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Jen

@jkmahal.bsky.social

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Former lots of things, current Jill-of-all-trades. Also Associate Director of the Center for Monster Studies at UC Santa Cruz. Manga lover. Anime fan. Quaker. Unashamed reader of romance. Will write for food.

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Jen @jkmahal.bsky.social · Sep 12

I am so proud of my husband @n-w-f.bsky.social’s new book: Animal Crossing New Horizons: Can a Game Take Care of Us? It’s deeply personal and made me cry (in a good way). He got his preview copy today (it’s out Oct. 9 ) and I just have to share the preface…. Congratulations, my love.

Book page from Animal Crossing New Horizons: Can a Game Take Care of Us? “Preface
I Hated Animal Crossing
I’m passionate about Animal Crossing New Horizons.
This book is the story of how that passion developed, how it turned to hatred, and then how that hatred came undone.
It’s the story of playing a game with my kids, while the COVID-19 swept by outside our windows.
It’s a story about fatherhood and paternalism, about trying care for my kids as a disabled dad, and about a game codesigned by a father who hoped to caretaker at a distance.
It’s a book about wondering ‘Can a game help take care of us in a time of crisis? Do we want it to try? And what do we have to give up to fall into its embrace?’

Noah Wardrip-Fruin
Santa Cruz, Calif.
April 2024

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anon in a deranged way @anonlis.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t understand these people who apparently want us to live miserable lives on a barren, dead, ugly earth (until we die of preventable diseases, natural disasters, or starvation)

Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 2d

Republicans are aiming next to dismantle the marine mammal protection act, which protects whales, dolphins, manatees, polar bears, and sea otters.. among other ocean wildlife. 🦦

Horror Tor, friend of Union ghosts @splitrailfence.bsky.social · 2d

I love it. Makes me happy.
Weird that I'm now seeing your post here after I just read about the bill to end the 1970s marine mammal legislation to protect these beautiful creatures.
abcnews.go.com/Politics/wir...

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Jen @jkmahal.bsky.social · 16h

But do you have the ocarina notes for it? My kid would totally rock this on her ocarina.

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sarah margaret (scary) 🍂 @sarahmargs.bsky.social · 12d

bardcore guys and dolls lyrics

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 17h

“Policy says reporters cannot obtain or solicit any information the Defense Department does not explicitly authorize. Any media who does not sign by 5 p.m. Tuesday has 24 hours to turn in their media credentials and clear out.”

Absolute fucking abomination.

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

News outlets broadly reject Pentagon rules before deadline for signing

The Washington Post and other major news outlets have refused to sign the Defense Department’s restrictive new media policy, citing First Amendment concerns.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 16h

I am being asked to tell my department which pieces of lab equipment should be supported with backup power because they expect rolling blackouts and brownouts in 2026 due to increased energy demands from AI. In case you're wondering how my day is going.

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 21h

There needs to be more coverage of this in the news. I have read so many stories bout this on Facebook, first hand stories of the terror of that storm, and very little coverage n media.
www.facebook.com/100000960660...

Screenshot of a Facebook post. Photo is an elderly woman holding a child on her ap on a couch with flood water around them. Both are wearing jackets inside. Text says: This was after our 1st drift.. staying put for awhile. Our 3rd and final drift was terrifying. House moving fast then we started spinning in circles. While we were spinning in circles my oldest daughter was just staring at me while I held onto my younger two. Kipnuk doesn't look like kipnuk anymore, like more than 3/4 of the homes displaced, power poles fallen. It smells like stove oil outside. Contaminated

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Matt Leone @mattleone.bsky.social · 17h

Big day! Here's the thing I've been working on for the past few months.

Design Room @designroom.bsky.social · 17h

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We are live! Welcome to Design Room, a new independent games media site.

• We specialize in oral histories like the Final Fantasy 7 and Street Fighter 2 ones I (@mattleone.bsky.social) did at Polygon
• Our first big story is on Shadow of the Colossus: bit.ly/4hjwz8n
• See more: designroom.site

Design Room

Video game oral histories

designroom.site

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 17h

WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court rejects Alex Jones' appeal of $1.4 billion judgment for calling Sandy Hook school shooting a hoax.

