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Carli Velocci👽

@carlivelocci.com

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Nonprofit comms professional by day, freelance writer & editor for video games, tech by night | Digital Trends, IGN, Polygon, etc | just some aliens in a suit | Follow @qtlibrary.org 💜 | They/she Links: https://linktr.ee/velocciraptor

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Carli Velocci👽 @carlivelocci.com · Oct 24

Guess it's time for a proper intro post with new followers...

I'm Carli (she/they) and I'm three aliens stacked on top of each other 👽 I've also been an editor, journalist, and content manager for like 12 years.

I have two cats, post about video games, movies, and journalism and have brain worms 🪱

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Carli Velocci👽 @carlivelocci.com · 1h

I've been laughing about the Hitler mural basically every day, no joke. It's so funny

Carli Velocci👽 @carlivelocci.com · 1h

The Peacemaker Nazi reveal is so good because, besides being obvious, it really hammers home how Chris' privilege as a white man and single-minded motivations meant he missed *extremely obvious* signs. Because Nazi shit is extremely obvious.

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Carli Velocci👽 @carlivelocci.com · 1h

An FBI psyop to ensure I only make approved memes.

Carli Velocci👽 @carlivelocci.com · 2h

"OK but here's how you can get around it"

No, I just want to take a screenshot so I can make a dumb meme so I can feel something for five minutes

Carli Velocci👽 @carlivelocci.com · 5h

I know there are worse things to be mad about right now, but streaming apps that won't let you grab a screenshot are the devil

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Carli Velocci👽 @carlivelocci.com · 2h

how do I learn such power

Carli Velocci👽 @carlivelocci.com · 2h

Merriam, this is just living in Massachusetts

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 2h

How to tell a video is AI

www.tiktok.com/@drewharwell
www.instagram.com/bydrewharwell/

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Carli Velocci👽 @carlivelocci.com · 3h

I've typed out a few responses to this but I'm just too tired.

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 3h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

Carli Velocci👽 @carlivelocci.com · 3h

almost like these people don't actually know what people want and will instead just listen to a handful screaming, whiny babies

Carli Velocci👽 @carlivelocci.com · 4h

I met a guy named @bryantfrancis.me and now we're mawwied~~

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 18h

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 1d

"Why would OpenAI and Microsoft spend $23 million to give 'free training' on how to use AI to teachers? Because they love teachers? No. Because they want to get their products into public schools in an attempt to cultivate the education market." — @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social

Thinking of AI as a Social Problem

No need to know the unknowable. The knowable is bad enough.

www.hamiltonnolan.com

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Carli Velocci👽 @carlivelocci.com · 5h

I know there are worse things to be mad about right now, but streaming apps that won't let you grab a screenshot are the devil

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Carli Velocci👽 @carlivelocci.com · 5h

The article says an email pitching the project was from 2022

Carli Velocci👽 @carlivelocci.com · 6h

The rightwing late-night talk show wanted to cater to the christian nationalists and did so with some of the worst jokes you've ever heard, so I think it nailed it.

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/o...

A rightwing late-night show may have bombed – but the funding behind it is no laughing matter

Conservative donors spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to make a rightwing Stephen Colbert-style talkshow

www.theguardian.com

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Carli Velocci👽 @carlivelocci.com · 6h

Wow they nailed it

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Carli Velocci👽 @carlivelocci.com · 6h

For an organization that wants to fight misinformation I have many questions...

Carli Velocci👽 @carlivelocci.com · 6h

Yeah. The News Creator Corps website says it's a "project" of the Good Information Foundation, although Good Information's website itself has zero info (and is just one page)

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Carli Velocci👽 @carlivelocci.com · 7h

Looks like the Good Information Foundation

Carli Velocci👽 @carlivelocci.com · 7h

there are SO MANY free stock photo sites!! I don't get it!! *punches window*

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 9h

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Carli Velocci👽 @carlivelocci.com · 7h

yeah that's the general thought at these sites. You're helping the readers by pointing them in the right direction to the things they want to buy. Every site I've worked at that did this said the same thing

Carli Velocci👽 @carlivelocci.com · 1d

If you're in Boston, consider registering! This is going to be really cool

QT Library @qtlibrary.org · 1d

JOIN US in celebrating #BannedBooksWeek with this amazing panel at @bpl.boston.gov 📚🎉We'll be discussing how we can push back against book censorship, along with other amazing guests.

Register to claim your seat 👉 https://loom.ly/Wkl8hoo

A graphic with the text "banned books panel: read with pride, resist with pages. Featuring a dynamic panel of authors, educators, and activists, we’ll discuss the alarming rise in book bans across the country—particularly those targeting queer narratives and diverse perspectives" and an illustration of a book with flowers growing out of it.

Carli Velocci👽 @carlivelocci.com · 1d

absolutely. Your brain is telling you to rest <3 definitely take it easy

Carli Velocci👽 @carlivelocci.com · 1d

Today is Amazon Prime Day. What this means is that instead of buying from Amazon, there are a ton of other sites also having sales that are just as good.

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Carli Velocci👽 @carlivelocci.com · 1d

HIS basket 🙀

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