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Typebar Magazine (Issue 7 Out Now!!) @typebarmagazine.bsky.social · 17d
Typebar Magazine Issue 7 is now FREE for EVERYONE.

Read all 10 magnificent essays on topics ranging from The Odyssey to Super Mario Bros. Threading all of them below!

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Karlo Yeager Rodríguez @kjy1066.bsky.social · 11h
Forgive the cobbled-together feel of this, but eat up!

Nine stories in this TropiWeird combo - including two stories never before seen! As they say in PR: buen provecho!

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Sam that was @sambrambling.bsky.social · 11h
Drawn in by the LL Cool J reference, stayed for some knowledge.
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Matt Wolfbridge (read Typebar Magazine) @wolfbridge.bsky.social · 13h
Typebar magazine published a great essay by @ernie.tedium.co earlier this year about this. If you don’t own the audience relationship then you don’t own anything.

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Matt Wolfbridge (read Typebar Magazine) @wolfbridge.bsky.social · 12h
When businesses trusted Facebook, Facebook turned around and charged everbody money to reach their own audience. Substack will inevitably do the same. It's baked into the model!
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Matt Wolfbridge (read Typebar Magazine) @wolfbridge.bsky.social · 13h
Typebar magazine published a great essay by @ernie.tedium.co earlier this year about this. If you don’t own the audience relationship then you don’t own anything.

www.typebarmagazine.com/2025/07/14/d...
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Matt Wolfbridge (read Typebar Magazine) @wolfbridge.bsky.social · 13h
Typebar magazine published a great essay by @ernie.tedium.co earlier this year about this. If you don’t own the audience relationship then you don’t own anything.

www.typebarmagazine.com/2025/07/14/d...
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Typebar Magazine (Issue 7 Out Now!!) @typebarmagazine.bsky.social · 1d
The first literary thriller? Homer's Odyssey.

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Homer's Odyssey: The First Literary Thriller - Typebar Magazine
Literary thrillers are about the journey, not the destination.
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Typebar Magazine (Issue 7 Out Now!!) @typebarmagazine.bsky.social · 2d
"The best dystopian fiction, and the best cyberpunk fiction by extension, trades on this human element. Rather than chain itself to paltry political metaphors, these genres examine how people choose to confront a horrifying and inescapable situation."

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Cyberpunk 2077 and the Anesthesia of #Dissent - Typebar Magazine
There are few easy answers to the questions the cyberpunk genre asks.
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Typebar Magazine (Issue 7 Out Now!!) @typebarmagazine.bsky.social · 2d
"To view our era as unprecedented is both chauvinist and defeatist. It flatters our desire to be special and also our desire to be absolved for our failures."

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White Noise, Talk Radio, and Our Unexceptional Present - Typebar Magazine
To view our era as unprecedented is both chauvinist and defeatist.
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Blink Kitty Love @blinkkittylove.bsky.social · 2d
to read for @upstartarts.bsky.social
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Typebar Magazine (Issue 7 Out Now!!) @typebarmagazine.bsky.social · 2d
Here's the full essay. It's great!

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Typebar Magazine (Issue 7 Out Now!!) @typebarmagazine.bsky.social · 2d
Despite releasing nearly 30 years ago, Hideaki Anno's live-action, feature-length debut Love & Pop is an eerily relevant film about contemporary loneliness

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Love & Pop: The Evangelion Creator’s Live-Action Time Capsule Masterpiece That’s Even More Relevant Today - Typebar Magazine
There are no shortcuts to developing real human connections.
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Typebar Magazine (Issue 7 Out Now!!) @typebarmagazine.bsky.social · 2d
Here's the full essay. It's great!

www.typebarmagazine.com/2024/11/28/s...
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Typebar Magazine (Issue 7 Out Now!!) @typebarmagazine.bsky.social · 2d
Dread Delusion's numerous gameplay limitations are, in actuality, masterful narrative-sculpting decisions

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Git Gud? More Like Get Literate: Dread Delusion and the Art of Gameplay-as-Story - Typebar Magazine
This game is about choice, belief, and the weight of being a person.
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Olivia @oagennaro.bsky.social · 2d
I loved Between the Lions!
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Typebar Magazine (Issue 7 Out Now!!) @typebarmagazine.bsky.social · 2d
Between the Lions—a PBS children's show complete with puppets and literary enthusiasm—was arguably the zenith of children's media, especially compared to modern YouTube slop.

