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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton's family asked that, in lieu of flowers, fans make a donation to the singer's Imagination Library. Here's what the charity does ⬇️ www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

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Turning Pages: Inside Dolly Parton's Imagination Library

Core team of 15 staff and thousands of volunteers and partners help the country-music philanthropist deliver books to kids around the world.

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Nicole "not like Supernatural" Winchester ➡️ 4S26 @noizangel.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

tfw you walk off the streetcar and across the road in perfect time with the song on your headphones. on beat like Beyonce and unstoppable.

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Beyonce Live on Stage

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Nicole "not like Supernatural" Winchester ➡️ 4S26 @noizangel.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

tfw your writing group is like 'we want to read the smut!!! give us the pr0n, we love the characters' and you're like ok and anxiously post a scene after giving ample caveats and content warnings... and then quiet. so uh hoping no one is traumatized lol

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Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I'm back to the "academic review" part of the summer, and begging fellow intellectuals *not* to persuade themselves against their own ideas using the Big Names of their own fields. Self-flagellation before scholars who don't even know you exist (while ignoring the others) accomplishes nothing.

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Frans Mäyrä @fransmayra.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

We are very happy to share the news: the full Open Access version of our book is now available! You can download the whole book, as well as individual 19 chapters as separate files from here: www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi... Please feel free to download the book, chapters, and spread the word!

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Cultural Game Studies | Critical Approaches | Frans Mäyrä, Raine Koski

Cultural Game Studies provides a comprehensive framework for understanding games and play as interconnected cultural phenomena, examining their roles as art,

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David M. Luebke @davidmluebke.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Just like that, a new Center for the Humanities at the University of Texas. Anyone who inhabits academia knows that this doesn't just "happen" without a gigantic sums of mega-donor money and the connivance of senior university administrators. #WarOnEducation www.statesman.com/news/educati...

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UT quietly opens Center for Humanities but won't say how it was created

UT is adding 14 professors through a new humanities center, though the university has not explained how the initiative was formed.

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Chris Richards @eclecticradical.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

The greatest failure of the English language is the freedom it grants us to believe things that are not true, i.e. “It is raining, but I do not believe it is raining.”

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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Their plan was to sail to the Catskills

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

if author interviews were like athlete interviews: "You just wrote a book but are you washed?" "This other guy just wrote his first book, do you feel threatened? Did that give you a personal vendetta against him?" "You had carpal tunnel surgery 4 years ago, is your career over?"

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Dragon "Gay'ed Too Close to the Sun" Fish @dragonfish.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

They removed the sex From the puritan movie About limiting sex Well done folks, we have reached peak "Everyone is hot, no one is horny" 10/10 No notes

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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

US university hires world-renowned Israeli genocide expert to lead Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and then fires him when he says that Israel is committing genocide.

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

The TikTok girlies are referring to Amanda Palmer as “steampunk Ghislaine Maxwell” and damn

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Ken Childs @thekenchilds.com · 07/08/2026

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Karen Twelves @ktwelves.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Hire me to edit your games I will remove about 75% of the instances of "that" if not more but I still charge by the word pre-edit so yeah sorry you still gotta pay for each "that."

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Nicole "not like Supernatural" Winchester ➡️ 4S26 @noizangel.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

uh hi folks sorry for being a little not present my pfp is me at a larp!!! come see me talk about why game studies sucks and what to do about it at @thechristinet.bsky.social and @alexross73.bsky.social's panel at #4SToronto26 on Oct. 7th at 8AM no, i'll totally be awake i won't look like this

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Charlie Day's Pepe Silvia Conspiracy

Alt: Charlie Day's Pepe Silvia Conspiracy

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Nicole "not like Supernatural" Winchester ➡️ 4S26 @noizangel.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

ok i'm on that dark reverse harem romance, pope! they're probably sorta catholic, they're romans

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Daniel Munro @dkmunro.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

“There is now a dazzling diversity of content….There’s simply no necessity for public broadcasting.” On the contrary, it’s precisely because of media diversity (fragmentation) that we need a public broadcaster for a shared national conversation. 1/4 www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/7ff7d5d...

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The cozy world of Hockey Night in Canada and the CBC hasn’t existed for some time

There is no case for a general interest public broadcaster

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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 19/06/2026

I wish I could say I was surprised that no major comics voices have acknowledged @stephwilliams.bsky.social's historic Eisner nomination for Best Writer. But this silence is just the latest injustice in a long history of them. To wit, from my 2018 Christopher Priest profile: archive.is/0J97j

Priest, who’s 56, is about to see some of his most influential work go wide in a major way. His turn-of-the-millennium run at Marvel Comics, when he was writing the character Black Panther, has served as an inspiration for this year’s feverishly anticipated Marvel Studios film Black Panther. Given the comics world’s self-image of liberal inclusivity, and the fact that Priest is the first black writer to work full time at either Marvel or DC, starting with his first regular writing gig back in 1983, you might think he is long established as an elder statesman of the industry.
But until recently, Priest had bounced from job to job (including the aforementioned bus driving) and was largely denied the recognition he deserves. Indeed, talk to comics historians and they’ll have to pause for a minute and think before they conclude that, yes, he probably was the first African-American writer to truly break that barrier in superhero comics. Even among fervent fans, his milestones are far from common knowledge. He’d worked in quasi-obscurity for three decades before angrily retiring in 2005, opting to pursue work as a man of God in Colorado.

