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Three More Years @threemoreyears.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

And the best definition of empathy and how it relates to storytelling that you'll hear this decade from cirquesaw's @nicoleorabona.bsky.social and @nathanleigh.bsky.social at 2026 @narrascope.org : www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMiL...

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NarraScope 2026: Storytelling as Embodied Empathy

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Andrew | BUY INDIEPOCALYPSE ➡️ PRGE @pizzapranks.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

This Saturday, Indiepocalypse Radio returns at 2PM ET with guests @nathanleigh.bsky.social & @nicoleorabona.bsky.social, @beewertheimer.com, and samira herber (samiraherber.itch.io)! Tune in it at www.indiepocalypse.com/radio Send questions to www.indiepocalypse.com/questions

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Danny DeVito offering you an mp3 and advertising that Indiepocalypse Radio happens Saturdays at 2pm ET

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Carol Mertz @carolmertz.itch.io · 14/03/2026

This year’s @exgs.bsky.social Experimental Games Showcase at @officialgdc.bsky.social was such a joy to help organize and be a part of. Thank you so much to everyone who presented, organized, showed up to pack the room, and came to demo. What an absolute honor to work with these people. ♥️

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Nathan Leigh || labRats @nathanleigh.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Wow!!!!!!! There are a lot of good things that have happened over the past year, but one of the undeniable best was finding NarraScope. The feeling is so mutual.

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Nathan Leigh || labRats @nathanleigh.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

using cirqueSaw's advanced RealHuman™ technology, we render observable reality down to the quantum level for maximum immersion (unless quantum physics is wrong and it's all strings or something idk I'll be honest, I got a C+ in physics). Come check out labRats to see how RealHuman™ can benefit you!

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Nicole Orabona @nicoleorabona.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Love the additional layer of irony that two of the hyper wealthy and privileged children on The White Lotus are played by nepo babies. #thewhitelotus

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Nicole Orabona @nicoleorabona.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Exactly why @nathanleigh.bsky.social and I are making cirqueSaw the way we are.

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Nicole Orabona @nicoleorabona.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

No one: Me: I hope our postal carrier likes us more than the other houses on the block because I send so much mail.

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Nicole Orabona @nicoleorabona.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Ok I’m no longer mad Harmona Lisa was saved just to have seen her discover what beaver means. #rupaulsdragrace

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Nicole Orabona @nicoleorabona.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Lil feature on Void Main in this new zine!

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Nicole Orabona @nicoleorabona.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Today in theatre research I learned wood chucks cannot chuck wood (hence the tongue twister) but their name is of course a bastardization of an Algonquin name for the animal, wuchak.

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Nicole Orabona @nicoleorabona.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Alright. As an artist, social media manager, and person invested in my community I’m going to make a good faith effort to use blue sky. Drop your tips or unspoken rules of engagement I may not know.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Colombian President Gustavo Petro's full post ordering an increase of import tariffs on U.S. goods, says he doesn't really like traveling to the U.S. because it's “a bit boring” and invokes the ancestors

Trump, I don't really like travelling to the US, it's a bit boring, but I confess that there are some commendable things. I like going to the black neighbourhoods of Washington, where I saw an entire fight in the US capital between blacks and Latinos with barricades, which seemed like nonsense to me, because they should join together.

I confess that I like Walt Whitman and Paul Simon and Noam Chomsky and Miller

I confess that Sacco and Vanzetti, who have my blood, are memorable in the history of the USA and I follow them. They were murdered by labor leaders with the electric chair, the fascists who are within the USA as well as within my country

I don't like your oil, Trump, you're going to wipe out the human species because of greed. Maybe one day, over a glass of whiskey, which I accept, despite my gastritis, we can talk frankly about this, but it's difficult because you consider me an inferior race and I'm not, nor is any Colombian.

So if you know someone who is stubborn, that's me, period. You can try to carry out a coup with your economic strength and your arrogance, like they did with Allende. But I will die in my law, I resisted torture and I resist you. I don't want slavers next to Colombia, we already had many and we freed ourselves. What I want next to Colombia are lovers of freedom. If you can't accompany me, I'll go elsewhere. Colombia is the heart of the world and you didn't understand that, this is the land of the yellow butterflies, of the beauty of Remedios, but also of the colonels Aureliano Buendía, of which I am one, perhaps the last.

You will kill me, but I will survive in my people, which is before yours, in the Americas. We are peoples of the winds, the mountains, the Caribbean Sea and of freedom.

You don't like our freedom, okay. I don't shake hands with white slavers. I shake hands with the white libertarian heirs of Lincoln and the black and white farm boys of the USA, at whose graves I cried and prayed on a battlefield, which I reached after walking the mountains of Italian Tuscany and after being saved from Covid.

They are the United States and before them I kneel, before no one else.

Overthrow me, President, and the Americas and humanity will respond.

Colombia now stops looking north, looks at the world, our blood comes from the blood of the Caliphate of Cordoba, the civilization of that time, of the Roman Latins of the Mediterranean, the civilization of that time, who founded the republic, democracy in Athens; our blood has the black resistance fighters turned into slaves by you. In Colombia is the first free territory of America, before Washington, of all America, there I take refuge in its African songs.

My land is made up of goldsmiths who worked in the time of the Egyptian pharaohs and of the first artists in the world in Chiribiquete.

You will never rule us. The warrior who rode our lands, shouting freedom, who is called Bolívar, opposes us.

Our people are somewhat fearful, somewhat timid, they are naive and kind, loving, but they will know how to win the Panama Canal, which you took from us with violence. Two hundred heroes from all of Latin America lie in Bocas del Toro, today's Panama, formerly Colombia, which you murdered.

I raise a flag and as Gaitán said, even if it remains alone, it will continue to be raised with the Latin American dignity that is the dignity of America, which your great-grandfather did not know, and mine did, Mr. President, an immigrant in the USA,

Your blockade does not scare me, because Colombia, besides being the country of beauty, is the heart of the world. I know that you love beauty as I do, do not disrespect it and you will give it your sweetness.

FROM TODAY ON, COLOMBIA IS OPEN TO THE ENTIRE WORLD, WITH OPEN ARMS, WE ARE BUILDERS OF FREEDOM, LIFE AND HUMANITY.

I am informed that you impose a 50% tariff on the fruits of our human labor to enter the United States, and I do the same.

Let our people plant corn that was discovered in Colombia and feed the world

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Nathan Leigh || labRats @nathanleigh.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

my partner and I made a live interactive short form ASCII art animation about our very melodramatic cat that we perform from time to time! this is the filmed version. youtu.be/Uc9XvKWBLEw

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Cat Stuff (April 2024)

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Nicole Orabona @nicoleorabona.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Freezing your leftover soups is like leaving little gifts to your future self.

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Nicole Orabona @nicoleorabona.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

A day in our life. (Sadly one without soup)

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Nicole Orabona @nicoleorabona.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I’m of an age where if I have to squint to read your name on the Coachella lineup, I definitely don’t know who you are.

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Nicole Orabona @nicoleorabona.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Hot soup tip: you don’t have to take the thyme leaves off the stem. Just throw em in there and after it boils a bit they leaves will fall off and you can remove the stem.