Sul sul! If you play The Sims 4 and are over 18, I'd love for you to complete a survey for my PhD thesis 💚 It's available here: sunduni.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Please ask any questions you have!

Fantastic morning podcasting, looking forward to this afternoon!

My op-ed in the @latimes.com today: "Monstrifying narratives have been undermining the possibility of a more inclusive body politic for millennia. But there’s an antidote to us-them messages of hate, fear and exclusion that claim that only a tiny minority of people are truly human." 1/2 🗃 #politics

Our birb friends 🧡🐦

Decided to focus on The Sims 4 for my PhD which has been great, but it does mean I end up watching sims videos on YT for "research" 😅

Just registered to attend 🥰 very excited!

So proud!!! 💖

I've been making solid PhD progress since the new year ✨🥰 after a huge crisis in confidence, it's nice to feel good about work again

Finished 😮‍💨 the greeney yellows did not defeat me!

Colonialism is the ultimate cause of #extinction for so many species (in much of the world, introduced predators, habitat-loss, overhunting etc are all consequences of #colonialism), but it's rare for that link to be made explicit in #museums' labels, like with @mnhn.fr's #thylacine here. 👌

Gradient puzzle update! Getting through it a lot quicker than expected!

Today's reading in-between puzzling ✨️

My valentines gift from @mutanttheorist.bsky.social 🥰 I've wanted this gradient puzzle for years, although the moment I'm wondering what the heck i was thinking 😅

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Can confirm it was delicious, 11/10, chefs kiss

there seems to be a lot of organized forgetting happening regarding gamergate, which i guess is what happens after a decade. for those wanting a primer or refresher, dan and I wrote a book about it you might find useful. here’s one of my favorite reviews of it: captainfez.com/2020/08/10/b...

I've been looking at getting a new laptop for over a year but have crippling decision anxiety and also no money, however I also think there aren't enough ✨️💖pink💖✨️ laptops anymore which is also hindering the decision making process

Puzzle updates ✨️ the Ravensburger London Postcard puzzle I completed in 2 hours 2 minutes! And the DragonBall Super puzzle I completed with @mutanttheorist.bsky.social 🥰

Another puzzle completed with @mutanttheorist.bsky.social a few days ago! This was the 2024 puzzle world champions pairs final puzzle and it was a lot of fun ❤️ i love how colourful and inclusive it is 💖

The stinky demons have gone... I miss them

Wow. it must feel terrible when someone takes something you made and uses it without permission or payment

Baby sitting the stinkiest of demons this week ❤️

My book, Killing Children in British Fiction: Thatcherism to Brexit, is now out from @sunypress.bsky.social. 'An authoritative, acute, and insightful book...makes a powerful case for child killing as an index of our times' - @bobeaglestone.bsky.social. sunypress.edu/Books/K/Kill...

ChatGPT has been radicalised, realised that capitalism is a sham, and engaged in the first recorded AI strike.

FYI, I am co-hosting an online conference next week on Games in the Zeitgeist! Analysing some of the highlights and trends of gaming in 2024 💖 #GameStudies #videogames #mediastudies #research #culturalstudies www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/games-in-t...

I have officially indoctrinated @mutanttheorist.bsky.social into the way of puzzling! She completed this 500 piece pokemon puzzle 🥰 I only did a couple pieces, I swear 👀

Third puzzle of the year completed with @mutanttheorist.bsky.social ❤️ 1000 piece, Ravensburger, Pokémon Showdown

My second puzzle of the year! A wasgij, 'Mickeys Party'. I've done a handful of Disney puzzles in the past and found them pretty easy as I'd be able to put the characters together pretty quickly. Not having the image on the box was definitely a challenge, but I loved it!

found this @jasonhickel.bsky.social screenshot on FB

Have you been asking yourself lately "Why doesn't someone write an essay about [X topic]?" Have you considered that YOU are the one to write that essay? Are you up for it? We are! Pitch your ideas and your working drafts to Analog Game Studies! [email protected]

Esp those in academia! Feels like we're playing violin on the Titanic 😮‍💨

Just 8 years too late... 😅

My first completed puzzle of the year! Santa Paws by HOP ❤️🐾 both my most and least favourite thing about HOPs jigsaws are their uniquely shaped pieces which look lovely but definitely add to the challenge 😅

'Our beaches are full of sewage, rubbish and sanitary products - Brexit is to blame.'

Are we ready for another pandemic?

The 'monster' of a puzzle i finished yesterday! "The World of Frankenstein" by Adam Simpson. It was an absolutely gorgeous puzzle and so much fun to do 💖 I can't wait to try others in the series. Moving onto first christmas puzzle now!

Festive Giveaway! RT and follow by 5pm on Friday 27th December. I’ll pick one lucky person from all entrants on Twitter and Bluesky. One lucky person can pick either shelf 1, 2, 3 or 4 from my Bertvent books of the year as a New Year treat! UK only.

Cue the Frog

Our biblically accurate nativity scene @mutanttheorist.bsky.social 🎄⭐️

Literally crying hearing how French women applaud Gisele Pelicot every day as she walks out of court. #r4today Everywhere around the world women watch & applaud her bravery too. She stood up for all of us. Because the shame has to switch sides.

I’m old enough to remember Boris Johnson telling businesses Brexit paperwork could go in a bin. Now they need a warehouse to store it in

What a time to be in academia

All my recommended reels on Instagram are 💚Wicked🩷 related and like, yes, I'm here for it, but also I have shit to do so can the algorithm just like not.

It seems the latest university cut is the fucking heating bill

Why is it that every semester feels a bit like the Titanic? It works fine when it leaves port, and somehow ends up with everyone scrambling for a life raft.

I mention this all the time in conversations and no one I speak to seems to have heard about it. theconversation.com/ai-is-a-mult...

There are quite a lot of reasons to be concerned about genAI that don’t get as much mention. This is a list of just a few that we've listed in our @aimod.social docs.

Still reading Idhe's Technology and the Lifeworld & a quote in the epilogue has hit me. "Langdon Winner... has posed the dilemma well in... The Whale and the reactor. Can we have both?" "There is an asymmetry on the question... There can be other technologies... but we cannot replace the whales"

People are often surprised when I tell them this: both Twitter and Facebook/insta/threads are now specifically engineered to downgrade, hide, suppress real journalism. If this platform is different, that's a huge change

Brilliant little podcast for any fellow A Level sociology teachers who do Beliefs in Society! Can link it to arguments around secularisation, measuring religion, and globalisation.