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Atima Omara @atimaomara.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

It’s #Juneteeth! Find a way to support Black people today. And one way to do that? Buy (or request from library) Black Author’s Books that speak to this moment (thread 🧵) Like, The Instigators: How Black Women Have Been Essential To American Democracy (And What We Can Learn From Them)

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The Instigators: How Black Women Have Been Essential to American Democracy (And What We Can Learn from Them)

How Black Women Have Been Essential to American Democracy (And What We Can Learn from Them)

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

A man interviews for a job. The interviewer points to a literal wordless gap in the interviewee's resume and asks "what is this gap on your resumé" The interviewee, with an evil grin implores the interviewer to "look closer..." The interviewer sweats as he witnesses and evil aura with ominous humming noises emotting from the resume. The interviewer now finds himself trapped in the gap in the resume. The interviewee laughs malevolently.

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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Everyone who is scared of cities and multiculturalism is a loser.

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Ben Shapiro's Eye Merkins @toxidrone.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Jesus fucking Christ of course Israel is still doing that thing where they play the sound of crying children from drones. To cause distress? To lure helpers and kill them? Yes, both. This time in Lebanon. Nazi country. Absolute fucking Nazi country. www.middleeasteye.net/news/south-l...

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In south Lebanon, Israeli drones use the sound of crying children to lure civilians

As in Gaza, residents say Israel is waging psychological warfare on civilian life and its soundscape

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Pansy (Trying on a name) @sagegnosis.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I still 100% remember where I was when I heard about the Pulse shooting and I can still taste the fear and anxiety that I felt in that moment. 10 years later.

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Alejandro Barrios Martinez, 21 years old
Amanda Alvear, 25 years old
Angel L. Candelario-Padró, 28 years old
Anthony Luis Laureano Disla, 25 years old
Antonio Davon Brown, 29 years old
Brenda Lee Marquez McCool, 49 years old
Christopher “Drew” Andrew Leinonen, 32 years old
Christopher Joseph Sanfeliz, 24 years old
Cory James Connell, 21 years old
Darryl Roman Burt II, 29 years old
Deonka Deidra Drayton, 32 years old
Eddie Jamoldroy Justice, 30 years old
Edward Sotomayor Jr., 34 years old
Enrique L. Rios, Jr., 25 years old
Eric Ivan Ortiz-Rivera, 36 years old
Frank Hernandez, 27 years old
Franky Jimmy Dejesus Velázquez, 50 years old
Geraldo A. Ortiz-Jimenez, 25 years old
Gilberto Ramon Silva Menendez, 25 years old
Jason Benjamin Josaphat, 19 years old
Javier Jorge-Reyes, 40 years old
Jean C. Nives Rodriguez, 27 years old
Jean Carlos Mendez Perez, 35 years old
Jerald “Jerry” Arthur Wright, 31 years old
Joel Rayón Paniagua, 32 years old
Jonathan Antonio Camuy Vega, 24 years old
Juan Chavez Martinez, 25 years old
Juan P. Rivera Velázquez, 37 years old
Juan Ramón Guerrero, 22 years old
KJ Morris, 37 years old
Leroy Valentin Fernández, 25 years old
Luis Daniel Conde, 39 years old
Luis Daniel Lestat Wilson-Leon, 37 years old
Luis Omar Ocasio-Capo, 20 years old
Luis S. Vielma, 22 years old
Martin Benitez Torres, 33 years old
Mercedez Marisol Flores, 26 years old
Miguel Angel Honorato, 30 years old
Oscar Aracena-Montero, 26 years old
Paul Terrell Henry, 41 years old
Peter O. Gonzalez-Cruz, 22 years old
Rodolfo Ayala-Ayala, 33 years old
Shane Evan Tomlinson, 33 years old
Simón Adrián Carrillo Fernández, 31 years old
Stanley Almodovar III, 23 years old
Tevin Eugene Crosby, 25 years old
Xavier Emmanuel Serrano Rosado, 35 years old
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Nicole "not like Supernatural" Winchester ➡️ 4S26 @noizangel.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

why do you think the tech bros are so interested in greenland

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Wait, hold up, I'm sorry - the actual data supporting the conclusions of your 'academia is politicized and not data-based enough' report may or may not be published at some point? Proof is for the peasants at public universities, I guess.

