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Anna Anne Anthropy

@cyborgurl.bsky.social

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👩🏻‍🦼🏳️‍⚧️💨 Game designer, writer, educator, cyborg. Chicago, ill, annoyed. Currently available for work! Banner by @evlynmoreau.bsky.social, avatar by Sarah Heng Hartse sarahdrawsacrowd.com https://w.itch.io/

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Anna Anne Anthropy @cyborgurl.bsky.social · 5d

Given the way things are going with bluesky, I'm finally launching my new newsletter! sign up for monthly Anna News Updates, pieces of writing and works in progress, takes on things i've been playing, game design meanderings and whatever other nonsense I think of.

Dispatches from the Terrordrome

Monthly updates from Anna Anthropy. All the finest Anna-related news, snippets from projects, and meanderings on games and play from your favorite [citation needed] fat gay cripple.

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Anna Anne Anthropy @cyborgurl.bsky.social · 2h

keep seeing people be like "i swear concert / movie theater / whatever etiquette has gone out the window since 2020" and, yeah. we had the most basic test of "will you mildly inconvenience yourself to save other people's lives" and we (america at least) failed it. all bets are off now

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 20h

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Anna Anne Anthropy @cyborgurl.bsky.social · 13h

the facehugger heels!

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what happens / what message do you get?

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 22h

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

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Anna Anne Anthropy @cyborgurl.bsky.social · 23h

my first newsletter will be going out later this month! sign up to keep up with all the weird little things i'm doing

Anna Anne Anthropy @cyborgurl.bsky.social · 5d

Dispatches from the Terrordrome

Monthly updates from Anna Anthropy. All the finest Anna-related news, snippets from projects, and meanderings on games and play from your favorite [citation needed] fat gay cripple.

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Anna Anne Anthropy @cyborgurl.bsky.social · 1d

incidentally i have some projects wrapping up this month so now would be a great time to hire me. i can talk at your school, i can write for your ttrpg or digital game, i can make a little game for you. contact information at w.itch.io

Anna Anne Anthropy @cyborgurl.bsky.social · 1d

i spoke about the Princess Sword bound edition with @beyondsolitaire.bsky.social. Find It Wherever You Get Podcast

Beyond Solitaire @beyondsolitaire.bsky.social · 2d

An interview with Anna Anthropy about Princess with a Cursed Sword, on Backerkit now through @cmichpress.bsky.social youtu.be/A3oMrq4U4Ww

Anna Anthropy on Princess with a Cursed Sword

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Anna Anne Anthropy @cyborgurl.bsky.social · 1d

the new spider-man slop set of magic the gathering has a card representing a bagel. it's an artifact

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Anna Anne Anthropy @cyborgurl.bsky.social · 1d

golly!!

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all of them?!!

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Anna Anne Anthropy @cyborgurl.bsky.social · 1d

listen to yr girl talk about her new book!

Beyond Solitaire @beyondsolitaire.bsky.social · 2d

An interview with Anna Anthropy about Princess with a Cursed Sword, on Backerkit now through @cmichpress.bsky.social youtu.be/A3oMrq4U4Ww

Anna Anthropy on Princess with a Cursed Sword

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Central Michigan University Press @cmichpress.bsky.social · 1d

Only 21 days left to pledge to our Art & System campaign to get your copy of Dog Eat Dog, Princess with a Cursed Sword, and The Mountain Witch! We are so excited to preserve these standout indie RPGs and bring them to new audiences. Back the campaign now at https://bit.ly/4mIpcbG

Collage of the three RPG book covers%2C with a mask on a snowy hill for The Mountain Witch%2C a black and white tarot card of a Princess for Princess with a Cursed Sword%2C and red pitbull for Dog Eat Dog.

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Anna Anne Anthropy @cyborgurl.bsky.social · 1d

and to you as well!

