ROBOT_FINGERS (a work in progress)

Character test #sketch for an upcoming project :)

Character test #sketch for an upcoming project :)

ANIMATED TEXAS SWITCH!? A Job For Superman! (1948) ( #animation | #specialEffects )

When did you give up on mobile gaming? (ios / Android) For me, it was seeing a THREES clone triumph over the original, despite the total abandonment of visual polish and gameplay balance. The customer is NOT always right. www.theguardian.com/technology/a...

I am not optimistic about this company owning Affinity and Cavalry. A bunch of professional-grade design tools are going to get flushed when this WYSIWYG Adobe-wannabe inevitably goes belly-up.

I choose to believe this is how most 90s arcade race tracks were initially conceived #gaming #retrogaming #arcade

I used to work solo in a small-town independent VHS rental store. ❤️

Sudden urge to re-purchase VVVVVV and make some community levels. terrycavanagh.itch.io/vvvvvv (I love that @terrycavanaghgames.com is still updating this stone cold classic)

Last night, I finally watched THE LAST PICTURE SHOW (1971) having avoiding it for years, fearing that it would make me sad. Not so! I found it surprisingly uplifting, a beautiful little time capsule about small town America - growing up, growing old, dealing with regret. Beautiful. (On BFI player)

Practicing planar studies of the human head - resulted in a spooky Paul Dano.

ORBITALS: Gameplay reveal 🎉 Really looking forward to this - asymmetrical couch co-op with a Franco-Belgian Anime aesthetic. Hopefully it avoids some of the annoying pitfalls that made Split Fiction a relative disappointment. www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0tO...

Things seen At night

Another fantastic video essay from Tony Zhou (Every Frame A Painting) and Taylor Ramos * How do we expand the edges of an established genre? * How do audiences react when genre traditions are subverted / profaned? www.youtube.com/watch?v=tteh...

This is wonderful. Won’t it be nice when *it happens*, and the whole world can party in the streets, chanting “it’s over!”.

Y’all if you are not tuned in to NASA’s live YouTube stream, now is the time to stop what your are doing and get over there. www.youtube.com/live/m3kR2KK...

Some sublime deco backgrounds via comicsOdyssey substack.com/@comicsodyss...

Learning to use digital watercolours using Rebelle 8... Have some juicy blocks Using #MindfulPalettes by @alexcristache ( #illustration | #watercolour | #rebelle )

Swollen RFK Jr. Warns Americans Not Eating Enough Bees https://theonion.com/swollen-rfk-jr-warns-americans-not-eating-enough-bees/

Experimental animation using the constraints of #PICO8: 128x128 pixels 8 colours used (max 16)

powerful and educational

Incredible pic from Artemis II. Show me the letters, dammit!

Thinking about Hugh Thompson Jr. and Stanislav Petrov. By refusing to follow orders, one saved a village, the other saved the world.

The self and the cyberself in quiet introspection

Found something fun lurking in the fretboard :) #guitar #acoustic

Even astronauts have to say “No joy”

Do not weep for the Metaverse. Rejoice that such treasures remain in our hearts. youtu.be/yzew944gXr4?...

Ok, actually this headline is hilarious.

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

Even in a world where LLM never existed this is solid mentoring

What a beautiful concept - using drones to reenact history with life-size point clouds, like a holographic echo through time. (I can’t help recalling that scene from Ghostbusters II where the Titanic finally arrives at the docks in New York)

May you live in chronically interesting times.

God that was good. Öoo by @namataka.bsky.social Spectacular game design ❤️

and quite similarly I read critics not because of what they think but how they think

Has any film adaptation missed the point more than the theatrical cut of 2007’s I Am Legend?

Replicube is Picross but a nerd who loves coding shaders came up with it

My latest piece, how Deb took on Ian Paterson by way of the Birmingham pub bombings.

Dialed.gg is fun! 43.8/50. dialed.gg?c=KJT6VN

I was surprisingly charmed by UK SNL. There were some genuinely funny moments, and the live, disposable format of the show feels vital now that streaming has rendered most of our media atemporal and culturally indistinct. It made me feel anchored in the present, and optimistic about the UK.

The world is on fire, so I’m writing RIFFS ( #acoustic | #guitar )

This is the best product review I’ve read: samhenri.gold/blog/2026031... It doesn’t matter if you’re interested in the MacBook Neo or not; this is the kind of essay that makes you think about the potential of technology and the joys of exploration.

If you are at Oxford Literary Festival this weekend, come see me at 2pm oxfordliteraryfestival.org/literature-e...

(posting this partly to remind myself) Remember: when struggling with depression and anxiety, nothing works better (or faster) than intense strength training. Heavy weight. 5 reps for 5 sets. It takes less time and motivation than running.

Fantastic news in the UK today - the government has apparently ditched its plan to force creatives to 'opt out' if they don't want AI companies training on their life's work. www.thetimes.com/uk/technolog... 🧵 1/4

Really feel for Braly and the larger entertainment industry right now. It's all being run by people who don't care and have no trouble making it clear how much they don't care

Monoline bruiser :)