i heard several mourning dove sound fx in this Backrooms video and it makes me wonder if it's a Crypt Worlds reference or if i'm just being delusional again. the curse of having been involved with any art of any degree of visibility on the internet.

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actually interesting to me that the Backrooms A24 movie and the new Boards of Canada album are coming out on the same day. watching the original youtube series, it's clear how much BoC's sensibility has influenced it and all the analog horror and liminal space stuff in general

thinking about how that Mixtape game should have ended with all the cast driving in to Seattle to attend the '99 WTO protests and getting tear gassed and beaten by cops

the one thing right wingers understand that no one else seems to these days, is that the correct response to people telling your that poll numbers say your beliefs and/or existence are unpopular is "i don't give a fuck"

thinking about how this old ocremix i used to listen to popped up again a few years ago because it showed up on a very popular video essay about myhouse.wad and how strange it is to have a thing you experienced in one context reframed later in a very different context www.youtube.com/watch?v=Btdv...

new goal is to become successful enough at whatever to where someone accuses me of being an industry plant

probably a losing battle at this point to point this out, but it's been bugging me: "globalism" is a term mostly spread by people like Alex Jones, whereas "globalization" is what people now are usually thinking of when they use the former term.

gorgeous write-up of @rasheedabueideh.bsky.social’s game about the Nakbah, made by a developer in the occupied West Bank and crowdfunding now. please, please support this vital creative work 💜 www.rockpapershotgun.com/palestinian-...

i just don't see the picture of Gen Z that seems to get pushed in media. i see a lot of traumatized young people trying to cling to whatever. more than anything tbh i mostly see dissociation and exhaustion. which is consistent with what would happen to anyone coming of age in the last ten years.

things can always get worse! but this moment feels like a final frontier, a final marrying of the billionaires and the right wing anti-democratic project before everything falls into the abyss. what comes after all of this is anyone's guess, but the door is open and the future is unwritten.

pretty sick of people fearmongering about Gen Z

Shut up and go make some art that no one is asking for

youtube algorithm blessed me with ambient Ocarina of Time tape loops today www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTkd...

since video editing is my passion, i made something no one asked for but i'm sure you all secretly wanted - music that sounds like the Donkey Kong Country OSTs

this happened about a month ago. “As we have seen with other recent situations, the media deadnamed and misgendered her. So once again her friends and family have to add making those corrections to their grieving process.” www.pghlesbian.com/2026/04/blac...

I’m afraid that too many people don’t understand just how terrible the Biden pandemic response was—and how it contributed to Trump’s return. I also fear that given how much this administration has dismantled public health, the appetite for looking back and identifying points of failure is low.

the thing capitalism is most easily able to co-opt is the feeling of new horizons via constant new products. a lot of left movements are fixated on preserving a diminishing past. but it feels like always fighting on shifting ground, always reacting to terms set by the capitalist industrialists

There's a major civil rights protest taking place in Selma, Alabama, right now in response to the SCOTUS decision that weakened the Voting Rights Act and the ongoing attack on Black Americans’ political power (video: defiancedispatch/IG)

the challenge of art in the age of fascism is, to me, that escapism just feels like complicity. some people might disagree, but that's how i feel. on the other hand, it feels really important to provide some sort of new horizon or alternate vision of the future and not just comment on the present.

It is insane that person who is funding the world’s white supremacist movement & is daily spewing racism, who killed 100,000’s last year by yanking USAID without warning, is regularly discussed in Corporate Media as an industrialist, without any mention of the white supremacism or mass murder.

thinking about how that Mixtape game should have ended with all the cast driving in to Seattle to attend the '99 WTO protests and getting tear gassed and beaten by cops

this is a well-reported piece which addresses actual harms & this “should” shit from the NYAG is absolutely worthless when it’s coming from someone whose strongest move on unconstitutional cessation of care was a stern letter with no follow through TWO MONTHS AGO. “should” is meaningless.

