Siobhan Beeman

@siobhan

Game industry veteran for an absurdly long time. Tanned, rested and ready, and #OpenToWork again. (

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Siobhan Beeman@siobhan· 11d

Post your lock screen.

The front of a communicator prop from the original Star Trek series. The image is dominated by the flip-top cover, a brass screen made of a hexagonal grid of holes. Through the screen you can barely make out the panel behind it. It is made of black plastic with a pebbles texture. In the center is a gold and black starburst pattern of many dozens of rays, with a silver ring around it. There are three light bulbs at the bottom, yellow, red and green, each with a silver ring around it. The prop is in good condition but everything has a patina of actual use.

Siobhan Beeman@siobhan· Jul 14

Dear Marie Gluesenkamp Perez: Great fucking job. You really nailed this issue. Take a victory lap, you earned it.

Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez: "At those town halls, what I saw was that the people who were the most upset, a lot of them had spent the last 12 years driving their girls to sports practice and they view their best shot of their student getting a college education as an athletic scholarship. And so when we rush to moralize and be like 'this is all about love vs. hate,' I think we miss some of the nuance."

screenshot of a CNN chyron that reads: SUPREME COURT LETS STATES BAR TRANS ATHLETES FROM GIRLS SPORTS

Siobhan Beeman@siobhan· Apr 30

Kit Harrington in full costume as Jon Snow from Game of Thrones, against a snowy landscape. He is holding an iPhone, thumbing the screen with one gloved hand. A large caption at the bottom reads “what is this sorcery?”

Siobhan Beeman@siobhan· Apr 17

The “Donald Trump’s Face“ labeler’s detection algorithm is prone to false positives, but sometimes you can’t really blame it.

A frame from Hogan’s Heroes showing Werner Klemperer as Colonel Klink, in full Luftwaffe uniform. A warning banner from a labeling service runs above the image and says “⚠️ Contains Trump’s Face,” with “Hide” off to the right.

Colonel Klink does not look much like Donald Trump, apart from both being white male Nazis.

Siobhan Beeman@siobhan· Apr 13

The “Calvin’s dad explains two types” meme, inspired by a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon.

Clockwise from top left:
1) Calvin’s dad walks into frame to find Calvin trying to operate a record player. The dad says: “There are only two industries left in America: gambling, and fraud.”

2) The dad shows where the record goes, and how to turn on the player, while Calvin watches. Dad says “Derivatives? Gambling. AI? Fraud. Video games? Gambling. Social media? Fraud.” Calvin says “yeah”.

3) With one hand open palm up, Calvin’s dad cheerfully explains to Calvin out of frame below him, “The stock market looks like gambling, but it’s actually fraud.”

4) In bed in a dark room, Calvin clutches at his pillow, eyes wide in existential terror. There is no text in the panel.

Siobhan Beeman@siobhan· Apr 1

T minus 45, let’s fuckin‘ goooooo. #Artemis2

Alt text:
LEGO NASA Artemis Space Launch System (SLS) rocket on a detailed launch tower with warm LED lighting. The orange core stage with white solid rocket boosters and Orion spacecraft capsule stands alongside a grey mobile launcher structure with multiple levels of scaffolding and access arms. A female minifigure of pioneering software engineer Margaret Hamilton stands at the base. A glass display case in the background reflects the model and contains additional space-themed LEGO builds including Space Shuttle Discovery, Mars Rover Perseverance, and the International Space Station.

Siobhan Beeman@siobhan· Mar 31

A four panel comic. In the first panel, a single hand reaches up out of an endless ocean, palm open and upright as if to seek help. In the second panel, another hand reaches in from the top left corner of the frame. In the third panel, that other hand gives the first one a high five. In the fourth panel, the other hand is gone, and the first hand sinks to the fingertips; air bubbles indicate the person is drowning.

Siobhan Beeman@siobhan· Mar 21

Siobhan Beeman@siobhan· Mar 17

Serious question: Has this ever worked, anywhere? “You killed my kid because you don’t like my leader, so I’m going to depose my leader for you.” Because not only have I never heard of it working, I don’t personally know anybody who would react that way. You kill my kid, I‘m blaming you, not Trump.

Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark in The Avengers standing behind his office bar saying “Not a great plan.”

Siobhan Beeman@siobhan· Mar 9

Economically, legally, politically, sure, that all makes sense--they control the system and the system is rigged. But that brain rot has extended to everything else: geopolitics, climate, infectious disease, computer science, orbital mechanics, thermodynamics… everything. Everything‘s The Onion now.

Headline from The Onion, March 26, 2003: “Point/Counterpoint: This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t.”

Siobhan Beeman@siobhan· Feb 16

Drop an album that was important to you when you were 19

Siobhan Beeman@siobhan· Jan 12

The Rubicon of American politics.

A bridge crossing a river (the Laguna Garzón in Uruguay) where the two sides of the road split to form a complete circle in the middle of the crossing.

Siobhan Beeman@siobhan· Dec 28

How I’m walking out of 2025

A blonde woman (Rhea Seehorn of Pluribus) walks away from a shipping container in a suburban neighborhood. Behind her, a Hispanic man (Carlos-Manuel Vesga) points at the container quizzically.

Siobhan Beeman@siobhan· Dec 25

Eagerly awaiting news that the second instructor, who gave the same grade, was also stripped of teaching duties. Unless of course this is less a story about academic freedom and more one about transmisogny... 🤔

Quote from the article: “A second instructor for the course agreed with the grade, saying the assignment was not followed.”

Siobhan Beeman@siobhan· Dec 22

Siobhan Beeman@siobhan· Dec 19

A modest proposal. Let’s just watch them lose their entire minds.

Siobhan Beeman@siobhan· Dec 19

Oh, definitely. Protip: Hang around the bar and wait for someone else to order a drink. You get all the value, save $8, and don’t have to drink something that tastes like Hawaiian Punch mixed with Everclear.