Carli Velocci👽
@carlivelocci.com
Nonprofit comms professional by day, freelance writer & editor for video games, tech by night | Digital Trends, IGN, Polygon, etc | just some aliens in a suit | Follow @qtlibrary.org 💜 | They/she
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Carli Velocci👽
@carlivelocci.com
· Oct 24
Guess it's time for a proper intro post with new followers...
I'm Carli (she/they) and I'm three aliens stacked on top of each other 👽 I've also been an editor, journalist, and content manager for like 12 years.
I have two cats, post about video games, movies, and journalism and have brain worms 🪱
I'm Carli (she/they) and I'm three aliens stacked on top of each other 👽 I've also been an editor, journalist, and content manager for like 12 years.
I have two cats, post about video games, movies, and journalism and have brain worms 🪱
The way I can't tell if we're posting about Olivia Nuzzi, Elon Musk, or we're just tulpa-ing the worst internet main character into existence
November 27, 2025 at 12:36 AM
The way I can't tell if we're posting about Olivia Nuzzi, Elon Musk, or we're just tulpa-ing the worst internet main character into existence
Late-stage capitalism in the digital age means I constantly think about selling low-effort T-shirts as a side hustle
November 26, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Late-stage capitalism in the digital age means I constantly think about selling low-effort T-shirts as a side hustle
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No. The Thing is a movie about a bunch of people who all distrust and hate each other trapped in one building as the tension between them slowly builds until it reaches a breaking point. It's a Thanksgiving movie.
Should John Carpenter's THE THING be officially classified as a Christmas movie? Let your voice be heard!
Is John Carpenter’s THE THING A Christmas Movie? Have Your Say
Should John Carpenter's THE THING be officially classified as a Christmas movie? Let your voice be heard!
dlvr.it
November 25, 2025 at 6:04 PM
No. The Thing is a movie about a bunch of people who all distrust and hate each other trapped in one building as the tension between them slowly builds until it reaches a breaking point. It's a Thanksgiving movie.
I can't believe that in future social studies textbooks there's going to be a unit on Epstein, and they're not going to learn any context. They're just going to learn who he was, when it happened, and what happened because that's how social studies works.
November 26, 2025 at 5:56 PM
I can't believe that in future social studies textbooks there's going to be a unit on Epstein, and they're not going to learn any context. They're just going to learn who he was, when it happened, and what happened because that's how social studies works.
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PUTTING MYSELF IN DANGER: There is like zero rhetorical distance between “I dunno Horses is kinda icky” and my being angry at indie queer VN and dating sim folks:
Justice sometimes means supporting something that you, personally, WOULDN’T FUCK
Justice sometimes means supporting something that you, personally, WOULDN’T FUCK
November 26, 2025 at 2:54 PM
PUTTING MYSELF IN DANGER: There is like zero rhetorical distance between “I dunno Horses is kinda icky” and my being angry at indie queer VN and dating sim folks:
Justice sometimes means supporting something that you, personally, WOULDN’T FUCK
Justice sometimes means supporting something that you, personally, WOULDN’T FUCK
I didn't have "Kate Beckinsale tries to pull a Mary Toft on my 2025 bingo card" but here we are.
In the craziest celebrity interview this year, Underworld star Kate Beckinsale says her daughter's boyfriend has laid two eggs. https://bit.ly/3K5LLdb
November 26, 2025 at 12:55 AM
I didn't have "Kate Beckinsale tries to pull a Mary Toft on my 2025 bingo card" but here we are.
Me: I will not fall for nonsense discourse on this app.
Me five seconds later: THEY POSTED WHAT??!
Me five seconds later: THEY POSTED WHAT??!
November 25, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Me: I will not fall for nonsense discourse on this app.
Me five seconds later: THEY POSTED WHAT??!
Me five seconds later: THEY POSTED WHAT??!
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Wow, the year 2025 sounds scary. Good thing it's not real
November 25, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Wow, the year 2025 sounds scary. Good thing it's not real
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
The QT Library, an upcoming queer and trans library and community space I volunteer for, is still looking for anybody who wants to support this work that means the world to me!
