ellie lockhart (she/they)
@eleanor.lockhart.contact
engineer living in Seattle (posts never represent employer). Transfem person (she/they), liberal, autistic. RTs not endorsements. Here to make friends & talk about Chris Nolan films. Anti-doomer. None of us are immune to the effects of social media.
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for the record, if you reply to my posts expressing that you think that maybe Trump is an invincible mastermind who can get away with anything, and I don't know you, I'll probably block
I'm gonna pin this so also, for the record, if I don't follow you, please do not take that personally
I'm gonna pin this so also, for the record, if I don't follow you, please do not take that personally
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The people he was hanging out with were engaged in a transaction, but as best as I can tell the transaction looks like trading his access to their fame and power for their access to his girls. Was anyone like "Here's a million bucks"? The idea they're all friends hanging out is part of the pretense.
February 8, 2026 at 10:50 PM
The people he was hanging out with were engaged in a transaction, but as best as I can tell the transaction looks like trading his access to their fame and power for their access to his girls. Was anyone like "Here's a million bucks"? The idea they're all friends hanging out is part of the pretense.
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I've heard stories about guys who can always show up with a gaggle of young women, and how they can use that "talent" to build astonishing amounts of influence, but as best as I can tell Epstein had more than influence: he was absolutely swimming in dough. Where was it from?
February 8, 2026 at 10:48 PM
I've heard stories about guys who can always show up with a gaggle of young women, and how they can use that "talent" to build astonishing amounts of influence, but as best as I can tell Epstein had more than influence: he was absolutely swimming in dough. Where was it from?
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I sort of agree it doesn't feel like Epstein was blackmailing anyone, but still don't really understand where he was making all this money. He comes off as a subliterate lech almost singularly fixated on sex, not exactly a wise financial hand. His role explicitly seemed to be "the guy with girls."
Last week the far right started peddling a narrative that the outrage over Epstein is a moral panic. Today, like clockwork, a more polite version of that narrative appears in the Atlantic.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
February 8, 2026 at 10:46 PM
I sort of agree it doesn't feel like Epstein was blackmailing anyone, but still don't really understand where he was making all this money. He comes off as a subliterate lech almost singularly fixated on sex, not exactly a wise financial hand. His role explicitly seemed to be "the guy with girls."
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Last week the far right started peddling a narrative that the outrage over Epstein is a moral panic. Today, like clockwork, a more polite version of that narrative appears in the Atlantic.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
February 8, 2026 at 10:32 PM
Last week the far right started peddling a narrative that the outrage over Epstein is a moral panic. Today, like clockwork, a more polite version of that narrative appears in the Atlantic.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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The *best version* of the Epstein scandal is that a wide swathe of American elites was palling around with a known child predator and explicit eugenicist for years on end — and is now closing ranks to downplay the severity of his crimes and their own complicity.
February 8, 2026 at 10:44 PM
The *best version* of the Epstein scandal is that a wide swathe of American elites was palling around with a known child predator and explicit eugenicist for years on end — and is now closing ranks to downplay the severity of his crimes and their own complicity.
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Yet another in the "Everything is Gender".
As Ellie notes, a game can be right-coded in its themes and gameplay, but if there is a non-cishet-white male lead (or even just major non-romance character), it's almost automatically considered left-coded.
As Ellie notes, a game can be right-coded in its themes and gameplay, but if there is a non-cishet-white male lead (or even just major non-romance character), it's almost automatically considered left-coded.
was talking in a Discord about the political valences of video games, and observed that at least in the fandoms I was broadly part of, for the past 20 years "what are the politics of this game" has in practice reduced to "what are the gender politics of this game" and literally nothing else
February 8, 2026 at 10:47 PM
Yet another in the "Everything is Gender".
As Ellie notes, a game can be right-coded in its themes and gameplay, but if there is a non-cishet-white male lead (or even just major non-romance character), it's almost automatically considered left-coded.
As Ellie notes, a game can be right-coded in its themes and gameplay, but if there is a non-cishet-white male lead (or even just major non-romance character), it's almost automatically considered left-coded.
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The lead dev is an edgy dickhead who’s somewhat right-leaning, but above all he’s a *contrarian* edgy dickhead, which produced some extremely funny results in this case (the best-written MLM relationship in game history)
February 8, 2026 at 10:46 PM
The lead dev is an edgy dickhead who’s somewhat right-leaning, but above all he’s a *contrarian* edgy dickhead, which produced some extremely funny results in this case (the best-written MLM relationship in game history)
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The shit I see on here does not speak to that anxiety.
It speaks to contempt for people who actually put their lives, freedom, and future on the line for the sake of preserving the same for others.
It speaks to contempt for people who actually put their lives, freedom, and future on the line for the sake of preserving the same for others.
February 3, 2026 at 10:04 PM
The shit I see on here does not speak to that anxiety.
It speaks to contempt for people who actually put their lives, freedom, and future on the line for the sake of preserving the same for others.
It speaks to contempt for people who actually put their lives, freedom, and future on the line for the sake of preserving the same for others.
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I will admit in the last months I have really been struggling with the fact that years of doing this and the simple forward motion of time means I do not have the capacity for the real goon shit anymore, but I have been buoyed by seeing so many people able to do the work.
