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Aranock, 4 of Ravens

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Disabled, nonbinary trans woman(she/they/fae), ace, lesbian, artist, Writes and creates with Tirrrb and Jessie Gender, Video essays: https://youtube.com/@Aranock Other links: https://linktr.ee/Aranock PFP by my friend https://www.tumblr.com/lowdowndandy

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Aranock, 4 of Ravens @aranock.bsky.social · Nov 14

Hi new followers! I'm Aranock I'm a disabled trans artist who mostly makes video essays on my own channel. I also sometimes write, edit and perform for others' videos, primarily @jessiegender.bsky.social.
My art's mostly known for making people cry, in depth media analysis and queer theory 💜

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Hi I'm Aranock, she/they pronouns. I am a disabled nonbinary trans woman, digital artist, and video essayist existing in so called Canada. I also write for Jessie Gender, edit for Tirrrb and help behi...

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Jennifer/Aster Unkle 🏳️‍⚧️ 🔪 @spookycutewitch.bsky.social · 39m

“Why isn’t anyone covering our indie games?”

1. The gaming press has been decimated by business suits, and the whims of an uncaring search engine behemoth
2. Doing the job means you get death threats and harassment
3. There are more games released in 1 week than there were in entire months in 2015

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1h

It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them.

They should feel bad.

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Stellaween? @antlervel.vet · 14h

I like Atsu’s Ainu robes :) I’m really grateful to Sucker Punch for giving the Ainu their own zone (if a small one) where you can get to know them and their culture. Atsu is a good player stand-in here because she doesn’t know shit about them either, so the questions she asks are what I’d ask too

A young Japanese woman stands in a rustic mountain valley in front of a cottage made of wood and other natural materials. She’s wearing Ainu robes of woven boiled tree bark, leather, and other fibers in blue and various neutral tones

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Aranock, 4 of Ravens @aranock.bsky.social · 20h

Its a perfect phrase for causing people to duning kruger themselves. Like it has actual uses but theres also a group of people who hear it and go "oh a new thing I can use to blanket critique things I dont like" and never learn anything about what it actually means.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 22h

Trans rights protect EVERY GENDER. Just like the rights black people fought for protect EVERY RACE. Including white people! Y'all are enjoying the spoils of someone else's hard work every damn day.

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Zoe TunnHELL ➡️ NYCC (Friday only!) @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 23h

This is nonsense.

Beyond it being a paid, source sourceless ~HOLLYWOOD INSIDER~ newsletter it is nothing but navel gazing AI boosting from the word go. I mean just read this.

"Opened with a flourish worthy of a Casablanca finale"

That's nothing. You just named a famous movie. Go home.

When OpenAI unveiled GPT-5 on Aug.7, CEO Sam Altman opened with aflourish worthy ofa Casablanca finale: "our smartest, fastest, nost useful model yet." The implication was clear- management consultants, lawyers and other white- collar professionals were about to get supercharged.

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 1d

I need White people to grasp that we are allowed to construct cultural spaces, tools, and conversations that you are not invited into. You've collectively built a culture that requires them and this kind of wheedling demand for access insists that we are only allowed to exist where you can reach us.

LegacyIngenue @emkaydub.bsky.social · 1d

This is disheartening. I want all races in my community and unfortunately I think this is racist. I understand the black community wants to be supported, it’s coming off as a one way street. I’ve encountered racism lately all from mentally unstable black women. Blacksky will further segregate people

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 1d

When @aceottorney.bsky.social first told me about this I said "this could change people's lives and stop developers from getting exploited" and having seen the final resource, I think I was not wrong. I'd call it a must-bookmark for indie devs.

René Otto @aceottorney.bsky.social · 1d

Proud to announce Deviant Legal’s Game Developer’s Guide to Publishing Agreements: a free resource for developers wanting to learn about publishing deals. Publicly accessible, without requiring to provide your data: deviantlegal.com/guide/game-d...

An image about the game developer's guide to publishing agreements feauturing otto the otter

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Talia "AFAB" Bhatt ♀︎♀︎ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 1d

Medical institutions treat trans people as a population to surveil, manage, and dissect, rather than as people to assist or treat with basic dignity.

Typewriter Skeleton @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social · 1d

Oslo University Hospital caught using trans patients' journals for research purposes:
- Without the patients' consent to participate in research
- Affecting minors
- 1700 of them
- Taking highly sensitive information from said journals

This is a HUGE breach.

