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alexis @steppinlazer.bsky.social · Jun 25

they let me do WHAT

joannes @playthroughline.com · Jun 25

Time to introduce the writers who are adding new stories to NEUROCRACY 3.0! Let's give a warm welcome to...

✨ ALEXIS ONG ✨
@steppinlazer.bsky.social

Alexis will contribute a wild story that promises to deal with Singapore's murky legacy of sand theft 🙏

The final name drops next week!

joannes @playthroughline.com · May 16

On July 16, join us for the launch of

🌐 N E U R O C R A C Y 3 . 0 🌐

✅ A fresh live run of ten episodes on omnipedia.app!
✅ New stories and systems from amazing writers!
✅ Your investigation affects the outcome!

More info: talk.omnipedia.app/t/neurocracy...

#scifi #epistolary #hypertext #TTARG

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razorgirl @razorgirl.diy · 58m

Jesus christ

1988: she-male encounters 18: murder she-male wrote

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Michael DeForge @michaeldeforge.bsky.social · 4h

I'm very sad to say that this event has to be cancelled!

Yesterday, I was among 8 arrested at an action demanding:

- The safe return of Freedom Flotilla members currently being detained in Israeli prisons, including Mskwaasin Agnew

- A two way arms embargo

- Immediate sanctions on Israel

Michael DeForge @michaeldeforge.bsky.social · 18d

Buffalo! I'll be in town to read at @gutterpopcomics.bsky.social on October 10, alongside @philmcandrew.bsky.social, Gia Ligammari and Max Weiss

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Dia Lacina @dialacina.com · 1d

A ceasefire (that doesn't even seem to be being honored by the IDF) doesn't mean you get to suddenly make up with Microsoft.

BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 1d

Boycott, Divest, Sanction: A ceasefire today will not stop Israel’s genocide against Palestinians, only meaningful accountability will.

Our work is not done!

Read more: loom.ly/TsJOHwo

Boycott, Divest, Sanction: A ceasefire today will not stop Israel’s genocide against Palestinians, only meaningful accountability will.

Our work is not done! The BDS movement calls on our millions of supporters worldwide to escalate pressure to end Israel’s genocide and its decades-old regime of settler-colonialism, apartheid, and ill...

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alexis @steppinlazer.bsky.social · 1d

cutie fifi

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 1d

not only are they definitely not clicking on a story or review for your indie game but after they play the one that blows up from northenlion's stream they will post "every indie game is just balatro but x slop now" at anything vaguely similar. and thats if you're lucky enough not to get harassed

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 1d

it is not polite to say so but no discussion of the state of the games industry/press can really avoid the reality that the audience is just. really really bad.

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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 2d

this is how I, a resident of LA, found out that the Palisades fire was arson, that they caught the guy, and that he used gen AI to work his way up to doing the crime

niki grayson @nikigrayson.com · 2d

the city of los angeles burned in january in part because of a man who couldn’t stop generating images of burning cities on ChatGPT, and then after he lit the fire he asked if the fire he started was his fault

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Dia Lacina @dialacina.com · 1d

I would prefer to be playing weird little games than 100 hour 8/10 cutscene-generating skinner boxes. A lot of us would. I would like to do that alongside big stupid games too. I would like stability and success for my dev friends and my press friends, big and small.

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Chris Kerr @kerrblimey.bsky.social · 1d

If you only read one story today, make it @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social's breakdown of the Saudi-backed EA buyout, which includes thoughts from multiple business analysts and experts who explain what the $55B deal could mean for EA workers, its video games, and the wider industry.

Essential reading.

Game Developer @gamedeveloper.bsky.social · 1d

'Gaming is the new oil:' How the EA buyout 'diverges from the traditional playbook'

Analysts explain how the high-risk leveraged buyout will impact Electronic Arts and the video game industry.

www.gamedeveloper.com

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Anas Basil 🍉 @annas-basil4.bsky.social · 1d

@steppinlazer.bsky.social
To be displaced is to lose the map of who you were. In Gaza, we wander through camps and ruins, carrying memories heavier than our bodies. Each step whispers of what was stolen: safety, schools, family, tomorrow. we still need your help to survive 🙏🏻💔

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · Feb 14

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Anas. Anas had just enrolled in college in Khan Younis when the war started and his brother Ahmad who is 14 excelled in math and wanted to be a doctor. They’ve been deprived of education for 2 years and desperately want to continue it.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 1d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 2d

🇵🇸 Breaking: 22-year-old Palestinian, held without charge or trial since May 2024, dies in Israeli custody — the 78th Palestinian “prisoner” to die since Oct 7.

