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leah isobel

@humblepopstar.bsky.social

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video games & music journalist w @48hills.bsky.social , @singlesjukebox.bsky.social and very occasionally @superjumpmagazine.com i'm just chilling in the panopticon

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leah isobel @humblepopstar.bsky.social · Jul 22

hello! this is an introductory post. i am a writer writing about video games and music in the bay area, with a particular interest in how artists adapt to and change the systems they work within. i want to end this post with something pithy and cute but i can't think of anything. here's my website-

Leah isobel's homepage

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leah isobel @humblepopstar.bsky.social · 1d

this is so cool

princess online @nadianova.fi · 3d

dominoclub.itch.io/new-eyes-cycle

leah isobel @humblepopstar.bsky.social · 2d

this is fucking awesome. more games should be this

RockmanCosmo @rockmancosmo.bsky.social · 3d

Dokodemo Dodgeball Fantasia (どこでもドッジボ−ルファンタジア) was a dodgeball RPG released for keitai in 2006. Yes, you read that right! It's got a coming-of-age story and a real time battle system. We preserved this game earlier this year, and it's incredibly unique.

leah isobel @humblepopstar.bsky.social · 4d

cowriting with charli xcx

leah isobel @humblepopstar.bsky.social · 5d

i wrote about this phenomenon:

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Rebecca Heineman @burgerbecky.bsky.social · 5d

I’ve started a GoFundMe to help with my cancer battle gofund.me/6850175a3

Donate to Help Rebecca Ann Heineman Fight Aggressive Cancer, organized by Rebecca Heineman

I’m Rebecca Ann Heineman. The very first video game champion, creat… Rebecca Heineman needs your support for Help Rebecca Ann Heineman Fight Aggressive Cancer

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48 Hills @48hills.bsky.social · 6d

It's the last day to weigh in on Best of the Bay 2025!

Hype your faves! Undermine your enemies! Vote now!

VOTE NOW in the 2025 Best of the Bay Readers' Poll! - 48 hills

Our 51st installment of the Bay Area classic is 'new and improved' for 2025—and still full of local love.

48hills.org

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leah isobel @humblepopstar.bsky.social · 7d

good morning!

Ninajirachi - Infohazard (Official Video)

YouTube video by Ninajirachi

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leah isobel @humblepopstar.bsky.social · 8d

god the discourse on this is going to be UNBEARABLE

leah isobel @humblepopstar.bsky.social · 8d

top 10 pictures taken moments before disaster

videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 8d

ion storm, game studio, break room, dallas, texas (1999) www.mobygames.com/game/1678/jo...

a tekken 3 arcade cabinet, turned off with an a4 white paper typed out note taped to the screen. the note reads:
no more tekken 3 until daikatana ships
the management

leah isobel @humblepopstar.bsky.social · 8d

should i unmute the taylor swift thread…

leah isobel @humblepopstar.bsky.social · 8d

good morning!

Amaarae - Dove Cameron (Official Audio)

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Experimental Games Showcase @exgs.bsky.social · 16d

Applications to be included in the 2026 Experimental Games Showcase at GDC are now OPEN through October 24, 2025! Please send us the weird shit you're working on!

Learn more and apply on our NEW website: www.experimentalgamesshowcase.com

Experimental Games Showcase

SUBMIT YOUR GAME TO THE

www.experimentalgamesshowcase.com

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leah isobel @humblepopstar.bsky.social · 10d

good morning!

DEBBY FRIDAY - 1/17 (Official Video)

YouTube video by DEBBY FRIDAY

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leah isobel @humblepopstar.bsky.social · 13d

happy 28th birthday hannah!!

leah isobel @humblepopstar.bsky.social · 13d

i know it's public knowledge either way but seeing it laid out like this is making me feel insane!

SeeroftheNight @seerofthenight.bsky.social · 13d

Never mind his Wikipedia page, I just found out the OFFICIAL MODRETRO WEBSITE makes the connection between its' products and human suffering plain as day. There really are absolutely no excuses for people saying "I didn't know!"

Screenshot from the blogpost announcing the Chromatic where Palmer Luckey Proudly boasts "This reveal might seem out of nowhere given that most people know me for my work on virtual reality technology and lethal autonomous weapons systems"

https://modretro.com/blogs/blog/the-future-is-retro

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Carl Wilson @carlzoilus.bsky.social · 16d

Once & for all, let's specify what "poptimism" was & wasn't, and why many people can't stop blaming it for every cultural change of the past 20 years. Most recently the esteemed Kelefa Sanneh, who's often (wrongly) said to have started it! Today in @slate.com
slate.com/culture/2025...

A screenshot of the headline of an article by Carl Wilson, reading, "Criticism's Biggest Strawman: What was 'poptimism,' and why are people still saying terrible things about it?" It's illustrated by a picture of a straw-stuffed scarecrow in a field, wearing a Taylor Swift T-shirt.

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leah isobel @humblepopstar.bsky.social · 16d

like, i was talking to a friend about how his job “replaced” a bunch of long-term workers with an ai tool that didn’t work, and then had to hire back a new team. they lost a ton of knowledge but the new team was paid much less. that’s the incentive!

leah isobel @humblepopstar.bsky.social · 16d

increasingly of the opinion that most companies don’t actually believe in the promise of ai, they just see those promises as useful leverage to deflate wages and reduce workers’ bargaining power

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leah isobel @humblepopstar.bsky.social · 23d

choir dog choir dog choir dog

leah isobel @humblepopstar.bsky.social · 24d

it's like SLAYEYAYYYY-

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leah isobel @humblepopstar.bsky.social · 24d

amusing that this song is all but textually saying "hey trans people!!! please like me again!!!!" and it's the best song she's put out in years. like the second she stops trying to be legible to the cis gaze she starts making good music

Kim Petras - Freak It (Official Visualizer)

YouTube video by Kim Petras

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Bugs, Beleaguered Babysitter of the Booger Brothers @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 29d

you should buy your trans friends coffee or something today

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leah isobel @humblepopstar.bsky.social · 29d

tickets for all shows can be bought below!

Free Key Choir

An Oakland-based DIY choir. All music written by songwriters, composers, & arrangers in the choir.

www.freekeychoir.com

leah isobel @humblepopstar.bsky.social · 29d

feels like a weird time to be posting this but i am in a secular diy choir and we are having a show in OAKLAND on FRIDAY NIGHT! this is a fundraiser for our PNW TOUR which has stops in SALEM 9/17, PORTLAND 9/19, and SEATTLE 9/20! this is what we sound like!

Your Life Is the Wheel by Affectionately (Out of Time, June 2024)

YouTube video by Free Key Choir

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · Sep 9

hi, cis folks!

if you said you’d stand with trans people, we need you now.

the FY26 budget bill gets a vote by 9/30. the GOP wants to jam a ban on federal funding for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE.

we need you to call senators: reps.fyi

more info & script downthread.🧵

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · Sep 8

NEWS: House Appropriations Committee Republicans released their spending bill for Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies. The legislation would prohibit taxpayer dollars for any type of gender-affirming care for transgender people. This would include programs like Medicaid

SEC. 243. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce Executive Order 13988, entitled ‘‘Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation’’, published by the Executive Office of the President on January 25, 2021 (86 Fed. Reg. 7023).

SEC. 244. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used for any social, psychological, behavioral,or medical intervention performed for the purposes of in16 tentionally changing the body of an individual (including
by disrupting the body’s development, inhibiting its natural functions, or modifying its appearance) to no longer correspond to the individual’s biological sex.

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