alyssa mercante
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rabid reporter, reluctant gamer, reclaimed italian views expressed are mine alone
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Dude will do anything other than work on the game for which he’s raised ~$600k
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Zack Zwiezen
about 3 hours ago
Seems like the Highguard website has been down for nearly five hours at least now. Not a good sign.
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Nicole Carpenter
about 3 hours ago
✨i'm looking to talk to folks who make/design faces in video games for a story on
@mothership.blog
! please reach out if you'd like to talk. email:
[email protected]
signal: nicolecarpenter.87
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Marisa Kabas
about 5 hours ago
one of those things you need to watch if for no other reason than the trump administration doesn't want you to:
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Mothership
about 6 hours ago
"Over the latest machines — DDR SuperNova, Pump it Up Pro — we unraveled the mysteries of how to navigate transitions: of teen to young adult, of gender expressions, of outer expectations versus our inner truths." - from Amanda Lynn's first story for Mothership ⬇️🖱️
www.mothership.blog/love-letter-...
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A love letter to the rhythm game communities that helped me find myself
It was in the arcade around DDR machines that I first met people like me — kids picked on for being "weirdos," for being neurodivergent, for being queer.
https://www.mothership.blog/love-letter-to-the-rhythm-games-community/
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Mike Straw | Insider-Gaming.com
about 4 hours ago
NEW: Clickout Media, Owner Of The Escapist, Pivots To AI, Holds Mass Layoffs
insider-gaming.com/clickout-med...
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Clickout Media, Owner Of The Escapist, Pivots To AI, Holds Mass Layoffs
Clickout Media, owner of sites like The Escapist and Esports Insider, are holding mass layoffs and pivoting to AI content.
https://insider-gaming.com/clickout-media-owner-of-the-escapist-pivots-to-ai-holds-mass-layoffs/
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I went to the Met with my sister yesterday and curated a little set of pictures that reminded me of my boyfriend and sent them all to him with explanations why — romance is alive and well
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WE DID GET THE TRIAL OF SEVEN YESSSSSS
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Happy Valentine’s Day from the best seat at Deux Chats
3 days ago
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It’s official: hair long enough to do a little ponytail
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jamelle
4 days ago
given education polarization and MAGA's reliance on low propensity voters, something like the SAVE Act would almost certainly backfire on republicans (i'm reasonably sure senate republicans understand this too)
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Ash Parrish
4 days ago
These are concentration camps and its our duty as citizens to ensure these things don't get built.
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Dying at the fact that the looksmaxing weirdo isn’t even handsome? lol like what
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Peter
5 days ago
My latest premium newsletter piece is about the conservative obsession with their own cultural impotence.
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No War but Culture War
The right holds political power, but for them that's never enough
https://stringinamaze.net/p/no-war-but-culture-war
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Had a really cool conversation with Haley Baylee about creators needing to diversify their audience OFF of their phones -- which is why you'll see her face on LinkNYC kiosks all summer.
digiday.com/media/from-f...
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From feeds to streets: How mega influencer Haley Baylee is diversifying beyond platform algorithms
Mega influencer Haley Kalil, is partnering with LinkNYC to take her social media content into the real world.
https://digiday.com/media/from-feeds-to-streets-how-mega-influencer-haley-baylee-is-diversifying-beyond-platform-algorithms/
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Cape Cod Demon Hunter
5 days ago
Chadwick Boseman and James van der Beek both died in their 40s of an illness that's treatable if a colonoscopy catches it but almost no insurer covers them for people under 45, this is what Engels meant by "social murder"
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I am rooting for USA women’s hockey and Canada men’s hockey and them both playing at 3:10 pm today is uniquely me problem
4 days ago
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Early mornings lately I’ve been doing a 30 minute HIIT, then early evenings going for a lift sesh. Think this has helped me get through a rough progress plateau!
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Dheepa Sundaram, PhD (she/her)
5 days ago
CBP didn’t give her or anyone any water; she asked 3 times accg to other reports. CBP killed a 7yr old. “8 hours after the girl & her father were taken into custody, she began having seizures & her body temperature was measured at 105.7 degrees by emergency medical technicians.
shorturl.at/d2OTJ
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7-Year-Old Migrant Girl Dies Of Dehydration And Shock In U.S. Border Patrol Custody
The girl's death underscores the crisis precipitated by large groups of families seeking asylum where there are inadequate facilities to detain them.
https://shorturl.at/d2OTJ
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The Tennessee Holler
6 days ago
From
@wired.com
: “Federal records reveal ICE is secretly expanding into 150+ facilities across nearly every state — many near schools, medical offices, and places of worship… DHS asked the General Services Administration to hide lease listings and bypass normal procedures…”🤔
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Never made it to DICE when I was still in gamer land, and now I wish I turned a look there
5 days ago
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AmericanTruckSongs10
5 days ago
The viral AI covid poster being the viral AI slop game guy is making me go insane so I wrote about it
kotaku.com/the-viral-ai...
