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Robin LeBlanc, from work @robinfromwork.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The film is written, directed, and co-stars Hitoshi Ozawa, a legendary Yakuza actor who is a villain in Yakuza 0, who got his fellow legends involved. This was his passion project inspired by one of his best friends, a trans woman, and he worked with the community for representative casting.
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Jennifer X. Pumpkins 🎃 @jenyetagain.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Clayface Trailer Music (Do You Realize) Epic Version
YouTube video by VNIGHT
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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 29/09/2026
If Third Way got there before you did, you should feel bad.
The "Jason Figured it Out" meme except instead of Jason, it's Third Way
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 29/09/2026
It's remarkable (in a very good way) to see an elected member of the Democratic Party saying this. For decades, the Party has treated public higher education as a jobs training program, not a site for cultivating democratic habits of mind. I deeply hope that things are changing.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026
Seriously though. If a Senator accuses a sworn witness of perjury for saying he wasn’t at a particular game in Atlanta, and then it turns out he wasn’t at that game in Atlanta but actually in Maryland (700 miles away), then I suggest there should be a penalty beyond general mocking and derision.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 29/09/2026
Wrote about the decline and fall of SCOTUSblog, which used to be the single best resource for Supreme Court stuff, and (thanks to some intervening crimes committed by its co-founder) is now a weird platform for conservative pundits to talk about what a good job the conservative justices are doing
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It Was the Essential Home of Supreme Court News. Now It’s a Joke. What Happened?
How high-stakes poker brought down a pillar of Supreme Court coverage.
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Halloween Appreciation Account (gcmaybe) @gcmaybe.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Money's tight so I probably won't go to a haunted house this year, but I will continue to daydream about making one. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LWZ...
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How Haunted Houses are Designed
YouTube video by Art of Engineering
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Erin, on the side of caution @calliopeanim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This early bit in Control Resonant basically killed me. Spoilers for a very minor subquest maybe a few hours in.
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Erin, on the side of caution @calliopeanim.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Hey all you Newsom apologists, what’s up?
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Erin, on the side of caution @calliopeanim.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The gravity stuff in Control Resonant manages to be genuinely disorienting.
Screenshot from Control Resonant, showing the main character, Dylan, looking down at his hands.. In the background, a street scene stretches out vertically, with the orientation of the street and buildings turned 90 degrees relative to Dylan's perspective, resulting in a disorienting effect.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This all needs to be illegal
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Tauriq Moosa @tauriq.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I don't understand why Mamdani has not fixed the Resonant issues and illegally parked cars in Manhattan. Some mayor he turned out to be. There's people floating here man. Get your act together, Mr Mayor. Typical woke left, all talk, no action.
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Suburban Death March @suburbandeathmarch.bandcamp.com · 26/09/2026
Here’s the trailer they don’t want advertised online which means we gotta do it ourselves, dammit!
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Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street
YouTube video by Musk
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Will Borger @edgarallanbro.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We didn't have enough time with the multiplayer pre-release for me to feel comfortable giving this a final score, but I have played Ace Combat 8's campaign and it is both an incredible game you can play and a pretty remarkable anti-war war story. Very pleased with how this one came out.
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Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve Is a Remarkable Achievement, With a Memorable Story and the Best Aerial Combat the Series Has Ever Had - IGN Review
The best aerial combat the series has ever had alongside some of its best mission design.
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Erin, on the side of caution @calliopeanim.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Screenshot from "Control Resonant" showing a rooftop covered in golden leaves. Across the street is a building with a billboard that depicts multiple wrenches wearing red hardhats, with the slogan "Don't be a tool - unionize"
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
ceo of burger king: our burgers have gone rogue again and infected people with e coli
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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A fun little week-long project for the new House Majority committees in 2027 should be ferretting out exactly who is behind this ad in the administration and making their lives very uncomfortable in the "your days are full of lawyers now" sense. Oops! You used taxpayer money for political ads!
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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 23/09/2026
They just released a new expansion TODAY. Jesus fucking christ, Microsoft.
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Peter Raleigh @petreraleigh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
For Long Library, I wrote a little about Onslaught, which I enjoyed, but which resorts to pastiche and imitation to a degree I find worryingly emblematic. Hope you enjoy peterraleigh.substack.com/p/onslaught-...
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Onslaught Illustrates The Gravitational Pull of Pastiche
Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett’s The Guest (2014) was a film in some ways just a little bit ahead of its cultural moment.
