The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer. 🧵 1/5

A minor league hockey team had a wiener dog race. Zero thoughts, just vibes and absolute chaos. A thing of beauty

Reminiscing now about my first job as a game developer, when lighting was so expensive we couldn't even pre-bake it. We made a single texture sheet with a lit side on top, a shadow side on the bottom, and a gradient in between, and placed all our shadows by hand with geometry cuts and UV mapping

"Actually Old Oak Common is ideally situated for connecting services"

‼️ BREAKING: Greens WIN Gorton and Denton by-election in a landslide victory 🟢 Grn: 41% (+27) ➡️ Ref: 29% (+15) 🔴 Lab: 25% (-25) 🔵 Con: 2% (-6) 🟠 Lib: 2% (-2) Green GAIN from Labour (+/- vs GE2024) ‼️First-ever Green win in an MP by-election

making another quake map for a mapping jam, it looks like a gothic cat tree in places

nobody asked for this game but I'm making it anyway 👍🚄

www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater... Manchester WI has shut itself down over being forced to exclude trans women

Long-tailed tits at the birdfeeder. These guys have been evading my camera for a while now! #photography #ukbirding #birdsofbluesky

Wild that there was an open lane called "what if we just explain things clearly to people?" and he's the first one to ever fill it

half of all tech news lately is some variation of "the computer company has discontinued their well known product, the computer"

In case you missed it, we recently released a new video where we break down how the buildings in Expedition 33 were created in a procedural way. Sharing a small clip here 🙂 Let us know what you think!

‘SINNERS’ has broken history as the MOST-NOMINATED FILM OF ALL TIME at the Oscars with 16 nominations See the full nominees list: bit.ly/OscarNoms26

I hear CompuServe may also be having some issues. Wanadoo have been contacted for comment.

It should have occurred to me to do this in late December, but I thought I'd share my favourite photographs I took in 2025. Places (1/3) #photography

Reading the Communist Manifesto the way Marx and Engels intended

For clarity, this government has so far: - cancelled HS2 north of Birmingham (previous government hadn't actually done that formally) - cancelled electrification of the Midland Main Line - cancelled West Yorkshire mass transit - cancelled the trans-Pennine high speed line

Politicians: don't use AI to make your maps.

screenshots of the startmap I built for qbj3 or Quake Brutalist Jam III some fancy bits in here will be in the coming update, like the paintings and plaques

Meadows #photography

i made a flappy bird clone that uses your folding phone as the controller

Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :) The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used > neal.fun/size-of-life/

Headed out early this morning in hopes of photographing a snowy sunrise, but the clouds never parted.

The Northern Quarter at night. This set was a bit of a colour grading experiment. #photography #streetphotography #manchester

A moment of contemplation #photography #streetphotography

I have been assured that if you do street photography, people will just ask you to take their photo, and indeed I got asked twice today.

Our upcoming game The Hearth and Harbour is fully 2D, but with some neat tricks we’ve made it look 3D. Ethan, our environment artist, did this with a special type of texture called a Normal Map. (Thread! 1/7)

For today's Eldritch 2 devlog, I wrote a bit about my in-game level editor and the process of building dungeon rooms. Including drawing navmesh by hand, for reasons! www.dphrygian.com/wordpress/?p...

please buy so many physical copies of the album so we can tour with strings & with Carolyn & Jamie and also Nicole who sat in in LA because that would be such an utterly killer tour youtu.be/pv53gRqjvxY?...

Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

I hope it looks even worse next time we see it

On holiday, so bear with my phone editing. Looking for interesting shapes around Dusseldorf Airport. #photography

Salford Quays at Night. #photography

In the tutorial for Kingdom Hearts, in the middle of telling you critical things like how to move, jump, attack, and interact, the game tells you that breaking crates can sometimes give you items. This happens literally 0 times after the tutorial. Not even one additional time.

this is also another great onion newspaper ad

ordered food here. the server did 7 frame-perfect turnarounds in a row and launched themselves through the door speeding past my table at 700km/h but the plate was perfect. 5 star service, would eat here again

Imitating the statue. I'm not sure the composition works on this one, but I was glad I spotted this little serendipitous moment. #photography

having a normal one right now

Blender is struggling. it's the best piece of 3d software on the market, and it's free. I'm not going back to autodesk. please donate if you can! fund.blender.org

For a fraction of the cost, I can make placeholders for you that are guaranteed to slip through to final build and far beyond. #indiedev #gamedev #GodotEngine

it's on presale in two days, sign up for the link: laylo.com/mountaingoat...

The first rule of communications is clarity 😉

A most uncooperative photographic subject at Heaton Park today. (pets given) #photography