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Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻

@fiddlecub.bsky.social

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🏳️‍🌈 Game designer and writer: Baldur's Gate 3, Divinity: Original Sin 2| Your gay dad: partnered to Stephen and @cubgent.bsky.social https://mastodon.social/@fiddlecub Steam / PlayStation / Xbox Live / Telegram: fiddlecub Signal: fiddlecub.85

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Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · Oct 17

Hello to all my new followers! Things to expect:

Celebrations of my relationship: Stephen and @cubgent.bsky.social. Expect selfies!

Video games and the such, naturally.

Classical music - Sibelius, Mahler, Bruckner, Tchaikovsky in particular.

Musings: leftist politics, LGBTQIA+, mental health.

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Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · 37m

Society: we're declaring a war on drugs.

Also society: you should do more drugs.

Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · 49m

Society: Drugs and alcohol are bad for you, and also we're going to give you less money, burn down the world, invigorate fascism, and remove all safety nets.

Also society: It concerns me you aren't partying very much.

YouTube video description: People are partying less. Here's why that's worrying.

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Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · 3h

Old friend just send me this. Those were the days.

An older photo of me. I'm a bear man with short mustache and beard, seated with a podcast microphone. The caption says: may contain spoilers.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 7h

The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · 5h

I like Silent Hill f except the part where you play it.

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Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · 7h

Today's music: Samuel Barber's Capricorn Concerto. (Well, the first movement, anyway.) It premiered this day in 1944 - an underpraised concerto from a composer who wrote a number of great ones. youtu.be/KwkUfXuYsIw...

Samuel Barber Capricorn Concerto for Flute, Oboe, Trumpet & Strings, I: Allegro ma non troppo

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Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · 8h

I am by no means a big Kurzgesagt fan, but I'm grateful for their newest. They have a big audience; it matters.

AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel

YouTube video by Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

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Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · 8h

Josh Johnson out there being impossibly timely, impossibly funny, and impossibly polished.

Josh Johnson @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social · 19h

New set is out now Friends

MAGA Mega Mad over Bad Bunny Bowl

YouTube video by Josh Johnson

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Josh Johnson @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social · 19h

New set is out now Friends

MAGA Mega Mad over Bad Bunny Bowl

YouTube video by Josh Johnson

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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 19h

LOL

so #nintendo is stealthily shoving the trans political agenda and nobody has noticed it?

video without context with trans flag colors everywhere from nintendo america

you people better sart noticing patterns
just like netflix

carbon monoxide leak

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Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · 12h

Belly VERY bad.

Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · 23h

I am very sorry to all the gays but The Devil Wears Prada didn't need a sequel and the very idea of one invalidates the entire theme of the film, maybe they'll be clever about it but I'm sceptical.

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Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · 1d

Polyamory solves so many problems.

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PhantamSam @phantamsam.bsky.social · 1d

See the advice of the eminent scholar on the topic: MLYP: bsky.app/profile/mlyp...

SLAM JOHNSON @mlyp.bsky.social · 1d

I made a guide for social media companies going through a crisis

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Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not saying anything new, of course. But I'm as surprised as anyone else that there is apparently no one in a leadership role willing to take a breath, gather the team, and plot a change in course.

Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · 1d

Limiting your public profile is a highly effective way to limit PR headaches. The lack of self-control here is bizarre to me; the Musk playbook is not, in fact, aspirational.

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Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · 1d

Related: my partner worked as a veterinary hospital manager for many years, for pet hospitals owned by Mars. The Mars family are, by any account, as bad as any other billionaire family, but we rarely hear of them because they rarely speak in the public sphere.

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Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · 1d

It's concerning that the BSky team seems to have a post-through-it policy when they could choose not to speak.

Maja Öberg @majaoeberg.bsky.social · 1d

I do find it hilarious how they immediately backtracked after this and deleted the comment

a member of bluesky saying "Yeh" in response to the above post, with a journalist responding asking to get their exact quote over the thread in which the bluesky member responds with "what" and the journalist then rephrasing the question only for the bluesky member to delete the entire thread

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Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · 1d

Today's music: Ives' second string quartet, which premiered on this day in 1946. This is a brilliant work, challenging to play and listen to, but so rewarding. Ives was *far* ahead of his time, appreciated only late in his life, and moreso after death.

Charles Ives String Quartet No. 2 Ivani Quartet

YouTube video by SoundProfessional Boston

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Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · 1d

A dem resist account with a large number of followers that follows just as many back and doesn't want DMs is about a red a flag as exists on BlueSky.

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Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · 1d

I'd propose it's related to way art has been devalued to become 'content'. If it is content, it is immune to critique. This is, in my experience, a very common way to devalue both art and critics in a single stroke.

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Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · 1d

The deciding factor seems to be budget: there's a way for a film to be technically good, and as long as it meets the technical requirements, it's good by default. Expense is worth. It's consumerist at it's core.

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Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · 1d

It's the movie equivalent of the game getting a 10 because it's playable and suitably pretty.

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Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · 1d

With due respect, I'm bowing out, because whatever conversation you are having is not the same as mine.

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Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · 1d

I was a professional singer, composer, and violinist for many years. I was a games critic for more than a decade. I've been making and writing games for another. I well understand the mediums I've worked in.