🙏 You can support us as we cultivate a queer and trans community in Boston with events like these right now!
We're trying to raise $100K to get us one step closer to our dream space, and you can help us get there: secure.givelively.org/donate/92-39...
We're trying to raise $100K to get us one step closer to our dream space, and you can help us get there: secure.givelively.org/donate/92-39...
November 25, 2025 at 6:49 PM
The QT Library, an upcoming queer and trans library and community space I volunteer for, is still looking for anybody who wants to support this work that means the world to me!
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As we countdown to our end of year party, we fondly remember all the love we experienced at our celebration last year. ❄️
Games, crafts, a raffle, and great vibes really helped carry us through 2025 💜
RSVP to our Shelf-ebration this year and make more memories! https://loom.ly/wTnRbac
Games, crafts, a raffle, and great vibes really helped carry us through 2025 💜
RSVP to our Shelf-ebration this year and make more memories! https://loom.ly/wTnRbac
November 25, 2025 at 6:03 PM
As we countdown to our end of year party, we fondly remember all the love we experienced at our celebration last year. ❄️
Games, crafts, a raffle, and great vibes really helped carry us through 2025 💜
RSVP to our Shelf-ebration this year and make more memories! https://loom.ly/wTnRbac
Games, crafts, a raffle, and great vibes really helped carry us through 2025 💜
RSVP to our Shelf-ebration this year and make more memories! https://loom.ly/wTnRbac
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Really wild situation here: a celebrated and well-regarded indie dev and publisher is facing shutdown because Valve banned their game from Steam and won't talk to them about it, at all.
www.ign.com/articles/uns...
www.ign.com/articles/uns...
Unsettling Horror Game Horses Banned From Steam, Leaving Studio With 'High Risk' of Closure - IGN
Indie horror game Horses is preparing to launch on December 2, on the Epic Games Store, GOG, Itch.io, and the Humble Store. But one place it won't be is on Steam, because Steam has banned the game for...
www.ign.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Really wild situation here: a celebrated and well-regarded indie dev and publisher is facing shutdown because Valve banned their game from Steam and won't talk to them about it, at all.
www.ign.com/articles/uns...
www.ign.com/articles/uns...
Going off of this, I'd love to hear the non-horror movie your parents showed you way too young
People say things like "my parents showed me all the classic movies growing up." For me, my parents showed me almost exclusively 1970s and 80s comedies.
That DID mean they bought me Animal House on DVD when I was like 13, but parents make mistakes.
That DID mean they bought me Animal House on DVD when I was like 13, but parents make mistakes.
November 25, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Going off of this, I'd love to hear the non-horror movie your parents showed you way too young
People say things like "my parents showed me all the classic movies growing up." For me, my parents showed me almost exclusively 1970s and 80s comedies.
That DID mean they bought me Animal House on DVD when I was like 13, but parents make mistakes.
That DID mean they bought me Animal House on DVD when I was like 13, but parents make mistakes.
November 25, 2025 at 3:34 PM
People say things like "my parents showed me all the classic movies growing up." For me, my parents showed me almost exclusively 1970s and 80s comedies.
That DID mean they bought me Animal House on DVD when I was like 13, but parents make mistakes.
That DID mean they bought me Animal House on DVD when I was like 13, but parents make mistakes.
I think Variety confused "best comedy" with "most comedy."
I have many thoughts on this list, but overall it feels like they did get the 100 best comedies but put them in the wrong order.
I have many thoughts on this list, but overall it feels like they did get the 100 best comedies but put them in the wrong order.
The movie listed at #1 is so incredibly misplaced that it calls into question the veracity of the entire list. It belongs on the list, yes, but SO MUCH further down. An absolute, credibility-wrecking flub. Boo, @variety.com! Boo!
variety.com/lists/best-c...
variety.com/lists/best-c...