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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
that's crazy because another man named David Ellison wrote this just over a month ago.
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Alice Miranda Ollstein @alicemiranda.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Quite spicy from a Reagan judge! "What policy then does the executive order serve? The order of the President of the United States, fairly read, expresses the view that transgender citizens don't exist. Please tell me I'm wrong." Trump admin lawyer: "I can't."
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Erin, on the side of caution @calliopeanim.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In addition to fighting games, it appears that Young Ladies Don’t Play Ace Combat
Shot from the anime series “Young Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games”, showing a video game screen with a fighter jet in the middle and the UI of an Ace Combat game. A square radar panel sits to the left of the screen, while a green bar occupies the right.
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Chet Faliszek @chetsucks.com · 22/09/2026
Reminder this is the chief strategy officer at Xbox...
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Claire, The Ultimate Worrier @waitworry.sakurajima.moe.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026
managed to avoid begging since last march but debts have started to pile up I'm a trans woman on limited disability income with a couple of kitties to take care of and need to raise $500 to keep my bank account from overdrafting this month Anything helps ty #MutualAid #TransCrowdFund […]
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Rob Pilkington @robpilk.com · 22/09/2026
weird day to be worried about state-run tv, gavin!
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Simon S. Andersen @snakepixel.art · 21/09/2026
Anyway! #pixelart #ドット絵
A pixel-art scene from Street Fighter 3 Third Strike with Lottie the calico cat fighting the character Ruy. She's already cleared the first round with a no-hit perfect. Good job.
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Kara Buchanan 🏳️‍⚧️ @magicariot.com · 21/09/2026
we have modeled every bolt and panel line and wiring harness on the F-104 in exacting realistic detail. now go fly a mission to stop the princess from taking control of the space elevator with her fleet of drones powered by the neural mappings of a depressed elderly man.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 21/09/2026
If you’re in California, call @robbonta.bsky.social and yell at him. 916-445-9555
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
*the Aristocrats voice* Gavin Newsom!
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Chris Schweizer @ NCAF & NYCC @schweizercomics.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I'm going to be doing a character design lecture/workshop at the Nashville Comic Arts Festival on October 3rd; character design as exposition was my thesis in grad school and I'm looking forward to revisiting some old principles and seeing what new ones I've codified. nashcomicsfest.wordpress.com
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Nashville Comic Arts Festival
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Jennifer X. Pumpkins 🎃 @jenyetagain.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
a freckly hand and forearm held over a sing covered in stained bandaids and gauze.handling: general considerations

the cat is faster and has sharper teeth and nails than you do. it has no 'code of ethics' or considerations for its own future. IN A FAIR FIGHT IT WILL WIN.

1. DON'T FIGHT A CAT
2. USE YOUR BRAIN
3. USE DRUGS
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
r/crafts has banned all Harry Potter-related crafts due to JK Rowling’s anti-trans bigotry, after a 53-41 vote
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From the crafts community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the crafts community
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Dan Ancona @danancona.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
And this bsky.app/profile/wayt...
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
If you're a Dem who thinks you'll gain something by going anti-trans, look at Gallup's "most important problem" and Fox News' "most important issue" polling and see where trans issues rank. Whoever told you going anti-trans is a savvy or necessary move spends too much time on X and should be fired.
Gallup polling. "LGBTQ rights" moves between 0 and 1%.Fox news polling. Wokeness/transgender issues at 0%.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"This election is about the threat of trans kids" is the worst possible messaging for Dems yet so many candidates are leaning into it. No voter will flip R->D over it. Low-info voters read this as "you're focused on bullshit that doesn't affect me" while the base reads this as "you're an asshole."
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Rubeki Games 🛩️The Hollowing Demo Live!🛩️ @rubeki.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
✈️Just announced in the PC Gaming Show✈️  The Hollowing is an atmospheric first-person horror flight sim Your job is to maintain communications towers at various airports and outposts in the Megastructure FREE DEMO OUT NOW!! link below 👇
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Kathleen Lenihan @kathleenlenihan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The entire article is fantastic, but the writer's definition of a trad wife is *chef's kiss* perfection. "Those are conservative women who dress like the women in The Sound of Music, but without the opposition to the Anschluss."