Len Gutkin: One of the criticisms that you’ve gotten is that the report offers conclusions, but the bulk of the evidence is buried in the “detailed internal reports” that were compiled but which haven’t been published or released. Will they be published?

Appiah: The decision was made to allow the authors of those internal reports to decide whether or not to make them public. They were the basis of our deliberation. I will make mine, which is about literary criticism, public at some point, and I think others will. But on the whole, I think it was right to do it the way we have, because we need people to think about the main conclusions and the main arguments, which are in this document.

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 10/06/2026

1/3 of the game industry has lost their job in the last two years. Ubisoft closed two more studios today. Everyone is out of work. To that end I'm starting a new bundle to benefit a layoffs hardship fund. Game devs: please consider submitting your PAID games to the bundle, which will launch in July.

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Game industry hardship fund

A game jam from 2026-06-10 to 2026-06-24 hosted by Necrosoft Games. PREMISE: The game industry has a problem. Too many people are out of work (reports say 33% of the industry lost their jobs in the la...

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Nicole "not like Supernatural" Winchester ➡️ 4S26 @noizangel.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

"we are a set of everyday puzzle pieces that once assembled, look something like a country." well, that's a description of Canada i can agree on. my friend Blair Vermette & his team made this - thought @brocktoon.bsky.social might like it (& some of y'all) www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWRw...

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The World Lives Here - Narrated by Kiefer Sutherland

YouTube video by TSN

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 11/06/2026

people are saying they are happy we don’t have to go through a trial but i think a trial would have reminded people that this is the world the right has shaped. where you can be assassinated with your husband and your dog for having values. we can’t forget.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 11/06/2026

feeling a lot of unexpected grief today as the assassin of the Hortmans pleads guilty it just feels like a lot of people have forgotten what horrors have already happened

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Ian @brocktoon.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Because I also like a record of Engagement, me at Flaming Hydra: on the joys of watching people discover how weird we are in the USA and the necessary mirror it places up to us when they do. Also, weird is a good thing in this instance. flaminghydra.com/welcome-to-t...

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Welcome to the U.S.A.

My habitual morning dose of TikTok brainrot is one-third news, and two-thirds memes, short comedy, and bewildering weird stuff. Until roughly three days ago, when it became nearly wall to wall coverag...

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i’m just ken @shepardcdr.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Are you a Pokémon Go player of any era who has feelings about how the game's data has been used? Has it soured your memories of the game? Have you stopped playing because of it? Would you want to chat about it for a Kotaku story? Please reach out here or email me at kshepard@kotaku.com

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Nicole "not like Supernatural" Winchester ➡️ 4S26 @noizangel.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

this illustrates how the people who build technology embed their own ideas and values into technology. technologies are not neutral!!!

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Nicole "not like Supernatural" Winchester ➡️ 4S26 @noizangel.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

iirc (as others are noting) this has been known, aside from the murderbot part, for awhile - back to Ingress days even? just didn't seem to matter much

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Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

In the 1990s, the two *major* trends at the TTRPG publishers were (1) TCGs and (2) player-facing supplements. What we got from TSR was a brilliant array of settings: Forgotten Realms, Planescape, Dragonlance, Spelljammer, Dark Sun. As the supplement model recedes into history, we see the impact.

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Nicole "not like Supernatural" Winchester ➡️ 4S26 @noizangel.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

this is how history gets erased! i honestly wish the UN had the power or will to demand archives and a place to save them for the good of mfing humanity

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Alvaro M. Bedoya @bedoyausa.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

There are four key TV archives in the US: ABC, NBC, CBS and CNN. This is the footage filmmakers use to tell our history. If Paramount buys Warner Brothers, two of those archives - including 45 years of CNN footage- will be controlled by one company and likely one person, Bari Weiss.

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Michael Okun @michael-okun.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

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Mike Vorkunov @mikevorkunov.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

OG Anunoby, you just hit the greatest shot in MSG and Knicks history in more than 50 years. How does it feel? "It feels cool."

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

IT WORKED!! www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Knicks fans burning sage outside MSG ahead of Game 4 to purge the bad luck left behind from Trump's attendance
'It felt so dark yesterday, I was like, this is not the Garden that I know, the fan said

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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

if the knicks win for the first time since 1973 we're bringing back subway graffiti and kicking out all the oligarchs investing in unused midtown terrace lofts. times square will revert to its natural roots as a porn emporium

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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

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Nicole "not like Supernatural" Winchester ➡️ 4S26 @noizangel.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

bisexuality has always meant attraction regardless of gender some bisexuals might have preferences, but saying anything else is misinformation and not cool happy pride 💖💜💙

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