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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 3h

adding flavor to creatine is the coward’s way out. it’s meant to taste like a cup of wet sand, and you’re supposed to make a horrible face when you gulp it down

Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 5h

Naked sells a mostly unsweetened flavored creatine monohydrate which is nice because I can just add Splenda to taste and it flavors it enough so that I remember to take it.

A lemon lime Naked Creatine the bottle is blue to yellow

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 5h

Ubisoft could not have handled a Reconstruction Era Assassin's Creed:

aftermath.site/assassins-cree...

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Himbo Blacksmith🇿🇦🇮🇹 @himboblacksmith.bsky.social · 10h

The tank's role is to draw aggro

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 2d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 9h

New: Apple banned an app that simply archived videos of ICE abuses. Rather than other apps that record ICE official's real-time location, Eyes Up is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." Videos from TikTok etc. Every submission manually reviewed

www.404media.co/apple-banned...

Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses

Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

www.404media.co

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Xalavier Nelson Jr. @writnelson.bsky.social · 9h

You would not believe how many stories like this have been popping up over the last ~5 years

Not just full games cancelled—entire characters and plot lines removed or changed, leaving less time for making the *rest of the game better*, to try avoiding a small and malicious contingent of voices.

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 9h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 9h

but ubisoft is releasing assassin's creed dlc that's reportedly been funded by saudi arabia. tells you pretty much everything you need to know

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 9h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 12h

For @aftermath.site, I wrote about the crucible of beating the Manbreaker in Baby Steps, a brutal challenge that the game actively tells you not to do. I am happy that I did it. aftermath.site/baby-steps-m...

Baby Steps' Manbreaker Did Not Break Me - Aftermath

Baby Steps' Manbreaker is an optional yet brutal challenge that is as much a test of your humility as it is your skill.

aftermath.site

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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 1d

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 1d

Skin Deep has some very good patch notes

aftermath.site/skin-deep-pa...

skin deep's main character pulling glass out of her foot (ew)

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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 1d

my man is nothing but two faces and a head of hair. the sooner people stop deluding themselves into believing he's some kind of progressive hero, the better

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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 1d

just a few days ago he was on connoreatspants' stream defending his stance on trans athletes by bragging about his track record when it comes to pro-trans legislation

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 1d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 1d

absolutely, but I don't think it's unreasonable to want an interesting, surprising narrative from a studio known for them

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Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh.com · 1d

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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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 1d

This thread highlights a point I have been making for many years: the logic of authoritarianism and the logic of domestic abuse are exactly the same. It is only a difference of scale.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

Y'all who keep lecturing protesters to "not give them an excuse" need to pause for a minute. Imagine yourself telling a DV victim, "Be sure not to mouth off or make any mistakes so he won't hit you. Don't give him an excuse! It's what he wants!" That's what you fools sound like.

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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 1d

getting close to endgame (beating chronos easily, cleared typhon last night). disappointed to hear how little awaits me narratively considering a) how good the rest of the game is and b) supergiant’s history of games that subvert expectations and try to say something

Jay Castello 🌻 @jaymcastello.bsky.social · 1d

i kept waiting for hades 2's twist, and i wrote about what we got instead aftermath.site/hades-2-endi...

Hades 2's Story Doesn't Change The Status Quo - Aftermath

Melinoë's journey is more about acceptance than change

aftermath.site

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 2d

One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city.

They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 2d

@lataco.bsky.social first began as a blog documenting local Mexican cuisine. Now, it’s an essential reporting powerhouse to the city as Trump’s mass deportation plot unfolds.

Check out the latest from our friends at Reveal: tinyurl.com/4cm2bsdr

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 2d

influence economies and algorithmic entertainment markets are sociopathy machines.

kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 2d

This is legit insane btw:

Roach man whose father died has zero self reflection or growth.

Says he will be happy to do it again because he has no actual skills and his audience fucking sucks

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Harper Jay @dreamcastaway.bsky.social · 2d

More words from me. Kicking off this week working with my old coworkers over at Aftermath; talkin' about Silent Hill f!

Let's talk about one of the game's most memorable puzzles. It's about tricking yourself because "did something just move?"

It's also about leaning close and getting intimate...

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 2d

She called out world leaders for sitting by and watching a live-streamed genocide without taking action.

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Liz Ryerson @ellaguro.bsky.social · 5d

the "post-modern fascism" label is appropriate because this really is all about spectacle and symbolic shows of violence and control removed from larger context. it's no less brutal, but also built off the notion that they truly do believe they can meme their way into the permanent white ethnostate

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 5d

You can see how their cameramen document their violence. This is about content creation. For the last one, I had to search my files for a photo of this moment that didn't include the face of a pained or screaming protester, but for clarity: those are tackled human beings on the ground.

DHS cameramen film their assault on tackled protesters.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

once again encouraging you all to support independent, worker owned, billionaire free News media when and how you are able

Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 2d

Installing someone like Bari Weiss as the head of a major news organization isn’t even about profit or longevity. In effect it’s about continuing to shrink the traditional news industry smaller and smaller and weaker and weaker and less and less journalism based until it ceases to exist

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 2d

This, to me, is so telling. When proven wrong, Bari Weiss invites her critic on a podcast. The rotten fruit of the "debate" tree, the fetishization of debate as a conversation in which one "wins" or "loses," "owns" or is "owned." A side-effect of capitalism's anti-intellectual higher ed arms race.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 2d

David Ellison’s note to staff on Paramount’s acquisition of the Free Press

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patrick @redford.bsky.social · 2d

I wrote about Bari Weiss as the grim future of mainstream media under billionaire control: defector.com/bari-weiss-s...

Bari Weiss Signs Huge Deal To Usher CBS News Into Its Vichy Era | Defector

On Monday, newly appointed Paramount CEO David Ellison announced that his company had acquired the Free Press, the smirking blood-and-soil blog founded and run by former New York Times hall monitor Ba...

defector.com

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 2d

The key innovation of Trump's second term is figuring out how to both scale the localized MAGA frenzy beyond just him and his rallies and, also, most importantly, figure out a way to force it on blue states.
www.garbageday.email/p/a-slow-mov...

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 4d

looking into the article, important part to it is this was initiated by italian unions, making it possible to organize such action at all. which reinforces for what and why such union restrictions exist in america. keeping labor down doesn't just generate wealth, it also suppresses other movements.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 4d

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

2 million rally in Italy for Gaza as general strike halts key services

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

bit.ly

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