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This is what I've been working on all summer. It's my first book, called Escape Velocity: Explorations of Digital Culture and its Discontents 2019-2024. It's partially a retrospective of my time doing No Escape but it also features multiple revisions of old work and five entirely new essays.
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Not to “I told you so” but there were plenty of women on the left who were told that speaking up about misogyny within anticapitalist spaces was playing “identity politics” and I am uninterested in entertaining that line of thought at this point.
It feels worth saying that the thing that unifies men as disparate as Noam Chomsky, Deepak Chopra and Trump is patriarchy. Patriarchy, hatred of women, and the need to dominate them, persists across race and class status. Left movements refuse a robust analysis of persisting gender violence.
February 5, 2026 at 1:18 AM
Not to “I told you so” but there were plenty of women on the left who were told that speaking up about misogyny within anticapitalist spaces was playing “identity politics” and I am uninterested in entertaining that line of thought at this point.
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my god. a james baxter animating masterclass on walking? and it's just on youtube?!?! wowzers
James Baxter's Masterclass video about walk cycles is necessary viewing for a lot of reasons (not the least of which being that he's one of the last living masters of 2D animation), especially in how it showcases the drawing habits in his process that I was told were "wrong." (1/5)
Walks
YouTube video by James Baxter
youtu.be
February 5, 2026 at 2:19 AM
my god. a james baxter animating masterclass on walking? and it's just on youtube?!?! wowzers
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im havina stronk
February 4, 2026 at 11:27 PM
im havina stronk
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unbelievably grim to see Valve announce a delightful and exciting compact Linux box approximately 15 seconds before RAM became the more expensive material in the known universe.
Valve’s Steam Machine has been delayed, and the RAM crisis will impact pricing. Valve is now aiming to launch its Steam Machine in the first half of 2026, rather than early 2026. How much will it cost, though? www.theverge.com/games/874196...
Valve’s Steam Machine has been delayed, and the RAM crisis will impact pricing
You’ll have to wait a little longer for Valve’s new hardware.
www.theverge.com
February 5, 2026 at 12:33 AM
unbelievably grim to see Valve announce a delightful and exciting compact Linux box approximately 15 seconds before RAM became the more expensive material in the known universe.
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If you're thinking about Washington Post, "well, to hell with them, they did it to themselves," then count yourself on the side of management. Because, no, labor didn't do this to themselves, didn't grind the paper down, yank it right, & rip out its spine. That's capital. Now we'll all suffer.
February 5, 2026 at 12:28 AM
If you're thinking about Washington Post, "well, to hell with them, they did it to themselves," then count yourself on the side of management. Because, no, labor didn't do this to themselves, didn't grind the paper down, yank it right, & rip out its spine. That's capital. Now we'll all suffer.
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A small plug today to consider joining the Freelance Solidarity Project. We're all in this media shitscape together, and it's going to take organizing to rescue its remains from the dumpster fire.
freelancesolidarity.org
freelancesolidarity.org
Home - Freelance Solidarity Project
We are a union of digital media workers raising labor standards across our industry.
freelancesolidarity.org
February 4, 2026 at 7:25 PM
A small plug today to consider joining the Freelance Solidarity Project. We're all in this media shitscape together, and it's going to take organizing to rescue its remains from the dumpster fire.
freelancesolidarity.org
freelancesolidarity.org
As I slowly dig myself out of the massive pile of music that is my 2025 backlog, I gotta share this album by New York band REDS, a band where vocalist Evan Kilgore sounds so uncannily like Ian MacKaye I had to do a double-take at the roster
council-records.bandcamp.com/album/the-tr...
council-records.bandcamp.com/album/the-tr...
The Truth of Impermanence, by REDS
9 track album
council-records.bandcamp.com
February 5, 2026 at 12:17 AM
As I slowly dig myself out of the massive pile of music that is my 2025 backlog, I gotta share this album by New York band REDS, a band where vocalist Evan Kilgore sounds so uncannily like Ian MacKaye I had to do a double-take at the roster
council-records.bandcamp.com/album/the-tr...
council-records.bandcamp.com/album/the-tr...
Trackmania sicko post: Practicing the Weekly Grand track is so nerve-racking. the new Solid Ghosts don't move when you hit them and they like magnetically attach to you so trying to get away from them if you accidentally bump into one is an entire ordeal.
February 4, 2026 at 11:23 PM
Trackmania sicko post: Practicing the Weekly Grand track is so nerve-racking. the new Solid Ghosts don't move when you hit them and they like magnetically attach to you so trying to get away from them if you accidentally bump into one is an entire ordeal.
