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In struggling to create—getting splinters as I climb a tree to record cicadas, pricking my finger as the image I spent hours embroidering takes shape, or fretting over a sentence not knowing if I have all the words to say something buried deep—I am connected to every person who created before me.
January 14, 2026 at 6:58 AM
In struggling to create—getting splinters as I climb a tree to record cicadas, pricking my finger as the image I spent hours embroidering takes shape, or fretting over a sentence not knowing if I have all the words to say something buried deep—I am connected to every person who created before me.
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Couldn't go to bed without doodling this.
January 13, 2026 at 7:17 AM
Couldn't go to bed without doodling this.
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A little clunkier than Molumbo but I think I'm on to something
January 13, 2026 at 5:52 AM
A little clunkier than Molumbo but I think I'm on to something
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I lied. NOW I'm done. Maybe
January 13, 2026 at 6:40 AM
I lied. NOW I'm done. Maybe
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I think about this quote from the Luddite movement all the time
January 11, 2026 at 12:12 AM
I think about this quote from the Luddite movement all the time
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My roommate is a teacher and has reported that ICE has been hanging around Septa stops and depots in the interest of abducting kids on their way home because they aren’t allowed to enter schools. They claimed to be part of a “Septa Strike Force” which does not exist. Boost if you can.
ICE is in Philly posing as Septa workers
January 8, 2026 at 6:38 PM
My roommate is a teacher and has reported that ICE has been hanging around Septa stops and depots in the interest of abducting kids on their way home because they aren’t allowed to enter schools. They claimed to be part of a “Septa Strike Force” which does not exist. Boost if you can.
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Sir Ian McKellen and Elijah Wood will reunite as Gandalf and Frodo in ‘THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE HUNT FOR GOLLUM’
Production will begin in May.
(via: Gollumgram)
Production will begin in May.
(via: Gollumgram)
January 6, 2026 at 3:18 AM
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while industry figures, dressed to the nines, filtered into LA's peacock theater last week, protesters chanted "the industry is dead" outside of it. despite how often geoff keighley says the game awards exist to "celebrate" games and the people who make them, many feel ignored
!["We are the ones who poured our blood, sweat, tears, sanity, and health into these games,” shouted one who paid tribute to a friend who’d just passed, who he said loved video games and hated corporate exploitation. “The ones who made the games are outside. [Bosses and executives] are inside patting themselves on the back. ... And what was our reward? Many of us were cast aside as soon as the products were created because we weren't needed anymore. And those who were lucky enough to stay [now] find themselves debugging ChatGPT code."
Some present had direct personal experience with the video game industry’s current layoff-centric strategy. Earlier this year, Timothy Staton-Davis, who attended the protest dressed in a grim reaper cloak and holding a plastic scythe, was part of a small round of layoffs at Brass Lion Entertainment, which is currently working on Wu-Tang: Rise Of The Deceiver.
“There were a few of us they had to let go of because of monetary issues,” Staton-Davis told Aftermath. “It’s their first game. They’re trying to pull through. They’ve been negatively affected by the current industry situation in a lot of ways because of mismanagement of money. It’s not the studio’s fault, but from our partners and all that kind of stuff.”
“My first studio gig was at Monolith,” he continued. “Now they’re gone. Unfairly so. All these studios I’ve been connected to have been negatively affected in some way, shape, or form by people not doing the right things with their money and taking advantage of folks.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5gdejlhcswjbzraadoltdpps/bafkreifyv7erpamrntagfmpqwndofhftfpiszgguefbunyy6iyz6dhavxy@jpeg)
December 15, 2025 at 11:34 PM
while industry figures, dressed to the nines, filtered into LA's peacock theater last week, protesters chanted "the industry is dead" outside of it. despite how often geoff keighley says the game awards exist to "celebrate" games and the people who make them, many feel ignored
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@postoctobrist.bsky.social So someone in a server I'm in linked this... you now have an asteroid named for you, it seems.
December 16, 2025 at 1:02 AM
@postoctobrist.bsky.social So someone in a server I'm in linked this... you now have an asteroid named for you, it seems.
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this made my soul ache
January 20, 2025 at 8:23 AM
this made my soul ache
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I am so pleased to say that my first ever comedy special is going to be on TV, and you can watch it this Christmas!
Coming to Sky and Now TV this Sunday
Coming to Sky and Now TV this Sunday
December 15, 2025 at 11:58 AM
I am so pleased to say that my first ever comedy special is going to be on TV, and you can watch it this Christmas!
Coming to Sky and Now TV this Sunday
Coming to Sky and Now TV this Sunday
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For more than 2 years, police in Berlin - encouraged by city and national politicians - have systematically used excessive violence in an attempt to beat the Palestine solidarity movement into silence.
I wrote about this phenomenon for the @lrb.co.uk
I wrote about this phenomenon for the @lrb.co.uk
Harry Stopes | Police Violence in Berlin
In the last six months human rights officials at both the Council of Europe and the United Nations have written to the...
www.lrb.co.uk
December 12, 2025 at 7:27 AM
For more than 2 years, police in Berlin - encouraged by city and national politicians - have systematically used excessive violence in an attempt to beat the Palestine solidarity movement into silence.