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Frank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social · 2d

Collectors! Store owners! Hoarders! Help us out! @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social is looking to source copies of this 1985 NES pack-in poster for fundraising reasons, and we need them asap. We already cleaned out eBay. Note that they need to be the ones that say copyright 1985, as pictured! Can pay!

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Anna Anne Anthropy @cyborgurl.bsky.social · 2d

good news!!

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Anna Anne Anthropy @cyborgurl.bsky.social · 2d

i guess that's kind of close to "anthropy"

Anna Anne Anthropy @cyborgurl.bsky.social · 2d

looking at analytics and exactly one person found REDDER, my 2010 glitch exploration platformer, by searching "anthro heat"

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Great LakesQ @qglpolicywonk.bsky.social · 2d

Please follow local #Chicago media doing critically important reporting @thetriibe.com 👇

The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 2d

NEW — Rod Johnson will never forget federal agents zip-tying his hands behind his back.

The night of the South Shore raid in Chicago, Johnson said he was detained for two hours.

“I’m an American citizen with no warrants,” Johnson said.

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South Shore raid triggers past traumas and sparks new conversations about divisions between Black and Latino communities • The TRiiBE

Federal agent activity on Chicago’s South and West sides put Black people in the crosshairs.

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Anna Anne Anthropy @cyborgurl.bsky.social · 2d

george miller trying to extend the mad max brand by more quickly ushering in the post-apocalypse

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 3d

‘AI is here to stay and change things’: Mad Max director George Miller on why he is taking part in an AI film festival

The director believes AI has made film-making ‘way more egalitarian’ – and is set to lead the judges at Omni AI film festival in Australia There’s no arguing the use of artificial intelligence in film-making is getting a bad rap. Last week’s unveiling of Hollywood’s first AI “actress”, Tilly Norwood, generated howls of protest from actors’ unions across the UK and US, where the industry is still reeling from last year’s 118-day strike over, among other issues, the threat of AI. And earlier this week, Australia’s Productivity Commission was pilloried by Liberals and Greens alike for failing to recognise the dire impact AI may have on the country’s creative industries. Continue reading...

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Anna Anne Anthropy @cyborgurl.bsky.social · 2d

Little black cat resting on an open book in the sunlight.

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BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 2d

Boycott, Divest, Sanction: A ceasefire today will not stop Israel’s genocide against Palestinians, only meaningful accountability will.

Our work is not done!

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Boycott, Divest, Sanction: A ceasefire today will not stop Israel’s genocide against Palestinians, only meaningful accountability will.

Our work is not done! The BDS movement calls on our millions of supporters worldwide to escalate pressure to end Israel’s genocide and its decades-old regime of settler-colonialism, apartheid, and ill...

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 2d

sixty-eight chicago community, faith, + social service organizations are calling on cook county commissioners to “protect and increase social service spending” amid drastic cuts nationally from the trump admin.

they suggest freezing all law enforcement spending, which has “unjustifiably increased.”

In the last year, the Trump administration has taken unprecedented action to dismantle institutions and programs benefiting marginalized communities, cut funding for essential social services, and pull back funds allocated to states and local jurisdictions. These cuts jeopardize public safety and risk reversing the incredible progress Cook County has made in reducing community violence.

The undersigned 68 community, faith, policy, and service-providing organizations write to call on you and your fellow commissioners to protect funding for essential services like violence prevention, behavioral health, and community investment to reduce intra-community violence. You can support these services by freezing law enforcement spending, which is already far above the levels set when there were many more people in jail and many more criminal cases being processed by our court system.
Over the last decade, Cook County has made tremendous progress in reducing pretrial jailing and improving community safety. This has been a byproduct of both moving away from racist policies promoting mass incarceration and strategically investing in expansions to the social safety net and community-based violence prevention programs. With the Trump administration gutting many of the federal programs aimed at supporting the neighborhoods most at risk of community violence, it is essential that Cook County not only avoid cutting budgets for these programs but also increase investments.

