yet when I show up with my "no war against Venezuela because only AI systems should be allowed to declare war" banner, suddenly the tent isn't so big anymore 😤

it is an underrated miracle of the 21st century that we really did massively, massively reduce bullying in schools

What if I made a PS2 game and just hired actual stunt performers to do FMV cutscenes www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR35... (this was apparently how they "storyboarded" the cutscenes, but just, stop there! it was already cool!)

Thinking about Olivia Nuzzi, there've been a bunch of people like her (any gender) that kinda rose up over the years in the media life. Can imagine a continued trajectory like hers, but in Canada there's not much $ to be made doing so they disappear into other things, occasionally popping up again.

I find my results somewhat embarrassing

The most used word is rolling!! This post is low stakes gaslighting lol

you know what, bsky, you were totally right for auto-hiding this one

i have said for a while that the hardest thing to teach in programming is that "understanding the long term consequences of your actions" is actually important and i have to admit i vastly underestimated how much harder the problem would get

i guess "there has been a lot of fucking around and not enough finding out" is a pretty apt way to describe my incredibly nuanced views on generative ai

Oh, I *will* be using this as a reaction image for people in my mentions

There is a fifth wave of ska, beyond that which is known to rude boys

Ask yourself this: if the roles were reversed and it was a solid blue seat that went from D +22 to D +6, would you be saying "eh, who cares" or would you need cardiac intervention? If it's the latter, stop dooming.

longing once again for a world where more people are capable of grasping complex and inscrutable concepts like “it’s still really really good for Democrats if they *lose* by a much smaller margin than expected in Tennessee”

Was reminded of my very favorite tweet of all time today:

*zizek sniff* The circulating JPEG is ideology in its most distilled state: no author, no provenance, no context, just a recognizable shape of belief that compels assent on sight.

Most tech advice on social media is basically folk magic

another effect of inexperienced people misunderstanding the cost of commercially competitive games is I've helped people ship hundreds of freeware no-budget hobby games, each day mad strangers think I'm rich off games that are more local community theater fun than hollywood. like sir I'm a teacher 🙃

Hey, can my deleted BlueSky post get re-posted?

for real

WIP #art #crow #digitalart

Dungeon

Productivity for tech writers in the LLM age is not doing more: "It’s more about not having to wait so much as before when you want to do something." passo.uno/episode-iii-...

Seeing this and just knowing something horrible happened but not knowing what

this is a particularly funny year for the "press should cover indies more" convo to pop up again because as far as I can tell we've reached a point where press coverage has zero effect on sales anymore so idk, be free indies, worry about things that actually matter like steam nextfest placement

whoever designed the sprues for blood bowl season 3 is a fucking genius, never in my life seen so many designs lined up perfectly to completely eliminate mould lines across the majority of every part of a mini, what a joy these are to assemble

i know it's obnoxious for younger people to see the middle aged get told how old something old is and say "alas i am but dust"- if you're under 25 or so, you must understand: the experience is exactly like if tomorrow someone told you "COVID was fifteen years ago", and it was true

“BOOOOOOOOOSSSSHHHHHHH”

If you had multiple slurp juices you could buy a house, thanks a lot joe brandon

Fundraiser to pay for an emergency kidney procedure, anything helps we have less than $14.9k left to raise in under a month to avoid medical debt, shares help go a long way to fight against an algorithm and any support helps, if every follower can spare a dollar we can clear soon gofund.me/16ef32cb1

and because this is named "Microsoft Defender" it now shows up in search results above ya know, the Windows Security app where you go to configure Microsoft Defender. they even use the same icon for maximum confusion potential we live in hell!

hey @microsoft.com dressing your office 365 ads as security software is a pretty fucked up thing to do if you ask me

The path back from burnout is so much longer than you can anticipate, and it gets harder the more it happens. Learning to be patient and kinder to myself has been a big process, and a year and a half later I'm still not back to where I once was.

2025 actually did suck. i know we've all said this about a lot of previous years but this one was quite bad actually

If everything is a top priority, then everything gets done quickly. That's basic management

"Dogs don't bark at parked cars" is an all-time great line

POSTING BECAUSE IT'S YOUR JOB: New from me: four takeaways from the coming trade war <link to article> POSTING BECAUSE YOU THINK IT'S YOUR JOB: Behold, another sick & degenerate leftist to pile on. <quote post of an account with 15 followers> POSTING IN SPITE OF YOUR JOB: banana is the dickest fruit

there are some people who post because it's their job, some people who post like it's their job, and some people who post in spite of their job. you really want to avoid that second one

Encroaching upon a cyclopean city. #PROCJAM 2025 #gamedev #pixelart

I'm not sure whether to say this because I'm afraid people will think it's a joke. But. I keep thinking that if the US invades Venezuela, almost immediately on getting in it will try to set up camps and "deport" people from America for indefinite imprisonment there. It will be Camp X-Ray again

That Joyce was Svevo’s English teacher and Borges studied runes. Ayşegül Savaş, New Yorker, October 2025

This is my first time implementing class inheritance via vtables (in my tiny Kotlin runtime). A::foo() vs B::foo() get resolved through vtables in the generated code if they cannot be resolved statically. Seeing it work correctly is more satisfying than it should be. #kotlin

selling this thing as an AI kitchen assistant

It’s never occurred to me to get chauvinistically mad at this quote before, but Canada does it better.

I always think of Tony Judt on this (though I'd hold the condescension and double down on the public university systems in the heartland)

the economic success of the U.S. is significantly built on the land grant universities and in particular their excellent agricultural science tradition.

very occasionally in fleeting moments I think I could be a politician (i would never want to do this; you have to go to too much shit) but if i were asked a question this dumb a third as often as Mamdani is I'd be doing the Tim Heidecker "SHUT THE FUCK UP" thing on national tv