Charlie Cantrell
@pookaknight.bsky.social
Web developer and freelance game writer (Changeling: The Dreaming, Vampire: The Requiem, Trinity Continuum: Aether, and more!). Perpetually exhausted nerd. He/him
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Unsolicited writing advice, no. 71616:
If you're struggling to stay creative during the dark part of the year, go back to what you love. Re-read, re-watch, rediscover old favourites. Remind yourself why you're doing this. Find your joy.
If you're struggling to stay creative during the dark part of the year, go back to what you love. Re-read, re-watch, rediscover old favourites. Remind yourself why you're doing this. Find your joy.
December 22, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 71616:
If you're struggling to stay creative during the dark part of the year, go back to what you love. Re-read, re-watch, rediscover old favourites. Remind yourself why you're doing this. Find your joy.
If you're struggling to stay creative during the dark part of the year, go back to what you love. Re-read, re-watch, rediscover old favourites. Remind yourself why you're doing this. Find your joy.
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As always, the alt text is the best.
December 20, 2025 at 4:55 PM
As always, the alt text is the best.
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The White House has been caught.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
December 20, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The White House has been caught.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
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The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality.
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
First-of-a-kind study shows encouraging data for trans kids who socially transition
Ninety-four percent of participants in a new study stood firm in their trans identity after five years, and "detransitioning" is rare.
www.popsci.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality.
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
This is true for most endeavors and is what makes creation so difficult for certain folks. It was a hurdle for me personally, but for folks who need to hear it — you bring a unique perspective to whatever project you're working on. Even if it doesn't light the world on fire, someone will love it.
To make games you need a seed of entitlement to think you can do something better, but you must never let it make you so stupid as to think you've done something that's never been done before.
Indie Dev discovers the game they're making basically already exists, worried of being deemed a ripoff. Original dev responds.
December 19, 2025 at 4:45 PM
This is true for most endeavors and is what makes creation so difficult for certain folks. It was a hurdle for me personally, but for folks who need to hear it — you bring a unique perspective to whatever project you're working on. Even if it doesn't light the world on fire, someone will love it.
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“it’s reasonable to ask questions about trans girls in sports” was always intended to mainstream transphobia.
It’s absurd that people fell for it. Democrats are constantly letting oppressors set the terms of debate instead of just saying “no, fuck you.”
It’s absurd that people fell for it. Democrats are constantly letting oppressors set the terms of debate instead of just saying “no, fuck you.”
December 18, 2025 at 2:12 PM
“it’s reasonable to ask questions about trans girls in sports” was always intended to mainstream transphobia.
It’s absurd that people fell for it. Democrats are constantly letting oppressors set the terms of debate instead of just saying “no, fuck you.”
It’s absurd that people fell for it. Democrats are constantly letting oppressors set the terms of debate instead of just saying “no, fuck you.”
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Earlier tonight: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's bill effectively banning gender-affirming health care for youth passed in the House. This is a serious attack on parents' ability to make *private* medical decisions for their families. www.advocate.com/politics/mtg...
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s bill criminalizing gender-affirming care for minors passes with Democrats’ support
The outgoing Georgia congresswoman was able to successfully make transgender young people a target as one of her last acts in Congress.
www.advocate.com
December 18, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Earlier tonight: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's bill effectively banning gender-affirming health care for youth passed in the House. This is a serious attack on parents' ability to make *private* medical decisions for their families. www.advocate.com/politics/mtg...
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An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth
December 17, 2025 at 2:52 AM
An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth
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As a person who has been studying extreme far right ideologies for the last decade (and did a PhD on immigration) I find the entrance of “remigration” into the mainstream American political lexicon so profoundly disturbing
December 16, 2025 at 1:03 PM
As a person who has been studying extreme far right ideologies for the last decade (and did a PhD on immigration) I find the entrance of “remigration” into the mainstream American political lexicon so profoundly disturbing
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Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.
December 15, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.
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Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
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Sounds about right.
December 15, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Sounds about right.
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One argument I used to make to my students about why it was important to learn history (and historical thinking) is that someone was always going to be trying to tell you things were natural or had always been this way and that you needed to be able to see that as an exercise of power.