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Graceless pivot to survival: I’m launching
THE FUTURE IS OURS TO MAKE
A music newsletter of reccos, rants, illumination, shade, endangered forms (concert/album reviews, human interviews), formless dangers (trash talk, love lore, bespoke illos) — an expansion of my work as your critic + co-listener
THE FUTURE IS OURS TO MAKE
A music newsletter of reccos, rants, illumination, shade, endangered forms (concert/album reviews, human interviews), formless dangers (trash talk, love lore, bespoke illos) — an expansion of my work as your critic + co-listener
February 4, 2026 at 6:39 PM
Graceless pivot to survival: I’m launching
THE FUTURE IS OURS TO MAKE
A music newsletter of reccos, rants, illumination, shade, endangered forms (concert/album reviews, human interviews), formless dangers (trash talk, love lore, bespoke illos) — an expansion of my work as your critic + co-listener
THE FUTURE IS OURS TO MAKE
A music newsletter of reccos, rants, illumination, shade, endangered forms (concert/album reviews, human interviews), formless dangers (trash talk, love lore, bespoke illos) — an expansion of my work as your critic + co-listener
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good day to reshare direkris.itch.io/you-are-jeff...
February 4, 2026 at 6:41 PM
good day to reshare direkris.itch.io/you-are-jeff...
"excited for overwatch news" couldn't be me, I'm playing its synonym, highguard
February 4, 2026 at 9:54 PM
"excited for overwatch news" couldn't be me, I'm playing its synonym, highguard
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"These were not merely acts of charity. They were counter-institutions — infrastructure designed to keep people connected, informed, cared for, and protected in a system built to fragment and isolate them." truthout.org/articles/ant...
Anti-ICE Organizing Is Creating Counter-Institutions Based on Care
Rapid-response networks and mutual aid are not charity. They’re shared infrastructure for collective care and survival.
truthout.org
February 4, 2026 at 7:36 PM
"These were not merely acts of charity. They were counter-institutions — infrastructure designed to keep people connected, informed, cared for, and protected in a system built to fragment and isolate them." truthout.org/articles/ant...
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That sure is a shitton of Blizzard coverage on my skyline all of a sudden for people who like to talk big game about BDS.
February 4, 2026 at 7:34 PM
That sure is a shitton of Blizzard coverage on my skyline all of a sudden for people who like to talk big game about BDS.
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❄️ Update: The GAME NARRATIVE KALEIDOSCOPE ❄️ will be published soon - we just sent a proof to the authors.
400 pages - 100k+ words - 118 authors - including the writers from several well-beloved games and major franchises.
If you want to be notified when it releases, you can add your name below!
400 pages - 100k+ words - 118 authors - including the writers from several well-beloved games and major franchises.
If you want to be notified when it releases, you can add your name below!
Sign up for news about the Game Writing Kaleidoscope
In early 2026 we’ll be publishing The Game Narrative Kaleidoscope, a collection of over 100 short essays by game writers about writing.
Featuring some very famous names, some highly experienced free...
forms.gle
February 4, 2026 at 3:10 PM
❄️ Update: The GAME NARRATIVE KALEIDOSCOPE ❄️ will be published soon - we just sent a proof to the authors.
400 pages - 100k+ words - 118 authors - including the writers from several well-beloved games and major franchises.
If you want to be notified when it releases, you can add your name below!
400 pages - 100k+ words - 118 authors - including the writers from several well-beloved games and major franchises.
If you want to be notified when it releases, you can add your name below!
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santi is one of the hardest-working, sharpest, most efficient and talented writers in the business right now. pls hire him for all your writing needs!! especially if you need guides or reviews -- he's a master at them!
The Escapist is freezing its freelancer budget, which means I am available for work!
I’m a journo with multiple years of experience as a writer and editor, and I’m open to work on any kind of coverage, from news and features to guides and reviews! If you wanna check my work: www.santileguiza.com
I’m a journo with multiple years of experience as a writer and editor, and I’m open to work on any kind of coverage, from news and features to guides and reviews! If you wanna check my work: www.santileguiza.com
Santiago Leguiza
He/Him | Gaming Journalist, Editor |Words @thegamerwebsite @Gfinity @eurogamer @pcgamer @indiegameweb @thestartmenu @intothespine @PCGamesN @EscapistM...
www.santileguiza.com
February 4, 2026 at 5:22 PM
santi is one of the hardest-working, sharpest, most efficient and talented writers in the business right now. pls hire him for all your writing needs!! especially if you need guides or reviews -- he's a master at them!
I am mad at the ransacking of our epistemic anchor points and I am mad at the insistence that the writing equivalent of doing Uber Eats is the best way to replace those anchor points
February 4, 2026 at 6:12 PM
I am mad at the ransacking of our epistemic anchor points and I am mad at the insistence that the writing equivalent of doing Uber Eats is the best way to replace those anchor points
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"For those who long to kill, the opportunity to do so for ICE—shielded by immunity, offered to regular police too—is the fulfillment of a white accelerationist mandate.”
By @williamcson.bsky.social for @prismreports.org
prismreports.org/2026/02/04/f...
