Liz Ryerson
@ellaguro.bsky.social
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she/her. musician, writer, podcaster, weird vidgame person
http://www.patreon.com/ellaguro
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hey folks: my financial situation is not good for the next few months after moving to a new place - and a couple things i expected didn't come through. could really use any and all of your help either on my patreon:
www.patreon.com/ellaguro
or buy one of my albums here:
ellaguro.bandcamp.com
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i do often think about how little you learn about the history of gay/lgbtq rights in the US unless you grew up around it or you try and seek out the history. there's a lot of stuff i just never learned in school at all - certainly not my public school, and very little in college either.
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Gillian Branstetter
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Literally the Supreme Court upheld sodomy bans in 1986 and said homosexuality was worse than rape and nobody even talks about it
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Imran Khan
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If you're curious what a non-preservationist gaming ecosystem looks like, you can look at the mobile stores, where most of the shit you remember does not exist in any form anymore.
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mutt
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So my bank account is up to -$435 my insurance payment went through and a bunch of over draft fees went through. Please help if you can or share, it's greatly appreciated. Hello a trans woman have enough money to pay the rest of my rent Friday, please
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Karl Bode
1 day ago
Donald Trump is a very stupid fucking person who genuinely has no idea how anything works and the U.S. press should never be allowed to live down their failure in communicating this mercilessly and clearly to the U.S. public
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Nashville used to be my default answer to this question. now i'd say it's Showgirls.
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Jared Skolnick
1 day ago
There are two, and they share the same key image
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The Simpsons are such a perfect embodiment of American culture because they had 6ish year period of being a razor sharp, broad appeal cultural phenomenon and then many more decades of slow disintegration into a mediocre zombified version of itself that people still periodically try to insist is good
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the thing i always resented being framed as some kind of far left avant garde videogame person is that so much of my tastes growing up were the same things everyone else played and liked. they just happened to evolve and develop into a broader perspective. for a lot of people i guess it never does
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Alexander Ross
1 day ago
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Playstation 3 Song - No Frickin Games
YouTube video by NYTrigga101
https://youtu.be/OgrkN45RDoo?si=ow3pdAOeusgbE-lL
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Alexander Ross
1 day ago
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ONE GAME I DON'T KNOW WHY (FULL SONG)
YouTube video by Chris Voiceman
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step one: you make your console cost the most
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PS3 Song
YouTube video by heavyarms117
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R98qC0fd_1w
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hello videogame friends, you should read this.
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Molleindustria FUTURE? NO THANKS! DEMO OUT
2 days ago
I posted my History of Games keynote: - A materialist reexamination of the canonical game crises from a developer's POV - Thoughts on the ongoing game industry restructuring - Indiepocalypse, AAApocalypse, deprofessionalization, games at the knitting stage
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A History of Games Through Mass Extinctions
A transcript of Paolo Pedercini’s History of Games Conference keynote (2026).
https://www.molleindustria.org/HistoryOfGames/index.html
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MeidasTouch
2 days ago
NEWS: 29-year-old Democratic Socialist Melat Kiros will defeat 15-term incumbent Rep. Diana DeGette in the Democratic primary for CO-01. Kiros, a first-time candidate and former attorney, dominated the Denver assembly and tapped into anti-incumbent sentiment.
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Lauren Theisen
2 days ago
speaking generally, I think the no. 1 thing you can do as a cis ally is help a trans woman get a job
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Talia "Pre-Order CALL ME KIMBERLY" Bhatt ⚢
3 days ago
Even the liberal justices toe the line on sex as an immutable essence, as though the unquantifiable "male advantage" will forever persist in the face of interventions up to and including the very prevention of a male puberty. This is why liberal defences of trans people fail. Y'all fucking suck.
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just a reminder that this is a part of the same political project as the current Supreme Court
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Nicky 2
3 days ago
the pedophile government has decided on a policy of child molestation to protect the sanctity of women's sports, a thing they wish didn't exist. there is no future for normal people in america
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mcc
3 days ago
"BECOME A GREAT ARTIST IN JUST 10 SECONDS" The award-winning game/glitchy art program
@smestorp.bsky.social
and I made in 2013 has now been rereleased on Itch for modern OSes. Try it out!, and make sure to tell any friends you want to play a weird prank on
mermaidindustries.itch.io/become-a-gre...
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i was outside with my friend when it was announced Biden won in late 2020 and everyone on the street in Brooklyn erupted in a like makeshift parade. and i remember feeling really ominous feelings about it, like that people didn't understand at all how Biden was not the guy for the moment at all
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the 50-60 year long US right wing evangelical project that has captured the supreme court, the current presidency, and a lot of state legislatures is also in the midst of withering away at the ground level.