tdor.translivesmatter.info This website tries to track trans deaths. It’s not complete - Lucas was not included in the April listings for some reason and it doesn’t appear to have any May listings yet so Juniper is not there. But the count is already 77 for this year, most due to violence.

just a general good thing for solidarity to recognize your own pain as real and legitimate, and caused by a combo of both your own personal subjective experiences and the ways your existence came up against the oppression of the state.

gotta love the mythical strawman white trans woman who works a secure white collar career and panic posts online who gets to serve as the eternal shorthand reason in the eyes of many why we're all annoying delusional people who don't have real problems, but also deserve whatever does happen to us

i watched a chunk of a playthrough of this game and my issue from what i saw is less the insufferable teenage protagonist and more that what i saw felt so cliche, so contrived just to throw some Gameplay in there without much emotional depth. like do you actually wanna be a Netflix show or not?

Trans people are facing a decades-long, escalating, international effort to drive them out of society supported by some of the richest, most powerful people AND governments in the world and you are right that a few of them being snippy with you on social media is, essentially, the same thing.

this is a state sponsored children's torture camp

He thought asylum seekers meant like Hannibal Lecter was crossing the Grande and everyone had to play along

2026 is filled with headlines like "Right Wingers cheer as Jessica Goodperson, 25 was brutally murdered by Timothy Evil, 45" and there's a picture of Jessica Goodperson smiling with a bunch of orphan children and then a picture of Timothy Evil doing the Kubrick stare in a swastika t-shirt

i'm glad almost no one i follow cares enough about the Drake 3 album thing to even acknowledge it let alone comment on it. much better things to think about.

seeing ppl discussing "male socialization" in regard to trans ppl. not sure what instigated it, but here's my best online essay on it (with a bit of “Trans Masc vs Trans Fem” discourse as a treat): on Medium: juliaserano.medium.com/on-male-soci... & Substack: juliaserano.substack.com/p/on-male-so...

When you win a fight in space funeral it plays the last 20 seconds of Love’s 7 and 7 is m.youtube.com/watch?v=6An7...

in a world where McDonald's and Drake are both the same thing

some thoughts and feelings i’ve had recently

since video editing is my passion, i made something no one asked for but i'm sure you all secretly wanted - music that sounds like the Donkey Kong Country OSTs

youtube algorithm blessed me with ambient Ocarina of Time tape loops today www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTkd...

i consider this the canonical sequel to Avril 14th by Aphex Twin barchboi.bandcamp.com/track/lukes-...

the trans woman "male socialization" stuff i basically bought into until the late 2010's and it made me feel like i was diseased, didn't deserve real autonomy, and had to constantly atone for my ornery teenage self. i'm glad it's more broadly recognized as being basically autogynephilia 2.0 now

fun fact: despite being stereotyped as "allowed to get away with all kinds of antisocial shit" while "as a dude", trans women are disproportionately sexually abused at higher rates than cis dudes or cis women pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

been thinking about how a lot of games that attempt to capture marginal experiences or social problems fail to get larger visibility even when they aren't particularly didactic or whatever. there is a broad allergy to anything non-escapist that feels like brain food that is really hard to get around

there are better and more interesting conversations to have about videogames that don't even acknowledge right wing culture war shit. those should be had, in a public way. set the terms of conversation you want to see around a piece of media and stop being put on your back foot by outrage slop

while most people have become utterly sick of this right wing outrage ecosystem at this point, those content creators need a constant churn to keep their audience interested. and most of their targets are smaller scale, so it's easy for them to just become the default conversation about a thing

gwen does fantastic work as usual on some of the 401,000 trans people who’ve had to flee hostile territory in their own country in the past 18 months.

I see people acting like they’re safe from this harassment blighting the industry because they “don’t do political stuff, or representation stuff, or—“ Don’t you get it? *You* don’t decide that. They do. Their job is to scour your existence for any label that might suitably rile up their audience.

“This game was targeted for harassment because it involved this person, or that person” No. Any game release that achieves any broad level of attention now will attract reactionary commentators and their harassment, because generating hatred is how they make their money. It’ll never be enough.