“The body registers the effect of the word and not the intention. McNally’s statement focuses on the lack of intention of Davidson but has no understanding that the way black people’s bodies registers racial aggressions is also not intentional.”

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I’d yell at people to stop giving oxygen to white supremacists on here but it’s truly my own fault for logging on

It's Chinese New Year and Eid, so both sides of my extended family are FEASTING tonight. رمضان مبارك and 恭喜發財 to those who celebrate.

In honor of year of the fire horse, a poem my partner clued me onto, Heat, by Jane Hirshfield.

Rev. Jesse Jackson's "I *am* somebody..." remains one of the all-time great pieces of 20th century rhetoric / agitprop And he could deliver it at a Black separatist meeting, the Democratic National Convention, or on god-blessed Sesame Street (see below 🥹) RIP to the Voice of the Voiceless

This style of light doesn't really appear in animation anymore. You know it when you see it -- it's bright, hot and almost dangerous. Our new issue explores the tricks behind it, and how one artist has revived the look for the digital age: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/dangerous-...

And last is... me! Hi, I'm looking for work. I was the animation lead for Wanderstop. I rigged every character, set the animation style, hired and set schedules, and did a huge amount of animation and anim code, FX work, and more. Enjoy my new demo reel and then email me at [email protected]!

introducing my column about resistance in fiction for @aftermath.site. I’m calling it THE WORK aftermath.site/oscars-revol...

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I really loved Despelote breakingarrows.ghost.io/despelote-20...

Incredible, horrific piece. thebaffler.com/latest/im-no...

"But I do think culturally we are back to brunch." This month in Dialogue, @austinwalker.bsky.social goes long on craft, industry, and doing the work.

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Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

a great article you should read instead of the Washington post one: theracket.news/p/the-most-a...

Two females in their SUV, in a driveway, honked their horn when they saw ICE-holes cruising through to alert everybody. In response, they got assault rifles pointed in their faces, their window busted, and hauled away like they killed somebody. #FuckICE #ProudBlue #ICEout

I'm not respecting AI until the first one goes Rampant.

Replaying Cyberpunk 2077 and was struck by a small sidequest in which Johnny Silverhand delivers the Gen X lament and wonders why history didn't end. stuckness.ghost.io/johnny-silve...

"why do you have to post and repost messages about the BDS boycott every time there's a new game announcement or set of trailers" because there's this weird phenomenon of active forgetting that Microsoft is a tech partner of one of the most heinous crimes against humanity happening on earth today

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Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza. We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...

This is one of the most important cases that galvanized Black people in the late 40s through the 1950s. Almost every major Black leader had a comment about it. It is also one of the most successful defense committees that was organized in the 20th century. Almost no one knows about it today.

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@chiltonm.bsky.social and I are the new Books Editors for Exploits! I had the pleasure of editing this month’s review of Chain Gang All Stars.

It is increasingly bizarre to witness the outcome of the dismantling of online criticism post-GG. Just zero institutional memory. Back at square one. "Let me enjoy thing."

1 dollar is about 5 dollars…

Beep beep, special delivery! I've got a medium sized package and a small package for y'all today! First up: a review of Skate Story that I think is really more an examination of vibes. noescapevg.com/ruminations-...

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Angeline Era is like a dream: random, transcendent, frustrating. That feeling made it one of my favorite games of 2025. My review: unwinnable.com/2026/01/29/a...

honestly not even just the worker-owned groups. you can open a masthead on a site that used to be pretty diverse and see basically an entire slate of white men. incredibly obvious where the layoffs hit hardest!

Is the game actually Good? Or is the game just Good Enough to Postpone the Malaise.

Something I just realized about the Quake II engine is that everything in it looks like it is made out of cheese.

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“we heard tale of expanding the tent”

what's highguard?

Same energy as that IGN piece. WE KNOW BULLSHIT WHEN WE SEE IT STOP INSULTING OUR INTELLIGENCE TO SELL YOUR SLOP

yes, i AM arguing that "haha this looks like shit" can be praxis, and i AM right. a reliably skeptical press is a press with a position that can be trusted to be separate from the industry it covers.

i lowkey think a games press full of blind optimism toward whatever big thing is actually bad for both the press AND the video game industry. it encourages shitty AAA content and it puts indies and exploited devs on the backfoot to make their case due to a presumption of triple-A greatness

This is a fundamentally different industry than mine. This is not criticism. This is not even journalism. This is marketing. You are a (unpaid) marketer. www.ign.com/articles/can...

Perfect Tides: Station to Station is another well-executed time-capsule in the life of Mara Whitefish. This time depicting her lost in college, the story feels even sharper in it's ability to make us confront the past without judgment www.avclub.com/perfect-tide...

Reading reactions to America being hated by the rest of the world as an elder millennial who traveled abroad during the heights of the "war on terror."

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Human artists, use only one piece to convince people to follow you

I saw this video of a Vietnam vet in the fur coat yelling at ICE and thought to myself, "this is missing something," before I realized, "Ah, of course, the Ether instrumental. It's so obvious."