Klara Sterczewska
@klarast.bsky.social
PhD in game studies, main interest: games and memory cultures. script writer for the game Mr. Prepper. formerly known as @frenolestes (and that one other thing). from Poland, living in Leipzig. always antifascist. she/her 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
I worked at the EA studio in Madrid as a part of the localization team for 7 consecutive summers, and then a couple more years remotely as a translator (I translated the whole Star Wars: Squadrons into Polish). this news is disheartening and grim.
Electronic Arts Officially Sold For $55 Billion
With the closing of the market today comes the second-biggest acquisition in gaming history
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a periodic reminder that Russia is a terrorist state that doesn't limit its operations to the territory of Ukraine
(((Tendar)))@tendar.bsky.social · 10h agoA drone carrying an explosive package and detonator was found near a parked Ukrainian Antonov cargo plane at Leipzig/Halle Airport.
What I love about Bluesky is what I loved about old Twitter: if I want to find out about something (however recondite) there will be someone here (often with a PhD in it) and the time and patience to share their knowledge. /1
got so much love and respect for self made men* *trans mascs
this is what happened with the Polish-Belarussian border: it would be rather cheap to process all these people according to existing procedures; instead, almost all political forces decided too get a boost on racist/fascist sentiments, making the Lukashenko's destabilization attempt successful
laŭra@keilaura.bsky.social · 2d agostates bordering the EU can only use migration as a geopolitical hybrid warfare tool because our governments and body politic is so unbelievably racist. if we let just them in and were normal about them there would be nothing to weaponise
Let's be very clear. What Amnesty have done here isn't just bad for the trans community. This is bad for every single persecuted minority in the world because they have shown that money and threats will remove opposition to persecution. Think about it.
the unfortunate "level of dopamine" oversimplification aside, imagine getting your kick from, of all things, interacting with LLMs. this is just grim.
Kotaku@kotaku.com · 5d agoYouTuber Hank Green Admits He Has Unhealthy Relationship With AI After Facing Backlash Over Recent Video 'The level of dopamine I've been getting from interacting with LLMs is not healthy for me,' said Green
This is why you dont try to compromise or concede anything to these horrors
JK Rowling centre says Amnesty apology does not solve ‘reputational damage’ — The Independent
Beira’s Place was among organisations labelled ‘anti-rights’ in a briefing document.
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just said this on another post but it bears repeating: the thing about continuing to give money to any jk rowling properties or the nyt is not that they’re shitty about trans people, which they are. it is that both of these entities MATERIALLY CONTRIBUTE to the legal challenges to trans rights
I miss the times when writers under pressure just used cocaine instead of fucking ChatGPT
A. K. Venrinn@venrin.bsky.social · 5d agoOmg not Hank Green using AI for research and calling to his “bad habit” 💀😭🤡
Uneasiness and Animosity in Las Vegas
Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · 5d agoDownplay a book or movie: "Star Skirmishes"
Cruise missile attack on Ukraine from Russian strategic bombers likely later on tonight.
brb, checking my playlists for the last remnants of Boy George and 30 Seconds to Mars (I'm pretty sure I cleansed all the Roisin Murphys last time, but it won't hurt to check again)
What is ‘biological sex’ in healthcare anyway? This has been painted as a panacea of accuracy by the GCs, but in reality the use of sex assigned at birth is mostly a proxy for other information which could be shared at a far more granular level. For cis patients these granular elements will…
one of the most frustrating things about what Rowling has turned into is how hard it is to explain to offline people that she’s not just another author who has turned out to have shitty views - her entire life and fortune is dedicated to destroying trans people
Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · last wk.Projection so powerful, you could screen the Odyssey in 70MM IMAX from it.
Public Domain Art is the lifeblood of small tabletop rpgs, but it can be a nightmare trying to find the right art and license. This week, I’ve re-uploaded my old list from 2020 (with updates) of public domain websites. That's 500,000+ public domain paintings, photos, maps, and film. Link below 🔗👇
the thing about having actual principles is that when a politician I respect does some stupid shit I can just be like, “that sucks, knock it off” instead of inventing an imaginary world where I’m forced to defend stupid shit for procedural 4d chess reasons
earlier this week, I finally went to file a declaration of apostasy (disassociation from the Catholic church) in my family town parish, before the parish priest personally (in Poland, there is no secular procedure of doing this, you need to follow the church one). how did it go? 1/x
Why read Ukrainian literature when you already have so much on your shelves? I’m asked this often. My answer is simple: when we reach only for the familiar, we leave entire cultures in the shadows, and miss different ways of understanding the world. 1/2
Guten Morgen ihr lieben 🙏 Ich hoffe es geht euch gut 🫂 Lasst euch die Liebe nicht nehmen und lasst bitte kein Hass zu 🏳️🌈❤️ #LiebeStattHass #CsdBerlin
the fragment about the same expression from the Odyssey translated as a sexual slur when it's referring to Helen and non-sexual when referring to male characters is 🔥🔥
Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 2w agoBeard's essay opens, "I want to start very near the beginning of the tradition of Western literature, and its first recorded example of a man telling a woman to ‘shut up’; telling her that her voice was not to be heard in public." My essay on the Odyssey, Andrew & Tristan Tate, misogyny then & now:
this Mario has seen things (from a box of an off-brand console sold in Poland in the 90s)
I partially blame cartography, especially historical maps depicting pre-modern countries as having strict borders instead of fuzzy dots centered around seats of feudal lords
open all borders. stop having them be closed 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴@dov.bsky.social · 2w agothe concept of migration control is incredibly historically new and when it is abolished - and it will be abolished, like all unjust laws are - we will look back on it as if it was a complete insanity. what lunatic would say that your life should be restricted to a territory you were born in
I shouldn't be surprised that Maoists have no idea how nightclubs work, since Maoists don't work lol
To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.
This point needs to be made over and again: The main purpose of wealth taxes should not be to raise revenue. That's a small and secondary benefit. The main purpose should be to *reduce the fortunes of the ultrarich*. Why? Because those fortunes present a massive threat to democracy and public life.
