Thomas Knowlton
@thomasknowlton.bsky.social
School Librarian at The High School of Fashion Industries in NYC / TGA Future Class 2021 / Past: MyLibraryNYC, The New York Public Library, The University of Georgia Libraries
When routine bites hard and ambitions are low
And resentment rides high, but emotions won't grow
And we're changing our ways, taking different roads
Then love, love will tear us apart again
Love, love will tear us apart again
And resentment rides high, but emotions won't grow
And we're changing our ways, taking different roads
Then love, love will tear us apart again
Love, love will tear us apart again
November 23, 2025 at 4:33 PM
When routine bites hard and ambitions are low
And resentment rides high, but emotions won't grow
And we're changing our ways, taking different roads
Then love, love will tear us apart again
Love, love will tear us apart again
And resentment rides high, but emotions won't grow
And we're changing our ways, taking different roads
Then love, love will tear us apart again
Love, love will tear us apart again
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November 6, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT! @mahliann.bsky.social, @marcuscarter.com, and myself have combined our collective brains and written a wide-reaching introduction to the complex and interdisciplinary field of Game Studies in this forthcoming book for Polity. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
September 4, 2025 at 4:59 AM
BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT! @mahliann.bsky.social, @marcuscarter.com, and myself have combined our collective brains and written a wide-reaching introduction to the complex and interdisciplinary field of Game Studies in this forthcoming book for Polity. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
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Q-UP is out NOW on Steam!
1. flip a coin on the internet
2. 50% heads, 50% tails
3. flip another coin
it's $8.99
... but more importantly it's $7.99 if you already own Unfair Flips
s.team/a/3730790
1. flip a coin on the internet
2. 50% heads, 50% tails
3. flip another coin
it's $8.99
... but more importantly it's $7.99 if you already own Unfair Flips
s.team/a/3730790
Save 10% on Q-UP on Steam
Sick of long queues, unfair matchups, and arbitrary reflex tests? Try Q-UP, the coin flipping eSport. It's one part clicker, one part multiplayer strategy game, one part demented capitalism simulator,...
s.team
November 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Q-UP is out NOW on Steam!
1. flip a coin on the internet
2. 50% heads, 50% tails
3. flip another coin
it's $8.99
... but more importantly it's $7.99 if you already own Unfair Flips
s.team/a/3730790
1. flip a coin on the internet
2. 50% heads, 50% tails
3. flip another coin
it's $8.99
... but more importantly it's $7.99 if you already own Unfair Flips
s.team/a/3730790
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No Quarter is back!
On Saturday November 22nd No Quarter will be returning for its 2025 edition!
No Quarter is an annual playable exhibition where four newly commissioned works from outstanding artists working across games are debuted. Tickets here noquarter2025.eventbrite.com
On Saturday November 22nd No Quarter will be returning for its 2025 edition!
No Quarter is an annual playable exhibition where four newly commissioned works from outstanding artists working across games are debuted. Tickets here noquarter2025.eventbrite.com
October 28, 2025 at 3:09 PM
No Quarter is back!
On Saturday November 22nd No Quarter will be returning for its 2025 edition!
No Quarter is an annual playable exhibition where four newly commissioned works from outstanding artists working across games are debuted. Tickets here noquarter2025.eventbrite.com
On Saturday November 22nd No Quarter will be returning for its 2025 edition!
No Quarter is an annual playable exhibition where four newly commissioned works from outstanding artists working across games are debuted. Tickets here noquarter2025.eventbrite.com
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Excited to be working w/ @tigershungry.co.uk & the NYU crew to make an intramural, bsports tournament for NO QUARTER 2025!
To recruit teams @chouxsalad.bsky.social & I will show the HEXADECIPAD, a 16-player NES controller, at
@nyugamecenter.bsky.social 11/6
@boshis.place 11/7
@wonderville.nyc 11/8
To recruit teams @chouxsalad.bsky.social & I will show the HEXADECIPAD, a 16-player NES controller, at
@nyugamecenter.bsky.social 11/6
@boshis.place 11/7
@wonderville.nyc 11/8
November 5, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Excited to be working w/ @tigershungry.co.uk & the NYU crew to make an intramural, bsports tournament for NO QUARTER 2025!
