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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 6h

Just Jack Kirby in 1939, reminding us not to make deals with Nazis

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Amabel Holland @amabel.bsky.social · 1h

That's very kind, thank you!

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Jaime N. Christley @rohmersimpson.bsky.social · 1h

I mean this as 100% complimentary and sincerely, that dogs are a blessing if you want excitement and validation for seeming like you're about to do something

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 2h

do not listen to pundits, even trans pundits, who have given up in their hearts on the dream of liberation, who have preemptively sold out in hopes of becoming part of a world which is already dead and rotting

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 2h

Transness is not bourgeois. This is a wedge idea dreamed up by some gleefully amoral think tank lobotomite to split trans people and make us fight each other. That we relay on modern medicine doesn't make us any more bourgeois than someone who needs antidepressants or cleft palate repair.

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Signing Mass Effect @ Essen! @ithayla.bsky.social · 3h

becca's one of my oldest friends and she and her wife need help, any amount would go a long way

Querdcast @querdcast.bsky.social · Aug 25

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Donate to Save Our Trans Family from Danger, organized by Rebecca Avery Ruhlman

Hi , as many of you know Donald Trump has declared an all out war on black tra… Rebecca Avery Ruhlman needs your support for Save Our Trans Family from Danger

www.gofundme.com

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flipandfight.bsky.social @flipandfight.bsky.social · 4h

Dieses Video-Essey ist vermutlich eines der besten, welches jemals zum Thema Brettspiele gemacht wurde. Absolut sehenswert und klare Anschau-Empfehlung von uns.

Amabel Holland @amabel.bsky.social · Mar 11

It’s finally here! Mechanisms as Metaphors: How Board Games Create Meaning takes a look at how board games make persuasive arguments, how they might move us emotionally, and how the ways we talk about the form might hinder its development.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wG4z...

Mechanisms as Metaphors: How Board Games Create Meaning

YouTube video by Mary & Amabel Holland

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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 5h

There are a lot of Onion/Clickhole articles that have become meme-ified to the point that they serve as short-hand responses to posts - "Worst Guy You Know Makes Great Point," "No way to stop this says only place it happens," etc, but I feel like this is an underutilized one.

Researchers No Closer To Understanding What The Fuck You’re Talking About

CAMBRIDGE, MA—Finding themselves increasingly frustrated after years of fruitless analysis, researchers working with a Harvard-coordinated international multi-university research initiative published ...

theonion.com

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 6h

mtg in 1997: this card is selenia, a guardian angel from the heavenly realm of serra. twisted by the phyrexians, she drove crovax of urborg insane with unrequited love

mtg in 2025: this card is spongebob. from spongebob squarepants

mtg in 2035: we ran out of ideas. this card is your coworker jeff

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 6h

Important to note that this isn’t a problem for the billionaire buying media properties. If they make them into successful rightwing propaganda? Cool more money. If it fails? Cool they’ve destroyed one of the few outlets with the resources to investigate them. Either way they achieved their goal

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 22h

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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Elizabeth S. @valkyriegf.bsky.social · 7h

I correctly guessed from the first sentence of the preview which board game designer this is :) ( @amabel.bsky.social )

Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 8h

Absolutely killer work here, read it even if you're not interested in board games per se (i'm not)

www.skeletoncodemachine.com/p/painful-ch...

Every choice in this game is painful

Exploring a "subversion of the point salad paradigm" game that makes every decision seem like a bad one. How The Field of the Cloth of Gold creates it's own kind of fun out of gift giving.

www.skeletoncodemachine.com

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Beyond Solitaire @beyondsolitaire.bsky.social · 10h

This is crazy to me, because I did see this in high school--as part of a Cinema and History elective where the film was explicitly presented as racist. (I learned so much from that class...)

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Amabel Holland @amabel.bsky.social · 10h

I would really love it personally if otherwise talented and knowledgeable film people stopped spreading the film's PR campaign as fact

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Amabel Holland @amabel.bsky.social · 10h

the "it's an innovative milestone" lie which Movies Silently debunked here was used as late as 1999 so that one of my conservative high school teachers could spend an entire week showing the film and "contextualizing" it (i.e., subtly presenting its racist beliefs as secret facts)

Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · May 23

They often defend Griffith's place of respect by claiming some important firsts for him: First film shot in California, first closeup, first editing for suspense (cross-cutting)

Yeah, he did none of these things and I have the receipts.

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Mike Sellraiser III: Sell on Earth @profmikesell.bsky.social · 10h

Always looking for articulate, accessible work like this—perfect for my game studies classes!

Amabel Holland @amabel.bsky.social · Mar 11

It’s finally here! Mechanisms as Metaphors: How Board Games Create Meaning takes a look at how board games make persuasive arguments, how they might move us emotionally, and how the ways we talk about the form might hinder its development.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wG4z...

Mechanisms as Metaphors: How Board Games Create Meaning

YouTube video by Mary & Amabel Holland

www.youtube.com

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · May 23

"But if he didn't do all these things, why does he get credit?"

Well, two words: Elon Musk.

But seriously, Griffith himself took out a whole double page ad spread to claim he invented everything.

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 10h

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · May 23

DW Griffith directed BIRTH OF A NATION (1915), a virulently racist film (and neither his first nor his last one of those) that saw racist violence follow wherever it was screened.

So, naturally, there are film bros and gals who think we should "ignore the racism" and keep it in the canon.

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Amabel Holland @amabel.bsky.social · 10h

oh gosh, I adore sushi (might be my favorite thing to eat), Magnolia is such an important and moving film to me, and Green Day was the first concert I ever attended lol

People are very different and that's so beautiful.

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Brett Rolfe @brettrolfe.bsky.social · 16h

Love this so much! So many educational games completely ignore the way board games can create meaning... and how this potential can be used to achieve powerful learning outcomes.

Amabel Holland @amabel.bsky.social · Mar 11

It’s finally here! Mechanisms as Metaphors: How Board Games Create Meaning takes a look at how board games make persuasive arguments, how they might move us emotionally, and how the ways we talk about the form might hinder its development.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wG4z...

Mechanisms as Metaphors: How Board Games Create Meaning

YouTube video by Mary & Amabel Holland

www.youtube.com

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Kathryn Salamander @transsalamander.bsky.social · 18h

Reading/writing smut is good for your soul

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 18h

Here's another one for free: most writers are as bigoted and incurious when they come up with their characters as your average network TV casting agent.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Vivian Moira Vampire @itsviviactually.bsky.social · 19h

I love this so much

Scream Kings Podcast @screamkings.bsky.social · 2d

One of the top tier opening scenes hands down

Text: Drew Barrymore dies at the start of this painting, doesn't she?

The Scream painting

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 20h

The thing that bothers me about "Cozy horror" outside of any taxonomy and on a personal level is that I honestly find a lot of comfort in horror as is, even with some of the more extreme subgenres. There's something reassuring and cathartic about acknowledging darker themes, if that makes sense? 🎃

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Amabel Holland @amabel.bsky.social · 20h

Rewatching S2 E10 or Review, and I completely forgot that Forrest's conspiracy theory sees him turn transvestigator

Amabel Holland @amabel.bsky.social · 7d

the last episode of season 1 is such a well-constructed thing - the way the "jag-off" speech weaves through it, recontextualized, acquires a surprising emotional weight

Amabel Holland @amabel.bsky.social · 24d

"Life: it's literally all we have. But is it any good?"

restarting my comfort show

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Amabel Holland @amabel.bsky.social · 20h

Twilight Inscription, please?

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