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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 11h
Eugenics 🤝 ai www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/h...
One of the things that is going to change is that we’re never ever again going to be able to be dominated by public officials who tell us, ‘Trust the experts,’” Mr. Kennedy said during the Tuesday session.

“If somebody tells you, ‘Masks work, trust the experts,’ A.I. may tell you otherwise,” he added. “If somebody tells you, ‘Social distancing works, trust the experts,’ A.I. may correct that. And if somebody tells you that a vaccine will prevent transmission and infection, or you need to take it to protect your grandmother, A.I. may say it actually doesn’t do that.”
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autumn wright 🍂 @autumn-wright.com · 14h
anyone ever pitch an exhibit review ahead of opening
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Grayson Morley @graysonmorley.com · 18h
AI companies announcing their new chatbot
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grace @gracemachine.bsky.social · 19h
:) i love rain world so much... insane that i've gotten to work on two book length projects.
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autumn wright 🍂 @autumn-wright.com · 19h
what do y'all consider good metrics for a blog and newsletter? as I'm more often telling PR I don't have coverage lined up I would love to know what data would help them actually listen to me without an editor's cc.
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grace @gracemachine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For obvious reasons, I haven't talked much about it on here, but my father died suddenly while cycling. Grateful to @sltrib.com for letting me eulogize him and write about the absolute moral necessity of making roads safer for pedestrians and bikers.
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Voices: Deaths like my father’s are not anomalies. They are the bloody cost of our car-obsessed world.
“We can, we must, take action now, before some new senseless death proves the need for change all over again,” Grace Benfell writes in an op-ed.
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autumn wright 🍂 @autumn-wright.com · 23h
evil shit even by the standards of the post
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 29/09/2026
Meanwhile, the New York Post is leading with his trans status and salacious allegations made by the the people who murdered him. They're trying to paint him as violent and dangerous when he was the victim who was murdered. nypost.com/2026/09/28/u...
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Exclusive | Trans NYT exec threatened to kill wife, scared their kids with chilling book before his in-laws shot him dead: docs
The trans New York Times executive allegedly murdered in a Bay Area parking lot in broad daylight by his 77-year-old in-laws previously threatened to kill his wife, according to court documents.
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Rosencreutz (alleged youtuber) @rosencreutz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
QT because I don't want to give the NYT any air, even for this... but my god??? How do you, as an outlet, find the precise worse plausibly deniable (read:not-openly-malevolent) angle to be hostile to trans people in an article about your own employee being murdered????????
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autumn wright 🍂 @autumn-wright.com · 28/09/2026
Could I ever play Metroid like I read Irving?
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Could I ever play Metroid like I read Irving?
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autumn wright 🍂 @autumn-wright.com · 28/09/2026
Could I ever play Metroid like I read Irving?
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Could I ever play Metroid like I read Irving?
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autumn wright 🍂 @autumn-wright.com · 27/09/2026
rereading something I wrote almost 6 years ago that has aged Fine uppercutcrit.com/the-state-of...
Critical discourse following the release of Ghosts of Tsushima, Cyberpunk 2077, and TMW each demonstrated the ability for outlets to recognize and mainstream marginalized positionalities (and trans writers figured prominently in each of these moments). Games writing and the writing market at large is an ambivalent ecosystem even when stable, and though there has never been anything closer to a plurality in games media, never so many staffed writers, trans critics are seemingly always at its ends.If the predominant position of the trans critic is that of an independent – an outlet, a blog, a channel, a freelancer, a consultant – how does the trans critic figure into an industry that doesn’t recognize our multiplicity?
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autumn wright 🍂 @autumn-wright.com · 25/09/2026
do you think the transphobes at the Times have seen Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
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Zoe @kermitthefrog.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Zohran would never let the FBC do this to our city
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autumn wright 🍂 @autumn-wright.com · 25/09/2026
bandai can you email me back now please
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bug @evillittlebug.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
heavenly algo pull
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Gamers with Glasses @gamerswithglasses.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Sometimes, you write about games. Sometimes, you write about not playing games. Sometimes there's a game called Exhausted Man, and you do both. New from @edmondchang.bsky.social, looking back on a summer without games through the lens of ludofatigue: www.gamerswithglasses.com/features/the...
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The Summer without Games, or, Living with Ludofatigue — Gamers with Glasses
Don’t you sometimes just feel…tired? Edmond Y. Chang discusses “ludofatigue,” how it feels to live with the persistent sense that play just isn’t fun anymore, and the perennial relevance of Candleman ...
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Mikhail Klimentov @leadergrev.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
For nearly two years, I've been investigating a pattern of ominous legal letters sent to journalists by defamation counsel representing Bobby Kotick. That investigation is finally live. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKwp...
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Inside Bobby Kotick's Campaign Against the Press
YouTube video by People Make Games
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David Shimomura @unwinnabledavid.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Kind of a beautiful coincidence this landed on Sable's anniversary. A pleasure as always to work with @kellymerka.bsky.social along with all the regular rogues.
