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Laura; she/her; Localization Director at a game company in Osaka; I like games, animals, fiber arts, and stationery. Also on Mastodon.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 11h
Railroad tycoon James J. Hill with a speech bubble below him to suggest he's saying the quote-tweet below
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2026
anyway in a just world a giant cartoon piano would fall on hanania and tracey in the middle of their pro rape podcast
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the other ローラ @theotherrora.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Don’t they recognize Lemon from my profile pic and understand I’m obviously her mother??
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the other ローラ @theotherrora.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Having spent most of my life in women-dominated online spaces makes it so weirdly confronting when I get on reddit and realize everyone assumes you’re a dude over there. Wild
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
One of the things to come from GamerGate was the gamification of torturing real, live women...hounding them out of their homes, making them look over their shoulders for years. It was treated as a joke, nbd, the work of a few bad apples--as all terrorism against women is--& that failure leads here.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
As a man who knows other men, and teaches young men, this is absolutely true. I’m gonna go further: there are a wide variety of everyday acts, acts that a majority of men commit, maintain the threat of sexual violence as a condition of women’s being in the world.
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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
studying the early modern era as a blueprint for what we're going to have to do in 2060
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zhinxy and 1 other @zhinxy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The following is a quote from a real person's (or a real person's sockpuppet's) Goodreads review: "Astarion would NEVER say the word cock"
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Thomas (he/him) @thomas--72.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I was busy yesterday but I meant to say this: I continue to subscribe to Jude because I keep being glad I read his reviews and essays. This one is really worth it. It's about the parallels between the re-closeting of rock's founding queer men and the closing of the tran "window of tolerance."
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the other ローラ @theotherrora.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Time for our date with Dylan~ @thisorangelife.bsky.social
Photo of a television showing the title screen of Control Resonant
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the other ローラ @theotherrora.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
how are cats even real
Lemon, a calico cat, lays on a quilt with her entire head shoved underneath a pillowLemon, a calico cat, has been awoken by the camera shutter sound. Her head is now visible as she squints in the direction of the camera
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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️
8 Hours for Work, 8 Hours for Rest, 8 Hours for What We Will. Based on a screenprint by Ricardo Levins Morales after the organizing work done by Robert Owen.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I think a lot of straight women, including many who identify as feminists, use lesbians as a kind of rhetorical stand-in for disgusting, failed, or disposable women. But what lesbians actually represent is the maximalist expression of women’s freedom. When they come for us, they’re coming for you.
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Katie O'Reilly @drkatfish.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The winning "I voted" sticker designs for Michigan this year are A++ (www.mlive.com/politics/202...) the legend lives on from the Chippewa on down, indeed
The top nine designs for "I voted" stickers in Michigan for 2026
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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 10/08/2026
The term "Woke 1.0" (whether sympathetic or not) is its own micro aggression conceding to the idea that black social justice concepts appeared ab nihilo in 2014/15-2024 rather than being part of a centuries long tradition of critical theorising, data gathering and practice.
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箕島 綺譚 [Mishima Kitan] (they/them)💖Support Black Trans Liberation @mishimakitan.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
🎮 EN/JP Job alert: Automaton West is looking for a EN/JP bilingual full-time editorial staff who can work in Osaka (or someone who can relocate to work in Osaka). automaton-media.com/en/announcem...
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AUTOMATON WEST is looking for full-time editorial staff (Japanese fluency and ability to relocate required)  - AUTOMATON WEST
We are currently accepting applications for the position of full-time editor for the video game news site AUTOMATON WEST.
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the other ローラ @theotherrora.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I just recently played these two games and this is SUCH a beautiful rendering of what makes them so special
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Jay Allen @gaiaslastlaugh.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
People who've never been to Japan: JAPAN IS LIVING IN 2050 Japanese vending machines: Sorry, I don't take any currency issued post-Showa
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Peter Jeffe @pjeffe.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Lots of people sticking up for the Dems instead of engaging with @moiradonegan.bsky.social 's main point: that the reluctance to speak up about the Tates reveals a pattern of "prizing men over women, of coveting men’s votes and men’s support as somehow more legitimate, more valuable, than women’s".
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twist @pvdork.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
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the other ローラ @theotherrora.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
There are two kinds of people
Photo of two white CDs. One is labeled “IDK mid July 2026.” The other is labeled “The Mountain Goats, The Hound Chronicles + Hot Garden Stomp,” with the track list of both written below it.
