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The quest for every Gap store playlist ever Gap Playlists is an exercise in data collection and nostalgia.

My favorite thing to listen to right now is Michael Bise's trove of Gap in-store playlists from the late 1990s to early 2000s. He's been hunting for these pieces of ephemera for 20 years! www.theverge.com/report/79080...

if the state of journalism and its capture by the right wing also has you in despair, a real, tangible thing you can do to push back is support/subscribe to worker-owned indie news media!!

@coyotemedia.org (bay area)
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Mighty Real: A History of LGBTQ Music, 1969-2000 A History of LGBTQ Music, 1969-2000

Been waiting on this book from the mighty @barrywalters.bsky.social for literally years here, and it’s up for presale, release date next May. Do yourself the biggest favor.

Wait lol you and me are the same 😂

Coming back to this! Sorry it's been a doozy, would love to reconnect!!

Honestly I feel I need to exchange stories lol, I was mostly on the kpop side at the time so was not aware of what is going on

Bluesky....still don't know what to do on here lol

One year of overlap...

I'm sorry for your loss Frankie, her strength was also felt through your conviction as well and I'm sure she is really proud of you!!

Wait what years of tumblr?? I'm 2010-2014

🤩 We can’t wait to see what these Virtual Exchange grantees create!

Today we are featuring Shohre Esmaili, Brianna Wren, @ashleycooper.bsky.social, @arivelazquez.com, and @irisxie.bsky.social!

#IGDAFVirtualExchange2025 #GameDevs #IndieDevs

Having to click through Bluesky then Twitter then Facebook then Instagram then Twitter then Bluesky again to find a post is terrible, it's like trying to find a missing object in my house....

Goddamn. What a sobering and poignant piece of conceptual art. What an amazing artist.

Every time trans people ask "do you think they'll stop at this?" you need to immediately take it seriously. Remember when they said evangelicals and terfs won't stop at trans athletes? all queer people were on the chopping block, they just started with the easiest target.

LMAO I called Visa’s customer support service - the guy on the other line was like “are you ALSO calling about the video game payment processing? Please send us emails instead.”

Keep up the calls, folks, we’re definitely gumming up their works

Call call call. Visa is literally begging us to stop calling and send emails. Calls cost them way more money and they can't use key words to filter them out

If you want to actually solve the problem, instead of punishing itch, start calling payment cos

Collective Shout, which is run by people who get published by Spinifex, a very terf-seeming organization, apparently needed 1,000 people to yell at visa to get this done.

We got more than 1000 people.

if you know someone with a sizeable following, you could probably get 3000 or more people to contact visa and mastercard and very politely ask why their company is allowing an apparent hate group to brag about tricking them into killing legitimate businesses

I just wanted somewhere to post my weird gay video games. Why can’t they leave us alone

People keep telling me that I shouldn't be mad at @itch.io, just the payment processors.

They are fundamentally misunderstanding why I was up until 4am reporting on this last night.

Itch is withholding trans authors' incomes. If you stiff my girls, then yeah, we have a fucking problem.

sigh.

i've mentioned this resource to so many people, in so many articles and newsletters and interviews, and more because it was so helpful.

america in 2025, folks.

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Uuuuuuugh speaking what i am thinking!!'

I wanna visit you!! I've never been to Chicago before 😭

I think life is playing an absolute joke on me that the past month is probably the most alive I have felt in two years, but I guess it's what happens when you decide to not give up

it's hard to find a motivation for DOGE other than 'hatred of the good.' these are bad people fundamentally envious or un-understanding of the idea that you might work or give for others, and attempting to punish it.

💠 1000xRESIST is nearing its FIRST anniversary! 💠

We'll be celebrating at #LudoNarraCon, held by @fellowtraveller.games!

We've got a lot of fun stuff lined up for our BIRTHDAY MONTH of MAY. Stay tuned and hekki G ✌️

Here ye, Fellow Travellers! 🗣️

We're excited to announce that #LudoNarraCon will return May 1-5! 🚶‍♀️

You can look forward to:
🎮 Playable demos of upcoming games
💲 Discounts on over 170 story-rich games
🎙️ In-depth talks with devs
👀 And much more...

Stay tuned 👇
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This is important to remember, too.

The cards are stacked against us so often. Just, like, existing in a world that is NOT neurodivergent friendly is in itself a feat.

You're valid. Period. The end.

The problem is the eugenics, not you.