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Between the Lions, "Elsagate," and the Fall of Quality Children's Programming - Typebar Magazine
Young imaginations should be expanded, not exploited.
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Typebar Magazine (Issue 7 Out Now!!) @typebarmagazine.bsky.social · 2d
Between the Lions—a PBS children's show complete with puppets and literary enthusiasm—was arguably the zenith of children's media, especially compared to modern YouTube slop.

www.typebarmagazine.com/2025/08/29/b...
Between the Lions, "Elsagate," and the Fall of Quality Children's Programming - Typebar Magazine
Young imaginations should be expanded, not exploited.
www.typebarmagazine.com
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Typebar Magazine (Issue 7 Out Now!!) @typebarmagazine.bsky.social · 10d
Hello friends!

Does anyone know a web designer experienced with the Ghost platform?

We'd explain more but it's top secret! 🤐
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Jonathan Thornton @jonathanthornton.bsky.social · 13d
My essay on @jennyhval.bsky.social ‘s books and music is now free on @typebarmagazine.bsky.social www.typebarmagazine.com/2025/08/29/a...
A Celebration of the Abject, the Queer, and the Arcane: The Work of Writer-Musician Jenny Hval - Typebar Magazine
Hval’s work, both in written and musical form, shows an artist willing to explore the limits of genres.
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Land of 10,000 Takes @notokayfabe.bsky.social · 14d
Just wrapped 2077 last night so I'm looking forward to reading this.
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Typebar Magazine (Issue 7 Out Now!!) @typebarmagazine.bsky.social · 17d
There's more to narratives about dismantling power structures than cheap #dissent, writes @strangelibrary.com

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Cyberpunk 2077 and the Anesthesia of #Dissent - Typebar Magazine
There are few easy answers to the questions the cyberpunk genre asks.
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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 14d
I enjoyed reading this piece. I've ended up playing through this game a few different times, mostly provoked by writing and major updates and asks to do so, and each time I've gotten something different and weirder from it.
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Typebar Magazine (Issue 7 Out Now!!) @typebarmagazine.bsky.social · 17d
There's more to narratives about dismantling power structures than cheap #dissent, writes @strangelibrary.com

www.typebarmagazine.com/2025/08/29/c...
Cyberpunk 2077 and the Anesthesia of #Dissent - Typebar Magazine
There are few easy answers to the questions the cyberpunk genre asks.
www.typebarmagazine.com
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Mr. Emotion @mr-e-motion.bsky.social · 15d
My latest is now free to read!
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Typebar Magazine (Issue 7 Out Now!!) @typebarmagazine.bsky.social · 17d
"To view our era as unprecedented is both chauvinist and defeatist. It flatters our desire to be special and also our desire to be absolved for our failures." -- Danny Cohen on our (un)exceptional present.

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White Noise, Talk Radio, and Our Unexceptional Present - Typebar Magazine
To view our era as unprecedented is both chauvinist and defeatist.
www.typebarmagazine.com
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Ian @brocktoon.bsky.social · 15d
This is a fucking excellent review of reviews that takes roundabout aim at the by now exhausted and exhausting surface level didacticism of our criticism.
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Typebar Magazine (Issue 7 Out Now!!) @typebarmagazine.bsky.social · 17d
There's more to narratives about dismantling power structures than cheap #dissent, writes @strangelibrary.com