To recruit teams @chouxsalad.bsky.social & I will show the HEXADECIPAD, a 16-player NES controller, at
@nyugamecenter.bsky.social 11/6
@boshis.place 11/7
@wonderville.nyc 11/8
To recruit teams @chouxsalad.bsky.social & I will show the HEXADECIPAD, a 16-player NES controller, at
@nyugamecenter.bsky.social 11/6
@boshis.place 11/7
@wonderville.nyc 11/8
BREAKING: The Eye of Sauron has endorsed Andrew Cuomo for Mayor of New York City!
a dark tower with a glowing eye on top
ALT: a dark tower with a glowing eye on top
media.tenor.com
November 4, 2025 at 4:28 AM
BREAKING: The Eye of Sauron has endorsed Andrew Cuomo for Mayor of New York City!
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If you needed another reason to buy this, the zombies say "traaains" instead of "braaains"
Now that Spooky Express is out, it’s time to shout out the people who made it happen! Thread follows... 🧵
Spooky Express
All the passengers are dying to ride the Spooky Express!
spooky.express
October 28, 2025 at 9:25 AM
If you needed another reason to buy this, the zombies say "traaains" instead of "braaains"
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i really hope i live to see a time where it again feels like education for its own sake is seen as a social good
Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for th...
www.thecrimson.com
October 21, 2025 at 6:18 PM
i really hope i live to see a time where it again feels like education for its own sake is seen as a social good
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I'm probably earnest-posting a little too hard, but it's not an exaggeration to say that, for me, @schooldaves.bsky.social book was as radicalizing on the otherwise wonky issues of school finance as Shock Doctrine was for clarifying disaster capitalism. This is the "abundance" we should be pursuing!
October 22, 2025 at 11:33 AM
I'm probably earnest-posting a little too hard, but it's not an exaggeration to say that, for me, @schooldaves.bsky.social book was as radicalizing on the otherwise wonky issues of school finance as Shock Doctrine was for clarifying disaster capitalism. This is the "abundance" we should be pursuing!
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Dug this heartfelt tribute to D'Angelo by @abebeame.bsky.social. "With each project that parallel line between the sound of mainstream R&B & whatever TF D’Angelo is up to continued to diverge...but the songs were no less potent or beloved." HT @nitishpahwa.com | www.passionweiss.com/2025/10/14/d...
The Anointed One: A Requiem For D'Angelo | Passion of the Weiss
Abe Beame eulogizes the inimitable genius of the soul icon who tragically passed away yesterday after a battle with cancer.
www.passionweiss.com
October 16, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Dug this heartfelt tribute to D'Angelo by @abebeame.bsky.social. "With each project that parallel line between the sound of mainstream R&B & whatever TF D’Angelo is up to continued to diverge...but the songs were no less potent or beloved." HT @nitishpahwa.com | www.passionweiss.com/2025/10/14/d...
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:
“The bugs ate books.”
“The bugs ate books.”
"So...I read it."
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:
Archives banned making copies.
Archives banned making copies.
October 12, 2025 at 6:46 PM
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:
“The bugs ate books.”
“The bugs ate books.”
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SKATE STORY
DECEMBER 8
PS5 | SWITCH 2 | PC
🔥🔥🔥 🛹 🔥🔥🔥
PLAY THE DEMO ON STEAM
store.steampowered.com/app/1263240/...
DECEMBER 8
PS5 | SWITCH 2 | PC
🔥🔥🔥 🛹 🔥🔥🔥
PLAY THE DEMO ON STEAM
store.steampowered.com/app/1263240/...
October 9, 2025 at 3:58 PM
SKATE STORY
DECEMBER 8
PS5 | SWITCH 2 | PC
🔥🔥🔥 🛹 🔥🔥🔥
PLAY THE DEMO ON STEAM
store.steampowered.com/app/1263240/...
DECEMBER 8
PS5 | SWITCH 2 | PC
🔥🔥🔥 🛹 🔥🔥🔥
PLAY THE DEMO ON STEAM
store.steampowered.com/app/1263240/...
“Letters; then from letters, words; then from these words, some short sentences; then more sentences that are longer, and in the main very long sentences, for the duration of 35 years. Beauty in language. Fun in hell.” (László Krasznahorkai, 2015)
László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel prize in literature 2025
László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel prize in literature 2025
The author was announced as winner at a ceremony in Stockholm
• Nobel prize in literature 2025 live: László Krasznahorkai wins ‘for his compelling and visionary oeuvre’
The Nobel prize in literature for 2025 has been awarded to Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai, the Swedish Academy has announced.
