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Chris Vogel

@chrisvogel.bsky.social
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He/Him. Grad student, educator, researcher, writer, editor. China and gender. A queer historian and a queer historian.

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Chris Vogel @chrisvogel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is a very odd framing of 'if young men aren't handed what they are convinced they deserve, they will freak out and destroy society' but I guess if that was my point I'd also want to try to displace responsibility.
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Chris Vogel @chrisvogel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I think an underrated element of the failure of Invincible VS was the source materia; most characters' powers are Punch - Fast Punch, Slow Punch, Mace Punch, Hair Punch. Even if the characters might PLAY differently, most of the characters on the cast looked like they'd play roughly the same.
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Chris Vogel @chrisvogel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A grid of nine games that matter to me. They are Suikoden II, Quest for Glory IV: Shadows of Darkness, King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow, Okami, The Outer Wilds, Might and Magic VII: For Blood and Honour, Heroes of Might and Magic III, Metal Gear Solid 3 Delta, and Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition.
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Chris Vogel @chrisvogel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Fascist Spanish twinks wear chinos one time and half the editorial staff at the NYT gets sprung
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Chris Vogel @chrisvogel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This dude's sympathy and $6000 will get you a tank of gas
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Chris Vogel @chrisvogel.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Bummed by the announcement that Diablo IV is effectively over except for seasons. I enjoyed the idea of a semi-live-service Diablo that iterated over many years, adding characters and activities. I recognize companies gotta company, but Diablo 4 never really got to live up to its promise.
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 09/09/2026
Team Blue No Matter Who is going to have their work cut out for them because I for one refuse to entertain voting for or even saying nice things about someone who wants to compromise on trans rights. Like get the fuck away from me.
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Chris Vogel @chrisvogel.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I'm also bored of adopting a cynical posture about everything. An OOT remake is exciting! We could be excited about it! But instead we have to jump on social media and sneer about how it looks bad. Enjoying harmless things is pretty fun; we could try NOT reducing everything to 'cope' or 'seethe'.
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Chris Vogel @chrisvogel.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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Inception Spinning Top
ALT: Inception Spinning Top
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Chris Vogel @chrisvogel.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I'm receiving reports that Trump has renamed the island America Island
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Chris Vogel @chrisvogel.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
"I hope you find peace as I make sure that your hormone-taking ass is banned from every public space and you personally are vilified as a sexual predator." Consider eating a lightbulb, Joanne
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Chris Vogel @chrisvogel.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Is there a GOOD reason why every time I catch a stray episode of Strange New Worlds there's something in it about who Spock ought to be fucking or
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 15/08/2026
I know you're not allowed to say this during the current debate, but the reason the left dominates academics, art, comedy, and music is that the right has stupid, discredited ideas, they're not funny, and dull resentment does not make for good art. No grand conspiracy required.
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Chris Vogel @chrisvogel.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
opening up the dissertation draft and dodging the bats that come flying out
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Chris Vogel @chrisvogel.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Something that baffles me about the AI push is the willingness of people to jump online and go "I have the cognitive ability of a person with a railway spike jammed into their frontal lobe and AI helped me with that!" Not only are THEY stupid and lazy, they assume everyone ELSE is stupid and lazy.
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Chris Vogel @chrisvogel.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
you first, Your Excellency show us how it's done
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Chris Vogel @chrisvogel.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The Last Starfighter has been dethroned as the stupidest possible use of this gambit
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Avery Edison @averyedison.com · 04/07/2026
i hate spider-man, i HATE him. i am going to use all the resources of my newspaper to smear him. he stinks! anyway. time to give my adult Son a big kiss on the lips and send him off to the moon. i’m sure he won’t come back a werewulf
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Oliver Darkshire @deathbybadger.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
fascists will be like The Noble Wisdom of our Ancient Past but then you'll open an actual book and the noble wisdom will be "snakes flee at the sound of the mandolin because they have no spleen, the organ of lust" and "electrum makes you gay"
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
here's a fun lil exercise for cis people: how many articles would a publication have to print calling for your extermination before you would expect people who care about you to stop giving them money? and how would you feel if their excuse for still supporting them is some fuckass crossword puzzle?
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Chris Vogel @chrisvogel.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Look, Mahershala Ali is terrific and I'm sorry we won't be getting him in a Blade film, but ALSO if Marvel was having trouble figuring out how to make a Blade movie they thought was equal to Ali's talent and the audience's expectations, their decision to not make the film should be applauded.
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Chris Vogel @chrisvogel.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
bashful bladder case-sensitive pervasive developmental disorder scuzzball western blot (my superhero name)
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Chris Vogel @chrisvogel.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
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Chris Vogel @chrisvogel.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I'm also receiving reports that our crack team of private investigator have determined that Abdul Al-Sayed is not Zohran Mamdani's REAL aunt.
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Chris Vogel @chrisvogel.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
My favourite joke on Cheers is when they try to persuade the audience that Bebe Neuwirth isn't one of the most beautiful women you've ever seen in the world because, like, she has a bun or whatever
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Chris Vogel @chrisvogel.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I am as interested in a grounded, realistic version of The Odyssey as I am in a grounded, realistic version of The Hobbit or Journey to the West. This is stuff created on the level of myth.
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Chris Vogel @chrisvogel.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Damn, smug liberals yelling at leftists are thick on the ground today
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Chris Vogel @chrisvogel.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Very cool to step outside of my apartment today into Breaking Bad Mexico
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Chris Vogel @chrisvogel.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
'I want to suck, loudly and aggressively, in public, forever, but I ALSO want it to be illegal for anyone to treat me like I suck' is like 74% of modern conservatism
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Chris Vogel @chrisvogel.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
This is both disappointing and the absolute least surprising news imaginable.
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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
The great thing about Britain is you're free to think whatever you want to think and say whatever J. K. Rowling's lawyers permit you to say.
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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
JK Rowling has used her wealth to stoke the fires of a worldwide pogrom against trans people to where she's silenced a Holocaust scholar after JK engaged in Holocaust denial & now done the same to Amnesty International for their warning about trans eradication, but keep buying your Harry Potter crap
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Tweet from shen the bird (@Shen_the_Bird):