By @williamcson.bsky.social for @prismreports.org
prismreports.org/2026/02/04/f...
Another way out: Power, force, and far-right rewards for killing
The far-right’s celebration of killing and the state’s complicity in it show that violence is one of America’s sustaining forces
prismreports.org
February 4, 2026 at 3:46 PM
"For those who long to kill, the opportunity to do so for ICE—shielded by immunity, offered to regular police too—is the fulfillment of a white accelerationist mandate.”
By @williamcson.bsky.social for @prismreports.org
prismreports.org/2026/02/04/f...
By @williamcson.bsky.social for @prismreports.org
prismreports.org/2026/02/04/f...
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i know that this is an unpopular take, but everyone starting their own newsletter as a revenue stream is not a sustainable model for writing and reporting or for people who love and want to pay for media.
A lot of people cannot just start a paid newsletter or become freelancers to sustain their careers. The sports, metro, and international desks did work that requires *team* resources, like legal checks, documents, access to archives, and long-term beat experience.
February 4, 2026 at 2:50 PM
i know that this is an unpopular take, but everyone starting their own newsletter as a revenue stream is not a sustainable model for writing and reporting or for people who love and want to pay for media.
the Washington Post is getting rid of their sports and books sections while shrinking their international coverage and cutting their metro desk. what's left, you ask? politics and opinion! fucking useless. democracy dies in darkness indeed
February 4, 2026 at 2:44 PM
the Washington Post is getting rid of their sports and books sections while shrinking their international coverage and cutting their metro desk. what's left, you ask? politics and opinion! fucking useless. democracy dies in darkness indeed
good shit. good shit
NEW: The FBI has been unable to access a Washington Post reporter’s seized iPhone because it was in Lockdown Mode, a sometimes overlooked feature that makes iPhones broadly more secure, according to recently filed court records.
FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled
Lockdown Mode is a sometimes overlooked feature of Apple devices that broadly make them harder to hack. A court record indicates the feature might be effective at stopping third parties unlocking some...
www.404media.co
February 4, 2026 at 2:33 PM
good shit. good shit
Thinking about that new Adam Neely video and repulsed by the idea that there are people out there with absolutely no interest in music using a genAI tool to “make music” that then becomes the only thing they listen to AND “proof” that they themselves are “artists”
February 4, 2026 at 2:05 PM
Thinking about that new Adam Neely video and repulsed by the idea that there are people out there with absolutely no interest in music using a genAI tool to “make music” that then becomes the only thing they listen to AND “proof” that they themselves are “artists”
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They have to do this driving around and snatching random people they profile and running off fast as they can because the community response is overwhelmingly and immediately negative, and often grows by the minute while they're stationary.
February 4, 2026 at 3:28 AM
They have to do this driving around and snatching random people they profile and running off fast as they can because the community response is overwhelmingly and immediately negative, and often grows by the minute while they're stationary.
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We've almost totally fallen out of the national news about it but things have not calmed down in Los Angeles or the wider metro area. Border Patrol still runs the same kinds of kidnapping crews roving around a set of neighborhoods nearly every day since August, when they switched to that tactic
Can comfirm from MN, as can anyone who lives here, that not a THING has changed except little Bovino isnt peacocking around the streets anymore. And there hasn’t been a third high-profile murder of a white person yet.
But the gestapo attacks haven’t stopped. At all! bsky.app/profile/jyse...
But the gestapo attacks haven’t stopped. At all! bsky.app/profile/jyse...
ICE hasn't stopped brutalizing people or shredding the Constitution, it's just that corporate media turned the camera as the call for action got too loud and the Democrats stepped in and made sure the issue got changed.
If you sit for a second, you'll recognize that's what happened with BLM, too.
If you sit for a second, you'll recognize that's what happened with BLM, too.
February 4, 2026 at 3:28 AM
We've almost totally fallen out of the national news about it but things have not calmed down in Los Angeles or the wider metro area. Border Patrol still runs the same kinds of kidnapping crews roving around a set of neighborhoods nearly every day since August, when they switched to that tactic
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Full on concentration camps. "We don't know half of what's going on in the camps, but we know enough" is echoing from 85 years ago.
Kelly Vargas writes about what happened to her, her husband, and their 6yo daughter in the family camp in Texas.
Filth, illness, medical abuse—her child has lasting complications from being injured by a staff member.
We don't know the half of what's happening in the camps, but we know enough.
Filth, illness, medical abuse—her child has lasting complications from being injured by a staff member.
We don't know the half of what's happening in the camps, but we know enough.
My Daughter Lived the Liam Ramos Nightmare. It Turned Out Worse for Us.
The constant threats took a toll on my health. My daughter’s health deteriorated even faster.
slate.com
February 3, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Full on concentration camps. "We don't know half of what's going on in the camps, but we know enough" is echoing from 85 years ago.