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meyo 🌸 @meyoco.bsky.social · 25d

orange soda sky 🧡💫

Artwork of a girl with short pink hair, wearing a baby doll dress made of fluffy clouds and pink ballet heels.

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https://kolektiva.social/@noescape_vg 🏴🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @noescapevg.com · Sep 13

to echo what @ellaguro.bsky.social said yesterday gamergate is necessary but insufficient to understand the present moment. there were lots of points of convergence where the far right gained power in nerdy/subcultural communities and normalized its presence in mainstream american politics.

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · Sep 11

"Political violence" is a term that exists to suggest a moral distinction between "violence against politicians" and "violence by politicians" - so that one can be condemned while the other can be normalized. Obviously, no such distinction exists in reality: violence is violence.

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · Sep 9

I feel there can be no canon of games that doesn't *at the very least* include tiny Finnish demoscene games, Polystation and Gameboy hacks from the Middle East and LATAM, half-translated hacked ROMs from South Europe, mobile games from Africa, and the entire corpus of mini-iterative RPGs from Asia.

illbleed for sego dreancas @impemboganecue.bsky.social · Sep 8

Gen X American game critics set up this myth of the history of the medium that basically only considers upper middle class white kids from the US who got a Nintendo for Christmas. We can't seem to shake it from the English language gaming community

Time Extension @timeextension.com · Sep 8

Random: "That's Wild" - The Fact That Two French Devs Didn't Play Nintendo As Kids Appears To Have Upset Some People. (Repost)

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Laura Kate Dale - LauraKBuzz @laurakbuzz.bsky.social · May 1

The Access-Ability Summer Showcase is just one month away.

45+ mins of trailers for upcoming, accessibility focused video games.

ASL, BSL, and Audio Descriptions.

A steam page for all the games.

Reaction streams encouraged. Press previews available upon request.

LauraKBuzz on YT and Twitch.

Access-Ability summer Showcase. Friday June 6th 2025. 4pm BST, 11am Eastern, 8am Pacific. A stick figure in a circle. the ends trail as cables to a standard and accessibility modular controller.

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WINGS @wingsfund.me · Apr 25

The WINGS Award will be at @gamescomlatam.bsky.social BIG Festival 2025! 🔥🏆

This award highlights OUTSTANDING games led by women & other gender marginalised devs 🎮

Here are the 5 incredible finalists!

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Radiant G🌈✨ @radiantg.bsky.social · Apr 1

🏳️‍⚧️📢 ISO TRANS ARTISTS 📢🏳️‍⚧️

Are you trans?🏳️‍⚧️💛🤍💜🖤 Do you make art?🎨

🗣️Reply with your name, pronouns & pictures of your #art!

All industries welcome: #Comic #Animation #VideoGame #TTRPG #Design etc. + #OCArt & #FanArt!

150 can make my last #TDOV starter pack🏳️‍⚧️

🔁 RTs Appreciated! 🔁
#TransDayofVisibility

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Radical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · Feb 9

Antifa stickers spotted in Upstate New York

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MaryGreenapple @marygreenapple.bsky.social · Feb 6

Games for Blind Gamers 4 is going to be quite an interesting challenge. I'm such a beginner but I'm here for the learning journey!
#Gamedev #AccessibilityInGaming #Accessibility

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Helena Steinhaus @helenasteinhaus.bsky.social · Jan 20

Nach dem Saale-Orla-Kreis & Schwerin, will jetzt auch Essen eine Arbeitspflicht für Bürgergeldbeziehende.
Eine moralische Bankrotterklärung! Die Arbeitspflicht hebelt die freie Berufswahl aus und versucht einfach nur Menschen mit Druck in schlecht bezahlte Arbeit zu peitschen!

Essen mit drastischem Bürgergeld-Vorstoß:
Arbeitspflicht und Gesundheitsprüfung!

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Cara Ramsey @cairenntairisu.bsky.social · Jan 5

After extensive review, France has established very positive gender affirming care guidelines, and they’ve rejected the highly politicized Cass Report as simply false.

www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/12/new-...

