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Tony Elias

@tonyelias.bsky.social

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Writer @ CDPR. Cyberpunk 2. Chronic reader, runner, film obsessive. Lit PhD. Worked on Shadow of War, Quantum Break, Alan Wake, Deadlight, Lost Odyssey, and others. He/Him.🇦🇺🇱🇧🇺🇸 Against genocide and genocide denial.

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Tony Elias @tonyelias.bsky.social · 1d

Agree with your points, but I think many people push for the two-state solution because they don't believe Israel would ever accept Palestinians as equal citizens in their society (and we're much closer to genocide and forced relocation).

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Tony Elias @tonyelias.bsky.social · 2d

Never underestimate the power of a clown.

Tony Elias @tonyelias.bsky.social · 2d

I have a short story in the fall issue of Copper Nickel based on a memory my father shared about strangers who came to his mountain village in Lebanon when he was a child and excavated something enormous from the dirt (though no one ever knew how they did it, or what it was).

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Nigel Auchterlounie @n-auchterlounie.bsky.social · 2d

"IT ABSOLUTELY WILL STOP!!!"

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Tony Elias @tonyelias.bsky.social · 2d

oh that's evil (and yet I so wish I'd seen it)

Tony Elias @tonyelias.bsky.social · 6d

Paul Thomas Anderson is a wonderful translator of Thomas Pynchon. One Battle After Another takes the spirit of Vineland's counterculture story--with its big ideas and general looniness--and places it thoroughly in our broken present. Brilliant, energetic, thoroughly timely film.

Tony Elias @tonyelias.bsky.social · 8d

Warrior ethos in action.

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Patrick K Mills @pkernaghan.bsky.social · 9d

If you follow me you know how annoyed (too soft a word) I get with the superficial and misplaced criticism that Cyberpunk (big C but also little c) isn't "punk" enough. This essay goes at that criticism as well as I've seen it.

Typebar Magazine (Issue 7 Out Now!!) @typebarmagazine.bsky.social · 10d

There's more to narratives about dismantling power structures than cheap #dissent, writes @strangelibrary.com

www.typebarmagazine.com/2025/08/29/c...

Cyberpunk 2077 and the Anesthesia of #Dissent - Typebar Magazine

There are few easy answers to the questions the cyberpunk genre asks.

www.typebarmagazine.com

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Tony Elias @tonyelias.bsky.social · 29d

Amazon allows you to pay for Prime, then you can pay for no ads, then you can watch things that still have ads. Got some real innovators over there.

Tony Elias @tonyelias.bsky.social · Sep 8

Paul Thomas Anderson is going full Pynchonverse…

Tony Elias @tonyelias.bsky.social · Sep 7

What's the point of having all that money if you still have to demean yourself like this.

Tony Elias @tonyelias.bsky.social · Sep 7

USAID has won more wars than the Department of the Whateverthefuck.

Tony Elias @tonyelias.bsky.social · Sep 6

I'd almost forgotten what good news felt like...

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Israeli arms manufacturer closes UK facility targeted by Palestine Action

Exclusive: Elbit Systems UK Bristol site was subject of protest days before direct action group was proscribed

www.theguardian.com

Tony Elias @tonyelias.bsky.social · Aug 27

I’ve probably searched “Ubik first edition” a handful of times over the last few years. Then I remember the price and move on

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Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · Aug 19

Microsoft employees occupy headquarters in protest of Israel contracts. The protest encampment started today, and it’s the biggest escalation of the protests at Microsoft so far www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Microsoft employees occupy headquarters in protest of Israel contracts

It’s the biggest escalation yet of the protests at Microsoft.

www.theverge.com

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Tony Elias @tonyelias.bsky.social · Jul 30

"Genocide does not happen without mass participation: a population that supports it, enables it or looks away. "

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I lead a top Israeli human rights group. Our country is committing genocide | Yuli Novak

My generation was raised wondering how ordinary people could countenance an atrocity. In a grotesque twist, the question has circled back to us

www.theguardian.com

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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · Jul 27

The world is letting them

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Tony Elias @tonyelias.bsky.social · Jul 27

Important to remember that this is engineered starvation, orchestrated according to a plan. The goal is genocide and it is happening out in the open for all to see. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Middle East crisis live: ‘Deadly airdrops and a trickle of trucks won’t undo months of engineered starvation’ in Gaza, says Oxfam

Charity says airdrops into Gaza are entirely inadequate for population’s needs after Israeli military announces pause in activity

www.theguardian.com

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CD PROJEKT RED @cdprojektred.com · Jul 24

In the latest Meeting REDs, Lead Quest Designer Sarah Gruemmer shares her journey from modding games at home to leading the Cyberpunk 2 quest design team in Boston, and explains what makes collaboration and communication so essential in game development.

Full article: cdpred.ly/sarah_gruemmer

CD Projekt Red lead quest designer Sarah Gruemmer smiles towards the classes, her curly red hair swept to one side, wearing black-framed glasses and a silver eyebrow piercing. Text reads: “Turning Emotions, Story, and Big Moments Into Gameplay”

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Tony Elias @tonyelias.bsky.social · Jul 23

NYT, the paper of genocide denial.

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BAKER @fuckyoubaker.bsky.social · Jun 23

Just something grandpa used to say

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Tony Elias @tonyelias.bsky.social · Jul 19

This happens every day now...

Tony Elias @tonyelias.bsky.social · Jul 18

Honestly love this commitment to the present. The past and the future are way overrated.

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · Jul 13

"Nearly 70 percent of Democrats now have an unfavorable view of Israel, according to Pew. Yet Democratic officials carry on as if full-throated support for Israel were party doctrine," writes @ryuspaeth.bsky.social. nymag.com/intelligence...

Israel Was Supposed to Sink Zohran Mamdani

Will the Democratic Party absorb the lesson?

nymag.com

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Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · Jul 11

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...

On July 5, as floodwaters were starting to recede, FEMA received 3,027 calls from disaster survivors and answered 3,018, or roughly 99.7 percent, the documents show. Contractors with four call center companies answered the vast majority of the calls.

That evening, however, Ms. Noem did not renew the contracts with the four companies and hundreds of contractors were fired, according to the documents and the person briefed on the matter.

The next day, July 6, FEMA received 2,363 calls and answered 846, or roughly 35.8 percent, according to the documents. And on Monday, July 7, the agency fielded 16,419 calls and answered 2,613, or around 15.9 percent, the documents sho

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