Chloē

@comrad-chloe.bsky.social

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Game dev learning about Marxism and getting her hands dirty with SFF. Game producer/designer, begrudging artist. Friend to all birds. 🦜 DC 🌸 Making an activity zine for nerds: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/chloegamedev/nerdtivities

Meme featuring a screencap of Auron, a badass yet weathered looking man from Final Fantasy X that reads, "I am the same age as Sir Auron."

Screenshot of a LinkedIn post that reads, "The Xbox graphics team is hiring folks with device drivers, GPU performance, or related validation or engineering system experience" and features an AI-generated image

Photo of Hillary Clinton during her 2016 campaign standing awkwardly in a small, mostly beige-colored, working class apartment, looking uncomfortable and bewildered.

Iconic, grayscale meme photo of Robert Downey Jr. gesturing toward himself and making the, "who? Me?" face.

Screencap from the "Dinner Party" episode of The Office featuring Jan smiling deviously at Pam with text that reads, "AAA game companies when they get in trouble: I am so, so sorry for the decades of abusive, exploitative, and predatory behavior."

Don Draper on the phone, making a ridiculously petulant face of displeasure.

Stock photo of a man clutching his head in distress on a couch as he watches TV with a Photoshopped image of the National Mall Reflecting Pool with Protomolecule-infected Julie Mao's face superimposed on the water and a chyron that reads, "Protomolecule event in progress, stay indoors"

Digital drawing rendered with a 6B pencil brush depicting an adolescent girl in renaissance-inspired clothing wielding a wooden staff in a dynamic pose.

A small, green Hahn's macaw rescue parrot perched next to a couple of clusters of sakura blossoms

Photo of a fridge magnet featuring a photo of Karl Marx with Madonna's song lyric, "We are living in a material world and I am a material world," attributing it to Marx

A small, green Hahn's macaw rescue parrot sitting on a shower curtain rod with her eyes closed, looking very relaxed

Soviet-era poster featuring an Asian woman, an African woman, and a European woman side-by-side, smiling, with Cyrillic text. English translation: March 8, International Women's Day

Google review for the Smithsonian National Museum of American History that reads, "Their corn bread is outstanding."

Screencap of the Trance Kuja boss battle in Final Fantasy IX, featuring the villain, Kuja, facing off against the player character, Zidane, while saying via text bubble, "Time to die, everyone!"

Screencap of an episode of the docuseries, "Gutsy," showing Hilary Clinton looking around the inside of Natalie Wynn's home.

Screencap of the famous "I am Spartacus" scene from Spartacus (1960), featuring enslaved men chained together, standing in solidarity.

Pete Campbell, (a young, preppy-looking white man) from Season 3 of Mad Men dancing around his mid-century office in an awkward, giddy manner before opening a bottle of liquor to pour himself a drink in celebration.

Screenshot from season 3 of The Expanse featuring Maneo talking into the camera from inside the Y Que during his slingshot run.

A small green Hahn's Macaw parrot perched on a play stand in the corner of the room, in front of a living room window.

Digital adoption certificate from Farm Sanctuary for a turkey named Serena, the Snuggler. Text reads, "Date rescued: January 11, 2016, History: rescued from farm, Favorite pastime: listening to music"

Excerpt from a work-in-progress novel in Google Docs that reads, "This was the part that Edie had been dreading. She’d checked in at one of the touch-screen kiosks and now it was time to get her chip. Everyone who completed the Valt Internship Program got one–just another perk that came with the better pay. The chip did a lot of things: it provided more secure access to restricted areas and computer systems, gathered job performance data, and allowed team members to pay for things more conveniently, which they could actually afford now that they were VIPs. Edie was the first person in her family to get one, making it a symbol of everything she had worked so hard to achieve. If only it didn’t have to be implanted under her skin."

Screenshot of a passage from a work-in-progress novel in Google Docs that reads, "With the food that they had bought from the vending machines using the chips implanted in their hands, the two e-techs wandered through the third floor halls. Luke took the lead, guiding Edie around corners, past the first set of standard rooms, before stopping in front of a set of wooden double doors. He set his unopened canned drink down on the floor to free up his hand and took the terminal from his tool belt. “Wait,” Edie cautioned, looking around the hall to make sure no one was watching. “Is this one of the suites?” With a tap of the hand terminal, the mechanized doors parted and retreated into the wall. “Yep.” Luke beamed at her as he leaned over to pick up his drink before hurrying inside. Edie scoffed and protested from the hallway, “This isn’t–we can’t eat in here!”

Screenshot of a passage from a work-in-progress novel in Google Docs that reads, "The narrator explained how Dennis Valt built Valt World as a magical escape for the industrialists trying to rebuild the world, to be a place where they could recuperate and find inspiration before returning to their most important work. Furthermore, it was the sacred duty of every Valt World team member to support the industrialists by maintaining the park and all of its rides, restaurants, hotels, and shops so that one day, the industrialists might complete their work and all of humanity could return to Earth’s surface. Every job was essential."

Screencap of the movie, Office Space, featuring the protagonist's obnoxious, red-haired coworker, Nina, sitting in an office chair at her cubicle.

Screenshot of a passage from a work-in-progress novel in Google Docs that reads, "When she was a little girl, Edie took a distracted stranger’s lunch token off of a food court table. Later, her father found her with the stolen token while her mother was working a double shift and locked Edie in her room without food for the day. As she cried and pleaded to be let out, he told her to be grateful that he was the one who caught her because Valt’s punishment would’ve been worse. But Luke gave away his lunch token as if it was nothing."

