I'm delighted to launch the 2026 World SF bundle today! FIFTEEN books for just $30! Our biggest bundle yet! With @tadethompson.bsky.social, @aliettedebodard.com, @lavanya.bsky.social and many more! Plus supporting @locusmag.bsky.social! Reposts appreciated! storybundle.com/scifi

📣Friends of Relatively Painless Games! The beta version of Uncle Lee's Cookbook is ready and we're looking for testers! You'll get to keep the game when it's released and (if you want) your name in the credits. DM or reply here if interested. store.steampowered.com/app/3777930 1/2

BRINE will be at London Games Fest! Come and meet the team, play the demo and fight some fish!🐟 We will also be showcasing BRINE at New Game Plus between the 16-17th April! #LGF26 #indiedev #gamedev #retrofps #boomershooter

I'm currently working on my SECOND GAME. Please support real 100% human-made weird fucking shit! pls share and give us a follow and together with me wonder where this one fucking lands... All the weird is lovingly hallucinated in my human brain!

Went on one of those *we buy books* websites to see how much they'd offer me for a rare, pristine 1st edition Samuel R Delany. 35p 😑

Home burglar

as a culture we have really given "ideas" way too much credit. ideas are a dime a dozen. they happen all the time. the magic is way more in the doing, and the doing's diminished stature is linked to lack of respect for labor and, more recently, skill and expertise.

We're looking at full VO for our next indie game, but for our last two titles we used an VO emote system to give human emotion, voiced by actors, but at a budget that was viable for us.

Gross and transphobic lyrics, Moby? Shush, Moby. "Girls will be boys and boys will be girls It's a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world, except for Lola"

🔥 Whale Shark gliding through Bioluminescent Algae looks like its floating through space. By Mike Nulty

Show somebody who absolutely rocks a hat and isn't Indiana Jones.

Could I get some support from fellow devs and creatives? We got a negative review on Steam for AI use... despite there being absolutely *no* AI use in our game. TL;DR? Give a chance to show that AI wasn't used, or you'll be harming the very same artists you claim to be helping.❤️

I get “cold call” emails from film industry crew a fair amount, and the number of them who are now boasting about their ability and comfort using AI to do their jobs is… well, I know it’s competitive out there folks, but all I can say is “lean in” to your humanity.

Hi folks, new video! I chat to Paul McAuley about his new book, Loss Protocol, his science fiction reading, his research, his transition from scientist to author, all sorts. Check it out 👀! #scifibooks #sciencefiction #booktube youtu.be/sKVm9ELuPtw

The beta version of Uncle Lee's Cookbook is almost ready! Last week we finished implementing a new prologue episode, where for the first time ever you can play as uncle Lee and experience the thrill of breaking the universe instead of attempting to fix it. #pointAndClick

I was asked to give my thoughts on generative AI usage in games - here they are!

Post the best picture you have ever taken of your pet

We're one week on from the launch of AETHUS... It's been a wild one. 15,000+ players. Overwhelmingly Positive on Steam. Fifteen hotfixes. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart. 💖 Check out the latest news post, one week on from launch!👇 store.steampowered.com/news/app/254...

Think about the mental bandwidth tax of daily survival. When we're constantly worried about survival, our ability to think long-term, innovate, or care for our communities is crushed. Universal Basic Income isn't just cash; it's the cognitive freedom to actually participate in society and democracy.

"That's $100 please" "For what?" "The use of intelligence" "But the intelligence is mine. It's inside my actual head. I acquired it through hard work." "No. $100. Here's the itemised bill, look." "This is just a list of intellectual properties you stole from me." "$140 now. Late fee." #AI

Oh, bugger.

This is SUCH a great production, you HAVE to watch it!!

The Altman quote helpfully shows that the aim here, the entire business plan, is building dependency, not boosting potential

Watched First Cow and it was extraordinarily lovely. It sits under the *slow cinema* banner, but banners begone, it's just bloody brilliant cinema.

Result! Just received from Grammarly: "Hi, Thank you for reaching out. After careful consideration, we have decided to deactivate Expert Review while we reimagine how to make it more useful for customers and more respectful of the experts whose work it surfaces." 1/ 🧪💙📚 🗃 #academicsky

Working on a thing… #Spaceships

I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...