www.typebarmagazine.com/2025/08/29/c...
Cyberpunk 2077 and the Anesthesia of #Dissent - Typebar Magazine
There are few easy answers to the questions the cyberpunk genre asks.
www.typebarmagazine.com
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Lau R. Griffin @thegreatsurf.bsky.social · 15d
Great article. One of the persistently funny things about the release of this game is how clearly so many reviewers had marinated in online discourse based on a largely imagined version of the genre. Of course the rough launch didn't do much to help it lol
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Typebar Magazine (Issue 7 Out Now!!) @typebarmagazine.bsky.social · 17d
There's more to narratives about dismantling power structures than cheap #dissent, writes @strangelibrary.com

www.typebarmagazine.com/2025/08/29/c...
Cyberpunk 2077 and the Anesthesia of #Dissent - Typebar Magazine
There are few easy answers to the questions the cyberpunk genre asks.
www.typebarmagazine.com
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Sam Reader, Antiochean Pope @strangelibrary.com · 15d
@gaycannibalism.bsky.social wrote an excellent essay and has got me thinking about giving the game another try.
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Typebar Magazine (Issue 7 Out Now!!) @typebarmagazine.bsky.social · 17d
Dread Delusion is a masterclass in designing game mechanics around a deeply thematic narrative, says @gaycannibalism.bsky.social

www.typebarmagazine.com/2025/08/29/g...
Git Gud? More Like Get Literate: Dread Delusion and the Art of Gameplay-as-Story - Typebar Magazine
This game is about choice, belief, and the weight of being a person.
www.typebarmagazine.com
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Sam Reader, Antiochean Pope @strangelibrary.com · 15d
If you liked my Cyberpunk piece, you'll love the numerous excellent thinkers and writers here at Typebar. Read around and subscribe, you won't be disappointed. Here's a thread to get you started.
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Typebar Magazine (Issue 7 Out Now!!) @typebarmagazine.bsky.social · 17d
Typebar Magazine Issue 7 is now FREE for EVERYONE.

Read all 10 magnificent essays on topics ranging from The Odyssey to Super Mario Bros. Threading all of them below!

🧵
1 6
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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 15d
I think this might be one of the most clear-eyed articles about Cyberpunk 2077 I've read. Actually looking at the game's themes, rather than getting caught up on a thought-terminating cliche and single word in the title.
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Typebar Magazine (Issue 7 Out Now!!) @typebarmagazine.bsky.social · 17d
There's more to narratives about dismantling power structures than cheap #dissent, writes @strangelibrary.com

www.typebarmagazine.com/2025/08/29/c...
Cyberpunk 2077 and the Anesthesia of #Dissent - Typebar Magazine
There are few easy answers to the questions the cyberpunk genre asks.
www.typebarmagazine.com
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This Is Another Weird Website! @hoboabobo8d8.bsky.social · 15d
I enjoyed this article!
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Typebar Magazine (Issue 7 Out Now!!) @typebarmagazine.bsky.social · 17d
There's more to narratives about dismantling power structures than cheap #dissent, writes @strangelibrary.com

www.typebarmagazine.com/2025/08/29/c...
Cyberpunk 2077 and the Anesthesia of #Dissent - Typebar Magazine
There are few easy answers to the questions the cyberpunk genre asks.
www.typebarmagazine.com
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Pickman's Supermodel @sadgirlfantasy.bsky.social · 16d
Pretty good summary of the frustration I felt with early reviews of the game and whether it was "punk" when cyberpunk as a genre never was, not in the way people talked about it anyway. For better and worse it's a piece of art driven by the genre's exhausted cynicism
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Typebar Magazine (Issue 7 Out Now!!) @typebarmagazine.bsky.social · 17d
There's more to narratives about dismantling power structures than cheap #dissent, writes @strangelibrary.com

www.typebarmagazine.com/2025/08/29/c...
Cyberpunk 2077 and the Anesthesia of #Dissent - Typebar Magazine
There are few easy answers to the questions the cyberpunk genre asks.
www.typebarmagazine.com
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