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astraww.bsky.social
Aiden Straw(berry)hun 🍓
@astraww.bsky.social
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venusian (diabolical) - Creator-first brand strategist and marketing - formerly ubisoft - EGL ✨fashun✨model and stylist - #A11y - AKA Daisy! 🌼 (joy/ful)
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astraww.bsky.social
Time to put up the tree, aka my cats’ favorite time of the year: yummy microplastics
November 29, 2025 at 8:24 PM
astraww.bsky.social
god bless Cynthia and Ariana for having such a beautiful connection. I too am madly in love with friends and would absolutely marry 98% of them tomorrow, and that’s how it should be!!!!! Love it when we are loud about our deep platonic love
November 28, 2025 at 11:16 PM
astraww.bsky.social
don’t be sad go get a tattoo
November 28, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
hey the handbasket is 90 paid subscribers away from a huge goal—think we could get there today??

thehandbasket.co/upgrade

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November 28, 2025 at 6:53 PM
astraww.bsky.social
the sailor moon museum has given official notice of its overseas leg being postponed to an undetermined date
a black and white drawing of a girl with a cat ear making a face .
ALT: a black and white drawing of a girl with a cat ear making a face .
media.tenor.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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lexluddy.xyz
For the last six years, startmenu has gone back and forth between making a loss and just breaking even. I make no money on Rewinder. My guest spots on GB have been pro bono. I've slept on a friend's couch for every event I have covered (bar SGF when Tencent spent too much money flying people out) for the last 4 years. I have only been able to stay in games media because I am on disability and live at home to help support my parents. However, now that I am done with college, and have spent the most part of this year trying to secure more consistent paid work, I need to make this make sense in the long run. I have been offered an opportunity going in 2026, which will require me to have access to a reasonably powered PC, so any help in making that happen would be much appreciated. I deeply hate asking for help, but I really want to be able to continue working in this space and continue to foster the next generation of games criticism while making games media a sustainable and realistic line of employment for the next generation. So even if it's just a buck or two, it would really help out.
November 27, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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jauntymoose.bsky.social
We may be getting the Epstein Files in December, but they’re still hiding the Jobs Report, the Inflation Report, and the GDP Report.
November 25, 2025 at 6:49 PM
astraww.bsky.social
NIKKI MADE MY LITTLE MULLET AND GAY ELF BOY BRAID HAIR :D
November 26, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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moryan.bsky.social
Hey journalism & media folks, please share this around: The AP is hiring for a senior position careers.ap.org/job/New-York...
Senior Director for APNews, editorial
Senior Director for APNews, editorial
careers.ap.org
November 26, 2025 at 1:30 AM
astraww.bsky.social
i genuinely cannot wait until my girlfriend in japan comes back to live in the states many moons from now purely so i can make them play the best video game of all time: Final Fantasy XIII
plante.bsky.social Chris Plante @plante.bsky.social · 3d
This Xmas, take @marioprime.bsky.social's advice on buying a used PS2:

"I've loved going back and rediscovering some truly terrible games from the [PS2] era ... To feel the passage of time. To feel that things do progress. And the art gets more interesting"

postgame.substack.com/p/18-reasons...
November 26, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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davey.bsky.social
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.

Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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gregsargent.bsky.social
NEWS --> BBC confirms to me that they did edit a line out of historian @rutgerbregman.com's speech. It called Trump "the most openly corrupt president in US history."

BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.

New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
Trump’s Fury at BBC Gets Unnerving Results with Pro-MAGA Edit Stunner
First, British Broadcasting Corporation execs resigned after Trump complained about a segment. Now the BBC edited out a line from a historian that was critical of Trump. Where does this end?
newrepublic.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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julie.radiantarray.io
thank you kind souls who helped me out here, reupping in case anyone else wishes to do so
November 25, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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juliametraux.bsky.social
I often think about how I can't safely do protest coverage because what if this happens to me and I can't get my meds.
pressfreedomtracker.us U.S. Press Freedom Tracker @pressfreedomtracker.us · 4d
Freelance photojournalist @davedeckerphoto.bsky.social was arrested while reporting on an immigration protest outside an ICE facility in Miami on Nov. 22.

