Gersande La Flèche
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Bon, chuis là, là. Bilingual disaster. Chronically ill avec zéro chill. Ballerine du dimanche. Appalling poet and well-rounded failure.
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Gersande La Flèche
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· Dec 1
J'le call: ça va être, si ça ne l'est déjà, un désastre faramineux.
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my students' final bitsy game projects for this class are truly incredible. I think I will be asking them for permission to share them because I'm honestly very impressed and proud.
I'm creating a thread to share the readings I assigned to students for this week on labour organizing in the games industry. Click to expand! (1/7)
Re-reading GWU Montréal's guide to identifying union-busting tactics, as next week I'm teaching a class on labour in the games industry:
medium.com/@gwumlit/ide...
Been thinking about this slide in particular recently:
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Been thinking about this slide in particular recently:
December 4, 2025 at 1:30 AM
my students' final bitsy game projects for this class are truly incredible. I think I will be asking them for permission to share them because I'm honestly very impressed and proud.
Je vais lancer un Substack intitulé « les cyclistes mangent les pauvres 'ti bébés sans défense » et ça va juste être composé de screenshots des incroyables commentaires venimeux écrits par les montréalais.es contre le vélo dans les groupes/pages communautaires sur FB.
December 3, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Je vais lancer un Substack intitulé « les cyclistes mangent les pauvres 'ti bébés sans défense » et ça va juste être composé de screenshots des incroyables commentaires venimeux écrits par les montréalais.es contre le vélo dans les groupes/pages communautaires sur FB.
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We are recruiting game makers affected by the 'NSFW' policy changes on Steam and itch.io for a survey. This survey is part of a broader project on the factors that shape the production, distribution, and consumption of porn games. More info about the project and survey at www.pppproject.com
December 3, 2025 at 7:50 PM
We are recruiting game makers affected by the 'NSFW' policy changes on Steam and itch.io for a survey. This survey is part of a broader project on the factors that shape the production, distribution, and consumption of porn games. More info about the project and survey at www.pppproject.com
I remember playing this for the first time! Gorgeous experience. Highly recommend.
orchids to dusk is turning 10 today ⚘
polclarissou.itch.io/orchids-to-d...
polclarissou.itch.io/orchids-to-d...
December 3, 2025 at 9:52 PM
I remember playing this for the first time! Gorgeous experience. Highly recommend.
I haven't been able to log onto Twitter in a while because it wants my birthday (I registered the account before that was an account requirement) so I had missed a lot of this stuff: www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_9w...
If you remember one AI disaster, make it this one
YouTube video by AI In Context
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December 3, 2025 at 8:22 PM
I haven't been able to log onto Twitter in a while because it wants my birthday (I registered the account before that was an account requirement) so I had missed a lot of this stuff: www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_9w...
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03-12-2025 -- Alerte Zéro - Outaouais
Les paramedics et les répartiteurs médicaux d’urgence qui desservent la région de l’Outaouais — particulièrement à Gatineau — travaillent à pleine capacité.
Les paramedics et les répartiteurs médicaux d’urgence qui desservent la région de l’Outaouais — particulièrement à Gatineau — travaillent à pleine capacité.
December 3, 2025 at 4:13 PM
03-12-2025 -- Alerte Zéro - Outaouais
Les paramedics et les répartiteurs médicaux d’urgence qui desservent la région de l’Outaouais — particulièrement à Gatineau — travaillent à pleine capacité.
Les paramedics et les répartiteurs médicaux d’urgence qui desservent la région de l’Outaouais — particulièrement à Gatineau — travaillent à pleine capacité.
The only problem with watching men's hockey is that it's not nearly as violent nor as gay as women's hockey and I get bored SUPER FAST.
December 3, 2025 at 2:55 AM
The only problem with watching men's hockey is that it's not nearly as violent nor as gay as women's hockey and I get bored SUPER FAST.
I own a copy of the remastered Legendary edition of Mass Effect 1+2+3 and all the DLC and now I'm sincerely wondering if I should be trying to make sure I have a pirated copy on hand. Because I sincerely doubt a Saudi company is going to protect a game with queer characters in it, down the line.
EA isn't being sold to a "consortium" of investors, it's being sold to Saudi Arabia, new filings reveal: https://kotaku.com/ea-saudi-arabia-ownership-trump-jared-kushner-2000649726
December 3, 2025 at 12:36 AM
I own a copy of the remastered Legendary edition of Mass Effect 1+2+3 and all the DLC and now I'm sincerely wondering if I should be trying to make sure I have a pirated copy on hand. Because I sincerely doubt a Saudi company is going to protect a game with queer characters in it, down the line.
