Join us and the incredible and incomparable @aspencerhall.bsky.social for a day of queer and trans thinking on Tuesday @imc-leeds.bsky.social !

Can't wait for Tuesday's back-to-back trans goodness at @imc-leeds.bsky.social, courtesy of #s524 #s624 #s724 & #s824, all organised by @basilaprice.bsky.social & Daniel Reeve, finishing up with #s924 roundtable organised by Dena Arguelles 📍 Esther Simpson Building: 3.02 #IMC2026 #MedievalSky 🗃️

Everything about the Prairieland case should chill the blood of anyone who values their first amendment rights: “Sanchez Estrada was federally charged with ‘corruptly concealing a document or record’ for moving a box of zines the day after the protest.” (Source:)

new weekend; same bad take

I had not posted about it but as I am now earnestly grappling with it: I am writing another book for @bodleian.ox.ac.uk Bodleian Publishing, 'Tales of Horror from Medieval England'. Expect translated narratives of violence, sorcery, fearsome creatures, the undead, and the end times.

Follow @wario64.bsky.social and repost for a chance to win 1 of 5 NA eShop codes for Rise of the Tomb Raider: 20 Year Celebration for Nintendo Switch 2 courtesy of @aspyr.com. Giveaway ends July 6th, 6 PM PT www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...

i saw more cis people online losing their shit over playstation ending physical game releases than any part of this since tuesday, but madiba doesn’t miss and gives a fuck and this is what the big picture looks like. which seems not great when you put it into a 234-word graf.

Despite a report this morning, I can confirm that Obsidian is *not* in negotiations to avoid shutting down. Plenty of details are still up in the air surrounding the layoffs (picture will be clear on Monday) but Xbox is keeping Obsidian, according to people familiar with the situation.

We've picked culture's bones clean for 100 issues, and we'll do it for 100 more. Celebrate by reading about topics like emo music and videogame adaptations. Buy and subscribe at the link in bio.

Competitive high school sports are not about gladiatorial domination; they exist to teach kids teamwork, comradery, promote exercise, and give them a sense of accomplishment. I can think of no better way to accomplish those goals than to compete alongside our trans brothers, sisters, and siblings.

Oh, hey, I released Exploits 100 early. Whoopsie! Subscribe for 5 bucks and get it, plus all 99 previous issues of Exploits, and all 200 issues of Unwinnable Magazine FREE. unwinnable.com/subscribe/

Our campaign for a union at Rockstar continues! Today, we've filed for recognition with @rockstargames.com, asking Rockstar to meet with their workers to agree a deal for good working conditions, fairness and a say at work. We await Rockstar's response. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

"Hiring of college grads is down across the board. But certain majors are able to access opportunities in a wider array of industries, new LinkedIn data shows." ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH 69% VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS 68% www.forbes.com/sites/courtn...

Our "Future of Totality" volume is now available! So grateful to my co-editors (Nicholas Brown, Maria Elisa Cevasco, and Fabio Durao) and especially to our amazing roster of contributors. As the dedication reads: "For Fred"

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oh no! can’t wait to read the strongly worded letter. centrist cowards talking a big game

Everything is officially in place! We are moving from Austin to Madison over the next two months!

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Me: this essay is about dancing/performance in X Chaucer poem Also me: what if I wrote 3000 words on how we can’t understand this one Middle English word without engaging with Lydgate‘s corpus.

The art of Marathon: aftermath.site/marathon-bungi...

Next week, @unwinnable.com's 200th issue comes out, so I put together a gallery of all 202 covers of Unwinnable, dating all they way back to 1872. Er, I mean 2014. unwinnable.com/2026/06/19/2...

Happy Juneteenth! If you're looking for something cool to play today to support a black business in the U.S., check out some of my games. - Studio is Black-owned - Black characters - Black Voice Actors And racist trolls hate us ♥️ linktr.ee/aerial_knight

This! If you can’t bother to write it, I don’t have it in me to read it as a reviewer. It is a waste of my time.

I keep thinking about that French academic who admits to having written an entire book with Claude: why should any publisher read his manuscript? Why should reviewers waste their time reading his manuscript—we barely have time for our own work?

This is why you see a lot of AI pushers in academia, media and tech speak sneeringly about how much of human output is ‘slop’ and how the existence of ‘human slop’ justifies the use of gAI; but also that ‘AI slop’ is better than ‘human slop’ Never let them do this.

One easy change you can make to fight back against corporate greed: STOP BUYING STARBUCKS. Here's why:

Work with me! Late-breaking opening in the English Department at Davidson College. We're hiring a two-year Visiting Assistant Professor of post-1800 Brit Lit.

Shutting down Compulsion Games before Juneteenth? Racist.

Btw instead of buying pride merch this month and feeding into the rainbow capitalism and overconsumption please consider donating to charities that support queer and trans people, supporting a queer small business, or paying a queer sexworker. Put your money where your beliefs are, it matters.

the week of Juneteenth.................

If anyone is looking to hire a Peabody and BAFTA winning senior writer, I am looking for work. I’ve got six years experience in games. Everything from indie to AAA. I am not married to staying in games. I am hoping to relocate to the Bay Area. I am keeping my ears to the ground.

Big news! You can now support three worker-owned, feminist publications with a single subscription. Get 50% off 90 days of Autonomy News, @theflytrapmedia.com, and @mothership.blog Set up your bundle now:

This week: Maxis, Manifestos, Marathon, and no clear resolution on why I keep doing this with the letter M: critical-distance.com/2026/06/15/j...

I Saw the TV Glow is free on YouTube! (with ads) www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYxQ...

Hi everybody! I made a new personal website! It's like my portfolio, resume and closet full of skeletons all in one! there's writing from 15 years ago in here! That's terrifying! kailehultner.com/a-strange-re...

For decades, Dan Patrick has sold out the poor, the sick, and the vulnerable to enrich his donors. Love feels like blasphemy when you worship power.

Sharing the 1990 Bisexual Manifesto once again to remind everyone that bisexuality was NEVER binary

I miss the use of lighting and shadow

If anyone's got any remote jobs in PR/marketing that pay at least $40k a year, hit me up.

The number of dipshit writers thinking they are being clever or profound by interacting with AI and then writing about it is getting a bit much. Not a single one has been non-stupid. You sound pathetic. Just do not use it, full stop.

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Our long-awaited House of Leaves episode is out now! redcircle.com/shows/979960... Is it a culmination to our haunted house series? You tell us! (Literally - message us if we've missed anything major that we have to cover.) #horrorsky #horrorfans #horrorpod #booksky

What if GTA 6 is bad? Or sells poorly? Or gets delayed? This seems like a poorly conceived move on the part of every reputable publisher

The brand new, social media-focused issue of TSW just dropped! /1 #medievalsky #arthuriansky

Reader, I cried

Let’s go! Spurs in six!

In the spirit of @puke.bsky.social's post from April, I am Simply Once Again Asking For People To Give A Shit noescapevg.com/i-just-want-...

I won't feature RPGs by Microsoft or by studios that are owned by it. Exception for games made prior to Microsoft's acquisition. I urge everyone to join the boycott and to be vocal, cancel Game Pass, cancel pre-orders, ignore handheld PCs with Windows, tell Microsoft it's because of Palestine.