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An email from Briana Wu, dated May 3, 2014 (about 3 months before the start of GamerGate) 11:39 ... Drinking the Mountain Dew B Brianna Wu May 3, 2014 to zoe v •.• Hey Zoe, You I hope this will stay between us. But, I did want to share something with you. The first time I really heard about you, and Depression Quest, a mutual gamede friend of ours in Boston was complaining about Depression Quest. They had counseled you to take the money from big pharma. They were talking all kinds of shit about how shortsighted it was of you to not do this - but you'd stood your ground and said no. They thought you were a total fool. I didn't know about your reality show, but I did read about the aftermath. And what really impressed me about the situation was you did the exact same thing. A situation was anathema for you, and you said no. You were willing to burn your bridges with an entire production company over the situation. You and I are similar people in that we really care about women in games and calling out the sexism in the industry. But, the truth is - I'm a pragmatist. And, if I were being embarrassingly honest with you, I probably would have taken the money from big pharma. And, I would have drank the Mountain Dew on camera. But, here you are today, and you're doing just fine.

11:39 •.• You and I are similar people in that we really care about women in games and calling out the sexism in the industry. But, the truth is - I'm a pragmatist. And, if I were being embarrassingly honest with you, l probably would have taken the money from big pharma. And, I would have drank the Mountain Dew on camera. But, here you are today, and you're doing just fine. You stood your ground, you made your choices and you still won. There's been a situation at GSK that's been really bad for us and bad for the company. And, I can't go into it just like you can't go into the reality show stuff - but I can tell you, I drank the Mountain Dew on camera for far too long. I have dealt with a really awful, humiliating situation for far too long. It finally ended this week. I don't know you that well, but - I have been thinking about your integrity a lot lately, and how going forward I need to be less of a pragmatist and more of a Zoe Quinn in leading my company. I want to let you know - that's something I really intend to follow through on. I hope that doesn't seem emo, but it is true. And, I think when other women in the industry inspire us, l think we should let them know it. All the best, Bri VIEW ENTIRE MESSAGE + Reply → Forward

Yknow what? I’ve been sitting on this for a decade because I’m not into punching laterally but I AM FINE with punching far right lunatics.

Just a handful of short weeks before GamerGate started, Briana Wu, who I spoke to 0 times before this, sends me this *wild* ass email. 🧵

This feeling of dread is so familiar. All the lives that will be lost for nothing. Death and destruction all the way down.

Today is Juneteenth...it commemorates the effective end of slavery in the United States.

when you’re so racist you don’t let your workers have a day off for a holiday recognizing the end of slavery

the destruction of chattel slavery is one of the great accomplishments in our nation's history and the reason conservatives hate celebrating it is because doing so legitimizes the black counter-narrative of the united states

Happy Juneteenth, to those who celebrate.

Double Happy Juneteenth to those who don't.

Good morning. 🙂

individualism is the greatest societal cancer we have ever witnessed, the root of almost all rot in todays world

I like this Gavin more than podcast Gavin.

Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.

There is no mass-deportation campaign going on right now. Deportation is a process.

This is kidnapping and human trafficking.

I don't care if these monstrous ICE raids are a "federal operation". This is authoritarian violence, plain and simple.

Just because Stephen Miller has kidnapping quotas for brown people he doesn't want to see on the street doesn't mean we have to think it's okay.

one of the most insane normalized aspects of our political climate is politicians going after their own constituents in the name of anti-wokeness. what are we doing here

how do you deal with the fact that the united states has about 20% of the overall population that lives in an entirely different fake reality

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This image brings so much joy.
Repost to share with others.

I’m sure others have posted this already but

Tolkien's sketches in the daily paper.

What does it say about a man who did things like this? He certainly lived with a childlike imagination!

No he didn’t, lol. He settled on Lord of the Rings very early into writing the story and never once went back.

fell for it again award

interesting

Once you establish that people can be punished because the administration doesn't like their speech, expanding the bounds of who can be treated that way becomes inevitable.

elon has zero products that work

JCB needs to be Glorfindel. I’m begging…

The Washington Post and LA Times editorial pages have gone full MAGA, MSNBC has purged all of its anti-Trump anchors, and Twitter is owned by a literal Nazi. Here's why liberal media bias is still a problem.

A photograph of a sign attached to a dark green wooden wall with metal edges. The sign has bold black text on a beige background that reads: "A WORLD WITHOUT TRANS PEOPLE HAS NEVER EXISTED AND NEVER WILL." The wall is part of a building with a mix of dark green, brick, and green and orange tiled surfaces. The Instagram username "pascalispunk" is visible at the top of the image, along with engagement metrics showing 694K likes, 6,383 comments, and 59.2K shares.

Pedro Pascal is such a true mensch.

Hunter Schafer reveals that her new passport now lists her as ‘Male’ following Trump’s executive order.

Is this from the osanwe essay in The Nature of Middle-earth? I don’t remember that part specifically, so maybe I’m wrong.

Not even six hours apart.