Klara Sterczewska
@klarast
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 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
MLK writing from Birmingham jail would like a word with those people (full text: www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen...)
wellll it's cringy in the movie, but there was indeed a concept of Bronze Age in Greece (from Hesiod) meant something different from the use in Nolan's movie though
obviously, he didn't manage to deter me. this is my freshly apostasized self with the monument of St. Maximilian Kolbe, a monk who sacrificed himself for another Polish prisoner at KL Auschwitz, and who also happened to be an influential raging antisemite before the war.
this Mario has seen things (from a box of an off-brand console sold in Poland in the 90s)
I've been wary of Nick Cave for some time already, but writing an enthusiastic blurb for a book of a massive terf is a definite "thank you, next" moment for me.
a/t Ilhan Omar's attacker: just imagine having "Kaźmierczak" as your last name and saying some shit about descendants of slaves (this is a non-noble Polish last name, so there is only a very little chance the ancestors of this guy weren't serfs with no rights to leave their masters' land)
if Anna's Archive stats are to be believed - it's not true. scientific articles are the majority of content on the site, and a bulk of available books is also stuff from academic publishers.
I hate being right sometimes, but I already purged Roisin Murphy and Moloko from my playlist after her terfy talking points and faux-apology two years ago; now it's a complete transphobic mask-off, please adjust your playlists and live show plans accordingly
also the work on this DLC is what inspired me to start my uranium glass collection
I'm at the Central and Eastern European Game Studies conference since yesterday; did a presentation on the Molly House historical board game as a reflection on queer joy and persecution. kicking off the second day now! #CEEGS25 #gamingthepast
just wait until you hear about all the nukes the US lost and never found!
so I think this British author either has a particularly inflexible speech apparatus or is just being casually racist
I think it's one of the moments where some fragments of Central & Eastern Europe history could be instructive to people in the US
it seems that Charli XCX just symbolically ended the brat era at Primavera, one year after kicking it off at Primavera