emily hummel
@hummeline.bsky.social
social & community strategy for great indie games!
current: Unpacking 📦, Go-Go Town! 🏗️ // past: DREDGE 🎣 , Tempopo 🌷
Valley Girl. I write theinternetexplorers.club, a newsletter about weird internet things. I made arrestedwesteros.com a while ago
current: Unpacking 📦, Go-Go Town! 🏗️ // past: DREDGE 🎣 , Tempopo 🌷
Valley Girl. I write theinternetexplorers.club, a newsletter about weird internet things. I made arrestedwesteros.com a while ago
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emily hummel
@hummeline.bsky.social
· Jul 30
Emily Hummel
Digital strategist, public historian, and collector of strange things on the internet.
www.emilyhummel.com
Also what a good time to say that ✨ I've got some some space for new clients & studios ✨ for the rest of the year! If you are looking for social strategy work in games, discord support, writing, newsletters, and things of that nature, please reach out!
Website/portfolio can be found ⤵️
Website/portfolio can be found ⤵️
Couldn’t ask for better weather (pouring rain in LA) to finally dive into Seance of Blake Manor
November 15, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Couldn’t ask for better weather (pouring rain in LA) to finally dive into Seance of Blake Manor
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get in loser, we're going shopping
November 3, 2025 at 6:54 PM
get in loser, we're going shopping
cannot possibly express how formative this game was to me!!!
Presenting our newest archival collection:
The Andrew Nelson papers, from the writer of the 1996 mystery game Titanic: Adventure Out of Time 🚢
Read more:
The Andrew Nelson papers, from the writer of the 1996 mystery game Titanic: Adventure Out of Time 🚢
Read more:
Our first narrative collection: the Andrew Nelson papers | Video Game History Foundation
A new archival collection from the writer of the mystery game Titanic: Adventure Out of Time.
gamehistory.org
October 29, 2025 at 5:33 PM
cannot possibly express how formative this game was to me!!!
having to convert patch notes / newsletters / announcements into bbcode, markdown, slack, the new wysiwyg steam editor, and / or email newsletter is I think a particular kind of hell, but bulleted lists are truly the nadir
October 28, 2025 at 1:43 AM
having to convert patch notes / newsletters / announcements into bbcode, markdown, slack, the new wysiwyg steam editor, and / or email newsletter is I think a particular kind of hell, but bulleted lists are truly the nadir
Con Rangers are taking to sea!! Super excited about this and had far too much fun slicing this lil video together
AHOY RANGERS! We're headed to the HIGH SEAS on Comic-Con The Cruise! Join us January for 4 days of fun! We'll have a range of badges & more, including of course some cruise-specific items!
Use code RANGERS for $200 off per person - let us know if we'll see you there! ⛴️
www.comicconthecruise.com
Use code RANGERS for $200 off per person - let us know if we'll see you there! ⛴️
www.comicconthecruise.com
October 15, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Con Rangers are taking to sea!! Super excited about this and had far too much fun slicing this lil video together
You suitors all should feel ashamed. Consider / what others in the neighborhood will think!
- Homer, Odyssey 2.64-65, trans. Emily Wilson
- Homer, Odyssey 2.64-65, trans. Emily Wilson
October 14, 2025 at 7:57 PM
You suitors all should feel ashamed. Consider / what others in the neighborhood will think!
- Homer, Odyssey 2.64-65, trans. Emily Wilson
- Homer, Odyssey 2.64-65, trans. Emily Wilson
incredible things happening on the Getty Villa wikipedia page
October 9, 2025 at 3:13 PM
incredible things happening on the Getty Villa wikipedia page
My dad moved out to LA in the 70s to work in the industry and has had a great, fulfilling career.
All my friends & loved ones in film & animation NOW are looking for work, rethinking longtime careers, unable to continue work. It is so heartbreaking to watch the bottom fall out in real time
All my friends & loved ones in film & animation NOW are looking for work, rethinking longtime careers, unable to continue work. It is so heartbreaking to watch the bottom fall out in real time
The most important human story in the entertainment industry right now is the severe downturn in film and TV production in LA and how it's affecting middle-class crew workers. I spoke to dozens of them for this story about the depressed Hollywood economy. www.wsj.com/business/med...
L.A.’s Entertainment Economy Is Looking Like a Disaster Movie
Work is evaporating, businesses are closing, longtime residents are leaving, and Los Angeles’s creative middle class is hanging on by a thread.
www.wsj.com
October 4, 2025 at 4:21 PM
My dad moved out to LA in the 70s to work in the industry and has had a great, fulfilling career.
