Reposted by PhoenixStella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 6hHere’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. 15676650
Reposted by Phoenixjess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026You will now be able to tell immediately if they're a paid shill or not by what they call it 311411
Reposted by Phoenixjess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Yesss were at the desperate rebranding stage of failure. I give it a year if I'm being really generous 723047
Reposted by Phoenixrabble.ca @rabble.ca · 29/09/2026To see the impact of fast-forwarding environmental assessments, look no further than the mercury poisoning at Grassy Narrows. #canpoli buff.ly/qf9dra2 143
Reposted by PhoenixDaily Video Game Art @dailyvgart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Fenrir Motorcycle Art - Final Fantasy VII Advent Children 0147
Reposted by Phoenixjuno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 29/09/2026ive 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 1127
Reposted by PhoenixNPR @npr.org · 29/09/2026Jaimie 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/4ymLaYrn.prA young sailor died by suicide. Her family blames health care gaps and long deploymentJaimie 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. 33505259
Reposted by Phoenixshmuplations.com @shmuplations.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This 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/shmuplations.comFinal Fantasy VI – 1994 Developer Roundtable - shmuplations.comThis Final Fantasy VI roundtable interview conducted in March 1994 discusses the making of the opening sequence and the staff's favorite characters. 1196100
Reposted by Phoenixgrace @gracemachine.bsky.social · 29/09/2026:) i love rain world so much... insane that i've gotten to work on two book length projects. 68231
Reposted by PhoenixNo Escape from the Tyranny of Virtue 🏴🏳️⚧️🇵🇸 @noescapevg.com · 29/09/2026the way games media has become so heavily gendered even beyond what it was a decade ago kinda fucking sucks man 322230
Reposted by PhoenixSykosonik [Hardcore Dumbass] @sykosonik.online · 29/09/2026juno! 👏 juno! 👏 NEEDS THERAPY! 👏👏👏👏 TIP HER! 👏 TIP HER! 👏 FOR THERAPY! 👏👏👏👏 Tip juno here! venmo.com/u/junoschultz ko-fi.com/junostumpvenmo.comJuno Rylee Schultz | @junoschultzVenmo is a digital wallet that lets you make and share payments with friends. You can easily split the bill, cab fare, or much more. Download the iOS or Android app or sign up on Venmo.com today. 147
Reposted by Phoenixjuno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 08/09/2026if 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 419051
Reposted by PhoenixAnnaleigh Watts 🇲🇽 @annaleighmaria.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Hi! 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...static.klipy.comTigger BouncingAlt: Tigger bouncing on his tail, text says "I'm home!" 52326
Reposted by Phoenixcmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I 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... 313336
Reposted by PhoenixUnwinnable @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...unwinnable.comThe Damage Is Done - UnwinnableThe planet Sable knows is a palimpsest – its ecosystem has been overwritten. 0115
Phoenix @phoenixwritesdown.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It'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. 163
Reposted by PhoenixDaniel Dockery @dandock.bsky.social · 01/09/2026It'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... 40607191
Phoenix @phoenixwritesdown.bsky.social · 29/09/2026About 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. 🥳unwinnable.comIntergenerational Design - UnwinnableDespite all the technical aspects of game design, it's human involvement that makes the process vibrant and organic. 162
Reposted by PhoenixEric Orchard @inkybat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I 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 26410
Reposted by PhoenixKate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I 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. 762176640
Reposted by PhoenixCaræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 21/09/2026shoutout to infinite mac, without which this would not have been possible www.them.us/story/early-...them.usYou Can Now Look Back at the Early Trans Internet. Yes, There Were MemesThree years of TGForum posts were found on a CD-ROM — and uploaded for all to browse. 14556221
Reposted by PhoenixMcGill-Queen's University Press @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social · 29/09/2026New 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 054
Reposted by PhoenixKatelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 29/09/2026things are happening bsky.app/profile/kate... 210514
Reposted by PhoenixJonah Walker | Local Wizard! @galacticjonah.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Fix 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. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ 4084673446
Phoenix @phoenixwritesdown.bsky.social · 29/09/2026#disabilityrights dreadf.org/protect-504youtube.complease engage with this video and protect disability rights! 👋YouTube video by candycourn 011
Reposted by PhoenixReactor 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!reactormag.comPetite Ville - ReactorA woman who eats a town's sins is led astray by a mysterious visitor. 0319
Reposted by PhoenixAzrai @theazrai.com · 27/09/2026One 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. 1185
Reposted by PhoenixCatherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The 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! ⬇️⬇️⬇️ 0128
Reposted by PhoenixSasha'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 910528
Reposted by PhoenixAndes Chucky @wendeego.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Don’t fucking blame us. Blame yourself or God 0175
Reposted by Phoenixjuno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 24/09/2026hey 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 346962
Reposted by PhoenixWallace @exalclaw.com · 27/09/2026Poem 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...exalclaw.comObserving Digital Space Debris #36 - Today I'm A Small CircleObserving 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. 1114
Reposted by PhoenixToonHive @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.” 453907891
Reposted by PhoenixAzrai @theazrai.com · 24/09/2026People 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. 1269
Reposted by PhoenixTrung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 25/09/2026A tiny snippet of a thing I’m working on 222217374
Reposted by PhoenixDr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 24/09/2026Never hurts to repost (and maybe get a few more recommendations) 59529
Reposted by PhoenixRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 23/09/2026What 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. 21829247
Reposted by PhoenixAzrai @theazrai.com · 22/09/2026It’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. 💚youtu.beCheating at art is fine actually.YouTube video by Azrai 22312
Reposted by PhoenixQuyetPawz - Mutual Aid @qpmutualaid.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Please help by quote posting, liking and donating. 💕 💸 #HelpSky #MutualAid #HelpFolksLive 056
Reposted by PhoenixDr. Emily Price @emilyprice.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Masks are a medical device and it’s really gauche to make fun of medical devices, even if the people wearing them are annoying :) 1284
Reposted by PhoenixNatalie Zed @nataliezed.bsky.social · 22/09/2026If 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...cbc.caWhy Natalie Zina Walschots’ superhero novels don’t pick a side | CBC Books BookendsWalschots 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... 2142
Reposted by PhoenixSasha'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. 819944
Reposted by PhoenixDigital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The remarkable ceramic artisans of Jingdezhen 462355456
Reposted by PhoenixJill Murray @jillmurray.bsky.social · 22/09/2026If 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'?" 3234
Reposted by PhoenixImran Khan @imrankhan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The gaming industry deserves better than what Microsoft is doing to it. 248382
Reposted by PhoenixIndrapramit 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 ✅'chuffed.orgRebuilding Hope: A Lifeline for Ziad and Mirna in Northern GazaAs 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... 057