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Chris Plante @plante.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

For an unlimited time, I’m offering to cover the ticket for one (1) free ticket into the sun for anybody who thinks autism needs to be “cured”

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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

a million and one reasons to be furious about the autism/tylenol press conference but telling pregnant women they should really really "tough it out" rather than get pain relief is the one that's ... wow it makes me mad

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Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

I think the school phone bans are good. But politicians, journalists, and activists who are only focused on thumbs up / thumbs down takes on childhood “screens” are intentionally unprepared to deal with the complex and sometimes dangerous cultures kids actually interact with online.

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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

We hired an internet culture reporter at Vox in 2016 (before the election!), and I remember the first thing they really brought to my attention was Harambe memes. I remember wondering if any of that shit mattered. Now I wish we had hired 10 internet culture reporters.

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Dr. Emma Leigh Waldron @emwalz.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Nikki I’m so sorry! Sending big hugs to you and Graham. So grateful I got to meet this majestic lady. She was so lucky to have you two to take such good care of her and show her so much love.

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Dr. Emma Leigh Waldron @emwalz.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Thinking back on it, my movie-watching habits seem to have declined precipitously around the same year I got my first smartphone. Coincidence? 🤔

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Dr. Emma Leigh Waldron @emwalz.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Watched a movie last night that I could only watch on my laptop, and also accidentally left my phone on the other side of my room. Took all my willpower not to retrieve the phone, but it was worth it. Want to retrain my attention span to be able to just fully focus on movies again like that.

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Dr. Emma Leigh Waldron @emwalz.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Want to go socialize in a bar? Honestly not really. Want to play a pickup game in the hotel lobby? Yes please!

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Dr. Emma Leigh Waldron @emwalz.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Thinking I might start running little DnD one-shots at conferences. Y/N?

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Dr. Emma Leigh Waldron @emwalz.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Hey @jordanscarroll.bsky.social look what I found at SLSA! And someone already called dibs on the display copy!

Book with plain black cover and white text. Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right by Jordan S. Carroll.

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Dr. Emma Leigh Waldron @emwalz.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Wrote and ran a DnD one shot tonight for my nephews (10 and 7) and had such a blast! We played Hero Kids a few years ago but this was their first taste of "real" DnD. They were such great players: creative, patient, collaborative, and clever. I'm so proud. 🥲

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Dr. Emma Leigh Waldron @emwalz.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Love how being better organized has helped me avoid completely rewriting things because I can find the thing I originally wrote! Who knew?

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Dr. Emma Leigh Waldron @emwalz.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

The biggest mystery of Severance is why are Devon and Ricken even together?

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Stephen Blackmoore @stephenblackmoore.com · 10/01/2025

Been getting a lot of people asking about LA geography concerned that the images they see means the entire county is on fire. That's understandable. But LA is a big place. So, to give an idea of scale it's time to cart this out again. It's a map of LA with other cities superimposed on it.

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David Bering-Porter @atg-dbp.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

I did not make this image, but I would watch this movie.

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Dr. Emma Leigh Waldron @emwalz.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Delighted to meet this patient American Coot at the park today who let me get a shot of its feet! Did you know their feet are lobed rather than webbed? I’m obsessed!

A brown duck (female mallard) and black water fowl (American Coot) stand at edge of pond. Duck has orange webbed feet and Coot has black and green lobed toes.

Close-up of American Coot’s feet. Each foot has 3 long toes with several flat lobes, and 1 long rear toe without lobes.

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Josh Jepson @jepson.tv · 05/12/2024

Shoutout to fishing in video games That shit rules

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Dr. Emma Leigh Waldron @emwalz.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Wrapped my Games & Emotion class today. What a ride it’s been! I learned a lot - hopefully the students did too! Shout out to @kcisbister.bsky.social whose great book we read, and big thanks to Amanda Cullen from Blizzard, and @plante.bsky.social who kindly shared their time as guest speakers!

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Dr. Emma Leigh Waldron @emwalz.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Looking forward to chatting with UCI’s Digital Humanities Exchange about my research on ASMR, YouTube, and affect this Wednesday! Having fun this morning putting together a fresh PowerPoint and seeing everything come together. 📈👄👂🏼👩🏻‍💻 #UCI #DigitalHumanities

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Zaibatsu @zaibatsu.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Mary Tyler Moore accidentally nailed a perfect trick shot in *The Dick Van Dyke Show* (1962)—on the FIRST take. It was supposed to be done by a pro, but she shocked everyone and pulled it off herself. Absolute legend. 🎱✨ #ClassicTV #FunFacts

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Dr. Emma Leigh Waldron @emwalz.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I ended up running a rock/paper/scissors tournament and they were even low energy for that! We are all so ready for a break.

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Dr. Emma Leigh Waldron @emwalz.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I really want to see WICKED but I honestly don’t think I can handle the 2hr40min runtime. Why can’t movies have intermissions?