We believe that Cook County can protect and increase essential health and human service spending by freezing all spending for law enforcement. Despite the nearly 40% decrease in the number of people incarcerated in the Cook County Jail, the Cook County Department of Corrections budget has not seen a reduction that coincides with that change in responsibility.
Similarly, the budget for the State's Attorney's Office grew tremendously over the last decade, even as both the number of case filings and crime rates …

… continued to decrease. It is important to note that while the federal government has cut hundreds of millions of dollars in funding for essential social services, law enforcement spending has unjustifiably increased.

We would be remiss if we did not acknowledge President Trump's authoritarian attacks on residents of Cook County. Over the last several weeks, there have been repeated threats to the safety of our community members through executive orders targeting people without homes or who have mental health needs. Numerous federal law enforcement agencies have been dispatched to make arrests and deport our neighbors. It is essential at this moment that Cook County expand investments to ensure adequate support of community members targeted by the actions of the Trump administration and everyone impacted by its reduced funding for resources that allow marginalized people to live safe and healthy lives. The County's investment must include increasing the budget of the Public Defender's Office, which is responsible for defending increasing numbers of Cook County residents facing both criminal charges and immigration removal proceedings.

Cook County must protect its important progress increasing community safety and reducing pretrial jailing from a federal administration that has made clear that it does not care about our most vulnerable residents. Please stand strong for community safety by freezing law enforcement spending to protect essential health and human service investments and expand support for Public Defense.

Sincerely,
The Cook County members of the Illinois Network for Pretrial Justice and supporting organizations:
A Just Harvest
A Midwest Movement Project
Access Living
Alliance of Filipinos for Immigrant Rights and Empowerment | AFIRE
Apna Ghar, Inc.
Asian Americans Advancing Justice ||
Chicago
Beyond Legal Aid
BlackRoots Alliance
Brighton Park Neighborhood Council
Cannabis Equity IL Coalition

Chicago Alliance Against Sexual
Exploitation | CAASE
Chicago Appleseed Center for Fair Courts
Chicago Community Bond Fund
Chicago Therapy Collective
Chicago Torture Justice Center
Chicago United for Equity
Chicago United Solidarity Project | CUSP
Chicago Urban League
Chicago Votes
Children's Best Interest Project
Circles & Ciphers
Color Of Change
Community Renewal Society
Farmworker and Landscaper Advocacy
Project | FLAP
First Defense Legal Aid
HANA Center
Illinois Alliance for Reentry and Justice Illinois National Organization for Women
Illinois Prison Project
Illinois Social Justice Alliance
Impact for Equity
Indivisible Chicago-South Side
Inside Out Network
Jewish Council on Urban Affairs
KAN-WIN
Legal Council for Health Justice
Liberation Library
Lucy Parsons Labs
Mamas Activating Movements for Abolition
& Solidarity | MAMAS
Muslim Civic Coalition
NAMI Cook County North Suburban
National Lawyers Guild Chicago
Nehemiah Trinity Rising
Nikkei Uprising
Northwestern University Graduate Workers
Pretrial Justice Institute
Restore Justice
Revolution Workshop
Sana Healing Collective
Saving Our Urban Leaders
Sentencing Advocacy Group of Evanston
She Votes Illinois
Shriver Center on Poverty Law
SisterReach Illinois
Southsiders Organizing for Unity and
Liberation | SOUL
Stick Talk
TASC, Inc.
The People's Lobby
The Puerto Rico Project To Defend If Necessary
Trinity United Church of Christ
Unitarian Universalist Advocacy Network of
Illinois
Unitarian Universalist Prison Ministry of
Ilinois
Uptown People's Law Center
West Town Law Office
Wolf Pack Therapy
Youth Empowerment Performance Project

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 3d

This South Side Weekly report on the Chicago building raid is well worth reading. Most striking to me are the indications of collusion between federal authorities and the building owner and management to effect a mass eviction at the blighted property. southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

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