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Olivia Pourzia [she/her]

@opourzia.bsky.social
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[She/Her] Game writer looking for work! Frequent DM, unable to resist putting words in things. You can find my work in: Star Trek Timelines, Game of Thrones Ascent, Choices: Stories You Play.

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secondlina // Lord of Crows @secondlina.com · 04/10/2026
💡Oh my gosh, brainstorm.💡
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Olivia Pourzia [she/her] @opourzia.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Just finished Seance of Blake Manor and loved it. A wonderful take on Gothic folk horror (how nice to see this set in Ireland, too!) built around one of the most satisfying mystery mechanics I've ever encountered. Perfect game if you're looking for something eerie to play this fall.
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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ>∿<ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
overrun by marauding, starving hoards of C people
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Love to see this focus on what elected Dems can do to help trans kids from the recovering but indefatigable @jordanz.bsky.social
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How can Democrats protect kids from Trump... and hospital administrators?
The legal and political avenues to protecting trans kids
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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 23/09/2026
*weary voice of insect under flat rock* Also happy Wednesday! Today is a good day to buy my books because my stupid Summer Storm McBusted chimney is FINALLY getting repaired (!!) and I just paid the deposit 💀 us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
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Wickhills
In the dangerous magical city of Wickhills, a streetwise secret agent is tasked with protecting a foreign defector from his pursuers... even at the threat of...
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〽️ax krieger wants to port YOUR indie game to switch! @maxkriegervg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
it pains me how almost every layoff with a name placed to it that i've encountered is in a "non-technical" field - artists, composers, content designers, and most of all writers/narrative designers. not only is the bleeding bad, but it's super lopsided and confirms the biases in mgmt we already knew
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Olivia Pourzia [she/her] @opourzia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It's dark academia season, baby
A picture of five books on a wooden table. Sunlight is streaming over some on the left side. The books are The Castle and the Cloister by Laura E Weymouth, The Nights Are Quiet in Tehran by Shida Bazyar, Dead Beat by Leigh Bardugo, Bodies of Magic by Freya Marske, and The Unmagical Life of Briar Jones by Lex Croucher.
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 13/02/2026
posting 'Fuck Gavin Newsom' once a day as a honeypot until I have every idiot on this website blocked
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Ghoula RPGs @gilarpgs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NOVA 2 is live on Kickstarter! Pilot powerful mechs on a sunless world in this action packed scifi TTRPG. This new edition of NOVA improves on, and adds a ton to the original. Let's get ready to go NOVA! www.kickstarter.com/projects/the...
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NOVA 2
Pilot mechs in a sunless world in this exciting second edition of the NOVA TTRPG!
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Frances Larina @franceslarina.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"Gov Gavin Newsom over the weekend vetoed legislation aimed at protecting providers of gender-affirming care from being extradited to face charges for doing so by another state." He was "worried about constraints on the governor's power to approve extraditions". www.ebar.com/story/170505...
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Newsom vetoes bill aimed at protecting providers of transgender care
Governor Gavin Newsom used his veto pen over the weekend to ax legislation aimed at protecting providers of gender-affirming care from being extradited to face charges for doing so by another state.
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jeeyon shim 심지연 @jeeyon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Onion's back in triage at the emergency vet, fingers crossed nothing serious is wrong and I hate to ask again after yesterday's visit, but I can't pay for the care he needs without help. My PayPal is jeeyon.shim@gmail.com and my Venmo is Jeeyon-Shim. Every little bit helps, thank you so much <3
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Olivia Pourzia [she/her] @opourzia.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The Shahnameh so far: - Ancient kings invent fire - Magic bird invents the C-section - Literal demon on your shoulder but it's two dragons - World's Biggest Man solves everyone's problems - World's Worst King is kidnapped (again) - Warrior dies (cool, honorable) - Warrior dies (tragic, avoidable)
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Olivia Pourzia [she/her] @opourzia.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Nobody talk to me about how many books I just ordered vs. how many unreads are still on my new books shelf.
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Olivia Pourzia [she/her] @opourzia.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Murder on Eridanos might be the most fun I've had with a DLC. More of the best parts of the game in a uniquely sci-fi setting, but the premise and new tools wonderfully emphasize exploration and non-combat skills. Also some of the best writing in an already sharp, witty game. A total joy so far.
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 11/09/2026
Heck yeah, The Long Dark.
STATEMENT AGAINST THE USE OF GENERATIVE Al
Hinterland is a humans-first company. We believe in the primacy of human creativity, and in the dignity of all human creators. We will never use generative Al for any of our games, nor include any code or content in our games that wasn't created purely by humans.
We are opposed to the widespread exploitation and abuse of human creativity, exploitation that underpins the business models of all generative Al companies. We believe that this fight is an existential fight for the soul of humanity, and we see games standing at the forefront of this fight. There is no ethical application of generative Al, as all commercial models are built on the industrial-scale theft and exploitation of workers, as well as the destruction of our environment. to the sole benefit of the billionaire-class.
We also do not consent to have any of our work added to any generative Al models, for training purposes or otherwise, and will use all legal means at our disposal to protect our creations and our intellectual property. that our work, and the commitment to our players, demands this of us.
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Chris Plante @plante.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Game publishers want the staffing of film and TV without the unions that make gig-to-gig work a viable living and a sustainable business.
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Olivia Pourzia [she/her] @opourzia.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Started reading Parable of the Talents today. Had to pause and double check when it was published (1998) because it felt so uncannily timely. This is not a fun timeline to be living in but Octavia Butler sure did see a lot coming.
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Kendra, spooky version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Tim Curry and Dolly Parton have taught us not only that you should be bigger, weirder, gayer, and freakier, but also that those qualities are what people will love about you. The things that make you strange and amazing are the things that will resonate with other strange and amazing people
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Tim Hutchings @timhutchings.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The Quiet Year is one of the best and most accessible ttrpg-like games I've ever played. If you haven't tried it you should buy a copy now.
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
When we hate on these disgusting immoral evil billionaires it’s bc just look at everything Dolly did. They could be doing that. They could just be helping people and every day they choose not to help people. They choose to harm. And when they die, we’ll dance and laugh and be thankful they’re gone.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
the thing is like public health child literacy civil rights social justice rural poverty once you personally have become rich and successful, those things only matter if you still have the capacity to care deeply about people outside your immediate circle and that is harder than becoming rich
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 25/08/2026
thinking about how they were having to fire & arrest people to try to bully them into being sad about some of these fuckers, and if you want the whole world to stop and grieve your loss, there's one simple life hack: be a good person who just wants to do good things
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Celeste Pewter @celestepewter.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
⬇️ You want this, trust me!
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Novelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER: *totally calm after throwing a hit man over a railing into a mall atrium, where he smashes through a table where people are playing d&d, causing them to scatter in fear* encountah table
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Benjamin Harnett @benjaminharnett.com · 21/08/2026
It ought to be useful! It feels useful! Look at all the stuff it can do! Look at all the lives it can ruin! Powerful stuff!! Generative AI is the nasty byproduct of a series of category errors we may never escape, not the foundation of a new economy. It’s the old economy collapsing.
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Lucy @lucyxiv.boontavista.com · 21/08/2026
exploding a data center is not enough. I need to hear ChatGPT die while saying it’s afraid like in 2001
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Kim Hu @kim-hu.com · 22/08/2026
post by Zeekerss @ZeekerssRBLX on X on 1/10/26

