No AdventureX for me this weekend but I'll probably write a short essay on Burnout because. Well. Yeah

Wake up idiots new Inkle dropping in Jan

Piecing together information about Olivia whats-her-name and why everyone is talking about her today like I'm playing obra dinn all over again

A very wise person once told me 'Don't stress, nobody had a single original thought in their twenties' Well guess what I'm turning 30 next year and somehow my writing brain is kicking back into gear

sunny day + solar panels + wfh + design ideation process that requires me to Make Things With My Hands = WE'RE DOING STOCK FROM SCRATCH TODAY BABAEYYYYY

it's on miro. it's literally on figma. you have to log into okta. it's in jira. it's on zoom. it's on pureref. it's on flow. it's on perforce. it's on slack. you can find it on slack. you can go to slack and find it. log onto slack right now. you can slack it. slack has it for you. it's on slack.

okay, seriously: if we were to corral this, would anyone be interested in contributing? Here is the google form: forms.gle/m2V4j4cDvwNu...

Finally getting through the left hand of darkness and I think it's going to be one of those books that Changes Me fundamentally as a writer

“Don’t gather some of the most brilliant activists in the industry, treat us like crap, and then expect us to do nothing about it.” After the Game Awards cancelled its Future Class programme, @alyssamerc.bsky.social talked to its former honorees www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...

A brief defence of dialogue choices (286 words):

mostly on RuneScape

A LOT of industry folks need to take "I think there's a very high possibility that this is all a bunch of horseshit" to HEART.

Ten thousand words in babeyyy!!!! Usually I've fallen off the NaNo train by this point in November but somehow this year it's actually happening!! Yeehaw

Australia has so much #solar power that it's giving it away for free 🇦🇺 Lithuania has more than #halved its suicide rate 🇱🇹 in Japan #litter-picking has become a competitive sport 🇯🇵 and more – in our new issue 👇

Particularly pleased to see the passing of the Renter's Rights Act in this week's newsletter. I got hit with a no fault eviction a few years ago and it was brutal. Now they're banned :)

TFW u open BlueSky and a bunch of ppl are vaguely posting about the same shit

Alan Wake 2

It's the novel writing month that we dare not name!! My typewriter is beribboned and I'm procrastinating over the first words. Let's fucking go

A new #month is on the doorstep, so it’s time for a look back at the stories that caught our editors’ attention over the past four #weeks 👇

This is how your email finds me

Birds but they get spookier each time. 🎃👻 Enter if you dare...🚪

A really good one this week: summary of progress against the paris agreement (where we were vs. Where we are), global extinction slowdown, and a new waste cutting design for the common zipper!

gamedev

🔴All the Big Government Reforms the Media Hasn’t Been Telling You About You probably won’t have read much about these announcements over the past few weeks... bylinetimes.com/2025/10/28/a...

Today in Squirrel News: the #crowdfunding campaigns rebuilding Syria 🇸🇾 #superwood that's stronger than steel 🪓 #coral reef restoration with a 90% success rate 🪸 and much more 👇

NGOs called the ruling historic: “This is the first time in the world that a major oil and gas firm was found liable for misleading the public by greening its image”.

AWS is down, post hog

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5... Good morning

This write up is a solid example of what realistic optimism looks like in practice: a clear eyed look at big problems, centering those who are *doing* something about it

The Orphan Crusher is here to stay. If we don’t feed more Orphans to the Crusher the Orphan Crushing industry will die. It’s time to wake up to the reality of the Orphan Crusher. The Orphan Crusher is worth billions. We need to teach people to use the Orphan Crusher. It’s here to stay.

In today’s edition, we’re talking about new data that reveals most people expect their lives to #improve 🙂 #Scotland taking a step towards becoming the first UK country to criminalise #ecocide 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 and the operating room compact enough to fit in a backpack 🏥 👇

Using ChatGPT

it is more important to read books you actually enjoy reading than books that are Literature

November is somehow just around the corner Time to pretend I might do some novel writing this year!!

#Solar energy becomes the world’s cheapest power source ☀️ Agrivoltaics triple farmers’ incomes in #India 🇮🇳 MPs across Latin America unite to end fossil fuels in the #Amazon 🌴 and more – in our new issue 👇

There are some Pratchett lines that stick with me becuase they're profound. And then there are ones like this that just short circuit my brain with how good n funny they are

One thing that’s funny about how we react to stuff like this is how earnest we are. Workers were as likely to think “census? I’m gonna fuck with this guy” then as now. Taking the piss was not invented in the 20th century

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#Renewables overtake coal as planet's biggest source of energy ☀️ 🌬️ #Cigarette smoking sees a global decrease 🚬 #hairdressers are being trained as "mental health ambassadors" in west Africa 🗨️ and more – in our new issue 👇

1am delirious motivational comic from moi #comic

The latest anti-burnout hobby is attempting some form of embroidery

It pisses me off that 1. The majority of news outlets just can't be bothered to report wins relating to the various problems around the world these days and 2. That info is out there and easy to find but most readers never go looking for it and descend lazily into 'We're cooked!!' for clicks