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Mike Sellraiser III: Sell on Earth

@profmikesell.bsky.social

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English Prof, Indiana University of Pennsylvania • Writing 'Playful Literature: Stories, Games, Theories' • Founder, The Digital Storytelling Project • Co-author, 'Systemic Dramaturgy' (Southern Illinois UP) • Unionized Faculty (IUP-APSCUF) • he/him

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Mike Sellraiser III: Sell on Earth @profmikesell.bsky.social · Nov 13

In an era when gaming literacy is fundamental to understanding popular culture and technological power, 'Ready Reader One' examines the role of videogame literature in explaining not only how we play videogames, but the stories we tell with, about, and around them.
lsupress.org/978080718089...

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Mike Sellraiser III: Sell on Earth @profmikesell.bsky.social · 10h

If Napoleon’s right about an army marching on its stomach, these boys must have hoofed it all the way from Abilene.

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Mike Sellraiser III: Sell on Earth @profmikesell.bsky.social · 10h

If Napoleon’s right about an army marching on its stomach, these boys must have hoofed it all the way from Abilene.

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Mike Sellraiser III: Sell on Earth @profmikesell.bsky.social · 14h

Cool!

Mike Sellraiser III: Sell on Earth @profmikesell.bsky.social · 14h

Now seated for OBAA, cocktail at hand.

Mike Sellraiser III: Sell on Earth @profmikesell.bsky.social · 15h

cc: Jews

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 19h

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Will🇺🇸📎✌️🌲 @econaturalist.bsky.social · 1d

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Mike Sellraiser III: Sell on Earth @profmikesell.bsky.social · 18h

Kate’s out of town so I’m going to see a movie tonight. Tron, Smashing Machine, or OBAA? Leaning strongly to OBAA though this would be my third time.

Bob and Sensei selfie from One Battle After Another

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Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 22h

Doing politics the right way is when the far-right regime in power memorializes a fallen influencer by terrorizing an academic that the influencer's McCarthyist organization once baselessly singled out for abuse.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 1d

Today, a question came up with a group of organizers I’m working with, some of whom are also lawyers, and it’s a serious inquiry:

Is anyone undertaking an effort to collect evidence that could eventually be used in a Nuremberg-style set of trials, or for a truth and reconciliation commission?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Mike Sellraiser III: Sell on Earth @profmikesell.bsky.social · 1d

Being a college professor is weird. The variety of stuff I do on a given day and week to week can be dizzying. It’s genuinely a solid set of labor practices and it can fun! And if you’re unionized and you’re protected by a strong tenure system, even better. But still weird, especially these days.

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Mike Sellraiser III: Sell on Earth @profmikesell.bsky.social · 1d

We are having a beautiful autumn evening in Pittsburgh.

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 2d

Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S.
Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world.
www.nobelprize.org

The official website of the Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.org

The Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts. This is one of the central concepts in the will of Alfred Nobel, and it also permeates the outreach activities that have been developed for...

www.nobelprize.org

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

CNN: “An older couple making $85K/year will see their yearly insurance premiums jump from $7K to $25,000 — 30% of their income.” 😳#TrumpShutdown #TrumpHealthCareTax

This is what Dems are drawing attention to and want fixed. Now, not later.

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Mike Sellraiser III: Sell on Earth @profmikesell.bsky.social · 1d

I got back into playing Dungeons & Dragons after two decades away from the game.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 2d

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

Mike Sellraiser III: Sell on Earth @profmikesell.bsky.social · 1d

Beau Is Afraid (2023, dir. Ari Aster)

Squash shaped like engorged testicle hanging on wooden fence.

Mike Sellraiser III: Sell on Earth @profmikesell.bsky.social · 1d

This is it. This is the goal. And frightening away BIPOC voters is key.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 2d

This is Adelita Grijalva.

She was elected to Congress two weeks ago, officially making her the final vote needed to force the release of the Epstein files.

She has still not been sworn in because Mike Johnson refuses to do so.

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Mike Sellraiser III: Sell on Earth @profmikesell.bsky.social · 1d

Going to set this against Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries."

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.

Mike Sellraiser III: Sell on Earth @profmikesell.bsky.social · 1d

Motion to replace "Human-Centered Design (HCD)" with "Snack-Centered Design (SCD)."

Genki @genkigamer.bsky.social · 2d

Devil May Cry Director Hideaki Itsuno says he designed DMC5’s pacing with potato chips in mind!

He designed scenarios so players know when they can take a potato chip break. He wanted to make it clear when a cutscene was coming & give enough time to take a small break to eat some potato chips!

Mike Sellraiser III: Sell on Earth @profmikesell.bsky.social · 1d

I think @mattseybold.bsky.social and the American Vandal podcast have some useful perspectives on the connections between the attack on academic humanities and the intensified exploitation of academic and artistic labor by way of EdTech. Also, Nick Clegg can f right off over there forever.

Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 2d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

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Mike Sellraiser III: Sell on Earth @profmikesell.bsky.social · 1d

A fascinating interview with @jdragsky.bsky.social about the way we consider (and fail to consider) the TTRPG rulebook as an object in itself. For me, this focus articulates TTRPGs with the history of the book, experimental book design, and concrete poetics.
www.backwardstabletop.com/jay-dragon-o...

Interview: Jay Dragon on Bookplay

An interview with Jay Dragon about how ttrpgs play with books

www.backwardstabletop.com

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