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squirrelstothenuts · 6 months

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#sousou no frieren #frieren #op ed #my gifs

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archiveofkloss · 10 days

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april 16, 2024

“Patients, not politicians, should make their own health-care decisions”: a Washington Post op-ed by Karlie Kloss

#karlie kloss #04162024 #washington post #op ed #article #interview #reproductive rights

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offsidenewsco · 2 months

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Happy Valentine's Day from Offside News. Celebrate the holiday and read up on some NHL Folklore. Read it here.

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tiahnaparisart · 6 months

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Byrne's Big Business: How a Simple Suit Stopped Making Sense and Became a Societal Symbol

(don't you just love a whimsical title?)

The whole piece is quite long as I wrote self-indulgently, so feel free to read the whole thing or skim through it a little. A flippable version as well as the full PDF with references are available at my Ko-Fi (access via link in bio).

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auressea · 4 months

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Bisexuals Win! We don't 'discriminate'. My adhoc theory that 'Bisexuality is the biological default for Mammals, and heterosexualism is a human cultural norm' is established!

"Same-sex attraction and behavior are widespread across the animal kingdom, from male gentoo penguins co-raising eggs, sex among all-male bachelor packs of gorillas and “seasonally bisexual” flying fox bats. "

including more than 1,500 species, according to a Nature Ecology and Evolution study.

“an ancestral condition of indiscriminate sexual behaviors directed towards all sexes.” (this is fancy talk for 'bisexual' behaviour)

#sci comm #I have NOT checked this source #I ahve NOT confirmed this study #I'm feeling saucy and daring #and also #posting without confirmation #bi bi bi #fuck amatonormativity #cis-hets fuck off #science!#op ed

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yaki-yaki · 2 years

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『SPY×FAMILY』第2クールオープニング主題歌アニメ映像(ノンクレジット)

[opening theme song animation]

#spy x family #sxf #spyxfamily #loid forger #anya forger #yor forger #sxfedit #dailyanime #anisource #animeedit #spy family #op ed #my gifs

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savingthegeneration · 10 months

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yama『Oz.』MV

#ranking of kings #ousama ranking #bojji #prince bojji #queen sheena #sheena #yama #this music video is so cute #op ed #animedit

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gamergirljournalist · 3 months

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The "Budget" in Budget Keyboards is changing

The budget keyboard landscape has changed.

Back in 2020, a budget keyboard would usually mean buying something from Ali Express or Amazon. However, this all changed during 2022 and onward as the keyboard market changed and provided new offerings to enthusiasts and those entering the hobby.

We now have budget keebs that have an aluminium body, LED screens, a really good sound profile, etc etc. All these cool features and it doesn't have to break the bank. However, there are other keyboard vendors out there that like to brand themselves as "budget" and "affordable," but it doesn't look that way when you look at the cost.

So as the hobby starts to open its doors to more in-stock options, and people are now being careful about whom they're giving their money towards, What defines the budget in "Budget Keyboard?"

I'm sorry, the QK65 V2 cost how much?!

What made me decide to write this blog post was looking at the cost of the QK65 V2.

I used to own the R2 of the QK65. Unfortunately, I sold it because I wasn't really happy with it + I have the QK75 version on the way. That keyboard alone was $300 AUD alone.

So now enters the QK65 V2, which many describe as a huge upgrade from its predecessor. In my honest opinion, the keyboard looks similar to the Think6.5 by Graystudios, only it has an LED screen, not a light block.

So it shouldn't shock you that the cost of the QK65 is nearly similar to the Think 6.5 in the aftermarket.

According to SwitchKeys.com, if I were to order this entire keyboard without any extras, it's going to cost me nearly $390, excluding shipping. Based on my previous QK pre-order experience, I get free shipping because I'm a local.

My second-hand Think 6.5 Valentine's edition was around 500. Just $110 off the new QK keyboard.

The reason I bring this up is because the QK lineup was described as the budget option for those who love Owllab's products. After all, QwertyKeys (the manufacturer of the QK lineup) is the sister company of Owllabs.

Even YouTubers who reviewed the ORIGINAL QK65 were shocked at how good it sounds, as well as its price.

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What was the budget keyboard landscape like back in the day?

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Back in the day, the budget keyboard market was pretty underwhelming. It was mostly plastic keyboards, many of which have north-facing LEDs. Or you'd get something made with multiple acrylic layers stacked up. One thing these boards have in common is that they sound very terrible. Like seriously, you need to mod the heck out of them if you want it to sound very decent.

This obviously changed over the years with the release of the Monsgeek M series, Keychron, and the QK and Neo lineup, just to name a few. The same can be said for keycaps, with vendors like Osume and Canonkeys releasing in-stock options.

