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Jenna Perkin

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🏳️‍🌈 | University Professor of Game Development | Writer and Game Designer @ YES! Inc. | she/her Linktree: linktr.ee/jpperkin

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Jenna Perkin @jennaperkin.com · 6h
Fake feminists will tell you they believe in women's empowerment when they really only believe that empowerment can come from patriarchal positions of authority. Empowerment is an internal authority over ones body. Therefore, true feminism means women can be both authoritative and submissive.
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Jenna Perkin @jennaperkin.com · 6h
"so I need you to create a mechanic where the player can control the sun with real time lighting." "Cool give me ten minutes." "I also need you to make a very basic door." "You fucking bastard."
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Jenna Perkin @jennaperkin.com · 29/09/2026
If you're talking about the best food cities in the world and you're not talking about Detroit you gotta check yourself.
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Jenna Perkin @jennaperkin.com · 25/09/2026
He was locked in
The board game Root laid across a dining table. Sitting on a chair, peering over the far side of the table is an orange cat.
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Jenna Perkin @jennaperkin.com · 25/09/2026
People acting like Nathan Fielder is a nobody as if he didn't graduate from one of Canada's top law schools with really good grades.
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Jenna Perkin @jennaperkin.com · 24/09/2026
Reasons why I should be cast on #Survivor: 1. Historically, every Jenna on the show has been entertaining 2. I write with a 2 time Pixar director and EP 3. I became a professor at 22. 4. My neurodivergence and my extroversion go crazy together 5. I'm bisexual which automatically makes me cool.
Jenna posing in front of a mirror. She is wearing a maroon flannel with an orange shirt and survivor bandana with jeans and aviator sunglasses.
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.
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Jenna Perkin @jennaperkin.com · 24/09/2026
Oh this #survivor cast is going to be good. The open era sounds so fun. Hope to play some day 🤞 (I'd win, of course, because I'm just that cool)
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Jenna Perkin @jennaperkin.com · 24/09/2026
AI is obvious a concern, but fascism and climate change are both far greater existential threats to humanity.
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Jenna Perkin @jennaperkin.com · 22/09/2026
The reason El Sayed's campaign is so good is because he's actually campaigning on the things he's excited about.
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Jenna Perkin @jennaperkin.com · 20/09/2026
As a dual enrollment professor, it's become pretty clear that younger gen z isn't lazy, they've just realized that "hard work pays off" is a lie.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever
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Jenna Perkin @jennaperkin.com · 18/09/2026
Obviously people shouldn't watch the Harry Potter show because of JK Rowling's transphobia, but we can't keep overlooking the blatant in-text antisemitism. This isn't about separating the art from the artist. The art is the problem.
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Jenna Perkin @jennaperkin.com · 18/09/2026
Problematic mage gap. The party only does melee.
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Jenna Perkin @jennaperkin.com · 18/09/2026
Our ads got pop up ads now?
An OURA ring ad on a TV, with an Amazon pop up in the corner for the product.
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Jenna Perkin @jennaperkin.com · 15/09/2026
Like I know that sexism exists but sometimes it's like legit crazy to imagine how anyone genuinely believes that shit
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Jenna Perkin @jennaperkin.com · 13/09/2026
I'm effortfully cool. I work hard to be like this.
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Jenna Perkin @jennaperkin.com · 11/09/2026
Any criticism of the dire literacy problem that criticizes 67 is deeply misguided and narcissistic. The desire to learn can easily be boosted by an engagement with our social environments. 67 is completely harmless. The thread to your kids literacy is the lack of phonics education, not memes.
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Jenna Perkin @jennaperkin.com · 10/09/2026
Everyone yearns for the college days, when we had like twelve different third spaces and our friends would just randomly show up there without even having to plan anything.
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Jenna Perkin @jennaperkin.com · 09/09/2026
Using the phrase "one of the best" is of no value when describing sets of 4 or less.
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Jenna Perkin @jennaperkin.com · 06/09/2026
There is not a bad Matrix movie.
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Jenna Perkin @jennaperkin.com · 04/09/2026
Power got wiped out, and I finished Ulysses, so I'm finding new ways to entertain myself.
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Jenna Perkin @jennaperkin.com · 01/09/2026
I ended up in a wheelchair overnight. While I recovered 9 months later, the entire experience was completely jarring. I knew it was bad. But to know it and to live it are so distant. What I never anticipated was for all my credibility and competence to be perceived as obsolete by strangers.
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Jenna Perkin @jennaperkin.com · 31/08/2026
Year 3 as a higher education professor...
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Jenna Perkin @jennaperkin.com · 30/08/2026
Nahhhh Life is Strange Double Exposure rocks. The breakup was a good creative decision. Safi is a good character. They nailed exactly what an older Max would be. Not perfect, but genuinely great. It's a shame it didn't resonate with people the way earlier entries did.
