Reader @readdead.com · 20/07/2026microsoft I would like to control my own computer. microsoft. microsoft could you please obey the commands that I am inputting into your stupid expensive hunk of metal 031
Reader @readdead.com · 19/07/2026why is this halftime show a group project but none of the group members spoke to each other beforehand 010
Reader @readdead.com · 09/07/2026This essay (/video) is taking 900 years to finish because so much in RDR2's lore is so interconnected with other things that it's like a spiderweb, but I must explain it in a linear manner 010
Reader @readdead.com · 30/06/2026website about to use 47 trackers: sorry just a quick security check to make sure you're not a bot 010
Reposted by ReaderX ΘΔ (Giant Tyrant Overlord) @xkeeper.net · 22/06/2026sometimes you read a bit and can't help but laugh and nod in agreement. yep, yep, yeeeeeeeeeeeep 051096
Reader @readdead.com · 15/06/2026Update on the last few pieces for Read Dead: just experienced, for the first time, an actual unwillingness to mention two people in the same sentence 000
Reader @readdead.com · 20/05/2026Having a website sucks because all the advice to get more eyes on said website is Everything That's Wrong With the Internet 120
Reader @readdead.com · 19/05/2026Added to this piece: explaining the weird, uncanny lighting halfway through "Red Dead Redemption." Also, a gif of Dutch looking like a confused dog. readdead.com/2024/10/09/n...readdead.comNegative Images: Arthur Morgan and Micah Bell IIIWhy Red Dead Redemption 2 inverts the Western genre trope of good guys wearing white hats and bad guys wearing black ones. 100
Reposted by ReaderReader @readdead.com · 01/04/2026This piece has been largely rewritten. It also now identifies the sources for some of the art in RDR2, which (surprise!!) Rockstar misappropriates. readdead.com/2024/08/21/v...readdead.comVirgin Lands: RDR2's Dream of Colonizing EdenClose examination of RDR2 shows that Rockstar Games is a willing participant in colonialist traditions like cultural appropriation. 011
Reader @readdead.com · 27/04/2026Once again I am missing the heyday of Toast Twitter, when one could simply say "I have a question about sexual mores in the U. S. South in the 1880s" and 5 people would tag eldritchlibraryhag and she'd send you 3 crisp paragraphs that solved all your problems 050
Reposted by ReaderIn These Times @inthesetimes.com · 27/04/2026A 50% rent hike hit @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social. Instead of closing, the co-op relocated and expanded its role as a radical bookstore, community hub, classroom and organizing space. @leftiecowboy.bsky.social reports. inthesetimes.com/article/radi... 16928
Reader @readdead.com · 01/04/2026This piece has been largely rewritten. It also now identifies the sources for some of the art in RDR2, which (surprise!!) Rockstar misappropriates. readdead.com/2024/08/21/v...readdead.comVirgin Lands: RDR2's Dream of Colonizing EdenClose examination of RDR2 shows that Rockstar Games is a willing participant in colonialist traditions like cultural appropriation. 011
Reposted by ReaderJohn Bistline @bistline.bsky.social · 01/04/2026This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset. 168183426899
Reader @readdead.com · 24/03/2026Added to this piece: close reading reveals more evidence of Rockstar's racism. Also, Charles Manson, maybe? readdead.com/2024/08/14/t...readdead.comTo Turn Towards Death: The Secret Mythology in RDR2RDR2 alludes to a famous episode from Greek mythology to give deeper meaning to the endings of both Redemption games. 000
Reader @readdead.com · 19/03/2026Added here: closer consideration of how RDR2 positions Micah Bell as a Satanic figure, and that weird, weird lighting in "Red Dead Redemption." readdead.com/2024/07/17/d...readdead.com"Desperate Revenge": Paradise Lost and Micah BellHow Rockstar drew on diabolical characters from John Milton's Paradise Lost to create Micah Bell III, and who he's named after. 000
Reposted by ReaderLewis Gordon @lewisgordon.bsky.social · 19/03/2026What i've highlighted isn't just a cute line: The narrative set-ups, basic tasks, and easy conclusions of video games — "go here, do this, find that, feel this," etc — mirror children's picture books to a pretty crazy degree. I should know, I read a lot to my 3-year-old! good piece, grayson 1289
Reader @readdead.com · 19/03/2026You know how humans have a strong preference to look at other human faces, starting at like 2 months old? When I try to compare these two images, even though the right is "more realistic," my eyes slide off it and land on the left every time. 000
Reader @readdead.com · 17/03/2026Added to this piece: a visual comparison of Dutch Van der Linde and George Gordon, Lord Byron. readdead.com/2024/07/09/d...readdead.comDeath and the Devil: Dutch Van der Linde and Paradise LostParadise Lost and the iconic historical writer who helped to inspire RDR2's Dutch Van der Linde. 110
Reposted by ReaderCrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 12/03/2026From Chicago and the Twin Cities to Vermont, police departments play an essential role in the ICE abductions, violently suppressing resistance that would otherwise keep people safe from the clutches of the kidnappers. ICE is the enemy of humanity. So are police. crimethinc.com/police 011048
