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Cody J Reimer

@cjreimer.bsky.social
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assoc prof @uw-stout | tech comm, ux, game studies | rules writer for paverson games | he/him

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
You cannot separate the technology from the ways in which it has been deployed to, in seemingly every facet of life, make society measurably worse. It's killing us. One does not admire the sharpness of a murderer's knife as it stabs us. One does not critique the stitching on the executioner's hood.
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Cody J Reimer @cjreimer.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
I am reminded of Katz's famous article "The Ethic of Expediency," wherein he examined technical memos from Nazi Germany about trains used for facilitating the Holocaust.
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LKH @lkh.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Excellent read. I've definitely noticed an uptick in this sort of writing style of late, and this is great advice for copy editors on how to approach it. Plus, we get this gem: "No point in picking fights one is almost certainly going to lose. One is not, after all, Jake Paul or Andrew Tate."
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Le Ca-ghoul @lecagle.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
This is 100% correct. Source: I have a PhD in writing studies.
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Cody J Reimer @cjreimer.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Corax: I'm suing you for giving me an F on my rhetoric term paper! Tisias: You didn't meet the assignment criteria. If your lawsuit shows an understanding of rhetoric, I'll change your grade. Administrator: I've changed the grade. Tisias, you're fired.
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Miguel Sicart @miguelsicart.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
The Center for Digital Play at the IT University of Copenhagen is organizing a new conference: Playing Futures. The conference will take place from May 20th to 22nd at the IT University of Copenhagen. You can read more about it here: playingfutures.today
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Playing Futures
Playing Futures is a conference about the role of games and play during and after the impending climate and energy catastrophes. The goal of the conference is to serve as a meeting point for the commu...
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Le Ca-ghoul @lecagle.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
I reject the AI booster insistence that you must understand any and everything about the tech to make even the tiniest critique, if they can be vibe coders I can be a vibe hater
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Enrique Reynoso Jr @ereynosojr.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Cagle is the truth and does great work yall should read
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Cody J Reimer @cjreimer.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Prepping to discuss Benjamin in Game and Media Studies tomorrow. Get to talk about aura, rizz, genAI, NFTs, vidyja games, and VFX. Now I just hope students show up to their last class before break! 😅
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Since my tweet about Jeff Bezos, I've been getting a lot of replies such as these. "Where do these dress rules come from?" "When do they change?" These are very good questions, so let me answer them. 🧵
A screenshot of two tweets. One says": "How much of this is dressing appropriately vs just staying stuck in the old ways? How/ went does fashion evolve?" The other tweet says: "Who decides 'wrong' here? All of this is made up anyhow. Just because somewhere along the line, someone said it should be a certain way, doesn't mean it always has to be that way."
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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
The webpage for our upcoming book has the cover on it now which is enough of a milestone for me to write another post about the book we have coming out soon. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
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Game Studies: A Critical Introduction to the Field
Game Studies: A Critical Introduction to the Field, From Among Us to Minecraft, Catan to Dungeons and Dragons, games and play are fundamentally transforming how we understand storytelling, education, ...
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Special Interest Group on the Design of Communication @sigdoc-acm.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
As a reminder, proposals for the 2026 ACM Special Interest Group on Design of Communication are due in two months! We are looking forward to welcoming you to SIGDOC 2026 at Metropolitan State University in St. Paul, MN. The Call for Proposals is live: sigdoc.acm.org/conference/2.... 1/2
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Proposal Process - ACM SIGDOC 2026 Conference
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Joey Haeck @jamesjhaeck.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Your favorite RPG freelancers and many indie devs are, in America at last, allowed to have this job because of the ACA. Your games will get worse if it's killed. The brain drain will be immense.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
I got this useful bon mot from a middle school teacher recently. In response to, “I DONT UNDERSTAND,” he calmly said, “okay what steps have you taken to understand?” And that’s when I realized that a lot of folks have no steps.
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 31/10/2025
I understand why people think grinding Mandalia Plains in Final Fantasy Tactics is a bad idea that sucks the life out of the game, but I simply disagree. aftermath.site/final-fantasy-...
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I Will Grind In Final Fantasy Tactics Every Single Time And You Can't Stop Me - Aftermath
I will turn leveling jobs in Mandalia Plains into a tremendous slog and there's nothing the cops can do to stop me.
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Donnie Johnson Sackey @donniejsackey.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Tell all your friends. It's coming in June 2026.
Cover for Undermining Risk and Technical Communication: Extractive Industry, Cascading Disaster, and the Global Climate Crisis (SUNY Press). 

