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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 33m

Tagame's an interesting one. Does these nuanced, insightful queer stories for a general audience after building a career in explicit kink manga for gay men.

People contain multitudes!

Anime News Network @animenewsnetwork.com · 37m

Gengoroh Tagame's Fish and Water manga is getting an English release on June 23!

Gengoroh Tagame's Fish and Water Manga Gets English Release

Volume ships on June 23

www.animenewsnetwork.com

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 35m

be useful if that was in the Stuff article as well! Also very odd - borderline misleading - to report numbers they say they know are unlikely in reality (both TPM's 6 and National's 43); surely just do party vote and assume each party at least 1 electorate.

Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 58m

the only possible explanation other than just a typo - always possible! - imo is that they presume national will have more electorate seats than they are entitled to proportionately.

Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 12h

There's a certain species of nerd that's happy to imagine a future of pew pew laser beams and space travel but for whom a more relaxed attitude to gender and sexuality than existed during the mid 90s breaks suspension of disbelief. Come the fuck on buddy lol.

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 12h

(the current mode is not to object to gays existing in the game but to ask if they're overrepresented above statistical general population levels in which case it's shoving it in your face & bad.

Buddy.

"Everyone is bisexual in the future" has a vintage in SF going at *least* back to the 70s.)

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 12h

Been enjoying the newly released game Battle Suit Aces.

A rare card battler that isn't a roguelite. Nice visual novel segments too; aesthetics of Cowboy Beebop & Gurren Lagann with similar plot vibes updated for modern audiences & more than gay enough to scare the Steam discussion boards.

Save 10% on Battle Suit Aces on Steam

From the creators of Battle Chef Brigade comes Battle Suit Aces, a charming card-battling RPG. You'll recruit, befriend, and upgrade mech pilots on a heartfelt hunt for alien superweapons: the Relic S...

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 21h

oh nice the latest rosen mystery!

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 22h

this is an incredibly experienced, smart, credible academic. what is going on?!

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 22h

Wild to me that a smart, experienced academic is just posting in public the stuff the screenshotted person here is posting. What is happening & why are people so sloppy?!

Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 1d

Seeing people nonchalantly post stuff like makes me feel like I'm going crazy honestly.

A post from an academic on blue sky that says: "I'm learning about "prompt engineering" when asking LLMs to extract data. I now add this to all instructions:

Style
Be concise, analytic, and specific (cite page/figure if provided). If essential info is missing, keep going but flag Unclear and exact data needed. Never invent data.

#academicsky"

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 1d

If you enjoyed Clair Obscur, do seek out the tradition it comes from. The best of the likes of Falcom (Ys VIII; the brand new Trails in the Sky remake), Square (e.g. Chrono Trigger), Monolith (Xenoblade Chronicles 3) Atlus (Persona V) & oddball Vanillaware efforts (13 Sentinels) all worth your time.

Jazz The JRPG Queen 👑❤️🎮 @jazzlikestogame.bsky.social · 2d

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is a wonderful lovely game one that I love so much and I’m so glad that it came out when it did and was received so well ——— but let’s not forget the wonderful lovely JRPG games that came before it and deeply inspired the developers to craft this game.

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 1d

Really excited for this! Hanna is an excellent scholar and we badly need a modern take on the field.

(She's also a friend and I'm so stoked for her this is making its way to press).

Strictly Obiter @strictlyobiter.bsky.social · 1d

Pre-ordered Hanna Wilberg's Administrative Law in Aotearoa New Zealand. Very excited to read it and really important it's been written. These years Joseph's text is venerable (complimentary) and venerable (derogatory).

www.bloomsbury.com/au/administr...

Administrative Law in Aotearoa New Zealand

This book on administrative law in Aotearoa New Zealand fills a gap with its fresh scholarly account of the law in this area, focusing on analysis of structures…

www.bloomsbury.com

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 1d

the equivalent is electoral reform people in countries with FPP. Although they are *also* off putting on their one thing. Though still 100% correct about it.

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 1d

Sale at fangamer resulted in a new keyring (for the first time in 20 years) and a new desk mat!

Hades keyring with nectar, sword, cerberus, and pom charms.

a desk mat in yellow, with schematics of The Rig and the cast from Citizen Sleeper 2.

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 1d

nah it is updating on the electionz website. They just don't announce when or make it clear which have changed, they just sub progress results out with prelim ones. Annoying.

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 1d

That's the date for the final count including specials. All standard votes are supposed to be out right now.

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 1d

Any idea when our private elections overlords finish counting the on the day votes? I know there were lots, so not surprising (or outrageous) that the standard Sunday deadline wasn't met, but we're a fair way into Monday & I see nothing for WCC & a couple of races ARE in the balance.

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 1d

I think the "large account" obligation, to the extent there is one, is "think really hard about whether you want to quote dunk". Which I think is good advice for anyone but moreso when you have lots of followers. and that's about it.

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 1d

Professionally, I've had publications end up in print that started as DM conversations with colleagues on the other side of the world.

Personally, I've made double figure numbers of irl friends, more than one to the extent of being invited to their weddings or inviting them to mine.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 6d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 2d

Here more than 5,000 people answered the question below (more than 4,200 via quote replies & >800 comments). Lots of interesting stories!

On X, 15 people replied to the same query.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 6d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 1d

congrats on the broadened brief! But what are we going to do now having to share both you and Emma Ricketts with the whole of the country lol?

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 1d

If you enjoyed Clair Obscur, do seek out the tradition it comes from. The best of the likes of Falcom (Ys VIII; the brand new Trails in the Sky remake), Square (e.g. Chrono Trigger), Monolith (Xenoblade Chronicles 3) Atlus (Persona V) & oddball Vanillaware efforts (13 Sentinels) all worth your time.

Jazz The JRPG Queen 👑❤️🎮 @jazzlikestogame.bsky.social · 2d

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is a wonderful lovely game one that I love so much and I’m so glad that it came out when it did and was received so well ——— but let’s not forget the wonderful lovely JRPG games that came before it and deeply inspired the developers to craft this game.

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 1d

Newly re elected councillor has an answer for us!

bsky.app/profile/geor...

Geordie Rogers @geordierogers.co.nz · 1d

I’ve checked in with the deputy electoral officer and this bin has been cleared (so no votes in this and it will be picked up today). There were a larger than expected quantity of votes received so the priority was on returning those and counting them

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 1d

thanks, Geordie (and congratulations).

Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 1d

(It may well be empty and just not have been removed yet; you can see that the slot is covered over. But, again, be good to have a well known public contact point rather than private company be in charge of fielding such queries)

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Joachim Boaz @joachimboaz.bsky.social · 2d

Mick van Houten's cover art detail for the 1st edition of Ian Watson's The Book of the River (1985)

#scifi #sciencefiction #art

A ship sails a river with steep mountainous banks. There are trees in the foreground and mist in the background.

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