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Atlantic Canadian game critic (She/They) Columnist at @unwinnable.com Co-Editor of @tier-review.com muckrack.com/phoenix-simms phoenixwritesdown@protonmail.com Banner by Lina Wu Avi by realrollsweat

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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 6h
Here’s the bigger ask I mentioned: I owe $6k in back rent. I’ve been selling my limited belongings to reduce the number but it is slow going and I can’t hope to cover it all, especially not in the short time I have. I have enough to cover October rent and little more. More details below.
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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You will now be able to tell immediately if they're a paid shill or not by what they call it
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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Yesss were at the desperate rebranding stage of failure. I give it a year if I'm being really generous
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rabble.ca @rabble.ca · 29/09/2026
To see the impact of fast-forwarding environmental assessments, look no further than the mercury poisoning at Grassy Narrows. #canpoli buff.ly/qf9dra2
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Daily Video Game Art @dailyvgart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Fenrir Motorcycle Art - Final Fantasy VII Advent Children
Fenrir Motorcycle Art from Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
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juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 29/09/2026
ive recently gotten a bunch of suggestions that are all telling me my work is too valuable and that i should publish slower. and i just wanna say hi, right here. hi , so , im broke and struggling and barely hanging on with my bills and lack of income so i have to publish a lot and often
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NPR @npr.org · 29/09/2026
Jaimie Bethea, a 21-year-old mass communication specialist, had been deployed on the USS Fort Lauderdale for more than 11 months. She died by suicide in June. n.pr/4ymLaYr
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A young sailor died by suicide. Her family blames health care gaps and long deployment
Jaimie Bethea, a 21-year-old mass communication specialist, had been deployed on the USS Fort Lauderdale for more than 11 months. She died by suicide in June.
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shmuplations.com @shmuplations.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This week we have a charming Final Fantasy VI roundtable interview from 1994, conducted one month before release. The team discusses the making of the ominous opening sequence, world design, and their favorite characters! shmuplations.com/ff6rt/
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Final Fantasy VI – 1994 Developer Roundtable - shmuplations.com
This Final Fantasy VI roundtable interview conducted in March 1994 discusses the making of the opening sequence and the staff's favorite characters.
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grace @gracemachine.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
:) i love rain world so much... insane that i've gotten to work on two book length projects.
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No Escape from the Tyranny of Virtue 🏴🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @noescapevg.com · 29/09/2026
the way games media has become so heavily gendered even beyond what it was a decade ago kinda fucking sucks man
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Sykosonik [Hardcore Dumbass] @sykosonik.online · 29/09/2026
juno! 👏 juno! 👏 NEEDS THERAPY! 👏👏👏👏 TIP HER! 👏 TIP HER! 👏 FOR THERAPY! 👏👏👏👏 Tip juno here! venmo.com/u/junoschultz ko-fi.com/junostump
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Juno Rylee Schultz | @junoschultz
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juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 08/09/2026
if liberals cared about trans rights then they wouldn’t say things like “I’m sorry but we’re not hiring right now” and then hire people less qualified than the trans person a week later but it happens all the time
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Annaleigh Watts 🇲🇽 @annaleighmaria.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hi! I am an SSDI recipient and trauma survivor who needs regular support. This week I am asking for help with room stuff ($200) to make it nice. Also still owe landlord $500 & making payments 💕💸 V: Annaleigh-Watts CA: $annaleighmaria PP: AnaleeWatts gofund.me/f20947431 www.amazon.com/registries/g...
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Tigger Bouncing
Alt: Tigger bouncing on his tail, text says "I'm home!"
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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I have a newish publication at @analoggamestudies.bsky.social ! I co-wrote a piece on what "gameplay" is in TCGs and whether or not deckbuilding is gameplay (I think so! Most people do! But the scholarship and a lot of general writing splits it off!) escholarship.org/uc/item/2gt8...
the landing page for the link below
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Unwinnable @unwinnable.com · 29/09/2026
"The crash was not an ending, but a beginning: the opening salvo of an extinction event." Feature Excerpt: @kellymerka.bsky.social muses on man-made ecological change in Sable. unwinnable.com/2026/09/28/t...
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The Damage Is Done - Unwinnable
The planet Sable knows is a palimpsest – its ecosystem has been overwritten.
