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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Zoë Hannah is bisexual @zoehhannah.com · 30/09/2026

@daytenrose.bsky.social writes beautifully, especially toward the end of this piece (and about the end of the game) about what the meaning of physical communication is for men who don't yap incessantly when they hang out. it's GOOD

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Big Walk lights the way for non-toxic masculinity in games

Interrogating "men don't talk to each other" through a game about communication

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Talha Kaya @taloketo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This game seems very original and getting really good reviews, but still seems to be going a bit under the radar. It’s by the folk who made Paratopic. store.steampowered.com/app/2231460/...

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Save 10% on Roman Sands RE:Build on Steam

A service industry adventure with an apocalyptic flavor. A manic genre mashup told across two broken realities. Step through the cracks: find your Exit.

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 22/09/2026

microsoft have essentially bought up and bulldozed almost an entire american arts industry as a half-hearted distraction from their main project of trying to monopolise and rent-seek global digital infrastructure and military contracts

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

saw this on Instagram and it so perfectly encapsulated my rage

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being so fr when I say that transmisogyny has put feminism back like 50 years

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what i thought we had distanced ourselves from was the reduction of women to vaginas and wombs and the ability to bear children. i thought we had progressed past 'dresses are for women and pants are for men. i thought we progressed past the idea that someone is less of a woman if she does not adhere strictly to beauty standards. i thought we progressed past the idea that naturally being comfortable adhering to highly feminine standards is vulgar. but i (sarcastically) guess no one could have predicted that trans-exclusive feminism would be the downfall of all the progress we've made

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

🐳 You’re God damned right @hesterblum.bsky.social & I made a TWENTY-FIVE EPISODE PODCAST just about 𝐌𝐎𝐁𝐘-𝐃𝐈𝐂𝐊. Subscribe now at exploringthegreats.com/moby-dick & enjoy our thrilling trailer:

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Harper Jay @dreamcastaway.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

In retrospect, Obsidian getting Pentiment out there into the world before Microsoft exploded really feels like they pulled off the weirdest heist in gaming history.

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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

During Amy Klobuchar’s tenure as a prosecutor, “the number of African-American men and boys who ended up in the state prison system, a good many of them falsely, increased by 600% ... and I questioned whether the shutting down of the CRU has something to do with covering for Amy Klobuchar.”

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Levi @rubeck.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

the truth is that half the time I don't bother to write about music because @bensailer.bsky.social beat me to all the good shit

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Rico Charges @nochorus.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

bsky.app/profile/jess... 🫵 If you liked Live At The Death Factory, this is what Astrid was co-writing during much of Live At The Death Factory. If you didn't like Live At The Death Factory, that was years ago and this is nothing like that. It is a video game for right now. 🫵 Time to game, gamers.

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David Shimomura @unwinnabledavid.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Anyone else getting unhinged and obnoxious emails from "iLands"? Some kind of AI bot paradise or something.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Steve Bannon is a white supremacist war criminal and anyone who aligns with him is antiblack. Would you pair up with David Duke if he announced he was anti-AI?

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Wallace @exalclaw.com · 15/09/2026

icymi new poem

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Jessica Cogswell 🌸 @jessicogs.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

With all this said, if you are a woman or femme-identifying games journalist, please feel free to shout yourself out below. I’d love to follow you on here and also circulate your name a bit wider/perhaps make a list of us 🤍

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Happy birthday to David Wojnarowicz, groundbreaking artist, writer & activist, who raged raged raged against inequity and injustice at every turn. If he hadn’t died of AIDS, like so many leading lights of his generation, he would have been 72 years old today (thread)

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A photo of artist David Wojnarowicz wearing a jacket; on the back is a pink triangle and the legend, "If I die of AIDS-forget burial-just drop my body on the steps of the F.D.A."

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 11/09/2026

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Sep Elliot Page tells On Film interviewer Kevin McCarthy that despite his standout performance in Christopher Nolan's record-breaking film The Odyssey, he is getting NO acting offers. Tell me that one about how trans men get to enjoy "male privilege" again...

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Elliot Page is awesome and one of the best actors working today. We sat down for an hour long conversation about Elliot’s incredible career from Hard Candy to Juno to Inception and, of course, his bri...

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Marlow Stern @marlownyc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

‘The Matrix’ creator Lilly Wachowski on J.K. Rowling and the new ‘Harry Potter’ series: “She is funding trans genocide. J.K. Rowling funds trans genocide, full stop. So, if you support ‘Harry Potter,’ you’re supporting trans genocide.” variety.com/2026/tv/feat...

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Lilly Wachowski on Her New Studio Anarchists United, the Black Power Origins of ‘The Matrix’ and How ‘Harry Potter’ Fans Are ‘Supporting Trans Genocide’

‘The Matrix’ filmmaker Lilly Wachowski opens up about her new studio for marginalized voices Anarchists United, J.K. Rowling and Elon Musk.

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Stu Horvath @stuhorvath.com · 11/09/2026

I'm writing the history of Goodman Games RIGHT NOW! I know all the dark secrets and hidden truths. Crowdfunding in October!