All my friends & loved ones in film & animation NOW are looking for work, rethinking longtime careers, unable to continue work. It is so heartbreaking to watch the bottom fall out in real time
All my friends & loved ones in film & animation NOW are looking for work, rethinking longtime careers, unable to continue work. It is so heartbreaking to watch the bottom fall out in real time
Officially have a little village of @pamwishbow.bsky.social’s houses, with all the types of shops that I want near me at all time (and one rooftop garden bc I ran out of room)
October 3, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Officially have a little village of @pamwishbow.bsky.social’s houses, with all the types of shops that I want near me at all time (and one rooftop garden bc I ran out of room)
allow me to help remedy this by reminding people that the queen is releasing 6 new tracks for the anniversary 🙏🏼
there's a big problem with the culture here on bluesky, and it's that not nearly enough people are posting about the 10 year anniversary of Carly Rae Jepsen's groundbreaking and timeless album EMOTION being this year and how awesome that is
September 24, 2025 at 11:43 PM
allow me to help remedy this by reminding people that the queen is releasing 6 new tracks for the anniversary 🙏🏼
Very much enjoying catfishing.net which gives you categories of Wikipedia pages and you have to guess the article.
Today I did the best I’ve done, but honestly often a 4 is triumphant
#455 - 7/10
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Today I did the best I’ve done, but honestly often a 4 is triumphant
#455 - 7/10
🐈🐈🐟🐈🐟
🐈🐟🐈🐈🐈
catfishing - the Wikipedia guessing game
Guess the Wikipedia article from its categories. 10 interesting people, places, and things to guess every day.
catfishing.net
September 22, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Very much enjoying catfishing.net which gives you categories of Wikipedia pages and you have to guess the article.
Today I did the best I’ve done, but honestly often a 4 is triumphant
#455 - 7/10
🐈🐈🐟🐈🐟
🐈🐟🐈🐈🐈
Today I did the best I’ve done, but honestly often a 4 is triumphant
#455 - 7/10
🐈🐈🐟🐈🐟
🐈🐟🐈🐈🐈
pretty solid run if I do say so myself
September 19, 2025 at 6:35 PM
pretty solid run if I do say so myself
I can’t even verbalize how much this erasing of history distresses me, but I WILL use the opportunity to say that in the 18th c, Phila. law said if slaves lived there for 6 continuous months, they would be freed. Washington *rotated his slaves back to Mount Vernon* so they would remain enslaved
“The latest orders include removing information at Harpers Ferry National Historic Park in West Virginia, two people familiar with the matter said, where the abolitionist John Brown led a raid seeking to arm slaves for a revolt.”
September 16, 2025 at 12:35 AM
I can’t even verbalize how much this erasing of history distresses me, but I WILL use the opportunity to say that in the 18th c, Phila. law said if slaves lived there for 6 continuous months, they would be freed. Washington *rotated his slaves back to Mount Vernon* so they would remain enslaved
I would die for Pack Cat
September 6, 2025 at 9:14 PM
I would die for Pack Cat
to name a few: modicum, plinth, dour, vinyl, draught, victuals, forecastle
also a related category of words I misunderstood because of unclear context: nonplussed, desultory, salt of the earth, laconic, peruse, bemused
also a related category of words I misunderstood because of unclear context: nonplussed, desultory, salt of the earth, laconic, peruse, bemused
former kids who read too many books and didnt know how to pronounce the words you learned gang say hey
August 31, 2025 at 5:13 PM
to name a few: modicum, plinth, dour, vinyl, draught, victuals, forecastle
also a related category of words I misunderstood because of unclear context: nonplussed, desultory, salt of the earth, laconic, peruse, bemused
also a related category of words I misunderstood because of unclear context: nonplussed, desultory, salt of the earth, laconic, peruse, bemused
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ME: *writing in my journal with the sole aim of pissing off future historians and archaeologists* I returned to my home - which is built in the usual style - by the normal way, and prepared and ate dinner in the way I often but not always do
January 27, 2025 at 2:00 PM
ME: *writing in my journal with the sole aim of pissing off future historians and archaeologists* I returned to my home - which is built in the usual style - by the normal way, and prepared and ate dinner in the way I often but not always do
New movie (Blade) added to my ongoing list of films set in “present day” boxd.it/dMdta
August 19, 2025 at 7:11 PM
New movie (Blade) added to my ongoing list of films set in “present day” boxd.it/dMdta
Reposted by emily hummel
TFW u open BlueSky and a bunch of ppl are vaguely posting about the same shit
August 13, 2025 at 5:27 PM
TFW u open BlueSky and a bunch of ppl are vaguely posting about the same shit
Apollo 13 (the film) was what first got me interested in the space program. Lost Moon, Lovell's book that it was adapted from, cemented it. He was an incredible man, an unassuming leader, a great astronaut, and I am legitimately heartbroken that he never got to set foot on the moon.
