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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.bsky.social · 1h

The global economy is teetering on Bonzi Buddy 2.0

The purple monkey and all the shit he claims to be able to do

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Katharine Ada @yourpalkat.bsky.social · 1h

i’m friends with a bunch of the most talented, smart, funny, kind, and beautiful women i’ve ever met and literally none of us are doing ok. probably nothing to worry about

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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 1h

remember how michael tracey (human worm) reacted when graham platner was found out? @marisakabas.bsky.social and @trentrichardnelson.bsky.social and i remember! it was fucking disgusting

Michael Tracey @mtracey

Good luck being a heterosexual male Democratic candidate anymore with even a whiff of anything but the most pristine romantic/dating history, because wherever you might fall on the party's ideological spectrum, the minute you hit national notoriety, the knives are coming out hard
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One weird trick for getting Democrats to take bold, decisive action: Manufacture a sex crime

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Everyone must accept that American political affairs will be fundamentally dictated by a constant parade of rape claims — always and everywhere, rape rape rape — but also, you must not ever think too critically about it, or you will be declared as complicit in the constant raping
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The defenestration of Platner is one for the ages.
Received the highest Dem primary vote in Maine history less than a month ago. Then, BOOM: skeevy PR operatives get everyone to scream RAPE!!!! — and switch off their brains — and now Party chieftains get to pick their own nominee
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 2h

A truly heinous man has doxxed the Cornell victim on X and the comments are predictably vile. Based on countless interviews I’ve done with survivors, the trauma they are subjected to for coming forward is oftentimes even worse than the initial trauma they experienced. There is no real justice system

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 2h

Seeing people post about how unfair the “mob justice” against the Cornell rapists is doesn’t really move me when there is no justice for survivors. The system doesn’t work; it enacts further punishment on the victims. Society is even crueler. So spare me the “mob justice” rhetoric about the accused

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Columbo: Just one more frame... @justonemoreframe.bsky.social · 6h

Columbo #S03E05 Publish or Perish 01:01:21

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 9h

substack executives gave him a big cash advance to post on the platform

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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 18h

This man is a monster. He seeks out women survivors because he hates them. And he hates them because he hates himself. He has harassed me and other women survivors many times over the years. It must end. He should never have a job anywhere.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 8h

A man replied to this saying in earnest that women need to get organized and fight for our rights and men will follow. We did that. We do that. We mobilized the largest single day protest in global history on every continent and yet I have fewer rights than my mom did at my age.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 8h

Stop telling women what to do. Stop telling us to do all of the work. Stop acting like you know more about our struggle than we do. Stand up for your fellow human being without any reward because that’s what we’re supposed to do. Ffs.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 8h

Btw if you read this and immediately thought “well not all men”… pause for a second. The men I trust are the ones who read what I just wrote and choose to listen, to empathize, to ask questions to better understand. They know they are not the men I am angry about and they don’t need say so.

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ronsalas @ronsalas.com · 9h

Speaking of Doctor Strange, check out this awesome one @wilfredotorres.bsky.social did for me years ago

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The Onion @theonion.com · 10h

Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...

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it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

ignore all of your other responsibilities to write. yes, even that one. this is definitely a good idea

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Steenz! @oheysteenz.bsky.social · 11h

I had a conversation w a Lyft driver a few weeks ago that I still think about. I hope this musician, eager to share her art, finds her way to teaching. While the conversation started rocky, Im glad she got an opportunity to talk about her ambitions. Piano teachers are way more valuable than A.I.

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 10h

jco deserves the nobel prize in literature for her tweets and every single last one of you knows it

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Columbo: Just one more frame... @justonemoreframe.bsky.social · 14h

Columbo #S03E04 Double Exposure 00:58:03

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Ken Lowery @kenlowery.bsky.social · 11h

and we're back! COMICS DISCOURSE LOOP: No, It Is You Who Failed Superman Why Doesn't Batman Simply Buy Crime? <--- YOU ARE HERE Alan Moore: Threat or Menace? Writers Vs. Artists What If The Big Two Released Monthly Anthologies Instead Everyone (Except You) Knew Outed Monster Was Monster

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Rachel Pinnelas 💭 @racheaissance.com · 11h

Also: no amount of reposting will make up for your silence and benefit of the very patriarchal structures in your fields. We see and remember who speaks out against it when it’s convenient to and who hasn’t.