wikipedia: please. please just give me one dollar i'm begging you give me anything

me: [trying to look up the hamburglar's full name] shut the fuck up
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Chris Vogel @chrisvogel.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
I don't believe I've ever seen ANYONE argue that you should make human art because it's EASY; what I have heard people say is that the difficulty is one of the things that make it WORTHWHILE. And I think the prompter's failure to understand that is telling.
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Chris Vogel @chrisvogel.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Although it's true that the USA is 50 small countries wearing a long coat, you can't pretend the coat doesn't exist.
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Ten | "Hold On, Let Me Save" @theletterten.lol · 09/07/2026
Don't buy the remake to Assassin's Creed: Black Flag. The game just came out and how does the team get rewarded? With layoffs. Why should we reward Ubisoft with our hard earned money?? Boycott this shit! insider-gaming.com/assassins-cr...
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Ubisoft Barcelona Celebrates Successful Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced Launch With Layoffs
51 Employee's, many of whom worked on Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced will celebrate its launch with being laid off.
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Marc Normandin @marcnormandin.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
what, so I'm untrustworthy because I ignored countless warning signs for months on end? because I was extremely condescending to people trying to tell me I was making a huge mistake, and am still being condescending now because if I don't exude superiority powered by unearned confidence I'll die?
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Chris Vogel @chrisvogel.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Milhouse Van Houten out here talking about warrior cultures
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Chris Vogel @chrisvogel.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Among Platner's most ardent defenders there's an implicit assumption that politics is about nothing more than voting for the party that's doing the *worse* job racing to the bottom. No hope, no optimism, just voting for the less-worse candidate and screaming abuse at anyone who wants more.
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Chris Vogel @chrisvogel.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Golden Boy: “Of course I’m not proud of you,” Mom said across the dinner table, pushing cold broccoli around her plate with a fork, eyes down, voice not angry anymore, just tired. “You haven’t done anything.”
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⳽ⳑⲇⳕⲛⲉ @sloanelysbeth.northsky.social · 03/07/2026
oh look. yet another study that the entire policy platform of @darrenpjones.bsky.social and @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social is pure science denialism. transgender women are physiologically distinct from cisgender men. we are not cross dressers.
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New Study Once Again Shows Trans Women Have No Physical Advantage Over Cis Athletes
Researchers analyzed data from almost 3,000 trans women.
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Chris Vogel @chrisvogel.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
🌤️Golden Boy🌤️
I stumbled backwards, out of the circle of light, but my legs gave out, and I fell, half in and half out of the dark. The impact knocked the wind out of me and stifled my cry. 
Maftet’s posture was impossibly still. She might have been part of the statue, except for her pupils and her ears tracking my movements, and her whiskers curving forward around her jaw. I could see it, in my mind, her leap, the claws that dug so easily into hard marble eviscerating me. 
On the news, you never saw what happened to the people Maftet hunted. The reporters barely alluded to it.
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brie skull emoji @brie-skull-emoji.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
oh will this hurt cis people? cis people are making their bed, they can fucking lay in it. protect trans girls.
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Chris Vogel @chrisvogel.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
I too routinely acknowledge my deep affection for my husband with an approximately-human 'how ya doin' fella' leg pat
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Sam Frantics @dsoart.com · 23/06/2026
Garffeld
Three panel comic of an homage to the first Garfield strip, but Jon is a monk and Garfield is a medieval rendering of a cat. In the first panel, Jon says, “HWÆT, LAM JON ARBUCKLE. I AM A MONK, AND THIS MY CATTE, GARFFELD.” In the second panel, Garffeld is thinking, “ HWÆT, I AM GARFFELD. I AM A CATTE, AND THIS IS MY MONK, JON.” In the last panel, Jon says, “OUR ONLY THOUGHT IS TO GLORIFY GOD.” Garffeld thinks, “FEDE ME.”
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Chris Vogel @chrisvogel.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Well, once the video game industry collapses, think of all the reading I'll get done.
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Chris Vogel @chrisvogel.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Hear me out: Earnest Scared Stupid. I saw it as a kid in theatres and the scene where the kid rolls over in bed and there's a troll in bed with him terrified me profoundly, and when I told my parents I was terrified, my otherwise awesome parents didn't believe me because it was EARNEST SCARED STUPID
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Chris Vogel @chrisvogel.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Imagine being the exec who got *Double Fine* shut down on their watch. Double Fine!
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
I just learned that the term "carbon footprint" was developed by BP to offload responsibility for climate change onto individuals. Something like that's happening in higher ed with AI. Institutions capitulate or dodge; students are submitting; & they believe it's their individual failing. 7/
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Chris Vogel @chrisvogel.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Steak!
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