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Justin Carter

@gigawattconduit.blacksky.app
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A guy who writes for a few places, currently writing at io9, formerly at SyFy Wire, IGN, Polygon, and Game Developer. He/him. linktr.ee/gigawattconduit

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Princess Weekes @princesmweekes.bsky.social · 10m
Initially, I didn't plan to do a Star Trek video, but while I was in the shower, an idea popped into my head, and here we are. New Video: youtu.be/wmraygqDEx0
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How Star Trek: DS9 Saw 2024 Coming 30 Years Ago
YouTube video by Princess Weekes
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Justin Carter @gigawattconduit.blacksky.app · 1h
oh, HELL no
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Old DeuTaranomy🧶⚒️ @kindofstrange.com · 3h
A rare fully remote Narrative designer role: www.useparallel.com/app/candidat...
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Narrative Designer at Smile Break | Parallel
Job Summary We are looking for a Narrative Designer to join our fully remote game development team for an unannounced project within a high-profile IP. We are in development on an ambitious, unannounc...
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Ana Diaz @pokachee.bsky.social · 3h
New from me: I did a deep dive and spoke to Pokemon fan game creators for @fansplaining.bsky.social. This was so hard to source, but I am humbled by the sources who took the time to talk to me about this super massive, and relatively under-examined, fandom. fansplaining.com/pokemon-fang...
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Pokémon Fangames Evolve Beyond Their Origins
For fangame creators, the work they develop and the communities they inspire are inextricably tied.
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404 Media @404media.co · 3h
BREAKING: The Trump administration is using a grant program from the 1980s to force cities around the US to funnel their ongoing collection of Flock, Axon, and other ALPR data into large federal surveillance centers that fall under the White House’s jurisdiction, 404 Media has learned
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How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program
How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program.
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Perfect Garbage 🌾🪦🔪 wishlist Grave Seasons @perfectgarbage.bsky.social · 4h
Grave Seasons launches March 9, 2027! 🪦🌾 Mark your calendars and prepare for the horrors - coming to Steam (PC), Xbox Series X|S, PS5 & Nintendo Switch 1 Read more about our new official launch date and see how far Ashenridge has come in this devlog! store.steampowered.com/news/app/325...
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Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 5h
Grasshopper Manufacture splits from NetEase Games www.gematsu.com/2026/09/gras...
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Justin Carter @gigawattconduit.blacksky.app · 6h
If we run with this logic, why should I trust AI experts, especially when they’ve spent the past week publicly going “yo, this tech we made might just kill us all, d’oh well”?
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 7h
Just a whole load of horrifying crimes here where we can’t now say “if only the world knew, if only everyone could see”. The world knows very well and anyone who wants to see, can see just fine.
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Failbetter Games | Wishlist Mandrake on Steam! @failbettergames.com · 9h
We're hiring! We're looking for a Writer and Narrative Designer to join the Fallen London team at a senior or mid level. This position is permanent, remote, and full time, which for us means 35 hours a week. #GamesJobs
Night. The House of Chimes - a tower which you might immediately think of as Big Ben - is adrift in the River Thames. It still seems to be keeping time. In the background, a large, alien building looms over the city of London.
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Alfred Twu @alfredtwu.com · 14h
Good news from Parivar Bay Area, the South Asian led organization serving trans immigrants and families: they have a new space in San Francisco, and could use help moving their offices this week. Message them if interested at www.instagram.com/parivarbayar...
New beginning! We're moving into our new home at st marks square, San Francisco D2, and we'd love help from past participants, friends, and neighbors.  Join us to help! October 3-4, help needed from Sept 28th and onwards. Pack load unload, we have a truck, we need helping hands. Give an hour or an afternoon, every bitof help means the world to us. DM us to volunteer and get all the details! Can't join? Donate to help our move.  
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Citizen Mask⚡️CHECK PINNED🙏🏽 @citizenmask.bsky.social · 15h
trying to hit at least 50% before the 10th of october, anything helps x
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Justin Carter @gigawattconduit.blacksky.app · 17h
Heard yesterday that Candace Owens got caught up in some shit and am committed to not learning anything more until tomorrow😤
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Justin Carter @gigawattconduit.blacksky.app · 18h
“Oh boy, I can’t wait to deal that murderous fridge!” *has no dodge or shield *several deaths later* “Y’know, maybe that guy’s just gonna have to stay focused on it for eternity, idk”
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Justin Carter @gigawattconduit.blacksky.app · 19h
If Sony couldn’t get people to care about Kraven the Hunter and Morbius, I doubt they’ll fully able to do that with Ben Reilly or Kaine
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Isaiah D. Colbert @shineyezehuhh.bsky.social · 22h
Watch Firefly Wedding.
