IMO, research is political not because of the findings we unearth, but because of the way we arrive at those findings.
Surveying white people and hoping it will explain what happens with non-white people will never make sense to me.
lol my concern with research that only surveys white college students and makes broad conclusions is that not everyone thinks or acts like white college-educated people. DUH!
A delightful site!
youraislopbores.me
Humanity runs on spite lmao
"The research suggests that generalizations about human behavior are often flawed because they rely on samples composed largely of White individuals."
Unpopular opinion, but a lot of this "doing it right" mentality is how we wind up with games all feeling the exact same.
Difficulty spikes, weird controls, ropey onboarding all of it critical to prevent games feeling like they're ground down and pumped out safe mush.
www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/s/...
Wonderful commentary by @nancybaym.bsky.social - "It's Bad. Now What?" Manages to encapsulate what so many of the conversations I've had with other digital media scholars the last year or two have centred around. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
As International Women's Day approaches, Kat Frize is issuing a warning about the women and girls with ADHD who have still not been diagnosed and continue to struggle.
Low resolution image of Pikachu from Pokémon facing to the right with wide eyes
Low resolution image of Pikachu from Pokémon sitting on a bench
Low resolution image of Pikachu from Pokémon sitting on grass with one ear pinned back
Low resolution image of Pikachu from Pokémon looking towards the sky
Thinking about low res pikachu.
I remember learning about the Hays Code in film school and how it made it so that any amoral protagonist had to meet karmic justice by the end of the film and going “wow, that’s really silly” and then once a week I log online and see people argue that we need stuff like that now or it’s problematic
Continuing my series of reviews that were sidelined due to my depression beating me.
I SPIT ON YOUR CELLULOID isn't just another film history. It's 464 pages of proof that women have been directing horror since 1896.
@honeycuttheidi.bsky.social @headpress.com
gnofhorror.com/i-spit-on-yo...
“One of the great weaknesses of our era is we get lone superhero movies that suggest that our big problems are solved by muscly guys in spandex, when actually the world mostly gets changed through collective effort, more like caregiving than it is like war.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/m...
Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs
@hackintimseeley.bsky.social
Nintendo Suing U.S. Government Over Tariffs aftermath.site/nintendo-tar...
www.scribd.com/document/100...
a true waste of my time, my doctor’s time, and my employer’s time (as I have had to be on medical leave momentarily and insurance is purposefully delaying my return to work!!!)
BCBS denied my claim after a week of waiting. now we have to appeal a peer to peer. surgery isn’t an option. I’ve tried every medication. I’ve tried injections. I’ve tried PT. I need this specific pain procedure which I’ve had BEFORE & they’re still denying it. abolish the insurance industry plz???
AI is not inevitable. Nothing in human societies is inevitable because we design them. Healthcare can be free for the public. Books can be bought instead of bombs. Universities can be free for students, and they can even receive a stipend to live off. Don't let companies dictate the future.
ocarina of time goron with a long neck saying "they say that the thing you're looking for can only be found when you're not looking for it"
so long, so wise
I got an associates degree in video game design between my MA and PhD programs because I was bored/wanted something to do
Ellen Samuels (2017), “Six Ways of Looking at Crip Time.” Abstract: In this creative essay, the author reflects on how ‘crip time’ has operated in their life, not only as a form of liberation, but also as a site of loss and alienation.
today’s #endometriosis article of the day for March 6 is Ellen Samuels (2017) “Six Ways of Looking at Crip Time.”
Had me thinking a lot about cyclical pain and #endo but also the time schedules we must make for ourselves as chronically ill & in pain folks. Lots to work with here!
1) horizon: zero dawn, 2) the sims 2, 3) Nancy drew: message in a haunted mansion, 4) stardew valley, 5) rise of the tomb raider, 6) animal crossing, 7) the last of us, 8) spelunky 2, 9) neopets
9 games that influenced me (no particular order)
#pcos representation on #ThePitt tonight!
God of War (remake)
march is #endometriosis awareness month. it is a horrific disease, the suffering is indescribable. more painful than childbirth - for some that level of pain is 24/7. I was one of those “some” last year before surgery. hard to have hope amidst a lack of funding & awareness & no cures as of 2026
Adriana Joanna Mickiewicz (2025) “menstrual pain and epidemic injustice”
Abstract: In this paper I analyze the phenomenon of normalizing and tabooing menstrual pain as an example of epistemic injustice. I referred to both types of epidemic injustice distinguished by Miranda Fricker: testimonial injustice, and hermeneutical injustice. The social approach to the phenomenon of menstrual pain combines both. This poses significant political and bioethical problem, as ignoring and misunderstanding, the experiences of menstrual pain sufferers can contribute to delay diagnosis and reinforce patients’ sense of loneliness.
today’s #endometriosis article of the day for March 5 is Adriana Joanna Mickiewicz (2025) “Menstrual Pain and Epistemic Injustice.”
Love this application of epistemic in/justice towards gendered pain issues & #endo too. We know our bodies & are discounted/gaslit by medical knowledge still today!
Susan Wendell (2001) “unhealthy disabled: treating chronic illnesses as disability”
Abstract: chronic illness is a major cause of disability, especially in women. Therefore, any adequate feminist understanding of disability must encompass, chronic illnesses. I argue that there are important differences between healthy, disabled and unhealthy disabled people that are likely to affect such issues as treatment of impairment and disability and feminist politics, accommodation of disability, and activism and unemployment, identification of persons as disabled, disability pride, and “cure” of disabilities.
yesterday’s #endometriosis article of the day for March 4 is Susan Wendell (2001) “Unhealthy Disabled: Treating Chronic Illnesses as Disability.”
Thinking a lot about invisible chronic illnesses & disabled identity from a feminist disability studies perspective and applications for #endo
how about nooooooooo
(speaking as someone with ADHD & autism that hired a neurotypical executive functioning coach to help me out)
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