It features in the background an image of a precious metals mine pit.

Authors: Timothy R. Amido , Ehren Helmut Pflugfelder, Daniel P. Richards, and Donnie Johnson Sackey.
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Cody J Reimer @cjreimer.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
More evidence that we have already been cyberpunk for some time.
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Charlie Thomas @cthomasjamh.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Man I loved the pivot from “virtual school during the pandemic was amazingly destructive and caused so much learning loss we should have let COVID rip through the schools instead of closing them” to “the wave of the future is your kids’ education being 90% chatbots- sign up or be left behind!”
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"Scream Man" Cam @malaiseforever.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
reading slaughterhouse 5 for the first time and i was absolutely knocked senseless by this passage, which is so true and relevant that it feels like it was pulled from a history book
“America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, 'It ain’t no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.' It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters. The meanest eating or drinking establishment, owned by a man who is himself poor, is very likely to have a sign on its wall asking this cruel question: 'if you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich?' There will also be an American flag no larger than a child’s hand – glued to a lollipop stick and flying from the cash register.

Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves. This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful, who have had to do less for their poor, publicly and privately, than any other ruling class since, say Napoleonic times. Many novelties have come from America. The most startling of these, a thing without precedent, is a mass of undignified poor. They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.”
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
To be clear: LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government. The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency. This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.
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Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids
Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.
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Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
My latest: "Numerous studies show that majors in the humanities—typically, in departments of English, history, philosophy, religious studies, classics and languages—lead students to employment and life satisfaction outcomes as positive as those for majors traditionally championed as 'practical.'”
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Counterpoint | Minnesota humanities graduates thrive in meaningful careers
"The stereotype of the underemployed history major is simply not true," professor Andrea Kaston Tange writes.
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 09/10/2025
“We could hear them laughing” 😧 Aaron Trammel argued in “Repairing Play” that playfulness can be a tool of subjugation. Has anyone tried applying ludological frameworks to how ICE is behaving? It seems like there might be a “there” there.
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Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago
(RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who w...
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S. Scott Graham @sscottgraham.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
This is the next iteration of “participants were 138 undergrads looking for extra credit it psych 102”
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.
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Cody J Reimer @cjreimer.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
I hope you're proud of this poetic line, @mattcolville.bsky.social "Victories are glass,” the bright faerie spake. Her brother nodded. “While tragedies are fingerprints.” It will live in my heart forever.
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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Déjà vu: Trump, far-right. Totalitarianism, neo-fascists, neo-Nazis ...
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JD Boucher 💀 @jdboucher0.com · 19/09/2025
As someone who worked at a Nexstar station, this would be a 5 alarm all hands on deck fire for even one account
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Political violence disproportionately hurts people with less power, not people with more power. Political violence will disproportionately hurt people of color and women and LGBTQ people. It’s not fair, but that’s the way it works. Celebrating political violence means at best indifference to that.
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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
How do we convince publishers to stop doing this? Bibliographies and footnotes matter. They should be printed. Websites decay faster all the time. Especially in an era of huge mergers like the one that created Penguin Random House, where calls for efficiency see pages culled at every chance.
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Cyrus Riahi @cyrusriahi.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Even by Rascal's high standards, this was a great article
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Kate Schapira: "Well Put & Generalizable" @kateschapira.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
I quite enjoyed this anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
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I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
What more evidence do people need before they realize what serious danger we are in?
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Nick Fleisher @nickfleisher.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
For my money still the best single paragraph on AI/LLMs I've read
But A.I. is a parasite. It attaches itself to a robust learning ecosystem and speeds up some parts of the decision process. The parasite and the host can peacefully coexist as long as the parasite does not starve its host. The political problem with A.I.’s hype is that its most compelling use case is starving the host — fewer teachers, fewer degrees, fewer workers, fewer healthy information environments.
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