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Phil Szostak @philszostak.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

“Tony [Gilroy] finally turned to me, and he said, ‘Hey, you just got to stop pitching plot. Plot is bullshit. Plot is what happens when you get the behavior right. Pitch me a line of dialogue, pitch me atmosphere, pitch me something visual. Stop pitching stuff that happens.’” 1/2

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Zach Hazard Vaupen @emo-sludge.com · 05/09/2026

Saw people complaining the new Sleep album sucks because it was written by AI and I was like damn we lost another one, until I realized they meant Al Cisneros.

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David Shimomura @unwinnabledavid.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Idk why people keep trying to make "but the trains ran on time" arguments about gen AI lol

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Unwinnable @unwinnable.com · 05/09/2026

"Each of these records shows that while where you’ve been can be valuable for informing where you’re going, what matters most is where you happen to be right now." @bensailer.bsky.social rounds up albums from four bands who've returned after years-long hiatuses: buff.ly/5ZMPRLu

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Four Albums that Find Stability in Aging with Punk and Metal - Unwinnable

While where you’ve been can be valuable for informing where you’re going, what matters most is where you happen to be right now.

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Unwinnable @unwinnable.com · 03/09/2026

ICYMI: "That is not a fighting style. That is my twenties with loose teeth and a banging soundtrack." Ry Noyes learns a lot about himself when he starts playing as Smoke in Mortal Kombat: buff.ly/lB5rmFP

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Mortal Kombat Accidentally Explained My Avoidance Issues - Unwinnable

I never knew disappearing could actually make me more predictable.

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Steven Santana @number8axel.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I should have read The Score by C. Thi Nguyen before writing this.

There are, says Porter, two basic modes of reasoning and justification. Qualitative reasoning uses words and descriptions, and quantitative reasoning uses numbers. For Porter, neither mode is essentially superior. Each has its own distinctive strengths and weaknesses, and there's always a trade-off between them. But we have come to use the quantitative reasoning compulsively, even when it's not the best tool for the job.

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

RIP Rachel Blau DuPlessis, poet & critic extraordinaire. from one of her poems, & from an essay of hers on George Oppen—

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green
sleeves
make a moon round rainy trees.
If more seeds fall
will I learn the nature of rain?
Gather the borders snug, pupal,
eat the teachers,
all under the bosky grids of time and place and under wreathe my boughs.

Here the concept of humanity is constructed by addition: one person adds himself to another, like a set of stones or bricks in a wall. This way, people can be builders. The blood from the stone is one proof that humankind can give (say, their lives during a war) to make life blossom, despite the fact that old mother Nature, who appears in the final section, is a useless "stone dead dam." People can shape their lives — it is a high responsibility, but evidently not one that is beyond us. We can choose to live with a humanist ethic, where other people are "brothers" in part because they too have been deserted by a faith and by a system of belief, and because somehow we construct a new faith on the commonality of that loss. In another important poem from The Materials ("Return"), certain seeds of hope are presented, among them a woman, Petra, whose name, perhaps accidentally (perhaps not), means stone - a woman who awakens a whole community to a social and political struggle and is therefore one of the builders of the "wall," Oppen's image for a human community.

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Dr. Emily Price @emilyprice.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

My planned columns about women and the games industry return; this time I’d like to talk to women who review video games about their experiences landing and writing reviews, especially recently. If this is you, reach out via DM or eaprice.work@gmail.com

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Unwinnable @unwinnable.com · 02/09/2026

Where is the year going? Get our latest nuggets of microcriticism in the September 2026 issue of Exploits, including writing on The Tale of Princess Kaguya and The Odyssey. Buy: buff.ly/AzNU0so Subscribe: buff.ly/LK0CTtF Read @saraclemens.com's essay on Lestat's live rock show: buff.ly/l51eY9i

The cover of the September 2026 issue of Exploits, featuring the art "Zhou Maoshu Appreciating Lotuses" by Kanō Masanobu from the 15th century. The art depicts two people in a boat riding away from a willow tree.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

"Besides being deeply cynical, Chomsky’s supposed pragmatism has not stood the test of time...We may have manufactured consent once upon a time, but America has long since transitioned to a post-manufacturing economy." Very harsh but worthwhile read. strangematters.coop/noam-chomsky...

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Chomsky After Epstein - Strange Matters

Noam Chomsky – friend of Epstein, defender of dictatorships – was no model anti-imperialist. Can we do better?

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Sean McCoy @sean.tuesdayknightgames.com · 01/09/2026

Applications for the Mothership #Jump-9 Writers Grant are now open. Deadline is September 30. www.tuesdayknightgames.com/pages/mother...

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artemis, big boss of stop caring @stopcar.ing · 01/09/2026

NEW STOP CARING ESSAY IS LIVE @humblepopstar.bsky.social wrote about Stray Children, playing by the rules, and the painful ways young people are taken advantage of by their elders. It would be so kind of you to read, share, and subscribe. www.stopcar.ing/object-lesson/

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Object Lesson

Learning and unlearning the rules of Stray Children.

