One of the lead playtesters of Blue Prince, Iggy, has polycystic kidney disease and has only a few months to find a living kidney donor.
His story, contact and donor information can all be found on
iggyland.org
Please help us in sharing his story and getting the word out.💙
One of the lead playtesters of Blue Prince, Iggy, has polycystic kidney disease and has only a few months to find a living kidney donor.
His story, contact and donor information can all be found on
iggyland.org
Please help us in sharing his story and getting the word out.💙
November 8, 2025 at 12:42 AM
A plea for help. 🙏
One of the lead playtesters of Blue Prince, Iggy, has polycystic kidney disease and has only a few months to find a living kidney donor.
His story, contact and donor information can all be found on
iggyland.org
Please help us in sharing his story and getting the word out.💙
One of the lead playtesters of Blue Prince, Iggy, has polycystic kidney disease and has only a few months to find a living kidney donor.
His story, contact and donor information can all be found on
iggyland.org
Please help us in sharing his story and getting the word out.💙
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Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
November 5, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
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YES YOU SHOULD VOTE IN LOCAL ELECTIONS TOMORROW EVEN IF MAMDANI IS NOT ON THE BALLOT WHERE YOU LIVE
November 3, 2025 at 9:02 PM
YES YOU SHOULD VOTE IN LOCAL ELECTIONS TOMORROW EVEN IF MAMDANI IS NOT ON THE BALLOT WHERE YOU LIVE
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Pssst! 👀
Are you a disabled content creator OR a creator passionate about accessibility? DM us!
We’re working on something new and exciting at AbleToPlay to help inclusive creators grow their audiences and connect with game studios and publishers for sponsorships.
Reposts appreciated!
Are you a disabled content creator OR a creator passionate about accessibility? DM us!
We’re working on something new and exciting at AbleToPlay to help inclusive creators grow their audiences and connect with game studios and publishers for sponsorships.
Reposts appreciated!
October 21, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Pssst! 👀
Are you a disabled content creator OR a creator passionate about accessibility? DM us!
We’re working on something new and exciting at AbleToPlay to help inclusive creators grow their audiences and connect with game studios and publishers for sponsorships.
Reposts appreciated!
Are you a disabled content creator OR a creator passionate about accessibility? DM us!
We’re working on something new and exciting at AbleToPlay to help inclusive creators grow their audiences and connect with game studios and publishers for sponsorships.
Reposts appreciated!
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my last phd thesis paper is now accepted to ApJ and is on the arXiv today! arxiv.org/abs/2510.11021
We simulate the PDS 70 exoplanet system's future using hydrodynamic + n-body simulations involving the disk and the two planets to see how its orbital architecture evolves! 🪐🪐
We simulate the PDS 70 exoplanet system's future using hydrodynamic + n-body simulations involving the disk and the two planets to see how its orbital architecture evolves! 🪐🪐
On The Orbital Evolution of Multiple Wide Super-Jupiters: How Disk Migration and Dispersal Shape the Stability of The PDS 70 System
Direct imaging has revealed exoplanet systems hosting multiple wide-orbit Super-Jupiters, where planet-planet interactions can shape their long-term dynamical evolution. These strong perturbations may...
arxiv.org
October 14, 2025 at 7:13 PM
my last phd thesis paper is now accepted to ApJ and is on the arXiv today! arxiv.org/abs/2510.11021
We simulate the PDS 70 exoplanet system's future using hydrodynamic + n-body simulations involving the disk and the two planets to see how its orbital architecture evolves! 🪐🪐
We simulate the PDS 70 exoplanet system's future using hydrodynamic + n-body simulations involving the disk and the two planets to see how its orbital architecture evolves! 🪐🪐
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I’m horrified by Trump’s order to send 300 National Guard troops to Chicago. We’re only nine months into a four year term and already the president is trying to invade an American city. If you’re in the Guard, you can and should refuse these orders.
October 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM
I’m horrified by Trump’s order to send 300 National Guard troops to Chicago. We’re only nine months into a four year term and already the president is trying to invade an American city. If you’re in the Guard, you can and should refuse these orders.
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Very good read!
We need to think more about accessibility embedded in game design from the start in games.
We need to think more about accessibility embedded in game design from the start in games.
This isn't a review of Silksong, since I physically can't play. Instead, this is a reflection of the Metroidvania genre, particularly exploring Silksong's failures and minor successes. Read my latest Access Designed on @ign.com here:
www.ign.com/articles/hol...
www.ign.com/articles/hol...
Hollow Knight: Silksong Reinforces the Metroidvania Genre’s Accessibility Barriers - IGN
There are overarching accessibility problems in the Metroidvania genre, and Hollow Knight: Silksong is just perpetuating and reinforcing inaccessible barriers.
www.ign.com
September 27, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Very good read!
We need to think more about accessibility embedded in game design from the start in games.
We need to think more about accessibility embedded in game design from the start in games.
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Chiitan loves all transgender people.
I've received a lot of criticism for expressing my support, but what's more important is that all transgender people live happy lives.
Blue Sky cannot display long posts, so please read this post if you'd like.
love you all 🤍
↓
www.instagram.com/reel/C9qppva...