Anine Hartmann @aninehartmann.bsky.social · 1d

Tidligere i år meldte vi et forskningsprosjekt til redelighetsutvalget ved OUS og UiO.

Nå er forskerne felt for alvorlige brudd på forskningsetiske normer.

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Aranock, 4 of Ravens @aranock.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah extremely, Thinkpiece covers it well(I helped a little) and that videos from 2 years ago before a lot of the more recent digwhistling especially with the new album. She also frequently sabotages other women. bsky.app/profile/aran...

Aranock, 4 of Ravens @aranock.bsky.social · 2d

Sort of fascinating to watch the Swifties finally realize she was always that bad, also @thinkpiecetribe.bsky.social 's video I gave feedback for and featured in stays extremely relevant 2 years later youtu.be/9tyrikRrRZw?...

Taylor Swift and White Feminism

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Aranock, 4 of Ravens @aranock.bsky.social · 1d

And just to really be clear; puritan culture is not the solution ever, I encourage you to engage with art that contains harmful elements, just dont engage uncritically and maybe listen when marginalized people are discussing its issues. Dont just do "thing bad or thing good", it can be both.

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Aranock, 4 of Ravens @aranock.bsky.social · 1d

The instant you are sticking your head in the sand about that, or worse telling marginalized people to shut up and/or misrepresenting them to villainize valid criticisms, newsflash you have become part of the problem, you are being a mouthpiece for spreading that artists hateful views.

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Aranock, 4 of Ravens @aranock.bsky.social · 1d

It's also frankly grossly negligent in this moment to pretend that "just let other people like things" is a good argument, I think letting people uncritically enjoy bigotry is part of how we got here. TBC you can enjoy stuff with harmful elements(everyone does) but you cant deny the bigoted elements

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Aranock, 4 of Ravens @aranock.bsky.social · 1d

CEO and White feminism aint cute, its just packaging bigotry hierarchy and exploitation in a ribbon saying "girl power" while not doing anything meaningful to aid women and maintaining the structures of white supremacist patriarchy. youtu.be/0G6RF5ChKYQ?...

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Aranock, 4 of Ravens @aranock.bsky.social · 1d

Saying you dont care that someones a racist billionaire cause her music is something you like is certainly *a choice*. Seen a few posts like that;🧵

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

Pam Bondi admits she spoke to Apple to "get the ICEBlock app taken down." Sounds an awful lot like coercion to suppress disfavored speech to me. A clear violation of the 1st Amendment.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi claims that the ICEBlock app was "criminal in that people were posting where ICE officers lived"

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Aranock, 4 of Ravens @aranock.bsky.social · 2d

I honestly cant think of a better incapsulation of the racist billionaires ceo feminism then unironically singingm the lyric "Did they girlboss too close to the sun"

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Aranock, 4 of Ravens @aranock.bsky.social · 2d

Taylor Swift and White Feminism

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Jude "BE NOT AFRAID #4 Out Now" Doyle @judedoyle.bsky.social · 2d

There's a new Ed Gein miniseries. Netflix is sending me targeted ads about the "scariest opening scene" ever, which is a man disguising himself as a woman so he can hide in the ladies' bathroom to strangle Sigourney Weaver. The vibe shift is HERE, my friends, and it sucks shit

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Eze @ezetheigwe.blacksky.app · 2d

Free my nigga Łink, all he did was spread positivity here

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 3d

I dunno man, try listening to marginalized people *before* shit goes wrong, and maybe it won't keep being like that

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 2d

All those statements of user centrality, composable moderation, and safety for marginalized users on this platform, that’s all a bunch of bullshit, right?

They could restore Link’s account tomorrow and Jay and company would still be a bunch of transphobic, racist hypocrites.

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Glenn White @justicar.xyz · 2d

This continues the current trend of this administration finding the literally least qualified person available to do a particular job, then giving it to them, knowing full well that it will absolutely destroy it's purpose.

Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social · 3d

Not to be a pedant but Bari Weiss was a junior editor who occasionally wrote opinion pieces in the opinion section, not a columnist.

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WV @mrluck07.bsky.social · 2d

Bigotry isn't mental illness.

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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 3d

I hope that some future movie character like Indiana Jones will go around punching ICE agents, who just become the canon fodder bad guys.

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