The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society said Ahmad Khdeirat, from Adh-Dhahiriya near Hebron, entered prison with diabetes, contracted scabies...

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media archaeology lab @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social · 2d

we're (virtually) looking at among other things maps and technology and art with a class from Concordia today and so you should all read this essay from @stephencass.bsky.social because it's poignant and lovely

Stephen Cass @stephencass.bsky.social · Jun 4

I just wanted to add this to the map discourse: an essay I wrote for EmpherMAL, the zine from @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social — it's about the glory days of personal cartography in the 80s; text, flip-screen, and FPS games; Discworld books; and D&D then and now (p10): archive.org/details/ephe...

ephemerMAL volume 1 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

First issue of the Media Archaeology Lab ephemera zine

archive.org

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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 2d

"Niccolo", the 2nd 2025 graduation short film from french Gobelins school, is online.
Directed by Clémentine Di Prizio, David Florian, Axelle Granet, Sirui Liu, Hugo Michalet & Njolai Pachomius.
Full film >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=O515...

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strawbaby jam @strawbbfields4ever.bsky.social · 2d

always remember who was there for you at your lowest. thank you cigarettes

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Laura Michet @lmichet.bsky.social · 2d

Learned that I am being laid off from Heart Machine, and will be leaving the studio later this month.

Do you need a contractor? I've got a track record of leading scope-friendly script revisions late in dev. I have also done a lot of consulting on new IPs and pitches/demos. Feel free to DM me!

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Timothy @landbeforetim.bsky.social · 3d

Dolly Parton could’ve written Das Kapital, but Karl Marx couldn’t have written 9 to 5 and it shows

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alexis @steppinlazer.bsky.social · 3d

have you ever just felt cocaine through words

alexis @steppinlazer.bsky.social · 3d

interviewed claire evans like twelve years ago on the omni reboot and while everything has gotten exponentially shitter, i guess she/stavros got the forecast right about Shein

As far as I know, OMNI has only ever run one fashion story, photographed by Lucille Khornak for the magazine’s June 1982 issue.
Khornak asked fashion designers including Karl Lagerfeld and Thierry Mugler to contribute looks and fashion projections which
might help a time-traveler blend into the 21st century. Jean-Paul
Gaultier imagines we’ll spray on latex body suits, but I think the
most depressingly accurate prediction is from John Stavros, who
guesses that in the future the superrich will wear “expensive demi-
god” outfits while the poor “will make do with disposable dresses
and suits torn like toilet paper off a roll of cardboard.”

alexis @steppinlazer.bsky.social · 3d

aaron sorkin will pay for this

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 3d

Bari Weiss introduced herself to CBS News staff today on the network's 9AM call, saying she wants to "win," which requires restoring trust to CBS. She also said she was excited for staff to get to know the Free Press, and ended her remarks by saying: "Let's do the fucking news."

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alexis @steppinlazer.bsky.social · 3d

re: LRT about bookshop having a sale i can't believe this is how i learned that silo is an adaptation of wool

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Erica Friedman @okazu.yuricon.com · 3d

Bookshop is having an Anti-Amazon sale, with cheap e-books and free shipping for print today and tomorrow:

bookshop.org/lists/ebook-...

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 3d

NEW — The remaining American members of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla being held in Israeli prison have been freed, a family member of one confirmed to me. They were driven to the Jordanian border and will be staying the night in Jordan before flying home.

Video of them today saying “Free Palestine”:

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Col. Boozy Badger @boozybadger.lawyersandliquor.com · 3d

Dunno man, seems a little misleading to write an article about Trump describing activity in Portland and Chicago as “insurrection” with a 33 year old photo of a burning donut shop taken in the 1992 LA Riots (sans caption explaining that) as the header on all your posts about it.

The picture from
The article with a picture of an armed men standing in front of a burning donut shop. You must click through to read the caption “
Two National guardsmen stand guard outside a burning donut shop in Los Angeles on April 30, 1992.
The National Guard was called in to aid police during the second day of rioting in the city.”

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