But there are levels to this shit. Some shows aren’t “I can fix him;” some, like Studio Deen’s adaptation of Asuka Konishi’s Yakuza Fiancé, are shows where “we can make each other worse.” The x-factor in these stories is that they play with the neck hair-raising fight-or-flight response of their headstrong heroines wandering—whether willfully or out of abject defiance—into a romance with dangerous men. Compared to its contemporaries, toxic romance anime of its ilk is sprawling. It’s big, it’s fun, it's fucked up! But that very danger makes it hard to put down. 

Firefly Wedding brings to the table a romance anime that walks the razor’s edge of violent, funny, and hilarious, an addition to this pantheon.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22h
you have to understand that all ICE does is lie literally 100% of the time
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Imran Khan @imrankhan.bsky.social · 22h
Another terrible thing about this industry contracting is every time someone talented also reports getting laid off, you start hyperventilating because it means more competition from other really good writers in this space. We're all fighting over the tiniest crumbs and it fucking sucks.
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Justin Carter @gigawattconduit.blacksky.app · 22h
Sigh…whatever, man. deadline.com/2026/09/spid...
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'Spider-Man' Sony Universe TV Series Nears Amazon Order (EXCLUSIVE)
Amazon nears greenlight for 'Spider-Man' Sony Universe TV series based on the Clone Saga Marvel Comics storyline about Ben & Kaine. Kelvin Yu writes.
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Justin Carter @gigawattconduit.blacksky.app · 22h
PRIMETIME (2026): Not as over the moon as others, but very much enjoyed. Cast and direction do a lot of the heavy lifting, and *man*, the rancid vibes of this are compelling even if it feels like there should be more here than “this was a weird moment in time, right?”
Robert Pattinson in the Primetime poster
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Keza MacDonald @mackeza.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Apropos of nothing, here's the callout I wrote for Eurogamer about the glaring lack of female voices in the games media. I wrote this in *2018*. Things did seem to get better for a while but now we're backsliding again and the reasons for it haven't changed. www.eurogamer.net/why-the-game...
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Why the games media has a diversity problem - this website especially
Eurogamer has far too low a proportion of articles by female writers. Keza MacDonald, the Guardian's games editor, explains why this happens and what can be don
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gita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There are barely any women or black people in games media and I can think of a couple reasons why but no one will like it
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gita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Journalism in general is terrible for women and people of color and games journalism is all the same shit but in a pressure cooker
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Justin Carter @gigawattconduit.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
Gonna have people RP’ing that game like Steve Irwin or Werner Herzog
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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
America.gov launched today--a DOGE initiative to use AI to deliver public services. Child lying facedown on a frozen lake as the image accompanying the question: "How can I invest in my child's future" is just incredible. Way to go AI
Image of a child lying facedown on a froze lake.  above is the portal where you ask AI questions about government services.  the question matching this image is:  "How can I invest in my child's future?"
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Justin Carter @gigawattconduit.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
They have too much to worry about being this online
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ashley bardhan @ashleybardhan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
is there a better word than devastated? (shattered? fly-swatted?) anyway i've been laid off. i joined gamesradar+ as a freelancer in 2023, and the site had my lifelong admiration by the time i became a senior writer in 2024. i'll miss it lmk if u need a creepy🧟‍♀️ gurl: ashleybardhan(at)gmail(dot)com
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Justin Carter @gigawattconduit.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
There’s a new FD Signifier out that’s supposed to be nuts
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Justin Carter @gigawattconduit.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
I give it by lunch.
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Brandy Jensen @brandyjensen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sarah Hagi writing about the Daily Wire movie 🚨
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Finally, A Shitty Movie Where Muslims Are The Bad Guys | Defector
I can’t think of a time in my life when the idea of a Muslim terrorist was not the most acceptable societal enemy. As someone who came of age in the wake of 9/11 and the invasions of both Iraq and Afg...
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Justin Carter @gigawattconduit.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
We don’t need this man in movies deadline.com/2026/09/andr...
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Andrew Schulz Joins Michael B. Jordan And Austin Butler In ‘Miami Vice ’85’ At Universal
Andrew Schulz joins Michael B. Jordan in Universal's 'Miami Vice '85.'
