“What do we do without having to do the thing that works?” - @plante.bsky.social talking to @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social on Post Games about tech companies (especially Roblox) are really asking when they ask outsiders what they would do to address child safety on their platforms. Great episode!

I use “ending trans healthcare” at NYU Langone, Mt. Sinai and Northwestern hospitals and avoid “ending trans healthcare for youth” bc ✅ healthcare for trans youth is necessary healthcare, full stop ✅ “youth” can include up to 19-26, who are adults ✅ ending “youth” care is a gate to end AL care

Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem. Thank you. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.

As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.

ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.

Anyone who is part of the federal government who is not doing everything in their power to stop this administration, regardless of the assumed cost to normalcy or career, is a coward and a collaborator.

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

Processing 4.5.1 has been released, here is a little post about it: medium.com/@ProcessingO...

Enjoyed reading this & got me thinking that the “writing” vs “document production” language is super useful & could be applied to the arts as “art” vs “image production”. I don’t agree with the “usefulness of LLMs to offload admin writing” portion relative to the impacts but overall a helpful read.

loving Game Poems, a new "online playable magazine dedicated to exploring the artistic and poetic potential of short-form videogames" www.gamepoems.com

It's time to board the Mothership. www.youtube.com/shorts/iEw90...

We need to stop saying shit like "IP" and "content" when we mean art. Don't let them strip the walls in your own brain, man.

Just got in my copy of @loriemerson.net ‘s “Other Networks” and I am so excited! This partial view of the contents is already so expansive and interesting. This is definitely going to be a vital part of future research and teaching. Also the book is even more beautiful than I thought it would be.

Being trans and an academic is like being stuck inside two burning buildings at once.

The virtual exhibition on critical AI “Debox” opens today at Public Access Memories as part of The Wrong Biennale! Very excited to be included amount so many other great artists (list to be commented). #netart #publicaccessmemories #thewrong #criticalai

Running through some Elden Ring to get images for my talk at @qgcon.bsky.social this coming week. What an amazing game, maybe time for another full play-through?

International mail service to the US might be fucked, but somehow my new “A.I. Sucks” print from @sonnyross.bsky.social landed on my doorstep this morning! Great way to start the weekend :) . If you don’t know their work you should check them out and support real human artists! #antiai #fuckai

“Politics and aesthetics have an uneasy alliance. Too often, trans art—whatever it might encompass, and whatever form it might take—is on the losing end. Creating good work requires time, space, funding, and the motivation to keep showing up.”

People from all over are showing up for DC. This is not a moment. It’s a movement. We are united in our demands. We are all DC! #FreeDC

Transgender studies professor Dr. Susan Stryker tears Gavin Newsom a new one while accepting the Transgender Legacy Award from the California state legislature 🔥🔥🔥 @susanstryker.bsky.social

Me: *trying to have a normal first week of class.* Student: “Why haven’t there been any major successful lawsuits about AI and copyright?” Me: “Well the thing you have to understand is that the law in the US serves capital not the working class…”

First day of the semester hits different as a transwoman and professor in 2025 in the US. More prepared and capable than I ever have been, but also more anxious to be in public and in front of students than ever. #academicsky #academia

21 arguments against AI in education in thread form below or my post here: codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2024/02/22/a...

Every now and again you read a book, watch a movie, hear a song, play a game etc, that fundamentally broadens what you think a medium can do or be. Last week I read @scumbelievable.bsky.social ‘s “Cuckoo” and it did just that. Seriously stunning, especially the handling of transness over time.

Media-N: Journal of the New Media Caucus, a peer-reviewed open-access journal dedicated to scholarly research and critical dialogue on new media art, has a new open call for their next general issue: iopn.library.illinois.edu/journals/med... #academicsky #newmedia #opencall #academia #openaccess

🧵 (1/8) New semester new AI policy for my syllabus. Drawn from my prior policy, @melhogan.bsky.social 's very clear and concise recent post about AI's problems, and reading "Empire of AI" this summer. For context, this is for a creative coding class in an art department. #academicsky #criticalai

No big deal "It's just till we get in office ..." "It's just sports," "It's just restrooms." "It's just your pronouns." "It's just your name." "It's just your medications." "It's just your job." "It's just your kids." "It's just you."

