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tobias xk / blѧxkcat

@teeeckskay.bsky.social
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linguist, feminist, pop sentimentalist. sad singer, witch fiction writer, game designer, seldom fighter / oldschool tx melee player, protect our scene 💚💜🖤

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tobias xk / blѧxkcat @teeeckskay.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
the tech vc egghead liking digger is so fucking funny
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tobias xk / blѧxkcat @teeeckskay.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
saw it with my partner, one other couple in the theater. feel almost identically to this review, i can easily see ppl feeling the visceral discomfort of a film they believe hates them personally & rejecting it on those grounds but otherwise it's hard to see a route to the scale of negativity
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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Women like women too, officer. Try not to fixate on this. Let's move on.
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tobias xk / blѧxkcat @teeeckskay.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
—the only answer you will ever get is "that kind of thing would never happen to me [because i wouldn't choose it or let it]". they're not people who just like believe the justice system *works*; they're people who fully believe the victims it ✨fails✨ are lying &or deserved whatever happened to them.
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tobias xk / blѧxkcat @teeeckskay.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
everyone who ever has this take about how "there's a right way to seek justice" in sexual assault cases just fundamentally believes that the victim is to blame. cos if you push them on how they would feel, what they would do if they were the victim & there were no consequences & seemed no recourse—
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Piper Furiosa 🇵🇸🏴🌲🏴‍☠️ @piperfuriosa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It's very important that none of us share her name. Not even in "awareness" of what has been done to her. Not in sharing images of her doxxing. She's Jane Doe unless *she* chooses not to be. Then, we pursue vengeance against all rapists & their enablers until none of them are fucking left.
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tobias xk / blѧxkcat @teeeckskay.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
(this being an addition to the ability to sell you out to the feds or for profit)
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tobias xk / blѧxkcat @teeeckskay.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
—socmedia platforms are even more likely to encourage these trends & scrape this type of "data" cos we've seen that evading (or even delaying) actually impactful legal liability is worth almost anyth to these companies. & these formats are super easy to find & select for programmatically
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tobias xk / blѧxkcat @teeeckskay.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
these trends have been sus for a while obviously, but after the recent elucidations about discord's "age estimation", i feel like if a company with that size & profile believes proprietary ✨guesses✨ will pass legal muster in territories with laws requiring age verification—
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tobias xk / blѧxkcat @teeeckskay.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
www.statesman.com/news/educati...
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UT cuts all women and gender classes from core curriculum, drops race classes
The provost’s office also eliminated dozens of courses on race from counting toward the core curriculum.
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Candice Bernd @candicequestions.com · 21/09/2026
Garces Perez has been released from the hospital into ICE custody—exactly the scenario the crowd here has been protesting against. He was making a DoorDash delivery when he was shot. Quick correction: he’s 28, not 29. www.statesman.com/news/local/a...
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Attorney: Austin man shot by ICE agent was making DoorDash delivery
A Venezuelan man shot by an ICE agent in Austin was making a DoorDash delivery, his attorney said. Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, 28, was later released from the hospital into ICE custody.
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Candice Bernd @candicequestions.com · 21/09/2026
NOW: Just arrived at the intersection of Research Blvd and Anderson Lane—near where ICE shot & wounded 29-yr-old Wilber Rafael Garces Perez earlier today. Between 300-500 people still holding intersection here. ICE is reportedly not letting Garces Perez’s family access him at the hospital.
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Claire Zagorski, PhD, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
ICE (reportedly) boxed in and blocked a man’s car and then shot him in the back this morning in Austin. I don’t see as much news on ICE’s shit these days. They didn’t vanish. They’re still playing Fash GI Joe in our communities. This area is very busy on Sundays. An incredibly reckless choice.
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Mira @thefreeradical.org · 21/09/2026
yall, ICE shot *someone else* in austin, TX today. the guy in question is still alive but has serious wounds do not let this go silent or ignored. people already stopped talking about lorenzo araujo's murder, do not forget what ICE is doing as it murders and assaults innocent people
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ICE agent shoots and wounds man in Austin, Texas, officials say
Local authorities say a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer has shot and wounded a man in Austin, Texas, where anti-ICE protesters gathered at the scene.
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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
ICE shot a man in Austin today. I’m demanding transparency, accountability, and safety. Release the footage and records. Hold any officer who broke the law responsible. And get ICE out of our city.
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tobias xk / blѧxkcat @teeeckskay.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
but alot of yr lost-posting makes me feel like you'd love several of its characters & the way they unfold & progress
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tobias xk / blѧxkcat @teeeckskay.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
did you ever get to watch Alias (2001)? i feel like unfortunately it has aged v poorly in terms of pacing & structure, like it was just below a cultural cutoff while also not having forged an edge the way that, say, x-files or buffy did—
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mal short for malady @poisondoll.sisc.one · 17/09/2026
guess who's live with her first radio show of the semester!!! it's america's favorite transsexual your best friend malady poisondoll. spinning jawbreaker n bobby womack n a minor forest krrc.fm
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tobias xk / blѧxkcat @teeeckskay.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
the melee community has triggered this a lot. & i've always had plenty of friends in it, but there's way more strangers whom i've felt proud of across my time in the scene 💚
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tobias xk / blѧxkcat @teeeckskay.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
is that the thing i am maybe most wont to feel parasocially is ✨proud✨. i find myself genuinely proud of ppl i only follow online—whom i don't know & who don't know me—fairly frequently
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tobias xk / blѧxkcat @teeeckskay.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
but what i've noticed in myself, over maybe 13ish years rly being conscious of this concept & being engaged with technically strangers who exist online & compete at the game that i love, make art that i love, express thoughts that i love, produce theory i love, fight fights for people i love, etc...
