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dapurplesharpie
@sharpiepls.com
she/her 😘

(gaming)(host + vlogger) = #SharpieVLOG 🐣
over 1️⃣2️⃣0️⃣ days since my last league game 🥹

🎤 • host of @GDoCExpo.com + @dreamcon.bsky.social
📻 • podcasts : @fgcast.com + @totesrad.blacksky.app

more about me ➡️ www.sharpiepls.com
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NEW PINNED POST BECAUSE BSKY JUST GAVE ME 3 MIN VIDEO UPLOADS !!

hihi, i'm SHARPIE 🐣

i play games i love like #PSO2NGS or #Skullgirls, but you probably saw me at #fgc events like @evo.gg or #gaming events like @gdocexpo.com 💪🕹️

NOBODY DOES IT LIKE ME 😘
more about me ➡️ sharpiepls.com
showed this to a woman at work and she said "i knew you were smart, but i didn't know you modeled!"

i replied: "thank you for acknowledging my inner beauty and intelligence while also reinforcing patriarchal stereotypes which only exist to suppress the success of women."

unrelated, HR talked to me
November 25, 2025 at 11:30 AM
spent last night reformatting my primary machine and putting linux on it.

kinda done with windows as my primary OS for awhile, but i still have it on my secondary machine for gaming.

my next article will be discussing my linux experience and how i moved for other interested parties.
November 25, 2025 at 11:18 AM
finished listening to the episode.
my biggest three takeaways from this talk:

1. just purchased Cyberlibertarianism: The Right-Wing Politics of Digital Technology and will be reading it ASAP 🙏

2. @hypervisible.blacksky.app DROP THE PRE-ORDER LINK FOR YOUR BOOK RN 👿👿👿 THIS IS NOT A DRILL
Had a good chat with @jasonkoebler.bsky.social for the @404media.co podcast. Got a chance to talk about how tech companies main pitch changed from “you exchange some surveillance for services” to “we get to spy on you all the time and it’s good, actually.”
Luxury Surveillance (With Chris Gilliard)
Podcast Episode · The 404 Media Podcast · 11/24/2025 · 1h 3m
podcasts.apple.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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Got to see a demo I worked on featured at the Umbrella Art Fair in DC yesterday - also got to see cool art and cool people including @sharpiepls.com! Be sure to check out Dominick Rabrun's Veve Punk: Mind Singer, a narrative thriller game taking place during the Haitian Revolution coming soon! 🇭🇹🎮🔮
November 24, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Had a good chat with @jasonkoebler.bsky.social for the @404media.co podcast. Got a chance to talk about how tech companies main pitch changed from “you exchange some surveillance for services” to “we get to spy on you all the time and it’s good, actually.”
Luxury Surveillance (With Chris Gilliard)
Podcast Episode · The 404 Media Podcast · 11/24/2025 · 1h 3m
podcasts.apple.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:08 PM
this was my favorite showcase at #UmbrellaArtFair2025

all of the canvases had AR features and hidden stories were told when you accessed them through that lense 🧵

art by mauricejamesjr.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:18 AM
November 23, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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HEY #DMV 🦀

i'm hosting at #UmbrellaArtFair2025 for blackpublicmedia.org !!

come thru and check out two indie devs working on super interesting new projects !! 😇

🎟️ - bpm-game-chat-2025-11.eventbrite.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:26 PM
praying i finally get a feature in @51st.news for this 🤞😊
HEY #DMV 🦀

i'm hosting at #UmbrellaArtFair2025 for blackpublicmedia.org !!

come thru and check out two indie devs working on super interesting new projects !! 😇

🎟️ - bpm-game-chat-2025-11.eventbrite.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:35 PM
no one:
literally no one:

me, at 2AM:
I am so grateful to have lived in a time where Skullgirls existed
November 22, 2025 at 5:55 PM
HEY #DMV 🦀

i'm hosting at #UmbrellaArtFair2025 for blackpublicmedia.org !!

come thru and check out two indie devs working on super interesting new projects !! 😇

