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ian @ismathers.bsky.social · Jan 1
Ripping this off from many (directly from @tomewing.bsky.social): in 2025, I play to a new-to-me record a day. Partly to prevent year-end listening being so clogged (AGAIN), partly just because I keep finding myself going "I should play more records" and doing nothing about it. Thread to follow.
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eyepatchwolf.bsky.social
I just... look we're... we're talking about the horse girl anime and Riverdale. This one was a lot.

youtu.be/6_Qhkhk_yio?...
Umamusume vs Riverdale
YouTube video by Versus Wolves
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November 28, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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rufustsuperfly.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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gravelinfluencer.bsky.social
This interview with Any Lucia Belloza is heartbreaking but everyone should read it. These are the lives our country is destroying.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
As she sat on a bus near a tarmac in Texas in the early hours on Saturday morning, just about 48 hours after her arrest — with handcuffs around her wrists and shackles around her feet — and saw that most of the people around her were from Honduras, too, Lopez Belloza realized she was likely being deported that very day. “The thing that was hitting me so hard, it was my education,” Lopez Belloza, who is the first in her family to go to college, said. “I was so happy when I got there [to Babson],” Lopez Belloza said. “I was just living the college life — going to events, going everywhere ... everything there was really great. I really loved the school." She and her father also had a special shared aspiration. With her business degree, Lopez Belloza was going to help her father open his own tailor shop, they hoped.
November 27, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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avilewis.ca
1/ Mark Carney has betrayed all of us by making a pipeline pact with Danielle Smith. A real nation-building project would expand the renewable energy of the future while creating thousands of jobs - powerlines not pipelines.
November 27, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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brendelbored.bsky.social
I wish it didn’t feel so unusual and inspiring to see a leader treating everyone like they matter and saying that we have a responsibility to help each other
zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d
Combatting poverty and hunger in this city will take every single one of us. Myself included.
November 27, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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socialistboat.dad
"friction gives life meaning" hell yeah let's go
niedermeyer.online e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 1d
seeing the world this way has had a lot of functional advantages for a long time now, and it's a major reason for the retreat of religion and spiritual life in economically advanced societies... but as AI offers paths out of the friction that gives life meaning, perhaps that pendulum swings back
November 27, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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fartsjohnson.bsky.social
Truth Coming Out of Her Well to Shame Mankind
November 27, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com
Please look at this. *Really* look at it. And realise that even if you do insist there are issues with the data, or try to "Ah, but ~of course~ NPC soldiers should be men!" it away, any result that even vaguely resembles this chart should still be considered shameful. This is 30+ years of stories.
rebeccamwrites.bsky.social Rebecca McCarthy - Game Writer & Narrative Designer @rebeccamwrites.bsky.social · 6d
The proportion of female to male dialogue in Final Fantasy. #advx25
Chart showing m to f dialogue proportion
November 25, 2025 at 4:50 AM
ismathers.bsky.social
I'll take it
macnult.com macnult @macnult.com · 4d
Infinite Jest = reddit
Gravity's Rainbow = tumblr
November 24, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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ketanjoshi.co
Regret to report that there has been another good linkedin post
View Jürgen Geuter’s graphic link Jürgen GeuterJürgen Geuter • 2ndVerified • 2nd Research Director @ART+COM | Independent writer/theorist | Keynote Speaker | AI-Deinfluencer | #LudditeResearch Director @ART+COM | Independent writer/theorist | Keynote Speaker | AI-Deinfluencer | #Luddite 22h • 22 hours ago • Visible to anyone on or off LinkedIn Follow Very few narratives piss me off as much as the whole "let's give marginalised people LLM assistants for inclusion". Inclusion does not mean giving marginalised people shittier versions of a thing: Sure you can give kids from poorer backgrounds an LLM to "learn" but what you are saying is that poor people are not worth having trustworthy sources of information. When you say that older or lonely people can talk to chatbots to feel less alone you are saying that some people are not worth a social life. This is a deeply inhumane perspective that goes actively against the ideas and ideals of inclusion. likesupportcelebrate 186 You and 185 others
November 22, 2025 at 11:18 AM
ismathers.bsky.social
taking the dundas streetcar home, why not drop by the AGO and hang out with the Rothko a bit?
A picture I took of Mark Rothko's "No. 1 White and Red" in the Art Gallery of Ontario from the couch on the other side of the room where it's displayed. It's a large black canvas with three horizontal colour bars, top to bottom white, red, and brown. The bars are rectangular but with indistinct edges and also the colour isn't always totally solid. The picture is from far back enough you can see the barrier showing how far back you should stand from it and the track lighting on the ceiling.
November 22, 2025 at 9:54 PM
ismathers.bsky.social
Buddy from grad school knew someone was hiring for editing jobs and valued people having an MA or more; turns out I'm both good at it and like it. Bottom hasn't fallen out yet.
recursecenter.bsky.social Recurse Center @recursecenter.bsky.social · 17d
What’s the lore behind choosing your career path ?
November 22, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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silly.bsky.social
I am hearing that after meeting Mamdani, Trump received the light of Islam and unhesitatingly recited the Shahada. Even now he looks down on the Ummah from the rose gardens of the white house. Truly there is no god but Allah, and Mohammad is his prophet!
November 22, 2025 at 12:55 AM
ismathers.bsky.social
Really enjoyed this one (and again, listen to her new album Unfolding, it's great).
November 21, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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cavegift.bsky.social
really wishing i had a Demon Arm that did Dark damage and applied Bleed buildup right now
November 20, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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ralphtheewiggum.bsky.social
Really excellent point that often gets lost in the (deserved) mockery.