The Academy cited the 71-year-old’s “compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 9, 2025 at 4:47 PM
“Letters; then from letters, words; then from these words, some short sentences; then more sentences that are longer, and in the main very long sentences, for the duration of 35 years. Beauty in language. Fun in hell.” (László Krasznahorkai, 2015)
I love it. Welcome back to New York Comic Con and Happy 90th Anniversary @dc.com! (Open in browser to see the full text transcript.) @newyorkcomiccon.bsky.social #nycc
NYCC '25: Jim Lee's Retailer Day speech - "DC Comics will not support AI-generated storytelling or artwork."
NYCC ’25: Jim Lee’s Retailer Day speech – “DC Comics will not support AI-generated storytelling or artwork.”
Jim Lee delivered a fiery speech about the power of human art and DC's ongoing storytelling in the Retailer's Day keynote speech
www.comicsbeat.com
October 9, 2025 at 1:00 PM
I love it. Welcome back to New York Comic Con and Happy 90th Anniversary @dc.com! (Open in browser to see the full text transcript.) @newyorkcomiccon.bsky.social #nycc
Excited to be part of this! Catch me at 2:20 p.m. EST on a panel talking about Game Club & Monster Friends. The latter is part of Roll For Learning, an anthology edited by @mattfarber.bsky.social, @czamboni.bsky.social, & published under @creativecommons.bsky.social through Play Story Press.
Join us for the 2025 Game Educators Symposium on October 3rd and 4th!
Hosted online via zoom!
This annual event brings together game educators, to share their approaches, collaborate on new ways of teaching, and continue to build our community.
www.indiecade.com/game-educato...
#gamedev #indiedev
Hosted online via zoom!
This annual event brings together game educators, to share their approaches, collaborate on new ways of teaching, and continue to build our community.
www.indiecade.com/game-educato...
#gamedev #indiedev
October 3, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Excited to be part of this! Catch me at 2:20 p.m. EST on a panel talking about Game Club & Monster Friends. The latter is part of Roll For Learning, an anthology edited by @mattfarber.bsky.social, @czamboni.bsky.social, & published under @creativecommons.bsky.social through Play Story Press.
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𝗣𝗜𝗖𝗢⬩𝟭𝗞 𝗝𝗔𝗠 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 has now finished 🏁
We had 75 awesome entries! 👨💻
Please check them out:
🌐 itch.io/jam/pico-1k-...
A mix of 🕹️ Games, 📺 Demos & 🛠️ Tools.
All done in #Pico8 (or #Picotron), using ≤ 1KB of 🗜️ code
Congrats everyone! 👏🤓
#Pico1k #GameJam #Demoscene #Sizecoding
We had 75 awesome entries! 👨💻
Please check them out:
🌐 itch.io/jam/pico-1k-...
A mix of 🕹️ Games, 📺 Demos & 🛠️ Tools.
All done in #Pico8 (or #Picotron), using ≤ 1KB of 🗜️ code
Congrats everyone! 👏🤓
#Pico1k #GameJam #Demoscene #Sizecoding
September 30, 2025 at 8:27 PM
𝗣𝗜𝗖𝗢⬩𝟭𝗞 𝗝𝗔𝗠 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 has now finished 🏁
We had 75 awesome entries! 👨💻
Please check them out:
🌐 itch.io/jam/pico-1k-...
A mix of 🕹️ Games, 📺 Demos & 🛠️ Tools.
All done in #Pico8 (or #Picotron), using ≤ 1KB of 🗜️ code
Congrats everyone! 👏🤓
#Pico1k #GameJam #Demoscene #Sizecoding
We had 75 awesome entries! 👨💻
Please check them out:
🌐 itch.io/jam/pico-1k-...
A mix of 🕹️ Games, 📺 Demos & 🛠️ Tools.
All done in #Pico8 (or #Picotron), using ≤ 1KB of 🗜️ code
Congrats everyone! 👏🤓
#Pico1k #GameJam #Demoscene #Sizecoding
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If you work at EA and want to talk privately about your feelings about the sale to Saudi Arabia you can reach me anonymously at ethangach@protonmail.com or via Signal/WhatsApp at +12673263042.