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 12h

This is so important. They’ve broken the economic models that fund journalism is because they recognize the *purpose* of journalism threatens their bullshit-based valuations, ie, the sources of their wealth and power. Yet actual-existing journalists were instead crucial for creating their myths.

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gita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social · 11h

I think the most frustrating thing for me personally and one that feels unique to games journalism is that if you try to talk about these inequities people will just straight up say you’re a bad person and the create a reason for that post facto

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gita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social · 12h

There are barely any women or black people in games media and I can think of a couple reasons why but no one will like it

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gita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social · 12h

Ever notice how much harder women and non-white people have it when it comes to harassment? And how few editors and colleagues are willing to put their body in front of the blow? Ever notice how women and non-white gamers are treated as a niche and white men as the core audience?

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gita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social · 12h

Ever notice when there’s layoffs white men usually get to keep their jobs

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gita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social · 12h

Ever notice that Kotaku changed the tag Dadtaku to Parentaku but then did not create more equitable conditions for women to start their own families

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gita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social · 12h

Ever notice how outright fucking racist and sexist a lot of these seasoned journalists are? ever notice that Kotaku has had multiple women deputy editors and they all quit?

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gita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social · 12h

Ever notice how many gaming podcasts have rotated through multiple women but all the men stay the same? Ever notice who has to appeal to the audience and “take criticism” and who gets to tell them to fuck off?

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gita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social · 12h

Journalism in general is terrible for women and people of color and games journalism is all the same shit but in a pressure cooker

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Ash Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social · 12h

i know because i've curated my feed quite well that i may be preaching to the choir, but i hope in your rush to condemn the decline of femmes in the games journalism space you also take a moment to uplift the work of the femmes still here.

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 12h

No matter what you do in life, no matter how much power you accumulate, you remain something that Joyce Carol Oates can destroy at her pleasure

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Rachel Pinnelas 💭 @racheaissance.com · 13h

My favorite NYCC memory is that shortly after this photo was taken, Lou Ferrigno came up to me to say he noticed a scratch on the Hulk statue:

A young woman doing a Hulked-out pose in front of a life-size statue of the Hulk

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 17h

Artemesia Gentileschi, Judith Beheading Holofernes, 1620 #UnlockingWomensArt

Painting of a dramic scene reflecting two women in the process of beheading a prone man

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Scary Gorgon @scarygorgon.bsky.social · 14h

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A snail eating a gold leaf (rendered in actual 24k gold leaf).

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 15h

awoke this morning with a Vision

that diagram showing the SUV blind spot in the front but it's lowly worm driving his little applemobile

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Rachel Pinnelas 💭 @racheaissance.com · 07/05/2026

I’m not like other girls in the sense I don’t think writing about how you’ve never been harassed in your industry makes you better than those who have

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 14h

The “protect women” crowd hasn’t said a word about the Cornell rapists… It’s like they almost don’t actually care about women and abuse trans folks just to prop up their misogyny.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 14h

I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 15h

For me, the hardest thing about stories like the Cornell gang rape case isn’t reading the initial details—although that is hard. What’s even harder is when men online, especially the journalists and pundits, start trying to combat the feminist outrage by purposefully seeding doubt and victim-blaming

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 15h

THIS is an instrumental part of rape culture. This is the wider societal enabling of rape and smearing victims. This is what survivors often identify as the most traumatic part of the experience, and as a journalist who believes survivors I can say it’s one of the worst parts for me, too

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 15h

There's a lot to consider in this thread, but the points made here are important. Comics can be frustratingly informal/casual at the best of times, partly because it's an industry made up of freelancers, and the lack of safeguarding structure is noticeably absent.

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Dr. Jacqueline E. Whitt @notabattlechick.bsky.social · 15h

But apparently, when offered the fucking opportunity to dramatically and heroically intervene on behalf of an endangered woman, they DON’T FUCKING DO THAT EITHER. All the dudes can fuck right off with their “not all men” bullshit.

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