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🕹️ managing ed of ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social https://romchip.org
🍎 The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal
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V v cool to see THE APPLE II AGE published in Korean. If anyone would like one of these, I've got... Four extras I don't really need 😂
linkedin is wild man
the grift is evolving
jfc. I was not a console gamer in the early 2000s and just missed this entire horrific world of marketing
This is just an invasion by any other name. In a just world, Israel would face the same treatment as Russia.
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your infrequent reminder that the @romchip.bsky.social Freelancer Fund IS open and available for pitches.
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no AI bullshit pls and thank you
"When texts are accessed solely by digitized means, without experiential basis in the original volumes, organization and material contexts, the learner is cut off from the process, extent and relationships that ground and constitute human works and knowledge."–Elizabeth Cavicchi
Honestly, the cloying desperation to find a perfect definition that will exclude trans women from legible, legitimate womanhood has in and of itself demonstrated (almost as well as any materialist feminist can) that sex is social, mutable, and a regime of violent policing.
A year ago I wondered aloud in a @neverpo.st editorial meeting if answering “Why can so many things play Doom?” would generate enough material for a segment.
After talking to a bunch of people much cooler, and smarter than myself … I can say the answer is a resounding “yes”, and then some.
ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories is now accepting freelance pitches on a rolling basis for our Interviews , Materials , and Translations sections. This initiative is designed to support...
Ya'll. I am shook. In a good way.
Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Holy See's own role in legitimizing Slavery
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Luke Plunkett
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Mike talks with two game designers, a nuclear physicist and sound artist about how the iconic videogame became what it is today: something that runs on every piece of technology (and increasingly: bio...
Yesterday Israel ordered the inhabitants of Nabiteh to leave (population of 100,000) They then ordered the inhabitants of Tyre to leave (pop of 200,000). Now they've ordered the entire south to leave - up to 300 towns & villages.
Alex Crawford reporting from Lebanon today
Talia "ESTRO JUNKIES IS OUT NOW!!!" Bhatt ⚢
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“I write with dismay, grief and sorrow for the permanent closure of MIT Libraries Barker, Dewey and Rotch, and termination of library staff in those libraries.
For MIT to be closing three of its four major libraries..."
fnl.mit.edu/may-june-202...
Prof. Anthea Butler
"Dad, where is Afghanistan?"
"Level 4, son."
We liked to keep things a little lighthearted during the first few months of the War on Terror.
Tactical Ops: Assault on Terror print ad, 2002.
since apparently JKR is spouting nonsense about "gametes" again, here is my in depth primer on why anti-trans groups have become so obsessed with gametes & why the actual science does not support their claims (no paywall): juliaserano.medium.com/why-are-gend...
