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✊🏾🏳️‍🌈 Saffista, PhD📓🕹️ @saffista.bsky.social · Nov 11

👋🏾 So many new followers this weekend. If you’re new here:

Yes, the PhD is real…and so is the petty.

Yes, I am 🏳️‍🌈 AF.

Game Studies/Design and Minority Rhetorics are my thing and they are inseparable.

I consult.

I stream.

I create other content.

I. Do. Not. Suffer. Fools.

Welcome in.

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✊🏾🏳️‍🌈 Saffista, PhD📓🕹️ @saffista.bsky.social · 1d

7 and a strong possible.

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dr. hazel 🐇 @hazelmonforton.com · 24d

Hello new followers! I'm Hazel.

🐔 Chicken keeper 🐕 Tripod dog owner 📃 Writer 🎮 Senior Narrative Designer 🍞 Baker ⛪️ Amateur medievalist 🌱 Gardener 🧶 Knitter 🎓 PhD in English lit

Previously: 💛⚔️ Blizzard 💙💫 Bungie 🧡🐀 Arkane

Looking for my next role!
Find my work on my website: www.hazelmonforton.com

Hazel Monforton

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✊🏾🏳️‍🌈 Saffista, PhD📓🕹️ @saffista.bsky.social · 2d

AI data centers are environmentally disasterous and directly harm marginalized populations. If you’re on Twitch vote against this…

Also, Fuck ChatGPT and everyone who uses it without caring about the repercussions.

I said what I said.

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✊🏾🏳️‍🌈 Saffista, PhD📓🕹️ @saffista.bsky.social · 2d

Me: Let me work on this sabbatical request before I f*ck around and miss the deadline.
Weather: 💨⛈️
Head: 😖🔨

Me: Whelp, I guess I’ll just drink coffee and play Call of Duty instead. 🎮

@professingmagic.bsky.social skip school and come play CoD with me! It’s medicinal.

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✊🏾🏳️‍🌈 Saffista, PhD📓🕹️ @saffista.bsky.social · 4d

Congratulations! 🎉🍾

✊🏾🏳️‍🌈 Saffista, PhD📓🕹️ @saffista.bsky.social · 4d

My friend invited me to a 52 games in 52 weeks “challenge” with tiered levels for hours played per game. The new Pokemon came out this week and I’m writing a research proposal. I have 20+ hours in Pokemon and I replayed the game for the proposal. I am officially a video game hustler.

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✊🏾🏳️‍🌈 Saffista, PhD📓🕹️ @saffista.bsky.social · 5d

All these Jesse Welles “No Kings” song posts coming across my timeline. They just got me remembering that he also penned that song Cha*lie…

Post what you want, but know what you posting. It’s counter to the stance some of y’all took a few weeks ago is all I’m saying.

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✊🏾🏳️‍🌈 Saffista, PhD📓🕹️ @saffista.bsky.social · 5d

10/10 ❤️

✊🏾🏳️‍🌈 Saffista, PhD📓🕹️ @saffista.bsky.social · 13d

Making a playlist for my next research project and it might just have….*whispers* @southofmidnight.bsky.social vibes. 🫣

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✊🏾🏳️‍🌈 Saffista, PhD📓🕹️ @saffista.bsky.social · 21d

🎮 @callofduty.com may be my cozy game, but I still get petty when I get spawn sniped. 🤣 #BlackOps7

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dr. hazel 🐇 @hazelmonforton.com · 24d

Today is my last day at Blizzard! Working with the World of Warcraft team has been such a fun, positive experience. I can't wait for players to see what we made together. Now I'm looking for my next role in games, full time or contract, indie or AAA. You can check out my portfolio on my website! 🖤

dr. hazel 🐇 @hazelmonforton.com · Apr 9

Hello new followers! I'm Hazel.

🐔 Chicken keeper 🐕 Tripod dog owner 📃 Writer 🎮 Senior Narrative Designer 🍞 Bread baker ⛪️ Amateur medievalist 🌱 Gardener 🧶 Knitter 🎓 PhD in English lit 🦇 ATX

Presently: 💛⚔️ Blizzard
Previously: 💙💫 Bungie 🧡🐀 Arkane

Find my work on my website! www.hazelmonforton.com

Hazel Monforton

www.hazelmonforton.com

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✊🏾🏳️‍🌈 Saffista, PhD📓🕹️ @saffista.bsky.social · 24d

Oh snap! This is just what I was looking for!

