Withdrawn in 2024 ➡️ Veracity pending in 2026… Close enough! Welcome back, the forensic gaze + biopolitics in age of synthetic images!

Yes, the great Hollywood debates.

With AI character Clippy the Paper clip set for Microsoft Word debut, Hollywood debates what it means to be an actor

in honor of Sam Neill, here is one of my favorite movies he ever made

Aegon stinky arc will converge with the Ormund Hightower nasal sensitivity subplot in wild ways, #hotd predictions

Carney calling Lindsey Graham a defender of democracy and freedom when the man made jokes on his official X account about taking over Canada is just the last straw of many last straws for me.

Bluesky during England-Argentina

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Modern politics is just Sims challenges now:

Guys: A Podcast About Guys

I...worked on this story for a year...and... @bencollins.bsky.social just...he tweeted it out. www.crisesnotes.com/what-connect...

Delightful summary of my e-visit to Curtin University’s Influencer Ethnography Research Lab! 🧪 📸💄 We revisited my 2022 article in TVNM & discussed the parallels between precarious digital ethnography & the adaptive, slippery self-branding work of egirls. 🧚‍♀️ ierlab.com/2026/07/04/r...

Remember when Google Earth introduced a Carmen Sandiego game in 2019 that I pointed out was the only Carmen game officially "in print" and playable? And the Google Earth account responded to a comment that was skeptical about how long it'd exist for? That game quietly broke in an update in 2023.

Back in my dataset codebooks for the first time in months!

Rhaenyra in House of the Dragon 3x03 spoilers:

Torontonians @ the RBC next to Sneaky Dee's:

Rhaenyra in House of the Dragon 3x03 spoilers:

People are always telling me the tech guys need to take humanities classes like Peter Thiel didn’t study philosophy. Perrhaps the folks advocating this line of bullshit are maybe just sort of doing the same “the solution to the problem is that I should be paid” as everybody else. The issue is power!

they're uploading full venture bros eps on youtube every saturday and this, truly, is a reason to feel deep and inimitable pride www.youtube.com/@VentureBros...

Multipurpose Canadian sports post.

How many times can Legally Blonde engineer the subalternification of blonde, cis, white women?

It’s his day:

It’s his day:

CBC’s The National last night: Top story is the government announcing a new oil pipeline from Alberta and how it placated BC Then a story on the massive heatwave, storms and flooding in Ontario and Quebec Then a story on huge Manitoba flooding after they also dealt with tornadoes and rain 🫠

I made an alt version but i didnt like how it turned out

So many new content possibilities for Reflecting America @ 250! #algaegate

New publication in the Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology. My findings: we need to rethink binaries of gift and commodity; and merchants had greater agency in circulating elite goods. Both require a reframing of LBA models of exchange. DM for link or access #archaeology #classics

When did academic conference registration fees start to cost Squid Game money?

UPDATE: Mark Carney has cancelled his Canada Day plans in Alberta after extreme weather events in Ottawa ground prime minister’s plane

If Heated Rivalry is what wakes up the rest of the world to Canada's horrible hockey culture, that would be funny and ironic as hell.

If I have a potentially delusional but fun idea for an Edited Collection in Game Studies, where should I go? Wrong answers welcome.

If I have a potentially delusional but fun idea for an Edited Collection in Game Studies, where should I go? Wrong answers welcome.

No more Toy Story sequels until they revive this hustler:

Garffeld

You must compassionately accept that 39-year-old men are participating in conference q&a’s and learning new things about patriarchy every day, and I am not joking.

House of the Dragon spoilers:

Missed my DiGRA talk on Green Screen Shorts Meta? 🇮🇪🎮🍀🩳 You can the extended abstract in the conf. proceedings! ➡️ dl.digra.org/index.php/dl... Thank you to the organizers & audience for supporting this conversation on why it's SWers 🤝 Game Workers in platform governance 4ever.

House of the Dragon spoilers:

happy father's day www.liberalcurrents.com/heterosexual...

Advertise your Bluesky account with a Simpsons GIF.

Advertise your Bluesky account with a Simpsons GIF.

international conferences have you like "Hello, 17 fond colleagues! Want to catch up? I have a six (6) thirty second free blocks of time waiting for the elevator in between panels!!! 😀"

h-index grew a point last night & I felt nothing

I had delightful time at @cgsaacej.bsky.social this year! ✊Labour talk w/ @kenzitronic.bsky.social, @thechristinet.bsky.social, & @evkuzn.bsky.social 🎮Game preservation w/ @jeanketterling.bsky.social & @videogamehistorian.bsky.social Thankful to CGSA for running inclusive events (praise the OWL).

when they’re liking Flaming Michaels instead of Flaming Christines:

Critical Game Studies is like if Platform Studies were a beautiful, funny & intelligent woman. 👩

how I looked immediately after posting this take ⬇️ & turning my phone off to enjoy a post-DiGRA paper prez cosmo at an Irish music pub 🍸 Now, let’s check the notes…

Critical Game Studies is like if Platform Studies were a beautiful, funny & intelligent woman. 👩