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Evan Skolnick @evanskolnick.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

#Handsoff rally today in affluent, suburban Walnut Creek, CA! Somewhere between 3,000 and 5,000 enthusiastic participants, I would estimate.

Panoramic shot of thousands of protesters in the streets of Walnut Creek, CA.

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Evan Skolnick @evanskolnick.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

My 83 year-old dad joined a protest for the first time in his life today.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 16/03/2025

It’s wild that everyone who wants America to be “run as a business” seems to want lower taxes. That’s not what a business would do if it had a monopoly and the violence of the government behind it to set whatever price it wanted. A business would send taxes through the roof.

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Evan Skolnick @evanskolnick.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

#TeslaTakedown in Walnut Creek, CA today. Getting bigger every week! Must have been at least 500 of us this time. Keep it g(r)owing, everyone!

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Evan Skolnick @evanskolnick.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

There's still time. Call your Dem Senators.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

CALLS ARE WORKING - it has bought us precious time, but we NEED to keep the pressure up. Tomorrow is the cloture vote. KEEP CALLING: (202) 224-3121 ☎️☎️☎️ Tell your Dem Senator to vote NO on Cloture and NO on the Republican spending bill. Do NOT assume your Senator will be good on this. Trust me.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10/03/2025

I need y'all to sit with this headline and understand what is being done to our community. They're trying to criminalize our very existence. This is a campaign of eradication. www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/rcna...

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Evan Skolnick @evanskolnick.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

One week from today! Trying out some new things for my workshop this year, which can always be a bit of a dice roll. 🎲🎲 Looking forward to seeing old friends at GDC and making some new ones! #gdc #gdc2025

A colorful graphic explaining that I'm speaking at the Game Developers Conference. My Storytelling Fundamentals Workshop is being held on Monday, March 17 (all day). GDC runs from March 17 - 21 in San Francisco, CA.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Now that the influential bigot who did a Hitler salute publicly claimed that organic protests against his malfeasance are secretly controlled by a list of foreign Jews, some of whom aren’t even alive today, are we allowed to call him a Nazi, or is there something even Nazier we have to wait for?

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Evan Skolnick @evanskolnick.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Around 300 of us today in Walnut Creek! I was here a month ago and we barely broke 100. Keep it going! #TeslaTakedown

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Nicole Tersigni @nicsigni.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

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Evan Skolnick @evanskolnick.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Berkeley: bigger and louder this time, with mariachi musicians to boot! #TeslaTakedown

Protesters in front of the Berkeley, CA Tesla dealership.

Mariachi band and protesters in front of the Berkeley, CA Tesla dealership.

Protesters with a cardboard Cybertruck (symbolically on fire) in front of the Berkeley, CA Tesla dealership.

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Evan Skolnick @evanskolnick.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

No need to even pretend anymore, apparently.

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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

seen in newark, new jersey 🔥

poster on a utility pole with a gray silhouette of a threatening figure, arms raised wearing a maga cap with a shadow of a similar figure wearing a nazi helmet behind them and the words

WE BEAT 'EM BEFORE …

WE’LL BEAT 'EM AGAIN!

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Evan Skolnick @evanskolnick.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

About 150 of us at the #TeslaTakedown rally in Berkeley today. Keep it going!

Protesters outside the Tesla dealership in Berkeley, CA.

“BOYCOTT” written in chalk on the pavement in front of the Tesla showroom in Berkeley, CA.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

New Microsoft study finds that using generative AI at work makes employees' critical thinking skills "atrophied and unprepared" www.404media.co/microsoft-st...

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Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition “Atrophied and Unprepared”

Researchers find that the more people use AI at their job, the less critical thinking they use.

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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Folks trying to save USAID are trying to counterprogram Musk's $40 million Super Bowl ad. They're asking everyone to share this video as widely as you can today: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqUE...

