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laborkyle @laborkyle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Joining the genre debate on the side of "its true because I said it" to sharpen the contradictions of the shitty hot take industrial apparatus kylestevenkern.substack.com/p/um-actuall...

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Jon @thelitcritguy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If you'd like to know what reading dozens upon dozens of 40k novels can do to a person, I invite you to listen to the below.

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laborkyle @laborkyle.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

using a great year for music to further broaden my horizons and it's going great. AOTYs so far include black metal about memory; blackgaze but also j-rock; blackgaze but also chiptune and about LOTR; a re-record of bedroom blackgaze from 10 years ago; two ambient albums about japan; and slayyyter

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laborkyle @laborkyle.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

there is no one i know personally more deserving of this. so excited.

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laborkyle @laborkyle.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Why does every mom have a 'secret trick' and why is it always reheating your coffee in the microwave

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laborkyle @laborkyle.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

i for one think it was the wisdom of the court that gifted Alito the giant monument at his vacation home that says 'ALL DOGS ARE BOYS AND ALL CATS ARE GIRLS' rather than Princess Debasia von Racistburg of Anterberry and Thombs, his very close friend.

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Gaius (from Tribunate) @gaius.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

The crisis of the third century peaked after the capture of Valerian when Rome entered its most volatile period in its history. Rebellion and disorder culminated in the succession of western provinces into a new Gallic Empire youtu.be/8Zb43Vafkhw?...

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The Gallic Empire: Rise and Fall of a Rogue State

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laborkyle @laborkyle.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

not to make this about me but you can't imagine how fun and enlightening it is to watch these get put together. Jon's back in CA.

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laborkyle @laborkyle.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

My advice for incoming graduate students is put down the prep reading, get an oil change, and go to the eye doctor. Unless youre phding in a science that examines the impact of engine failure on chronic eye strain, there's probably a grant somewhere

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laborkyle @laborkyle.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

watching Love Island for the first time. like a 60 minute deodorant commercial. very fond of the testimonials that include their wisdom and quirks, lines like 'love and heartbreak are different'

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laborkyle @laborkyle.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

was planning on remaining humble and wise to the depth of the human spirit from which there is an endless bounty of meaning, but my fiddle-leaf fig is thriving, which of course means i'm just better than other people. purer of soul.

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Taylor (5'5") @vertarchy.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Big news for LaborKyleHeads

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Workers’ Lit Podcast @workerslit.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

The announcement of "Xenoblade Genesis" implies the existence of "Xenoblade Exodus," "Xenoblade Numbers," "Xenoblade Deuteronomy," and so on, with 66 games in total to come.

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laborkyle @laborkyle.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

lost my capacity for critical distance on this one

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Jon @thelitcritguy.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

NEW WRITING: Hegel, contra the Primarchs: "Horus’s rebellion is not mere ambition or supernatural corruption but the violent attempt of the Particular to reassert itself against a Universal that has withdrawn into abstraction" www.patreon.com/posts/158429...

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laborkyle @laborkyle.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

There's a new history podcast and it's so good all other podcasts are illegal now!

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laborkyle @laborkyle.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

None of you told me they made a new Bubsy so none of you are going to heaven sorry

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laborkyle @laborkyle.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

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laborkyle @laborkyle.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

showed my gd face on something for once today

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laborkyle @laborkyle.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

excellent, the plan worked. now do @kayandskittles.bsky.social ................. :) please and ty

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autumn wright 🍂 @autumn-wright.com · 21/04/2026

Whisper of the Heart is in theaters today, so here's what I wrote for its 30th anniversary last year! Kondo's Ghibli film remains a relevant portrait of what finding connection in an urbanizing, digital world feels like.

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Whisper Of The Heart left a lo-fi legacy unique to Studio Ghibli

Yoshifumi Kondō's mundane, romantic 1995 cult classic Whisper Of The Heart remains a prescient rejoinder to technological advances.

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laborkyle @laborkyle.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

obsessed with the quiet stares from university students trying to figure out who the fuck these old men are

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Jon @thelitcritguy.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

New writing: " I came here too late. The party is already over, anyone left is a ghost, muttering fragments of words I don’t fully understand." On Dark Souls: www.patreon.com/posts/154543...

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laborkyle @laborkyle.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

I won a fake oral argument hearing for summary judgment. Celebrating (standing around)

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laborkyle @laborkyle.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Keep Honking! I'm Reciting Lyrics From Joanna Newsom's Meteoric Sensation 'Ys' So I can Memorize It Like Epic Poetry

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Kay And Skittles @kayandskittles.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

New video about the Green Knight, and about us. youtu.be/-wVcMd4iNV8

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The Green Knight Is Irrational

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laborkyle @laborkyle.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

My take, adapted from my @horrorvanguard.bsky.social precis, on a two-hour Golden Age of Hollywood throwback musical about a down-on-his-luck artist/performer and the woman who loved him despite his difficult past, self-destructive tendencies, and that time he shot Robert de Niro in the face.

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laborkyle @laborkyle.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

law drag names so far: Miss Daya Gnosis Murdeh St. Atute Neglige T. Homicide Judge Learned Hand

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Jon @thelitcritguy.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Big thanks to both @laborkyle.bsky.social and @sanktmaxtci.bsky.social for talking about this with me in the process of writing this up!

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laborkyle @laborkyle.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

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Kay And Skittles @kayandskittles.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Davey Wreden is consistently cited as one of the greatest indie devs working and his studio couldn't get funding after putting out a successful game. What the fuck do we have to do man.

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laborkyle @laborkyle.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

what an industry. critical and commercial success, creativity, social relevance and hard work an unsustainable business model and almost 100k units on steam not enough to hit the floor for doing it again. this fucking sucks, there is so much talent here.

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laborkyle @laborkyle.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

"Folie à deux is a desecration of familiar form, reveling in this perverted American sensibility with greater aplomb than any of the films it imitates, and doing so by devouring itself."

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Shout Hallelujah, C'mon Get Happy

Notes on Joker: Folie à deux

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laborkyle @laborkyle.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

AGAB nation, A Dream About Parking Lots is celebrating its first anniversary with a discount. Go get the game our podcast has described as "you have to play or you will go to gamer jail (the farplane from final fantasy x)"

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laborkyle @laborkyle.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

I lured @lleon779.bsky.social of @interactivedreams.bsky.social onto the pod with a loose copy of kentucky route 0 and he graciously decided to stick around and talk about a few of his games, which the Nation of AGAB have canonized via our Best of the Year list from 2025.

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All Gamers Are Bastards @agabpod.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

61 - Interactive Dreams: Explicating Anxiety and the Beauty of Living w/ Luis León We're joined in the Podcasting Dungeon by Luis León from @interactivedreams.bsky.social to talk about THREE of his games in one go. soundcloud.com/agabpod/61-i...

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laborkyle @laborkyle.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

If you cant love me at my whoopsie daisy yoo hoo then you dont deserve me at my will you still love me when im no longer young and beautiful

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