I've received a lot of criticism for expressing my support, but what's more important is that all transgender people live happy lives.
Blue Sky cannot display long posts, so please read this post if you'd like.
love you all 🤍
↓
www.instagram.com/reel/C9qppva...
September 17, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Chiitan loves all transgender people.
I've received a lot of criticism for expressing my support, but what's more important is that all transgender people live happy lives.
Blue Sky cannot display long posts, so please read this post if you'd like.
love you all 🤍
↓
www.instagram.com/reel/C9qppva...
I've received a lot of criticism for expressing my support, but what's more important is that all transgender people live happy lives.
Blue Sky cannot display long posts, so please read this post if you'd like.
love you all 🤍
↓
www.instagram.com/reel/C9qppva...
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here we go again, folks. it’ll take a lot of pressure on dems again to get them to fight!
i’ll thread after i’m out of meetings, but if you’re raring to go, this is secs243-246 of the FY26 budget &, yes, this is basically the hyde amendment for trans care as predicted last fall.
contact: reps.fyi
i’ll thread after i’m out of meetings, but if you’re raring to go, this is secs243-246 of the FY26 budget &, yes, this is basically the hyde amendment for trans care as predicted last fall.
contact: reps.fyi
September 8, 2025 at 8:36 PM
here we go again, folks. it’ll take a lot of pressure on dems again to get them to fight!
i’ll thread after i’m out of meetings, but if you’re raring to go, this is secs243-246 of the FY26 budget &, yes, this is basically the hyde amendment for trans care as predicted last fall.
contact: reps.fyi
i’ll thread after i’m out of meetings, but if you’re raring to go, this is secs243-246 of the FY26 budget &, yes, this is basically the hyde amendment for trans care as predicted last fall.
contact: reps.fyi
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Once again, there is an ACLU petition specifically made to stop Mastercard from unlawfully policing adult content. It’s getting pretty grim for us out there. Please sign and/or spread the word.
action.aclu.org/petition/mas...
action.aclu.org/petition/mas...
Mastercard: Sex Work is Work. End Your Unjust Policy.
Mastercard's new policy unfairly targets the adult content industry, making sex workers more vulnerable, especially Black trans women. It must be stopped.
action.aclu.org
July 16, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Once again, there is an ACLU petition specifically made to stop Mastercard from unlawfully policing adult content. It’s getting pretty grim for us out there. Please sign and/or spread the word.
action.aclu.org/petition/mas...
action.aclu.org/petition/mas...
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Most of us “become disabled“ by finally admitting it to ourselves. We have to fight the medical community and our own community to get any sort of accommodations, and when we run out of energy to fight, we just don’t get accommodated—and we’re shut out of society. 
June 20, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Most of us “become disabled“ by finally admitting it to ourselves. We have to fight the medical community and our own community to get any sort of accommodations, and when we run out of energy to fight, we just don’t get accommodated—and we’re shut out of society. 
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So very excited to see our collaboration with Nature Astronomy out today on #Juneteenth. These articles for #BlackSpaceWeek2025 were labors of love and I encourage folks to check them all out!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
June 19, 2025 at 9:05 PM
So very excited to see our collaboration with Nature Astronomy out today on #Juneteenth. These articles for #BlackSpaceWeek2025 were labors of love and I encourage folks to check them all out!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Trump is sending ICE to blue cities to enact the "largest mass deportation program in history" and Chicago is at the top of the list.
I'm calling for every Democratic leader and candidate to stand against ICE, to call for its abolition, and to materially support immigrants.
Inaction is complicity.
I'm calling for every Democratic leader and candidate to stand against ICE, to call for its abolition, and to materially support immigrants.
Inaction is complicity.
June 16, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Trump is sending ICE to blue cities to enact the "largest mass deportation program in history" and Chicago is at the top of the list.
I'm calling for every Democratic leader and candidate to stand against ICE, to call for its abolition, and to materially support immigrants.
Inaction is complicity.
I'm calling for every Democratic leader and candidate to stand against ICE, to call for its abolition, and to materially support immigrants.
Inaction is complicity.
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From Kaz Gary: For Pride Month, Astrobites is interviewing one transgender astronomer every week. This week we interviewed Joy Bhattacharya, a PhD candidate at the Ohio State University! 🔭✨☄️
astrobites.org/2025/06/13/j...
astrobites.org/2025/06/13/j...
Transgender in Astronomy: Interview with Joy Bhattacharya
For Pride Month, Astrobites is interviewing one transgender astronomer every week. This week we interviewed Joy Bhattacharya, a PhD candidate at the Ohio State University!
astrobites.org
June 15, 2025 at 2:40 AM
From Kaz Gary: For Pride Month, Astrobites is interviewing one transgender astronomer every week. This week we interviewed Joy Bhattacharya, a PhD candidate at the Ohio State University! 🔭✨☄️
astrobites.org/2025/06/13/j...
astrobites.org/2025/06/13/j...
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HELP FAMILIES SURVIVE FAMINE 🌹 We’ve made it easy to take action & bet on Palestinian life.
🌿 Give to 6 families + a displacement camp. No aid is reaching them. 300 will be matched: chuffed.org/project/hope...