🎟️ - bpm-game-chat-2025-11.eventbrite.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:26 PM
found a new position at as a noc engineer with REDACTED ISP NAME HERE

happy to announce that they have significantly higher security standards and protocols compared to my last employment location, which i am still under NDA for (unfortunately)
quick question for the skyline:

on a scale of 1-10, with 1 being a dumpster fire and 10 being absolutely perfect, how good is it that my company is scripting NAT firewall configurations for their clients through ChatGPT?

i should mention that several clients are government contractors.
November 21, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Fusion centers were “involved in monitoring pro-Palestine demonstrations on at least five campuses across the country, as shown in more than 20,000 pages of documents obtained via public records requests exposing U.S. universities’ playbooks for cracking down on pro-Palestine student activism.”
How U.S. Universities Used Counterterror Fusion Centers to Surveil Student Protests for Palestine
Internal university communications reveal how a network established for post-9/11 intelligence sharing was turned on students protesting genocide.
theintercept.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:41 PM
this is the blog post i would have made before jay went mask off, but it probably would have been kinder to atproto
November 20, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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And Helluva Boss is just Homestuck for gen z
hazbin hotel is just invader zim for gen z
November 18, 2025 at 6:36 PM
hazbin hotel is just invader zim for gen z
November 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
dad had a stroke.
he's stable now.
gonna be afk for awhile.
close friends have my number; discord for everyone else.
thanks for understanding.
November 13, 2025 at 12:35 AM
woke up to an email from HaveIBeenPwnd letting me know about the Synthient Credential Stuffing Threat Data Breach so now my next 12 hours is auditing and rotating my credentials again

very fun
November 12, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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since we're all talking about boycotting evo, can we (as the fighting game community) finally talk about moving our support from fake award shows that don't appreciate or respect the fighting game genre

or is it too soon?
September 2, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Join @blackskyweb.xyz for “Digital Misogynoir + How to Report it on Blacksky” 11/14, 7PMEST on @stream.place. This event is part of @raceforward.org + CTWO’s Cultural Week of Action on Race and Democracy!

#CWA25 #LiberatoryLeadership #CTWOxRACEFORWARD
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
them: "are you going to EVENTNAMEHERE to compete in #2XKO???"

me:
November 11, 2025 at 12:41 AM
ah yes: my fav award show ended up using indie game devs during the pandemic to juice numbers/recognition in a desperate attempt to stay relevant and now has axed the program bc don't want to be accountable for the people they "uplifted".

i want to say i'm disappointed but that would imply surprise
EXCLUSIVE on @gamedeveloper.bsky.social: not only has The Game Awards not nominated a Future Class for 2025, it's told alumni it "does not have any active programming plans" for the award.

The Future Class page was taken down sometime this year—eliminating a definitive archive of honorees.
The Game Awards' Future Class program remains on ice
Future Class organizer Emily Weir has informed past honorees that The Game Awards has no active plans for the program.
www.gamedeveloper.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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Great to see more people encouraging others to take control of their message. In the "old days", this was the only option. With the rise of companies who "do it for you", you have to take the risk of the company not aligning with your values.

Manage it yourself! (as much as you are comfortable)
If you want to start a newsletter and don't want to use Substack because they currently platform/sponsor Nazis: consider using the free and open-sourced alternative that has been around for over a decade.

I'll personally walk you through it.
The Alternative to Medium/Substack - Sharpie Posts
Stop using closed-sourced solutions and move towards free and open-sources options that scale better, especially for indie creators.
sharpiepls.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Im inspired by @sharpiepls.com and feel like her journey to break negative habits and own your output is valid.

I too am spinning up something *peep the domain change* and hope to disengage from yapping too much here. @lookitup.baby had to remind me its too easy to get caught up on social media.
November 9, 2025 at 3:09 PM
@slouchingyogi.bsky.social hihi !! reaching out bc i saw you were trying to migrate over to blacksky

i have a few hours free right now if you'd like assistance !!
the process takes around 20m
November 9, 2025 at 3:08 PM