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Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
In recent years, the media has quietly begun to change the way in which it writes about Bobby Kotick, the former CEO of Activision Blizzard. PMG investigates how Kotick used the threat of defamation to reshape his legacy in the games business, one article at a time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKwp...
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Inside Bobby Kotick's Campaign Against the Press
YouTube video by People Make Games
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autumn wright 🍂 @autumn-wright.com · 24/09/2026
"Masking in The Vampire Castle" is this anything?
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JER (They/Them) @skatunenetwork.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Hi, the JER band performed in a produce section at a supermarket. The full video is on YouTube! Pls go like and comment, it helps a ton! youtu.be/WcQGQ0VHoKM?...
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JER BAND | MERCADITO CONCERT
YouTube video by Fiesta Fresh Market
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Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.substack.com · 24/09/2026
edited my 4 hour Xenoblade Stream wayyy down for YouTube! Got a lot of questions about the angle I take on my streams recently and I think this does a decent job showing how I am constantly investigating choices in craft while I play through a game youtu.be/5IjXm_7b0zM?...
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Writer Plays Xenoblade Chronicles 3 for the First Time
YouTube video by Jake Steinberg
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Unwinnable @unwinnable.com · 24/09/2026
I Big Walk, you Big Walk, we all Big Walk. Also happy anniversary Sable???? This month's Unwinnable Monthly has @kellymerka.bsky.social on Sable, plus our regulars on everything from big walking to penguins who have seen too much. Buy: buff.ly/IPrw7Fa Subscribe: buff.ly/PXHeLJe
The cover of the September 2026 issue of Unwinnable Monthly, featuring art of the main character of Sable sitting on the desert sands.
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J Riley L Hopkins @badfuckinpodcasts.com · 22/09/2026
im just saying that if the project wingman team wanted to go crazy with it. pvp is washed. 4 player pve coop campaign where you record the sound you make when you die before you go into a mission is awesome
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autumn wright 🍂 @autumn-wright.com · 23/09/2026
thinking about this lede again www.avclub.com/knights-of-g...
A tale as old as time: The miasmal assembly lines of mass-produced merchandise; a graveyard of EPCOT balls; class warfare; scavenging through the trash of a gilded theme park for scrap; rundown worker housing; and an animatronic princess, entrails spilling out of its abdomen, throwing herself from the castle tower. 
No one hates Disney like Dana Terrace.
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David Shimomura @unwinnabledavid.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
There's two things happening here that are really interesting to me. First, I think Nathan's evaluation of what is happening on an operational level is likely 100% correct. Second, I think there is a plan but one that is boring to gamers and speaks to institutional investors.
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Michael Burns @michaelburns.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
the new video is good. it's about why criticism is so important not only to culture but also to our ability to read the political situation. it features interviews with good people. (you can skip the sponsor) www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUcy...
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How the Internet Killed Criticism
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autumn wright 🍂 @autumn-wright.com · 22/09/2026
what I've been reading, watching, playing, and writing this summer (moving edition):
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Summer 2026
A collection of seasonal excerpts from the commonplace.
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autumn wright 🍂 @autumn-wright.com · 23/09/2026
it's great that voyeuristic reporting of a queer space that ties accessibility, harm reduction, gender nonconformity, and more mundane real world experiences to the polar extremes of online behavior to dismiss it all is working
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Dr. Emily Price @emilyprice.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Masks are a medical device and it’s really gauche to make fun of medical devices, even if the people wearing them are annoying :)
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autumn wright 🍂 @autumn-wright.com · 23/09/2026
looking at kingdom hearts on how long to beat like maybe I should just get into atelier instead
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autumn wright 🍂 @autumn-wright.com · 23/09/2026
tis the season
picture of the legend of sleepy hollow laying open, a pressed scarlet oak leaf on one page
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David Shimomura @unwinnabledavid.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If you'd like to know more about why Microsoft is doing this I wrote something for that! unwinnable.com/2026/07/29/l...
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Line Go Up - Unwinnable
But David, how do these super-mergers create value for the shareholders and why did we talk about the Italian Renaissance?
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autumn wright 🍂 @autumn-wright.com · 22/09/2026
what I've been reading, watching, playing, and writing this summer (moving edition):
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Summer 2026
A collection of seasonal excerpts from the commonplace.
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autumn wright 🍂 @autumn-wright.com · 22/09/2026
Joshua tricking me into sharing Sky FC slander
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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
oh this is up! I wrote an essay about how video games keep track of the hours you spend playing them, and how I find that vulgar
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autumn wright 🍂 @autumn-wright.com · 21/09/2026
i will need to play 10000 <10 hour indie games when i am done with Crimson Flower in 3H before even thinking about FW
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autumn wright 🍂 @autumn-wright.com · 21/09/2026
emily wilson, yesterday: emily613.substack.com/p/let-us-eat...