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
new: A third-party surveillance company is telling cops that it wants to add facial recognition to Flock footage and ALPR reads to help them "close the gap" in what Flock offers. Company offers racial analysis, gender analysis, behavior analysis www.404media.co/surveillance...
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Surveillance Company Tells Cops It Wants to Add Facial Recognition to Flock Cameras
A surveillance company wants to "close the gap" that Flock won't do, by pitching facial recognition on its cameras.
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Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 28/09/2026
Um, holy crap. Y'all. Thanks to everyone who's donated so far, we've passed enough to cover the costs for the initial assessment and undoing the damage the original repair guy did! You're amazing. If you've ever enjoyed my CRT pics, and have the bandwidth, toss a coin to your Witcher.
A photograph of Lunar: Eternal Blue Complete on a CRT.A photograph of Saga Frontier 2 on a CRT.A photograph of Castlevania 4 on a CRT.A photograph of Chrono Trigger on a CRT.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A judge has ordered the release of Douglas Stewart Carter, a 71-year-old Black man who has spent decades on death row for a 1985 killing he did not commit. He spent 41 years in prison.
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Justin Carter @gigawattconduit.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
Like a lot of us, I don’t think WB expected Anne Hathaway to have one of her biggest movie years in forever, but they probably shouldn’t be too surprised when Verity devours Digger whole over the weekend
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Justin Carter @gigawattconduit.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
The Last of Us: Part I - The Game Developed and Inspired by the HBO Series (Deluxe Edition)
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Jade King ✍️ OPEN FOR WORK @konayma6.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
For @gamespot.com, I explored the Ocarina of Time remake's take on Sheik and how early impressions have left me fearful that his androgyny is being left behind. He's a character with nuanced queer history I hope Nintendo is at least slightly in tune with. www.gamespot.com/articles/the...
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The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time’s Sheik Is Nothing Without Their Androgyny
Nintendo needs to preserve Sheik’s androgyny in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake.
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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This man is a monster. He seeks out women survivors because he hates them. And he hates them because he hates himself. He has harassed me and other women survivors many times over the years. It must end. He should never have a job anywhere.
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Littledigits @littledigits.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
being in animation, its not from AI. the streaming bubble bursting cuz everyone hopped on the grain cuz it undermined unions, less regulations and more mergers are what lead to the loss. AI is just what people think but it started way before that
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Jordan Oloman @oloman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's good that sites like GameRant are writing breakout news stories drawn from my reporting, but given that Postmode.org is independent and ad-free, would it kill you to drop the original source as a backlink? Literally an ideal hyperlink spot right there. gamerant.com/monster-hunt...
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GG TRIBUNE @ggtribune.com · 28/09/2026
OPINION: I Think the Stuff You Like Sucks Because We Need the Clicks buff.ly/hIBMmNF
OPINION: I Think the Stuff You Like Sucks Because We Need the Clicks
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Don't forget that @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social wants to let the GOP get away with all of this. He said let's turn the page and get on with business. He's on the side of the Nazis if he thinks this kind of thing is acceptable in the United States of America. This can't be allowed to slide. It can't.
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Justin Carter @gigawattconduit.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
It'd be very funny if she's gone even if the merger doesn't actually happen, they just decide to cut her while they're already holding an L
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Weedle @weedle.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Feel like the wealthiest man in human history seething with rage because he's not allowed to say the n-word should really be the final argument against the idea we have a rational economic system or material based politics.
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Justin Carter @gigawattconduit.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
Terrence will create new forms of emotional terrorism against everyone in this photo by the midseason finale
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𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐤𝐨 & 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧 @quietblkgrl.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
I hate seeing my favorite artists blow up over their most mainstream songs cause people love building a narrative about their skill or them as a person based on just that one song and not listen to anything else. Anyways here’s an article I wrote about Raye’s sophomore album
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Recipe for Hope: A Listener’s Guide to RAYE’s THIS MUSIC MAY CONTAIN HOPE. | Quintessa Knight
This essay by Black woman writer Quintessa Knight is a journey of discovery and enlightenment through the catharsis that is Raye's sophmore album, THIS MUSIC MAY CONTAIN HOPE.
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Justin Carter @gigawattconduit.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
Probably not the first to have this thought, but Aaron Pierre with his goatee in Lanterbs feels like he’s trying to channel Will Smith
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pilot @pilotv.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
ok honestly who will hire me to write about 9-1-1 this season
A poster featuring a volcano with lava that spells out 911 and the tagline “welcome to la-va land”
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Justin Carter @gigawattconduit.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
Aaaaaaand it begins
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