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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 9h

If you enjoyed Clair Obscur, do seek out the tradition it comes from. The best of the likes of Falcom (Ys VIII; the brand new Trails in the Sky remake), Square (e.g. Chrono Trigger), Monolith (Xenoblade Chronicles 3) Atlus (Persona V) & oddball Vanillaware efforts (13 Sentinels) all worth your time.

Jazz The JRPG Queen 👑❤️🎮 @jazzlikestogame.bsky.social · 15h

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is a wonderful lovely game one that I love so much and I’m so glad that it came out when it did and was received so well ——— but let’s not forget the wonderful lovely JRPG games that came before it and deeply inspired the developers to craft this game.

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 3h

Really excited for this! Hanna is an excellent scholar and we badly need a modern take on the field.

(She's also a friend and I'm so stoked for her this is making its way to press).

Strictly Obiter @strictlyobiter.bsky.social · 4h

Pre-ordered Hanna Wilberg's Administrative Law in Aotearoa New Zealand. Very excited to read it and really important it's been written. These years Joseph's text is venerable (complimentary) and venerable (derogatory).

www.bloomsbury.com/au/administr...

Administrative Law in Aotearoa New Zealand

This book on administrative law in Aotearoa New Zealand fills a gap with its fresh scholarly account of the law in this area, focusing on analysis of structures…

www.bloomsbury.com

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 4h

the equivalent is electoral reform people in countries with FPP. Although they are *also* off putting on their one thing. Though still 100% correct about it.

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 4h

Sale at fangamer resulted in a new keyring (for the first time in 20 years) and a new desk mat!

Hades keyring with nectar, sword, cerberus, and pom charms.

a desk mat in yellow, with schematics of The Rig and the cast from Citizen Sleeper 2.

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 6h

nah it is updating on the electionz website. They just don't announce when or make it clear which have changed, they just sub progress results out with prelim ones. Annoying.

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 7h

That's the date for the final count including specials. All standard votes are supposed to be out right now.

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 7h

Any idea when our private elections overlords finish counting the on the day votes? I know there were lots, so not surprising (or outrageous) that the standard Sunday deadline wasn't met, but we're a fair way into Monday & I see nothing for WCC & a couple of races ARE in the balance.

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 8h

I think the "large account" obligation, to the extent there is one, is "think really hard about whether you want to quote dunk". Which I think is good advice for anyone but moreso when you have lots of followers. and that's about it.

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 8h

Professionally, I've had publications end up in print that started as DM conversations with colleagues on the other side of the world.

Personally, I've made double figure numbers of irl friends, more than one to the extent of being invited to their weddings or inviting them to mine.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 5d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 15h

Here more than 5,000 people answered the question below (more than 4,200 via quote replies & >800 comments). Lots of interesting stories!

On X, 15 people replied to the same query.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 5d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 9h

congrats on the broadened brief! But what are we going to do now having to share both you and Emma Ricketts with the whole of the country lol?

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 9h

If you enjoyed Clair Obscur, do seek out the tradition it comes from. The best of the likes of Falcom (Ys VIII; the brand new Trails in the Sky remake), Square (e.g. Chrono Trigger), Monolith (Xenoblade Chronicles 3) Atlus (Persona V) & oddball Vanillaware efforts (13 Sentinels) all worth your time.

Jazz The JRPG Queen 👑❤️🎮 @jazzlikestogame.bsky.social · 15h

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is a wonderful lovely game one that I love so much and I’m so glad that it came out when it did and was received so well ——— but let’s not forget the wonderful lovely JRPG games that came before it and deeply inspired the developers to craft this game.

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 11h

Newly re elected councillor has an answer for us!

bsky.app/profile/geor...

Geordie Rogers @geordierogers.co.nz · 11h

I’ve checked in with the deputy electoral officer and this bin has been cleared (so no votes in this and it will be picked up today). There were a larger than expected quantity of votes received so the priority was on returning those and counting them

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 11h

thanks, Geordie (and congratulations).

Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 11h

(It may well be empty and just not have been removed yet; you can see that the slot is covered over. But, again, be good to have a well known public contact point rather than private company be in charge of fielding such queries)

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Joachim Boaz @joachimboaz.bsky.social · 11h

Mick van Houten's cover art detail for the 1st edition of Ian Watson's The Book of the River (1985)

#scifi #sciencefiction #art

A ship sails a river with steep mountainous banks. There are trees in the foreground and mist in the background.

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 20h

flipped classrooms & the unquestioned shift toward “student-led learning” were also part of the deprofessionalization->adjunctification->mechanization program whose ultimate goal was a fully administrative university

John Downes-Angus @johndownesangus.bsky.social · 21h

The over-reliance on standardization as the mechanism for writing instruction really was a pretty unbeatable context to produce de-professionalized teachers okay with using AI to grade

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 14h

congratulations!!!

Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 14h

(Maybe now I'm done teaching for the year I'll have the brainspace and time for a review)

Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 14h

Yessss. Speculative legal fiction. This really is an excellent book and people should read it. Congratulations, Gautam!

The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 14h

The winner of the #2025IgnyteAwards for Outstanding Novel-Adult is THE SENTENCE by @gautambhatia88.bsky.social

2025 Winner Outstanding Novel - Adult: The Sentence by Gautam Bhatia

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 14h

(Also, Canadian Thanksgiving this year is on Columbus Day in the US, which is why I suspect Julie is seeing people in social media comments making THAT connection, rather than to the rather later colonial nightmare by a different group of people that's the founding myth of US thanksgiving)

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 14h

a) Note I said "as a group". I know plenty of worldly, open Americans.

b) I do hate the tendencies of some non-Americans to treat American politics as a spectator sport, but the sideline reckons are often at least as accurate as those of an American from a different state to the one at issue.

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 14h

The degree to which hegemony either forces or requires the rest of us to understand US culture and politics vs the degree to which Americans as a group understand that Not Everyone Else Is Like Them is *hugely* out of whack.

Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 16h

Thanksgiving in Canada has nothing to do with Columbus!

We are a colonial country with a million things to atone for but Thanksgiving is not one of them.

Our Thanksgiving is timed with the harvest and it's literally just "Be grateful for harvest"

US Imperialism has brain rotted too many of you.

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 1d

it's also pretty clearly a hades prototype structurally. Didn't quite get the looping gameplay down. It's still probably my favorite game of theirs. Not their best, but my favourite. And the one I'd love to see tie in fiction'd or TTRPG'd.

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 1d

(pyre is not a perfect game; the magic netball gameplay loop is not Supergiant's best. But the character, art, and setting work imo *is* very close to their best. A game a lot of people skipped, unfortunately. Has real emotional resonance)

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