September 29, 2025 at 1:03 PM
If you work at EA and want to talk privately about your feelings about the sale to Saudi Arabia you can reach me anonymously at ethangach@protonmail.com or via Signal/WhatsApp at +12673263042.
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QGCon, the Queerness and Games Conference begins today! @qgcon.bsky.social
www.qgcon.org
So excited to be here in Montreal to share the queer delights of the world of clown 😊
www.qgcon.org
So excited to be here in Montreal to share the queer delights of the world of clown 😊
QGCon
www.qgcon.org
September 26, 2025 at 1:34 PM
QGCon, the Queerness and Games Conference begins today! @qgcon.bsky.social
www.qgcon.org
So excited to be here in Montreal to share the queer delights of the world of clown 😊
www.qgcon.org
So excited to be here in Montreal to share the queer delights of the world of clown 😊
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A must-read.
I've posted this before but feels like it should be required reading for everyone at this point: Ur-Fascism by Umberto Eco, an essay which attempts outline and explain the common features of fascism, a difficult task given their contradictions. theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umbe...
Ur-Fascism
Umberto Eco Ur-Fascism June 22, 1995
theanarchistlibrary.org
September 25, 2025 at 8:34 PM
A must-read.
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Post a movie you like with a terrible Rotten Tomatoes score.
Harmony Korine is the most provocative American filmmaker currently working and Gummo is his poignant, shocking trash masterpiece. 🍿
Harmony Korine is the most provocative American filmmaker currently working and Gummo is his poignant, shocking trash masterpiece. 🍿
September 18, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Post a movie you like with a terrible Rotten Tomatoes score.
Harmony Korine is the most provocative American filmmaker currently working and Gummo is his poignant, shocking trash masterpiece. 🍿
Harmony Korine is the most provocative American filmmaker currently working and Gummo is his poignant, shocking trash masterpiece. 🍿
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Are you a trans, nonbinary, or gender nonconforming artist and/or poet in NYC? Apply to Transcend--a 12-week paid project where artists will create life-size multimedia self portraits in a communal space. projecttranscendnyc.wordpress.com/apply/
APPLY
Join Project Transcend! Project Transcend NYC is working in partnership with The Women’s Community Justice Association to sponsor a unique art initiative for: Transgender, Gender No…
projecttranscendnyc.wordpress.com
September 17, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Are you a trans, nonbinary, or gender nonconforming artist and/or poet in NYC? Apply to Transcend--a 12-week paid project where artists will create life-size multimedia self portraits in a communal space. projecttranscendnyc.wordpress.com/apply/
Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life:
1. Walking your kids to school
2. Fall in NYC
3. Opening the first page of a new book by one of your favorite authors
4. First sip of coffee on a cold day
5. Seeing a beautiful, match-winning goal by the football club you love
1. Walking your kids to school
2. Fall in NYC
3. Opening the first page of a new book by one of your favorite authors
4. First sip of coffee on a cold day
5. Seeing a beautiful, match-winning goal by the football club you love
Battle doom scrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life:
1. Making tea
2. Snuggling with a warm puppy
3. Autumn in New England
4. Crisp cold air on a winter morning
5. The smell of cardamom
1. Making tea
2. Snuggling with a warm puppy
3. Autumn in New England
4. Crisp cold air on a winter morning
5. The smell of cardamom
Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life:
1. Nibbling while you cook.
2. Blushing - making someone blush, or being made to blush.
3. Clothes fresh from the dryer.
4. Night breeze.
5. Punchboards - punching and sorting a new board game.
1. Nibbling while you cook.
2. Blushing - making someone blush, or being made to blush.
3. Clothes fresh from the dryer.
4. Night breeze.
5. Punchboards - punching and sorting a new board game.
September 16, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life:
1. Walking your kids to school
2. Fall in NYC
3. Opening the first page of a new book by one of your favorite authors
4. First sip of coffee on a cold day
5. Seeing a beautiful, match-winning goal by the football club you love
1. Walking your kids to school
2. Fall in NYC
3. Opening the first page of a new book by one of your favorite authors
4. First sip of coffee on a cold day
5. Seeing a beautiful, match-winning goal by the football club you love
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September 14, 2025 at 1:19 PM