You know what we don't talk enough about? 80's homoerotic pro wrestling vignettes. Designed to introduce new 'heartthrob' wrestlers to an area, and especially to appeal to female fans to attend the live shows, promoters would make these vignettes to sell them and well... Judge for yourself.

Imperial Mourning Wolves for Warzone. Classic late 90s minis! #Paintslam25 #miniatures #minipainting #PaintingMiniatures

The International Olympic Committee is set to ban trans and intersex women from competition. This is despite the fact that for 20 years, the IOC has allowed trans athletes to compete and only 1 has ever competed and none have ever won a medal. www.the-independent.com/sport/olympi...

Aalto University's Games Now! is running an event week this week, check out the event schedule for exciting academic and industry talks!

Research on gender faces growing pressure worldwide — a reality game studies scholars know well, from #Gamergate to ongoing harassment. PhD candidates Tom Legierse and Ida Martine Gard Rysjedal call for a network of care among gender and games researchers. nordmedianetwork.org/latest/news/...

Saw Interview with a vampire yesterday for the first time since I don't know how many years. I'd completely forgotten how good the film is - sterling work by baby Kirsten Dunst and Tom Cruise especially. Made me want to get into Vampire: The Masquerade again.

HYYn tilanne on kauhea ja virheet tehtiin oman sukupolveni aikana. Mutta. Ylvan hallitus ei koostunut pääasiallisesti ”tyhmistä opiskelijoista” . Kannattaa lukea Ylkkärin kevään selvitystyö, jos haluaa ymmärtää tilannetta. ylioppilaslehti.fi/2025/03/yl-m...

No fewer than 28 billionaires donated at least 100k to beat Zohran Mamdani. Their overt attempt to buy the election provided Mamdani with perfect talking points. From @ryanlcooper.com: trib.al/LEnjMCa

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...and less than 24 hours later Condé Nast has fired Lex and the rest of the Teen Vogue political desk, even as stories like this were bringing huge numbers of readers to the site

Osana #peliviikko ohjelmaa Tampereen pääkirjasto Metso järjestää huomenna 5.11. klo 18 Metso FAKTA -keskustelun "Hyvä, paha pelikulttuuri?" Keskustelemassa ovat minä, Juho Kuorikoski ja Risto Marjomaa. Tervetuloa Metsoon tai kuulolle striimiin! tapahtumat.tampere.fi/fi-FI/page/6...

every star trek episode is titled Ere Fire Down From Olympus Came and every plot is "what if a comet had a milf on it"

it hasn't helped sell any mags but it appears our nonsense on here has just pushed our account over 5K 'followers', so let's embrace that as some kind of achievement! Like & repost this to be in with a chance to win every in-print issue of Wyrd Science & a t-shirt of your choice*

Tänään käynnistyy Peliviikko, pelikulttuurin ja pelikasvatuksen teemaviikko. Pitkin viikkoa järjestetään ympäri Suomea monipuolisia mahdollisuuksia tutustua peleihin, pelaamiseen ja pelikulttuuriin niin itse kuin vaikkapa lasten tai lastenlasten kanssa. Katso sivuilta paikkakuntien tapahtumat!

Just remembered today that "blog" is just short for "weblog" and that podcasts were originally broadcasts for the iPod. Time flies.

Wild that so many people are still on X, regardless of reason.

Come work with me!

 We've opened the search for a full time, tenure-track Assistant Professor in Game Arts at Pratt Institute. 

A good match would be an artist, game developer, or educator with an active creative practice in indie games, game studies and theory, playful coding, or art games.

Ihmiset Blueskyn puolella: jos haluatte että näen vastauksenne viesteihini voitte seurata tätä siltaavaa tiliä: @ap.brid.gy Lisätietoja: https://fed.brid.gy/docs#bluesky-get-started

Still terrifying

I wanted to offer some thoughts on the Gates climate memo that has been circulating this week. While I can't directly speak for others, I can say that my own response is one of dismay & deep frustration (and that this view is shared by many climate/Earth scientists). [1/n]

I'll be Sexy academic publishing.

They had gotten the spray varnish and the undercoat spray mixed up.

🚨CALL FOR PAPERS 🚨 The Psychgeist of Pop Culture: Chrono Trigger playstorypress.org/2025/10/30/c...

This is just mind-bendingly wrong-headed. ‘Let’s just adapt, tech will save us’ has always been a reckless strategy, but as evidence mounts that natural carbon sinks are failing it really does start to sink into a form of climate denialism. www.newsweek.com/bill-gates-d...

