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Jeffrey Rousseau

@jrpotential.bsky.social
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Haitian | award-winning journalist | formerly Gamesindustry.biz | 📝 freelancer | Art | Music | Health | diversity advocate | Fashionista | Creator |Product of Miami, FL. lvl 40 he/him 🌻

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Jeffrey Rousseau @jrpotential.bsky.social · 40m
Damn near caught a heart attack. (Make sure that word doc has auto save & auto backup)
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Kate Sánchez @ohmymithrandir.bsky.social · 1h
Most of you who have worked with me know how hard I try to give homes for pieces that mean a lot to people. How hard we work to make sure we can commission pieces when they've fallen through elsewhere. It's rough out there and we can really only get through this big ol' mess if we help each other <3
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Jeffrey Rousseau @jrpotential.bsky.social · 5h
I don't play Deadlock but my peoples who do said there's a new character Solomon who is me in a few decades. & I agree!
The character Solomon from DeadlockThe character Solomon from Deadlock seen playing chess
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Jeffrey Rousseau @jrpotential.bsky.social · 6h
Anyway, because people don't talk about rap on here [we'll address demographics that 1 day :) ] Here's a new tape to bump youtu.be/T-s8Vhu9us0
youtu.be
INTIMATE
YouTube video by Wakai - Topic
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Jeffrey Rousseau @jrpotential.bsky.social · 20h
There's a cool irony that I find 1 of my blog posts as the top result for how job hunting is very unhuman these days.
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Ana Diaz @pokachee.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If you are in a position where you can do anything at all about this, please, please advocate for women of color in media. There are so few women and nonbinary people period. Even less of them are non-white.
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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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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...
eurogamer.net
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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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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Jeffrey Rousseau @jrpotential.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Serious research is fascinating; there are no broken systems. But systems operating as they are meant to The US is an amazingly oppressive country in every imaginable way, with great PR.
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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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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 29/09/2026
Google Maps images show scale of Israel's destruction of Gaza, where more than 74,000 Palestinians have been killed.
aljazeera.com
Satellite images show Gaza in ruins three years into Israel's genocidal war
Google Maps images show scale of Israel's destruction of Gaza, where more than 74,000 Palestinians have been killed.
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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 28/09/2026
Hi, I'm looking to speak to people who have left games journalism in the last few years and have gone onto do something else. DMs are open, or luke@aftermath.site, thanks!
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gita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
dressmaker is a game about how it's impossible to sew a straight seam and thank god for that aftermath.site/dressmaker-s...
aftermath.site
I Love The Frustratingly Realistic Sewing In Dressmaker
Do you remember the reality show Project Runway? Not the zombified new version on the cable network Freeform, but the original run of the show on Bravo back in 2004. I was obsessed with that show, not...
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Isaiah D. Colbert @shineyezehuhh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I felt like a freak librarian balking at the price tag my friend's bookstore was asking for Animerica issues that were, to me, an archival treasure trove.
Save for Anime News Network and AnimeCorner, major pop culture coverage of anime exists only through one writer and a few lucky contributors fighting to make space in online magazines. And even when coverage does happen, it's funneled through an SEO glut that gamifies anime and manga like DraftKings sports bets, covering series only by comparing weekly readership and sales with clickbait headlines about them being “dethroned.” That shit sucks. I’d rather look at fan art submissions from readers depicting the tricky anatomical nightmare of an anime kiss or Animerica’s knock-off Dear Abby-style advice column, where Maison Ikkoku’s Kyoko Otonashi dishes out the perfect makeshift anime cosplay and merch-crafting kits.
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WNBA @wnba.com · 28/09/2026
The making of a special moment ✨ An inside look at Olivia Miles finding out she’s the 2026 WNBA Kia Rookie of the Year! #KiaROY | #WNBASeason30
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Jeffrey Rousseau @jrpotential.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
cornellsun.com
EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I think it’s fair to say that the student journalists at Cornell are braver than the news networks who just gave up on their WH pool ban even though CNN is still being denied access. www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
cornellsun.com
EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
HUGE: Autozone workers just won the first ever union at the company. Despite Autozone spending an estimated $210,696 and using every tactic in the book to stop just 11 workers from forming a union, the small shop in New York chose to unionize today. These workers will now join the @uaw.org.