2026 is very quickly becoming my Year of Heavy Pencils and I like to tell myself that is a good thing but my frayed nerves are steadfastly refusing to agree.

Puddle, Manchester, 2021, photo by Ruxx Naqvi.

"SHIT" "FUCK" "NO" "FUCK" "SHIT" "FUCK"

Colour me biased as I'm in this game, but by jingo it looks bloody gorgeous! (and apparently the voice acting ain't half bad, either 🤭). Congrats, Alex!

Just did a Zoom recall. I logged in early, as requested, expecting to sit twiddling my thumbs for at least 10 mins. They joined soon after and the audition was finished before it was meant to start. That, my friends, is tip-top service!

Thread. (TLDR: the House of Lords DCC report on AI came down hard on the correct side of the debate, rather than siding with industry lobbyists.)

AETHUS, my solo-indie debut, launches straight to 1.0 (no Early Access!) TOMORROW, March 6th! Story is so often an afterthought in survival-crafting games... Not so in AETHUS - fully voice-acted, there's always a narrative reason to head underground or build up your mining base! #IndieDev

Oh god, Inkpad, a simple plain text notes app I've been using for years, mainly for shopping lists & jotting notes for podcasts, but I also used it drafting my parents' eulogies... now has an AI that thinks all those rather different things are What My Life Is, and will vomit out advice accordingly

They all do this. And it feels like a reflection on the humans behind them, whose inflated careers are built on never admitting they don’t know the answer. The ‘smartest people in the room’ if ‘smart’ just means glib and facile, turning out lies with complete conviction.

According to payment processors, purchasing fictional sexy art is grossly immoral. Betting on school children getting blown up is fine though.

It's incredible how thin-skinned people who post gen-ai images are when it comes to criticism. Just heartbroken when people don't praise something they didn't even make! The world's worst Harry Potter fan-artist has more integrity.

NEW BRINE NEWS! STUDIO WHALEFALL IS PARTNERING WITH @noquartersoft.bsky.social BECAUSE: - BRINE is now able to be shown off in both North and South America. - QA/PR Support on platforms we do not touch (twitter) - Building that ever growing network of "retro-local" devs...

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

Star Trek is a very serious sci-fi show about exploring space and the human condition. Also Star Trek: “remember that time Troi was a cake??”

every year it becomes clearer that we have to directly support artists and journalists. technology has given us more autonomy than ever before + I refuse to believe mega mergers owned by evil billionaires are the future of communication and art. always remember they need us more than we need them

Oh no... just realized my post settings have been set to French for a while now and was wondering why I wasn't getting many interactions lately, so reposting this to do a test, check out this heavy work in progress of a cinematic from my game! #gamedev #unreal #darkrooms

just spitballing but some of it might have something to do with 15 years of sociopathic behavior culminating in the enthusiastic embrace of violent fascism

INTERVIEWER: When somebody asks you to describe your book LANARK, what do you say to them? ALASDAIR GRAY: I say it is a Scottish petit bourgeois model of the universe. I: Just like that? AG: Yes, I’ve rehearsed it and honed it down to as few words as possible. A #GrayDay 🧵 frontispiece/ 💙📚

three thoughts about 15-minute cities: 1. there is *nothing not to love* about it. less traffic means safer streets, cleaner air, lower travel costs. closer services means more time for both work and leisure. more walking means more fitness and wellness. more local living means stronger communities

Some of you like dogs, in which case you may appreciate that guide dogs of Team GB for the Paralympics get official photos

Here’s the thing about folks speedrunning the creative process with AI: I could go to the beach every morning and put a grain of sand in a cup. They’d take their cup to the beach and fill it one day; but the point isn’t to have a cup of sand. It’s to fill my life with a thousand trips to the beach.

I shall not be attending the BAFTAs tonight as I have a slight cold.

the replies here are so confusing. all I've learned is "class" in the UK is neither the liberal understanding (income), nor the Marxist understanding (relationship to the means of production), nor the American political journalist understanding (lack of a college degree), but a secret fourth thing