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BlackAutMedia (He/His)
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Black, autistic, funny third thing. I make Video essays about race, disability, and queerness on Youtube. https://t.co/iEp1RnAClJ
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BlackAutMedia (He/His) @blackautmedia.bsky.social · Sep 4
Not feeling too well but I wanted to showcase some preview of "the Portrayal of torture in media."

It'll talk about a lot of things from bloodbending to the war on terror to propaganda techniques used by Israel's government. You can read the preview outline here:

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Tumblr is a place to express yourself, discover yourself, and bond over the stuff you love. It's where your interests connect you with your people.
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Cyndaquilism @cyndaquilism.bsky.social · 14d
A close picture to the face of a shiny Cyndaquil in Pokémon Violet and the text "do you ever leave a social situation and you're like Mmmm that was not my best work".
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Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 8d
People continue to call COVID advocates’ pleas for masking “unreasonable”.

Yet people who’ve already been disabled by COVID have no choice but to live with the “unreasonable” burdens of constant COVID safety.

My latest:
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Beyond all reason
Long COVID patients are constantly harangued about our requests for COVID safety. Yet what we're asking for is far less than what we're called on to do to survive.
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Leslie Lee III, MA @leslieleeiii.bsky.social · 7d
How did Jamelle Bouie go from talking about COVID killing his family members to saying precautions that could save lives are unreasonable?
11/8/2023 jamelle @jamellebouie.net Replied to jamelle and as someone who lost multiple family members to covid, it is not unnoticed by me that the retcon crowd is almost uniformly affluent professionals whose exposure to the worst of the pandemic death toll was minimal 13 22 339 @whetmoser.com 6mo whet moser because the earliest waves hit the have-nots hardest, which these guys ignore. along with pretty much everything else about death rates 3 218 Follow jamelle @jamellebouie.net covid killed my grandfather but people like that guy don't think about folks like him March 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM jamelle @jamellebouie.net yeah, i think a commitment to public health obligates you to get vaccinated and, when you are sick, do what you can to avoid spreading that to other people. the demand that one mask at all times in public spaces is, i think, unreasonable. 1d 55 2 53 346 A jamelle @jamellebouie.net Follow (and i think it is a demand that stems from fear more than a rational assessment of the threat environment) October 14, 2025 at 5:06 AM 2 reposts 50 quotes 208 7 saves 96 52 208
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Johnnie Jae @johnniejae.bsky.social · 7d
Native American Heritage Month is coming up and before it gets here, sharing this starter pack so you can get a head start by following some amazing Native folks with a lot of knowledge to share.

go.bsky.app/MEaiVa9
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Retronauts @retronauts.bsky.social · 8d
according to a notice on his Facebook page, Tomonobu Itagaki has passed away at the age of 58. No details were shared, but the statement expressed his misgivings about “failing to produce a new game for the fans”
www.facebook.com/share/p/17am...
Tomonobu Itagaki (from his final Facebook post)
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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 8d
60% of youth in custody are diagnosed with ADD or ADHD – compared to just 11% nationally.

Kids need care, not cages.

#ADHDAwarenessMonth
Graph showing the prevalence of diagnoses among youth in confinement: 4% autism spectrum, 27% learning disabilities, 60% ADD or ADHD
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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 9d
This is also a disability justice issue.
crampell.bsky.social Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 9d
Report examining the employment history data of more than 3m finance & tech workers at companies that rolled out office mandates found that turnover among women is almost three times as high as that of their male co-workers, and that women are more likely to take a lower position if they leave
Women are taking pay cuts as companies mandate return to office
Researchers are identifying several key factors behind why gender pay gap – which had narrowed steadily over the years – has suddenly widened.
www.washingtonpost.com
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Sarah IS LOOKING FOR WORK!!! @killianfantasy.bsky.social · 9d
I just love* how everyone was for masking until it was revealed that Black people were more at risk from Covid then masks became oppression. And now I'm still having to mask to protect my family from all these filthy people.

*I don't, in fact, love it.
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failnaut @failnaut.bsky.social · 9d
really sick of the dem refrain "kidnapping legal citizens" as though it's fine if it's anyone else, genuinely what the fuck is wrong with you
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Millie Fangs (Commission Me!) @milliefangs.com · 12d
He's about to go flying. #Tails #Sonic #Sketch
Tails from 'Sonic The Hedgehog' wearing a B3 bomber jacker in front of a cloudy sky.
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Boother Vandross @nmjmredux.blacksky.app · 16d
This is only 12 miles from where my family lives. When you use AI in any form, people are affected directly
therobmilton.com Rob Milton @therobmilton.com · 16d
- put down the damn AI.
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Eva the Leftist Demon @ Birthday @shinyevonee.blacksky.app · Mar 26
Hi y'all, the engagement for my original mutual aid post went poof so I made a new one. I have to pay off old credit card debt through a collector or else I will get sued. Please donate through one of the links below and/or boost!
#mutualaid
gofund.me/ba02ca15
ko-fi.com/evonee
paypal.me/EvaWoolridge
Donate to Support Eva in Clearing Predatory Debt, organized by Eva Woolridge
Hello, my name is Eva Woolridge and am dealing with a hard time that I want to mo… Eva Woolridge needs your support for Support Eva in Clearing Predatory Debt
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Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 18d
Nobody has Long COVID, but everybody has brain fog, cognitive decline and memory loss. I talk about the overwhelming scientific evidence that COVID damages the brain, and the overwhelming social unwillingness to acknowledge it in my latest:

www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...
When Will the Lion Concern Himself
Joking memes make light of the uncomfortable reality: everyone's got a little of that post-COVID brain damage these days
www.thegauntlet.news
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BlackAutMedia (He/His) @blackautmedia.bsky.social · 22d
Ali is always both a delight and an insight to listen to. I haven't had a chance to watch yet but I still wanted to spotlight this.
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silverspookgames.bsky.social @silverspookgames.bsky.social · 24d
Reviews like this make the blood, sweat and tears working on this adventure game while being an underpaid social worker in the US ghetto worth it. And yeah, let's make cyberpunk PUNK again! store.steampowered.com/app/673850/ #cyberpunk #indiegame #indiedev #SteamDeals
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Drew Scanlon @drewscanlon.bsky.social · 27d
Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE.

If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease!

Donate at blinkingguy.com
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BlackAutMedia (He/His) @blackautmedia.bsky.social · 27d
A copy of Assata Shakur's autobiography. #RestInPower

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Assata (Shakur), An Autobiography : Assata Shakur, Angela Y. Davis (Foreword), Lennox S. Hinds (Foreword) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
On May 2, 1973, Black Panther Assata Shakur (aka JoAnne Chesimard) lay in a hospital, close to death, handcuffed to her bed, while local, state, and federal...
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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · Sep 23
Bacially almost all the major black and white characters were born out of homages to minstrelsy. I talk about this in my Character Design classes actually
pixiethinkss.bsky.social Pixie Thinks🧚🏽‍♀️ @pixiethinkss.bsky.social · Sep 23
How am I just now learning Mickey Mouse is an homage to blackface 😭😭
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BlackAutMedia (He/His) @blackautmedia.bsky.social · 29d
I didn't say only Frontiers Knuckles was an example of the vanishing myth. I said that about the echidna in the franchise and used the Frontiers image where he's literally having a conversation with Sonic about how he's the last of his people.

It's an issue throughout the entire franchise.
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silverspookgames.bsky.social @silverspookgames.bsky.social · Sep 23
Neofeud 2 is a #cyberpunk game where a social worker for homeless robots, an ex-con & an ex-trillionaire princess fight world-ending post-human CEO / Kings Get Neofeud 1 & help me finish #2 (pictured)! store.steampowered.com/app/673850/N... #gamedev #indiedev #visualnovel #indiegame
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BlackAutMedia (He/His) @blackautmedia.bsky.social · 29d
A lot of times with fictional characters the main motivation coding them is more to exoticize them.

As we talk about Knuckles and anti-Black tropes, they go hand in hand with Anti-Indigenous tropes with his character too dating from his creation to the present day in the films.
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BlackAutMedia (He/His) @blackautmedia.bsky.social · 29d
Also want to qualify: my sources come from several different Indigenous peoples. This is not to imply that they are interchangeable but alluding to a shared problem in depiction.

Knuckles is likely inspired from the Maya people considering the above source, but there are also several Maya tribes.
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BlackAutMedia (He/His) @blackautmedia.bsky.social · 29d
This ends up compounding from the central motivation which was basically using a peoples culture as an aesthetic and not considering the implications behind it. www.sega-dreamcast-info-games-preservation.com/en/sonic-tea...
Sonic Team Road Trip in South America | SEGA Dreamcast Info
Voyage de la Sonic Team en Amérique du Sud pour le repérage de Sonic Adventure sur Dreamcast. Ils étaient émerveillés par la beautés des ruines qu'ils ont visité !
www.sega-dreamcast-info-games-preservation.com
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BlackAutMedia (He/His) @blackautmedia.bsky.social · 29d
You can see the princess tropes in works like Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, the Disney portrayal of Pochahontas, and of course in Sonic Adventure, to name a few titles.
the Deku princess speaking with Link in "Legend of Zelda: Majora's mask." In the game, her father angrily has a monkey dropped into boiling water to torture him mistakenly thinking the monkey kidnapped his daughter. She is the voice of the reason who stops her father, who is presented as a vicious monster evocative of cannibal horror films. The Disney portrayal of the film "Pochahontas" depicting Pochahontas (based on the real person Matoaka, born Amonute) and her father.
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BlackAutMedia (He/His) @blackautmedia.bsky.social · 29d
More on the Princess stereotype here:
web.archive.org/web/20231006...
It’s Time To Bust Stereotypes of Native American Women as Princesses and Squaws
Busting myths about Indigenous women.
web.archive.org
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