Last day (though tomorrow sometime is fine, too) to submit an abstract for #GenerationAnalog2026! This year's theme is "GREEN." analoggamestudies.org/generation-a... @analoggamestudies.bsky.social #gameinlab #analoggamestudies #analoggames #greengames
Art: "War is not healthy for children and other living things."
Lorraine Schneider, 1967.
The second you leave this country for even a few days, you realize the place you call home is decaying at an almost exponential pace. The realization that you don't have to live like this is stark, and that nobody in power is taking tangible actions to fix it in your lifetime is even starker.
re: hockey, Muhammad Ali, one of the greatest boxers ever to live, gave up three years in the prime of his life — years in which his fighting would have been at peak; actual money incalculable — rather than fight in an unjust war, so noping out on grandpa’s burger bash should be an easy choice
If I post it, it’s true: @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social & I will be recording a conversation next month about his strategies for satisfying roleplaying in just an hour-long session. Taking questions now.
I can think of few peers more consistently supportive, thoughtful, rigorous, & truly hospitable.
ignore it all you want. the behelit will find you at the crucial moment.
Monk from Age of Empires
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Wololo
Roses are blue
Hoggle from Labyrinth
"I'm not scared of a germ. I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats."
I fear that men are about to do what men do. They are about to characterize any sober thinking about power as non-technical and therefore unserious.
We have seen this pattern over and over again in tech criticism. Women and people of color repeatedly lead on understanding tech changes.
if you played sonic the hedgehog and put down the controller, sonic would look at you and tap his foot impatiently. this was proof that sega genesis cartridges had souls. the decision was made to make the storage cases a lot larger than the cartridges so they would have room to move around in there
Friends, can I ask you to spread the word that we have a THREE-YEAR postdoc in American history at Cambridge up for grabs - ANY field, but applications are due March 1 so don't delay - apply, apply, apply! networks.h-net.org/jobs/69790/u...
No Kings includes Draft Kings
Hello, new followers!
My name is Avery, and I'm a tabletop roleplaying game designer who makes games about self-doubt, queerness, community, and the apocalypse. Learn more here: buriedwithoutceremony.com
I also talk about the necessity of an anticapitalist, decolonized, gender-liberated world.
The Board of Governors decided, unilaterally, that no published textbook in the field of sociology could be used in compliance with the law for an Intro to Sociology class. None. Victor: There's not a single existing textbook on the market that could be used that would qualify under state law? Zachary: Correct. Victor: I'm sorry, that's kind of funny. Like, the absurdity of not a single sociology textbook getting past the censors. I mean, it makes me kind of proud of our colleagues, but...
I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors.
Great work everyone.
From @acyn.bsky.social (posted on X)
"Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal?
Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail…
Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you.
Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake."
The need for gender studies classes has never been greater.
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
It's easy to see these academics as individual bad actors. But I'd argue--they were enabled by "elite" schools' look-the-other-way approach to dealing with big-name abusers, and by the fact that, societially, we treat people associated with "elite" schools as automatically deserving of deference.
These were the people who held the careers of female scholars in their hands . This is who was shaping or epistemological world
Is there a world-eating demon in our black boxes? In my forthcoming book The Unseen Internet I demonstrate the overlaps between the quest for AGI and spirit conjuring. Here's an adapted version of the chapter from @mitpress.bsky.social
“Ohhhhhh, they talking about me.” 😭😭😭
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The Quiet Year is an award-winning map-making game about building community after the collapse. It comes in a little box with everything you need to play. And it's back in stock in the US!
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Everyone deserves to live, here and abroad. Everyone. No ifs ands or buts.
Chicago.
El Fasher.
Gaza City.
Kharkiv.
Uvira.
Sydney.
Dhaka.
Minneapolis.
Utøya.
Devaluing anyone anywhere will form the basis for devaluing everyone everywhere.
No more.
imagine if all that money had gone to teachers instead
Genuinely the only thing keeping me going—but it really is keeping me going—is how good it is to see people link arms and push for this to end.
I cannot stop thinking about how much love people can have for their neighbors, and how much work and money is poured into breaking that love apart.
As JD Vance starts trying to play "nice Gestapo" to Steven Miller's "mean Gestapo," it's worth emphasizing that what's happening in Minnesota is a direct descendant of Vance's knowingly false racist demagoguery during the campaign. "Somalis are low-IQ thieves" is "Haitians are eating your pets."
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The games industry has a long history of glorifying and normalising military violence. A blurring of “war and play” that both militaries, militaristic organisations and the games industry benefit from.
This has been happening before digital games existed, but has been amplified massively by them.
When people tell Black folks that we're being sanctimonious instead of a light bulb going off, it is quite telling.
Black people didn't want to be right about murderous fascism. We wanted none of this to happen in the first place.
Minnesotans are not new to this. They have BEEN on the vanguard...
i literally dont have anything i can say that wont get me in massive trouble. im just going to log off. abolish ice.
On this frigid winter's day, I am once more asking you to follow these cool Canadian game scholar.
You can also let you know if you ARE a cool Canadian game scholar.
