Nicole Carpenter (@nicolecarpenter) — Bluesky Profile

3 hours ago

thank you!!!

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4 hours ago

(in the story linked i wrote about using the cute little app to get drawing prompts lol)

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4 hours ago

in honor of finishing a whole sketchbook, i will share some of my silly little drawings. i started trying to draw in 2020 but hadnt drawn in two years. this january, i started again!

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4 hours ago

thank you!!!

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4 hours ago

❤️

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6 hours ago

open for @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social's cute drawings

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23 hours ago

that’s awesome. i play with a guy in his 70s. (and not my enemy) i hope that’s me!!

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23 hours ago

ive seen memes about this before, but beer league hockey really is fascinating in that someone’s 60 year old dad really is my enemy

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4 days ago

My name is Marisa Kabas, and I'm an independent journalist who publishes The Handbasket. I'm reaching out about a matter that involves your team and that continues to trouble me.

In June of last year, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and I filed a FOIA lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan Police Department to compel them to release body camera footage from the March 17, 2025 DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace. What followed was months of back and forth with their lawyers, arguing why it was in the public interest to release the un-redacted footage in its entirety. Though tiny segments were handed over, that wasn't enough: We wanted all of it.

On February 18, 2026, a DC judge ruled in our favor, and your reporter Mark Segraves sent a kind note of congratulations that day. Then on Monday, March 2nd, the footage was handed over to me and excitedly announced I'd received it and would be reviewing it in the coming days and sharing what I learned. When Segraves emailed me this past Thursday asking for my phone number, I didn't think much of it. But when he called me just before 2pm on Friday to let me know NBC4 Washington would be airing a segment at 5pm, I grew concerned.

Segraves said he'd obtained some of the footage via a FOIA request that week after he heard the footage had been released to me. He said he'd credit the work of RCFP and me, but it was little comfort. I asked if he'd known the day before when he emailed me for my number, why didn't he tell me then? He didn't have a good answer for that. He acknowledged all the hard work I'd done getting this footage released. I asked him if he could hold the story until Monday, to which he replied that he's "not just a blogger" (implying that that's all I am, presumably) and that he'd have to check with his editor. I said fine. Nearly an hour later he called back to say his editor refused to hold the story, but that they were happy to interview me via Zoom to add to the package, and I said I would.

What followed was two hours of furiously writing and posting clips of the footage to Youtube so I could get something published before the 5pm broadcast, and in the midst of that, recording a quick Zoom interview with a person who was about to take credit for my work. At 4:59pm ET, The Handbasket published a piece titled "Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid." Then I tuned into NBC4 Washington via your website to catch the broadcast, and my instinct to rush to get something out first was proven right.

"It's a story you're seeing first on News4," your newscast began. "For the first time we're getting an inside look at what happened the day the Trump administration took over the US Institute of Peace. News4 obtained more than four hours of police body camera video from that day." What followed was more than six minutes of clips and commentary from Segraves, but it's not until six minutes and 21 seconds into the piece that he mentions my name (mispronounced though he asked for the correct pronunciation on Zoom), "The Handbasket blog," and the RCFP's foundational role in bringing this footage to light. I was angry, but didn't feel there was much I could do.

Then I saw the version NBC4 posted to Instagram and TikTok—the video itself made ZERO mention of the RCFP or my work, only briefly acknowledging it in the written caption on Instagram, and not even bothering to do that on TikTok. An average viewer with no background on the case is lead to believe that this footage was released because of your efforts. When I saw that, I decided I couldn't let this go.

It's difficult to explain what it's like to spend nearly a year working on a story only to have another reporter and outlet surreptitiously take credit for it; months of work and personal risk only to have another reporter lying in wait to swoop in. What NBC4 did was immoral, unethical, and to be frank, just truly sucked.

I just sent this email to the news director at NBC4 Washington about the unprofessional and disrespectful way they handled publishing the body camera footage of the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace that was obtained via my FOIA lawsuit:

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4 days ago

A Shadow The Hedgehog promotional image with the caption 'SORRY I FORGOT ABOUT INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY. I SIMPLY DIDN'T REALISE THAT IT WASN'T ALL YEAR.'

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4 days ago

'If we love this work, we have to protect it:' Heart Machine workers secure voluntary union recognition 'Forming a union is one way we’re making sure we can keep doing our best work.'

'If we love this work, we have to protect it:' Heart Machine workers secure voluntary union recognition

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4 days ago

Welcome to One More Catch Pokémon Go coverage is evolving...

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6 days ago

omg I don’t know about it!!

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6 days ago

i googled whether anyone has bit anyone else in the nhl because i was watching the blues/sharks game and there was a moment during the fight where a chomp on the arm would have been perfect

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6 days ago

theres a breakdown of it and it’s so funny

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6 days ago

oh god yes

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6 days ago

the son bit brady tkachuck lol

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6 days ago

fun fact i learned today… there is just one father and son duo who have both been suspended from the NHL for biting other players

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6 days ago

thank you!!

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1 week ago

one of the biggest problems we've faced since launching is that while it was very easy to establish ourselves here (games media sickos on bluesky), getting people outside of here to know who we are has been TOUGH. Stuff like this really helps!

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1 week ago

Our tiny little website currently has the 4th-placed story on r/all, which is doing all kinds of weird and beautiful things to our monthly traffic (which doesn't normally operate at anywhere near that scale)

Amazing work from @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social, as always!

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1 week ago

Added context: Nintendo is not alone. Other companies that have sued over Trump's tariffs recently include FedEx, UPS, Barnes & Noble, Costco, Revlon, Prada, Staples...

In terms of gaming companies, I haven't seen others

Great scoop by @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social

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1 week ago

bombshell from @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social: nintendo is suing the US government over tariffs it deems “unlawful”

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1 week ago

Indie games are turning the act of looking into an art Seek and find.

Really wonderful article by @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social on Hidden Folks and the sub-genre Sylvain and I spawned and on making searching games in general!

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1 week ago

true!!!

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1 week ago

!!! thank you <3

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1 week ago

i wrote about hidden object games for the verge!!! it's about the art of hidden object games and how hidden folks inspired a new wave of them, including lost and found co. (super cute game!!), which is out today. more here:

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1 week ago

830792528 Polygon The Rise Of The Video Game Union : Nicole Carpenter : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive “The Rise of the Video Game Union” is an all-in-one explainer on why game workers are unionizing. Polygon created a zine of the original story that is...

With GDC only a few days away, I added @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social's brilliant gaming union zine/explainer to archive.org. The previous host for the PDF added a monthly subscription.

Please feel free to print and share as you wish!

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1 week ago

Actually, the internet is ours! Including this phenomenal zine that should always be free, by @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social

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1 week ago

its so beautiful and perfect

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