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Jenna Perkin @jennaperkin.com · 28/08/2026
I imagine people will be willing to wreck cars and drive without worry. It'll probably be really fun. But in a country of mass shootings, yeah, the idea of opening fire just doesn't seem fun right now. Games don't cause violence, but violence defines how we play.
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Jenna Perkin @jennaperkin.com · 27/08/2026
Not a single drug hits as hard as a James Cameron third act action sequences.
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Jenna Perkin @jennaperkin.com · 27/08/2026
If I was in charge, every time a tv or film character needs a lawyer, Elle Woods, Saul Goodman, Elsbeth Tascioni, or Jackie Chiles would inexplicably show up.
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Patrick Labor @trickthetm.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Holy shit all the trailers before this Coyote Vs Acme showing are R rated horror movies.
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Jenna Perkin @jennaperkin.com · 23/08/2026
I used to enjoy debate, until debate replaced the obligation to research. Instead of finding the correct answers, people believe they are owed dissenting argument in order to learn. They turn fact into argument and declare themselves judge. If you can't sway willful ignorance, you must be wrong!
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Glonzo the Bureaucrat 🇬🇱 🌹 @snarkranger.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
where are the 500 professors signing an open letter about a professor being fired for talking about gender?
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Jenna Perkin @jennaperkin.com · 22/08/2026
Every time someone says Obsession is a Monkey's Paw I have to wonder if they don't believe women should have autonomy. Obsession isn't a Monkey's Paw, Bear just made an evil wish.
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Jenna Perkin @jennaperkin.com · 20/08/2026
Call me crazy but imagine if game awards weren't genre based but instead development based? I want to see award campaigns for Best Optimization, Quest Design, Team Management, QA, Level Design, NPC Programming, and UI Design.
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Jenna Perkin @jennaperkin.com · 19/08/2026
Don't trust anything I said before 2022 I only became smart that year.
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Jenna Perkin @jennaperkin.com · 17/08/2026
Have not heard of these films but I have seen The Boss Baby
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Joseph Brassey @josephbrassey.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I think about this at least a dozen times a day.
people end up unable to see depiction as anything other than endorsement when their entire cultural diet is escapist fun and reassurance. they see something make them uncomfortable and can only assume people are watching horrible shit as vicarious pleasure and are horrified.
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Jenna Perkin @jennaperkin.com · 17/08/2026
David Lynch is the luckiest human to ever live the way he cared Sheryl Lee from a headshot to play a dead body. It also helps that he's a remarkable director.
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Jenna Perkin @jennaperkin.com · 14/08/2026
Every time I see a Henry Ford statue I think about the fact that he was a straight up Nazi whose signature invention led to some of the most expensive and least accessible infrastructure ever built, consumed overwhelming supplies of natural resources, and radically accelerated climate change.
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Radiant G🌈 @radiantg.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Between “Sex Purge Movie has no sex bc Sex Purge Movie director thinks sex is gross” and “Autistic person says they can’t look at cleavage or boobs in video games because of their autism” I fear we need to be even more aggressively pro-sex in media.
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Jenna Perkin @jennaperkin.com · 11/08/2026
Thinking about all the fun things I could have bought with the $3000 I had to spend on car repairs instead.
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Jenna Perkin @jennaperkin.com · 10/08/2026
The US government straight up kink-shamed Bloom when they banned Ulysses.
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Jenna Perkin @jennaperkin.com · 09/08/2026
To be fair, my movie 'One Night Abstinence,' about the one day of the year you're legally allowed to NOT have sex, also doesn't have nudity.
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Jenna Perkin @jennaperkin.com · 07/08/2026
I might be bisexual, but I'm a lesbian whenever I'm watching Chappel Roan perform.
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Jenna Perkin @jennaperkin.com · 02/08/2026
The thing about being a queer writer is that I really gotta nail it the first time, because I don't think a career in conservative commentary is in the cards for me.
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Jenna Perkin @jennaperkin.com · 31/07/2026
This collection from Rachel is excellent for anyone interested in media ...And I don't just say that because I'm in it
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Jenna Perkin @jennaperkin.com · 29/07/2026
*standing up on the plane* Folks, there hasn't been a terrorist attack. None of your friends and family are in danger. The president will be speaking in just a few minutes- LISTEN they're just nervous- they're getting emails and going online and seeing- ma'am no, you know-yeah get the captain...
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Jenna Perkin @jennaperkin.com · 27/07/2026
Been screaming this for so long. The anti-AI crowd needs to direct even half of their hatred for AI into an actual love for art.
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Jenna Perkin @jennaperkin.com · 27/07/2026
View from work.
Rooftop view of Detroit featuring the Ambassador Bridge and the superior Gordie Howe Bridge.
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Jenna Perkin @jennaperkin.com · 26/07/2026
If you ever get lost reason Ulysses there's a good chance someone is at a pub making fun of Bloom.
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julie muncy @julie.radiantarray.io · 24/07/2026
everyone talking about the odyssey reminds me of the most important lesson i ever learned in criticism
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