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Annie who lives here

@stellarine.bsky.social

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writer in chicago / co-host of @eati.games / fiction in thecoloredlens.bsky.social / more at https://linktr.ee/stellarine / views expressed here are my own and not that of my employers

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Annie who lives here @stellarine.bsky.social · Aug 31

I actually really love finding out so getting to fuck around beforehand is just a bonus

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Annie who lives here @stellarine.bsky.social · 17h

This is so real. A few of my Asian-American friends from college used to do this as they led me around to good restaurants. They were like "as long as the yelp review says the food was good but the service was terrible you're in the clear"

Annie who lives here @stellarine.bsky.social · 17h

AHAHAHA i've never considered that angle but that's absolutely a real thing to fear

Annie who lives here @stellarine.bsky.social · 17h

Recently got thai food on a whim with a friend and they picked the one which was rated .1 stars higher than the other even though it was a longer walk

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Annie who lives here @stellarine.bsky.social · 17h

Surprising number of my friends care about the average star rating a restaurant has on Google. I don't think I even notice that when I look a place up. When I asked them if they've ever rated a place on Google themselves they said no

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Annie who lives here @stellarine.bsky.social · 1d

Thinking of the straight men in my life who own a lot of Alien memorabilia and don't, won't even consider owning this. Even though it's the best. Also kind of want a replica skirt/bodice like this for myself

Annie who lives here @stellarine.bsky.social · 1d

Lol

Screenshot of doll description that says "No one can hear you scream in space, especially when the alien hunting you slays this hard"

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Annie who lives here @stellarine.bsky.social · 1d

Facehugger heels... pls

Closeup of facehugger shaped heels on the Monster High Alien doll

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Annie who lives here @stellarine.bsky.social · 1d

Everything is terrible but look at this Monster High Skullector Alien doll they're releasing. This is exactly what H.R. Giger would've wanted

Monster High Skullector Alien Doll

No one can hear you scream in space, especially when the alien hunting you slays this hard.

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Annie who lives here @stellarine.bsky.social · 1d

Of course!!

Annie who lives here @stellarine.bsky.social · 1d

Hello I asked Emmi for her official PhD opinions and here are some additional recs: "More recs for choux (that I have not yet read) are Homo Ludens by Huizinga and Man, Play and Games by Callois... Also a straight up textbook by Katie Salen Tekinbaş and Eric Zimmerman called Rules of Play"

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Annie who lives here @stellarine.bsky.social · 1d

I'm normal again now

Annie who lives here @stellarine.bsky.social · 1d

There's a window of time every day where life becomes unbearable bc the sun comes through the window in the office at the exact angle to make me feel like an ant under a magnifying glass on a summer afternoon. This window is 4:15pm-4:30pm roughly

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Annie who lives here @stellarine.bsky.social · 2d

Yes

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 3d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Annie who lives here @stellarine.bsky.social · 4d

Ahaha. At least they ARE pretty to look at. Not so pretty to smell

Annie who lives here @stellarine.bsky.social · 4d

Also yeah I just did this so I know exactly how much it sucks

Annie who lives here @stellarine.bsky.social · 4d

A curse for my enemies: I hope you step on a gingko seed in your favorite pair of shoes

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Annie who lives here @stellarine.bsky.social · 5d

Some of us are fully employed AND have dozens of hours in critically acclaimed indie games

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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 5d

Reminder that Substack helped launch Bari Weiss into CBS takeover position and the precarious media position in which we find ourselves generally. (And this is only one of multiple Bad Things about them!) The best time to have left there is, like, a couple years ago, but the second best time is now.

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Annie who lives here @stellarine.bsky.social · 5d

Congrats to your sister!! I'll recommend for my little cousins!

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Shannon Heffernan @shannonheffernan.bsky.social · 5d

It’s not even 10 a.m., and so much has unfolded in Chicago:

– Illinois sues Trump over the National Guard deployment

– Mayor Brandon Johnson bans city property use for immigration enforcement

– Journalists and protesters sue the feds over Broadview violence

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Annie who lives here @stellarine.bsky.social · 5d

Yes to all of that and I also wonder from a purely practical business perspective how Paramount expects somebody whose past work experience is essentially running a newsletter will apply to running an entire news network

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Ben Fritz @benfritz.bsky.social · 8d

The most important human story in the entertainment industry right now is the severe downturn in film and TV production in LA and how it's affecting middle-class crew workers. I spoke to dozens of them for this story about the depressed Hollywood economy. www.wsj.com/business/med...

L.A.’s Entertainment Economy Is Looking Like a Disaster Movie

Work is evaporating, businesses are closing, longtime residents are leaving, and Los Angeles’s creative middle class is hanging on by a thread.

www.wsj.com

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 7d

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

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Annie who lives here @stellarine.bsky.social · 8d

Oh happy birthday!!

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