Cody J Reimer @cjreimer.bsky.social · 24/08/2026I still wear the shirt I got from @acaguy.bsky.social that reads "Rage Against the Machine Learning" 061
Reposted by Cody J ReimerSmall Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 12/02/2026You 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. 1367
Cody J Reimer @cjreimer.bsky.social · 25/12/2025I 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. 000
Reposted by Cody J ReimerLKH @lkh.bsky.social · 23/12/2025Excellent 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." 0235
Reposted by Cody J ReimerLe Ca-ghoul @lecagle.bsky.social · 03/12/2025This is 100% correct. Source: I have a PhD in writing studies. 1233
Cody J Reimer @cjreimer.bsky.social · 01/12/2025Corax: 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. 010
Reposted by Cody J ReimerMiguel Sicart @miguelsicart.bsky.social · 01/12/2025The 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.todayplayingfutures.todayPlaying FuturesPlaying 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... 24025
Reposted by Cody J ReimerLe Ca-ghoul @lecagle.bsky.social · 26/11/2025I 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 736988
Reposted by Cody J ReimerEnrique Reynoso Jr @ereynosojr.bsky.social · 25/11/2025Cagle is the truth and does great work yall should read 132
Cody J Reimer @cjreimer.bsky.social · 25/11/2025Clawlining enemies gives you a slight elevation lift, from which you can jump and dash. There are safe refuge spots along the route, some with warmth, others with silk to heal up. It forced me to get good at using clawline, which I appreciated for the rest of the game (and wished I had done sooner!) 020
Cody J Reimer @cjreimer.bsky.social · 24/11/2025Prepping 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! 😅 000
Reposted by Cody J Reimerderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 29/06/2025Since 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. 🧵 533673525
Reposted by Cody J ReimerBrendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 11/11/2025The 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...politybooks.comGame Studies: A Critical Introduction to the FieldGame 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, ... 314835
Reposted by Cody J ReimerSpecial Interest Group on the Design of Communication @sigdoc-acm.bsky.social · 10/11/2025As 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.... 1/2sigdoc.acm.orgProposal Process - ACM SIGDOC 2026 Conference 144
Reposted by Cody J ReimerJoey Haeck @jamesjhaeck.bsky.social · 10/11/2025Your 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. 211427
Reposted by Cody J ReimerTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 10/11/2025I 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. 161930492
Reposted by Cody J ReimerAftermath @aftermath.site · 31/10/2025I 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-...aftermath.siteI Will Grind In Final Fantasy Tactics Every Single Time And You Can't Stop Me - AftermathI will turn leveling jobs in Mandalia Plains into a tremendous slog and there's nothing the cops can do to stop me. 824225
Reposted by Cody J ReimerDonnie Johnson Sackey @donniejsackey.bsky.social · 28/10/2025Tell all your friends. It's coming in June 2026. 1176
Cody J Reimer @cjreimer.bsky.social · 27/10/2025More evidence that we have already been cyberpunk for some time. 010
Reposted by Cody J ReimerCharlie Thomas @cthomasjamh.bsky.social · 27/10/2025Man 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!” 411548
Reposted by Cody J Reimer"Scream Man" Cam @malaiseforever.bsky.social · 26/10/2025reading 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 10774622636
Reposted by Cody J ReimerJohn Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 15/10/2025To 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.abcnews.go.comLos Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raidsLos Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids. 275200377751
Reposted by Cody J ReimerAndrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social · 13/10/2025My 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.'”startribune.comCounterpoint | Minnesota humanities graduates thrive in meaningful careers"The stereotype of the underemployed history major is simply not true," professor Andrea Kaston Tange writes. 2369110
Cody J Reimer @cjreimer.bsky.social · 09/10/2025Excellent point! I think there's an important comparison between this and the mascot dance protests as a form of playful resistance. 110
Reposted by Cody J ReimerJoshua 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.religionnews.comReligious 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... 252
Reposted by Cody J ReimerS. Scott Graham @sscottgraham.bsky.social · 01/10/2025This is the next iteration of “participants were 138 undergrads looking for extra credit it psych 102” 051
Reposted by Cody J ReimerPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 25/09/2025If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian. 988350418578
Cody J Reimer @cjreimer.bsky.social · 25/09/2025I 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. 0340
Reposted by Cody J ReimerDr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 19/09/2025Déjà vu: Trump, far-right. Totalitarianism, neo-fascists, neo-Nazis ... 063
Reposted by Cody J ReimerJD Boucher 💀 @jdboucher0.com · 19/09/2025As someone who worked at a Nexstar station, this would be a 5 alarm all hands on deck fire for even one account 2334176
Reposted by Cody J ReimerPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 10/09/2025Political 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. 14578861972
Reposted by Cody J ReimerMatthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 03/09/2025How 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. 619574
Reposted by Cody J ReimerCyrus Riahi @cyrusriahi.bsky.social · 28/08/2025Even by Rascal's high standards, this was a great article 0377
Reposted by Cody J ReimerKate Schapira: "Well Put & Generalizable" @kateschapira.bsky.social · 29/08/2025I quite enjoyed this anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...anthonymoser.github.ioI Am An AI HaterI am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater. 1347
Reposted by Cody J ReimerRima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 26/08/2025What more evidence do people need before they realize what serious danger we are in? 24716
Reposted by Cody J ReimerNick Fleisher @nickfleisher.bsky.social · 23/08/2025For my money still the best single paragraph on AI/LLMs I've read 0308
Reposted by Cody J ReimerJohn Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 24/08/2025It’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. 11243051613
Cody J Reimer @cjreimer.bsky.social · 18/08/2025Congrats, 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! 073
Reposted by Cody J ReimerCzepeku @czepeku.bsky.social · 16/08/2025This 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. 35015
Reposted by Cody J ReimerLe Ca-ghoul @lecagle.bsky.social · 03/08/2025ok 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 yearsseedandspark.comIn Loco Parentis - Film and Storytelling | Seed&SparkTrigger 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. 189
Reposted by Cody J ReimerRascal News @rascal.news · 05/08/2025Draw 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.rascal.newsDraw Steel sets new standards for alt text in their booksA 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. 4368113
Reposted by Cody J ReimerLe Ca-ghoul @lecagle.bsky.social · 29/07/2025Y'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/afcd1f1agofund.meDonate to Support a Pregnant Asylum-Seeking Mom in Central Kentucky, organized by Lauren CagleHi, 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 4113131
Reposted by Cody J ReimerEileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 27/07/2025ATTN: Academics! If FOIA comes for you, do not cower! You've done nothing wrong! @noupside.bsky.social knows what to do. Read her thread! 04620
Reposted by Cody J ReimerEvan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · 25/07/2025My 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...punctumbooks.comHistoriographies of Game Studies: What It Has Been, What It Could Be – punctum books 19131
Cody J Reimer @cjreimer.bsky.social · 25/07/2025He was a year behind me at Purdue but went on the market at the same time. Given his complaints about the letter of application genre, your observation about not being crowned fits. 140
Reposted by Cody J ReimerTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/07/2025That 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. 420819
Reposted by Cody J ReimerJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 19/07/2025I 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. 342591397
Reposted by Cody J ReimerLisa No Thank You @ohseafarer.bsky.social · 19/07/2025after 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...twocrowcollective.comPBS is Punk Distressed TeeOfficial 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... 59737
Reposted by Cody J ReimerCaddie Alford @caddiealford.bsky.social · 18/07/2025In 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 011