And while it's great to hear that there are IN-STOCK options for those entering the hobby, you also need to be wary of the price of these metal rectangles. Just because the group buy model is slowing down doesn't mean we should forget the price of these machines.

Anything above $300 AUD is not budget, it's mid-tier

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In my very honest opinion, any new keyboard produced by QwertyKeys shouldn't be considered as budget anymore. I think they're entering the mid-tier market, especially due to its quality and features.

While it's cool to see that there are many "affordable" keyboards in the market, I think the community needs to draw a line on what is considered to be "budget" and for me, that's anything above $300 AUD.

As of writing $300 Australian dollars converts to $204 USD. And I think it's fair to say that anything above $200 USD or $300 AUD is too much for the budget label.

But just because that marks out QK doesn't mean there are no options left for very good budget keyboards. If you're someone who wants a decent LED screen, get the Gamakay LK75. It's super affordable and it's only $99 USD. Another good alternative is literally anything from Keychron. I tried some of them when I went to PAX Aus this year and their boards cost between $100 to $270 AUD. I wish this was my board instead of the GMMK Pro that I bought overseas.

And speaking of the GMMK Pro, can we all agree that we were very delulu, thinking that this keyboard was "budget" when clearly, it wasn't?

The budget keyboard market is changing. And as prices increase and features get added, we need to determine what counts as "budget." And to me, the QK65 v2 and anything above $300 AUD no longer counts. But that's okay because, with enough elbow grease, you can make a cheap acrylic/plastic keyboard to sound really good.

#long post #mechanical keyboards #mechanical keyboard #technology #op ed #opinion #keyboard #qk65 v2

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gormengeist · 4 months

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I'm glad that GREED found a substantive chunk of its audience in fellow (defacto-tumblr) trans women. Best outcome short of "inexplicable breakthrough mainstream hit for the whole family." (For financial reasons)

#op ed

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understandingbimbos · 1 year

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Transformation.

Like most of this blog, this is an opinion piece.

I hate the association of bimbofication with MC. I hate that bimbofication is considered a subsection of MC.

And that's not to say I hate MC. There's art and erotica I like I'm pretty sure falls under the umbrella of MC. But with bimbofication, its all about the transformation. Yes, there's a transformation of the mind, and I suppose that could be considered mind control -- but there needs to be a physical transformation. I have no interest in bimbo-fication without physical transformation.

There's nothing wrong with bimbos on their own, divorced from transformation. I love the exaggerated plastic surgery look. I love female characters who are dumb, lascivious (this is a really specific word to use over "horny" or "slutty" but I need to be specific about what I mean), or attention seeking (or dumb, lascivious, and attention seeking). But what I don't like is reading a story where some mind controlling reality-rewriting psychopath asshole walks in and is like "Hey, you're dumb now! And you have huge tits." I don't enjoy that. I don't like when some loser ass motherfucker hits the bagel button on the bimbo toaster and a fully formed hot dumb slut obsessed with sucking his dick pops out seconds later, followed by descriptions of sucking dick. I could just watch porn for that.

I want to see a transformation. You know, the real bimbofication is the bimbos we made along the way. The end result is fine, if the end result is written well (it never is), but I'm here to see the process.

And on the slightest related note, maybe this is why I have a such hard time with IRL bimbos. I love the fakeness. I love the vulgarity of a woman having an obviously fake ass, and fake lips, and fake tits... but its genuinely ruined for me if I can't think of the woman as dumb. The sexiness and allure evaporates. What are bimbo tits without the bimbo brain? Without the bimbo behavior? A waste of bimbo parts, in my honest opinion. At the very least, it helps to have a character to reference. Pamela Anderson is hot, but I started watching Baywatch and in the first few episodes CJ's not acting bimbish at all. Then I watched Barb Wire, and she's fucking Humphrey Bogart. So now I'm watching Stripperella... and Erotica has her moments, but even she's not really a bimbo. What gives, Pam?

It's a damn shame. Even including pornstars the only people I can really project that bimbo persona on is

1. Jayne Mansfield, because she played it so well -- on more than one occasion, and incorporated it into her public image.

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2. Barbara Eden, because she played a silly horny genie in a skimpy outfit on TV for 5-7 years.

One of those women has been dead for 56 years, and the other is 91. It's honestly not looking so good.

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dontmeantobepoliticalbut · 1 year

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Conservatives want to make the massacre about trans people or religion—anything but the blood-soaked murder factory they’ve forced us all to live in.

