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Mathew Kumar @mathewkumar.com · 2h

Incubus are going to be very confused as to why a bunch of people are suddenly skipping through Make Yourself on Youtube at the pace of reading comic panels.

Some great Youtube comments to be found too

@Crispy_Jeep
5 months ago
Im so glad my mom introduced me to this

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Mathew Kumar @mathewkumar.com · 2h

Me reading the latest Swan Boy, in which he reacquaints himself with Incubus' Make Yourself: "wait... am I Swan Boy?"

Branson Reese @bransonreese.bsky.social · Sep 17

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Mathew Kumar @mathewkumar.com · 3h

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Mathew Kumar @mathewkumar.com · 3h

Unlocked! I sidestep all that Silksong difficulty discourse by playing Pipistrello And The Cursed Yoyo, a game with the best difficulty settings I've ever seen. And it needs them! expzine.com/2025/09/30/p...

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I didn't want to play Silksong.

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Wanderjegson @wanderjegson.bsky.social · 1d

You can't ride Angewomon or LadyDevimon in Digimon Time Stranger (It's over)

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Mathew Kumar @mathewkumar.com · 1d

As is only proper, I'm dedicating this month on exp. to scary games! First up for subscribers we go way back to what I believe is the very first horror film to video game adaptation: Poltergeist for TRS-80 CoCo(!) expzine.com/2025/10/07/p...

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Poltergeist art. "It knows what scares you."

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Standard Issue Computing @standardissuecomputing.blog · 22h

Feels like a cool time to share that I made some digital zines about Sega stuff a few years ago and they’re pay-what-you-want defstan480.itch.io

Standard Issue Computing

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Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 1d

Did you know I’ve got a starter pack of awesome people who make awesome video game books and magazines?

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Mathew Kumar @mathewkumar.com · 22h

Thanks man!

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Mathew Kumar @mathewkumar.com · 22h

I was also raising my hand for me 😅

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Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh.com · 23h

This week I’m going to raise money for @medicalaidpal.bsky.social to help Palestinians in need.

On Fri I'll start & finish Metal Gear Solid, MGS2 on Sat, Delta on Sun. It'll be 9 AM PT each day on www.twitch.tv/tamoorh.

Fundraiser is live on my Twitch. Please share if you can!

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Mathew Kumar @mathewkumar.com · 23h

Raising my hand politely and also mentioning @forgottenworlds.bsky.social!

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𝔏𝔲𝔠𝔞𝔰 ℜ𝔦𝔷𝔬𝔩𝔦 @lcsrz.bsky.social · 1d

"Antler River RPG Trade, a zine that caters to role-playing enthusiasts [in London, Ontario]… Proceeds from the zine goes to the fight against homelessness."

Dungeons & Donations: Londoners launch role-playing zine to raise money for charity | CBC News

A group of Londoners has launched a pay-what-you-can zine that caters to role-playing game enthusiasts and pays its donations into a charity that helps those experiencing homelessness.

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Mathew Kumar @mathewkumar.com · 23h

Truly dark that she's boasting about helping destroy the habitat of a creature that is one of the rarest in Britain because it's so sensitive to sewage pollution that there's almost no rivers and ponds left that are clean enough for it now

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

Utterly beholden to lobbyists, staggeringly ignorant and dismissive of the natural world: Rachel Reeves might not look or sound like Donald Trump, but she is behaving very much like him. This government is even more of an ecological hazard than the Tories were.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer

Exclusive: Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 1d

I wrote about Weiss' hypocrisy when it came to @elivalley.bsky.social back in 2019. I think it really says a lot about how little integrity she has. www.mediamatters.org/new-york-tim...

Not all cases of campus censorship are created equal, apparently.
With so much going on right now in the world, you would think that there'd be less focus on a handful of college students at one campus or another protesting a speaker.
At very least, you might expect that instances of conservatives shutting down progressive speakers would be discussed with the same regularity as those about liberals.
Instead, readers are treated to a full-on case of free speech hypocrisy.
One example of this involves progressive Jewish political cartoonist Eli Valley's recent trip to Stanford University.
Days before his scheduled appearance, the Stanford College Republicans posted flyers around campus containing some of Valley's work alongside clippings from Der Stürmer, a Nazi-era German newspaper known for publishing vicious anti-Semitic propaganda. The group acknowledged that it did this in retaliation because posters for one of their events were covered up by posters of the group sponsoring Valley's appearance.
The groups bringing Valley to campus, Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace, took some of the blame for the backlash. In an op-ed for The Stanford Daily, the groups apologized for including Valley's work, which is meant to be a grotesque and provocative political criticism, without the proper context. In response, The Stanford Daily published an opposing op-ed comparing Valley's work to the propaganda of Joseph Goebbels, writing, "To apologize for the flyers but insist on continuing with the event is equal parts absurd and appalling."