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Phoenix @phoenixwritesdown.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's me. I was big walking. This game not only deserves its hype, it reminded me how inspiring game worlds can be. @househouse.com isn't out here to just wow you with their environmental design, their setting makes you more curious about environments in general. Both local and global.
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Daniel Dockery @dandock.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
It's time to go back to Gotham City. My book, I AM THE NIGHT: THE ULTIMATE UNAUTHORIZED HISTORY OF BATMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES, comes out today! It's a narrative history of the landmark cartoon, packed with new interviews and deep-dive research. Grab a copy here: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
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Phoenix @phoenixwritesdown.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
About a week ago (already!) I was happy to see that Rooster--a game I got to do early impressions of--launched! Congrats to this team and its unique cosy game about Chinese history and culture. 🥳
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Intergenerational Design - Unwinnable
Despite all the technical aspects of game design, it's human involvement that makes the process vibrant and organic.
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Eric Orchard @inkybat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I made a list of steps to help me with this drawing. Outlines and blacks are done, hatching next and then add whites, add collaged bits, colour and finally digital stuff
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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I am not first and will be far from the last to say this: I have purchased so many books because I saw them recommended or publicized here on bsky. I cannot urge you all enough to KEEP TALKING ABOUT BOOKS. I know it's easier to talk up someone else's book, but this also means you, the shy author.
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 21/09/2026
shoutout to infinite mac, without which this would not have been possible www.them.us/story/early-...
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You Can Now Look Back at the Early Trans Internet. Yes, There Were Memes
Three years of TGForum posts were found on a CD-ROM — and uploaded for all to browse.
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McGill-Queen's University Press @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
New in paperback! In Talking in Context, Anne Marie Goodfellow explores the relationship between language, culture, and identity through a case study of the current use of Kwak'wala in two communities, Quatsino and Kingcome Inlet. buff.ly/Cqy1Yhr
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 29/09/2026
things are happening bsky.app/profile/kate...
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Jonah Walker | Local Wizard! @galacticjonah.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Fix your hearts or die. You know how many of us joke that Pride month should be followed by Wrath? This year I feel a deep, burning fury towards all who use transgender lives as political propaganda. We are human beings. You cannot erase us. Happy Pride. Trans liberation at any cost. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
A digital illustration showing a knight in full armour. They are riding on a black steed which is mostly out of frame. The frame in question is green and shows a chain going around as a decorative element. That chain is broken by the knight's raised sword. From the knight's chest bursts a roaring flame in the colours of the trans pride flag.
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Phoenix @phoenixwritesdown.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#disabilityrights dreadf.org/protect-504
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please engage with this video and protect disability rights! 👋
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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Once there was a girl born ravenous." We're thrilled to share a story from Forged In FIYAH: Celebrating Ten Years of Black Speculative Fiction! A woman who eats a town's sins is led astray by a mysterious visitor... You can read @shereereneethomas.bsky.social's novelette "Petite Ville" now!
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Petite Ville - Reactor
A woman who eats a town's sins is led astray by a mysterious visitor.
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Azrai @theazrai.com · 27/09/2026
One communications thing my nerd creatives could really benefit from is more concrete language. Even your own audience needs you to describe your project simply and clearly enough that two people would picture the same thing. Every time! I promise it is not as clear as you (the poster) think it is.
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Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Political Economy Lab, the Data + Feminism Lab, and the Centre on Labour, Sustainability and Global Production are thrilled to sponsor this book talk by @js-tan.bsky.social and Clarissa Redwine. You can join online or in person! ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"The Secret Weapon of Manga." If you need fresh proof of just how many otaku called France home during the 2000s anime bubble, then you'll find it in the fact that Garnier sold 'manga look' hair gel. 📖: Anime Land, June 2005
A French ad for Fructis style hair gel with Dragonball or Naruto-aluding edited photo of a dude with a spiky shock of black hair swept to the left and at various angles.
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Andes Chucky @wendeego.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Don’t fucking blame us. Blame yourself or God
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juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 24/09/2026
hey all my journalism is free. here's a thread of everything ive published since the Red Scare took my bylines and forced me to go independent --------- tip links venmo.com/u/junoschultz Paypal: juno(dot)stump(at)gmail ko-fi.com/junostump and Patreon.com/junorylee for cool extras
a picture i took of a pond.
