Natalie @ Identity Spark 🔜 GR New Hoirzons

I'm heading to @gamerepublic.bsky.social New Horizons on Wednesday, for my first games event since Covid. My nerves about hitting the circuit again led me to realise that the most important networking conversations we ever have are the ones we have with ourselves. Check out my blog for more. <3

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Omg yes! Such an underrated movie. Hubby and I have been doing a linked-movie marathon since middle of Aug and I’ve just spent 15 mins looking for a link from last night’s (The Player) to Sneakers so we can watch tonight and keep the streak going. (David Strathairn & Mary McDonnell btw.)

Awesome stuff! I discovered this series last month (after loving some of your standalone stuff in the past, esp Redshirts) – I’ve been inhaling them since.m! Currently on Zoë’s Tale so give me a couple of weeks…! Good luck with the launch – ordering now to help your 1st week numbers. :-)

Proud to have joined @gamerepublic.bsky.social! Still inspired by founder @seffers007.bsky.social, GR’s such an important presence in the North of England. 💪

Look forward to seeing folks at GR’s New Horizons event next month too – LMK if you want to meet there. (Coaching discounts for GR members!)

Delighted to have earned a Merit in my Life Coaching Diploma this week, 9 months to the day since I started the course. If you’re a games, tech or creative pro and interested in compassionate, empowering coaching from someone who truly understands your sector and its challenges then do get in touch.

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Ever notice how anti-DEI folks lift up some of the least qualified people, proving why DEI matters?

Obama went to Harvard and taught constitutional law at U Chicago; now we get a guy who can’t grasp high school economics. Yet we hear nonstop about diversity hires.

Seen in a Toronto Star headline.

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“You can’t have your cake and eat it too” is such a damn stupid phrase…I don’t want to own a cake for, like, display purposes. Is that a thing people want?? A /liability/??

No, I want to put it in my god damned mouth.

Nothing - absolutely nothing - prevented news organizations from running this headline before the election, when it was equally true as now and could have made a difference.

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*messages Black Mirror producers* psst... James has noticed... We need a new approach...

I'm sorry for raining on this parade, but the "transgender mice" talking point is bullshit, but not because someone mistook "transgenic" for "transgender."

The blog post that kicked it off (from a partisan bullshit website) listed a number of papers testing the effects of sex hormones on animals.

America, just in case you thought Friday went well here’s how the London Times saw it …..

100%. It's landed way more starkly for me this time too.

Have you watched the new De Niro Netflix miniseries Zero Day? Delves into not dissimilar concepts of actual truth and preferred truth, and who gets to decide which matters more. V different to DoT but left me with similar chill.

Thanks for the Department of Truth tip-off on the pod @nndroid.bsky.social!
I'd totally missed the new volume. Now enjoying a rainy Friday with a mug of Earl Grey and an internal anxiety attack about what's fact and what's fiction. I mean, that's how most political issues are best processed, right?

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Starting a new studio or biz & need tech or marketing advice?
Or stuck in a rut & need some fresh perspective / a sympathetic ear / coffee / cocktail?
Ansible is heading out to these events soon, or ping me a line - I'd love to hear what you're up to & help if I can 👐

I mean, it already felt pretty damn bad but seeing it all presented in this way is pretty stark…

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Are you sure it’s not just a really maudlin flash mob getting ready for its big moment?

no no we don't say "empty carbs" anymore. the preferred term is "emotional support carbs"

I don’t understand those on the left who respond to someone agreeing with them with “What took you so long?” Take the win. Welcome the convert. Grow the coalition.

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Not to worry. I just need to gamify the shit out of everything in order to function. It was making my ADHD gland* itch that I have to log that I was reading the paperback and not listening to the audiobook**.

*may not be a real thing
** not high on list of issues surrounding rise of fascism obvs

No worries! :-)

@iandunt.bsky.social @dorianlynskey.bsky.social listening to Fascism book (thanks for the podcast preview btw). Horrifying but vital. Thank you both.
One exceptionally banal complaint tho - any idea why the audiobook edition isn't on Goodreads? How am I supposed to correctly validate my reading?!