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Brendan Keogh

@brkeogh.bsky.social
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Associate Professor: videogames, creative labour, cultural industries. Gamemaker and critic. NTEU member. The Videogame Industry Does Not Exist (MIT Press): mitpress.mit.edu/9780262545402 Brisbane, Australia | he/him | can't access DMs sorry

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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 3h
congrats tim!
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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 18h
I would say it's absolutely a sauce but if in the kitchen it was in a big tub and applied in a spread-like way with a knife then I can see how they might not perceive it as a sauce but as a 'spread' in that instance.
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Cole 🧃 @exhaustedalien.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
troupeengine.org
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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
University workers from Griffith, UQ, and QUT are all striking today in Brisbane in a show of solidarity for better conditions and pay, instead of overpaid executives, across the higher ed sector
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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Have you got a VPN? I use that to check it occasionally
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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Thankfully I've only submitted once to a conference where I had to use it haha. As someone who does all my citations manually, was a massive headache when I decided to add another reference!
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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
(not = know)
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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Not the point of the own but I haaaaaate the number in square bracket referencing so much! Just no way to not what is actually being referenced at a glance (which I can't help but feel is the point)
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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It's the compactor turning the cars into cubes that still gets me
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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
See you soon MIGW
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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Most importantly, NSW and VIC folk need to understand their online events are now in AEDT time not AEST time. We remain the ‘standard’ time! Everyone else left.
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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Even for most of QLD it makes sense. Just not in the south east where most of us actually live.
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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Reach undefeated. Such a bummer they never made another Halo after it.
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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
unclear at this stage but i suspect it’s a cliche liberal idea of like if someone worked hard and saved their money and someone else didn’t then that ‘inequality’ is justified
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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I see now why Marx couldn’t quote an economist without regularly interjecting “(!)”
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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I’m reading a not-Marxist economic book for the first time (Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century), and twice in the first 40 pages he has said that inequality is not necessarily a bad thing.
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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I've only played 7 but it was unreal
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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Surely there’s some triforce reference you can use
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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I also spoke to 3CR community radio about our industrial action at QUT and struggle for better work conditions. You can listen to it here (from about the 6:20 mark) www.3cr.org.au/sticktogethe...
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Queensland University of Technology Bargaining
Learn about QUT NTEU struggle to win better conditions, workloads and conditions in their current bargaining. Also travel back in time to February 2005, to hear an archival recording of Stick Together...
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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🤓👮‍♀️
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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
MASSIVE strike at QUT today. About 200 of us on the picket line demanding better working and learning conditions from our overpaid corporate managers. Such incredible solidarity.
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Google earth has updated its satellite images of Gaza. The destruction is almost incomprehensible.
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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In May I covered three datacentre projects across Australia that local communities were fighting back against. Two of the three have now been scrapped. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Oh wow youtube.com/shorts/XPuW5...
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Paddy Young provides an update on Benjamin Netanyahu’s UN general assembly address | SNL UK
YouTube video by Saturday Night Live UK
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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
In terms of the whole series, Dark Angels books definitely a low point. Once the Battle of Calth started (Know No Fear, book 19; also perhaps the best single book in the series?) it felt like the series actually finally got started and built some momentum. Felt easy going from there.
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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Yeah overall I think they stuck the landing! SoT successfully brought a lot of the streams together, I thought. The End and the Death dragged really dragged for a bit but for the most part felt SoT did a great job of the opera of it all without falling into being just boring bolter porn.
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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It was actually a lot of fun and I don't regret it. Overcommitting to a big complex narrative is good. Reading trash is good.
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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Last night I finished reading the 64th and final book in the Warhammer 40,000 Horus Heresy series.
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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 24/09/2026
This guy is FUCKED
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United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
That's cool. I'm sure all the BitReactor devs that were furloughed weeks before launch are gonna see some of that $50 million... right? Residuals are standard in other creative industries. If the people who actually made the game got their share of the profits, we wouldn't be in this mess.
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This Week in Videogames @thisweekinvideogames.com · 21/09/2026
Why has Japan been relatively insulated from the global games industry crisis? Japanese industry consultant @serkantoto.bsky.social, expat developer @liambme.bsky.social, and a Japanese game studies professor tell us about protection laws, domestic bias, slow-growth mindsets and the cost of living.
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(Still) Made In Japan: The View From A Flourishing Games Industry
Experts and developers involved in the Japanese game industry weigh in on how the country has been largely insulated from global issues of funding and layoffs.
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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Solidarity with NTEU members at Griffith University who are striking today!
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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Personally a big fan of the right-hand claw on Mac: right-hand option (thumb) + right-hand shift (pinkie)+ '-' (middle finger)
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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
For the fourth year in a row it seemed silly to enter the ballot lol
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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Real smart tackle by McCluggage too to keep him standing
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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
#aflhawkslions
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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
is this real
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 18/09/2026
Share if you agree
Fat little chihuahua puppy (maybe?) looking extremely round and smiling lying on a tan fleece blanket
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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I genuinely deeply enjoy opening Bluesky, seeing your profile pic in my feed, then seeing the first line of a thread like "The thing about Sonic '06 is...". Always a good and unexpected time.
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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I didn't know it existed or that I could turn it off!
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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I think what I most got out of Big Walk is the realisation that there is a microphone in my PS5 controller and it is has always been listening to me.
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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
We completed Big Walk and it was one of the best experiences of my life.
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Jam Walker @jamwa.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Finally playing @brkeogh.bsky.social's Putting Land the way God intended. (It is exceptionally charming & golfing with dat crank is immensely satisfying!)
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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
That’s so great to hear! I uhhh kinda forgot about this game
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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
That's my uni! Instead of actually listening to staff and working with us to make QUT a better and fairer place to work and study, our overpaid management has gone crying to the FWC. Tomorrow we're taking a 2 hour strike to insist they take us seriously www.removepaywall.com/search?url=h...
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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
We really could have stopped at the PS4 Slim, the perfect console.
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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The idea of a PS6 is so funny. No one truly thinks they need that. The game industry has used 'more polygons' to sustain consumer demand for 30+ years and it simply doesn't work anymore. Just make a rectangular and less ugly PS5 and call it a day.
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