February 3, 2026 at 10:04 PM
I will admit in the last months I have really been struggling with the fact that years of doing this and the simple forward motion of time means I do not have the capacity for the real goon shit anymore, but I have been buoyed by seeing so many people able to do the work.
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The people of Minneapolis have performed in a way all of us should aspire to. It is a beautiful, awe-inspiring moment. One to learn from.
That they are subject to the complaints and meddling of a bunch of nerds on the computer desperate to be the "vanguard" or whatever is fucking pathetic.
That they are subject to the complaints and meddling of a bunch of nerds on the computer desperate to be the "vanguard" or whatever is fucking pathetic.
February 3, 2026 at 10:01 PM
The people of Minneapolis have performed in a way all of us should aspire to. It is a beautiful, awe-inspiring moment. One to learn from.
That they are subject to the complaints and meddling of a bunch of nerds on the computer desperate to be the "vanguard" or whatever is fucking pathetic.
That they are subject to the complaints and meddling of a bunch of nerds on the computer desperate to be the "vanguard" or whatever is fucking pathetic.
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right, they understand things that the government now considers subversive, like “the Founding Fathers weren’t all turbo racist all of the time and Jesus wasn’t a Caucasian man from Tennessee”
February 8, 2026 at 10:43 PM
right, they understand things that the government now considers subversive, like “the Founding Fathers weren’t all turbo racist all of the time and Jesus wasn’t a Caucasian man from Tennessee”
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Hey one time in Assassin's Creed you played as a Native American, that's like, turbo-ultra-woke.
February 8, 2026 at 10:43 PM
Hey one time in Assassin's Creed you played as a Native American, that's like, turbo-ultra-woke.
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except, importantly, they are Still Woke because in addition to Optional or Kind of Buried Gays they also have one of the other kinds of Political People, Muslims
February 8, 2026 at 10:42 PM
except, importantly, they are Still Woke because in addition to Optional or Kind of Buried Gays they also have one of the other kinds of Political People, Muslims
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Ubisoft is probably the most "nothing we do means anything" of any games studio. Like, I don't think that's *good* but man, trying to parse anything they do is a fool's errand.
February 8, 2026 at 10:41 PM
Ubisoft is probably the most "nothing we do means anything" of any games studio. Like, I don't think that's *good* but man, trying to parse anything they do is a fool's errand.
Abigail Spanberger? do you mean Tom Clancy’s The Democrat
the Abigail Spanberger of games
February 8, 2026 at 10:41 PM
Abigail Spanberger? do you mean Tom Clancy’s The Democrat
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the Abigail Spanberger of games
February 8, 2026 at 10:40 PM
the Abigail Spanberger of games
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oh i know i played Division 2!
February 8, 2026 at 10:40 PM
oh i know i played Division 2!
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If you ever want to give yourself a concussion try doing a deep dive into the politics of Ubisoft's "The Division."
February 8, 2026 at 10:39 PM
If you ever want to give yourself a concussion try doing a deep dive into the politics of Ubisoft's "The Division."
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i think she’s bad the way it used to be bad here when Republicans won, as opposed to bad the way it is now, and before 10,000 people reply to me to be like “there’s no difference,” yes there is
February 8, 2026 at 10:39 PM
i think she’s bad the way it used to be bad here when Republicans won, as opposed to bad the way it is now, and before 10,000 people reply to me to be like “there’s no difference,” yes there is
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the other funny thing though is how much stuff goes the other way where NOW because of the insanity of what’s going on a bunch of stuff that genuinely did not read as a statement at the time feels like it’s specifically villainizing our leaders
February 8, 2026 at 10:38 PM
the other funny thing though is how much stuff goes the other way where NOW because of the insanity of what’s going on a bunch of stuff that genuinely did not read as a statement at the time feels like it’s specifically villainizing our leaders
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(yes i am eliding a lot of narrative complications to avoid spoilers but still)
February 8, 2026 at 10:34 PM
(yes i am eliding a lot of narrative complications to avoid spoilers but still)
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an outcast, Brave hunter pulls themselves up by the bootstraps to fight off the war machines of genocidal outsiders to protect not just the hunter's newfound community but the entire world
leftist propaganda because girl protagonist
leftist propaganda because girl protagonist
February 8, 2026 at 10:34 PM
an outcast, Brave hunter pulls themselves up by the bootstraps to fight off the war machines of genocidal outsiders to protect not just the hunter's newfound community but the entire world
leftist propaganda because girl protagonist
leftist propaganda because girl protagonist
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a Herald blessed by the prophet of fantasy-catholicism fights a demon army to stop an atheist wizard from assaulting heaven to declare himself God
again, leftist propaganda because, you guessed it
again, leftist propaganda because, you guessed it
February 8, 2026 at 10:34 PM
a Herald blessed by the prophet of fantasy-catholicism fights a demon army to stop an atheist wizard from assaulting heaven to declare himself God
again, leftist propaganda because, you guessed it
again, leftist propaganda because, you guessed it
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I’m sure the car sociopaths will blame the parents but it shouldn’t be a death sentence to take your eye off a child for 2 seconds because it will make people sad to go 5 mph in a parking garage not 20, watching the road and not their phone
February 8, 2026 at 9:02 PM
I’m sure the car sociopaths will blame the parents but it shouldn’t be a death sentence to take your eye off a child for 2 seconds because it will make people sad to go 5 mph in a parking garage not 20, watching the road and not their phone