I mean they do this in Québec. In France. In Australia. In Germany. In Colombia. In Japan. Austérité and the decimation of cultural production is not UK specific when we all can't make rent or afford groceries. In 2013 I had a Creative Writing prof in MTL tell me to give up before I even started.
I’m encountering more and more older people who have worked in creative fields in Britain for decades who gently take my hand and tell me to run, get out, do not work here if you can help it sweet child, fly away from this place and don’t look back
December 2, 2025 at 4:31 PM
I mean they do this in Québec. In France. In Australia. In Germany. In Colombia. In Japan. Austérité and the decimation of cultural production is not UK specific when we all can't make rent or afford groceries. In 2013 I had a Creative Writing prof in MTL tell me to give up before I even started.
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#Montreal was rated #1 bicycle city in North America this year.
But the party that won the municipal election campaigned on auditing and removing bike lanes.
They’ve already started in my borough, #Outremont.
So we made our own bike lane this morning. We need to keep our kids active—and safe.
But the party that won the municipal election campaigned on auditing and removing bike lanes.
They’ve already started in my borough, #Outremont.
So we made our own bike lane this morning. We need to keep our kids active—and safe.
December 2, 2025 at 2:08 PM
#Montreal was rated #1 bicycle city in North America this year.
But the party that won the municipal election campaigned on auditing and removing bike lanes.
They’ve already started in my borough, #Outremont.
So we made our own bike lane this morning. We need to keep our kids active—and safe.
But the party that won the municipal election campaigned on auditing and removing bike lanes.
They’ve already started in my borough, #Outremont.
So we made our own bike lane this morning. We need to keep our kids active—and safe.
Feeling this particularly hard from Montréal: "The greatest trick America’s ever pulled on the subjects of its various vassal states is making us feel like a participant in its grand experiment." www.gawkerarchives.com/culture/i-sh...
I Should Be Able to Mute America
The rest of the world should not have to know the name Bari Weiss
www.gawkerarchives.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Feeling this particularly hard from Montréal: "The greatest trick America’s ever pulled on the subjects of its various vassal states is making us feel like a participant in its grand experiment." www.gawkerarchives.com/culture/i-sh...
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*** Looking for a translator ***
The developers of Atuel are seeking a translator to localize the game into Korean.
The game has approximately 1,400 English words. If anyone is interested or knows someone who might be able to handle it, please let @pfquarta.bsky.social know!
The developers of Atuel are seeking a translator to localize the game into Korean.
The game has approximately 1,400 English words. If anyone is interested or knows someone who might be able to handle it, please let @pfquarta.bsky.social know!
December 2, 2025 at 12:32 AM
*** Looking for a translator ***
The developers of Atuel are seeking a translator to localize the game into Korean.
The game has approximately 1,400 English words. If anyone is interested or knows someone who might be able to handle it, please let @pfquarta.bsky.social know!
The developers of Atuel are seeking a translator to localize the game into Korean.
The game has approximately 1,400 English words. If anyone is interested or knows someone who might be able to handle it, please let @pfquarta.bsky.social know!
Low-key drafting the bones of a fanfic chronicling Robert Robertson the Third's very exhausting attempts to unionize the SDN. #Dispatch
a cartoon character wearing headphones is sitting on a chair .
Alt: Golem takes his earphones out and smiles at the camera, delighted.
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December 2, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Low-key drafting the bones of a fanfic chronicling Robert Robertson the Third's very exhausting attempts to unionize the SDN. #Dispatch
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Actual left wing grifting is more about playing social media platforms like they’re paradox games but with next to no cash return unless you become a federal informant
December 1, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Actual left wing grifting is more about playing social media platforms like they’re paradox games but with next to no cash return unless you become a federal informant
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You can call the left wingers sitting on piles of cash grifters if you want but any one of them could quintuple their earnings overnight if there wasn’t something legitimate keeping them tied to the left in any way. People have pulled that move, it consistently works!
December 1, 2025 at 9:00 PM
You can call the left wingers sitting on piles of cash grifters if you want but any one of them could quintuple their earnings overnight if there wasn’t something legitimate keeping them tied to the left in any way. People have pulled that move, it consistently works!
