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victoria rose

@riningear.bsky.social

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expert unprofessional catgirl. mostly raving, gaming, and roleplaying nowadays. freelance news/#ffxiv columns @mmorpg.com, many bylines elsewhere. 30s, plural, queer, ??/her/they/he, 🏳️‍⚧️ish, NYC. riningears@gmail unserious

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victoria rose @riningear.bsky.social · Oct 17

"which victoria rose is this?" the one who does games media stuff. here's a whole portfolio about it! I'm available for all sorts of writing gigs, and would love to cut my teeth on indie studio press and/or editing! victoriarose.ink

Victoria Rose | Writing Portfolio

A portfolio of writing work by Victoria Rose.

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Misty De Méo @cdrom.ca · 2h

Actually speaking of the "kids these days" stuff I don't really have much patience for handwringing over zoomer “brainrot” humour because I grew up with "We Drink Ritalin" (actual title!) and other animutations on albinoblacksheep. We weren't an erudite generation

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victoria rose @riningear.bsky.social · 1h

speaking of djs I'm going to deck the next one to use wii soundtrack music in a mix. please stop. I'm begging

victoria rose @riningear.bsky.social · 1h

in case you didn't know, boiler room got bought out by a subsidiary of KKR, which is an investment group that also funds weaponry for israeli and initiatives for other indigenous displacement projects relating to oil!!! WE ARE NOT FANS OF BOILER ROOM AROUND HERE. communities have a FULL-ON BOYCOTT.

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Blaise Ulysse Bernard Collins @wittywebhandle.bsky.social · 19h

Watching this 'Love Has No Labels' ad campaign featuring John Cena from 2015 is breaking my brain

It's not that I'm pining for time that didn't exist by mistaking an ad for a lived experience

It's the fact that boilerplate Corporate Liberalism from 10 yrs ago clears anything Dems communicate today

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victoria rose @riningear.bsky.social · 2h

I'm sick and tired of these random-ass videos calling their little dj projects a "boiler room set" when they're like, in the middle of a grassy field or in their bathtub. it's a DJ set, tell us the genre, and STOP IGNORING THE RAVE SCENE'S BOYCOTT OF BOILER ROOM AFTER IT GOT BOUGHT OUT BY KKR

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Office of NYC Comptroller Brad Lander @nyccomptroller.bsky.social · 22h

Proud to stand with @workersjusticep.bsky.social in calling for @council.nyc.gov to pass @justinbrannan.bsky.social's Int 1332, which would eliminate unjust deactivations of app-based delivery workers.

Deliveristas are hardworking essential workers who deserve secure jobs and just pay.

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Jose Argumedo @arguingmeadows.com · 7h

Their opinion is their opinion, whatever, but they’re re-writing history here. TRON was Disney’s highest-grossing live action film in 5 years, a decent hit that made a lot from merchandise and arcades. Home video was also very successful for TRON, and Legacy didn’t flop, it made $400 million.

mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 16h

Pretty confused by how TRON became a big-budget movie franchise. Was it a bit hit when it came out? No. Did it become a big hit on video/TV? Also no. Do people have fond nostalgic memories of it? Eh kinda but not really. Was it secretly great and critically acclaimed? No again

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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 4h

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 19h

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victoria rose @riningear.bsky.social · 11h

(I also visited a few friends abroad and did some tourism obvs but like, I centered a massive leg of this trip around making it to this festival)

victoria rose @riningear.bsky.social · 11h

it's completely okay to take a break from something you love. I got so tilted over something extremely mundane in my roleplay community that I logged off and walked into a techno club which led to me eventually literally traveling abroad for a music festival. literally go take a break

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〽️ax krieger does the damn thing @maxkriegervg.bsky.social · 22h

kendrick whispering to charli after taylor dropped actually romantic

the green goblin mask whispering to norman osborn

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victoria rose @riningear.bsky.social · 12h

hey sorry I haven't been active I spent my entire time after getting home from work getting sad recanting my OC's tragic lore

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 17h

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Vulture @vulture.com · 18h

Comedians like Aziz Ansari and Jessica Kirson need to look elsewhere for organizations to donate their Riyadh Comedy Festival money. Human Rights Watch said they ‘cannot accept’ donations from them.

Human Rights Watch Doesn’t Want Any Riyadh Comedy Festival Money

www.vulture.com

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victoria rose @riningear.bsky.social · 16h

BUZZG IN 2025!? www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPL_...

Artifact by buzzG feat. Hatsune Miku

YouTube video by Hatsune Miku

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Samantha Ferreira Is Creating An Anime Mag @sam-animeherald.bsky.social · 1d

I still find it wild how anime fans, by and large, generally disowned Nobuhiro Watsuki and his work the moment he was outed as a pedophile. Meanwhile, Harry Potter fans keep finding new excuses to support the thing while the creator is actively working to exterminate trans people.

Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 1d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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victoria rose @riningear.bsky.social · 1d

I need to actually progress in this damned game tho so I can see whether reddit and forum discourse is accurate

victoria rose @riningear.bsky.social · 1d

this piece isn't published yet but it's literally just a tiny bit on citizencon direct and then a massive pulse check on star citizen itself. like, holy backlinks, batman

victoria rose @riningear.bsky.social · 1d

(Time for me to do my bimonthly crash into the starter station near New Babbage, I guess.)

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silver‼️⁉️⁉️❗️❕️ @silvertigo.bsky.social · 1d

been there done that
#ffxiv #ffxivart

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 1d

I complained earlier that WaPo's story on Trump inviting PizzaGate guy to the White House was insane. Not so this Independent story.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Not to be outdone, in came Jack Posobiec, one of the right’s weirdest hangers-on, who is perhaps most famous for the time he spread the “Pizzagate” theory and then got removed from the pizzeria in question by police for filming a child’s birthday party. Running with the major theme of the hour — that Antifa is definitely, certainly, really real despite all evidence to the contrary, and that everybody needs to stop saying it’s not real — Posobiec made a startling claim: Antifa is so clearly real that it “has been going on for almost 100 years ... going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany.”

And look, yes, it is absolutely true that there were anti-fascist protesters in the Weimar Republic. If you’ll remember, those were the people taking issue with the early versions of the Nazis. But it’s sort of difficult to position yourself as the good guys if you’re aligning yourself with the Nazis in your historical analogy. I’m just saying that, if I was Posobiec’s publicity guy, I might ask him to drop that soundbite from future public appearances.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

The Advantage program was a lifeline for New Yorkers like Kasha, a working mom struggling to get out of a shelter and into stable housing.

But when then-Gov. Cuomo slashed funding, homelessness surged.

These are political choices. We can choose differently.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

Apart from helping Comey's selective prosecution defense, this also means the president of the United States uses direct messages on Truth Social to communicate with cabinet officials.

I didn't know that, but we can be sure intelligence agencies all over the planet already did.

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victoria rose @riningear.bsky.social · 1d

ah, solving the chronic cuddlebug dilemma, carry on