brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

Wait, are they banning Symposium? That's so, so funny, you think Symposium is going to make the kids gay? No, Ryan Murphy already did that

I've been running an indie games studio for 15 years now, and it felt like a good time to boil down what I've learned into 4 pieces of advice: www.pentadact.com/2026-01-08-1... I hope it's of use, not least because goddamn I forgot how long blog posts take to write.

Had an outrageously fun time putting together and playing this silly Hail, Caesar style game

We need to teach people the difference between being uncomfortable and being unsafe. Because the discomfort of the safest people is endangering the most vulnerable, all day every day.

I fell into a rabbit hole about Turkmenistan recently, central Asia's hermit kingdom. Spinning golden idols do feature. And then I found out about Soltan Achilova. I think it's really cool that a super repressive regime is deeply fucking scared of one old lady who tells the truth.

Remember, it's always a joke until it isn't

So about that 3D printer @hollyanderson.bsky.social

Let's not forget to rag on the UK's deeply punitive immigration policies, not just maintained but deepened by Starmer's government.

@edzitron.com covered this on Better Offline and the way it made my piss boil I could have run a steam engine off my kidneys

about last night's ANDOR episodes, the cycles of historical violence playing out on ghorman, and gaza. @vulture.com: www.vulture.com/article/ando...

And "voluntarily emigrate" the entire population. So it's completing the genocide, that's the plan, right?

Pritzker: If we don’t want to repeat history, then for god’s sake, in this moment, we better be strong enough to learn from it.

At last, a good laugh

Real conversation a student: Me - "The Huguenots came from France" Her - "Is France the same as Europe?" Me - "Where is France?" Her - "Paris?" *I cover my mouth in shock, she bows her head in shame*

Obviously, Bibi wants to finish his genocide. October 7th became the pretense Israel had needed for decades to finally exterminate Palestine. America will be handmaid to the betrayal of Ukraine and total ruination of Palestine. The world order we knew is over, if it ever existed at all.

I get so many YouTube ads telling me to visit the Emirates, and no, I like my holidays not in the desert and with approximately 100 to 150 percent less slavery

No, this would not have saved Veilguard. Retaining the staff who made earlier games a success and never having wasted time on live-service dev before an unwieldy pivot to boxed product would've saved Veilguard. Baffles me how these dudes seem pathologically incapable of learning the right lessons!

Wilcox, their mind is full of spiders that long to make games, and here's a condensed version of fabulous flagship

Something full of awe is coming and we're rather pleased with the wicked japes within

Dev team after dev team have met the axe of incompetence

For Christmas the present I want is nationalised utilities, please and thank you, Santa Keir

Marc Andreessen sucks, is a ghoul, is a man who shouldn't be by the levers of power but he will be. All of these big tech guys have no morals, ethics, or principles and somehow we allowed them to take over the world.

Wilcox at it again with a spooky island, we love a spooky island

I was on a panel last week at London South Bank Uni about positive experiences in gaming (boy knows we need those now more than ever) and the students were so engaged while being clear eyed about how tough it is out there, so this is for them!

Here's a silly little comedy I wrote about Britain's perhaps shortest lived prime minister https://chavbrown.wordpress.com/2024/11/20/the-silly-little-ministry/