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.chantal//RYAN

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.chantal//RYAN

@thoughtrise

{write/love/gasp} englishslit+anthropologist | :: game director @darkwebSTREAMER + @WHALITF | // host @DirectionalShow | thoughtrise @ 𝗯𝘀𝗸𝘆 - i'm there now

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@thoughtrise
Nov 14, 2023
i’ll take “what is moral obligation” for 500, alex - award-winning game designer - countercolonial cultural arsonist - lapsed poet - a little bit rowdy
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@thoughtrise
May 15, 2024
quietly dropping this here today 😌🖕
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@thoughtrise
Feb 23, 2024
this is such an interesting time to be alive. we concreted the internet as our second equal and primary reality but it's full of ghosts now we try to talk to them and they pass right through it's a haunted world of dead things who look real but don't really see us
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@thoughtrise
Jan 21, 2025
as an anthropologist, one of my specialisations is authoritarianism & revolutionist practice in response to it one of my research foci for is the social processes of a society's descent into authoritarianism a historian once told me: it happens slowly, then all at once.
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@thoughtrise
Jun 20, 2023
this is a really interesting post+thread that perfectly reflects my lifelong experiences being a woman in gaming spaces many women chiming in in the comments /r/GirlGamers is a really interesting and thoughtful subreddit, I really like it (thread link below)
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@thoughtrise
Aug 23, 2024
late stage capitalism: we're lovin it™
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@thoughtrise
Jan 25, 2024
CEOs were paid, on average, about 21 times as much as a typical worker in 1965 today, they’re compensated over 344 times as much - over 1000% more than they used to be they take over 1000% more than was formerly normal and acceptable to the average worker sit with that
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@thoughtrise
Feb 23, 2024
Replying to @thoughtrise
i'm vaguely perturbed by it but more interested than bothered the death of individualised sites had already nailed the coffin shut on the Dream of the internet, so i observe this as merely an advanced stage of rot i believe we'll make a new, better place. these are death throes
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@thoughtrise
Oct 14, 2024
holy hell this website has 3D rotatable renders of a ton of old PC game "big boxes" so fkn cool bigboxdb.com
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@thoughtrise
Jan 21, 2025
Replying to @thoughtrise
i investigated questions like, how did it happen? what was said, what was rationalised, what was tolerated? how do people accept & normalise the killing of their neighbors they'd known for years? hitler's rise matched trump's. hitler was once a political laughingstock too
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@thoughtrise
Jan 21, 2025
Replying to @thoughtrise
fascists accumulate bits of power at a time. they're cult leaders with wider political ideations they create in groups + out groups. they grow loyalty by frenzying their followers into binaries of "i'm in the special group" & "those who are not are enemies to be destroyed"
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@thoughtrise
Jul 14, 2024
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@thoughtrise
Nov 14, 2023
i was vaguetweeting weeks ago about a huge media org that fucked us over bad gave me exclusive content requests + deadlines, set up meetings then ghosted me & cost us 1000s of dollars i was going to keep quiet but you know what @PCGamer don't treat women like shit challenge
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@pcgamer
Nov 7, 2023
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@thoughtrise
Jan 21, 2025
Replying to @thoughtrise
slowly, these core followers - brainwashed, rabid, desperate to prove loyalty & belonging - taint their own social groups they normalise certain rhetoric. they defend it. parrot "rational" explanations fed to them. they convince others to join the cause, or at least numb to it