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Liz Ryerson
@ellaguro.bsky.social
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she/her. musician, writer, podcaster, weird vidgame person http://www.patreon.com/ellaguro
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hearing about the disgusting and hysterical way so many people were responding to Lia Thomas even participating in that race is giving very, very strong shades of this
November 20, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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happy trans day of vengeance. happy trans sharia day
November 20, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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not only is he a tool user, he's also a giant tool
November 20, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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November 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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it must have been really distressing for Geoff to take time off his busy schedule schmoozing with his celebrity and influencer buddies. Geoffs only look like that when they're in pain.
from the article: "Not long after, several Future Class members gave a virtual presentation to Keighley and Weir, acknowledging the importance of the programme while expressing concerns about its “goals, structure, and sustainability”. They offered suggestions for how to improve both the programme and the awards ceremony in general, such as featuring more female presenters, improved accessibility options, and an acknowledgment of the recent deluge of layoffs in the industry). Younès Rabii, a 2022 inductee, said that Keighley was visibly frustrated during the call, while another member said he was “incensed”."
November 11, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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was just reminded of an old great thread on Doomworld: the Doom level progress diagram. it was created to address the age old question about when a map should be considered linear or non-linear www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/...
level progress diagrams of all of the maps from The Ultimate Doom - check the thread linked more more details
October 29, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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okay this thread has been overwhelming, but i want to share a few all-time favorites i'm disappointed no one else has answered yet

The KLF - Chill Out
Mercury Rev - Yerself is Steam
Sparklehorse - Good Morning Spider
The Flaming Lips - Transmissions From the Satellite Heart
album cover for "the KLF - Chill Out" album cover for Mecury Rev - Yerself Is Steam album cover for Sparklehorse - Good Morning Spider album cover for The Flaming Lips - Transmissions from the Satellite Heart
October 16, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Mellow Gold by Beck is the album i keep coming back to because it's just this oddest combination of ingredients that somehow works great and i haven't heard anything else that sounds remotely like some of the songs on it. a lightning in a bottle situation.
October 15, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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from Let's Play Life: "the internet has produced many things, but its driving force is cowardice. it's there in the collective failure to conceptualize how the things one does online manifest themselves in the larger world. it's there in the lionization of an almost spiritual level of intellectual laziness in the need to endlessly double down on whatever your personal brand becomes. it's there in the desire to tear down anyone who might attempt to shine a light on your own personal failures and limitations, in either your work or your larger perspective on the world. the internet is a refuge for the bad faith. it's a place to endlessly to celebrate your own fragility and inflexibility. it's a zone where we can magically reframe and hold up all our own failures of imagination as actually pretty fucking epic. to paraphrase something Matt Christman has often said: whatever happens, just say you've won. ultimately your own fantasy conception about what you're doing matters more than anything that might actually come out of it, especially if you've managed to successfully sell the importance of it to enough other people. we're all just performing elaborate shell games on each other in an attempt to feel better about ourselves."
October 13, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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often think about this post by Peter Frase from 2018: www.peterfrase.com/2018/10/keep...
text by Peter Frase from "Keep Socialism Weird": "These days I'm sometimes reminded of the antics of some of the Maoist and Trotskyist students of the 1960s, who thought they could connect with "real" workers by cosplaying as clean-cut, conservatively dressed normies. The real workers, of course, were already quitting their jobs, growing their hair out, and getting into sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Now as then, the times call for a politics and a sensibility that is, as the old line of Lenin's had it, "as radical as reality itself.""
October 10, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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me just hanging out with the bestie. i told him that green shirt doesn't work on him but what are you gonna do
October 1, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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i probably relate an unhealthy amount of reality through this one Bob Dylan documentary, but i often think about this "no fear, no envy, no meanness" line Dylan mentions being told to him when he was young by Irish singer Liam Clancy here. good words to live by tbh
September 26, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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ah yes, the two archetypes. the two sides of the coin. the order and the chaos. i believe these are from Jung
September 13, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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ellaguro.blogspot.com/2024/03/lets...
text from Let's Play Life: "the internet has produced many things, but its driving force is cowardice. it's there in the collective failure to conceptualize how the things one does online manifest themselves in the larger world. it's there in the lionization of an almost spiritual level of intellectual laziness in the need to endlessly double down on whatever your personal brand becomes. it's there in the desire to tear down anyone who might attempt to shine a light on your own personal failures and limitations, in either your work or your larger perspective on the world. the internet is a refuge for the bad faith. it's a place to endlessly to celebrate your own fragility and inflexibility. it's a zone where we can magically reframe and hold up all our own failures of imagination as actually pretty fucking epic. to paraphrase something Matt Christman has often said: whatever happens, just say you've won. ultimately your own fantasy conception about what you're doing matters more than anything that might actually come out of it, especially if you've managed to successfully sell the importance of it to enough other people. we're all just performing elaborate shell games on each other in an attempt to feel better about ourselves."
September 12, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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ellaguro.blogspot.com/2024/03/lets...
text from Let's Play Life: "we seemingly lack the collective ability to put words to the complex emotions our cultural moment produces. we appear to lack the collective capacity to approach with empathy or appreciate nuance. there is always a pressure to go broader, and more conspiratorial - otherwise it won't reach virality. the further we tread down this path, the more we become travelers so well versed of the dark underbelly of internet culture that nothing else matters. we're sharers steeped in secret lore of grotesquely public emotional decline. we're wielders of dark cursed objects which can serve as the next Rotten Dot Com for a new generation of aspiring school shooters and neo-Nazi cult leaders. everyone out there's a new potential R. Budd Dwyer waiting to blow their brains out live on camera. and we're here to squeeze it for all it's worth, and lap up all those blown out bits of brain up like jello. every little ounce of pain and suffering that oozes out of the consciousness (perhaps manfiested the form of creamed corn i.e. garmonbozia) is just a brand new flavor of lifestyle right there for you to be radicalized by and make money off of. we cannot acknowledge that things the culture has produced scream to be taken more seriously, or to be treated with any sort of humanity. it's not as if this space is made up of individuals who had hopes and dreams that might exist contrary to your desires. ultimately, these are just NPCs. they don't matter."
September 12, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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because it's the weekend now: 1 like = 1 song, and i'll talk a little about each song.