He was held in custody for 30-plus hours and released with charges of trespassing and resisting an officer.
Photojournalist arrested at Miami immigration protest, gear seized
Freelance photojournalist Dave Decker was arrested by Miami-Dade Sheriff’s deputies while documenting anti-deportation protests outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement …
pressfreedomtracker.us
November 25, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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kanaratron.bsky.social
I spoke to @adashtra.bsky.social about a topic close to my heart.
November 24, 2025 at 9:34 PM
astraww.bsky.social
Made a bandana at work today therefore I AM GOD
November 24, 2025 at 11:00 PM
astraww.bsky.social
so uh, it turns out that orthopedic sneakers do make a very big difference
November 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
astraww.bsky.social
Extremely important update: I have Received the Ball Pit Ball Hair Ties That Are Full of Sprinkles for this wig and there are exactly as delightfully silly as anticipated
astraww.bsky.social Aiden Straw(berry)hun 🍓 @astraww.bsky.social · 9d
wig styling is so fucking funny because tell me how irreversibly matting my wig went from that to THIS

i really am in awe of myself sometimes
A long matted raspberry pink sits on a wig head with blue and blonde wefts clipped above the matting. Daisy’s finished Pinkie Pie raspberry colored wig styled into fluffy bubble braids with curly bits of pink, blue and blonde.
November 24, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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hollynielsen.bsky.social
Made my day to read this great post and see this!
Similarly, a new wave of game developers, usually from much more diverse backgrounds, give voice to many scholars from archaeology, anthropology and history to express their concerns, artistic visions and experiences through game development. Such is the case of Holly Nielsen, historian and narrative designer, whose blog posts (like this one) regarding the development of Amberspire (a fantasy city builder) discuss implementing perspectives of macro and micro history and their entangled relationship as a tool for both narrative in terms of overall experience and a subtle way of introducing these concepts to a non-scholar audience.
November 23, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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chaide.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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catacalypto.bsky.social
girl just play the Sims
November 23, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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intothespine.bsky.social
"I don’t want her to think her sacrifices were in vain."

Tomás Neumann Aspee (@tomeitou.bsky.social) faces the reality of no longer caring about the most important day of his life.

intothespine.com/2025/11/22/t...
The Weight of Expectations - Into The Spine
For this week's Fragments, Tomás Neumann Aspee explores Many Nights a Whisper and no longer caring about the most important day in your life.
intothespine.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:24 PM
astraww.bsky.social
so Jiabber has this thing where he likes to terrorize me in the morning and will only stop when Joe calls him - we call this buddy bearing bc Joe specifically has to call him buddy bear. i can’t as he’s too busy bullying me. so now our morning alarm is miserably calling “buddy bear!” across the hall
November 22, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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daveghoul.com
$170 BILLION in lost US earnings a YEAR.

But sure, keep on telling yourself "cOViD's OvER".
thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 7d
Economic burden of long COVID: macroeconomic, cost-of-illness and microeconomic impacts

Published: 21 November 2025

Long COVID affects an estimated 36% globally, creating a huge economic burden: about $1 trillion a year worldwide, roughly $9,000 per US patient and $170 billion in lost US earnings.
A screenshot of an article page from npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine. The headline reads: “Economic burden of long COVID: macroeconomic, cost-of-illness and microeconomic impacts.” The article is written by Amit Bansal and published on 21 November 2025 as an open-access brief communication. The abstract text explains that Long COVID—defined as symptoms lasting more than three months after SARS-CoV-2 infection—poses a major global health and economic challenge. It notes a global prevalence estimate of 36%, with reported ranges from 1–92%. The article summarizes current estimates of economic impacts, including macroeconomic costs, cost-of-illness, and microeconomic effects. It highlights an average annual global economic burden of $1 trillion and about $9,000 per patient in the USA, where some individuals also face substantial out-of-pocket costs. Lost earnings in the USA are estimated at $170 billion annually. The abstract further mentions increased unemployment, financial distress, and work impairment lasting up to three years post-infection. The paper calls for standardised metrics, notes methodological discrepancies, and identifies research gaps, including the lack of longitudinal studies, limited economic aggregation, and insufficient data on long COVID subtypes, biomarkers, and intervention evaluations.
November 22, 2025 at 2:04 AM
astraww.bsky.social
so hey, we know nursing is a female-dominated field. that’s utterly heinous to target of course, but we knew that was happening. they said they were doing that in p2025.

you know what else therapists, nurses and doctors are? ✨Mandated Reporters✨

www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
Nursing is no longer considered a 'professional degree.' What changed?
The Trump administration's definition of a "professional degree" may not include nursing. Here's what the term means and who could be impacted.
www.usatoday.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:46 AM