BREAKING: Astronaut Jim Lovell, famed for leading the Apollo 13 mission safely back to Earth after a life-threatening explosion, dies at 97, according to a family statement.
Astronaut Jim Lovell, famed Apollo 13 commander, dies at 97
Lovell was also the first astronaut to go to space four times and part of the Apollo 8 crew, the first to launch on the Saturn V rocket and first to orbit the moon.
nbcnews.to
August 8, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Apollo 13 (the film) was what first got me interested in the space program. Lost Moon, Lovell's book that it was adapted from, cemented it. He was an incredible man, an unassuming leader, a great astronaut, and I am legitimately heartbroken that he never got to set foot on the moon.
WHAT A MORNING!!!!!!!!!
(cannot possibly describe how proud I am of this image)
(cannot possibly describe how proud I am of this image)
SPOT SOMETHING FAMILIAR??????? THAT’S RIGHT WE’RE IN THE INDIE WORLD WITH SOME VERY EXCITING NEWS!!!!!!! #IndieWorld
check it out check it out: www.youtube.com/live/mTv0HmK...
check it out check it out: www.youtube.com/live/mTv0HmK...
August 7, 2025 at 2:01 PM
WHAT A MORNING!!!!!!!!!
(cannot possibly describe how proud I am of this image)
(cannot possibly describe how proud I am of this image)
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it is no exaggeration to say that Hersey’s Hiroshima is one of the most affecting, devastating pieces of reporting in the last century. I don’t see how you can read it and not come away with the soul-deep belief that every nuke should be fully dismantled and the blueprints obliterated.
Read John Hersey’s powerful, unforgettable August 1946 New Yorker article, “Hiroshima,” describing the horrific devastation of the city as recounted by six survivors: a clerk, a doctor, a tailor’s widow, a German priest, a surgeon, and a Methodist pastor—the first unvarnished account of the bombing.
Hiroshima
A hundred thousand people were killed by the atomic bomb. Survivors wonder why they lived when so many others died.
www.newyorker.com
August 6, 2025 at 12:36 PM
it is no exaggeration to say that Hersey’s Hiroshima is one of the most affecting, devastating pieces of reporting in the last century. I don’t see how you can read it and not come away with the soul-deep belief that every nuke should be fully dismantled and the blueprints obliterated.
Reposted by emily hummel
Also what a good time to say that ✨ I've got some some space for new clients & studios ✨ for the rest of the year! If you are looking for social strategy work in games, discord support, writing, newsletters, and things of that nature, please reach out!
Website/portfolio can be found ⤵️
Website/portfolio can be found ⤵️
Emily Hummel
Digital strategist, public historian, and collector of strange things on the internet.
www.emilyhummel.com
July 30, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Also what a good time to say that ✨ I've got some some space for new clients & studios ✨ for the rest of the year! If you are looking for social strategy work in games, discord support, writing, newsletters, and things of that nature, please reach out!
Website/portfolio can be found ⤵️
Website/portfolio can be found ⤵️
Pro tip: don't listen to fictional books about things you care deeply about (space program), even if it's more of the Shuttle era vs Mercury / Gemini / Apollo because you WILL get mad that the audiobook narrator pronounces EECOM wrong and that the protag keeps "volunteering" for CAPCOM shifts
August 1, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Pro tip: don't listen to fictional books about things you care deeply about (space program), even if it's more of the Shuttle era vs Mercury / Gemini / Apollo because you WILL get mad that the audiobook narrator pronounces EECOM wrong and that the protag keeps "volunteering" for CAPCOM shifts
Also what a good time to say that ✨ I've got some some space for new clients & studios ✨ for the rest of the year! If you are looking for social strategy work in games, discord support, writing, newsletters, and things of that nature, please reach out!
Website/portfolio can be found ⤵️
Website/portfolio can be found ⤵️
Emily Hummel
Digital strategist, public historian, and collector of strange things on the internet.
www.emilyhummel.com
July 30, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Also what a good time to say that ✨ I've got some some space for new clients & studios ✨ for the rest of the year! If you are looking for social strategy work in games, discord support, writing, newsletters, and things of that nature, please reach out!
Website/portfolio can be found ⤵️
Website/portfolio can be found ⤵️
RETVRN
Oh, but what about Los Angeles streetcars in 1913, you ask?
July 30, 2025 at 5:57 PM
RETVRN