William Antonelli

William Antonelli

@wantonelli.bsky.social

Tech reporter, bylines @businessinsider.com @theguardian.com @polygon.com, more • Organizer @nyguild.bsky.social / @newsguild.org • Eternal Fanfic Author • Stay Feral ✊

193 Followers 156 Following 5 Posts Joined Jul 2023
22 hours ago
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It's super simple, but I've sworn by the Microsoft To Do app for years... syncs across all my devices, easy interface that doesn't glitch. The only downside is that it's not great for stuff that repeats every day, since making a task repeat forces you to put a "this is due at" time on it

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22 hours ago
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NEW ON NINTENDO SWITCH THIS WEEK! Poketopia! Monster Hunter! Fatal Frame Remake! Also

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6 days ago
Hilda/Touko from Pokemon dressed like Aerith Gainsborough from Final Fantasy VII. Her outfit is a mix of Aerith's original 1997 design and her current Remake.

had the thought cross my mind to try drawing Hilda/Touko in Aerith's outfit

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3 weeks ago
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Pokémon’s character customization lets me live like the girl I want to be — and I’m not the only one In the world of Pokémon games, I found myself experimenting with styles I never could have dreamed of in reality

You can be anyone you want in Pokémon, at least in a post-X/Y world
www.mothership.blog/pokemons-cha...

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3 weeks ago
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Pokémon’s character customization lets me live like the girl I want to be — and I’m not the only one In the world of Pokémon games, I found myself experimenting with styles I never could have dreamed of in reality

today at @mothership.blog we have a story from a freelancer about experimenting with gender expression in pokemon games, including some quotes from other players who feel the same way. this is the kind of community reporting that i really love!! www.mothership.blog/pokemons-cha...

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2 weeks ago

⏰NEW STORY ALERT⏰

Proud to be one of the very first @mothership.blog contributors with an essay on my lifelong love for Pokemon, and how I've used the franchise's fantasy world to explore my gender.

Thanks to @zoehhannah.com @midimyers.com and the team fro having me! Worker-owned pubs forever! 🔥❤️🔥

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3 weeks ago
Pepper Ann Valentine's Day card with Pepper Ann taking a really bad school photo that says, Happy Valentine's Day from your Most photogenic friend!"

Had to take a really shitty screenshot of the back of an incredibly old box of ABC's 1 Saturday Morning Valentine's Day card packs to get this blurry picture of a Pepper Ann card that says, "Happy Valentine's Day from your Most Photogenic Friend!"

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1 month ago
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Trans Youth Suicides Skyrocketed In UK After Care Drawdown; Government Covers It Up A Freedom of Information request to the National Child Mortality Database reveals that 22 trans children under 18 died by suicide in England in 2021-22 alone.

In an alarming development, it appears the UK Government covered up a massive spike in trans youth suicides after restrictions.

Then covered it up again when caught.

Now, after fighting for years, the data is public: trans suicide increased 5x in the country.

Subscribe to support our journalism.

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2 months ago
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2 months ago
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these fuckin' bugs that i hate

[ #sciset , #sunsetshimmer #scitwi , #mylittlepony #mlp , #equestriagirls #mlpeg #mlpeqg , #art #fanart ]

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2 months ago
Discord chat log

ThatChristGamer2011 9:46 PM
I just don't think we should allow glitches on the leaderboards, it's not Christ-like

shredberg 9:47 PM
What the hell are you talking about

ThatChristGamer2011 9:48 PM
Psalms 104:5 says "he set the Earth on its foundations, it can never be moved." Glitches are trying to move the foundations of the game set by God through the devs

shredberg 9:48 PM
??????????

Dude I am officially so done with speedrun leaderboard discourse

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3 months ago
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Long live the Daily News!