Reader @readdead.com · 11/03/2026Highlighting some site updates! To begin: discovering the historical fight that inspired RDR2's "Americans at Rest." Also, over 100 years later, I definitively exonerate Sontag & Evans of one of the murders they were accused of. NBD! readdead.com/2025/06/18/p...readdead.comPhilosopher, Outlaw, Poet, Robber: The History that Wrote RDR2History in RDR2: the little-known outlaws who inspired the characters Dutch Van der Linde, Hosea Matthews, Arthur Morgan, and Micah Bell. 111
Reposted by ReaderMo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 11/03/2026I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...moryan.comAn open letter to Grammarly and other plagiarists, thieves and slop merchantsTo everyone at Grammarly, I am writing a book right now, a really challenging endeavor that no doubt someone in Silicon Valley will think it’s fine to steal the day it’s published. I’ve been a profes... 837961495
Reader @readdead.com · 09/03/2026NEW on Read Dead: … everything! The site has been completely redesigned. The essays have been edited for clarity and updated with new evidence. Many new photos, inc. classical art bc fuck generative AI. Also, DARK MODE now available! readdead.comreaddead.comRead DeadExploring the literature & history that influenced Red Dead Redemption II. 162
Reposted by Readerhammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Once again, I am promising Democrats there are literally thousands of former department of justice people who will crawl over broken glass to prosecute this administration given the chance 11268461612
Reader @readdead.com · 16/02/2026Pals! A friend of mine is in serious need in LA. Phil is one of the kindest people I know, and he's always taking care of other people. If you can give to his fundraiser, or share it, please do!!! www.gofundme.com/f/psmpowerup...gofundme.comDonate to Aid For PHILSpecialMeter To Stay Housed, Healthy, & Helpful, organized by PHIL Special Meter"LIFE, GAMING, AND FANDOM ON HRD MODE...." Thanks for s… PHIL Special Meter needs your support for Aid For PHILSpecialMeter To Stay Housed, Healthy, & Helpful 010
Reposted by ReaderNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 23/01/2026Thesis: ICE is un-American and the Minneapolis protestors are real Americans. Antithesis: Ackshually ICE is operating in a long American tradition of racist terror. Synthesis: Minneapolis is now the epicenter of a clash between two distinct but historically grounded American political traditions. 1940231022
Reader @readdead.com · 23/01/2026no, those are my emotional support 50 screenshots from 1 minute of primary text 000
Reader @readdead.com · 31/12/2025every time windows updates: let cortana call your mom for you. install copilot on all your thought processes. windows now wipes your ass 020
Reader @readdead.com · 19/12/2025"2025 has seen the industry seemingly collectively agree that its prices should be based around the income of the CFO rather than the working Joe." SPEAK ON THAT 173
Reader @readdead.com · 12/12/2025I am still hard at work on new research and site updates!! Please don't forget me 💗 120
Reader @readdead.com · 12/12/2025god, how awkward it would've been if Dan Houser had had to give Best Narrative to Silent Hill F 000
Reader @readdead.com · 05/12/2025to be clear: it is NOT an iconic line, Hamlet does NOT say it, that is NOT the line number, that is NOT what "a little more than kin" means, he is NOT talking about his father's appearance, it is NEVER cited that way because two different characters speak those lines. google. hey google. you suck 000
Reader @readdead.com · 05/12/2025no bc it is actually GENUINELY amazing how bad AI is. gobsmacked 110
Reader @readdead.com · 25/11/2025Haven't been checking socials because I've been so hyperfocused on my research. I've been gaining a ton of insight into the specific historical events RDR2 draws on; can't wait to share with you all!! 000
Reposted by ReaderDave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 25/11/2025Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea 293160373421
Reader @readdead.com · 18/11/2025How the map research is going: just thought, without a trace of irony, "it is difficult to take this rock very seriously" 110
Reposted by ReaderPA Working Families 🐺 @paworkingfamilies.bsky.social · 18/11/2025We're primarying John Fetterman. Last week, Fetterman again sold out working Pennsylvanians. He was the deciding vote for a Republican budget bill that will strip healthcare from over 400,000 Pennsylvanians. We deserve real working class leadership in the Senate, not a Trump-enabling Democrat. 553225743
Reposted by ReaderStarbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 13/11/2025As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX 2141579015
Reader @readdead.com · 10/11/2025just read the line "why be serious about a game?" (Chaucer). the universe is just trolling me now 000
Reader @readdead.com · 06/11/2025me when I illegally fire employees for union membership and then remember the employees make the actual product 021
Reader @readdead.com · 06/11/2025@enwright.bsky.social something tells me you're exactly as surprised as I am by Rockstar's latest shenanigans ... 110
Reposted by ReaderThe Transmetropolitan Review (Unofficial) 🏴 @transmetropolitanr.bsky.social · 06/11/2025lol 102141284339