Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.

Look at all that harmless water vapour. Thanks @oxventure.bsky.social. I hope you’ve all had a calm down/stiff drink after all that. We all had fun. #OhBonesly

Hoping to pick up the giant slide and podcast studio in the liquidation auction.

Can anybody see why Cloudflare has deemed @vickyblake.bsky.social's blog to contain “adult content”? vickyblakeucu.uk/2026/02/09/c... The domain is blocked on their “for Families” DNS resolver, but works on their resolver which just blocks malware:

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

I think that turned out well. Kid’s birthday gift up and mostly filled. Worth the stupid amount of effort.

Nothing could better sum up where we are as a culture

Get in. Childs Xmas pressie of @oxventure.bsky.social tickets resulted in some tears*. Think we nailed that one. *Of the good, joyful kind**. **I assume, Wisdom(Insight) is a dump stat.

One fun thing about the Japanese is we love the FUCK out of Christmas and have only the loosest concept of what is going on

People who work in creative industries should be allowed to live outside the binary states of "so overworked that they're unhealthy" and "automated out of a job"

New Episode Day \o/ Evolution of Privacy Part 4 It started with a secret room in an AT&T building. Room 641A proved the government was mirroring the internet. Explore the birth of the Digital Panopticon in our series finale. 🕸️💻 #Privacy #History #Documentary www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qu-...

"how Larian uses generative AI"

I would watch the shit out of this buddy movie.

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

My daughter left her Spotify account logged in on our TV while she did her DofE expedition back in April, so I did what any self-respecting dad would do. Payoff finally came today.

I think i hear the distant screams of @dearmodern.bsky.social… That is NOT where you put a coat bath.

I can't remember if I ever posted this here before so here's me doing it again I guess!

Hey all, do I have any UK based concept artists following me (or who knows anyone) who would be up for a long term 22 month contract working on Dragonwilds at Jagex? Remote with a very occasional day in office in Cambridge. Development experience and fantasy genre work is a must. Mid level role.

Got to see the show I worked on and now I’m all in a Xmas mood. Glass of Baileys it is then.

maybe i am going insane

Curtain’s up I think, so have some pics of what I spent a few months working on. Still annoyed that as a freelancer I don’t get to see everything finished unless I get tickets to the show.

We’re looking for a venue partner who can help with physical space to support this open, community-driven, and free-to-attend event. 🗓️ When: A Saturday in Spring 2026 (Flexible) 👥 Size: 100-120 people 📍 Where: Accessible UK location, ideally Leeds Please get in touch! ukhealthcamp.com/venue

florence pew: thread

Oreoboros

This how I find out I have a son??

So day five of 11-12hr shifts, and one 8hr ish day left tomorrow and that’s the end of this gig. One hell of a finale for a couple months worth of work. The set looks *so* good.

@e301.bsky.social Didn’t know you were also working on this show. 👋 Think I banged my head on that moon a good four or five times today.

regular godzilla

Excitement of a fit up week slowly revealing how awesome everything you’ve worked on for months coming together looks. How decisions made weeks ago play out and having to quickly problem solve. All slightly offset by nothing currently booked in and Mrs P being out of work in a couple of weeks too.

I started a new series on Story Time With Finux, this one is about Tudor Britain and their impact on state surveillance. Part 1, Henry VII secured his weak claim to the throne by building a surveillance state, using law, money, & propaganda to control the nobility. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeGA...

fucking knew it, i've been saying this for ages. I bloody knew it wasn't that i was getting older. I mean i am, but that's not the reason. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hksV...

If you’re wondering how my career move away from tech is going. Yesterday I couldn’t do my job, turning wood into sawdust, because I couldn’t get measurements I needed because Autodesk’s licensing servers are hosted in AWS…

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How have YouTube completely overhauled the player UI but kept the horrendous pink tail on the play bar?

this sword appeared to me in a vision

Part 3 is out; Los Alamos races to build the atomic bomb, exploring two designs. Witness the Trinity Test, the scientists' moral crisis, and the fateful decision to use the weapon on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. youtu.be/5t2G1ehIz8o #TrinityTest #Oppenheimer #History #Documentary

I saw this on the same shelf as a load of slop-labelled beer. Pretty much guaranteed my purchase. 🙌

So after a full rewrite and a lot of learning new skills, I've managed to release the first 2 part in the first ever episode of Story Time With Finux. Sorry for the supply teacher vibes, wow i underestimated how much i'd have to take on. But i think when the second episode will benefit from it

On a whim I checked the program and it’s actually got my name in it! Didn’t expect that. Probably should have.

My old 16-page comic where Frasier meets Columbo can be read on my website: joechouinard.com/columbo

@katiematherkm.bsky.social One step closer.

Japan has a wrestling camp for kids where at the end they have a show match in front of their parents to show off what they learned. Thought you'd enjoy this.

You can try to silence genocide but the harder you try the louder it speaks. We will not Be silent #FreePalestine

The show’s now open so I can show some what I was doing for a couple of months. It’s a touring set so everything including the floor breaks down smol. Looks like nothing, but the floor alone is 70+ panels, each almost a full 8’x4’ sheet with 30ish other bits, weighing around 100lb each…

I randomly stumbled upon Fujio Kito, an artist who documents Japanese playgrounds at night. It was a fun little rabbit hole to follow. fujio-pand-park.tumblr.com

The UK summed up in one image ...

Just for a second, take a step back, and remember that these are the actions of a 56 year old man towards a 17 year old girl.