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 22/11/2024

We will all be made so much weaker and so much stupider and so much less human in a world where only the offspring of billionaires are granted the leisure of thinking about anything more than survival

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Michael Freeman @afreeparticle.com · 20/11/2024

CamelCase (Capitalizing each word in a multi-word hashtag like #EduSky not #edusky) will allow screen readers to more accurately read hashtags and makes your posts accessible to: - blind people - people with partial sight - dyslexic people - people who enjoy using screen readers 6/

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Dr. Emma Leigh Waldron @emwalz.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Fellow college educators: anyone on here have any go-to ideas for activities to do when the students are just completely burnt out and can’t focus anymore? It’s that time in the quarter.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 20/11/2024

"Bluesky is awesome now, for how long?" I mean, look, all things change and end, we will all die, earth will be uninhabitable in a billion years, then the sun will expand and destroy the planet, and the universe will die a slow death of proton decay. But BEFORE THAT, let's make this place fun, okay?

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Dr. Emma Leigh Waldron @emwalz.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Well uh, 20 years late to the discourse, but uh, “That’s My Dog” sure is a gut-punch of an episode of 6 FEET UNDER, huh? 😳 Watched it last night and still processing.

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

For my newsletter I wrote about some things I learned as a young activist that have just stayed true over the last 35 years. I’ve thought of a few more, will put those in the next one.

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Dr. Emma Leigh Waldron @emwalz.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I’m re-entering academia now after a few years’ hiatus in which I had to work hard to recover from the mental toll of grad school. It really can be brutal - at any school and in any discipline. If you’re in that spot now, know that you’re not alone, and the problem is the system, not you!

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Dr. Emma Leigh Waldron @emwalz.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

My favorite part about TRAP was Josh Hartnett's face acting. My second favorite part about TRAP was Josh Hartnett's hair acting.

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Dr. Emma Leigh Waldron @emwalz.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

His polygon stuff was honestly just so good.

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Dr. Emma Leigh Waldron @emwalz.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Yay, you too! Really enjoying all the energy on the platform so far.

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Dr. Emma Leigh Waldron @emwalz.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Watching SIX FEET UNDER (for the first time)! It's been a slow burn for me but S4E01 "Falling Into Place" just absolutely wrecked me. Full on sobbing so much the cats got concerned. I never found Nate particularly charismatic but seeing him emote with such intensity in this arc is really gutting me.

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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I’ve been thinking about the fact that the things we know are important — safety, security, justice, a place to sleep, medical care — are not merely ends in themselves. They are ways to get, for everyone, happiness and meaning. Learning! Joy! That’s what people want their freedoms *for* in the end.

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Dr. Emma Leigh Waldron @emwalz.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Hi followers new & old! Haven’t been very active on social media for years, but let’s see how this one goes! I like to talk about: 🎲 TTRPGs 📺 TV & movies 💻 Internet culture 🎭 Theater & performance 📖 Books 🖼️ Art 😻 Cats 🐦‍⬛ Birding, hiking & nature 🧶 Crochet & embroidery 🎓 Higher Ed/Academia 📝 Writing

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Dr. Emma Leigh Waldron @emwalz.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

I’ve been saying something similar to this all week. Now more than ever I believe we need to be cultivating joy. Joy is necessary to survival. It is what will carry us through. Don’t forget that all the beautiful and wonderful things that existed in the world before the election still exist today.

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Dr. Emma Leigh Waldron @emwalz.bsky.social · 24/07/2024

This amazing (FREE!) @AnalogGameJrnl event is happening right now! It's not too late to tune in! Tons of fun, provocative, enlivening conversations about analog games happening for the rest of today and tomorrow! All are welcome! www.eventbrite.com/e/generation...

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Generation Analog 2024

Generation Analog is an annual online tabletop games and education conference.

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Dr. Emma Leigh Waldron @emwalz.bsky.social · 21/01/2024

Can’t wait to see what’s in store for everypony! We succeeded in helping a librarian befriend a giant spider, but there is still work to be done! 🦄✨🎨

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Dr. Emma Leigh Waldron @emwalz.bsky.social · 30/11/2023

Been getting reacquainted with this little number lately…

Picture of the title page to my dissertation, entitled “Mediated Intimacy: Performing Sex on HBO, YouTube, and in Analog Role-Playing Games”

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ᡣ𐭩 Mandi ᡣ𐭩 @613mandi.bsky.social · 26/11/2023

Hey all! Something came up, and we have to reschedule. Thanks for understanding, and we will keep you posted!

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ᡣ𐭩 Mandi ᡣ𐭩 @613mandi.bsky.social · 26/11/2023

Join us for Part II of the My Little Pony RPG on Twitch at 3PM PT/6PM ET today! www.twitch.tv/saltandsassgames @joesondow.bsky.social @emwalz.bsky.social @819steph.bsky.social

A thumbnail with Mandi, Joe, Emma, and Stephanie for a My Little Pony Playthrough part 2.

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