By Elie Mystal

The mass shooting at Covenant School in Nashville, Tenn., on Monday, which left six people dead, including three 9-year-olds, was the 13th school shooting this year that led to injury or death. Education Week, which has been tracking these massacres since 2018, reports that there were 51 such shootings last year and 157 since they began tabulating the body counts.

Guns are now the leading cause of death for children in the United States. Over 6,000 American children were either killed or injured by guns in 2022. One 2022 study examined the data for youth mortality in 12 rich countries, including the United States. American children accounted for 97% of the total gun deaths from all 12 countries.

In a normal country, stopping this would be all we talked about. Elections to every major local, state, and federal office would turn on the single issue of which candidates have the best plan to prevent our children from being murdered. Parents of school-age children would band together in broad, multiethnic, cross-class coalitions demanding action and results. A normal country would not suffer 13 school shootings per quarter without massive social and political upheaval.

But we don’t live in a normal country. We live in a blood-soaked murder factory. We live in a country where there are more legal restrictions on where a person can bare their breasts than brandish their guns. We live in a society where people are more interested in banning books than guns. We live with state governments that will force people to give birth against their will, but shrug when actual children are killed at school.

We live like this because of the Republican Party. These school shootings are not tragedies. They are choices made by our government. Every other country on Earth has violent people with a motive to do harm to others. Every other country has people with mental health issues. Every other country has access to media and art that glorifies or trivializes violence. But these school shootings don’t happen in every other country, because every other country doesn’t have easy, nearly unfettered access to weapons of mass murder.

What’s exceptional about America is that we have sacrificed the safety of our children because letting them die helps gun sales. Republicans have reinterpreted our Constitution to make it fit an NRA marketing gimmick from the 1970s. The Republican lust for blood, as expressed through their ahistorical interpretation of the Second Amendment, is why we are here. Restricting gun ownership would save lives; removing gun regulations leads to death. Republicans have chosen the latter. Guns are the Republican Moloch, their god to which they are willing to sacrifice children.

Everyone already knew that the Nashville shooting wouldn’t change this reality. We knew that after the last mass shooting, and the one before that, and all the ones before that one. This time, though, some Republicans appear to feel even less obliged than usual to pretend that they care. In the wake of the shooting, Tennessee Representative Tim Burchett was caught on camera telling the gross truth about himself and his despicable political party.

When asked about the shooting, Burchett said, “We’re not going to fix it.” When asked what Congress could do, he said, “I don’t see any real role that we could do other than mess things up.” (This congressman, by the way, went on Newsmax to fervently defend Tennessee’s ban on drag shows, in case you needed a sense of what he thinks the government should be doing.) Finally, when asked how we are supposed to protect children like his own daughter, Burchett said, “Well, we homeschool her.”

That is the entire Republican Party in a nutshell. They won’t do anything; they will stop other people from doing something, and their grand plan is to protect their own people while leaving the rest of the country to suffer and die.

Of course, the message “we are impotent nihilists who retreat to our gated communities instead of serving the public” is not a politically viable response to mass murder. Enter the white-wing media.

Every mass shooting inspires conservative media to find literally any culprit other than the murder weapons to blame for the murders. We’ve all heard them before: mental health, violent video games, doors. They’re all stupid reasons, but the conservative base does not require good reasons to believe what they believe. But this mass shooting has given the party of literal death a ready-made scapegoat that already fits in with the conservatives’ bigoted priors: The shooter in Nashville appears to have been trans.

The conservative media firestorm has been as predictable as the reality that there will be another mass shooting soon. But if you’re looking for the worst white-wing coverage, the New York Post is always a good place to start. Its front-page headline the day after the shooting read: “TRANSGENDER KILLER TARGETS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: ‘Manifesto’ leads to 6 dead, including three young kids.”

Everything about that headline, from its implications to its basic grammar, is wrong. For those playing along at home, let’s do a close read.

• A “transgender killer” would be a serial killer who targets trans people. This was a killer who is trans. (The Post also misgendered the shooter, for good measure.)

• It is believed that the suspect was a former student at the school, which would make the still-undetermined motive far different than a school shooter who “targets Christian school[s].” They targeted their school. Dylan Roof, by contrast, targeted a Black church. It would be a different motive if he targeted his church.

• The “manifesto” did not “lead” to six dead people. The two assault rifles and handgun the shooter brought with them led to six dead people. If the shooter had shown up to school armed with a manifesto, everybody would still be alive.

The people writing headlines for the Post are probably evil, but they’re not stupid. They know exactly what they’re doing. The Post knows what Burchett knows: that Republicans are not going to fix it. To deflect from that should-be-unacceptable reality, the Post offers up these distractions of a trans menace and threats on religious institutions.

