Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 15/10/2026gospel means "good news" and boy is this gospel 0201 0
Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Like have we all really just been using the same gritty ass PDF of that article every time we wanted to talk about it? So that if you don't actually have the whole issue in front of you, you miss the computer image because it was on the front page fold?? 070 0
Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 10/10/2026And he's probably right. I hate it here 000 0
Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Are we for real that we've never talked about this image of Pam Hart in the Spacewar issue of rolling Stone? Video game history is so unbelievably unserious 1173 0
Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 09/10/2026great tear down. "But fundamentally, the failure here is moral more than anything else." open.substack.com/pub/mattstol...open.substack.comParamount Stock CRUSHED After Merger with Warner Discovery ClosesIt’s not a happy ending, as billionaire David Ellison gives himself and his team huge raises, while planning big layoffs. But the really bad sign is he just fired the hitmakers from Warner Brothers. 2124 0
Reposted by Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 09/10/2026We absolutely should be horrified by reports of planned public executions and see them as an overt re-embrace of spectacle lynchings--while also understanding that the story of the "modern" death penalty in this country is inextricable from that history, rooted in racial violence & white supremacy.theintercept.comAlabama’s Lynching Memorial and the Legacy of Racial Terror in the SouthAt the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama, the historical link between lynching and the death penalty is hard to miss. 3612185 0
Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 08/10/2026just placed a delivery order on Chowhound that got me at $25 credit on Polymarket, god I hate this 061 0
Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 08/10/2026they gotta fire this man I mean u Chris DeMarco 000 0
Reposted by Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social · 06/10/2026These are absolutely horrible. All the incidents with descriptions are terrifying and heartbreaking. I just keep thinking: what if this happened to me? What if this happened to someone I love? Why is this happening to anyone? (I'm a naturalized citizen.) 0165 0
Reposted by Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥AAUP @aaup.org · 05/10/2026🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING: The AAUP is suing the Trump administration over new policies that threaten green card applicants with family separation. 1/ 1300101 0
Reposted by Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥Douglas Wilson @doougle.net · 03/10/2026"Polarization is [...] less the disease than democracy’s immune response to an unpopular, antidemocratic movement. Suppressing that response in the name of civility would only strengthen the movement and imperil pluralistic self-government." bsky.app/profile/dann... 1103 0
Reposted by Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥GamesIndustry.biz @gibiz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026"I haven't seen AI create anything fun. It can replicate, for sure, but I haven't seen anything fun come from AI yet," said a senior-level attendee at the GamesIndustry.biz HR Summit. "You can make crap quicker," quipped another. bit.ly/4yrkVQq 04411 0
Reposted by Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥Junji Beefo @effinslowbeef.com · 03/10/2026Well that's my weekend sorted 513210 0
Reposted by Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥ghosty @ghostytheeghost.bsky.social · 03/10/2026MHA choosing to go after *checks notes* a’ja wilson’s mother is certainly a choice 1162 0
Reposted by Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥Jenn Hatfield @jennhatfield.bsky.social · 03/10/2026ICYMI: The Washington Mystics strove to stay joyful through the ups and downs of a full #WNBA season. But that goal gets harder in the playoffs, when a loss can be season-ending. Read my story @theixsports.bsky.social about how Washington's season ended and the emotions around it:theixsports.comWashington Mystics' playoffs disappointment won’t define them | The IX BasketballAll season, the Washington Mystics wanted to stay joyful through the ups and downs. But on Wednesday, their season ended and sadness hit. 0166 0
Reposted by Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥Anatoly Shashkin💾 @dosnostalgic.bsky.social · 21/03/2026It is such a shame that cool people (I'm assuming unknowingly) keep showing up for that racist Jesse Petrilla's YouTube channel. 1126359 0
Reposted by Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥Space Quest Historian @spacequesthistorian.com · 02/10/2026I got an email from this guy yesterday. He's going to be at PRGE, probably networking and fishing for more interviews. My plea to any developers or industry people he approaches: Please don't accept his requests. Please don't enable hate. Everyone else, please be civil. Preferably just ignore. 410030 0
Reposted by Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Jesse Petrilla (Islamophobe right-wing grifter) keeps showing up in retro game spaces with a How Do You Do Fellow Kids energy and trying to ingratiate himself. This should be an easy one to say no to 312243 0
Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This is gonna be a blast! Mark your calendars for another fun, public, and 100% FREE ROMchip game history event! 0102 0
Reposted by Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I work at the newspaper and just wrote The Great Awokening is over, I’m both 79 and 12 years old and make 260,000 dollars a year from a man who sent Katy Perry into space on a rocket ship. As you can see, everyone else is the problem. 293391357 0
Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Probably, though the specific essay I was thinking of comes from an edited volume. It's footnoted in the Wikipedia page on the hacker conference 010 0
Reposted by Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 27/09/2026This is true. In 2016, I got into an argument with a gay man on a menswear forum. I've since made it my mission to make every man dress gay, thereby destroying his ability to tell who is actually gay and, ultimately, his chances of finding love. I built my social media following to achieve that goal 333154251291 0
Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It's one of those books that I continually pick up and then put down and pick up and put down-- long ass books are the death of me 😭😭 so I can't assess the entire thing but I'll say that I generally respect the work 020 0
Reposted by Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥Dave Parisi @daveparisi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Do I need to restart the timer? 041 0
Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Anyway.... I have too many other demands on my time to be able to write a good op-ed /rebuttal, but I will absolutely come on your tech podcast and break this down 080 0
Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 28/09/2026In this sense, Levy is not a reliable narrator because he can't account for his own role in producing the historical set of affairs that he seems so distressed by. I think we've seen a similar version of this historical anxiety in Swisher's work (ie, a late stage clumsy disavowal) 180 0
Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I believe Brand was actually borrowing from woz for the latter half, or kind of interpreting something woz was saying 010 0
Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Like I think you would have to have an incredibly weak political education to look at what these guys are up to and think this is where a utopian politics was possible. Fred Turner has written about how that conference sets up the libertarian politics of everything that follows. 3130 0
Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Several people in the comments have referred to the "information wants to be free" guys. There's no trace of that phrase prior to Stewart Brand saying it in 1984, at an invite-only, almost entirely male exclusive conference inspired by Levy's book HACKERS. 2170 0
Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Still getting mad about this every time I remember that Levy also LITERALLY INVENTED the idea of the "hacker" as a technoclass with a collective meaningful ideology, rather than, let's say, a bunch of guys doing a programmer's version of shitposting 1327 0
Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Being a tech writer doesn't make you a good historian, and it doesn't make you good at thinking historically. What I think goes uninterrogated here is the way in which both these guys' (but Levy in particular) fame and success was bound up in platforming all these dudes. 120 0
Reposted by Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥Alex Cranz @cranz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Laine, as always, is right on the money. companies flocked to SV because the military industrial complex had already gathered all the engineers, technology, and money there. A bunch of dudes in garages didn't build the infrastructure that made SV such a brilliant lab for developing new technology. 0142 0
Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Levy cites Markoff explicitly to backup parts of his analysis/claims. Markoff and Levy are fairly hand-in-glove in this regard 110 0
Reposted by Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 27/09/2026This is such an unbelievably, historically unserious bad take from Steven Levy, the light from bad takes would take a million billion years to reach it. www.wired.com/story/war-br...wired.comWar Bros Didn’t Always Rule Silicon ValleySome say that tech was always about the money and the military. Don’t buy that argument. 515344 0
Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Well put. It's especially odd to me that folks have taken the vapid non-politics of the technocounterculture as meaningful, when like... actual radical political practice was happening all around them. Thinking that Jobs is a radical when Mario Savio is more or less his contemporary is so silly 000 0
Reposted by Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Cookie speedrun happening on @bigbadgameathon.bsky.socialtwitch.tvBigBadGameAThon - Live on TwitchBig Bad Game-a-thon 2026! Cookie's Bustle by mooware | Streaming cookie's bustle for 292 viewers. 1133 0
Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Doing capitalism that doesn't necessarily look like capitalism is still capitalism bro 050 0
Reposted by Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I appreciate this w/r/t the conversation we had this year about the early Us game industry not thinking of themselves as workers, and that doing coke and reading Mad Magazine ≠ countercultural politics 181 0
Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Oooh, would Love to see some historical work on some of these lesser-known figures 110 0
Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 27/09/2026lol @daveparisi.bsky.social just text me "20 minutes and still going!" time to log off 😭😭 2330 0
Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Okay apparently I'm not done 😭 But I feel like the insistence on these men's (always, always, men's) idealism is standing in for a lot. What is "idealism" in the absence of an articulated politics? What is "idealism" amidst a failure to critique one's own position of power? It's bullshit. 2699 0
Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The turn to Markoff tells u all u need to know 010 0