I wrote about this phenomenon for the @lrb.co.uk
I wrote about this phenomenon for the @lrb.co.uk
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Epic pays for licensing fees for the games they give away for free as promotions. Which means even if YOU aren't paying for it, you're giving money to JK Rowling to harm transgender people AND elevating her stature by giving her franchise higher numbers.
NO TERF WIZARD GAME. NO TERF WIZARD SHOW.
NO TERF WIZARD GAME. NO TERF WIZARD SHOW.
Hogwarts Legacy is free on Epic Games Store. Mystery game is the next title buff.ly/HE94Ti2
December 12, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Epic pays for licensing fees for the games they give away for free as promotions. Which means even if YOU aren't paying for it, you're giving money to JK Rowling to harm transgender people AND elevating her stature by giving her franchise higher numbers.
NO TERF WIZARD GAME. NO TERF WIZARD SHOW.
NO TERF WIZARD GAME. NO TERF WIZARD SHOW.
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Controversial opinion, but Spain should rebuild her mighty Armada and have one more go at England.
December 9, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Controversial opinion, but Spain should rebuild her mighty Armada and have one more go at England.
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Someone should really build a high-quality creator-centric video platform that isn’t owned by baby oligarchs, tech empires, or venture capitalists
December 10, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Someone should really build a high-quality creator-centric video platform that isn’t owned by baby oligarchs, tech empires, or venture capitalists
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The Avarice Awards holds a mirror to the hollow glamour of The Game Awards, as workers continue to have their livelihoods upended by mass layoffs. We are speaking truth to the powers ruining the game industry with their greed!
Stream begins on December 10th at 7pm PT / 10pm ET on twitch.tv/UVW_CWA
Stream begins on December 10th at 7pm PT / 10pm ET on twitch.tv/UVW_CWA
December 8, 2025 at 9:29 PM
The Avarice Awards holds a mirror to the hollow glamour of The Game Awards, as workers continue to have their livelihoods upended by mass layoffs. We are speaking truth to the powers ruining the game industry with their greed!
Stream begins on December 10th at 7pm PT / 10pm ET on twitch.tv/UVW_CWA
Stream begins on December 10th at 7pm PT / 10pm ET on twitch.tv/UVW_CWA
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They are trying to drive us out of public life.
They are trying to make us unemployable.
Understand: this is an effort to exterminate us.
They are trying to make us unemployable.
Understand: this is an effort to exterminate us.
December 2, 2025 at 11:38 PM
They are trying to drive us out of public life.
They are trying to make us unemployable.
Understand: this is an effort to exterminate us.
They are trying to make us unemployable.
Understand: this is an effort to exterminate us.
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If JK Rowling herself doesn't separate her art from her transphobia, and has said she sees every Harry Potter fan as a fan of her transphobia, and uses every dollar she makes to fund transphobia, I need people to stop insisting they "separate art from artist" because it's beyond disingenuous atp
December 2, 2025 at 3:25 PM
If JK Rowling herself doesn't separate her art from her transphobia, and has said she sees every Harry Potter fan as a fan of her transphobia, and uses every dollar she makes to fund transphobia, I need people to stop insisting they "separate art from artist" because it's beyond disingenuous atp
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Every patient deserves to be treated with dignity and respect. Being trans does not make someone's body subject to insult or derision. But, too often, our experiences in the ER or doctor's office look like Jennifer Capasso's.
The Transgender Cancer Patient and What She Heard on Tape
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Every patient deserves to be treated with dignity and respect. Being trans does not make someone's body subject to insult or derision. But, too often, our experiences in the ER or doctor's office look like Jennifer Capasso's.
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DSA-LA elections are happening—I’m asking all DSA-LA members to vote for me and the Left Coast slate— @socialistmajority.com and Communist Caucus members as well as a slew of independents running on a unity slate to turn our chapter into a mass movement, fight fascism, and win socialism! More below:
December 1, 2025 at 7:46 PM
DSA-LA elections are happening—I’m asking all DSA-LA members to vote for me and the Left Coast slate— @socialistmajority.com and Communist Caucus members as well as a slew of independents running on a unity slate to turn our chapter into a mass movement, fight fascism, and win socialism! More below:
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This. This is what is never far from my mind whenever I enter the classroom.
December 2, 2025 at 10:09 PM
This. This is what is never far from my mind whenever I enter the classroom.
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Reading the interviews of Gabriel García Márquez and this passage stands out to me, from the 1970s but relevant in this time, that in this era the fight must be for collective happiness, which as he astutely describes, is the only kind of just happiness
December 13, 2024 at 6:59 PM
Reading the interviews of Gabriel García Márquez and this passage stands out to me, from the 1970s but relevant in this time, that in this era the fight must be for collective happiness, which as he astutely describes, is the only kind of just happiness