As is usual for places where conservatives get their media, the Post takes real problems and inverts them to fit the white grievance narrative. There are, indeed, “transgender killers,” as in “people who kill trans folks.” The murder of trans people has doubled over the past four years, and 73% of those trans victims were killed by a gun. Meanwhile, mass shootings at houses of worship have been steadily on the rise all this century. People of all faiths are increasingly under threat where they pray. But again, these mass murderers are not showing up to houses of worship with hammers eager to nail their manifestos to a door. They’re showing up with guns, most “legally” obtained, and that’s why worshipers are dying.

Everybody knows what the problem is, but Republicans won’t let us fix it. And so the white-wing media has to obfuscate and try to distract people from the solution Republicans are unwilling to let the rest of us implement.

So more people will die from preventable gun violence. More children will die. Republicans have stared at the bodies of dead children and decided that their deaths are acceptable. There is no bottom. There is no tragedy so horrific that it will shock Republicans out of their death cult.

Republicans are complicit in these murders. And so is everybody who votes for them.

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squirrelstothenuts · 2 years

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#bocchi the rock!#bocchi the rock #op ed #my gifs

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archiveofkloss · 10 days

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karlie kloss for the washington post: “Abortion should be on Missouri’s ballot this fall”

Democrats and Republicans may not agree on much these days, but since Roe v. Wade was overturned, many of us have found common ground: protecting reproductive freedom. The truth is, an overwhelming majority of Americans believe in a woman’s right to choose.

Abortion has been on the ballot in some form in seven states since the Supreme Court struck down Roe. In all of them — from blue Vermont and California to deep-red Montana and Ohio — voters have said loud and clear: Bans off women’s bodies. Many other states will hopefully have their say on abortion rights in November. One is Missouri, my home state

Growing up in St. Louis with three sisters and a dad who is a doctor, I didn’t see reproductive health as a political issue. It was real life. And policymakers were making women’s lives harder by limiting access to care. Even under Roe, it became virtually impossible to get an abortion in Missouri because of strategically placed hurdles to accessing care and requirements so narrow that eventually only one abortion clinic remained open in the entire state. Then the Trump administration appointed justices to the Supreme Court who ultimately overturned Roe. Minutes later, Missouri became the first state to ban abortion without exceptions for rape or incest — only for a few medical emergencies such as “imminent death.”

If their first tactic for chipping away at our rights was at clinics, their next target is the ballot box. Missouri now has the chance to protect it. Missourians for Constitutional Freedom is working to get an abortion amendment to the state constitution on the November ballot. But anti-choice Republicans are trying to make it harder for that to happen by weakening direct democracy.

First, Missouri’s secretary of state tried to add overtly partisan and misleading language to the ballot initiative to restore abortion rights. Thankfully, the Missouri Supreme Court stopped him. Now state Senate Republicans are overriding 200 years of precedent by significantly raising the threshold for constitutional amendments to pass. Under their new scheme, a simple majority of voters statewide would no longer be enough to pass an amendment. Instead, an amendment would need to win a majority in five of the state’s eight congressional districts (five of which are deeply conservative).

This is all part of a nationwide playbook to rip away our freedoms. In Kansas, antiabortion politicians tried to confuse voters with convoluted language on an abortion referendum. In Ohio, they tried to make it harder for a majority of voters to change the state’s constitution to protect abortion rights. Their efforts failed spectacularly, but that isn’t stopping lawmakers in Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Florida and Montana from trying similar tactics. Activists in those states are trying to give voters a voice on abortion this November, and politicians are trying to silence them.

For most people, reproductive health care isn’t about politics — it’s deeply personal. It’s fundamentally about freedom, dignity and bodily autonomy. That’s why I’ve been engaged on this issue since I was a teenager. In 2012, I trained as a clinic escort to protect patients arriving for appointments at Planned Parenthood in St. Louis. Years later, I became involved with the incredible team at CHOICES in Carbondale, Ill. — across the state line from Missouri — and dozens of other clinics. When Roe fell, these clinics were overwhelmed. To help fill the gap, I launched an organization called Gateway Coalition to direct funding to various Midwest groups to provide accessible abortion care. And I continue to learn from organizations such as the Abortion Bridge Collaborative Fund advisory council and Abortion Care Network.

Karlie Kloss gathers signatures for the Missouri Right to Reproductive Freedom Amendment with a volunteer from Abortion Action Missouri in St. Louis in March.

Through clinic visits and meetings with providers, center operators, and movement leaders across the country, I’ve learned how desperately patients need abortion care and what clinics go through to provide it. Clinics are being closed down, doctors are being blocked from providing care, and women are being forced to carry pregnancies against their will.