✊🏾🏳️‍🌈 Saffista, PhD📓🕹️ @saffista.bsky.social · 24d

We also started a dedicated channel in our Discord this year just for journaling porn and it’s been amazing. 🤣

✊🏾🏳️‍🌈 Saffista, PhD📓🕹️ @saffista.bsky.social · 24d

I’ve been keeping one regularly for a couple of years now and it gives me and excuse to spend far too much on journals, stickers, and washi tape. I also started keeping a dedicated reading journal last year.

I need someone assigned to come in and burn my books when I die. 😳

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1000xRESIST | Available Now @sunsetvisitor.studio · 24d

Give it up for sale #3!! 🗣️🗣️🗣️

1000xRESIST continues to be 30% off as part of the Steam Autumn Sale! We’ve also just released the third Piano Book!

Run, don’t walk, to play the game that Game Informer calls, “one of the most groundbreaking stories in video game history.”

➡️ s.team/a/1675830/

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✊🏾🏳️‍🌈 Saffista, PhD📓🕹️ @saffista.bsky.social · 24d

This gives me an excuse to shop book sales for great deals and to buy more books that I know I ain’t got room for. Each book has a little card on the back and post it flags for annotation. Students are loving it so far.
(pics: shelves, book example, and haul from @mainbooksin.bsky.social sale)

Back of Chili queen with sleeve with card that reads “if you like games like red dead redemption, red dead redemption 2, red dead revolver, fallout new Vegas, desperados iii you might like this book”

✊🏾🏳️‍🌈 Saffista, PhD📓🕹️ @saffista.bsky.social · 24d

My little free library in the Critical Play Lab (working title) is growing. We also have a stack of journals and a bowl of stickers, pens, highlighters, and bookmarks. My Games Writing students are keeping Commonplace Books and it warms my heart that they sometimes come in just to sit and write 🔥❤️

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killer kung-fu wolf bitch 🫶🏽 @gogoyubari888.blacksky.app · 27d

Leave black women the fuck alone. Whatever you feel like black women should be doing, get your ass up and go do it yourself. Fixed it for you 😘

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Lady Devann @ladydevann.bsky.social · 28d

I'm hiring for an Associate Community Manager (Contract) for
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This is an entry level position, especially great for streamers/content creators looking for the opportunity to break into the industry.

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✊🏾🏳️‍🌈 Saffista, PhD📓🕹️ @saffista.bsky.social · Sep 24

Grapes and pecans. A friend brought me a big container over after my daughter was born and I was too busy to ever get to eat my food when it was hot. Been hooked ever since. 🤣

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · Sep 23

Meta appoints anti-DEI and anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor with a mandate to make the company's chat bot less 'woke.' www.advocate.com/news/meta-ro...

Meta appoints anti-DEI and anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor

Robby Starbuck has been appointed as an AI bias advisor at Meta with the goal of making the company's chat bot less "woke."

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✊🏾🏳️‍🌈 Saffista, PhD📓🕹️ @saffista.bsky.social · Sep 23

With so many anticipated games on the horizon it’s good to see that some folks are making it easier for me to choose which ones not to buy…

Aftermath @aftermath.site · Sep 23

The right's Charlie Kirk cancellation spree has emboldened gaming's worst

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✊🏾🏳️‍🌈 Saffista, PhD📓🕹️ @saffista.bsky.social · Sep 23

Mortimer Goth was just there for me to 🪦 him, steal his wife, take the house, and mourn his widow after she had a terrible pool accident.

Hypothetically. 🫣

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The Yetee 🌈 🕊️ @theyetee.com · Sep 22

Don't miss your last chance to pick up merch from our official @gdocexpo.com collection! The event may have wrapped up, but you can still support GDoC with the official tee, pin, tote, and poster of this year's event! theyetee.com/gamedevsofcolor

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✊🏾🏳️‍🌈 Saffista, PhD📓🕹️ @saffista.bsky.social · Sep 23

Never too old! We’ve got this. Will also update on how it goes. 🤣