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Palestinian Prisoners’ Day 2026: Escalate BDS pressure now to free them all. The Palestinian-led BDS movement calls for intensifying BDS pressure against companies involved in genocidal Israel’s prison complex and its crimes against Palestinian prisoners, particularly Microsof...

Today, on Palestinian Prisoners' Day the BDS movement calls for intensifying BDS pressure against companies involved in genocidal Israel’s prison complex and its crimes against Palestinian prisoners, particularly Microsoft, HP, and Cisco.

#FreeThemAll

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As an epilogue for our 24 Killers issue, Phoenix interviewed two artists about digital echoes of home.

I haven't looked at Pragmata even once and asked myself "what do you think the most off-putting fringe freaks you can imagine will make of this?" Please stop asking me to consider this perspective.

Really fun episode about a sometimes fun game!

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Deeply appreciate these words. A lot here that’s been on my mind which I have struggled to articulate.

Dead Language In the hours to days to weeks to months that followed Renee Good’s murder, I was beset by an emetic intolerance for words newly written or spoken about the American situation, even those that came from pacifists, Marxists, anarchists, decent people of whatever professed ideology who spoke in anger and anguish. All expressions felt the same: like ash. Factual truth did not give the circulating phrases power or meaning, nor did a speaker’s emotional sincerity, because the words I encountered were not in touch with these sources. They may have been, once, but the vibrant, almost vascular process that occasioned their creation was not active anymore. Now, they were secular catechisms, repeated with an attachment that facilitates detachment, the energetic evacuation that comes with retreat into familiarity. It was sloganeering, even when wordsmithed into ostensibly original speech.

"I don’t want more dead material poured into the pool of my mind, or careless hands stirring up the old muck. I don’t want to be in spaces on or offline where agitating our fetid little ponds is all we do to each other."

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BDS is gaining ground in the US at the institutional level in ways not previously possible, despite the unprecedented anti-Palestinian racism and repression.

Now is the time to escalate BDS pressure!

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There are multiple complicating factors here. (I think, if anything, we underestimate the psychological cost of seeing real-world violence on our phones). HOWEVER, I think the least you can do as an american in this moment is not make things about you.

Life Is Strange: Reunion gives fans everything they want, and is worse off for it Life Is Strange: Reunion cares more about placating fans than giving this story and these characters the ending they deserve.

Reunion is the worst Life is Strange has ever been. But this is what you wanted.

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If you want something concrete to do while so much is terrifyingly out of our control, here's one option: donate to a mutual aid effort supporting people displaced by Israel's genocidal war on Lebanon.

incredibly important cultural contribution.

Happy birthday!!!

Was thinking a lot about this replaying Dragon Age: Origins last year, which is obviously mimicking Whedon. It doesn’t always work but at its best it is both very funny and revealing. Some incredibly sharp bits of writing in that game.

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if you want to read more about impermanence and Marathon,

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I do think that people in my circles would be very willing to say that Rogue is not *for* them and still want it to exist or feel that it contributes something meaningful to the space. And some of them have been very hostile to marathon and I don’t understand it.

like this is part of what I mean. This is a game where losing your loot is at once meditative practice, stakes which make combat exciting, and an exploration of extractive capital. It’s fucking dense dude!!! Is that not worth exploring?

Yeah okay this was basically my impression. I have not played since probably 2017 so I’m a little behind lmao

Telling myself this is what I’m doing when I have a breakdown

Or hell Hunt Showdown!!! people don’t talk about that like they do this.

that’s true! I just don’t remember that being a conversation point when the game first launched (Maybe because it was promised?) i could have just said team fortress 2 lol