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🤌 Julia Rago 🤌

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she/her | Aro Ace 🖤🤍💜 | Art Director, Illustrator, Graphic Designer by day, Mysterious Tiny Horror by night. Lead Visual Designer @ IGN Entertainment https://linktr.ee/juliarago

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🤌 Julia Rago 🤌 @juliarago.bsky.social · Sep 8

One bright spot in life rn has been working on my pieces for @worldofthedaszine.bsky.social.
I don’t know how many will make it in to the final book, but I had a great time messing with styles and ended up turning in 8 pieces which is… more than I originally intended. Can’t wait for yall to see!

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 23h

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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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 5h

Mamdani talking lucidly and passionately about trans rights and history in a video that should frankly shame every politician who has hemmed and hawed and triangulated and said, "Well, but sports..." It's not that hard to tell the truth and stand for what's right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...

Until It's Done: Sylvia Rivera

YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC

www.youtube.com

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 1d

As a protest optics nerd love about the inflatables is how much they visually disrupt and pull focus from the fascist shock imagery Noem & Miller are trying to create.

So many of these photos now look like the world's silliest dance party, backgrounded by a bunch of guys in uniform looking awkward

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Violet, Vhenan Producer @blkhrvioleteyes.bsky.social · 1d

We had a couple more new roles posted even after this social post! I've finished my first month at EHG and am really loving it so far. Send me a DM if you have any questions 🥰 (Note: I am NOT the hiring manager)

Check out the list at eleventhhourgames.bamboohr.com/careers

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Jennifer/Aster Unkle 🏳️‍⚧️ 🔪 @spookycutewitch.bsky.social · 2d

“Why isn’t anyone covering our indie games?”

1. The gaming press has been decimated by business suits, and the whims of an uncaring search engine behemoth
2. Doing the job means you get death threats and harassment
3. There are more games released in 1 week than there were in entire months in 2015

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WoodPig Press @woodpigpress.bsky.social · Jun 29

Please share:

Do you hate AI?

Are you an editor, proofreader, designer, illustrator, typesetter, marketer, book blogger, audio narrator, reviewer, ARC/beta reader?

WoodPig Press is creating a pool of freelancers for future paid work.

woodpigpress.com/call-for-pub...

#booksky #books #publishing

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 2d

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Xalavier Nelson Jr. @writnelson.bsky.social · 3d

You would not believe how many stories like this have been popping up over the last ~5 years

Not just full games cancelled—entire characters and plot lines removed or changed, leaving less time for making the *rest of the game better*, to try avoiding a small and malicious contingent of voices.

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 3d

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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🤌 Julia Rago 🤌 @juliarago.bsky.social · 3d

Wow insanely small world
Good to meet you, man lol

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G. @guillecummings.com · 3d

Come join the World's Finest Social Team at @dc.com.

I'm hiring a Social Publishing Lead to work alongside me, and the rest of the DC social team, as we shape the future of DC social!

Lead, Social Publishing

Welcome to Warner Bros. Discovery… the stuff dreams are made of. Who We Are… When we say, “the stuff dreams are made of,” we’re not just referring to the world of wizards, dragons and superheroes, or ...

warnerbros.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 4d

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 4d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ @gorangligovic.bsky.social · 4d

In case you'd like to purchase a print

www.inprnt.com/gallery/gora...

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EVR//DFT @everdrift.bsky.social · 5d

fuck ai

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 5d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 6d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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🤌 Julia Rago 🤌 @juliarago.bsky.social · 6d

What’s wild is that I hear them all the time but man it hits different when they scream like directly outside your window lol

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🤌 Julia Rago 🤌 @juliarago.bsky.social · 6d

Dog sitting for friends this weekend and I forgot their place is closer to where all the coyotes hang out in the area and holy god the screaming and howling is so loud, how do you ignore this

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Josh Crews @joshcrewsreally.bsky.social · Sep 21

Batman art by Bill Sienkiewicz.
#comics #art #batmanday

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 7d

FACT FOCUS: Democrats did not shut down the government to give health care to illegal immigrants.

FACT FOCUS: Democrats did not shut down the government to give health care to 'illegal immigrants'

This is false. Democrats say they are pushing for the inclusion of key health care provisions in the next congressional spending package.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 8d

Remember that this is what the Trump-Republican big, ugly bill was all about. It's Robin Hood in reverse.

Why would any Democrat vote for a continuing resolution that greenlights this regime's cruelty?

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 8d

It's bad out there. For everyone. In ways I didn't even know it could be bad.

Everyone looking for work is vulnerable in some way, and deserves to be treated better than this automated, callous, scam-filled, AI-riddled hellscape.

Aftermath @aftermath.site · 8d

Trying to find a job in video games right now is like crawling through hell:

aftermath.site/video-game-rec...

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Mat Piscatella @matpiscatella.bsky.social · 9d

Been talking about this trend for years when it comes to games spending. Why are there premium gamepads, $149 collector's editions, Pro consoles and general rising prices? Because the price-insensitive, affluent players are the ones doing more of the spending as everyone else shifts more to f2p.

Jeff Grubb @grubb.wtf · 9d

things are getting more expensive because only rich people are spending. The top 10% of earners ($250k as a household) make up half of all consumer spending in the US. So, everything is being priced for them while Xbox leaves everyone else behind. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Top 10% of Earners Drive a Growing Share of US Consumer Spending

Wealthy consumers continue to account for a growing share of US consumer spending, highlighting the lopsided strength of the economy as a slowdown in hiring and wariness among other income cohorts rai...

www.bloomberg.com

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Tristan Cooper @tristanacooper.bsky.social · 10d

Newly minted evergreen meme

meme of fred armisen saying

Make bad game? Fired

Make good game? Fired

Make incredibly successful game?
Believe it or not, also fired

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 10d

Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance.

Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn.

We have been sent here to fight for people.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 10d

AOC: I think there's two things that are happening at once: One, there absolutely is an unprecedented abuse of power, destruction of norms, erosion of our government and our democracy in order to prop up an authoritarian style of governance

However, they are weaker than they look…

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Earl Grey: 𝙁𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙨 @earlgreymemes.club · 10d

tweet by 'marsh/jean' @xXmarshmelonXx 23/04/2023: genuinely thought this was a star trek TOS scene

quoting '90s Kylie' @kylie_90s 22/04/2023, with text: rupaul, björk and kylie minogue at the brit awards, 1994 twitter.com/PopBase/status...

with an image from the awards show; RuPaul in a lime green dress, Björk in a bright red long sleeved dress with gold fur wrap thing, and Kylie Minogue in a bright off-white dress handing Björk an award; the background is purple with blue lights

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