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Erin, on the side of caution @calliopeanim.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I occasionally feel the call to return to academic writing, a confession one should treat as basically on par with “I’m thinking of taking up autoerotic asphyxiation with strangers” But I’ve had this article on animation and horror kicking around in my head for a while now…
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 17/09/2026
When will the people who argued in April 2025 that Democrats should stay silent on immigration own up to being frankly just disastrously wrong about the politics of mass deportations? Their punditry basically bordered on enablement
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Gordon Little @gord.games · 18/09/2026
My eldest girl's 16th birthday is very soon and since we recently played most of the @remedygames.com games this summer together (Alan Wake, Control, Alan Wake 2), she wanted an Alan Wake themed cake. Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you... Alan Cake. (Please tell @samlakewrites.bsky.social)
A photo cake with the Alan Wake logo image turned into Alan Cake.The Alan Wake logo image turned into Alan Cake via photoshop.
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Erin, on the side of caution @calliopeanim.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Well, Resident Evil continues the trend of me being somewhat ambivalent about Cregger’s work. I’ll say this: I liked it more than Barbarian, and it’s probably his most tonally coherent film so far.
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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
NEW ARTICLE NEW ARTICLE 9yrs, 9 months, I was burned out and almost dead. It made it hard to do my yearly roundup. Let's talk about 2017 was one of the most important years of my life, and how these games shaped me as an artist. ...if I can remember them all. docseuss.medium.com/i-completed-...
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i completed 52 games and 8 pieces of downloadable content in 2017.
In March 2018, I ended up in the ER. I had been working far, far too much and too hard and it turns out I had a congenital heart defect…
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🏳️‍⚧️ Kiara Pendragon ∍⧽⧼∊ Godslayer 🏳️‍🌈 @aapur.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
They fired so many artists over this too. People who helped make the game iconic were tossed out on the street because the Slop Faucet could do it "decent enough". If you still play Fortnite, you're funding the hyper-acceleration of AI replacing Artists in Gaming
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Erin, on the side of caution @calliopeanim.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is much worse than Talarico etc, and not just because of the tone. This isn’t a bad answer to an interview question. This is an ad she went out of her way to make and release. That is another level of contempt and malice.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026
according to politico, since Jan. 2025, Trump admin has deported 170+ people “in violation of court orders,” “in defiance of legally mandated due process protections,” or “to countries from which they had sought or received protection from torture and persecution” ballsandstrikes.org/ethics-accou...
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The Trump Justice Department Is Way Too Comfortable Violating Court Orders
Judges have tools for responding to noncompliance. They just have to use them.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My latest newsletter is a friendly bit of political advice for Democrats.
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Don't Surrender On Trans Rights
Many Democrats are running scared on trans issues. They shouldn't be.
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Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Heart Machine founder Alx Preston - "nearly everyone at the studio had to be laid off" after a publisher is no longer moving forward with an unannounced game "Right now, I'm not sure yet how or if Heart Machine survives" www.linkedin.com/posts/alx-pr...
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Erin, on the side of caution @calliopeanim.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This gritty reboot of Mr Ed is going in some weird directions
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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🧵 of excerpts from my latest essay “On Democrats Who Cave in Response to Anti-Trans Attack Ads.” it makes several points I haven't seen others making. here's a main one: many cis reactions reveal they don't actually view trans ppl as part of their coalition... juliaserano.medium.com/on-democrats...
screenshot from linked-to essay that reads:
In my book Excluded — which examines the recurring problem of how marginalized groups are often excluded from movements that they have a stake in — I discuss (on p.57) how the word “divisive” is a red flag for me. To paraphrase that passage: When trans people critique trans-exclusion within our own communities and coalitions, we are often called “divisive” for doing so. In contrast, I have never once heard anyone use the word “divisive” to describe cis people who promote or tacitly support trans-exclusion (in this case, Talarico, Turek, et al.). The fact that acts that marginalize trans people are not typically described as being “divisive” implies that there is a presumed and unspoken “one-ness” that exists in people’s minds that implicitly precludes trans people.
I’d argue that the central issue here isn’t what candidate X says about trans athletes or trans healthcare (although that is certainly important), or what trans person Y says in response. Rather, it’s that many cisgender Democrats will by default view Y as divisive and X as not. And by doing so, they are essentially communicating (whether they realize it or not) that trans people are not really a part of the Democratic coalition in their eyes: We are either votes to be taken for granted or else “dead weight” that the party should drop.
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Mitch Dyer @mitchyd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“Crunch is inevitable” guys are so funny, just openly admitting they can’t and won’t make a production plan
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