Gertrude Perkins ☄
@gertrudeprkns.bsky.social
Media, cultural studies, education. Used to research videogames and Let's Plays, still in recovery. A student called me a communist once. Queer guy, he/him. Dip me in chocolate.
Podcasting at @flashitpancast.bsky.social !!!!!
Podcasting at @flashitpancast.bsky.social !!!!!
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im so mad that Cyber Monday doesnt mean we all get body augment tech in order to transcend this weak flesh
December 1, 2025 at 4:17 PM
im so mad that Cyber Monday doesnt mean we all get body augment tech in order to transcend this weak flesh
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#SaveSpeech
tomorrow December 2nd, the Energy+Commerce Committee is having a hearing on a package of "online child safety" bills
A number of these bills are pro-censorship and surveillance
please call their office and tell them these bill;s are dangerous and unpopular! script below!
tomorrow December 2nd, the Energy+Commerce Committee is having a hearing on a package of "online child safety" bills
A number of these bills are pro-censorship and surveillance
please call their office and tell them these bill;s are dangerous and unpopular! script below!
December 1, 2025 at 6:34 PM
#SaveSpeech
tomorrow December 2nd, the Energy+Commerce Committee is having a hearing on a package of "online child safety" bills
A number of these bills are pro-censorship and surveillance
please call their office and tell them these bill;s are dangerous and unpopular! script below!
tomorrow December 2nd, the Energy+Commerce Committee is having a hearing on a package of "online child safety" bills
A number of these bills are pro-censorship and surveillance
please call their office and tell them these bill;s are dangerous and unpopular! script below!
Now that all eight episodes have been released, you can binge the whole lot! So proud I got to be part of this fun, exciting, thoughtful, and lovingly-produced show! Also my bf's in it, so even more of a reason to listen!
Good news, October lovers of vamps, tragic love stories, transgender drama, and leftist politics!
The Not Ready for Opsec Players are proud to announce the release of their first episode of their weekly audio drama:
Vampire: The Masquerade: Blood Doll!
Enjoy!
www.blooddollpod.com/podcast/vtm-...
The Not Ready for Opsec Players are proud to announce the release of their first episode of their weekly audio drama:
Vampire: The Masquerade: Blood Doll!
Enjoy!
www.blooddollpod.com/podcast/vtm-...
December 1, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Now that all eight episodes have been released, you can binge the whole lot! So proud I got to be part of this fun, exciting, thoughtful, and lovingly-produced show! Also my bf's in it, so even more of a reason to listen!
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Bless Sparker Spennett for reviewing my trans audio drama "Brittle Tourniquet" on Causing Audiodrama!
"It's a show about how your gay relationship drama could be worse. So be grateful." - Sparker
creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...
"It's a show about how your gay relationship drama could be worse. So be grateful." - Sparker
creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...
BRITTLE TOURNIQUET REVIEW: Let Jenny Say Fuck by Causing Audiodrama
Featuring my enormous self-restraint in not making any Homestuck jokes about Aradia.Check out Brittle Tourniquet: https://www.brittletq.com/Episode BGM: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/holiznacc0/p...
creators.spotify.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Bless Sparker Spennett for reviewing my trans audio drama "Brittle Tourniquet" on Causing Audiodrama!
"It's a show about how your gay relationship drama could be worse. So be grateful." - Sparker
creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...
"It's a show about how your gay relationship drama could be worse. So be grateful." - Sparker
creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...
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The Not Ready for Opsec Players proudly releases a bonus for all the fans - the Vampire: The Masquerade: Blood Doll Anthology!
A series of short vignettes about the Blood Doll characters as read by their actors!
www.blooddollpod.com/podcasts/vtm...
A series of short vignettes about the Blood Doll characters as read by their actors!
www.blooddollpod.com/podcasts/vtm...
December 1, 2025 at 6:29 PM
The Not Ready for Opsec Players proudly releases a bonus for all the fans - the Vampire: The Masquerade: Blood Doll Anthology!
A series of short vignettes about the Blood Doll characters as read by their actors!
www.blooddollpod.com/podcasts/vtm...
A series of short vignettes about the Blood Doll characters as read by their actors!
www.blooddollpod.com/podcasts/vtm...
Eels are precious and should be protected!
Every now & again, it's useful to say why I do all these eel history tweets.
Mostly, it's because eels need our help. They're critically endangered, seeing a c.90% drop in population in the last decades.
But it's hard to get people to care! 'Cause...eels are gross & slimy. 1/2
🗃️🧪
Mostly, it's because eels need our help. They're critically endangered, seeing a c.90% drop in population in the last decades.
But it's hard to get people to care! 'Cause...eels are gross & slimy. 1/2
🗃️🧪
December 1, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Eels are precious and should be protected!