This seemed like precisely the kind of campus controversy that would grab the attention of Weiss, Stephens, and the rest of conservative media: Here was a student group trying to intimidate a speaker out of appearing on campus as scheduled. On the principles of free speech and academic freedom, taking a stand for Valley seemed to be the obvious call. Instead, Weiss praised the article calling for Valley's cancellation on Twitter, thanking its author.
"Bari Weiss's attempt to get me de-platformed at Stanford, and her smear that my celebration of non-Zionist Jewish culture, politics, and art is tantamount to Nazism, should put an end to the myth that she is interested in a free exchange of ideas," Valley said in a Twitter direct message.
"She is interested [in] silencing the Left and in mainstreaming far-right ideology."
Valley's view of Weiss is in line with her own history of activism and protest against pro-Palestinian Columbia University professors during her time at the school. Far from a proponent of across-the-board freedom of expression, she and the Times' other columnists have been extremely selective about which stories get heard.
The idea that no-platforming and other efforts to control campus speech are tactics carried out primarily by students on the left is almost undoubtedly the result of outlets like the Times' opinion section giving such incidents excessive amounts of coverage -- while essentially ignoring the many examples of conservatives trying to shut out speech they don't like. You're unlikely to read Bret Stephens' take on the efforts of conservative students to use the court system to cancel a panel discussion about Palestinian rights at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. David Brooks isn't likely to weigh

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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 1d

Two years since October 7, 2023. Here are the numbers that show what Israel has done to Gaza—a thread 🧵

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Mathew Kumar @mathewkumar.com · 1d

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Mathew Kumar @mathewkumar.com · 1d

As is only proper, I'm dedicating this month on exp. to scary games! First up for subscribers we go way back to what I believe is the very first horror film to video game adaptation: Poltergeist for TRS-80 CoCo(!) expzine.com/2025/10/07/p...

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Jonny Morris @jonnymorris.bsky.social · 1d

RISQUE GALORE

Dozens of sex toys have been found washed up on a Scottish beach.

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 1d

Laughs in Palestinian

Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 1d

We’re in a moment now where it would be worth people taking three hours to watch Gandhi, particularly the scene of the salt march. There is value to making the brutality of your opponent so plain as day that no one can argue with it. The clarity of that brought down an empire

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Mathew Kumar @mathewkumar.com · 1d

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Discontinued FOoOoOoOods! 🎃🍫👻🍬 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 2d

Day #133: New Kids On the Block--The Animated Series (1991)

An orange plastic lunchbox with the illustrated images of the 5 members of New Kids on the Block, avec mullets and incredibly 1991-style outfits. The background is a perriwinkle color, and has images of guitars and TV sets

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dannyodwyer @dannyodwyer.bsky.social · 1d

it's mind boggling how badly managed and communicated this entire thing has been. the owner of Bitmap Books and this random contract writer decide to donate 100% of his royalties because he said some dumb shit. then they sleep on it, change their minds, and blame wokeism and being dragged online.

Bitmap Books @bitmapbooks.com · 1d

Monday 6th October 2025

Dear supporters of Bitmap Books,

Although I stand by the fact that Moses’ comments were ill-advised and insensitive, the whole thing blew up and was made much bigger than it needed to be. Moses has publicly apologised for any offence caused, as has the original poster of the comments who did not intend to cause this much trouble. I do not feel that this warrants an author losing his livelihood and ruining years of hard work to produce the book.

Despite multiple accusations to the contrary, Moses freely agreed to donate his royalties to charity. There was no coercion from me, however we both recognise that due to an increasingly stressful situation that decisions were rushed on both sides. I’m pleased to say that Moses and I have spoken again today, we stand together, and have agreed that he will receive 100% of his royalties.

Maybe I was hasty in my response, and I’m happy to admit to that. At the time I sincerely thought I was doing the right thing to diffuse an increasingly difficult situation. I will commit to donating all company profits from this first print run to the charity, Special Effect.

The bottom line is that is that Moses has apologised for his original comments, and will now be paid the royalties that are rightfully his.

Moses and myself have received a large amount of personal abuse and threats over the past few days. We hope that this statement will bring some closure to what has happened.

Sam Dyer, founder of Bitmap Books

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Birmingham Green Party @brumgreens.bsky.social · 1d

You should be angry at private companies making massive profits from our taxes to house the most desperate people in appalling conditions... And NOT the people forced to live in them.
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Asylum hotel provider makes £180m profit despite claims of inedible food and rationed loo paper

Asylum seekers and charities tell BBC of

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Mathew Kumar @mathewkumar.com · 1d

Turns out they rescinded the apology because they got dogpiled at the nazi bar and the author, who has written by all accounts a book well below their standards, is now crowing there that he "beat cancel culture."

Sure seems like his apology was genuine! No more Bitmap Books for me I guess!

Moses Norton, the Well-Red Mage
@theWellRedMage · 2h
WE DID IT. WE BEAT CANCEL CULTURE.
You had my back and Bitmap has my back.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT.
Buy the book the mob tried to cancel today!

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