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Oh yeah wow I forgot the right is full of rapists, guess we'd better shut up and tolerate any rapist who likes universal healthcare
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 06/07/2026
One thing I would love is if, when a straight white guy “sees the light” and joins the left, he would volunteer for a community group and like knock doors for someone who’d been on the left for ages instead of immediately wanting to be the candidate. It’d be like a litmus test for if they’re serious
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the other ローラ @theotherrora.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The longer I spend online the more I realize that this is the actual value system a lot of dudes seem to hold
The Disco Elysium “are women bourgeois?” quote
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
What if being raped itself is in fact a product of some sort of structural inequality
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🌈Tyranny🫧Sparkles🏳️‍🌈 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 06/07/2026
kids, repeat after me, you draw the fucking line at the Nazi tattoo
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Danielle Lalonders @dlalonders.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
this doesn't even have the full context which makes it funnier
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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Yeah, that’s the America I grew up in. When I say the anti-trans playbook now is the same playbook as they ran in the 90s against gay people, I mean the SAME
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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 18/06/2026
Are you gay and can read? Do you want to keep that cognitive function going to spite straight people? Subscriptions to to The Flytrap, Autonomy News, and Mothership are still available in a single bundle for $32.49! Get the deal: f.mtr.cool/mlavptbmlp
Illustration of a woman with purple hair, a megaphone and a fire. Background is purple and sparkly. On top, there's a purple ribbon with the words "FEMINIST BUNDLE: $32.49". Underneath, the logos of Autonomy News, The Flytrap and Mothership.
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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 16/06/2026
I am just curious why "a disaster for actual humans who are employed to translate games" is "less egregious" than "machine-made music, textures, and narrative". All of that sounds pretty equally egregious to me.
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ultima @ultimadmt.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
still might potentially be the funniest gag in this whole series . thirty feet into a telephone pole and got a sprained ankle. happy anniversary to those who celebrate
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Defending Platner’s documented and alleged behavior as the natural cost of running regular, working class guys suggests that we should just assume any working class man will treat women poorly. It also suggests we should just consign working class women to lives of mistreatment and abuse.
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the other ローラ @theotherrora.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
“Feminism is the radical notion that women are people” hit in the 80s and still hits today tbh
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Most of all, I am tired of people treating abortion as if women’s lives and freedom are a political talking point. I am a person. My daughter is a person. There is no “middle ground” on my 15-year-old’s humanity, and there is no “compromise” to be had with someone who would force her to remain pregnant against her will.
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J. Anderson Coats (she/her) @jandersoncoats.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
My day job is at a rural branch of a public library, and we have a Pride display. Yesterday I was at the desk when a man came in. Fifties, maybe, or sixties. Plaid shirt, mesh trucker cap, suspenders. He went up to the display and just stood there for a long moment. Then he came up to the desk. 🧵 1/
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Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · 09/06/2026
I truly believe that New Yorkers are capable of booing someone to death. I know you can do it. I have never been so certain about anything.
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
I specifically requested no more metaphors
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8 Matts in a Duffel Bag @scratchbomb.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
i don’t know how you can insist on your progressive or leftist bona fides and say something like the quoted post. to see that misogyny is one of the animating forces behind MAGA and think that should not be rejected but embraced reveals it was always about domination for you
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
i'm sorry men being forced to answer for themselves is so painful. you know what's more painful? the level of intimate partner violence in this country. the baseline disrespect and humiliation that women are forced to take in order to survive.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
A friend of mine who was TA’ing for an AmLit course found a copy of Moby Dick a student had left behind. It had only one marginal annotation, around page 100, that simply said “whale is important.”
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innes mck @innes.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
this is what I mean when I say "don't let orgs and managers see discriminating against trans folk as the path of last resistance". transphobes are persistent and annoying. be just as annoying. show them compliance is going to be a legal nightmare
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the other ローラ @theotherrora.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
At best they have watched the movie loosely based on “Don’t Invent the Torment Nexus”
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the other ローラ @theotherrora.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
my guess though is that since many of these seem to be crowdsourced the info for Japan will be pretty spotty. might be worth looking into what's popular on the Japanese side of the app store for something with better local coverage?
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the other ローラ @theotherrora.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
the ever-useful resetera thread on ethical software alternatives has a pretty long writeup on google maps alternatives: www.resetera.com/threads/ethi...
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Ethical Software & Services Alternatives |OT|
Good post! Lots of good Mail and VPN alternatives, but I'm stuck on finding a great Email Alias solution. Proton Pass really nailed integrating SimpleLogin.
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Vampi Moira Valentine @itsviviactually.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Full offense, but we shouldn't have to stop, hold your hand, and say, "That was a sad choice, wasn't it? Can you help think of a better one?" when writing for adults
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🎃 Killy Witches 👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
CIS PEOPLE TIME TO STEP UP it’s once again time to yell at our bad government via online comment form the FCC is trying to make trans and nonbinary content require special ratings on shows GLAAD has a good writeup on it below TELL ‘EM NO direct link to comment form: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings...
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Tell the FCC that LGBTQ Stories Don’t Need a Warning Label | GLAAD
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is targeting LGBTQ stories. They are trying to control what you see on television. This government overreach is dangerous...
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themboy insomniac @riotliturgist.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
every time some guy squeals about "declining birthrates" as a "crisis for humanity," remember that one of the biggest contributing factors is the decline in teenage pregnancies caused by adult men. that's what they're whining about and that's what they want to bring back.
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juv3nal @juv3nal.neocities.org · 15/05/2026
most any characteristic one could try to use as a tell (this, em dashes, whatever) is only there because it also occurs frequently in the corpus
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