This is a symptom of a larger and invidious tendency to equate any kind of criticism with either “hating” or “fangirling”, to try to slot everyone and everything into pre-packaged boxes, like so many sad, pale little supermarket apples - and to treat journalism and criticism as if they were necessarily subservient to big corporate endeavors, like Hollywood and Twitter. It is a tiny instance of a poisonous trend in media coverage, to be constantly reacting to lowest-common-denominator “takes” on the internet, rather than taking up the responsibility to reframe, investigate, listen, and educate.
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KO_OP: 🪐 Wishlist Young Suns on Steam! @ko-op.com · 21/09/2026
We’re so excited to share our BRAND NEW trailer for Young Suns and announce that we’re launching on Steam on November 3rd! 🚀 ✨ Wishlist now! hi.youngsuns.com/Steam
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autumn wright 🍂 @autumn-wright.com · 21/09/2026
punting a "let me review ace combat please 👉🏻👈🏻" pitch onto the timeline
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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I wrote a little essay on substack about how actually, quite a lot of people outside the academy are interested in books and other real things. The main reason to read this piece is that I discuss Frances, she of the bread-and-jam. emily613.substack.com/p/let-us-eat...
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Let Us Eat Cream-Cheese-Cucumber-Tomato-Sandwiches, On Rye-Bread
I love my students and my colleagues, and I love the discussions that are possible in the classroom and among scholars, in academic contexts.
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Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
GOOD CAUSE ALERT: The New York Videogame Critics Circle is running a charity stream on Saturday to raise money for its programs working with underserved youth I interviewed one of Control Resonant's developers for it. More info at the link Tune in tomorrow! www.gamefile.news/p/programmin...
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Programming alert: I interviewed a Control Resonant developer for a good cause
This Saturday, watch my chat with Remedy’s Arhi Makkonen as part of the New York Videogame Critics Circle’s annual charity stream. It’s a benefit for underserved youth.
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alexis @steppinlazer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
i reviewed control resonant and it was very video, very game
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Carolyn Petit @carolynmichelle.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Stoked to have a review of Control Resonant by the always thought-provoking Cole Kronman on Kotaku today. kotaku.com/control-reso...
You’ve seen it in trailers: there is another, more opaque antagonistic force afoot in Control Resonant, one that effectively warps spaces and objects into fluctuating, kaleidoscopic recursion art. The game calls this force “The Pattern,” and it’s the basis for the vast majority of its most inventive aesthetic and ludic ideas. From Control onward, Remedy has fully embraced the notion of video games as interactive art exhibits, designing environments under the guiding principle that 3D art and 3D level geometry can be the exact same thing. Resonant represents what is perhaps the most compelling implementation of this ethos yet: The Pattern is a visual and technical marvel, and it’s also an impetus for players to rethink their relationship with spaces that regularly twist and fold back on themselves. There is nothing else that plays quite like this because there is nothing else that looks quite like this—the case for Remedy, once again, is that they understand on a bone-deep level what makes this medium interesting, and pursue their vision with a fervor begotten of generosity. They made Resonant because they want us to understand, too.
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Willa Bloomfield-Rowe @thewillarowe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Control Resonant is proof that bigger is not better. A sequel that misunderstands what made the original so gripping. A tired open-world, middling combat, and a by the book story don't help. But even more disappointing is how it casts aside Jesse. www.polygon.com/control-reso...
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Control Resonant Misses the Mark In Nearly Every Way | Review
Remedy's latest is a failed attempt to step outside its comfort zone
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autumn wright 🍂 @autumn-wright.com · 17/09/2026
*Watching The American Revolution* Wait is that Tom Hanks? Wow they got Paul Giamatti back as John Adams that's fun. Oh Jeff Daniels is here too I guess. KEITH DAVID!?
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jessica harvey @jessiscah23.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Roman Sands RE:Build is out. After so many years, you can finally play our labour of love. It's deranged, it goes SO MANY PLACES, it probably shouldn't exist, and I've no idea if you're going to like it or not but that ain't the point. Roman Sands RE:Build. store.steampowered.com/app/2231460/...
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Save 10% on Roman Sands RE:Build on Steam
A service industry adventure with an apocalyptic flavor. A manic genre mashup told across two broken realities. Step through the cracks: find your Exit.
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Masha Zhdanova'S WEBCOMIC IS ONLINE NOW!!! @mashazart.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
my article about artist's alley is up at @fansplaining.bsky.social today! thank you to everyone who talked to me about their AA experiences for this piece and let me use their photos fansplaining.com/the-death-of...
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The Death of the Artist Alley?
For smaller artists, increased costs and outsized merchandise expectations are putting convention-selling out of reach.
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Siliconera @siliconera.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
With Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave, Intelligent Systems delivers a massive epic for the Switch 2 and one of the meatiest entries in the series. The developer doesn’t shy away from going places with the story and it tries things when it comes to mechanics. www.siliconera.com/review-fire-...
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Review: Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave Is a Massive Epic
Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave is a gigantic undertaking on Intelligent Systems’ part, with incredible battles and a huge campaign.
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