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i’m genuinely so convinced all of this has been a planned operation by the student and her mother (who is commenting on this publicly, and associated closely with the republican party), and big far right propaganda account going all in on it. this is designed to oust trans people from public life
December 1, 2025 at 6:09 PM
i’m genuinely so convinced all of this has been a planned operation by the student and her mother (who is commenting on this publicly, and associated closely with the republican party), and big far right propaganda account going all in on it. this is designed to oust trans people from public life
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i couldn't *not* do it once i thought of it
November 30, 2025 at 1:16 AM
i couldn't *not* do it once i thought of it
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#TodayInQueerHistory
December 1 (1989)
To mark the 2nd World AIDS Day, the World Health Organisation and Visual AIDS organised the Day Without Art. Museums and galleries took action: draping art in shrouds, replacing them with information about safer sex or even locking through doors entirely.
December 1 (1989)
To mark the 2nd World AIDS Day, the World Health Organisation and Visual AIDS organised the Day Without Art. Museums and galleries took action: draping art in shrouds, replacing them with information about safer sex or even locking through doors entirely.
December 1, 2025 at 5:01 PM
#TodayInQueerHistory
December 1 (1989)
To mark the 2nd World AIDS Day, the World Health Organisation and Visual AIDS organised the Day Without Art. Museums and galleries took action: draping art in shrouds, replacing them with information about safer sex or even locking through doors entirely.
December 1 (1989)
To mark the 2nd World AIDS Day, the World Health Organisation and Visual AIDS organised the Day Without Art. Museums and galleries took action: draping art in shrouds, replacing them with information about safer sex or even locking through doors entirely.
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I got the chance to talk about the Homestuck pilot on A Special Presentation with @teeaitchare.bsky.social and @gertrudeprkns.bsky.social
I was mostly there for therapeutic reasons.
podcastaddict.com/a-special-pr...
I was mostly there for therapeutic reasons.
podcastaddict.com/a-special-pr...
A Special Presentation, or Alf Will Not Be Seen Tonight - A Special Presentation 321: Homestuck Pilot
Listen to A Special Presentation, or Alf Will Not Be Seen Tonight - A Special Presentation 321: Homestuck Pilot by BitterKarella on Podcast Addict. That's right, we're going to tell you about Homestuc...
podcastaddict.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:08 PM
I got the chance to talk about the Homestuck pilot on A Special Presentation with @teeaitchare.bsky.social and @gertrudeprkns.bsky.social
I was mostly there for therapeutic reasons.
podcastaddict.com/a-special-pr...
I was mostly there for therapeutic reasons.
podcastaddict.com/a-special-pr...
Come and listen to me and two other eminently qualified nerds talk Homestuck, webcomics, and Circumstantial Simultaneity*
*sort of
*sort of
I got the chance to talk about the Homestuck pilot on A Special Presentation with @teeaitchare.bsky.social and @gertrudeprkns.bsky.social
I was mostly there for therapeutic reasons.
podcastaddict.com/a-special-pr...
I was mostly there for therapeutic reasons.
podcastaddict.com/a-special-pr...
A Special Presentation, or Alf Will Not Be Seen Tonight - A Special Presentation 321: Homestuck Pilot
Listen to A Special Presentation, or Alf Will Not Be Seen Tonight - A Special Presentation 321: Homestuck Pilot by BitterKarella on Podcast Addict. That's right, we're going to tell you about Homestuc...
podcastaddict.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Come and listen to me and two other eminently qualified nerds talk Homestuck, webcomics, and Circumstantial Simultaneity*
*sort of
*sort of
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Gerald rocking an unbelievable fit for this one
Join me and My 15 POUND RED CABBAGE
YouTube video by Gerald Stratford
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December 1, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Gerald rocking an unbelievable fit for this one
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I need to stress that this is mostly delisted work, art itch has decided is too... degenerate for visibility on their platform. Bundles like this are the only way to get access to some of these stories
The Bundle With Benefits is now LIVE!
33 items are available for $10, with an extra 18 items available at a $15 tier! Contributors include @leaftilde.bsky.social, @beedokfern.bsky.social, @grumpy-tg.bsky.social, @ela-bambust.bsky.social, @autumnwolff.bsky.social, and more!
itch.io/b/3377/bundl...
33 items are available for $10, with an extra 18 items available at a $15 tier! Contributors include @leaftilde.bsky.social, @beedokfern.bsky.social, @grumpy-tg.bsky.social, @ela-bambust.bsky.social, @autumnwolff.bsky.social, and more!
itch.io/b/3377/bundl...
December 1, 2025 at 6:00 PM
I need to stress that this is mostly delisted work, art itch has decided is too... degenerate for visibility on their platform. Bundles like this are the only way to get access to some of these stories
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New episode is now available for Flashketeers, featuring Tonberry and Cactuar, Saddam Hussein, and Mexican excellence. Join today to hear it RIGHT NOW, a week early!
