alice in the underland.
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"I wanted to be justice, love, and the wrath of God all in one" — Marjane Satrapi
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— Social justice discussion.
— Literature/books: speculative writing, queer (esp. weird queer), experimental, in-depth nonfiction about social issue
— Writing: prose, poem, game.
— Narrative game: VN, TTRPG, interactive fiction, etc
— Misc. pop culture.
— Social justice discussion.
— Literature/books: speculative writing, queer (esp. weird queer), experimental, in-depth nonfiction about social issue
— Writing: prose, poem, game.
— Narrative game: VN, TTRPG, interactive fiction, etc
— Misc. pop culture.
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"how to deal with pluribus getting review bombed while heated rivalry is a 9.9/10" the answer is pretty obvious. it's always been the same. just abolish straight men
December 21, 2025 at 4:13 PM
"how to deal with pluribus getting review bombed while heated rivalry is a 9.9/10" the answer is pretty obvious. it's always been the same. just abolish straight men
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a little bit of hope means you want to know about the world, no matter what it's done to you
December 20, 2025 at 11:24 PM
a little bit of hope means you want to know about the world, no matter what it's done to you
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There is so much, much more to read in kids’ books than Walliams or Rowling. It’s an embarrassingly rich world. Check out @louiestowell.bsky.social or @nadiashireen.bsky.social or any number of glorious, funny, heartfelt titles. You’ve got such treats in store without spending blood money.
December 19, 2025 at 9:12 PM
There is so much, much more to read in kids’ books than Walliams or Rowling. It’s an embarrassingly rich world. Check out @louiestowell.bsky.social or @nadiashireen.bsky.social or any number of glorious, funny, heartfelt titles. You’ve got such treats in store without spending blood money.
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In a New Currents symposium, Irissa Cisternino & Rebecca Radillo ask us to consider major questions about how generative AI problematizes existing power structures in and around fandom in #TWC46! Read their piece here:
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November 19, 2025 at 2:27 PM
In a New Currents symposium, Irissa Cisternino & Rebecca Radillo ask us to consider major questions about how generative AI problematizes existing power structures in and around fandom in #TWC46! Read their piece here:
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Here's a piece I did for the Brockton Writers Series on queer and trans worldbuilding: brocktonwritersseries.wordpress.com/2025/12/17/b...
Brockton Writers Series 14.01.26: Jes Battis
Jes Battis is the author of the award-winning fantasy novel The Winter Knight (ECW), as well as the Occult Special Investigator series (Penguin), and the Parallel Parks series (Penguin). …
brocktonwritersseries.wordpress.com
December 17, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Here's a piece I did for the Brockton Writers Series on queer and trans worldbuilding: brocktonwritersseries.wordpress.com/2025/12/17/b...
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Re: the Lamy Harry Potter collab; look, use them, don't use them, that's always up to you. But this IP is lava and needs to be seen as lava for real world, physical reasons of peoples' actual safety. And if you make too many excuses for brands who touch the lava, then I know you don't GET THAT.
December 18, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Re: the Lamy Harry Potter collab; look, use them, don't use them, that's always up to you. But this IP is lava and needs to be seen as lava for real world, physical reasons of peoples' actual safety. And if you make too many excuses for brands who touch the lava, then I know you don't GET THAT.
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have I been but forging my own branding-iron, then?
December 21, 2025 at 7:47 AM
have I been but forging my own branding-iron, then?
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finally started Pluribus. many thoughts, chief among which is: find you somebody that loves you like Vince Gilligan loves Albuquerque
December 21, 2025 at 1:31 AM
finally started Pluribus. many thoughts, chief among which is: find you somebody that loves you like Vince Gilligan loves Albuquerque
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I feel like I'm going to get a lot of use out of this Pluribus screencap
December 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
I feel like I'm going to get a lot of use out of this Pluribus screencap
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Alright, it's time to ruin your holiday budget! It's big sales recommendation thread time! I'll be updating intermittently, so check back.
This year has had some ups and downs. Income isn't awful, but less stable. If you want to support my work, tips always go to buying more indie games to research
This year has had some ups and downs. Income isn't awful, but less stable. If you want to support my work, tips always go to buying more indie games to research
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December 19, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Alright, it's time to ruin your holiday budget! It's big sales recommendation thread time! I'll be updating intermittently, so check back.
This year has had some ups and downs. Income isn't awful, but less stable. If you want to support my work, tips always go to buying more indie games to research
This year has had some ups and downs. Income isn't awful, but less stable. If you want to support my work, tips always go to buying more indie games to research
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merry capitalism for those who celebrate it. if you're looking for games to buy on steam, i have curated some games: store.steampowered.com/curator/3943...
Steam Curator: みみドしま
For people looking for the good and obscure shit. All titles are pretty much what I would recommend to anyone if they want a good time.
store.steampowered.com
December 18, 2025 at 6:34 PM
merry capitalism for those who celebrate it. if you're looking for games to buy on steam, i have curated some games: store.steampowered.com/curator/3943...
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I spoke to a dozen professional concept artists working in games about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs easier, even if it's just used in "very early ideation stages."
Zero said "yes." Most said it made their job harder.
I learnt a lot about concept artists. You should too!
Zero said "yes." Most said it made their job harder.
I learnt a lot about concept artists. You should too!
We spoke to a dozen professional concept artists who are currently or have previously worked in game development about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs any easier.
Zero said it did. Most said it made things harder.
thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/conc...
Zero said it did. Most said it made things harder.
thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/conc...
