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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 13h

You cannot be fucking serious

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

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Giovanni Colantonio @marioprime.bsky.social · 8d

Hard for me fault anyone who doesn’t know good games exist when almost no major gaming website reviewed or covered this year’s Seamus McNally Grand Prize winner.

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Casey O'Donnell [he/him] @caseyod.bsky.social · 7d

She was how my informants understood what I was doing. One day I came into the office and they'd surrounded my desk with plants. I was gifted a pith helmet from an informant at my dissertation defense. The original title of my book was, "Developers in the Mist." 😂 MITP made me change it.

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Kate Compton @galaxykate.bsky.social · 9d

2026 internships available in my team at The LEGO Group!

Internships in
Story,
Ideation,
Concept Model Design (ie, building with bricks),
Prototyping (3D printing etc),
Hardware (soldering and weird sensors!)
Physical (springs and spinny things)
Digital (code for doing stuff with bricks)

!!!* INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITY *!!! Hey everyone… great news! please share with your network of budding young students. We have now opened applications for our internships in Story, Ideation, Concept…...

!!!* INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITY *!!! Hey everyone… great news! please share with your network of budding young students. We have now opened applications for our internships in Story, Ideation, Concept ...

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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 9d

It’s official: EA is going private.

The leveraged buyout will be financed by a staggering $20 billion of debt, which likely means some *aggressive* cost cutting is ahead for EA in the coming months and years.

www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...

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Casey O'Donnell [he/him] @caseyod.bsky.social · 14d

In related news... Tenure system faculty at MSU are unionized now too. Huzzah. www.utsfmsu.org

MSU Union of Tenure System Faculty

www.utsfmsu.org

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Casey O'Donnell [he/him] @caseyod.bsky.social · 14d

We are hiring a Professor of Practice (PoP) in Games & Interactive Media. We are looking for an experienced game maker with a compelling portfolio and experience in game programming. PoP at MSU are unionized and have opportunity for advacement.

bit.ly/MediaInfoJob...

Specialist - Teacher-Fixed Term - East Lansing, Michigan, United States

Working/Functional Title Professor of Practice - Games & Interactive Media Position Summary The Department of Media and Information (M&I) at Michigan State University (MSU) seeks to hire an in...

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Casey O'Donnell [he/him] @caseyod.bsky.social · 23d

I've written previously about game companies leveraging the extra-legal force of police in the US, but this is a very interesting one unfolding in the UK. Wow.

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Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 23d

This is a wild story, culminating in the plausible accusation that Sega knowingly leveraged British police to try and unlawfully reclaim its own former property

Response from @sega-west.bsky.social leadership very much needed

www.timeextension.com/news/2025/09...

Sega Accused Of Using Police To Recover Nintendo Dev Kits It Had "Negligently Disposed Of"

DSi, 2DS, 3DS, Wii and Wii U dev kits are all in the hands of the police

www.timeextension.com

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Casey O'Donnell [he/him] @caseyod.bsky.social · 23d

WOW. Just... wow.

Casey O'Donnell [he/him] @caseyod.bsky.social · 28d

I've written a lot about Nintendo long leading w/ videogame patents. This, however, should have been obviously squashed, as "summoning monsters to help you battle," has long existend.

Wither Mario Factory? - journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
NES and 10NES - journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Game Developer @gamedeveloper.bsky.social · 28d

Nintendo patents character summoning and battling mechanic in the United States

Nintendo patents summoning mechanic in the U.S.

The news comes with Nintendo and The Pokemon Company suing Palworld maker Pockerpair over alleged patent infringement.

www.gamedeveloper.com

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Frans Mäyrä @fransmayra.bsky.social · Sep 2

DiGRA 2026 will be hosted at Maynooth University in Maynooth, Ireland from 14 to 18 June 2026.
The 2026 conference theme is Intersectional Pleasures.

digra.org/digra-2026-h...

DiGRA 2026 Conference Announcement - DiGRA

The DiGRA Executive Board is pleased to announce that DiGRA 2026 will be hosted at Maynooth University in Maynooth, Ireland from 14 to 18 June 2026.

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Tom Apperley @t0mm7.bsky.social · Aug 1

Sharing this again because the deadline is coming up on the 8th.