Screenshot of Google Docs Word Count pop-up that shows that the document has 78 pages and 22,812 words written.

Screenshot from Final Fantasy Tactics, featuring Ramza on the battlefield during the fight against Marach, saying, via text bubble, "Marach! What manner of brother are you, to seek to harm your own sister!?"

Screenshot of a menu screen from Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles featuring a chocobo named Tyche with a text box that reads, "Kweh, kweh. (This chocobo seems to be having a good day.)"

Screenshot of Google Doc's "Word Count" pop-up message displayed above a novel draft in the background, with a page count of 69, word count of 20183, and character count of 112675.

Screencap from Season 4 of Mad Men featuring the character, Henry Francis, angrily telling Betty in the car, "I hate Nazis."

Masked selfie taken from a speeding Amtrak car with the blurry Maryland woods visible through the window.

Drawing of a young woman in a jumpsuit looking over her shoulder with a black background and a red spray paint fill.

Screenshot of a Bluesky user posting, in reference to Greta Thunberg, "Sure it's dramatic and headline-friendly, she's great at that. But is this really shaking power structures, or just another round of "look at me, I'm humanity's conscience"? Feels like equal parts activism and performance art."

Screencap from the scene in Season 2 of Mad Men when Don Draper explains to his protégé, Peggy Olson, that, "They [non-creatives] can't do what we do. And they hate us for it."

Data table that shows states and their respective COVID-19 prevalence estimates, with the District of Columbia estimated at 1 in 17 people actively infections.

A pre-rendered frog who is revealed to be marooned in the middle of six lanes of speeding traffic.

Graph titled, "Comparison of COVID Cases and Wastewater Concentration Dashboard," updated November 20, 2024, that demonstrates a large, recent discrepancy between reported COVID cases and SARS-CoV-2 wastewater concentrations over time. Case count and wastewater concentration is in sync until late 2022, at the point in time labelled, "Biden declares pandemic over."

URL: https://covid19.sccgov.org/covid-cases-wastewater

Excerpt from the article in the quoted post that reads, "A 2025 study published in the Lancet11 tracked more than 830 000 US veterans and found that even non-admitted patients who tested positive for covid-19 had higher rates of bacterial, viral, and fungal infections in the year that followed. It also found that patients admitted to hospital with covid-19 were more likely to develop sepsis than those admitted with influenza."

Screenshot from the scene in season 6 of The Expanse where Drummer delivers her message to Marco Inaros.

Photo of a paperback copy of The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle

Screenshot of CDC's National Wastewater Surveillance System indicating that, "national, the estate viral activity level for COVID-19 is currently moderate."

A small, green Hahn's macaw parrot laying on a man's chest, snuggled up against his neck, and contentedly scratching her face/head with her own foot.

Christian church pamphlets that read, "Hell bound and who cares?" and "Four steps between Heaven and Hell"

Pencil sketch of ankle boots.

Meme featuring Jan from The Office smiling maliciously, with text that reads, "AAA game companies when they get in trouble: I am so, so sorry for the decades of abusive, exploitative, and predatory behavior."

Graphite sketches of Lee "Apollo" and Gaius Baltar from Battlestar Galactica (2003) dated 12/30/2008

Hazel’s complexion was a mix of warm browns with just a hint of coral in her cheeks. She had kind, deep set eyes as rich and as dark as her hair, which she had combed neatly and fastened into two smooth plaits at the base of her head where they exploded into round bunches of tight curls, like clusters of hydrangea.

Photo of green ambrosia salad with maraschino cherries and nuts

Photo of a small, green Hahn's macaw standing on a perch stand and looking at the camera with curiosity.

The Hanged Man tarot card from the Rider Waite deck.

Screenshot of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire featuring Katniss and Peeta standing on stage at the reaping, giving the three-fingered salute of solidarity.

Screenshot from Season 4 of The Expanse featuring Marco Inaros saying, "This has always been a problem for our kind. Even our dreams are small."

Screenshot of Morpheus from The Matrix in the dojo scene with inspirational-quote-styled text that reads, "Do you believe that my ability to do the worm has anything to do with my muscles in this place?

Screenshot from Pee-wee Herman's Big Adventure of Pee-wee proudly riding his fancy bike.

Excerpt from the Futurism article that reads, ""And an older demographic, where Aunt Carol doesn't really know how to use Facebook, and she's just likely to share everything."

"I'm going after audience 50-plus female," he reiterates, explaining that targeting older women on Facebook means his content can be cross-posted over on the aspirational image-sharing-and-sourcing platform Pinterest, the userbase of which is overwhelmingly made up of women.

"Why am I going after females? Because... I want to cross-pollinate the audience," says Cunningham. "I want to kill two birds with one stone and dominate Pinterest and Facebook at the same time. Fifty-plus female is my demo.""

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article for "False Consciousness" that reads, "Although Marx never used the term "false consciousness" in his writings, he made references to workers having misguided or harmful ideas, and he suggested how those ideas get reinforced by powerful elites. For example, in an 1870 letter to Sigfrid Meyer and August Vogt, Marx discussed the antagonism between English proletarians and Irish proletarians that was rampant in his day: "The ordinary English worker hates the Irish worker as a competitor who lowers his standard of life. In relation to the Irish worker he regards himself as a member of the ruling nation and consequently he becomes a tool of the English aristocrats and capitalists against Ireland, thus strengthening their domination over himself. He cherishes religious, social, and national prejudices against the Irish worker... This antagonism is artificially kept alive and intensified by the press, the pulpit, the comic papers, in short, by all the means at the disposal of the ruling classes.""