Concept Artists Say Generative AI References Only Make Their Jobs Harder
“The ‘early ideation stages’, when worlds are being fleshed out by writers and artists, are literally crucial to the development of a game’s vision,” said one artist.
thisweekinvideogames.com
December 18, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I spoke to a dozen professional concept artists working in games about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs easier, even if it's just used in "very early ideation stages."
Zero said "yes." Most said it made their job harder.
I learnt a lot about concept artists. You should too!
Zero said "yes." Most said it made their job harder.
I learnt a lot about concept artists. You should too!
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my solidarity is with all survivors of childhood abuse tonight. what an incredibly fucking rough news cycle this has been, with no end in sight.
December 20, 2025 at 12:45 AM
my solidarity is with all survivors of childhood abuse tonight. what an incredibly fucking rough news cycle this has been, with no end in sight.
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I love it when researchers say "you don't save any time with AI assisted research because you can't be sure the sources exist" kind of giving away the game there
I think this post nails the actual problem, for researchers at least—AI hallucinations would simply not be a problem in academic work if we’d not normalized citation-as-signaling rather than actual engagement—you can only cite a fake paper if you’re not in the habit of reading the papers you cite
Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it
December 20, 2025 at 2:25 AM
I love it when researchers say "you don't save any time with AI assisted research because you can't be sure the sources exist" kind of giving away the game there
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The year is 2035. There are three game studios left. Each one produces a game every 10 years, killing 250+ developers in the process. They all accidentally make the same game because they used genAI in preproduction. They sell 500 million units each, missing quarterly targets. Everyone is laid off.
December 18, 2025 at 4:49 PM
The year is 2035. There are three game studios left. Each one produces a game every 10 years, killing 250+ developers in the process. They all accidentally make the same game because they used genAI in preproduction. They sell 500 million units each, missing quarterly targets. Everyone is laid off.
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You should pay $3 just to admire the UI, but the Steam Winter Sale is on and you can play the whole game too, bonus!!
It has a 50-60% chance of making you gay, and that's a lot of value for $3
store.steampowered.com/app/836450/H...
It has a 50-60% chance of making you gay, and that's a lot of value for $3
store.steampowered.com/app/836450/H...
Save 80% on Heaven Will Be Mine on Steam
HEAVEN WILL BE MINE is a visual novel about making terrible life decisions in the midst of a hot-blooded battle between giant robots. Select one of three terribly behaved girls to fight and/or make ou...
store.steampowered.com
December 18, 2025 at 7:45 PM
You should pay $3 just to admire the UI, but the Steam Winter Sale is on and you can play the whole game too, bonus!!
It has a 50-60% chance of making you gay, and that's a lot of value for $3
store.steampowered.com/app/836450/H...
It has a 50-60% chance of making you gay, and that's a lot of value for $3
store.steampowered.com/app/836450/H...
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Guess I'll post this again
December 18, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Guess I'll post this again
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Creative solidarity means:
If you're a writer, do not use AI "art" or AI "voiceover"
If you're an artist, do not use AI "writing" or AI "references"
If you're a streamer/actor, do not use AI for backdrops, thumbnails, etc.
Never help AI steal another medium
No excuses, no shortcuts, no surrender.
If you're a writer, do not use AI "art" or AI "voiceover"
If you're an artist, do not use AI "writing" or AI "references"
If you're a streamer/actor, do not use AI for backdrops, thumbnails, etc.
Never help AI steal another medium
No excuses, no shortcuts, no surrender.
December 16, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Creative solidarity means:
If you're a writer, do not use AI "art" or AI "voiceover"
If you're an artist, do not use AI "writing" or AI "references"
If you're a streamer/actor, do not use AI for backdrops, thumbnails, etc.
Never help AI steal another medium
No excuses, no shortcuts, no surrender.
If you're a writer, do not use AI "art" or AI "voiceover"
If you're an artist, do not use AI "writing" or AI "references"
If you're a streamer/actor, do not use AI for backdrops, thumbnails, etc.
Never help AI steal another medium
No excuses, no shortcuts, no surrender.
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The thing thats so insidious about using AI this way is that one of the main ways artists get hired are studios looking for art references and they find us and reach out.
This is removing a major avenue to get work if they can just generate nameless derivations of our ideas.
This is removing a major avenue to get work if they can just generate nameless derivations of our ideas.
December 17, 2025 at 12:32 AM
The thing thats so insidious about using AI this way is that one of the main ways artists get hired are studios looking for art references and they find us and reach out.
This is removing a major avenue to get work if they can just generate nameless derivations of our ideas.
This is removing a major avenue to get work if they can just generate nameless derivations of our ideas.
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doing promo is physically painful for me but i really would love it if you bought or read my newest book that came out a few months ago. i think it’s the best thing i’ve ever made and im so immensely proud of it. simplicitybook.xyz
December 13, 2025 at 5:02 PM
doing promo is physically painful for me but i really would love it if you bought or read my newest book that came out a few months ago. i think it’s the best thing i’ve ever made and im so immensely proud of it. simplicitybook.xyz
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The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing.
All from his movies.
All from his movies.
December 15, 2025 at 3:51 AM
The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing.
All from his movies.
All from his movies.
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Rob Reiner was one of the key people behind the effort to go to court to overturn California's anti-marriage equality Proposition 8 when it passed in 2008.
Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.
Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.
December 15, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Rob Reiner was one of the key people behind the effort to go to court to overturn California's anti-marriage equality Proposition 8 when it passed in 2008.
Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.
Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.
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Would you like to know how to make a zine? Here's easy step-by-step instructions on how to make your own without the use of a computer by @thorazos.bsky.social
December 14, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Would you like to know how to make a zine? Here's easy step-by-step instructions on how to make your own without the use of a computer by @thorazos.bsky.social