It’s wild, absolutely wild, how for EVERY. SINGLE. CITY. Trump wants to militarize I can post data showing how crime is plummeting in all of them without any federal invasion… … and the press KEEPS stenographing the naked bad-faith claims about “fighting crime!” in the headlines. Infuriating.
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Cody J Reimer @cjreimer.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Congrats, Emma, Alisha Karabinus, @sparklebliss.bsky.social, and @cmejeur.bsky.social! Fantastic collection with a TOC that makes me salivate to keep reading. What I've already read is wonderful. It's going to do heavy lifting in the intro course for my new Game & Media Studies program!
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Czepeku @czepeku.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
This question feels like the heart of the survey. Another company scrambling to fuck over creators for a quick cash injection. I'm sure they'd be paying us cents on the dollar for that data.
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Le Ca-ghoul @lecagle.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
ok so I know I've been fundraising for a local family but I also need to tell y'all about this other fundraiser @jamescsanchez.bsky.social, a mutual and colleague and friend, has been working on the documentary In Loco Parentis about cover-up and sexual abuse at elite boarding schools for 6 years
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In Loco Parentis - Film and Storytelling | Seed&Spark
Trigger Warning: This six-year-long investigation focuses on the survivors of sexual abuse in two elite boarding schools and the cover-up that hid these stories for decades. By supporting this project, you will ensure that these stories will be finally be heard for the first time.
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Rascal News @rascal.news · 05/08/2025
Draw Steel's art description guide isn't just a new approach to alt-text. It synthesizes museum-tested accessibility with an eye towards poetry and metaphor. Lin spoke with @dreamwisp.bsky.social about MCDM's mission-in-progress and creating "more visceral and tactile" descriptions.
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Draw Steel sets new standards for alt text in their books
A deep dive into what an Art Description is, how it works, and who it’s for, including an interview with alt text writer, Jen Kretchmer.
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Le Ca-ghoul @lecagle.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Y'all, I'm asking for your help with a GoFundMe I'm sponsoring. Along with other members of my local community, I'm fundraising to support a pregnant asylum-seeking Mom and her family here in central Kentucky. Every dollar helps, as does every share. Thank you thank you! gofund.me/afcd1f1a
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Donate to Support a Pregnant Asylum-Seeking Mom in Central Kentucky, organized by Lauren Cagle
Hi, I’m Cagle! I’m fundraising for an asylum-seeking mother… Lauren Cagle needs your support for Support a Pregnant Asylum-Seeking Mom in Central Kentucky
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
ATTN: Academics! If FOIA comes for you, do not cower! You've done nothing wrong! @noupside.bsky.social knows what to do. Read her thread!
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Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
My article "The Separation of Analog and Digital Game Studies" has now been published as part of this mammoth 781-page edited volume Historiographies of Game Studies. Congrats to the editors and fellow authors for getting this into the world! punctumbooks.com/titles/histo...
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Historiographies of Game Studies: What It Has Been, What It Could Be – punctum books
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
That was my point, yep. They just described a literature course, a library science course, a liberal arts program — all things that exist and that AI hollows out. Parasitic.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 19/07/2025
I would be ashamed not to stand up for trans folks, not just because there are trans folks I like and love, but because everyone should get to live with the same personal freedom and dignity I get simply for existing. Who are we if we do not wish for others every right and privilege we have.
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Lisa No Thank You @ohseafarer.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
after you get a Passport sub, don't forget to grab a(n officially licensed and a portion of proceeds goes to the PBS Foundation) PBS IS PUNK tee or sticker to wear while binging every ANTIQUES ROADSHOW or NOVA and so I know you're cool 😎 twocrowcollective.com/en-ca/produc...
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PBS is Punk Distressed Tee
Official licensed merchandise. ‘PBS’ and the ‘PBS logo’ are trademarks of the Public Broadcasting Service and are used with permission. All rights reserved. PRE-ORDER INFO: This is a pre-order item, a...
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Caddie Alford @caddiealford.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
In Loco Parentis = incredible project investigating the cover-up of sexual abuse at two elite boarding schools in 70s + 80s. I had the honor of pre-screening. Please consider donating + sharing w/those who care about survivor stories. seedandspark.com/fund/in-loco... #InLocoParentis #TeamRhetoric
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Cody J Reimer @cjreimer.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Sometimes I think I should post more. Then I look at the replies. No, thanks. I'm good.
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James Wallis @jameswallis.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Interactive Fantasy, the journal of interactive storytelling that I published in the mid-1990s, is no longer available from DriveThruRPG. However it is now available from itch.io instead: jameswallis.itch.io/interactive-... for the same low price of pay-what-you-want.
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Interactive Fantasy by James Wallis
A journal of game design and narrative systems
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 22/06/2025
tobias funke but it might work for us dot gif
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Malaclypse the Middle @malaclypse.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Ecce Home, with a very smudged face of Jesus post-restoration.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
When Teddy Roosevelt was called disloyal for criticizing Wilson’s conduct of WWI, he said “to announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
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