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kiera-the-thief.bsky.social
(She/Her) Nerd, socialist, veteran, TTRPG perpetual DM/GM, indie game developer, and tech witch.
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The secret to life is that you should do things for the experience, not to accomplish things. No accomplishment lasts. I liked making video games, so I made video games. This lead to a lot of cool stuff. If you like playing video games, play video games. This can lead to cool stuff. You do you

submitted 12 hours ago • 4 comments

Taking a second out of my anger to remind other writers: get copies of your work now. Look at what happened to Kotaku stories re: searchability etc. after it got sold to morons.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

One guy always lies. One guy always tells the truth. They live on your computer. Your coworker Kevin is asking them for advice and to help write his emails. "Timbuktu is the capital of Nigeria," Kevin tells you in the Starbucks line. "Koalas don't have fingerprints."

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submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

People spend a lot of time wondering why the left is worse at using independent media to control the national narrative. A useful exercise is to ask why the left is also worse at selling snake oil and pyramid schemes, because I think the reasons are basically exactly the same.

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The only plausible reason for the Supreme Court to rush out its order at 1 a.m. is that a majority of justices refused to trust the Trump administration's promise that it wouldn't secretly deport migrants without due process. That alone marks a hugely consequential shift. slate.com/news-and-pol...

submitted 14 days ago • 42 comments

it isn't controversial to say "german citizens in the late 1930s should have killed gestapo and brownshirts on sight and physically pulled down hitler and executed him and his entire command structure at midday in downtown berlin, to prevent the holocaust"

submitted 16 days ago • 17 comments