New French guidelines show doctors overwhelmingly support gender-affirming care - LGBTQ Nation

The medical guidelines contradict numerous conclusions from the UK's infamous Cass Review.

www.lgbtqnation.com

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MaryGreenapple @marygreenapple.bsky.social · Dec 24

Octodad Date edition

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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · Dec 23

fuck humble bundle actually

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MaryGreenapple @marygreenapple.bsky.social · Dec 24

I have several Saves where I tried to experiment exactly when the game stopped classifying things as inc*st. Very normal, very wholesome.

POCGamer aka PanzerLion! @pocgamer.com · Dec 24

I don't know what gamer bros need to hear this, but women and girls playing The Sims are not, and I say again, NOT, playing it like it's a dress up doll simulator. They're out there making Jigsaw look like a rolemodel. They make GTA Online players seem stable.

Stay in your lane, stay safe. IYKYK

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POCGamer aka PanzerLion! @pocgamer.com · Dec 24

I don't know what gamer bros need to hear this, but women and girls playing The Sims are not, and I say again, NOT, playing it like it's a dress up doll simulator. They're out there making Jigsaw look like a rolemodel. They make GTA Online players seem stable.

Stay in your lane, stay safe. IYKYK

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MaryGreenapple @marygreenapple.bsky.social · Dec 18

Oh no, I'm going to France this Sunday and now I'm scared.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · Dec 18

If your restaurant doesn't allow substitutions or special requests, either in person or online, that's as much as saying "don't eat here if you have food allergies or intolerances," & I'm like a gnat's ass hair away from saying the about anywhere doesn't clearly list all of their dishes' ingredients

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MaryGreenapple @marygreenapple.bsky.social · Dec 13

Please allow me this indulgence in my nerdyness.

MaryGreenapple @marygreenapple.bsky.social · Dec 13

I am the Goblin King and this is my Spatula ... and Soap!
#doctorwhoreference

A photo of Mary Greenapple wearing a lavender coat, purple glasses and gloves and a pink sarv and beret. They are laughing slightly menacingly and holding a wooden Spatula. In the background, a palace is visible.

A photo of Mary Greenapple wearing a lavender coat, purple glasses and gloves, and a pink sarv and beret. They have their arms raised, are laughing slightly menacingly and holding a spatula, and a wrapped piece of soap. In the background, a palace is visible.

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MaryGreenapple @marygreenapple.bsky.social · Dec 2

partner who loves you and whom you still love, but the connection has suffered like it sometimes does. I was born before marital r*pe was outlawed in my country. So you can imagine what might have happened to some demi people here. Kindly, shut the f*ck up! 2/2

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MaryGreenapple @marygreenapple.bsky.social · Dec 2

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No, Brenda, as a demisexual, it means that I spend my life happily living without any sexual attraction until I form that connection, and it hits me like a ton of bricks. It also means that if that connection suffers, even just a little bit, my attraction just leaves. Explain that to a /1/2

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demisexuality is lowkey so fake and pornbrained. like do you really think with your big adult brain that everyone BUT YOU walks around horned up and dying to fuck anything that moves all the time?

"i need an emotional connection!" most people do. you're not special.

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MaryGreenapple @marygreenapple.bsky.social · Nov 28

with a guest. The parent had previously told me that I wasn't good enough for said guest because I wasn't meeting them often enough. Funny how nothing they say means anything at the drop of a hat. /2/2 #toxicparents

MaryGreenapple @marygreenapple.bsky.social · Nov 28

CN: unhealthy family dynamics
Throwback to the day when the parent Im now no contact with, had an absolute meltdown, because I was too busy to immediately help them (woth an absolute non-issue, easily fixable by themselves) and didnt answer my phone (for a few hours) because I was busy /1/2

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · Nov 27

People are often surprised when I tell them this: both Twitter and Facebook/insta/threads are now specifically engineered to downgrade, hide, suppress real journalism. If this platform is different, that's a huge change

Matt Karolian @mkarolian.bsky.social · Nov 26

Traffic from Bluesky to @bostonglobe.com is already 3x that of Threads, and we are seeing 4.5x the conversions to paying digital subscribers.

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