Private equity destroying yet another good thing: people's ability to have pets www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/07/b...

Despite the ravages of age and an internet steeped in misinformation, your eyes – in this one case – do not deceive you: Website different. It’s taken an immense amount of time and effort, but welcome to Aftermath version 2.0: aftermath.site/aftermath-rela...

Hey all you gamers claiming to "want shorter games made by fewer people who are paid more to work less" here's your chance to put your $15 where your mouth is: a spooky & elegiac exploration game made by ex-Bethesda & Ubi devs. It's excellent. Buy it & prove there's a market for games like this!

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

Delightful detail from the Roman “unswept floor” mosaic by Heraclitus, showing a mouse nibbling a walnut. Superb use of darker tiles for subtle shadow effect! 2nd century AD. Vatican Museums www.museivaticani.va/content/muse... #MosaicMonday #Archaeology

A big step for Mirri today! I was making a commotion, going in and out the front door. Instead of running to the bedroom to hide under the bed as usual, she stayed in the living room and watched from under a chair. Then she came right back out when the commotion ended. Big progress!

I don't follow League of Legends like I used to, but I check in every year to watch Worlds and see what's up. How is Faker still the best after all this time?? Incredible.

Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.

A proper afternoon tea at last

November’s early darkness enfolds us. The smell of applewood fires and rot is a constant companion at twilight. We hurry between home and evensong, home and pub. Ghosts crowd the lanes, our folklore becomes filled with tales of cold teeth. Winter begins to growl. - #CLNolan

Hot mulled cider on a lovely autumn day with this disreputable crew @chrisdeleon.bsky.social @sirrosen.bsky.social Justin Sonnekalb and @joefielder.bsky.social

Checking out a local tearoom. Finally gonna get my afternoon tea on!

sometimes an Oxford comma can make all the difference

This was a succinct, clarifying read about the current AI bubble and its inevitable pop. We're living in a "storytelling economy."

Gorgeous autumn day in Boston. The woods have gone abstract

Gorgeous autumn day in Boston. The woods have gone abstract

Guess who's raising money for Children's Hospital this year? Join us on November 15 for some Eye of the North shenanigans and tales from the vault. #extralife #guildwars www.extra-life.org/participants...

Anyway, this remains my favorite review of GDT's Frankenstein. Chaw, as always, exploring the depth and breadth of the film's meaning like no other filmfreakcentral.net/2025/09/tell...

I finally watched Frankenstein last night. Beautiful and moving. Loved how GDT worked all the Byron-Percy-Mary drama into the film. It's faithful to the book, which I guess is why so many reviewers finally understood the point of the story 🫠

I'm losing my mind over how many reviewers are like "GDT's Frankenstein makes you wonder who the real monster is." THAT'S THE STORY! That's the story Shelley wrote!

please watch movies and read books and play games and look at art, please view it with your own eyes through a lens you made yourself and not just through video essayists and ending explained videos please im begging you

Look at this beautiful band of choomers 🥰

Not now, carnivorous death ball

An afternoon tea place opened up within walking distance of my house! This week keeps getting better 🤩

Yeah I looked upon Cthulhu's dread visage and I was fine. Big octopus on a man's body. Not exactly "difficult to comprehend." Maybe you guys should go outside more idk

bumping this little thread I did earlier about the initial story that Jason filed last week, and what you can do to support (tl;dr - demonstration in London tomorrow, donation fund organized by the union, consider not covering Rockstar games if you're media) bsky.app/profile/sirr...

Folks who make video games! @officialgdc.bsky.social is running the annual State of the Industry survey again. You should take the chance to weigh in! The survey's gone through a major overhaul this year and your voice will matter even more: gdconf.typeform.com/SOTI26

This looks like it was the first dinosaur to see the meteor coming

I wasn't afraid to check the headlines today. First time in a long time

Normal People Don’t Want This Shit is running away with the vote tonight

Good news coming out of Virginia, New York, even New Jersey. Come on, California. Don't break the streak

OH HELL YEAH

Damn, even the cat voting?

I envy everyone who voted today and had such a pure and powerful channel for all their recent feelings

It's a fine morning 🌞

I think at least 5 of the studios I had applied to or had listings during my 2023 job search have shut down, including one where a friend reached out to recruit me directly. He took me out to a meal when I got laid off and then within a year, I treated him to a meal when he got laid off. 🫠

Now, it's nearly impossible

Same. Interviewed for 2 yrs after PN2. Studios/projects big & small. Passed on all offers. Now all those projects are canceled or the studio is closed. Glad I focused on building my own game or I would have nothing to show for any of that work.

I interviewed at 6 places in 2024. I am at the only one that still exists.

I interviewed with 20 studios in 2023 before finally finding a home at CDPR. Studios closed, projects got canceled, devs got laid off. As of today, only 1 of those roles remains. It's a wild time in the games industry

MIRRI IS ON MY LAP!! 😲✨️🎇💕😭 Well, her butt is on my lap anyway

Mirri and I play this game every morning. It should be illegal to be this cute! #cats

alright ill bite whats baseball

It's still so unusual and gratifying when Mirri wants to snuggle up next to me 💕 #caturday

My feed is filled with people helping each other. Donating to food banks and GoFundMes, organizing food drives, helping folks find resources. There are so many kind, generous people in the world. So how the hell did we end up with these evil fucks in charge?

I was at a talk last week, and I gave an example of a quick & dirty narrative rule for keeping an audience onboard for repeated outings of existing characters. People seemed to appreciate it, so I thought I’d share it here, too. It’s not *my* rule, I learned it during my masters! But it’s v. handy!

Today kicks off the #DINowrimo event in The Discord for Interactive Narrative. The goal is to create a work of 50k words or 30 minutes of playtime. Participants only have one month to do it. Wish them luck! This year, we have some amazing prizes for winners. Thanks so much to our generous donors! 💫

Something lovely for the weekend! Magical amber animals from the Mesolithic. Carved between 10,000-7,000 years ago. Amber can generate static electricity⚡️ For their ancient owners, these small animals could give off sparks in the dark and make hair stand on end, as if by magic✨ 📷 me #Archaeology

The ice cream wanter is here