Minua kuvaus tapahtumista huolestuttaa entisestään. VM on tehnyt erittäin merkittävästi julkista taloutta heikentävän esityksen, vaikka sen kasvuvaikutuksista ei ole ollut juuri mitään uskottavaa näyttöä. Tästäkään huolimatta VM:n asemaa ei kyseenalaisteta millään tavalla. 6/6

Journalismin tehtävä on kertoa, mitä yhteiskunnassa tapahtuu, ja auttaa yleisöä muodostamaan kuvaa maailmasta. Huonot otsikot sumentavat kuvaa ja harhauttavat. Yleisö lukee enimmäkseen otsikoita, koska vain osa jutuista avataan. Myös ne jutut, joita ei lueta, vaikuttavat yleisön kuvaan maailmasta.

A common issue into research on gaming: I just read a paper on toxicity in gaming (an extremely gendered phenomenon) and over 90% of the respondents are men. Nothing wrong with this, but the paper does not acknowledge this at all, apart from saying "findings aren't generalisable".

Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same

Coming as a surprise to pretty much no-one, now that they have the living hostages back, the genocide continues as before.

The game that made me take up cross-stitching!

"Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes... Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared." - Diary of Anne Frank

recently discovered that wikipedia volunteers have a hilariously high bar for what constitutes "unusual death"

Wild how big of an issue they made of Biden's occasional (fairly minor) fumbling, while this entirely delusional rambling is just seen as a style of rhetoric.

We played The Skeletons #ttrpg and I wrote about the experience: www.roleplayletters.com/2025/10/27/s... It's an interesting experience we're keen to revisit and alter!

friend shared this, immediately updated my settings

This is the sort of thing you should be all over if you're interested in cultural studies and games. I'd be all over it if it were a shorter commitment. No place like it in the world.

SURPRISE! I had an idea on Tuesday for how to do the Perfect Space Marine RPG, so I wrote the Perfect Space Marine RPG. It's both a shitpost and a dead serious game. And it's, uh... 34,000 words long? Anyway enjoy!!! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

This made me laugh out loud.

A reminder of our open call for postdoctoral researchers focusing on cultural game studies, closing on Friday this week, 31 October at 23.59.00 EET / UTC+2 (Finland time): tuni.rekrytointi.com/paikat/index...

lol.

For excellent insight into (false and ahistorical) takes like this, I warmly recommend the 2017 book "Toxic Geek Masculinity in Media: Sexism, Trolling, and Identity Policing" by @anasalter.bsky.social and @siveambrai.bsky.social.

Now it is official! The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Games is now, like, actually, surely, coming out! (This has been in the pipeline since 2018.) I have a piece here on this brand new thing called 'magic circle'. Everyone will be talking about it.

Want to do a (funded for UK students) PhD with me? If you're interested in games, posthumanism, avatars, affect, embodiment or any of the other stuff I do (or my colleagues do for that matter) take a look! www.bcu.ac.uk/research/doc... #PhDfunding #PhDstudentship #AHRC #DoctoralFunding #GameStudies

"Käräjäoikeuden mukaan luontoa voidaan pitää sellaisena oikeudellisesti suojattuna etuna, jota on viime kädessä oikeus suojella sinänsä rikokseksi säädetyllä teolla."

Stea-leikkaukset tulevat luultavasti kaatamaan omankin yritykseni, joka tuottaa seniorien it-opastusta. Tilaajani ovat Stea-rahoitteisia yhdistyksiä. Samalla yhdistysten tulee olla voittoatavoittelemattomia eli eivät saa myydäkään palveluitaan. Lopputulos: ei kenellekään mitään. Onko sit hyvä?

The movie ends with them evicting a non-profit dance studio for seniors and renting the space to a large nameless corporation for storage space on Christmas eve.

Onko bisnes yhä bisnes ja Mooses Mooses? Yritykset ovat vuosia vedonneet globalisaatioon ulkoistaessaan omaa tuotantoaan halpatyön maihin. Nyt, kun globalisaatio kääntyikin yrityksiä itseään vastaan, samat yritykset vetoavatkin kuluttajavastuuseen. omatuntoon ja jopa isänmaallisuuteen. Ketju 👇 1/10

I am hiring PhD candidates to study the psychology of attention & technology use at @tilburg-university.bsky.social. We're looking for motivated & curious scholars with expertise in cognitive psychology and statistics, and offer a friendly work environment with great terms & benefits. tiu.nu/22989