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the MAGA movement is in the midst of collapse and the primary worry right now is 'centrist' Democrat fecklessness & complicity. Democrats still totally within their power to Starmer things up and open the door further for the far right if/when they win, but the base is not behind them on this at all
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people often say that republicans want us trans people to die, and that is often true. i can say at this point the feeling is thoroughly mutual
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Parker Molloy
3 days ago
The Supreme Court today addressed one of the most pressing threats to the nation today: banning this high school sophomore from playing school sports with her friends 🫡🫠🙃
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Katelyn Burns
3 days ago
We are swiftly headed for a society in which a trans kid must undergo state mandated torture, are banned from being on line, are banned from hanging out in most public spaces, are banned from using bathrooms at school, banned from accessing the health care they need, and banned from playing sports.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE
3 days ago
Kavanaugh's decision on trans people in sports contains a footnote saying it applies only to trans women, by the way. So trans women can be legally segregated (and his reasoning isn't limited to sports), but he explicitly says it doesn't apply to trans men in any gendered spaces at all.
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Katelyn Burns
3 days ago
The trans sports ban are almost completely an invention of the media, conservative and mainstream. it has been years of lies, of shoddy fact checking on just completely false conservative claims, years of phony concern trolling.
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ElieNYC
3 days ago
Clarence Thomas wrote a whole concurrence just to say that he thinks trans people don't exist. There's no extra *law* there or anything. Just fired off a couple of paragraphs to say that transgender is not a thing and people who think they're trans are crazy.
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ElieNYC
3 days ago
See, people always want to make this just about "sports," but the real upshot here is that, 6-3, trans women can't make a claim under the Equal Protection Clause. And if they can't do that, it's hard to see how they have constitutional rights.
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started picking up Thief 2 again after many years and i still resent the people who say it's an improvement on the original game (a more obvious interpretation of the concept does not make a better game: it's worse from what i've seen) but it turns out it's still Thief, so it's a fun time regardless
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he just scored after i've been saying his name out loud for the last 30 minutes, i'm sorry i'm psychic
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Dieselbrain
3 days ago
The KIDS Act [containing KOSA] has passed the House This sucks, but its not the end. It still has to pass through the Senate committee and then be voted on by the Senate itself Please continue contactimg your Senators and demanding they oppose the KIDS Act & KOSA
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Netherlands national soccer team player Cody Gakpo is in the Cooper Kupp realm of athlete names that infect my brain and never leave
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Peter
3 days ago
even if it was good policy, this shit is completely ancillary to the goal of actually limiting the power of big tech. Elon Musk has a trillion dollars and is trying to start a global race war, your response to that can’t be “kids should be on their phones less”
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tbh i feel slightly more shame than anything else having Revolutionary War ancestry because everything around it is so conservative-coded but this is cool i guess
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jeeyon shim 심지연
4 days ago
It's not too late to call your reps to vote NO on KOSA, and if you like being able to sign on to the internet without entering your driver's license or passport number, it's crucial that you do! I left a message over the weekend and called again for good measure today. I hope you do the same!
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Punchy
3 days ago
this whole online ID verification push stuff is turning me into a weird crank at rapid speed because I've never seen such an unpopular policy forced through with such speed in so many countries simultaneously with basically zero real consent from any population, just pure elite collusion
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being trans naturally makes me think a lot about the idea of "authenticity" - and how anything can either be seen as extremely authentic or extremely inauthentic based entirely around someone's personal biases. authenticity can be framed in any way, used to sell any idea, or aesthetic, or person.
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it turns out that feeling like you're experiencing something from the mind of an unreliable narrator carries over to playing Sandy's Doom & Quake maps as well
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4 days ago
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this is what the right wing in the US has always been about to me since i was a kid: a gaudy blandness. an entire world made out of cardboard - from mcmansions to strip malls.
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Jake Clover
7 days ago
cape hideous is cheap for summer sale
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it was Mario 64's 30th anniversary last week, and i did this list on twitter awhile back - so i felt like it was time to revise and reshare. here's my revised list of the "normal", i.e. non boss or secret levels, ranked from worst to best. feel free to get mad at me about my choices in the replies
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Caræsten 🇵🇸
5 days ago
second night in a row SFPD has beat the hell out of a bunch of trans people on pride weekend. fuck this shit. fuck Daniel Lurie, fuck SF politicians for pretending they're so progressive and good to us then send their goons to beat us up during pride.
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i think probably no video on the internet has brought me more joy since discovering it than You Can Stop at Five or Six Stores. i keep rediscovering it and it's just as wonderful for the 50th time
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You Could Stop at Five or Six Stores
YouTube video by TheSamstert
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T1OHha9agg
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somehow in 1999 at the age of 12 i was like "this is my team now, this is the primary sports team i care about" and it's just been pain since. i wouldn't wish it on anyone, certainly not someone in Iran lol.
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SoozEQ (OST Free Stars: Children of Infinity)
5 days ago
at least a couple real winners on this list if you haven't been down in the mines yourself yet
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this game still rules and i will die on a hill for it. please play it if you haven't before and a JRPG combined with Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy sounds like a good time to you.
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anyway happy pride
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The Knife - You Take My Breath Away
YouTube video by TMRW Music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJCE48VnI1o
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August J. Pollak
6 days ago
It's been two weeks so I guess I'll mention it again: Atlanta's Democratic leadership ANNIHILATED its activist base over four years--Cop City, arresting protestors, sucking up to Kemp--and as a result the volunteer ground army they had in 2020 simply disappeared, and Harris lost by 200,000 votes.
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