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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
do people know that if a writer gets something wrong in an article you can just send them a polite little message and most of the time they'll correct it and be very grateful
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Jeffrey Rousseau @jrpotential.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Conversations on bringing iced coffee to an interview. Curious But not on why aren't more people getting interviews in the first place. More curious.
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R.T. Ester @shoutoutmapes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Congressional Black Caucus links up with Palantir to honor Shirley Chisolm's legacy
A digital banner inside the Walter E. Washington Convention Center shows Palantir and their brand logo listed among the Congressional Black Caucus
Annual Legislative Conference's "top
supporters."Palantir Named A Top
Supporter' At CBC
Foundation's Annual
Conference
The controversial data and Al firm
which has millions of dollars of
contracts with ICE, has been trying to
curry favor with Democratic-aligned
groups.
By Brianna Tucker
Sep 23, 2026, 06:53 PM EDT
Updated 21 hours agoOn one digital banner that led to the
vendor hall expo, the firm was listed
among the conference's "top
supporters." The background
featured a faded portrait of Shirley
Chisholm, the first Black woman
elected to Congress, whose
campaign motto "unbought and
unbossed" symbolized resistance to
corporate influence
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I think the "debate" about bringing iced coffee to job interviews is effective at distracting people from the really bad job market, the high unemployment rate for Black women, ongoing mass layoffs in tech and media, and how Gen Z workers are refusing to adopt many toxic aspects of corp work culture
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 25/09/2026
Why it took years for a story about Bobby Kotick sending journalists legal threats to come out aftermath.site/aftermath-hour...
bobby kotick looking unhappy (from the film moneyball)
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Jeffrey Rousseau @jrpotential.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
@austinwalker.bsky.social aye man, I know you busy. But I think you need to see this right here. Because uuuuu weeee
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Pablo Torre @pablo.show · 25/09/2026
We had already requested comment from 14 sports figures who got paid to speak at/promote Life Surge (on account of allegations like the ones below). We've already exchanged messages with several of these people's reps. None of them has provided any kind of statement.
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Jeffrey Rousseau @jrpotential.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I wouldn't have my Black child in the public eye like this. But maybe that's just me.
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Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🧵Thread from one of the original reporters of the WSJ investigation here, again reiterating that their work was never corrected or altered, despite Kotick/Clare Locke pressuring other outlets to consider it "debunked".
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Jeffrey Rousseau @jrpotential.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Legitimately think I could get some motion going as a researcher
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Justin Carter @gigawattconduit.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
Haven't seen any reviews or writeups from Black critics--if there have been, please shout em out--but I'm still thinking about this
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Jeffrey Rousseau @jrpotential.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Jeffrey Rousseau @jrpotential.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A service to people: "Jones has tracked nearly 60,000 fake jobs that he says he has helped yank from the internet, most on LinkedIn and some on the website Teal. Working into the wee hours of the morning, he has flagged about 7,000 scam profiles, including many funneling applicants to those roles."
wsj.com
The Vigilante Who’s Taking Down Recruitment Scammers, One Fake Job Ad at a Time
He calls himself The Profiler and he has made it his mission to root out the bane of job seekers everywhere.
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Alex Van Aken @itsvanaken.games · 24/09/2026
I traveled to Washington, D.C. to help People Make Games film this important investigation led by @leadergrev.bsky.social. Help fund more of their work: Patreon.com/PeopleMakeGames
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Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Thanks to Mikhail Klimentov (@leadergrev.bsky.social) for bringing this story to us, having first been tipped off to Kotick's campaign against the press a couple of years ago. Since then he's become obsessed with tracking down the various legal threats being sent to journalists behind the scenes.