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Wallace @exalclaw.com · 27/09/2026
Poem about feeling like a circle, inspired by a maze puzzle game (that I recommend, it's free and a nice brain tickler!), for today's ODSD: exalclaw.com/odsd-20-smal...
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Observing Digital Space Debris #36 - Today I'm A Small Circle
Observing Digital Space Debris is a weekly poetry series inspired by video games. This week's poem is inspired by 20 More, Somehow Even Smaller, Mazes, which was developed and published by FLEB.
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Phoenix @phoenixwritesdown.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Boost, support, and read Juno's work!
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ToonHive @toonhive.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
‘FORGOTTEN ISLAND’ includes a legal notice in its credits prohibiting the film from being used to train AI models: “This work may not be used to train AI.”
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Azrai @theazrai.com · 24/09/2026
People I love who rely on genAI are becoming strangers to me. More irritable, paranoid, and more closed minded if not outright bigoted. I miss them. An aspect of cognitive decline we could be talking about way more tbh.
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 25/09/2026
A tiny snippet of a thing I’m working on
A very close crop of an illustration of Marceline and Princess Bubblegum from the Cartoon Network show, Adventure Time
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Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 24/09/2026
Never hurts to repost (and maybe get a few more recommendations)
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
What gets you booted from Substack? Andrew Tate still seems to have a newsletter there while charged with: 10 counts of rape, 3 of trafficking for sexual exploitation, 3 of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, & making/distributing indecent images of a child. possessing extreme pornography.
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Azrai @theazrai.com · 22/09/2026
It’s just a 5 minute art tutorial, but life kept me from posting creative videos like this on YouTube for YEARS. The only reason I can do this at all is because kind strangers offered us a rent-free space in their home while we recover. Starving artists just starve. Supported artists create. 💚
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Cheating at art is fine actually.
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QuyetPawz - Mutual Aid @qpmutualaid.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Please help by quote posting, liking and donating. 💕 💸 #HelpSky #MutualAid #HelpFolksLive
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Dr. Emily Price @emilyprice.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Masks are a medical device and it’s really gauche to make fun of medical devices, even if the people wearing them are annoying :)
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Natalie Zed @nataliezed.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If you prefer the Q&A version, here it is. "Perhaps I should talk to a therapist at some point about how utterly devastating positive attention can be. But we'll put that aside for just one moment." www.cbc.ca/books/booken...
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Why Natalie Zina Walschots’ superhero novels don’t pick a side | CBC Books Bookends
Walschots joined Bookends with Mattea Roach to discuss the fear she had in writing a sequel to Hench, why she lets her characters follow their own moral compass and what it means to portray disability...
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Phoenix @phoenixwritesdown.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Watch this whole playtest devlog!
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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
📖 Bytes of Game Ads 📺 "Run! Jump! Shoot! Swim! A great non-stop adventure!" Tomb Raiders, aka Tomb Raider, enjoyed stronger sales on Saturn in Japan due to the popularity of the console there.
A magazine ad for Tomb Raiders with Lara seen from behind, overlooking a mystic orb between two blocky pillars with lots of kinetic text and screenies.
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The remarkable ceramic artisans of Jingdezhen
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Jill Murray @jillmurray.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If there's one thing I can't stand, it's when an academic with a full time university job doing research on art, suggests in a derogatory tone, that a working artist was motivated by profit. "Yeah 'cause it was her JOB dumbass," I always want to say. "You know, the one with no union or 'benefits'?"
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Imran Khan @imrankhan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The gaming industry deserves better than what Microsoft is doing to it.
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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
'The genocide is ongoing. It is painful when your entire existence becomes an endless struggle just to keep your kids fed and healthy. 3 years without income in Gaza is unbearable. Help when you can, how you can. Continue to share Please 🫂🧡 Vetted by Molly Shah ✅'
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Rebuilding Hope: A Lifeline for Ziad and Mirna in Northern Gaza
As international humanitarian organizations like the UN OCHA and WFP have recently reported, the situation in Northern Gaza has reached a catastrophic level of famine, displacement, and infrastructure...
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