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Laura Laabs

@lauralaa.bsky.social

PhD'ing on bodily and cultural techniques of computer game play. Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin @ HfG Offenbach. Editor @ Paidia. Game Studies, Media Culture Studies. Header is a screen grab from The Red Strings Club.

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a man with long hair and a beard is sitting in the driver 's seat of a car . Alt: der kopf eines zufrieden lächelnden Nicholas Cage mit im Wind wehenden langen Haar fliegt durch das Weltall oder einen schönen Tagtraum, oder so.

wenn man nicht so richtig weiß, wer für eine spezifische Sache zuständig ist, und eine Mail einfach nach dem Best Guess weiterleitet, und am anderen Ende tatsächlich die richtige Person erwischt

15.12.2025 09:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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‚Die Sims‘ – Einrichtungssoftware, Lebenssimulator, „Mädchenspiel“ - Paidia Es ist selten sinnvoll, die Bedeutung einer einzelnen Spielereihe künstlich zu überhöhen, trotzdem geht es sicher nicht zu weit zu behaupten, dass die

25 Jahre Die Sims! Passend dazu ist jetzt ganz frisch eine Sonderausgabe zum Jubiläum der Reihe bei @paidia.bsky.social online gegangen, herausgegeben von Finja Walsdorff, Max Kanderske und mir! 🥳 #GameStudies
paidia.de/die-sims-ein...

28.11.2025 07:15 — 👍 49    🔁 22    💬 4    📌 2

Würd! Würd! Der Dialekt kommt raus!

26.11.2025 17:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

und außerdem eine Mini-Variante vom Endiviensalat gezüchtet würd, sodass man nicht immer gleich die Familie einladen muss, um als 1-Personen-Haushalt den leckersten Wintersalat zu genießen.

Beides kann eigentlich nicht so schwer sein und wir könnte alle mal wieder eine tolle Erfindung vertragen.

26.11.2025 17:57 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Dieses Jahr wünsche ich mir zum Geburtstag, dass, anstatt unbedingt den Mars zu kolonisieren oder Fantastillionäre in Triple-Fantastillionäre zu entwickeln, endlich eine gesunde Zigarette erfunden wird, die genauso aussieht und schmeckt wie die ungesunde,

26.11.2025 17:57 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Zeitschrift Fotogeschichte, Heft 177.

Zeitschrift Fotogeschichte, Heft 177.

Neu❗ Wie untersucht man historische Praktiken mit digitalen Medien? Bedienungsanleitungen, Lehrbücher, Zeitschriften als "Digitale Überreste": mein Beitrag 📖 zur Methode der historischen Praxeologie in Heft 177 der Fotogeschichte 📷, hg. von @pauliks.bsky.social u. Jens Ruchatz. #Mediengeschichte

22.09.2025 06:03 — 👍 16    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 1
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Dutch late night TV has its take

19.09.2025 14:39 — 👍 20943    🔁 8936    💬 511    📌 2086
An einer Tür hängt ein Poster, das wohl eine studentische Comedy-Show ankündigt. In roter Blockschrift steht auf dem Poster: 
„Die Comedy-Show // by students
Freier Eintritt
Freibier“

Jemand hat über das Poster ein weißes Blatt Papier geklebt und darauf geschrieben: „Die Show fällt leider aus!!!“

An einer Tür hängt ein Poster, das wohl eine studentische Comedy-Show ankündigt. In roter Blockschrift steht auf dem Poster: „Die Comedy-Show // by students Freier Eintritt Freibier“ Jemand hat über das Poster ein weißes Blatt Papier geklebt und darauf geschrieben: „Die Show fällt leider aus!!!“

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19.09.2025 12:20 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’m also fairly sure Klein didn’t write anything like this after the assassination of multiple Dem politicians in Minnesota. I’m not saying this as a gotcha, but rather the show the implicit assumption of our discourse, which is that Right Wing violence is to be expected, and thus tacitly accepted.