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4 months ago
Statement from The NewsGuild of New York and Condé United  
on illegal firing of four union leaders who demanded answers about this week’s layoffs at Teen Vogue, other brands
Late Wednesday night, Condé Nast’s VP of Labor Relations notified the Guild that the Company was immediately terminating four Condé United leaders for engaging in the protected concerted activity of gathering in their 1 World Trade Center office to demand answers on this week’s abrupt layoffs at multiple brands including WIRED and the consolidation at Teen Vogue.
These egregious terminations are a flagrant breach of the Just Cause terms of our contract and an unprecedented violation of their federally protected rights as union members to participate in a collective action.  
Through these illegal terminations, Condé Nast management is attempting to intimidate and silence our members' advocacy for the courageous cultural and political journalism of Teen Vogue, as well as diverting attention away from the obvious lack of corporate leadership at the company.
Condé United members illegally fired are:
Alma Avalle: Writer, digital producer at Bon Appetit; NewsGuild of New York first vice president, trans activist, and union leader
Jake Lahut: Wired senior reporter covering the Trump White House
Jasper Lo: Senior fact checker at The New Yorker and US Army veteran: outgoing first vice chair of The New Yorker Union
Ben Dewey: Videographer at Condé Nast Entertainment, former vice chair of the CNE unit
“Management’s attempt at union-busting, using intimidation and grossly illegal tactics to try to suppress protected union activity, will not stand,” said Susan DeCarava, president of The NewsGuild of New York. “The NewsGuild of New York has zero tolerance for bad bosses who harass, target and disrespect our fellow Guild members. We represent nearly 6,000 media workers across the tri-state area and we stand firmly in solidarity, ready to fight for the rights of our members illegally fired from their jobs at …

Breaking News: Late last night Conde Nast illegally fired 4 union organizers who asked company execs to explain the downsizing of Teen Vogue and continued layoffs. We’ve filed a grievance.

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4 months ago

conde nast fired the vp of new york newsguild for asking HR questions

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4 months ago
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7 months ago

alternatively, you could invest $100 million in a two-year-old media company that does not suck

aftermath.site/donate

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1 year ago
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this app might be a bit too scary for me

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8 months ago

feel a little bad for the orc city guy at this point. i think self published fantasy authors who write bad books that no one has read or heard of should be able to make stupid posts in relative peace

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9 months ago
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Hello Everyone -- We have an IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT.

Please read the statement below:

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9 months ago

a kid with lesbian parents will have to call one mom "mother" and the 2nd mom "earthbound"

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10 months ago
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The AI jobs crisis is here, now It's not coming, it has already arrived.

I dislike that the terms for gen AI's development and deployment are largely being set by enormous and opaque commercial firms that are exporting their logic and incentive structures to the rest of the corporate and working world

This, essentially:

www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-ai-job...

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10 months ago

I have my problems with any Pope, by definition

But you gotta hand it to Papa Francisco for coining the phrase "theirs is the construction site of hell" in a description of American fascism and then dying almost immediately afterward

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10 months ago
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How AI is aiding Trump's immigration crackdown | Context by TRF Administration’s increased use of surveillance tech and personal data prompts worries about rights violations, abuses

🤖 NEW FROM ME 🤖

For @contextnewsroom.bsky.social, I spoke with digital rights experts about how the Trump administration is using AI tools like facial recognition scanners, flawed DNA tests, and more to build a inescapable web of surveillance for all U.S. residents — citizen or not.

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10 months ago

plenty of cultures value children, but the US is unique in valuing the *idea* of children while enabling violence against actual kids and keeping them in privation at every turn

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10 months ago

I wrote this :)

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1 year ago
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With Disney releasing a Win or Lose episode about a trans character whose story they suppressed to trim down an openly transition-related plotline, it feels opportune to bring up a few executive notes Sue Rose got hit with whenever she and her crew added even slightly queer elements to Pepper Ann:

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10 months ago
The new revelations about DOGE's activities at the labor agency come from a whistleblower in the IT department of the NLRB, who disclosed his concerns to Congress and the U.S. Office of Special Counsel in a detailed report that was then provided to NPR. Meanwhile, his attempts to raise concerns internally within the NLRB preceded someone "physically taping a threatening note" to his door that included sensitive personal information and overhead photos of him walking his dog that appeared to be taken with a drone, according to a cover letter attached to his disclosure filed by his attorney, Andrew Bakaj of the nonprofit Whistleblower Aid.

The whistleblower's account is corroborated by internal documentation and was reviewed by 11 technical experts across other government agencies and the private sector. In total, NPR spoke to over…

Highly disturbing story about DOGE but this detail is particularly chilling www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

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1 year ago

“Taylor Swift’s personal security team’s threat universe includes ISIS and the richest man in the world” sounds crazy but not only is it literally true it is literally true in the past month

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