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Alanna Smith

@alannamode.bsky.social

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🧬 Co-Founder, Lore Keeper + Wiki Manager @ dnacreative.ca
🎮 Building internal knowledge bases on Notion & public wikis on Fandom
✨ Notion Seller (my Notions could kill a dragon)
📺 Producer & Editor #FutureOfPlay Direct
⚔️ Semi-retired cosplayer
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😤🙏🏾

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It has always been fully insane to me. Like if there’s a minimum age there should be a maximum Otherwise it’s just a monarchy

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Wendy Xu's avatar Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social
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honestly hate that every time there's an industry bad actor, lists of "works by marginalized authors to support instead" start circulating like it's a moral obligation to be done out of guilt, & it's crickets every other day of the year. my art is not to be taken in as a reactionary measure

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Alanna Smith's avatar Alanna Smith @alannamode.bsky.social
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Your honour, with all due respect, I only shot the sheriff. The deputy wasn't even there

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I'm sure the jury will agree that he ran into her knife 10 times

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Your honour, with all due respect, he had it coming

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Assigned Media's avatar Assigned Media @assigned.bsky.social
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Your honor, with all due respect, I drove my chevy to the levee, but the levee was dry.

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I thought this was a common English word for the longest time and only realized like 2 years ago it was actually patwah 🤣 I was like why don't y'all know this word it's used all the time! ...oh all the time in MY family okay right

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Tarja Porkka-Kontturi's avatar Tarja Porkka-Kontturi @tarjapk.bsky.social
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giving me ideas

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scott⚡️mccloud's avatar scott⚡️mccloud @scottmccloud.bsky.social
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Over the weekend, I found a tiny pink plastic shoe on the ground near my office. I placed it at eye level, on a wooden post, by the stairs. This morning, on that same post, was this picture.

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Gravalicious (adjective) - Jamaican Patois that means greedy or gluttonous, particularly with food If you "eat with your eyes" (take more than you should, eyes bigger than your stomach) then yuh gravalicious 😂 We call it "big eye" too, tho I think that's not just Jamaica, more generally Caribbean

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Alanna Smith's avatar Alanna Smith @alannamode.bsky.social
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Like from a Black woman perspective, absolutely have learned "they go low, you go high" as a survival tactic, because we learn we don't have the privilege to go low, we face harsh consequences ...but the WHOLE ASS GOVERNMENT can go a LITTLE LOW when the stakes are THIS HIGH 🤦🏾‍♀️

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Alanna Smith's avatar Alanna Smith @alannamode.bsky.social
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This is why I say politeness so often obstructs progress. Like King said about "the White moderate who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice" - it's all about "being" good rather than actually DOING any good 🙄

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Alanna Smith's avatar Alanna Smith @alannamode.bsky.social
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Ohhhhh neat! Lost me on the more technical stuff 😂 but very cool to see some of the process

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Alanna Smith's avatar Alanna Smith @alannamode.bsky.social
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My fellow younger siblings to the south, our powers have been given purpose Summon every bit of "walking into your older sibling's room just to bother them" energy you possess and channel it to your representatives. Godspeed 🫡

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Rebekah Valentine's avatar Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social
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if you feel bad about this, think: this second, hundreds of people who are retired or rich or both and have TONS of time on their hands are being REALLY FUCKING ANNOYING in an effort to push policies that deprive the rest of us of our rights. we MUST out-annoying them, by any means!

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Alanna Smith's avatar Alanna Smith @alannamode.bsky.social
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Yep Never made it back to The Green Place, but did make it back to *a* green place

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Game Dev Dog sighted 👀 thank you for the contribution WHOMST is this furry nibling? 🥹💕

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Alanna Smith's avatar Alanna Smith @alannamode.bsky.social
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This morning I was likening USA politics to Mad Max like "damn they have to choose either Immortan Joe or Dementus" 😬 But even in fictional imaginings of the end times we recognize the ability to claw our way back from the brink so let's go. Nothing is inevitable.

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Alanna Smith's avatar Alanna Smith @alannamode.bsky.social
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Can someone neurotypical or medicated enough to get regular dopamine from their brain tell me what that's like? So I may experience it vicariously at least? 🥲

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Hello from the other siiiiiiiiide (of being treated for a sleep disorder, it's quite a quality of life improvement and I hope your doctors can help!)

