We're a tiny fraction of Bluesky's MAU and when I post a site announcement I have to budget 48h for doing literally nothing but replying to comments and doing heavy, highly emotionally charged work for 16 hours a day!

I was lucky enough to have a small thing coming up in a new Smiling Friends episode. Until then, here's Allan (not the thing I made for the show, but still fun to play with!) 😊 #UnrealEngine #RealTime #SmilingFriends

The new Mountain Goats song (Cold at Night) is so good but then at the end there were fucking jumpscare Lin-Manuel Miranda backing vocals that completely ruin it for me lol

Hate it when kids say "Unc is evaporating" about me. Yeah no shit. It's called the water cycle. Why don't you little twerps comment on how I'm gaining just as much water from rainwater run off and my various tributaries. Or is that not "six seven" to you

This was my favourite book I read this year, a true story full of vivid, weird characters and outrageous situations. Tense, scary, and surprisingly funny.

it was in this moment, where the infamous white nationalist followed by the vice president of the united states shared the cartoon show that neo-Nazis had made about me, that I realized the modern world had gone mad and must end

Trump wants credit for boosting the funding of HBCUs. But he's doing it by taking money from "Minority Serving Institutions," which enroll significant numbers of students from historically underrepresented groups. Robbing Peter to pay Paul. From Naomi Bethune: prospect.org/education/tr...

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Resistlib brain rot pattern recognition is unparalleled

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The one thing that facial recognition has done is scare the bejesus outta me. I was looking through old photos and one came up of a friend. The AI goes “2 faces detected”. I’m like, “1 face” and AI goes “no 2”. So there’s someone in the shadows off to the side. Been there all this time. Hungry.

highly recommend this book even if you don't work on "procgen games". Thinking about how the player experience is assembled is valuable for ALL types of games.

It's The Matrix week in my class, one big takeaway: only 2 of 18 had seen the film before, but everyone else knew it through memes & vague references to "living in the matrix". Memification of the film's central moments kinda trivialized them, they were watching through the lens of memes.

everywhere else is worse. you stand and fight or continue settling for the worst of all worlds. im not leaving bsky.

Vampire Survivors online co-op due out before the end of the year and more announcements are coming #VampireSurvivors #Gaming #PCGaming #SteamDeck

as a result of the pictured thread, went looking for a map I remembered from the half-life 1 mod "Battle Of The Millenium"; it turned out to be still on my computer. behold: gotham_2000.bsp

It’s like the general culture thinks it’s post-Twitter, but it’s actually Twitter’s guilt complex made flesh. A user base full of ex-Twitter refugees self-selecting for “reasonable discourse” and you end up with a culture allergic to sharpness.

she's made herself a handmaiden of a movement that loathes everything actually great about western civilization. fascism only cares about 'the west' as a form of racial identity and nothing more

Despite appearances, this is not a @nytpitchbot.bsky.social joke, it's an actual @nytimes.com column by some Claremont hack who praises Hegseth for his "nuanced vision of the military’s purpose and its relationship to civilian society."

timing your prestige indie biopic to open against a PTA release is world historic lack of ball-knowing

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy: www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Luckily all these guys have a deep capacity for admitting mistakes and learning from them

this is the jacket's breast pocket lining pulled up to make it look like a pocket square

now they're holding the fuckin whales hostage man. free willy

Rebecca Sugar (Steven Universe) to direct a "Moomins" animated feature film. variety.com/2025/film/ne...

Cool! Great! Fantastic!

how insane was it to say “we tortured some folks” and then not only not do anything about it but keep everyone involved in polite society. what did we think was going to happen after that

The thing is, this *is* cyber bullying the CEO. You can say “I don’t care about CEOs being cyber bullied” and I can see why people would hold that position. But what is the theory of change here? It can’t be just dunking on someone until they cower at your feet and run the site the way you want.

I was an early-ish mastodon adopter (in like 2017? 2018?) but then the instance I was on shut down because the Japanese guy who ran it “had to study for his university entrance exams” and it never felt the same after that

Reminder that I'm looking for work after being affected by layoffs at Giant Squid. 3D Environment Artist, or 3D Artist/Props; ideally a full time position. If your studio or somewhere you know has an opening, please let me know. Thank you ❤️ Portfolio: nataliespitzel.myportfolio.com

Today is October 4. Thirty one years ago today, Jurassic Park came out on VHS.

—key guys, Nick Land, did too much speed, had a massive mental breakdown while living in exile in Shanghai, and decided that capitalism is a living god and doing a kind of technofascism creates the conditions for intelligent life to survive the Great Filter. Whence the techbro versions. There’s—

the other three are alcoholics

last night somebody reminded me of a time many years ago when I got some game narrative insight from somebody at Valve, so I have now published it in a blog post www.joewintergreen.com/dev-scoops-s...

halloween party (2020)

This is my blood

This is, ironically, bait for the Louvre

if bsky tanks i guess i’ll go back to saying stupid, weird, uncomfortable things to various cashiers and waitstaff

"the Brazilians are holding on to their beans" is the fakest sounding shit I've ever heard lmao

Hard to think of a father and son who had more divergent careers than Richard and Mojo Nixon

If Bugs Bunny was invented in 2023 he would be our nations most controversial figure

One Battle After Another - finally representation for dudes who get high and watch The Battle Of Algiers

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Based Hasbro?

The Ig Nobel is incredible , one year an Indian guy won it for calculating the average surface area of an elephant and during his acceptance they had an elephant hold up a sign with the surface area of the scientist on it, they do showbiz better than the Oscars

I was joking about how people like Assad hiding in Russia are making a bet on the distance of physical geography being sufficient for protection because Russia can’t actually maintain internal security… and then it occurred to me that this is now the United States, too!

My hot take is that Bari Weiss is an extremely effective specific kind of propagandist because the free press produces relatively factual deporting, but is relentlessly *laser focused* on issues that are wedges in the enemies coalition. Rather than dismissing her should be thinking about how to copy

we have to assume that this administration is totally compromised in almost every relevant way. so how useful is any of this information to foreign governments?

we're getting, though, a sort of natural experiment in how well foreign governments can actually use secret intelligence