(feel free to mute thread if you don't want to be annoyed, also sorry no alt text - did not want to write all of this down)
September 6, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Michel Gondry talks about his own creative process, from the documentary "Michel Gondry, Do It Yourself"
August 31, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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also for the record these Rachid Lotf images that constantly come up on social media are not actually AI images - they're much closer to actual Thomas Kinkade paintings in that they're made from some sort of template
August 31, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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ah yes, to game is to live. you know what they say: live, laugh, gameing

cw: (sort of) flashing images
August 21, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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okay i just took these screencaps from the tweet i made a couple of years ago
August 16, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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i though the Dr. Luke/Dan Schneider exchange on twitter from ages ago (which i will not do alt text for, i'm sorry - it doesn't deserve it) couldn't be topped but i think we're on track to blow past this
August 14, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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one must learn what it is... to truly gameing
August 10, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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re: art as an important sight of social struggle - we could use a lot more of this energy right now.
tweet from user @JasonAChristian from April 3rd, 2024: "According to Luis Buñuel, there was a brief moment when the surrealists in Paris understood that aesthetic revolution was inseparable from social revolution. Most avant-garde artists since have forgotten or ignored the second part." below is a screencap from the autobiography MY LAST SIGH by Luis Buñuel, which the highlighted portion says: "Their principal weapon wasn't guns, of course; it was scandal. Scandal was a potent agent of revelation, capable of exposing such social crimes as the exploitation of one man by another, colonialist imperialism, religious tyranny- in sum, all the secret and odious underpinnings of a system that had to be destroyed. The real purpose of surrealism was not to create a new literary, artistic, or even philosophical movement, but to explode the social order, to transform life itself."
August 7, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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i'm still waiting for the goonpits revival
tweet from @topherflorence from June 17th, 2018 that says: "instead of metroidvanias it's time to call them goonpits after goonies ii and pitfall ii and also because they are mostly about pits full of goons"
August 6, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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my mom's cat is like 80% of the time
image of a skinny calico cat standing on a post outside in a backyard slightly hunched over aggressively meowing with their eyes shut image of the same calico cat standing up on a post in a backyard surrounded by some plants aggressively meowing with their eyes closed
August 6, 2025 at 12:15 AM