These things are not neutral arbiters of truth. They are easily manipulated extensions of the ideology of their creators.

The attempt to shove them into every conceivable knowledge space is an explicitly political project.
hypervisible.blacksky.app Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 8d
The grok stuff is pathetic but it’s also a perfect and undeniable illustration of chatbots as ideology. It’s no less true for chatgpt or other bots, but sometimes not as visible.
November 20, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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rahawahaile.bsky.social
COYOTE’s service journalism will always be free to read, including today’s guide to helping someone who might be overdosing.
coyotemedia.org COYOTE @coyotemedia.org · 9d
Anyone can reverse an overdose, and we should all know how. Naloxone is a social intervention; while our public health systems are woefully inadequate, and the war on drugs continues unchecked, we can empower ourselves and one another to step up.

✍️: @nuala.bsky.social
📸: @estefancy.bsky.social
COYOTE First Aid Kit: How to Compassionately Respond to an Overdose
Naloxone, rescue breathing, and 911: Learn the do's, don'ts, and best practices for reversing an overdose.
www.coyotemedia.org
November 19, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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jasonkoebler.bsky.social
This is one of the worst, most horrifying exposures we have ever seen. It is hard to overstate how bad the things that people are using tools like for are, and it's insane to pretend like these tools are anything other than nonconsensual porn machines

www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
Massive Leak Shows Erotic Chatbot Users Turned Women’s Yearbook Pictures Into AI Porn
Chatbot roleplay and image generator platform SecretDesires.ai left cloud storage containers of nearly two million of images and videos exposed, including photos and full names of women from social me...
www.404media.co
November 19, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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maggiemcneill.bsky.social
This would've been SO MUCH easier if y'all had listened to sex workers 7 years ago, and 15 years ago, and 30 years ago, and 40 years ago, and...
swopbehindbars.bsky.social SWOP Behind Bars @swopbehindbars.bsky.social · Aug 14
Glad to see the pushback on payment processors regarding games. But remember, the fight is far from over. There is still an effort to criminalize porn, and hopefully we all know by now that porn can mean anything from OF to books to games to magazine covers.

www.thepinknews.com/2025/05/13/p...
Republican bill would ban all porn in the US
Republicans have reintroduced a bill which aims to ban porn in its entirety across the US, causing immense concern among adult creators.
www.thepinknews.com
August 15, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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strucci.bsky.social
One thing about Fake Friends 2 is it never even cracked 250k views and for maybe four years after I made it I was still paying off debt I accrued while making video essays/too poor to afford rent in Atlanta. Doing okay now fortunately but lol
November 18, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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skeet.best
BABIES ARE BORN WORSHIPPING UNKNOWN GODS — DWARF FORTRESS, BUG REPORT #13172
November 11, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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hazelmonforton.com
"He desired. He desired desiring. He desired being desired. He desired desire itself."
November 17, 2025 at 3:49 PM
ismathers.bsky.social
Well, I know what I'm listening to later
November 15, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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matttomic.bsky.social
Jesus Christ.
“I get 10 messages, DMs (direct messages) a game, (saying), ‘F— you, I’m gonna f— your family up,” one player said. “I personally hate gambling. Hate everyone talking about parlays this, parlays that. I hate getting DMs in my Instagram talking about, ‘You f—– up my parlay.’ I hate people sending me threats because I messed up their parlay,” another said. Terrible. Hate them. Every game, no matter if it’s a good game or bad game, you’ve got motherf—— sending death threats, saying racist s—. Every game. I guarantee you, if I check right now, I’ll probably have something from this game. Every game. Everywhere. DMs, Twitter. People be tripping, bro,” a player said. “I hope it doesn’t happen, but it’s going to come to a point where players are going to be targeted because people have lost so much money on them. That’s what I think. But hopefully I’m wrong.”
November 15, 2025 at 3:44 AM