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gertrudeprkns.bsky.social
Media, cultural studies, education. Used to research videogames and Let's Plays, still in recovery. A student called me a communist once. Queer guy, he/him. Dip me in chocolate. Podcasting at @flashitpancast.bsky.social !!!!!
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submitted 9 hours ago • 24 comments

1993 warnings

submitted 6 days ago • 17 comments

it turns out this ps2 game is not actually about giant robots but is entirely focused on the unfortunately incredibly funny suffering of this specific teenager. like look at this shit

submitted 1 day ago • 35 comments

WELL then

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

everything old is new again

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

“I’m fine.”

submitted 16 hours ago • 5 comments

New art fraud just dropped, you love to see it, look at this guy, he's perfect for it

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

I have NO words

submitted 1 day ago • 322 comments

Game Boy Advance was released 24 years ago today

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

rightwingers freaking out about 6 or 7 burning driverless waymo cars is the perfect illustration that conservatives view human life worth less than property

submitted 1 day ago • 38 comments

For anyone who doesn't know "Article 8" is the European Convention on Human Rights right to a private life This is the head of the EHRC saying that she does not believe that *anyone* has the right to privacy when it comes to being trans or cis Brazenly immoral, legally untrue

submitted 1 day ago • 36 comments

1. The US Transgender Survey has finally been released, and the results are stunning. - <1% of people are less satisfied after HRT. - The most common reason for detransition, pausing transition, or stopping transition is transphobia. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

submitted 1 day ago • 63 comments

Good news:

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for @1900hotdog.bsky.social i wrote about a tabletop RPG set in a world where pro-choice technopagans do battle with militant cyber-Christians. it's an interesting premise, and it's by... oh. the guy who made the hentai RPG where you wield your dick as a cursed blade 1900hotdog.com/2025/06/nerd...

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

"i might wind up in a concentration camp because treating my medical disorder means livestock fattening prices go up by .01% per hog and .001% per steer" is. well it's not surprising but i liked to think of america as having more compelling punchlines

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

GAWKER WOULD HAVE BEEN VERY USEFUL IN SUCH A SITUATION I WONDER WHAT HAPPENED TO IT

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

i hate the gen ai industry and in that sense i fully support them being destroyed in court for violating copyright. but also i do not give a fuck about disney's IP rights and i hope to see new technologies come into being to infringe upon those rights in ways that don't suck shit like ai does

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

Realising I have reached the point in my life where I am the correct age, size, and social standing to become Matt Foley www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv2V...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

how this make you feel

submitted 1 day ago • 49 comments

my newspaper loves submissions of all kinds!! join the club, email me what u got: editor @ verylittlenews dot org

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

OH YEAH SO @nickyflowers.com very kindly published a couple of album reviews, BY ME, in last month's Very Little News 7! Physical copies are all gone but you can check out the digital version here! ko-fi.com/s/c64d17fb66 I'm so happy to share the paper with so many cool folks!

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

This advice is good advice! Don't get kettled! Speaking from experience: it's really not fun! ACAB!

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

We're opening a queer-led art space + café in Canterbury! A home for bold queer art (local + beyond), warm brews, and radical joy. Help us bring it to life 💥 🌈 Support the crowdfund: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/pup-and-ti... #PupAndTiger #QueerArt #SupportQueerSpaces #Canterbury

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

So, I think it's time I begin, in detailed specifics, talking about the mess that is Unbound / Boundless as a book publisher, in essence stealing most of a years royalties from me and many other authors, as a result of poor financial decisions, and legal BS. Please read and share this thread.

submitted 12 days ago • 102 comments

LA protesters setting self-driving taxis on fire to roadblock the police is the most Cyberpunk shit I've ever seen. Based.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Snoopy I love you….

submitted 174 days ago • 11 comments

When people say that ”things were better back in the day,” I can only assume they're talking about 1983 frog phone

submitted 4 days ago • 30 comments

Henry Cuellar is anti-abortion and anti-trans. Vicente Gonzalez is anti-trans. Seth Moulton is anti-trans. Tom Suozzi is anti-trans. It's all the same fight

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Every facet of the UK establishment has linked arms and are marching ever rightward into Hell. Yaaaaaayyyyy

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

I'm still surprised by how rapidly the Starmer goverment fell for machine-slop hype, and it just gets worse and worse and worse and worse. ChatGPT and its ilk are ANTI-EDUCATION TOOLS. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills here, who will stop this downward spiral of charlatans?!?

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

🙏 boosting this again as the wire gets ever thinner 🙏

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

elfen lied people died

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Giving away two wonderful books by @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social - The Third Bear and Hummingbird Salamander! To win, repost + comment your favorite animal. I'll pick someone next Friday 6/13 - shipping paid & open to intl. **You do not have to follow me**

submitted 6 days ago • 17 comments