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Mike Sellraiser III: Sell on Earth

@profmikesell.bsky.social

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English Prof, Indiana University of Pennsylvania • Writing 'Playful Literature: Stories, Games, Theories' • Founder, The Digital Storytelling Project • Co-author, 'Systemic Dramaturgy' (Southern Illinois UP) • Unionized Faculty (IUP-APSCUF) • he/him

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Mike Sellraiser III: Sell on Earth @profmikesell.bsky.social · Nov 13

In an era when gaming literacy is fundamental to understanding popular culture and technological power, 'Ready Reader One' examines the role of videogame literature in explaining not only how we play videogames, but the stories we tell with, about, and around them.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 8h

Today, a question came up with a group of organizers I’m working with, some of whom are also lawyers, and it’s a serious inquiry:

Is anyone undertaking an effort to collect evidence that could eventually be used in a Nuremberg-style set of trials, or for a truth and reconciliation commission?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13h

genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Mike Sellraiser III: Sell on Earth @profmikesell.bsky.social · 11h

Being a college professor is weird. The variety of stuff I do on a given day and week to week can be dizzying. It’s genuinely a solid set of labor practices and it can fun! And if you’re unionized and you’re protected by a strong tenure system, even better. But still weird, especially these days.

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Mike Sellraiser III: Sell on Earth @profmikesell.bsky.social · 11h

We are having a beautiful autumn evening in Pittsburgh.

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 22h

Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S.
Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world.
www.nobelprize.org

The official website of the Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.org

The Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts. This is one of the central concepts in the will of Alfred Nobel, and it also permeates the outreach activities that have been developed for...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

CNN: “An older couple making $85K/year will see their yearly insurance premiums jump from $7K to $25,000 — 30% of their income.” 😳#TrumpShutdown #TrumpHealthCareTax

This is what Dems are drawing attention to and want fixed. Now, not later.

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Mike Sellraiser III: Sell on Earth @profmikesell.bsky.social · 12h

I got back into playing Dungeons & Dragons after two decades away from the game.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

Mike Sellraiser III: Sell on Earth @profmikesell.bsky.social · 12h

Beau Is Afraid (2023, dir. Ari Aster)

Squash shaped like engorged testicle hanging on wooden fence.

Mike Sellraiser III: Sell on Earth @profmikesell.bsky.social · 13h

This is it. This is the goal. And frightening away BIPOC voters is key.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19h

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 1d

This is Adelita Grijalva.

She was elected to Congress two weeks ago, officially making her the final vote needed to force the release of the Epstein files.

She has still not been sworn in because Mike Johnson refuses to do so.

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Mike Sellraiser III: Sell on Earth @profmikesell.bsky.social · 20h

Going to set this against Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries."

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.

Mike Sellraiser III: Sell on Earth @profmikesell.bsky.social · 20h

Motion to replace "Human-Centered Design (HCD)" with "Snack-Centered Design (SCD)."

Genki @genkigamer.bsky.social · 1d

Devil May Cry Director Hideaki Itsuno says he designed DMC5’s pacing with potato chips in mind!

He designed scenarios so players know when they can take a potato chip break. He wanted to make it clear when a cutscene was coming & give enough time to take a small break to eat some potato chips!

Mike Sellraiser III: Sell on Earth @profmikesell.bsky.social · 20h

I think @mattseybold.bsky.social and the American Vandal podcast have some useful perspectives on the connections between the attack on academic humanities and the intensified exploitation of academic and artistic labor by way of EdTech. Also, Nick Clegg can f right off over there forever.

Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

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Mike Sellraiser III: Sell on Earth @profmikesell.bsky.social · 20h

A fascinating interview with @jdragsky.bsky.social about the way we consider (and fail to consider) the TTRPG rulebook as an object in itself. For me, this focus articulates TTRPGs with the history of the book, experimental book design, and concrete poetics.
www.backwardstabletop.com/jay-dragon-o...

Interview: Jay Dragon on Bookplay

An interview with Jay Dragon about how ttrpgs play with books

www.backwardstabletop.com

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Mike Sellraiser III: Sell on Earth @profmikesell.bsky.social · 20h

Very much enjoying the cognitive dissonance between, on one hand, teaching my students about the ethical virtue and legal necessity of crediting one's sources and influences and on the other, this slopmeistering . . .

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 21h

Die, industry, die

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Mike Sellraiser III: Sell on Earth @profmikesell.bsky.social · 23h

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 1d

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 1d

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Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 1d

Block Club Chicago and other news organizations are suing the federal government over First Amendment violations.

Four of our journalists have been shot with pepper-spray bullets and tear-gassed by federal agents. blockclubchi.co/4mRA6vG

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Mike Sellraiser III: Sell on Earth @profmikesell.bsky.social · 1d

Gothic Fascism is weird.

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Mike Sellraiser III: Sell on Earth @profmikesell.bsky.social · 1d

Had a few reminders today that teaching is essentially a managerial craft.

Mike Sellraiser III: Sell on Earth @profmikesell.bsky.social · 1d

As someone obsessed with the stories we tell with and about games, Thomas Pynchon’s focus on bowling in his new book is a delight.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 1d

This will be a vote to erase 50 years of medical and psychiatric knowledge and kill gay and trans kids, because MAGA Republicans feel that in a better world, fewer of them would exist. It is that simple. Democrats must make SCOTUS expansion part of the party platform. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Supreme Court Live Updates: Justices Seem Set to Rule Against Colorado’s Ban on Conversion Therapy

www.nytimes.com

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