11.09.2025 10:09 — 👍 1122    🔁 152    💬 5    📌 3
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a cartoon character with the letter s on his shirt is sitting in a pile of gold coins Alt: Ein bisschen abgenudeltes GIF zeigt James von Team Rocket aus Pokémon in einem Haufen Gold sitzen, außerdem regnet es Goldmünzen (Dagobert-Duck-Vibes). Keine Ahnung, was der Anlass zur Freude ist. Aber Team Rocket freut sich immer, wenn’s irgendwo Pokémon abzugreifen gibt, und in Eugens Spendenbox liegen welche rum.
10.09.2025 09:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Der Fall von Rechtsextremistin Liebich: Muss das Selbstbestimmungsgesetz geändert werden? Seit November sind mit dem Selbstbestimmungsgesetz Änderungen des Geschlechtseintrags und des Vornamens deutlich leichter möglich. Innenminister Dobrindt sieht dabei jedoch „Missbrauchsmöglichkeiten“ ...

www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/der-...

„Das Problem ist männliche Gewalt“ - das ist mein take. Neben mir formulieren auch Anna Katharina Mangold & Heinz Jürgen Voß ihre Perspektiven

10.09.2025 07:42 — 👍 17    🔁 9    💬 3    📌 0

just read that the human body contains more bacteria cells than human cells. so i'm more not myself than i am myself. i'm more just a wad of germs staggering about than i am elizabeth. wish i could unread that

06.09.2025 05:04 — 👍 240    🔁 15    💬 21    📌 0
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It's clear that printing and distribution of my publication TASKS FOR THE NATIONAL GUARD IN CHICAGO is going to disrupt my life at a time when I have no time, so here are files you can print from. It's a double-sided 8.5 x 11" sheet of paper. Please do not edit the text. Have fun!

01.09.2025 19:08 — 👍 367    🔁 140    💬 11    📌 15

When I’m about to make a joke at the dentist, the skeleton manning the ship inside my brain pokes the inside of my head with a big fork and screams “don’t you fucking do it!” but then I do it anyway and don’t even say the joke right and no one laughs and he’s like well THAT couldn’t have gone worse

04.09.2025 03:33 — 👍 55    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

I really need to have like 10% more or 10% less ambition. Be much happier that way. Cursed to have that dawg in me, but it's the runt of the litter.

02.09.2025 17:33 — 👍 110    🔁 6    💬 3    📌 0

Man stürzt ihn und garniert ihn mit Orangen und 2 Minuten kochen.

31.08.2025 21:55 — 👍 19    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 2
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It's Minnesota State Fair time! It's time for Minnesotan folk art! Here, for example, is Saturn Devouring His Corn, in the seed art category!

25.08.2025 14:11 — 👍 12212    🔁 3612    💬 123    📌 256

It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.

23.08.2025 11:20 — 👍 22    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 1
News of the pratfall leaked. “Fred Astaire, aged 77, has broken his wrist by falling from a skateboard,” announced The Associated Press in a world news bulletin. Three days later a spokesman for Golden Films, Astaire’s company, issued their own update. “It was a clean break but his wrist will be in a cast for six weeks. We wanted to have a picture taken with the cast but he is a little shy about the accident,” a spokesman told California local newspaper The Daily Review.

Although he was embarrassed about the accident, Astaire noted drolly that some of his actor friends had cautioned him about the dangers of doing skateboarding tricks at such an advanced age. “Gene Kelly warned me not to be a damned fool, but I'd seen the things those kids got up to on television doing all sorts of tricks,” said Astaire. “What a routine I could have worked up for a film sequence if they had existed a few years ago. Anyway I was practicing in my driveway and fell off.”

News of the pratfall leaked. “Fred Astaire, aged 77, has broken his wrist by falling from a skateboard,” announced The Associated Press in a world news bulletin. Three days later a spokesman for Golden Films, Astaire’s company, issued their own update. “It was a clean break but his wrist will be in a cast for six weeks. We wanted to have a picture taken with the cast but he is a little shy about the accident,” a spokesman told California local newspaper The Daily Review. Although he was embarrassed about the accident, Astaire noted drolly that some of his actor friends had cautioned him about the dangers of doing skateboarding tricks at such an advanced age. “Gene Kelly warned me not to be a damned fool, but I'd seen the things those kids got up to on television doing all sorts of tricks,” said Astaire. “What a routine I could have worked up for a film sequence if they had existed a few years ago. Anyway I was practicing in my driveway and fell off.”

