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Riley MacLeod

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Co-founder of Aftermath, a worker-owned site about video games, the internet, and everything that comes after. riley [at] aftermath [dot] site. Previously: Kotaku, Washington Post. Trans; he/him https://aftermath.site/

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Riley MacLeod @rcmacleod.bsky.social · 8h

i feel like i could make a structurally sound version of this, is that just regular coleslaw?

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Riley MacLeod @rcmacleod.bsky.social · 9h

has anyone made a square burger bun, surely that would be a thing a man (me) could do

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Riley MacLeod @rcmacleod.bsky.social · 9h

As a guy with a library science degree, this blows

“The students who have entered the program with the expectation that they are getting a degree from a highly ranked one-hundred year old institution, and are now told that they’re going to be getting a degree from a department in an ill-conceived "School of AI" are feeling, rightfully, betrayed,” the faculty member wrote. “They have been misled, and they are spending considerable money to get this now-tarnished and politically co-opted degree.”

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Riley MacLeod @rcmacleod.bsky.social · 9h

i would deconstruct it and just mostly eat its separate parts, or enough of its parts that you could put the chicken inside the bun

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Riley MacLeod @rcmacleod.bsky.social · 9h

ok well see the problem here isn't that the sandwich is too large, it's that the bun is too small

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Riley MacLeod @rcmacleod.bsky.social · 10h

i wish it hadn't just become so hard to get stuff from other countries here in the US sigh

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Riley MacLeod @rcmacleod.bsky.social · 11h

oh how cool!!

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Riley MacLeod @rcmacleod.bsky.social · 11h

here he talks about what he thinks happen when you die and that he thinks he'll be reincarnated as a woman so now i am ah intrigued lol www.rte.ie/entertainmen...

Manchán Magan on cancer: 'I've no fear of death'

The writer and broadcaster Manchán Magan has said he has "no fear of death" as he discussed his cancer treatment on The Brendan O'Connor Show on RTÉ Radio 1.

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Riley MacLeod @rcmacleod.bsky.social · 11h

aw i love this, i'm gonna check this out! i fell off my irish and forgot everything but a friend of mine just visited dublin and brought me back some beginner books from the irish language bookstore AND i just learned there's an irish language meetup that happens near my house!

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Riley MacLeod @rcmacleod.bsky.social · 11h

oh he just died actually! he had this tv series youtube kept foisting on me called "No Béarla" where he is just an asshole to everyone who can't speak Irish, it's AWFUL to watch lmao but I trust he is smart about the language www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyll...

No Béarla Series 1, Episode 1.

YouTube video by An Ghaeilge

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Riley MacLeod @rcmacleod.bsky.social · 11h

ah this is my favorite dictionary site, it has a word of the day and a grammar tool and a pronunciation guide and a spelling game i am obsessed with being bad at
www.teanglann.ie/en/

Dictionary and Language Library

www.teanglann.ie

Riley MacLeod @rcmacleod.bsky.social · 12h

oh no it ISN'T the right form is it (I love the dictionary because it's full of weird sayings with the words lol)

imirt, f. (gs. imeartha). 1. vn. of imir2. 2. Playing, play. (a) (Of game) ~ cluiche, the playing of, the method of playing, a game. Páirc, culaith, imeartha, playing-field, -outfit. ~ cártaí, peile, card-, football-, playing. Cárta imeartha, playing-card. Clár imeartha, playing-board, -table. Fig: Field of action. Cé leis (an) ~? Whose turn is it to play? Prov: Den ~ an coimhéad, forewarned is forearmed. Bíonn cead cainte ag fear caillte na himeartha, it is a loser’s privilege to make excuses. S.a. céile1. (b) (Of gambling) Teach imeartha, gaming-house. Fiacha imeartha, gambling debts. Geall imeartha, stake in game, gambling stake. Bhí sé ina gheall imeartha ag an saol, he was the sport of fortune. Prov: Is fearr mac le h~ ná mac le hól, better a son a gambler than a son a drunkard. S.a. anam 2. (c) (Of pranks) Cén ~ atá agaibh air? Why are you playing pranks on him, annoying him? (d) (Of play of light) ~ na gréine ar an uisce, the sun playing on the water. 3. (a) Use, employment. ~ airm, the employment of a weapon. (b) Exercise, performance. ~ carthanachta, the exercise of friendship. (c) Infliction. ~ feirge, faltanais, the venting of spleen, of spite. (d) Lit: Control, management. ~ each agus carbad, control of horses and chariots.

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Riley MacLeod @rcmacleod.bsky.social · 12h

i am excited for you but also want to brag that i know what the word "imirt" means

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The NewsGuild-CWA @newsguild.org · 13h

NEW: L.A. Times journalists just voted to authorize the newsroom’s first open-ended strike.

Eighty-five percent of the @latguild.bsky.social voted to support the strike. Just over 200 workers — 98% of members — took part in the historic vote.

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Riley MacLeod @rcmacleod.bsky.social · 15h

i'm losing my mind!! Since they always call from different numbers you can't even block them!

Riley MacLeod @rcmacleod.bsky.social · 15h

i feel like they call you this much to make you think it's real? as far as i know i do not have any tax debt!

Riley MacLeod @rcmacleod.bsky.social · 15h

How is this not illegal

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Riley MacLeod @rcmacleod.bsky.social · 15h

ANOTHER ONE is calling right now, I think they broke, why the hell do we live like this jesus christ

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Riley MacLeod @rcmacleod.bsky.social · 15h

I stg THREE tax scam calls have just called my phone at the same time, a new one is calling literally as I type this

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Riley MacLeod @rcmacleod.bsky.social · 19h

cc @jackjenkins.me !

Casey Parks @caseyparks.bsky.social · 19h

Right now, the 9th Circuit is considering whether to allow troops to deploy to Portland's ICE facility. At this moment, looks like there are only Know Your Rights and a clergyperson outside.

Riley MacLeod @rcmacleod.bsky.social · 20h

i played my banjolele in the park once and someone came rushing from, like, across the park to talk to me about the banjo and it was really lovely, and i only realized like 20 minutes after they walked away that maybe they were also trans?

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 21h

Chess dungeon crawler, yeah
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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 1d

the messaging and meddling would have been an absolute disaster. they enabled the worst people on the internet over a game set in japan. imagine the first footage of shanking a klansman.

Aftermath @aftermath.site · 1d

Ubisoft could not have handled a Reconstruction Era Assassin's Creed:

aftermath.site/assassins-cree...

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Riley MacLeod @rcmacleod.bsky.social · 1d

augh! i do not recall it being a very uh rigorous process

Riley MacLeod @rcmacleod.bsky.social · 1d

she ran the town rec department! i had a job at the town-run summer camps and also clicking a clicker when people came to the town pool which i guess was a job lmao

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