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Sahil Bajaj will BRB (for real this time) @sahilbajaj.dev · 31/08/2026

Hey y'all, My buddy at WIRED Middle East is looking to comission a games journalist familiar with the Middle East for a particular story and I was wondering if any of y'all would be open to covering this or know someone who would? If so, DM me and I can tell you more about this.

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United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This is inhumane and unacceptable. And how were these workers thanked for enduring these conditions? Many were laid off. This is why we're organizing. A better industry is both possible and must come to pass if our artform and dignity are to survive.

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David Shimomura @unwinnabledavid.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

You're in luck! @unwinnable.com was founded on the idea we should not be chasing endless coverage of AAA and that good stuff takes time to write. If you want a place that barely knows there's a new Madden or w/e we've been doing it for years.

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Aasa T 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @rosgakori.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I am withdrawing my paper proposal from Warhammer Conference 2026. My reasoning can be found below. In a way, this has been one of the most stressful decisions of my academic career. In one way, the answer was clear to me since I found out about this.

To Dr. Ryder:

I am deeply saddened to do this, but I must withdraw my paper proposal for this year’s Warhammer Conference. I have been attending the conference every year since its inception, and as you are aware, this is the premiere conference in the field where I am currently writing my doctoral thesis.

My withdrawal is based your signature of the open letter in support of Nathan Cofnas, which I feel misleadingly frames his suspension as an issue of academic free speech, where as Ghent University has stated that their reasoning was based on shoddy work ethics and work that would bring university’s reputation into disrepute, i.e. “race realism” and other frankly racist and dubiously scientific works. I believe that many well-meaning scholars have been misled by primarily making this a case of academic free speech.

Moreover, Nathan Cofnas was the instigator for a mass harassment campaign of dubious merits that led to the death of Professor Jason Arday, which I find disgusting, horrible and unforgivable. I am unwilling to associate with anyone who shows support for Cofnas under the guise of academic free speech. The far right have shown their capability to use free speech as a smokescreen to harass, target, and demonize whole groups of people, and this is just another example of it. To see “academic free speech” being used as a reason to support this odious man is unacceptable to me. Without speculating on your motives, I have to listen to my own principles in this matter.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

97 is good innings. Her work is so generous, when people see it they’re happy and they talk about it. A blessing to have been on the planet while she was here

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Nicole Carpenter @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

i wish i could start a business in which i take people's old vintage pokemon collections sort, orangize, and catalog everything. it's the best part!! i can only organize my own so much lol hmu if you want to be my first client

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Unwinnable @unwinnable.com · 26/08/2026

You're not always the grand summoner -- sometimes, you're the middle-aged 30-year-old. This month's issue of Unwinnable Monthly features @edgarallanbro.bsky.social on revolution in FFX and our usual gang of columnists. Buy: buff.ly/DRnhpNm Subscribe: buff.ly/LK0CTtF

The cover of the August 2026 issue of Unwinnable Monthly, featuring art of the airship from Final Fantasy X flying amongst pyreflies in the sky

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Daniel Dockery @dandock.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Gargoyles is such a fantastic example of the fact that you don't just have to keep recycling old IP if you want to build an audience. This cartoon emerged feeling so fully-formed and so confident in its storytelling that it remains a strong influence on fantasy animation to this day.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/08/2026

I've never seen such an effort to censor a document as I have the Amnesty International report on gender critical groups because of JK Rowling. They removed the report from the Wayback Machine and now I got a DMCA strike on my Google Drive for having it. It was deleted and removed from my account.

A screenshot of an email viewed in dark mode with the subject line "Google DMCA Violation." The email from Google informs the recipient that they have received a notification under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) that some of their materials allegedly infringe on copyrights. It explains the removal process, mentions that notice details will be posted on Lumen, warns against repeated violations, and lists one affected Google Drive URL at the bottom

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A mobile browser screenshot of the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. A URL for an Amnesty International UK resources page is entered in the search bar, but the page displays the message: "This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine."

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Rico Charges @nochorus.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Episode 2 of Me Here To Do The Thinking is live. @ckunzelman.bsky.social and I continue to listen to Neil Young's discography. This time we're deep in territory where many Neil nerds fear to tread: The Geffen Years. Available here: www.patreon.com/posts/166891... (and in the usual podcast places)

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Gonçalo Santos @mushwrites.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

My first for @unwinnable.com's website: @hellmaidengame.astralshiftpro.com brings complex female characters to a genre devoid of them Spoke to the @astralshiftpro.com team about their approach to female representation and how it helped shape their latest game. unwinnable.com/2026/08/18/h...

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Hell Maiden Brings Complex Female Characters to a Genre Devoid of Them - Unwinnable

The idea is to paint the feminine with all its colors.

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Bullet Points @bpmonthly.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Bullet Points Monthly started 10 years ago. To mark a decade of the site, our editors--Yussef Cole, Reid McCarter, Astrid Anne Rose, and Ed Smith--looked at the state of the shooter. We also got nine contributors to do the same. bulletpointsmonthly.com/2026/08/19/s...

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