I might've gone a little overboard, but here's 3,500 words on social media, how to make it better, what's so awesome about Bluesky's protocol, and why I'm particularly excited about @leaflet.pub as showing the future of publishing. (Plus some feature suggestions to make Leaflet damn near perfect.)

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Can we create this future please? "Collective Intelligence as a great scientific, technical, and political project that aims to 'make people smarter with computers, instead of trying to make computers smarter than people'" link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

"Besides being a champion he was a wizard." - The Tidings of Conchobar son of Ness, from the Book of Leinster

The climactic ending to the ludic saga begins!

as chief icon maker, here's the official ranking for every @leaflet.pub icon

squirmopoly

I'm rubber, you're rawhide glue. Whatever doom you predict for my life bounces off me and becomes the downfall of you.

Rupture the Unidirectional Flow of Time with this One Simple Craft!

in my lane; spinning; flourishing

the folkification of the playground has commenced

Order your Decision Disc™️ today and never think again!

"You are smarter than they reckon and stronger than they know, and a better future is one where you recognize this, and realize that power and money doesn’t make a man righteous, right, or smart."

now taking commissions for handmade yams

propaganda for good

any% glitchless medieval mill game [embroidery run] pr

jugglepilled yarncel

curated alternatives to the scroll www.are.na/jake-fee/thi...

freedom is directly proportional to play; play is dependent on objects to play with; objects to play with must be free

a game a day keeps the apocalypse away!

who up chip carving they whizzer

isopropyl alcohol + turmeric powder = a casual game of catch

Software is inherently 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘰𝘶𝘴, yet we package it up as single-use apps and create laws preventing the modification of those apps.

ghouls live in your underpants

alexander the great was an idiot

does anyone have any morbid ideation recs for someone just getting into memento mori

The Toy Seller, illustration for The Fresh-Water Clam (Shijimigai), from the series "A Matching Game with Genroku-period Poem Shells (Genroku kasen kai awase)" https://www.artic.edu/artworks/23546/

to play a game is to accept constriction

true randomness is the hobgoblin of sterile minds

martian ludology

Today's game: Martian Tic-Tac-Toe

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

contains divisive opinions on milk-derived proteins

instead of meritocracy, leadership based on game-playing: a ludocracy

"European travelers were introduced to [mancala] in the cafes of ninteenth-century Cairo, where it was customary for the loser to pay for the coffee drunk during the game." - Frederic V. Grunfeld, Games of the World (1975)

fractalization of the grid and the revelations of neoteny

handmade games are subversive against hegemonic surveillance! tell your friends!!

#whittling for #gamers

preposterous claims

Stamped the first set of Folk Around & Find Out patches on some crisp cotton fabric.

a clever carving for conniving connoisseurs

subtitle: Correspondences from a Basket Case

Human curation is imperative to an interesting internet!!!! - @yet.earth

Folk Around and Find Out

Why is everybody always talking about Huizinga's magic circle and whether it's a good or useful concept, when they could also talk about the fact that the opening of the book fucking rules?

@mrogalski.eu did you ever play with zoa? me and @yet.earth made it ages ago and it reminds me of your automat!