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

It’s pretty fucked up that they would just take things, just steal things, to advance their AI, I can’t believe China would do that to OpenAI

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Fine. I’ll update with a word count when I start writing again. @legalminimum.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Most of the Executive Orders we have seen so far are fanfiction.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

3 things about this message that greeted millions of Americans on TikTok today: 1) the shamelessness of Trump who just U-turned on his opposition to TikTok. 2) the shamelessness of these tech companies, sucking up to Trump. 3) the fecklessness of Biden who gave Trump this win.

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Evan Skolnick @evanskolnick.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Drumpf's first term was a sick joke, and as we all know, comedy sequels suck. Hang tight, everyone, and prepaare to RESIST.

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Weak. Real manly masculine men would have kept it outdoors and taken off their shirts to show what badasses they are. But these are pampered little princelings with tiny hands.

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Evan Skolnick @evanskolnick.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

It's official! (For the 18th time, in case anyone's still counting!) schedule.gdconf.com/session/stor...

I'm speaking at GDC! Storytelling Fundamentals Workshop, Monday March 17.

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Analisa Swan (she/her) @analisaswan.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Today is January 6, the anniversary of the felon/GOP’s violent insurrection trying to stop the peaceful transfer of power in the 2020 election! We remember 140 officers who were injured & those who lost their lives due to the attack on the Capitol! Hold all involved in the insurrection accountable!

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The Onion @theonion.com · 03/01/2025

KFC Introduces New Bird-Flu Dipping Vaccine

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

How much energy and water is being used by people running LLM bot accounts on social media? This is the world that Zuck and Musk want to create by the way… ad revenue from clicks is not big enough, so they want to artificially boost clicks through bots.

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Evan Skolnick @evanskolnick.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

No, *you* just drove 2+ hours round-trip to buy a Star Trek: TNG tricorder.

I’m holding a Playmates Star Trek: The Next Generation tricorder from the 1990s.

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Evan Skolnick @evanskolnick.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

This is now the 5th straight semester (including summers) in which I've had to fail or severely penalize a student for using generative AI to complete a major assignment. Each time, it's only been one student I've caught. But I'm only about halfway through my grading for FA24. Hopefully no others.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

AOC: “Oh, I don’t think we’re witnessing the START of an oligarchy. I think we are fully here.” 🇺🇸

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Evan Skolnick @evanskolnick.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Email from Safelite with the subject heading: We’re coming to get you 😳 /scrolls down We’re coming to get you fixed up

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Michael M. Hughes @michaelmhughes.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Hey, I dunno, maybe we should focus more on increasing human intelligence and not making machines smarter. We generate our own electricity and only need about 3.7 liters of water a day to conjure galaxies, poems, songs, books, movies and great ideas like universal health care.

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Zane Schacht - Voice Goblin @voicesbyzane.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

It really can't be stated enough how the AI craze is rooted deeply in utter vitriolic disrespect for the working class. Like I've seen multiple cases of this tech being marketed directly on sticking it to us filthy poors who want things like "benefits" and "fair pay for our labor"

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Evan Skolnick @evanskolnick.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Happy 10th birthday to my little blue book! When I finished writing VGS, I didn't have much confidence that it was any good. I just knew it was finally done! Thanks to everyone who's bought it, read it, reviewed it, recommended it, and/or discovered its utility as a chair-balancer and fly-swatter.

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Evan Skolnick @evanskolnick.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

In my Facebook feed just now. Can’t be a coincidence.

Ad for AI proponent Sal Khan directly followed by a posting of Khan from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan in an X-mas wreath (i.e. “the wreath of Khan”).

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Evan Skolnick @evanskolnick.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Age yourself with your first computer.

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Evan Skolnick @evanskolnick.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Remember, folks… this is your chance! 📺

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Evan Skolnick @evanskolnick.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

What are 4 Christmas movies to know you by

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Evan Skolnick @evanskolnick.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Now live! On the cusp of the 10th anniversary of my book, Video Game Storytelling, being published by Penguin Random House, I was interviewed on their "Lits Play" YouTube channel. How has game narrative evolved in that time? What's improved? What challenges persist? And where are things headed?

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Video Game Storytelling with Game Writer Evan Skolnick | MARVEL ULTIMATE ALLIANCE 2, STAR WARS 1313

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