Tom Apperley @t0mm7.bsky.social · Jul 14

CFP Hybrid Symposium: The UK Tabletop Role-Playing Game Scene – Histories, Cultures, and Legacies - 16th September, @coegamecult.bsky.social Tampere University, Finland (and online)

Full details in attachments.

#ttrpg #boardgames #wargames #minatures #gamebooks #videogames #history #gamestudies

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UNBOXING: Play and Profit for the Gaming Curious @unboxingpod.bsky.social · Aug 1

🎙️NEW EPISODE ALERT🎙️
Steam and itch pulled thousands of NSFW games 🔞 PLUS, find out how payment processors became censors 🤬 and how the UK’s Online Safety Act isn’t helping 🙅 Tune in here:

UNBOXING Podcast

The UNBOXING podcast is a weekly dose of insight into play and profit for the gaming curious. Joost crunches data. Laine rummages in archives. Together these two NYU professors unlock the secrets of…

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Ben Mullin @benmullin.bsky.social · Aug 1

New: The Corporation for Public Broadcasting says it is shutting down

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Corporation for Public Broadcasting Addresses Operations Following Loss of Federal Funding

WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 1, 2025) – The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today that it will begin an orderly wind-down of its operations following the passage of a federal rescissio...

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · Jun 12

Longer video of the forcible removal, detainment, and arrest of Sen. Alex Padilla by the Trump regime during a DHS press conference. Footage provided by Sen. Padilla's team.

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Ian Bogost 🍔 @ibogost.bsky.social · May 22

I wrote about my mom dying and my street getting leveled by a tornado in the same week (gift link).

First My Mother Died. Then My Home Got Hit by a Tornado.

My street got leveled by 150-mph winds. Why do I feel somehow at ease?

www.theatlantic.com

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Casey O'Donnell [he/him] @caseyod.bsky.social · May 7

🙄 OMGoddess it just gets dumber and dumber. I can't. 🙄

ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · May 7

1/ The US government has ordered the Swedish city of Stockholm to end its diversity, inclusivity and equality (DEI) programmes within 10 days. The city authorities say the demand is "bizarre" and they won't be complying. ⬇️

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Fox Harper @foxharper.bsky.social · May 1

Taking a second out of my anger to remind other writers: get copies of your work now. Look at what happened to Kotaku stories re: searchability etc. after it got sold to morons.

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Chris Cantwell @cdc29.bsky.social · Apr 4

The National Humanities Alliance is collecting information on canceled NEH grants to share with congressional leaders. This is legit fact finding in support of competent lobbying. If you've had your grant canceled, do let them know.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Notify NHA about grant terminations!

We are collecting information about current grants that have been canceled since March 31st, 2025. If you are looking to share a story about the impact of NEH funding on your work please use this for...

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Casey O'Donnell [he/him] @caseyod.bsky.social · Mar 24

The (my) future is (me) correcting AI content. 😭

An image of the AI summary of a search related to Pokemon Go's Max Monday schedule. It claims March 24th is Scorbunny. I correct it. It replies again incorrectly that it is Chansey. I correct it again and it responds with what I've already told it twice.

Casey O'Donnell [he/him] @caseyod.bsky.social · Mar 17

I do not know what the long-term implications are, but I was likely one of the last cohorts of US Fulbright Scholars thanks to the efforts of the current administration. All IIE (Institute of International Education) have been furloughed. 80 years of international collaboration cut.

A picture of the cover of the book "The Arrogance of Power" by Senator J. William Fulbright.

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Casey O'Donnell [he/him] @caseyod.bsky.social · Feb 27

Also... Who gets to retire at 53? Like I don't think I'll ever get to retire. 😤

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Casey O'Donnell [he/him] @caseyod.bsky.social · Feb 27

"“The prices are just ridiculous,” said Rouse, 53, a retired Michigan firefighter and paramedic who has voted for Trump three times. “I’d like to see a lower cap on what I have to pay out-of-pocket.”" - NEVER GONNA HAPPEN UNDER A REPUBLICAN ADMIN SORRY DUDE. Especially not these guys.

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Casey O'Donnell [he/him] @caseyod.bsky.social · Jan 14

I haven't posted much in a bit because I've been busy. But I also know that new folks are showing up here. Here is a cat picture of the new roommate Aino.

"Tactical Issue" kitten playing with plants on a tile desktop with a snowy landscape in the window behind.

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