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Episode 127: Cherry Flavoured Dental Dam | Flash In The Pan
Get more from Flash In The Pan on Patreon
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December 1, 2025 at 1:08 AM
New episode is now available for Flashketeers, featuring Tonberry and Cactuar, Saddam Hussein, and Mexican excellence. Join today to hear it RIGHT NOW, a week early!
www.patreon.com/posts/episod...
www.patreon.com/posts/episod...
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Watching people “discover” environmental racism, and then double down on doing it has been depressing.
It’s so wild how the wealthy are destroying the Amazon that potentially has the cure for all the cancers in favor of an Amazon that’s creating new types of cancers
December 1, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Watching people “discover” environmental racism, and then double down on doing it has been depressing.
New FITP! We finally talk about the work of Vinnie Veritas, and some lolrandom 2003 weirdness!
New episode is now available for Flashketeers, featuring Tonberry and Cactuar, Saddam Hussein, and Mexican excellence. Join today to hear it RIGHT NOW, a week early!
www.patreon.com/posts/episod...
www.patreon.com/posts/episod...
Episode 127: Cherry Flavoured Dental Dam | Flash In The Pan
Get more from Flash In The Pan on Patreon
www.patreon.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:10 AM
New FITP! We finally talk about the work of Vinnie Veritas, and some lolrandom 2003 weirdness!
The project of everyone pushing this technology is to make everything look and feel worse, and to try and convince everyone to be fine with that. Very tiring tbh
Jesus Christ, the "remastered" Beatles Anthology documentary they re-released is filled with AI slop. Look at John and Paul's faces, and the "T" on Beatles.
November 30, 2025 at 3:46 AM
The project of everyone pushing this technology is to make everything look and feel worse, and to try and convince everyone to be fine with that. Very tiring tbh
Between this and the Banana Fish machine-dub, it's obvious how little respect Amazon has for the medium or its audience. Not that this is surprising, but it still sucks!
Welp, a second AI dub on Amazon has apparently been found, and it's a show that already had a perfectly normal (albeit non-union) dub: No Game No Life.
November 30, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Between this and the Banana Fish machine-dub, it's obvious how little respect Amazon has for the medium or its audience. Not that this is surprising, but it still sucks!
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Hey just so you know Amazon decided to give us an AI ENGLISH DUB of Banana Fish instead of actually hiring real voice actors
it is fucking hot garbage
#bananafish #anime
it is fucking hot garbage
#bananafish #anime
November 28, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Hey just so you know Amazon decided to give us an AI ENGLISH DUB of Banana Fish instead of actually hiring real voice actors
it is fucking hot garbage
#bananafish #anime
it is fucking hot garbage
#bananafish #anime
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Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.
'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 2022
Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.
www.404media.co
November 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.
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defunctland videos are great because everyone in charge of disneyland for the past half century have been trying to carry out what they think walt would’ve wanted like they’re the patriots in MGS trying to carry out the boss’s will. coincidentally both involve giant robot dinosaurs
November 26, 2025 at 4:25 AM
defunctland videos are great because everyone in charge of disneyland for the past half century have been trying to carry out what they think walt would’ve wanted like they’re the patriots in MGS trying to carry out the boss’s will. coincidentally both involve giant robot dinosaurs
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“Whether in nostalgia for a nationalized rail service, or in dejection over an educational system tailored to the needs of industry over learning, there is a growing sadness that only monetary values can make headway in our culture, and that public goods cannot survive unless they make a profit.”
“To insist on the sensually impoverishing aspects of consumer culture is to speak for forms of happiness that people might be able to enjoy were they to opt for an alternative economic order. It is to open up a new political imaginary.”
This Black Friday, consider “alternative hedonism”:
This Black Friday, consider “alternative hedonism”:
The Trouble with Consumption
The contradictions between capitalist needs and ecological imperatives are impossible to ignore. How might the tenets of alternative hedonism foster new mandates for radical political change?
placesjournal.org
November 28, 2025 at 7:39 PM
“Whether in nostalgia for a nationalized rail service, or in dejection over an educational system tailored to the needs of industry over learning, there is a growing sadness that only monetary values can make headway in our culture, and that public goods cannot survive unless they make a profit.”
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ordered food here. the server did 7 frame-perfect turnarounds in a row and launched themselves through the door speeding past my table at 700km/h but the plate was perfect. 5 star service, would eat here again
April 28, 2025 at 2:46 PM
ordered food here. the server did 7 frame-perfect turnarounds in a row and launched themselves through the door speeding past my table at 700km/h but the plate was perfect. 5 star service, would eat here again
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i can be trusted with vintage typography equipment
November 18, 2025 at 11:08 PM
i can be trusted with vintage typography equipment
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poem that my dear friend @arcanumb.bsky.social wrote & published this week ❤️🔥🏳️⚧️
March 14, 2025 at 6:10 PM
poem that my dear friend @arcanumb.bsky.social wrote & published this week ❤️🔥🏳️⚧️