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tobias xk / blѧxkcat @teeeckskay.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
—where the simple sense of community via shared interest/experience/etc becomes an assumed more-personal bond, where perceiving a reflection of themselves in the other creates a closeness beyond just relating/empathy, where ppl truly feel things vicariously through these strangers whom they observe.
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tobias xk / blѧxkcat @teeeckskay.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
the way ppl engage with streamers/ccreators, e-celebs, influencers (& even obvi irl hollywood/music/etc celebs, whatever) has always felt rly unrelatable to me. i understand parasocial dynamics & i don't think they're like aberrant or anyth, but i don't experience them in the ways i see most often—
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tobias xk / blѧxkcat @teeeckskay.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
there'd be a wide field of perspectives & a narrow field of conclusions
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tobias xk / blѧxkcat @teeeckskay.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
i just feel like if everyone who said/thought smth along the lines of "why would you make this" & moved on to joke about mrbeast or ending the world or whatever just took 6-12 minutes to genuinely brainstorm reasons why, in the current context of politics & media, someone ✨would✨ make it...
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tobias xk / blѧxkcat @teeeckskay.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
we gotta eventually stop conceptualizing the western media complex as just stupid & out of touch as a frame 1 reaction & instead take the beat to see shit like this as intentionally attempted & often successful social engineering
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tobias xk / blѧxkcat @teeeckskay.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
if yr thinking with fascism, this is necessary propaganda in this moment
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tobias xk / blѧxkcat @teeeckskay.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
how dyou not know where irish musicians stand by now lmao
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tobias xk / blѧxkcat @teeeckskay.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
wishes
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tobias xk / blѧxkcat @teeeckskay.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
genuinely can't believe God let that bitxh get away with pronouncing his tag that way, being a bigoted piece of shit, attending waterpark tourneys & beating one of the Six Sages
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tobias xk / blѧxkcat @teeeckskay.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
kalindi dropping to goshard is my 9/11
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tobias xk / blѧxkcat @teeeckskay.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
—but part of a designer's job is to understand potential players & entice or motivate them to play—unless you do not want them
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tobias xk / blѧxkcat @teeeckskay.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
i hate to say it, but i genuinely do believe that designers are more culpable for this than players are. designers may be & likely are under duress from investors/execs, but the player is probably only influenced by personal &or marketing forces. designers are influenced by forces beyond that scope
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Very niche but vital PSA: SISTER SCHUBERT SAUSAGE ROLLS ARE BACK
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PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Public libraries nationwide are reaching a breaking point as a result of mounting pressures to censor collections, increased intimidation against library staff, and disruptions to library operations, according to a new report today by PEN America. Read the release: pen.org/press-releas...
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Report: Public Libraries Face 'Existential Threat,' Putting Books, Information and People at Risk
Public libraries nationwide are reaching a breaking point as a result of mounting pressures to censor collections, increased intimidation against library staff, and disruptions to library operations, ...
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tobias xk / blѧxkcat @teeeckskay.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
everyone trashing english for this, but you really have to blame french. the germanics had it together. kinda.
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Michael Ann, sociotechnical femme @michaelann.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
If you can't see how deeply Islamophobic our society is, you're willfully ignoring it.
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tobias xk / blѧxkcat @teeeckskay.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
(this is not pro-melee-anti-rivals-community-posting, it's small-scale-sociolinguistics-curiosity-posting)
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tobias xk / blѧxkcat @teeeckskay.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
i'm totally guilty of using "downholding" as a shorthand in the melee versions of this discourse; it just always seemed like the pre-emptive decision to crouch was seen different from *holding* l-down/c-down ✨while✨ doing smth else.. & i thought most players took "downholding" to refer to the latter
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tobias xk / blѧxkcat @teeeckskay.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
i thought the reason "floorhug" exists as a term was specifically to differentiate CC from buffered-asdi-down, but whenever i see roa2 discourse about it it's just ppl on both sides who do not know that these are different mechanics &or can't intellectually separate an action from a controller input
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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
If you've ever wondered what a witch hunt looked like, you're living in one right now.
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themboy insomniac @riotliturgist.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
"sign in to confirm you're not a bot" no. fuck you.
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tobias xk / blѧxkcat @teeeckskay.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
i get it, the curbside grocery pickup moment of optimism can't morally be allowed to linger & fester, yr right
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tobias xk / blѧxkcat @teeeckskay.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
wait maybe we'll get leff back
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tobias xk / blѧxkcat @teeeckskay.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
i remain correct that no one should ever make a fucking fighting game
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librarypunk @librarypunk.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
i don’t capitalize cause that’s anticapitalist
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tobias xk / blѧxkcat @teeeckskay.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
conch down hands up
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tobias xk / blѧxkcat @teeeckskay.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
but maybe this is a Thing that just needs to be codified & standardized. how to "pause" gameplay & summon TOs consistently across events
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tobias xk / blѧxkcat @teeeckskay.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
there's a ton of weirdness with tourney rulesets & how you engage TOs & mods—but i feel like especially when you're on stream AND a top player, setting yr fucking controller down is a p clear signal in an environment where in-game pause is disabled & doing anyth else while expecting a pause is ???
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tobias xk / blѧxkcat @teeeckskay.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
juan needs to reign the physicality in 100%, especially if (unsure) he actually touched/bumped cody here. but like "'i asked for a reset cos i was thrown off'" is just kinda absurd; you could be "thrown off" by the crowd, personal shit, anyth. & no one would say everyone is entitled to neutral reset
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