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The01Raven
@the01raven.bsky.social
Writer, learner, 21 and trying to figure it out
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i wonder who wrote this
December 26, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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The Game Awards Future Class was clearly created to diversify the homogenous space that is the video game industry. But what happens when you only make superficial efforts to be inclusive, or when diversity is no longer in vogue and a chunk of your consumer base rails against it?

Well…this.
Chatting with Future Class inductees for my latest at @theguardian.com. They paint a pretty clear picture of the perils of performative allyship.

Thanks to all who spoke with me, and always, to Keza for the chance to do important work!
“Don’t gather some of the most brilliant activists in the industry, treat us like crap, and then expect us to do nothing about it.” After the Game Awards cancelled its Future Class programme, @alyssamerc.bsky.social talked to its former honorees

www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
November 11, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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give a tranny help and you help her for a day. teach her how to help herself and she says "but i don't wanna that sounds really hard"
August 28, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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High five from Uni! :3
August 28, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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uhhhh
August 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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it's don't kill yourself thursday. repost to don't kill yourself
November 21, 2024 at 9:44 PM
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Twilight Sparkle, who has my favorite colors to paint
watercolor 💜 #mlp
August 18, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Disney's Marvel studios is abandoning the state of Georgia to film in the UK, mainly bc of the difference in labor costs from not having to pay for employees' health insurance bc of the National Health Service.

Universal health care makes businesses more competitive in the global marketplace.
Disney’s Marvel Abandons Georgia, Taking Livelihoods With It
Tax incentives lured studios to help build the ‘Hollywood of the South,’ but now Marvel and others are going overseas for cheaper labor costs.
www.wsj.com
August 17, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Stripe says it’s accepting payments for LGBTQ content
JVA site starts working with Visa again
Mastercard reportedly panicking and making Riot moderate messages

The tide is turning
We are going to win this
Keep calling
Keep writing
Keep fighting

You can do this
August 14, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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More and more people reporting today that Stripe - the payment processor that Itch said were putting the most pressure on them - now have staff actively confirming that yes, they are censoring LGBT content, adult or otherwise. That this is official company policy.

This seems kinda significant.
August 13, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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me: “yah so anyways my marriage is collapsing & i still have to fully pull the plug but it feels like ripping out an organ because i don’t have a full time job yet & the tech industry is biased against trans women”

confused bear who asked me on out on grindr : “uhhh are we gonna fuck or”
July 27, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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did we mention we're typing in fucking landscape?
July 27, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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fuck it

just buying one

hopefully pay it off with the commissions we will make using it
all we want is enough flexible income to justify buying a new physical rig and make paper art again

or enough solid income to justify making a crowdfund or something, instead of thinking "yeah, we'd rather have the cash for bills"
July 26, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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LMAO I called Visa’s customer support service - the guy on the other line was like “are you ALSO calling about the video game payment processing? Please send us emails instead.”

Keep up the calls, folks, we’re definitely gumming up their works
I know we're upset about itch, but they're not the only ones

Payment processors harassed companies bc of a 1,000 email hate campaign

But we can EASILY top 1,000!

I prewrote an email + got the contact info - you just have to send!

↻💬♡ to boost

We CAN make a difference 💕

#itch #censorship

1/🧵
July 25, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Xiu Xiu and King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard have both removed their music from Spotify to protest Daniel Ek’s investment and involvement in AI military technology. Musicians don’t want our art funding the war machine! Daniel Ek, do you see the trend?
July 25, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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"I asked chatGPT" "I asked Grok"

yeah well i asked goombella and her tattle log says you're a bitch
July 25, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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GDQ is proof you can be exceedingly and tremendously successful not just accepting folks but being proud and loud and loving trans folks. So many people believe in the same thing came together to raise over 2.4 mil for a great cause. Despite everything, we're Here Together.

Trans Rights!
🏁TIME🏁#SGDQ2025 has raised a total amount of $2,436,614 for @doctorswithoutborders.org!!

Thank you to everyone who made this marathon possible, and to all of you for your amazing generosity & support. 💙

See you at #AGDQ2026!!!
July 13, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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Groups and activists have been pushing for this for at least a week -- this was not a given. I hate that we had to fight for it but regardless, this is a WIN and big shout out to everyone who has been calling and pushing and organizing around this
June 28, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Games should give you the tools to continue to play them if/when they get shut down. You should keep access to the product you paid for

If any of my EU viewers agree, I urge you to sign the petition
Stop Killing Games
EU - eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#...
UK - petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
June 25, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.
June 22, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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AOC: “It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.”
June 22, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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While I'm at it, this "white men are gonna turn on ICE because they're deporting big booty Latinas" shit is pretty fucked up

Already seen one lib org make a video advertisement kinda on that theme

just further objectifying women who are already subjected to sexual violence and trafficking
June 20, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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Not enough people discussed the part of our scoop where Stan Lee fired a gay writer because his prose was too "effeminate"

Happy Pride, True Believers!!!!!! 🙃🙃🙃

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June 20, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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June 19, 2025 at 12:09 PM