Fred Astaire should be an unlockable character in Tony Hawk

20.08.2025 21:30 — 👍 694    🔁 230    💬 6    📌 15
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The Crisis of the University Started Long Before Trump The University of Chicago is in crisis. Under extraordinary financial strain, it has diminished its faculty-student ratio and hired hundreds of “lecturers”: teachers whom it pays little and whom it do...

A great read on UChicago, arguing we’re seeing the result of decades of mismanagement: “The university’s trustees and leaders view it preeminently as a tax-free technology incubator, and its debt load is so great that it is abandoning ideals it once held dear in order to sustain that goal.”

16.08.2025 11:30 — 👍 862    🔁 328    💬 25    📌 77

It’s 2050 and a teen girl is torrenting a .tar.gz file of all the consciousnesses of all the tech bros who uploaded themselves into the cloud in a bid for immortality and modding them into The Sims 4

14.08.2025 16:24 — 👍 8479    🔁 2397    💬 6    📌 168
a post from itch saying “I don't see any indexing restrictions on your game. Your game does have a content warning because of this setting on your page though (check the "Metadata" tab). It's possible at some point you could have added a tag to your page that is commonly associated with explicit adult content.”

a post from itch saying “I don't see any indexing restrictions on your game. Your game does have a content warning because of this setting on your page though (check the "Metadata" tab). It's possible at some point you could have added a tag to your page that is commonly associated with explicit adult content.”

a post from itch pointing out that an article is full of misinformation and trying to clarify.

a post from itch pointing out that an article is full of misinformation and trying to clarify.

itch.io has been nothing but supportive of LGBTQ+ work since the beginning. it pains me to see the community turn on them like this and so gleefully spread misinformation about them without even giving them a shred of benefit of the doubt.
journalists too...

13.08.2025 07:24 — 👍 1261    🔁 419    💬 21    📌 16
An die Rechnungsbearbeiter*innen, Sachlich-Richtig-

Feststeller*innen,

Anordner*innen

An die Rechnungsbearbeiter*innen, Sachlich-Richtig- Feststeller*innen, Anordner*innen

Der Preis für charmante Kompositabildung, konsequentes Durchkoppeln und absolut unverdrossene Gendersternverwendung geht an das SAP-Team der Universität Heidelberg, this is how it's done 🌟

12.08.2025 08:36 — 👍 90    🔁 8    💬 8    📌 0
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Keep writing that stupid book

09.08.2025 19:41 — 👍 846    🔁 222    💬 33    📌 30

Patient, sobbing: But Doctor, I AM Pagliacci!
ChatGPT: Apologies. I didn't realise when recommending Pagliacci's epic show to cure your depression that you were the genius himself. I'm impressed! With regards to your initial question, I can recommend seeing the Great Clown Pagliacci.

07.08.2025 11:31 — 👍 11656    🔁 2862    💬 18    📌 32
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Lightscapes/Nightscapes – An Introduction Patricia Pia Bornus and Bianka-Isabell Scharmann introduce the dossier on Lightscapes and Nightscapes with some reflections on cities, light, and night.

Proud to present the Dossier „Lightscapes/Nightscapes“ I edited together with my friend and colleague Patricia Pia Bornus for @mediapolis.bsky.social - Full Issue here: www.mediapolisjournal.com/2025/07/ligh... Lightscapes/Nightscapes – An Introduction – Mediapolis

11.07.2025 13:01 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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snow white from snow white and the seven dwarfs is looking at a ghost behind a table . ALT: snow white from snow white and the seven dwarfs is looking at a ghost behind a table .

nicht mal 2021, "pomo bubble" war ja 2018 schon ein alter hut auf twitter, das ist richtig prä-pandemischer online discourse throwback. das staubt schon beim hingucken

06.08.2025 11:59 — 👍 12    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Toy Computing. Unkonventionelle Verfahren spielerischer Informatik-(Selbst-)Ausbildung - Paidia Eine solche Hands-on-Epistemologie ließe sich im akademisch-experimentellen Sinne als ‚spielerisches T(h)inkering’((Vgl. Hutamo: Thinkering. 2010.))

Mal was anderes und darum umso interessanter:
"Toy Computing - Unkonventionelle Verfahren spielerischer Informatik-(Selbst-)Ausbildung" von Stefan Höltgen und Thomas Fecker. #gamestudies

06.08.2025 10:32 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1

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