I love reading letters from other eras - the language they’d use even in a note to a friend was so formal and flowery. Anyway, earlier today I was texting someone, using complete sentences and punctuation and what-what. “I text like an old person,” I thought. Then I made the connection….

Microsoft losing the plot to the extent that games running on Linux through a compatibility layer are now not only faster but *assumed to be faster* than games running natively on Windows should be an even bigger story than it already is

Children shouldn’t use AI until they understand what it is and what it isn’t. It’s being integrated as if it’s a learning tool, when it’s really a productivity tool. Children need to build thinking before outsourcing parts of thinking. Tech literacy before tech dependence.

Did not expect this thread to deliver, but it delivers the goods.

In 1990, Voyager I looked back at the Earth, three billion miles away. The iconic photo inspired Carl Sagan to write the “Pale Blue Dot,” one of the most moving essays I’ve ever heard. If you’re not familiar, find a quiet place, and contemplate our mote of dust in a sunbeam. youtu.be/wupToqz1e2g?...

This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew. Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

A viral dog rescue from 2016 is now immortalized with a statue in Kazakhstan. When a dog fell into the Sayran reservoir, bystanders formed a human chain to pull him to safety. The statue is a reminder of the value of unity, solidarity and collective action. 14/10 for all

how many of those 1000 will ever work in the industry again. how much development knowledge did we just lose again

My heart goes out to everyone let go from Epic. This was a deep cut.

The Get Smart shoe-phone gag just nails it. As a kid watching reruns, I was like: "It's funny because it's a shoe!" But now, as a media-literate adult with creative degrees and decades of experience in the entertainment industry I can now state with confidence that it's funny because it's a shoe.

The Artful Corvid #oldknees

Announcing RAT GAME! 🐀 1 Chef vs 2 to 8 rats - who would win?? A comedy horror co-op game where a team of rats secretly tries to ruin a restaurant while another player tries to stop them…

The chart I posted yesterday has been a golden trove for memes 😆

a nice thing about when the internet was a bunch of little sites and servers was that it was a lot harder for governments to pressure "the chat provider everyone uses" to implement age verification. you wanna pressure 300 separate IRC servers? good luck with that. but one company? easy

This is an extremely cool visualization!

"Squeakin' Into the Weekend" - Some of my neighborhood squirrels along with an improvisation in D on an amplified 12-string. I hope this video finds you alive and well! #Guitar #GuitarSky #Music

COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS

This and an Adam West era Batman getup would get me a gig at any bar in town.

I haven't posted any of my #guitar compositions publicly - Would that be popular on here? Sound on, vibe with me for 45 seconds, and interact with this post if you'd like to hear more. #music #guitarsky

It’s good to see that science is still thriving.

Holiday table-top discovery: Richard Garfield’s “King of Tokyo,” a giant monster smash of a game from 2011. We enjoyed the short (half hour) playtimes and the surprising depth of decisions for such a simple ruleset. The illustrations are great. #tabletop #boardgames #rawr #gogogodzilla

Just learned a thing or two about bookbinding and collecting!

Seeing so much more art on my feed since the latest ex-bird exodus! 🤩

I say we make 2026 the Year of the Pixel Artist. 🟥🟩🟦

Some perspective on why we creatives need to pay more attention to what’s happening in romance publishing:

THE LIL PAWS 🐾

Let's talk about AI Hype and the Theory of Constraints. From a business perspective, the key metric is "lead time." The time it takes to get an idea to the point where it's producing revenue ("in the customer's hands"). 1/10

“Sir, we’ve re-established connection with the orbital Mega-Data center.” “Excellent! Give me the status.” (Tension in the control room as the message transmits.) “What does it mean ‘PC LOAD LETTER?’”

Whole thread is worth a ponder. Thanks Max!

Everyone needs to listen to Gustav Holst's "The Planets", not for hoity-toity nerd reasons, but because every epic sci-fi movie OST for the past century has been directly lifting shit from this one specific collection of pieces, and you deserve to hear your favourite motif in its native environment.

Thankful to my Bluesky feed for giving me these two posts from @mamavitelli.bsky.social and @baronduki.bsky.social back to back

Wish I'd taken the time to figure out @oskarstalberg.bsky.social's dual grid concept earlier. It simplifies everything so much while also enabling nicer tile shapes. In short: instead of designing tiles, design the boundary slices between them.

#ProcJam 2025 has just kicked off! A celebration of Procedural Generation for games or art or music or ... well, whatever you want to make something make. Are you building anything this year? The theme is "Cold Places." itch.io/jam/procjam

Today is the day to tell a strange story. The long version we'll tell later, but the short version is this. In an attic, in his late great-uncle's house, @jon.inkle.co found a locked trunk. It took twenty years to open. Last summer he did. Inside was a wiring diagram, and a stack of books.

I don’t post about comics much, but this page composition and the writing - 🖐️ Absolute Cinema 🖐️

GAME DEVS! GAME JAMMERS! ONE MONTH AWAY from this holiday's easiest jam -- TOY BOX JAM! You get a huge pile of gfx, sfx, music -- what will YOU make with all these toys? Join here! itch.io/jam/toy-box-... #toyboxjam2025 #gamejam #pico8 #unity #godot #GameMaker #love2D

This is the Bond reboot. It’s all right here. youtu.be/ekESZIn4y18?...

We all dream of creating games that generate issues of this caliber.

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

hello! freg!

"Rock Band" was the best video game experience I've ever had and I'm tired of pretending that it wasn't.

Getting in the late autumn mood. 🦊

Unicorn #pixelart #ドット絵

“ Squirk squirk. “ said Lord Squirk #matthewart

One time I was having a spicy coffee with Howard Schultz and I said, “hey man you should add some pumpkin to this. You know, for Fall.”

Yesterday morning I slept in past my cat’s breakfast time, so… he scruffed me! He firmly bit the back of my neck, dug his paws into the bed, and … pulled! The sheer chutzpah of this ten-pound beast trying to bodily haul a 160-pound human out of bed by the neck to get his breakfast! 🤣😼

We know that games bring people together, we know that games encourage people to act - It’s about time our leaders tapped into game design and used it to help bring about a better, more connected, more engaged world!

Hold on, I’m about to make an awkward and desperate plea to my insurance company.

The idea that 'AI can speed up dev cycles' would require a premise that dev cycles are long because people are taking forever to make assets (so you could replace them with shoddy slop and it'd go faster), which you could only believe is true if you've never actually tried to make a video game