I am just a girl, standing in a desert, throwing antifungal grenades at myself to try to cure my parasitic infection. An actual scene from a recent (Hugo Award Winning) Caves of Qud play-through. My idea didn’t work btw, I had to chop off and regrow my limbs obviously.

democrats are going to be dealing with anti-trans hate until they either - nut the fuck up and defend these people from bigoted attacks - concede to every republican attack on the issue, inevitably leading to the total eradication of trans people from all public life literally the only 2 options

Just two days of our matching donation #fundraiser! And don't forget to get your ticket (whether in person or online)! For games scholars, queer scholars, developers, gamers, GMs, and anyone with a big imagination who is curious to join us! Donations keep our tickets affordable to all.

Instead of: Those who cannot do teach. It should be: Those who cannot do prompt.

The world sucks but today I got to hang out with two of my fellow art/design colleagues and test out our new Risograph machine. I decided to print a screen capture from a recent net art work. #riso #risograph #printmaking #netart #newmediaart #contemporaryart

Big thump on my studio window, saw this little one 😍

An email landed in my inbox today promoting a faculty retreat for my college with a large time slot on "AI for productivity". I responded in part with: "I say this without exaggeration: There is no way to adopt generic AI tools (like LLMs) at an institutional level in a way that is ethical."

A work in progress screen capture from my ongoing net art project “A Walk in The Dark”. I have a new newsletter out this week featuring some of my work from the last 6 months and a little of what’s coming up (including more info about this video). You can sign up here: forms.gle/G3nRGj6eL1hN...

Just as a practical matter, consider how unheard of it is to expand an already significant federal agency by 1,000% in two or three years. WW2 mobilization or the early 60s Moon race are the right sort of analogies

Happy 14th wedding anniversary @cthompto.bsky.social We’re on very little sleep, still have packing to do and our movers arrive tomorrow… But then we’ll be in our new home together making it all our own. I can’t wait for year 15 with you. ❤️🏡

Happy pride folks I'm still fleshing out the entries, but here's a list of over 200 retro games (pre-2010) which were made by trans people or which had trans people on the dev team. We have always been here. dotmaetrix.neocities.org/classictrans...

New issue of Transgender Studies Quarterly (TSQ) on Trans Speculative Media and Fiction from is out now! I am very honored to have an artwork and statement in the issue alongside so many other talented and thoughtful folks. #transstudies #tsq #transartist read.dukeupress.edu/tsq/issue/12/1

Just finished “The Sapling Cage” by @margaret.bsky.social & everyone should read it! As a transwoman who has been out as trans for 15 years, I can honestly say this has some of the most beautiful & incisive writing about transness I have ever encountered. All alongside of a compelling fantasy story!

gender reveal, the baby is goth

As the executive editor of the open access academic journal "Media-N: Journal of the New Media Caucus", I am excited to share a new issue today! "As the World Burns: On Media and Climate" is available for free here: iopn.library.illinois.edu/journals/med... #newmedia #climate #media #climatechange

In December 2024, I took part in the 1st International Workshop on Low Carbon Computing ( #LOCO2024 ). The recorded talks are now up on YouTube including mine which is on teaching sustainability in new media art: youtube.com/@loco-worksh... #lowcarboncomputing #newmediaart #sustainability

In the studio today: Mocking up an autonomous solar powered projection system for displaying new media art. Battery, inverter, etc represented as simple shapes for now. This will be built in the coming months hopefully using reclaimed wood. #newmediaart #solarpower #solarpowerart #sustainability

I took my “Creative Technologies during Climate Crisis” class to our local solid waste facility for a tour today. We learned about waste streams, mills, landfills, & a lot more. Highly recommend visiting your local waste management folks to learn more about the afterlife of the things we throw away!

I am in Bloomington Indiana as a visiting artist at Indiana University this week. A part of the visit is running a workshop. I ran a workshop on systems in studio art making and made a little website for it here: cthompto.github.io/systems-stud... Love making a new little website.

It’s transgender day of visibility but visibility as a means to security and safety is a lie. Solidarity must be built from a foundation that surpasses the visual/understandable. #tdov #tdov2025 #transartist