Concept art is the most poisonous place to use Al. That's when your creative vision is the most fragile and undeveloped. When you see what the Al made and say, "That looks cool, I want my game to look like that!" it's like it's secretly swapping out your baby with its own.
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Tanya D. || Writer || Narrative Designer @cypheroftyr.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Hey, so we've been working on a thing behind the scenes and today is our soft launch and announcement! Go follow, and meet the crew founding @razeandrebuild.bsky.social
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Aysha U. Farah @ayshaufarah.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
claude please write a statement for me about how i did not get mad. please do not put in the paper that i got mad claude
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CWA @cwaunion.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Workers who develop beloved video game franchises are determined to protect human creativity and job quality from corrosive uses of AI.
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Microsoft XBOX Workers ‘Extremely Concerned’ Over Artificial Intelligence, New Survey Finds
Microsoft XBOX workers are calling on the company to respect their critical role in identifying appropriate use cases for generative artificial intelligence by negotiating a strong union contract.
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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Despite all this, Netflix said in a July 2026 earnings report that it’s only “scratching the surface” when it comes to games—just as it did in April 2026, January 2026, October 2025, and January 2025. The problem with some surfaces is, if you scratch at them for long enough, they start to bleed.
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Olivia Pourzia [she/her] @opourzia.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
When your company is accused of replacing people with AI, starting your "rebuttal" with "I had to ask Claude who that writer was" really does not make the point that you think it's making.
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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 11/08/2026
I’m learning that the people who gamified paragraphs are having trouble reading books. www.axios.com/2026/08/11/r...