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Alex Segura @alexsegura.bsky.social · 4d

Just announced at NYCC: I’m writing a KNOW YOUR RIGHTS comic with artist @davidhahn.bsky.social in partnership with @nycschools.bsky.social #civicsforall comics program, covering and explaining student rights when it comes to immigration enforcement.

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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 1d

Photos coming out of Western AK are devastating.

Hardest hit are indigenous villages off road system, many miles by air from supplies. Most built on river deltas w/ no high ground to which to escape.

Cuts to NASA/NOAA mean worse weather data. Cuts to EPA mean no grants for erosion control. Etc.

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 1d

These are mostly indigenous communities in Alaska that have been slammed by the storm.

The local manager of a small airline fleet says he is the only one doing evacuations right now!

Defund FEMA and people are abandoned. Defund public media and no-one knows.

FYI, today is Indigenous Peoples Day.

Flooding seen with water up to the crash barriers of local roads

Sheds and debris lie scattered in the storm

A small blue house has been blown onto its roof

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Ali Winston @awinston.bsky.social · 1d

ICE threatened to shoot an EMT in Portland Oregon this week www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver

Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

www.wweek.com

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 2d

Matthew Shepard was murdered right when I was trying to come out of the closet. So like, this hit me pretty hard. Maybe that’s why I understand how important it is for trans kids to know they deserve to live.

Congresswoman Robin Kelly @robinkelly.house.gov · 2d

27 years ago, hateful violence took the life of Matthew Shepard. His story reminds us of what happens when intolerance goes unchecked.

Today, as extremists target our LGBTQ+ neighbors for who they are, we must recommit to building a nation rooted in love, safety, and equality for all.

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Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒 @marspidermonkey.bsky.social · 12d

As a primatologist, Jane Goodall was a huge inspiration to me. I admired the way she describes chimpanzee behavior with such detail and empathy, and she’s inspired so many people and advocated for chimpanzee conservation and welfare.

However, I'm dismayed at what her narrative leaves out (1/10)

Photo of Jane Goodall in the center, signing a book, with three women standing slightly hunched behind her. A very young Michelle is to the right, smiling.

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This is Allyween @allymalinenko.bsky.social · 13d

Okay let's do this - Oct 1 - middle grade horror books you should read DAY ONE

When i decided i wanted to write middle grade, I knew I needed to read some modern ones and this was the first book I picked up. It was incredible.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3d

Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.

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Hayden Black @haydenb.bsky.social · 3d

I had no idea.

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David Cooper @davidbcooper.bsky.social · 2d

Rosie the Ribbiter

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Philosopher Jersey Flight @jerseyflight.bsky.social · 2d

One of the beautiful things about the old growth forests are the streams that run through them, and pave their way through the rich beds of moss, flowing deep into forbidden spaces— realms where light filters down in hushed beams, where time slows, and the air carries the memory of centuries.

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Vice Press @vicepress.bsky.social · 3d

There will also be TWO film screenings - An American Werewolf In London at The Showroom on Friday October 24th & Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on Saturday October 25th at The Light

Both also have exclusive freebies!

More info and tickets - www.VicePressOpenHouse.co.uk

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Shannon (she/her) @ravenlenore.bsky.social · 3d

Bring on more of these videos - they make me so happy
#joyisresistance

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 3d

Portland 🔥

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 3d

Nixon’s crimes look like harmless high school pranks compared to the now-daily unprecedented illegal & unconstitutional crimes being committed daily by this president & his staff

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 3d

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

really striking the degree to which not a single person working in the trump administration appears to be interested in serving the american people

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 3d

The mainstream media loves making it seam like dysfunction in Washington is coming from both parties.

Hello?

Much of the GOP no longer accepts the rule of law, or the norms of democracy, or the legitimacy of the opposing party.

Enough of the false equivalence.

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Microplastics Spookmelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 3d

today in "predicted by 30 Rock"

Edie Falco on 30 Rock:
I MISSED THE VOTE ON A BILL TO LEGALIZE RECREATIONAL WHALE TORTURE.

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Dan @djlane.bsky.social · 3d

#ProudBlue

Does everyone know there is a full blown outbreak of measles on South Carolina?

Why are our children paying the price of our stupidity?

Will we wait until, that first child gets polio, before we act?

I just can’t believe the apathy of parents.

Our children ARE America’s future.

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