A still from the video, showing Mikhail looking into the camera.
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Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
In recent years, the media has quietly begun to change the way in which it writes about Bobby Kotick, the former CEO of Activision Blizzard. PMG investigates how Kotick used the threat of defamation to reshape his legacy in the games business, one article at a time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKwp...
youtube.com
Inside Bobby Kotick's Campaign Against the Press
YouTube video by People Make Games
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404 Media @404media.co · 23/09/2026
The FBI's Remote Operations Unit (ROU) is a highly secretive team of hackers making exploits and tools to break into target’s devices. Some of its members just got exposed.
404media.co
FBI Hack Exposed FBI’s Own Hacking Unit
The FBI's Remote Operations Unit (ROU) is a highly secretive team of hackers making exploits and tools to break into target’s devices. Some of its members just got exposed.
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Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's telling that most YouTubers I know have reacted to the idea of this with utter *exasperation* lol. We like having the option to A/B test titles and thumbnails after having spent so long on PMG videos, but this ceaseless push towards data-driven optimization makes me want to crumble into dust.
A social media post from the YouTube Creators account, detailing a new feature coming to the platform. It reads:

"stop guessing what hooks your audience 🎣 with video A/B testing, you can test up to 3 edits of a Short or video simultaneously. review the stats, pick the clear winner, and seamlessly lock it in as your video.

launching to select creators in 2027."
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Jeffrey Rousseau @jrpotential.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
@discord.com great age verification roll out idea by the way. My whole server of fellow adults can't do anything on mobile. Good job
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Jeffrey Rousseau @jrpotential.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This Discord age verification rollout & implementation is some grade A bullshit in terms of inconvenience.
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Jeffrey Rousseau @jrpotential.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Shawty bad but I'm gift her all the good shea butter lotion
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Kate Sánchez @ohmymithrandir.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It's always weird when you have a level in a game that uses food as the shorthand for a culture. But Rayman Legends Retold does a really amazing job of making Mystic Mesa a place that I love and not loathe. My impressions here:
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'Rayman Legends Retold' Makes Mexico Scrumptious With "Mystic Mesa" - Hands-On Preview
Rayman Legends Retold reimagines its classic Mexico-inspired world, and it's doing so with music, mechanics, and a vibrant joy.
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 22/09/2026
Messy Roblox lawsuit includes salaries paid in Robux, ownership disputes: aftermath.site/tower-defense-...
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Jeffrey Rousseau @jrpotential.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I love more & more that when talking to regular folks & they openly share their antagonism with capitalism & how it needs to be destroyed & it's proprietors tossed out. Uuu wee, more people I might call comrades one day? Don't promise me a good time now.
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Game Devs of Color Expo @gdocexpo.com · 21/09/2026
The global game community is diverse. The industry isn't. GDoCExpo is an online conference that exists to close that gap. Celebrate creativity & culture in games w/ us! This week: talks, panels, interviews, networking, community demos, Direct, grant awards & watch parties! Who we are & what we do👇🏽
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Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh.com · 22/09/2026
Don’t call layoffs and closures stuff like “reset” or “refresh” or “rejuvenation” or “rejigger” or “reshuffle” unless you’re trying to get clapped.
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Juan Vaca @juancow.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I am part of this round of layoffs and am seeking new opportunities. If your team needs a narrative director / storyteller, please reach out.
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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Nolan Xavier Wells 💜🕊️ Video Description: Nolan Wells is not forgotten. His story is never ending. Mychal is a librarian who remembers, who loves Nolan Wells. We remember Nolan. Say his name.
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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 22/09/2026
microsoft have essentially bought up and bulldozed almost an entire american arts industry as a half-hearted distraction from their main project of trying to monopolise and rent-seek global digital infrastructure and military contracts
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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
😐 kotaku.com/xbox-reset-2...
kotaku.com
Xbox Lays Off 268 As 'Reset' Continues
Halo will now be developed by Activision, while 343 retains a small support team for existing games
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