🌿 Print our premade flyer for your community: tinyurl.com/HGC-Shareables
🌿 Give to 6 families + a displacement camp. No aid is reaching them. 300 will be matched: chuffed.org/project/hope...
🌿 Print our premade flyer for your community: tinyurl.com/HGC-Shareables
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…
chuffed.org
June 14, 2025 at 1:01 AM
HELP FAMILIES SURVIVE FAMINE 🌹 We’ve made it easy to take action & bet on Palestinian life.
🌿 Give to 6 families + a displacement camp. No aid is reaching them. 300 will be matched: chuffed.org/project/hope...
🌿 Print our premade flyer for your community: tinyurl.com/HGC-Shareables
🌿 Give to 6 families + a displacement camp. No aid is reaching them. 300 will be matched: chuffed.org/project/hope...
🌿 Print our premade flyer for your community: tinyurl.com/HGC-Shareables
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I did my best to compile as many protest safety notes as possible into a one page foldout zine! Coincidentally…it seems the file has breached containment…like it’s available for anyone to print or hand out 👀⚖️
toonyart.com/s/PSZine.pdf
toonyart.com/s/PSZine.pdf
June 12, 2025 at 11:59 PM
I did my best to compile as many protest safety notes as possible into a one page foldout zine! Coincidentally…it seems the file has breached containment…like it’s available for anyone to print or hand out 👀⚖️
toonyart.com/s/PSZine.pdf
toonyart.com/s/PSZine.pdf
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Another world is possible if we fight for it.
FREE Ebooks: Abolish the Border, Abolish the Police
In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and police repression, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about border and poli...
www.haymarketbooks.org
June 9, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Another world is possible if we fight for it.
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Join our giving circle 🌹 We’ve made it easy for you to materially help a number of families survive:
🌿 Contribute to the giving circle (click Recurring!): tinyurl.com/HopeGivingCi...
🌿 Download digital graphics & printable flyers for offline sharing: tinyurl.com/HGC-Shareables
🌿 Contribute to the giving circle (click Recurring!): tinyurl.com/HopeGivingCi...
🌿 Download digital graphics & printable flyers for offline sharing: tinyurl.com/HGC-Shareables
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…
tinyurl.com
May 13, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Join our giving circle 🌹 We’ve made it easy for you to materially help a number of families survive:
🌿 Contribute to the giving circle (click Recurring!): tinyurl.com/HopeGivingCi...
🌿 Download digital graphics & printable flyers for offline sharing: tinyurl.com/HGC-Shareables
🌿 Contribute to the giving circle (click Recurring!): tinyurl.com/HopeGivingCi...
🌿 Download digital graphics & printable flyers for offline sharing: tinyurl.com/HGC-Shareables
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Given recent conversations in the industry, I wanted to highlight some amazing organizations, resources, and community-driven groups working hard to advance accessibility in gaming. There’s a lot of great work happening — and it deserves more visibility.
A thread ♿️♥️
A thread ♿️♥️
May 13, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Given recent conversations in the industry, I wanted to highlight some amazing organizations, resources, and community-driven groups working hard to advance accessibility in gaming. There’s a lot of great work happening — and it deserves more visibility.
A thread ♿️♥️
A thread ♿️♥️
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I've been researching allegations regarding the founder and leadership of AbleGamers. From alleged abuse and harassment, financial mismanagement, and failure of leadership to protect employees, sources recount a hostile environment. Read my latest @ign.com story here: www.ign.com/articles/for...
Former Employees, Community Members Allege AbleGamers Founder Fostered Abuse Behind Closed Doors - IGN
Over 20 years, AbleGamers has become synonymous with the accessibility movement as its presence and influence grew across the industry. However, new reports from former employees and members of the ac...
www.ign.com
May 13, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I've been researching allegations regarding the founder and leadership of AbleGamers. From alleged abuse and harassment, financial mismanagement, and failure of leadership to protect employees, sources recount a hostile environment. Read my latest @ign.com story here: www.ign.com/articles/for...
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@ubisoft.com has made a tool for game developers that lets you detect colour blindness related issues in your game: UbiChroma!
It is open source and free to use! 💕
Accessibility win for the day!
It is open source and free to use! 💕
Accessibility win for the day!
April 14, 2025 at 2:24 PM
@ubisoft.com has made a tool for game developers that lets you detect colour blindness related issues in your game: UbiChroma!
It is open source and free to use! 💕
Accessibility win for the day!
It is open source and free to use! 💕
Accessibility win for the day!
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Anyway you don't have to just take my word for it, @palestinespace.bsky.social's database has all the info you need on just how intertwined NASA and the defense industry are: www.palestinespace.org/psi-database
Palestine Space Institute - PSI Database
Palestine Space Institute seeks to reshape the narrative surrounding space, striving to ensure that outer space remains a domain for the betterment of all humanity rather than a perpetuation of confli...
www.palestinespace.org
April 12, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Anyway you don't have to just take my word for it, @palestinespace.bsky.social's database has all the info you need on just how intertwined NASA and the defense industry are: www.palestinespace.org/psi-database