Michael
@mezekial.bsky.social
I write poetry (unpublished) and talk about games (also unpublished). Maybe I should try to get published one of these days...
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Michael
@mezekial.bsky.social
· Feb 26
Yelling "don't stop fighting! Protect what you can! Focus on local community and activism!" while also feeling complete and total despair is just 2025's version of There Are Two Wolves Inside You, I guess.
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Played some peak and doodled some fish 🐟
December 19, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Played some peak and doodled some fish 🐟
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SS Edmund Fitzgerald
November 12, 2025 at 1:17 AM
SS Edmund Fitzgerald
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periodically I'll see a backlash that goes a little too far or seems kinda unfair. i never say anything because i think we need to be kinda unhinged and zealous in our response to this shit. I'd take an honest-to-God crusade against this stuff over letting it proliferate.
December 18, 2025 at 7:40 PM
periodically I'll see a backlash that goes a little too far or seems kinda unfair. i never say anything because i think we need to be kinda unhinged and zealous in our response to this shit. I'd take an honest-to-God crusade against this stuff over letting it proliferate.
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Latest from me at The Guardian!
Chatting with @videogameworkers.bsky.social at their protest outside The Game Awards. ✊
Chatting with @videogameworkers.bsky.social at their protest outside The Game Awards. ✊
Before the Game Awards in LA last week, a US video game workers union turned up to protest. "Anyone who works in the games industry can identify that our art form is being sold for parts to make a few people a lot of money." @alyssamerc.bsky.social reports
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/d...
‘Our industry has been strip-mined’: video game workers protest at The Game Awards
Outside the lavish event, workers called out the ‘greed’ in the industry that has left games ‘being sold for parts to make a few people a lot of money’
www.theguardian.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Latest from me at The Guardian!
Chatting with @videogameworkers.bsky.social at their protest outside The Game Awards. ✊
Chatting with @videogameworkers.bsky.social at their protest outside The Game Awards. ✊
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If there's one thing you can say about Larian, it's that they listen to their audience. I really hope the backlash today demonstrates to them a love for what they do and how they have done it – and that it makes them reconsider this road they're going down with generative AI.
December 16, 2025 at 8:54 PM
If there's one thing you can say about Larian, it's that they listen to their audience. I really hope the backlash today demonstrates to them a love for what they do and how they have done it – and that it makes them reconsider this road they're going down with generative AI.
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also: UNBEATABLE's officially been out for a week! thank you to everyone for the way it's gone and for bearing with us as we sift through the mass of feedback. we obviously intend to stick with it in the long, but it's universally true that the better the game does, the better we can make it, so 🙏
December 17, 2025 at 3:46 PM
also: UNBEATABLE's officially been out for a week! thank you to everyone for the way it's gone and for bearing with us as we sift through the mass of feedback. we obviously intend to stick with it in the long, but it's universally true that the better the game does, the better we can make it, so 🙏
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We have to adopt new tech or else our game will fail, which is why all successful games from a few years ago included blockchain technology
December 17, 2025 at 12:51 AM
We have to adopt new tech or else our game will fail, which is why all successful games from a few years ago included blockchain technology
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"a coalition of more than 230 environmental groups has demanded a ntl moratorium on new datacenters in the US, the latest salvo in a growing backlash to a booming AI industry that has been blamed for escalating electricity bills and worsening the climate crisis"
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
More than 200 environmental groups demand halt to new US datacenters
Exclusive: Congress urged to act against energy-hungry facilities blamed for increasing bills and worsening climate crisis
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:45 PM
"a coalition of more than 230 environmental groups has demanded a ntl moratorium on new datacenters in the US, the latest salvo in a growing backlash to a booming AI industry that has been blamed for escalating electricity bills and worsening the climate crisis"
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Go play unbeatable now!! #UNBEATABLE
December 12, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Go play unbeatable now!! #UNBEATABLE
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I'm sure putting AI in everything won't have any negative effects
tesla owners admitting without shame they don’t know how to drive anymore
December 15, 2025 at 2:11 AM
I'm sure putting AI in everything won't have any negative effects
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Elon's little serfs are quite literally begging journalists to come back because every publicly available source of data shows people have fled the platform and young people won't use it.
They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
December 15, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Elon's little serfs are quite literally begging journalists to come back because every publicly available source of data shows people have fled the platform and young people won't use it.
They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
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You all raised $11,600 for the Somali community in Minnesota during MinnMax's live reaction to The Game Awards. What an unbelievably generous community.
100% goes directly to The Somali Museum of Minnesota! www.givemn.org/story/12p1xe
100% goes directly to The Somali Museum of Minnesota! www.givemn.org/story/12p1xe
December 12, 2025 at 4:24 AM
You all raised $11,600 for the Somali community in Minnesota during MinnMax's live reaction to The Game Awards. What an unbelievably generous community.
100% goes directly to The Somali Museum of Minnesota! www.givemn.org/story/12p1xe
100% goes directly to The Somali Museum of Minnesota! www.givemn.org/story/12p1xe
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I just got my commission "Phonecall in the manner of your goblins" and I couldn't be more delighted.