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It’s wild that right wing grifting is so easy that you can screw up your homework on purpose or tie for 5th place at a swim meet and get a whole ass career out of it
December 1, 2025 at 8:58 PM
It’s wild that right wing grifting is so easy that you can screw up your homework on purpose or tie for 5th place at a swim meet and get a whole ass career out of it
Je continue d'avoir les meilleurs takes:
J'le call: ça va être, si ça ne l'est déjà, un désastre faramineux.
December 1, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Je continue d'avoir les meilleurs takes:
All I need in a weather website is one that gives me in-depth information on snow/ski conditions for the Mont Royal. My usual Québec-based ski FB groups are not active enough anymore! (Maybe I need to find newer ones.)
December 1, 2025 at 7:25 PM
All I need in a weather website is one that gives me in-depth information on snow/ski conditions for the Mont Royal. My usual Québec-based ski FB groups are not active enough anymore! (Maybe I need to find newer ones.)
Do you ever go to the Power Corporation of Canada wikipédia page and just marvel at how fucked up Canada is. How is this a country. The joke that Canada is three resource extraction corps in a trench-coat ... it would be funny if it were a little less real.
December 1, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Do you ever go to the Power Corporation of Canada wikipédia page and just marvel at how fucked up Canada is. How is this a country. The joke that Canada is three resource extraction corps in a trench-coat ... it would be funny if it were a little less real.
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Steven Guilbeault dénonce le «moratoire» imposé par Danielle Smith sur les énergies renouvelables en Alberta. «C’est de la folie furieuse», dit-il. «Elle ne sera jamais contente», ajoute-t-il à propos de Mme Smith. «Ce n’est pas un partenaire fiable.» Contexte: www.ledevoir.com/actualites/e...
Le Canada, cancre climatique?
Le gouvernement fédéral soutient des projets chers à l’industrie des énergies fossiles.
www.ledevoir.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Steven Guilbeault dénonce le «moratoire» imposé par Danielle Smith sur les énergies renouvelables en Alberta. «C’est de la folie furieuse», dit-il. «Elle ne sera jamais contente», ajoute-t-il à propos de Mme Smith. «Ce n’est pas un partenaire fiable.» Contexte: www.ledevoir.com/actualites/e...
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November's blog post is up on my author website! I reflect on the month's writing challenge and how @gersande.com's advice reshaped my mindset for it. amshilling.com/2025/11/30/c...
November 2025: Challenge, start!
I decided to challenge myself again this November, as I had done with NaNoWriMo in 2016, but it didn’t go quite like I’d planned or expected.
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November 30, 2025 at 5:00 PM
November's blog post is up on my author website! I reflect on the month's writing challenge and how @gersande.com's advice reshaped my mindset for it. amshilling.com/2025/11/30/c...
Dispatch really captures how the "clients" in customer service are a genuine fucking nightmare, huh.
November 29, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Dispatch really captures how the "clients" in customer service are a genuine fucking nightmare, huh.
Fighting a migraine, possibly triggered by the stress of writing this blog post last night. Dunno when I'll get the VF up but for now, in case you missed it yesterday: the federal NDP has no plan for Quebec and seems content with that 🫣
Forget French, the federal NDP doesn't speak Québec gersande.com/blog/forget-...
November 29, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Fighting a migraine, possibly triggered by the stress of writing this blog post last night. Dunno when I'll get the VF up but for now, in case you missed it yesterday: the federal NDP has no plan for Quebec and seems content with that 🫣
Such a good blog post and hits on so many things I struggle with greatly in the era of covid denial. Merci Lia!!
This one's been cooking for months but I finally managed to hammer it into probably-slightly-blasphemous shape. Contrary to public opinion, I am in fact neither the pope nor a saint - yes it's about covid again: lia-sae.net/articles/202...
Lia's blog - I am not the goddamn pope
Though maybe I should charge for indulgences since so many people seem to want one?
lia-sae.net
November 29, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Such a good blog post and hits on so many things I struggle with greatly in the era of covid denial. Merci Lia!!
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Ce matin sur Atateken, j'avais le choix entre la délinquance en roulant sur le piste fermée ou rouler en plein milieu de la voie et compromettre ma sécurité.
November 28, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Ce matin sur Atateken, j'avais le choix entre la délinquance en roulant sur le piste fermée ou rouler en plein milieu de la voie et compromettre ma sécurité.