The Missouri I know supports freedom. Missourians know that decisions around pregnancy — including abortion, birth control, IVF and miscarriage care — are personal and private, and should be left up to patients and their families. As a mother, sister, daughter, friend and someone who cares deeply about the dignity of others, I’m working toward a future where everyone has the freedom to access abortion affordably and on a timeline that meets their needs. The Missouri Right to Reproductive Freedom Amendment is an important step toward that future. We have to pass it, and then we have to build on it. I’m committed to staying in this fight until abortion is safely and affordably available for every patient nationwide.

If you agree that patients, not politicians, should make their own health-care decisions — or simply that a small minority should not prevent a majority from winning at the ballot box — make your voice heard this election cycle.

If you’re in Missouri, that means signing the petition for the Missouri Right to Reproductive Freedom Amendment by May 5, volunteering to gather signatures from others and then voting for the ballot initiative in the general election. Across the country, that means showing up at the polls when politicians try to twist the rules to serve their anti-choice agenda. And, this November, it means voting for candidates for president and Congress who will codify the protections of Roe v. Wade into federal law — and rejecting those promising to further restrict our reproductive rights.

Our fundamental freedoms are on the line — the right to abortion, and now, the right to have our voices heard at the ballot box.

#karlie kloss #04172024 #the washington post #op ed #interview #article #reproductive rights

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offsidenewsco · 2 months

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"It’s trade deadline week in the NHL, which means the worst armchair GMs you know haven’t slept in four days, have sixteen tabs of CapFriendly open, and are tweeting an endless stream of terrible suggestions."

Read our staff's worst trade proposals here.

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brooklyn-dion · 20 days

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Trouble at RB for Riccardo?

By Brooklyn Dion April 7, 2024

Going into this weekend I was hopeful for Daniel Riccardo. The eight time grand prix winner has shown in the past that he has a place in F1. But these last few years have proven difficult for the driver.

In 2022, he was let go by McLaren and replaced by Oscar Piastri. Then in 2023, he spent the first few races as a third driver for Red Bull. After doing PR for the team he was given the chance to drive for the Red Bull junior team, Alpha Tauri (now RB).

When the news came out that Daniel was replacing Nyck De Vries, I was excited to see what he had to offer after his poor performance at McLaren. To say that I was happy to see the old Daniel back was an understatement. I was more than happy to see him finish ahead of teammate Yuki Tsunoda in his first race back. This excitement was somewhat tempered by Daniel’s crash at Zandvoort where he broke his wrist and was out for the next few races until his comeback at Austin.

Now, looking back at his results from last year he placed ahead of Tsunoda in three of the six races he was able to compete in. A spectacular drive in Mexico landed him seventh place and at the end of the year he finished 17th in the Drivers Championship with six points.

Going into this season I had expectations to see Daniel scoring points and being competitive. These expectations have not been met at any of the four races this season. In the last four races Daniel has been out-qualified by Tsunoda and has yet to score a point.

Does this spell trouble for the driver? After last year's rumors that he could potentially replace Red Bull driver Sergio Perez due to his performance last year compared to his performance this year I would say so. Red Bull is notorious for dropping drivers that don’t perform. We saw this last year when they replaced De Vries with Daniel and with Pierre Gasly back in 2019.

The pressure is mounting after Daniel's crash at Suzuka on Lap 1 with Alex Albon. Daniel has admitted that his run so far this year is not the same as his run with McLaren. The driver has said that he knows the issues he’s having with the car and that he’s working with his engineers to improve them.

With thirteen drivers contracts, including Daniel’s, out this season there is potential that we won't see Daniel driving for RB next year. With the competition for a drive being at an all time high from the drivers within the sport and upcomers from the lower categories, such as Oliver Bearmean, it’s worth paying attention to.

If Daniel does not show increased performance with these next few races, I expect that we can see him not having a drive for next year.

Credit: Frederic Le Floc’h/ DPPI

#formula 1 #formula one #daniel ricciardo #f1 #suzuka gp 2024 #japanese grand prix #op ed

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blerdyotome · 1 year

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Holding Game Developers Accountable for Half-Hearted Representation: Thoughts on Ertal Games's Apology & Reflexion

As a content creator I’m often approached by developers and publishers who want me to cover their game or product on my various social media platforms. They’ll send me a game with the understanding that I’ll play it and cover it as Blerdy Otome. Most of the time, these are publishers or developers that are familiar with me and my content, so they are approaching me because they feel that I am a…

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#Boys Love #Critique #Ertal Games #Essay #Games #Night & Day #Op Ed #Personal

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