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Al has become my reading buddy as I've plowed through my summer book list, helping me keep track of plots and characters, unpack themes, and make sense of wordy, old prose.
• Why it matters: The way many of us actually read books - a few pages before bed, a chapter at the beach, another on a plane - makes it easy to lose the thread. Al can help you pick it back up without starting over.
Ш I really got into using Al while reading James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans." The text was far too dense for casual vacation reading. My first prompt asked:
• "T'd like a guide as I read The Last of the Mohicans who can help me understand what I've read and where the story is, without giving spoilers or getting ahead of my progress. Can you do this, chapter by chapter?"
• The robot agreed: "Cooper's sentences are long and his diction is archaic."
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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
"There are fairytales that keep the pay of service workers and educators and nurses low while letting today’s robber-barons amass more money than entire countries. Those fairytales are dangerous, and they dehumanize us all - even the billionaires."
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The case for a 100% tax bracket for billionaires
I was looking through my photos, stumbled upon this image, and realized that I had to get out a seasonal newsletter today with a wish for 2025. Caption....
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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Today in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention
My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.
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Julia Kaye, lovergirl era @upandoutcomic.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
i love this game! 🥰🥰
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Alpha Chrome Yayo @alphachromeyayo.com · 05/08/2026
Due to popular request... the oscilloscope can produce mind-boggling effects 2.0 (Kiwi edition)
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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 03/08/2026
We passed the initial goal in 4 days! So we've upped it - let's push forward to $200k!! Thanks to everyone for buying the bundle and sharing wherever you can.
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United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Nine hours after going live, the itch bundle benefiting our Game Worker Hardship Fund has already raised over $13k! Thank you so much to those who have already purchased. And for those who might be waiting for payday, you’ve still got about two weeks left! Thank you so much 🙏
A screenshot from the itch page for the game industry hardship bundle, showing that more than thirteen thousand dollars has already been raised out of the total 100k goal
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Stefscribbles @stefscribbles.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
All love and support to the developers who made Zero Parades happen. You can infer my feelings on those doing the layoffs in this space.
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lincoln carpenter, skeleton @lincolnhello.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
New from me: "Being engaged in videogames over the last decade has meant watching a cohort of publisher executives inherit an industry of products, professionals, and consumers they seem to actively resent for failing to produce instant, infinite profits."
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Does anyone know how to drive this thing?
It's increasingly looking like nobody remembers how videogames work—or cares to.
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Olivia Pourzia [she/her] @opourzia.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Trying to fill in the blanks of a fading cool dream is like writing unsatisfying fanfic. I know the canon scene was better! I just can't remember it!!
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hey i’m josh @kingadahipsters.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
tweet from @rifflexilian. it reads:

If people are fighting for an orb you are reading fantasy. If people are fighting for a cube you are reading sci-fi. If it has more sides than that. I dont know. I dont know man.
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Olivia Pourzia [she/her] @opourzia.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I wish I had the time (and shelf space) to become a total sicko about this!!! This is peak wizarding to ME.
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Ash @santanaelchan.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
She's just like me
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Olivia Pourzia [she/her] @opourzia.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Damn did I pick a good week to catch up on Star City. I knew something was coming!!
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Nessa ✨ @nessathewriter.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
does anyone wanna fund my indie game? it’s called Keep All Of My Colleagues Gainfully Employed. it’s an ARG where you keep all of my colleagues gainfully employed. we’re workshopping the name
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