December 7, 2025 at 10:09 PM
One argument I used to make to my students about why it was important to learn history (and historical thinking) is that someone was always going to be trying to tell you things were natural or had always been this way and that you needed to be able to see that as an exercise of power.
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Starting to think the death cult is some kind of cult dedicated to causing as much death as possible????
December 13, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Starting to think the death cult is some kind of cult dedicated to causing as much death as possible????
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Last day for pottery! I'll be closing the shop tomorrow. Still some frog bowls and leopard geckos waiting for you.
Opening the online pottery shop for a few days with some frog mugs and bowls, some geckos and a very few special bird things. Only keeping the shop open for a few days so I can get everything off in the mail before taking a break for the holidays - shop till Friday Dec 12!
sarahwithtea.com/shop
sarahwithtea.com/shop
December 12, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Last day for pottery! I'll be closing the shop tomorrow. Still some frog bowls and leopard geckos waiting for you.
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THIS MORNING at the Tennessee Capitol Senator Jack Johnson announced a plan to establish Turning Point USA chapters in every Tennessee high school.
We’re told no release told press about the event, which @marshablackburn , Riley Gaines & more attended
Jack’s post: www.facebook.com/share/1DESPD...
We’re told no release told press about the event, which @marshablackburn , Riley Gaines & more attended
Jack’s post: www.facebook.com/share/1DESPD...
December 12, 2025 at 6:15 PM
THIS MORNING at the Tennessee Capitol Senator Jack Johnson announced a plan to establish Turning Point USA chapters in every Tennessee high school.
We’re told no release told press about the event, which @marshablackburn , Riley Gaines & more attended
Jack’s post: www.facebook.com/share/1DESPD...
We’re told no release told press about the event, which @marshablackburn , Riley Gaines & more attended
Jack’s post: www.facebook.com/share/1DESPD...
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Whenever I see this article I’m going to share it, because everyone connected to higher ed needs to read this for a great if chilling overview of the bone deep infection that gAI has become in the system.
„CSU—US’s largest public uni system—went all-in with a $17mill partnership with OpenAI. . .CSU unveiled its grand technological gesture just as it proposed slashing $375mill from its budget. While admin cut ribbons on AI, they were cutting faculty positions, academic programs, student services.“
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 11, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Whenever I see this article I’m going to share it, because everyone connected to higher ed needs to read this for a great if chilling overview of the bone deep infection that gAI has become in the system.
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Twelve princesses 👑
December 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Twelve princesses 👑
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Justice Jackson to Solicitor General Sauer (just now, in Trump v. Slaughter arguments):
December 8, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Justice Jackson to Solicitor General Sauer (just now, in Trump v. Slaughter arguments):
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It's hard to have weathered a life of hearing conspiracy theories you know can't be true, and are provably wrong, only to live long enough where a true conspiracy occurs, out in the open, for all to see, and you feel crazier and crazier as it worsens day by day by day.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court seems likely to expand president's power and back Trump's firing of independent-agency board members.
December 8, 2025 at 6:06 PM
It's hard to have weathered a life of hearing conspiracy theories you know can't be true, and are provably wrong, only to live long enough where a true conspiracy occurs, out in the open, for all to see, and you feel crazier and crazier as it worsens day by day by day.
what's a movie you saw over six times other than LOTR & Star Trek/Wars
December 8, 2025 at 3:11 PM
what's a movie you saw over six times other than LOTR & Star Trek/Wars
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It’s Monday morning me, trying to get caffeine into my bloodstream and blearily cross-posting a podcast episode out of this deep need to scream into the dawn-hued void: changelingthepodcast.com/podcast/epis...
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December 8, 2025 at 1:40 PM
It’s Monday morning me, trying to get caffeine into my bloodstream and blearily cross-posting a podcast episode out of this deep need to scream into the dawn-hued void: changelingthepodcast.com/podcast/epis...
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The following is a statement from the WGA on the Acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by Netflix.
December 5, 2025 at 6:27 PM
The following is a statement from the WGA on the Acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by Netflix.