My strongest recommendation.
My strongest recommendation.
December 10, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I just got my commission "Phonecall in the manner of your goblins" and I couldn't be more delighted.
My strongest recommendation.
My strongest recommendation.
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Keep going everyone. Bullying works. No one wants this shit.
It's truly wild to me that this just keeps happening. Coca-Cola runs an AI ad and people overwhelmingly react with disgust. They do it again, and people are disgusted again. Now McDonald's makes an AI ad that's so bad that so many people are furious about it they pull it down.
People hate AI slop!
People hate AI slop!
McDonald's Pulls Down AI-Generated Holiday Ad After Deluge of Mockery
McDonald's Netherlands is catching flak for a stupefying AI-generated video, which was roundly condemned on social media.
futurism.com
December 9, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Keep going everyone. Bullying works. No one wants this shit.
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aghghh @reviewers sorry i forgot to add this , slide to the review guide that went out
December 4, 2025 at 10:00 PM
aghghh @reviewers sorry i forgot to add this , slide to the review guide that went out
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one of the great parts about the mix of conservative brain and individualism is that they are all unlikeable and so paranoid of others that they are incapable of forming friendships let alone an actual positive community
Terminally online Right wingers are telling on themselves
December 8, 2025 at 8:03 PM
one of the great parts about the mix of conservative brain and individualism is that they are all unlikeable and so paranoid of others that they are incapable of forming friendships let alone an actual positive community
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and this is quite literally every single free to play game 😩
In case you were wondering what it’s like to boot a free to play mobile game in 2025
December 8, 2025 at 7:56 PM
and this is quite literally every single free to play game 😩
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I’m boarding an early Amtrak but let me just say, @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social was a delight!
I had a blast, and I know the audience was thrilled to get to hear him talk and meet him at the signing.
Thank you, Hodgepodge in Eugene!
I had a blast, and I know the audience was thrilled to get to hear him talk and meet him at the signing.
Thank you, Hodgepodge in Eugene!
Thanks Hodgepodge Books and Taproom for a great event at St Mary's Episcopal Church tonight here in Eugene, Oregon. And thanks to @lorraineberry.bsky.social for being a wonderful in conversation partner.
December 8, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I’m boarding an early Amtrak but let me just say, @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social was a delight!
I had a blast, and I know the audience was thrilled to get to hear him talk and meet him at the signing.
Thank you, Hodgepodge in Eugene!
I had a blast, and I know the audience was thrilled to get to hear him talk and meet him at the signing.
Thank you, Hodgepodge in Eugene!
@dcellgames.com if y'all were ready to have the game released a month ago and then it got delayed the night before...is that like the equivalent of having finished a Big College Essay right before a blizzard and the prof says "eh turn it in next month"? Or have y'all just been testing it 24/7 since
December 1, 2025 at 7:52 PM
@dcellgames.com if y'all were ready to have the game released a month ago and then it got delayed the night before...is that like the equivalent of having finished a Big College Essay right before a blizzard and the prof says "eh turn it in next month"? Or have y'all just been testing it 24/7 since
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For non-subscribers, here's a gift: For the next 30 days, Aftermath subscriptions for new readers are on sale at $1 for your first month:
aftermath.ghost.io/11-06-2025...
aftermath.ghost.io/11-06-2025...
November 10, 2025 at 3:51 PM
For non-subscribers, here's a gift: For the next 30 days, Aftermath subscriptions for new readers are on sale at $1 for your first month:
aftermath.ghost.io/11-06-2025...
aftermath.ghost.io/11-06-2025...
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A woman ruined my workplace
By Caravaggio (c. 1602)
By Caravaggio (c. 1602)
November 7, 2025 at 2:42 PM
A woman ruined my workplace
By Caravaggio (c. 1602)
By Caravaggio (c. 1602)
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2017-2025
Fuck 🖕 AI
Fuck 🖕 AI
November 6, 2025 at 6:26 PM
2017-2025
Fuck 🖕 AI
Fuck 🖕 AI
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Once again the discourse reveals that some writers have no idea what feminism is. It’s aggravating. You still don’t know? In 2025?
November 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Once again the discourse reveals that some writers have no idea what feminism is. It’s aggravating. You still don’t know? In 2025?
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"let me absorb you into myself for all eternity so we never lose eachother in the deep sea, valentine"
November 6, 2025 at 2:56 PM
"let me absorb you into myself for all eternity so we never lose eachother in the deep sea, valentine"
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You just beat The Last Judge and its brutal, demoralizing runback and realize, as the citadel unfolds before you, this is just the start of Act II.
serious note: they're gonna try 5x harder to sabotage the midterms after tonight and we're gonna have to organize on a literally historic scale to stop them
really obvious now why trump and the republican party have been working so hard to prevent fair elections lol they know
November 5, 2025 at 5:49 AM
You just beat The Last Judge and its brutal, demoralizing runback and realize, as the citadel unfolds before you, this is just the start of Act II.