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Trick Weekes's avatar Trick Weekes @trickweekes.bsky.social
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Pleased to announce that I'm supporting Romancing the Vote 2024 by offering three slots for either a full-novel critique or a Zoom call to discuss game writing!

(Note: I'm talking game writing in GENERAL. Can't talk Veilguard, but would love to talk past games!)

www.32auctions.com/organization...

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kat blackheart's avatar kat blackheart @gothfem.me
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nothing can stop me from checking behind every waterfall for a secret passage

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Megan Fox's avatar Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social
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HAH. Oh geeze. The Escapist really did headshot themselves when their entire creative team just, left, to form Second Wind. Their Youtube page is dire, now. Below the line is all their pre-everyone-left content, the above is post. Now they're indistinguishable from any other B-tier youtube shit.

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Erin Biba's avatar Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social
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Think of climate change like a high speed train heading for a wall. There’s a huge difference between hitting the wall at full speed and slowing the train down as much as possible before you get there. There’s no such thing as “totally doomed” - we CAN slow down the train!

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Alanna Smith's avatar Alanna Smith @alannamode.bsky.social
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Me at work: "Let's structure this content as connected databases for more control of info. I think that'll help with keeping inventory tags manageable" My mind at work: "When there's trouble you know who to caaallll TEEN TITANS FROM THEIR TOWER THEY CAN SEE IT ALLLL TEEN TITANS"

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Alanna Smith's avatar Alanna Smith @alannamode.bsky.social
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What can I say detective, it was til death do us part

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Alanna Smith's avatar Alanna Smith @alannamode.bsky.social
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I see the girlies are gonna have to bring back some classics

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Alanna Smith's avatar Alanna Smith @alannamode.bsky.social
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I dunno y'all there's just something about a fictional man with his back turned to the hero saying "hello, old friend" that just hits different. Iconic

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Neil Gaiman 's avatar Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com
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You walk over to the shelf with the books on and you sign them. Then you walk away.

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Alanna Smith's avatar Alanna Smith @alannamode.bsky.social
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Right? "It's here to stay" says local VC for 5th straight time

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And other Reagan-style musings that folks don't stop to actually deconstruct 🙃 Spending more money to ensure only the "right people" receive aid, only people who pass some biased test, rather than just distributing aid to all those who need it, is a deeply unsettling practice

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Actual "concerns" that hold UBI or social aid back: - "Need someone to suffer worse than me" - "Unfair to those who earned their wealth (could be me someday)" - "What if a type of person I don't like gets money?" - "They'll use it wrong" (usually thinking "Black folks will use it to buy drugs" 🙄)

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Iron Spike's avatar Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social
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The absolutely wild thing is: This goes for ALL social aid. Just *giving people some fucking money,* literally going "OK, how much did you need?", cutting checks, and waving them out the door? COSTS LESS and HAS BETTER OUTCOMES than the current system's bureaucracy and means testing, EVERY TIME.

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Alanna Smith's avatar Alanna Smith @alannamode.bsky.social
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"AI is here to stay" Then tell it to leave "AI isn't going anywhere" Oh yes it is GenAI is not some all powerful, unknowable inevitability. It's just a thing and we want it out of our business

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Alanna Smith's avatar Alanna Smith @alannamode.bsky.social
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Btw I used some of these tips to buy new Procreate brushes from Vegalia, so y'all just gave TWO Black women material support for the price of one lol yayyyyy 😁💕

As thanks here is some art I drew of @dpandaheart.bsky.social recently as practice, using a few of Vegalia’s curl brushes for her hair!

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ceej's avatar ceej @ceej.online
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bongos: perfect name. that’s exactly what they are

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Tempest is doing a Kickstarter! BUY MY BOOK 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar Tempest is doing a Kickstarter! BUY MY BOOK 🏳️‍⚧️ @probablyacryptid.elikwake.com
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by the by, for anyone thinking of participating in or donating to #NaNoWriMo this year, they went from over 900 volunteers to 0 in 3 months, the entire staff quit, and the Young Writers Program has been cancelled indefinitely

so...

maybe don't

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Alanna Smith's avatar Alanna Smith @alannamode.bsky.social
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You ever sleep so hard you wake up feeling like you're in another dimension cause whewww I guess I did 🙃

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We're experiencing this in Toronto too and I hate it

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I didn't mean ME 🤣 (but thank you)

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I used to think Dr. Evil was a very stupid name for a villain but well it turns out... no

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