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The Viral AI Slop Post Was Made By Same Guy From The Viral AI Slop Game - Kotaku
When the worst type of guy makes the worst type of post
https://kotaku.com/the-viral-ai-slop-post-was-made-by-same-guy-from-the-viral-ai-slop-game-2000668276
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May the gay gods give these girls everything
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Today is a day I am very happy to not be writing about gaming and therefore I will not have to wade through brain-dead tweets from uggos saying the new Wolverine game is woke because Mystique doesn't have a 20-inch buss down wig tickling her butt crack
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Marisa Kabas
5 days ago
it really can't be said enough that this is a person who has dined with the president of the united states
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Noah Shachtman
5 days ago
This is really, really dark.
www.wsj.com/world/middle...
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Israeli Soldiers Accused of Using Polymarket to Bet on Strikes
The country’s internal security agency indicted a reservist and a civilian for security offenses, bribery and obstruction of justice in connection with the bets.
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/israeli-soldiers-accused-of-using-polymarket-to-bet-on-strikes-72d53012?st=WX5EDN&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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AFP News Agency
5 days ago
BREAKING Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych is disqualified from the Winter Olympics after refusing to back down over his banned helmet, which depicts victims of his country's war with Russia
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king
5 days ago
well i for one couldn’t be more excited for the possibilities of AI. finally a technology that answers the age old question ‘what if clippy was wormtongue’
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New coworker said I look like Carrie Coon ayyyyyyy 🤪
6 days ago
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I main Spike, who my boyfriend calls Brick for some reason
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Marisa Kabas
7 days ago
“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?” There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
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Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate
US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/2/10/israel-used-weapons-in-gaza-that-made-thousands-of-palestinians-evaporate
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Former Ebike Owner, Kevin Elliott
7 days ago
That the illegal destruction of USAID will kill more than *20 million people* in the next five years, & has ALREADY KILLED 600,000 in just one year, is a world-historical crime that Americans aren't being told about in the terms & with the repetition necessary for them to believe it.
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Who do you main in Mario Party Jamboree and why
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e.w. niedermeyer
7 days ago
big thanks to
@theguardian.com
for making my Musk-Epstein blogging workload a little lighter with this fantastic rundown of Kimbal Musk's sordid involvement with Epstein
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Epstein engineered intimate relationship for Tesla’s Kimbal Musk, emails show
Elon Musk’s younger brother and the woman were involved for about six months between 2012 and 2013
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/10/jeffrey-epstein-tesla-kimbal-musk
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FactPost
7 days ago
US Olympic Curling Team member speaks out against ICE: "I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."
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Susan Rinkunas
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Sam’s retiring this year isn’t he
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‘He Was the Antidote’: Samuel Alito Speaks Out on Antonin Scalia and the Drafting of Dobbs
In an exclusive interview, the Supreme Court justice remembers a friend and conservative icon’s legacy.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/02/10/samuel-alito-interview-antonin-scalia-legacy-roe-dobbs-00762652
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Dave Vetter
7 days ago
"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.
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If you spend all day rage baiting and celebrating when people you harass block you, you have mommy issues I’m sorry to say
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Dan Hon
7 days ago
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I never bit anyone as a child
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7 days ago
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My boyfriend said I looked like a kid who bit people is he right
8 days ago
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Aura/Moom
8 days ago
it's genuinely stunning to me you'd keep a game in the hopper for a decade and then do huge layoffs after a single month. a month is nothing in live service terms. less than nothing.
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We're so back
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niki grayson
9 days ago
roadshow's about to come on
twitch.tv/nikigrayson
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Joseph Cox
9 days ago
404 Media just had an ad during the
#SuperBowl
! We Googled "smallest TV markets in the United States" and bought an ad for $2,550 that only ran in Ottumwa, Iowa, population 25,000. That still counts
www.404media.co/watch-404-me...
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Watch 404 Media’s Super Bowl Ad
WE BOUGHT A SUPER BOWL AD.
https://www.404media.co/watch-404-medias-super-bowl-ad/
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Marisa Kabas
9 days ago
i think people mad about bad bunny’s performance have never been forced to consider that not everything is for you
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Becky Hammer
9 days ago
First shot: sugarcane The backbone of Puerto Rico's agricultural economy since colonial times Still used to make rum of course!
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SEAHAWKS WIN PATRIOTS LOSE BONITO BOWL
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Miller
9 days ago
What a moment.
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