The 100 Best Comedy Movies of All Time
Variety's list of the 100 best comedy movies of all time includes 'Annie Hall,' 'Pretty Woman,' 'Waiting for Guffman' and 'Young Frankenstein.'
variety.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:27 PM
I think Variety confused "best comedy" with "most comedy."
I have many thoughts on this list, but overall it feels like they did get the 100 best comedies but put them in the wrong order.
I have many thoughts on this list, but overall it feels like they did get the 100 best comedies but put them in the wrong order.
I love how so much Star Wars discourse amounts to "one rando doesn't like your favorite movie"
November 24, 2025 at 9:41 PM
I love how so much Star Wars discourse amounts to "one rando doesn't like your favorite movie"
There are a few reasons why publications don't source properly, including:
- not wanting you clicking away from their article
- wanting to trick you into thinking they're more of an authority than they are
- wanting you to spend more time on the page.
It's all sketchy, is what I'm saying.
- not wanting you clicking away from their article
- wanting to trick you into thinking they're more of an authority than they are
- wanting you to spend more time on the page.
It's all sketchy, is what I'm saying.
we have got to have a conversation about how some game sites handle sourcing because why do you have to scroll all the way to the bottom underneath the ads and database entries of this gamerant article to find out the source of this mysterious "recent interview?"
November 24, 2025 at 9:06 PM
There are a few reasons why publications don't source properly, including:
- not wanting you clicking away from their article
- wanting to trick you into thinking they're more of an authority than they are
- wanting you to spend more time on the page.
It's all sketchy, is what I'm saying.
- not wanting you clicking away from their article
- wanting to trick you into thinking they're more of an authority than they are
- wanting you to spend more time on the page.
It's all sketchy, is what I'm saying.
After years of a fiction creative block so deep that I'm working on it in therapy, I hand wrote 3 1/2 pages of a story and did some worldbuilding please clap
November 24, 2025 at 8:26 PM
After years of a fiction creative block so deep that I'm working on it in therapy, I hand wrote 3 1/2 pages of a story and did some worldbuilding please clap
Help me out my family is starving
Are there queer and trans books that are strictly "Thanksgiving" in the way that "Addams Family Values" is a Thanksgiving movie? We have 3,000+ books but don't catalog them by holiday
November 24, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Help me out my family is starving
Had absolutely no idea Naomi Alderman was involved with Zombies Run, a very good game (?) for people that hate running.
Bestselling author Naomi Alderman has bought back the games she cocreated, Zombies Run and The Walk, for a ‘high six-figure sum’, we’re told: mobilegamer.biz/author-naomi...
Author Naomi Alderman buys back Zombies Run for six figure sum
Fellow walking app/game hybrid The Walk is also part of the deal which sees the games return to their original co-creator.
mobilegamer.biz
November 24, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Had absolutely no idea Naomi Alderman was involved with Zombies Run, a very good game (?) for people that hate running.
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The CDC is lying about vaccines. 🎁 defector.com/vaccines-do-...
Vaccines Do Not Cause Autism, No Matter What The CDC Website Now Says | Defector
On Nov. 19, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—a name that feels increasingly misleading, given Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s track record of sowing outbreaks of infectious diseases—quietly…
defector.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:16 PM
The CDC is lying about vaccines. 🎁 defector.com/vaccines-do-...
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Finally, Magic the Gathering quit congress.
November 22, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Finally, Magic the Gathering quit congress.
Fascism works fast but the Internet works faster
November 22, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Fascism works fast but the Internet works faster
Dangle something shiny at him first thing in the morning and he'll sign an executive order about how we need to bring more jobs to the shiny sector
Extremely funny that people are trying to prescribe logic or meaning to anything Trump does.
November 21, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Dangle something shiny at him first thing in the morning and he'll sign an executive order about how we need to bring more jobs to the shiny sector
Extremely funny that people are trying to prescribe logic or meaning to anything Trump does.
November 21, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Extremely funny that people are trying to prescribe logic or meaning to anything Trump does.