It kills me how we see story after story about this happening in other professional settings AND YET we are being encouraged to use AI and teach with AI in the universities.

The National Museum of Scotland has launched a public survey to gather data on the creation of a permanent videogames exhibition - and they want to hear from YOU!

Always worth a repost, and definitely worth seeing if you are in Glasgow. This painting was shown in London and Munich and the Glasgow Boys group became fairly influential in European art, but sadly Henry and Hornel didn't ever follow this up with anything so impactful (together or separately)

George Henry and E A Hornel The Druids bringing in the Mistletoe 1890

"IT ABSOLUTELY WILL STOP!!!"

Sarah’s book is jaw-dropping, and Meta has been pulling this clown shit for over a year. As the article points out, it’s clearly a personal vendetta rather than good crisis comms. Too bad the Streisand Effect exists!

My review: pluralistic.net/2025/04/23/z...

On this: I’m a tall Brown woman with a strong jawline. A whole white woman accused me of being a man in a public toilet the other day. I didn’t correct her because my being trans or cis was not the point. The point was she felt entirely comfortable and confident doing that to someone in a TOILET.

Re-reading scripture: interfacecritique.net/book/olia-li...

I've spent a lot of time working on 3D games, but have you ever considered 1D games? "Line Wobbler" by Robin Baumgarten #pigcon www.wobblylabs.com/line-wobbler

Getting ready for the show to start...

We should be two “D&D Honor Among Thieves” sequels deep.

Wow!!! Thank you to everyone who's enjoyed The Tiny Angry Witch today, and it's great to see so many enthusiastic comments about stop-motion animation generally! We try to release these shorts on a monthly basis, and you can find them (and more about our team) here: www.tinyangrywitch.com

GSA Degree Show 2026 - on now until 7th June! www.gsa.ac.uk/degreeshow26 (image: Callum Cole, Glowposts - Communication Design 2026)

The Into Games 2026 Charity Bundle is LIVE! Get £120+ worth of incredible games for just £15/$15 and help us bring more great talent into the games industry 🎉 Limited quantities mean once it’s gone, it’s gone - grab yours now 👉 https://www.fanatical.com/en/bundle/into-games-charity-bundle-2026

The @hayfestival.bsky.social has intentionally relabelled its (fully-enclosed single unit) gender-neutral toilets as men’s or women’s only. There is one ungendered toilet on the entire site – which doubles as the only accessible toilet, too. On the entire site.

Grease Trap ‘99 has been accepted into @glasgowindiegamesfest.org Forget Steam Next Fest, the only way to be the first to play the demo is in person, the internets dead; the real world is what’s cool. 🐟🍟

Into the Slimy Mines is roguelike tower defense. Build paths enemies slither down, dig gold, squish slimes, and most important of all RESCUE YOUR CREW! Coming May 29th on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Switch, Epic and Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/3639440/...

Prospect Magazine interviewed R. E. Burke about her terrifying experience with ICE and her forthcoming graphic novel, Visiting America: 19 Days in an I.C.E Facility, which we are publishing in 2027--read the full piece at https://ow.ly/Hr3P50Z4qpx.

🚨Elon Musk has boosted the public profile of Restore Britain leader Rupert Lowe on X, pulling Britain’s political discourse towards extreme content and amplifying his influence ahead of a knife-edge election in Makerfield More @FT: as.ft.com/r/80f4639f-0...

Good excuse to watch this reflection on the series, from the bfi youtu.be/i4HEgH-GfDg?... You can also find lots of the intros themselves on YouTube. Nick Freand Jones produced/curated and Alex Cox wrote and presented intros. Some films picked by Nick knowing that Alex hated them!

Has to be one of my best results... I solved the daily #CluesBySam, May 29th 2026 (Tricky), in 05:25 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

Mashina, our stop-motion relaxing digging adventure is OUT NOW on PS5 and XBOX. (And it’s cheap cheap cheap) Be part of a society of cute robots having the time of their lives on islands made out of trash. store.playstation.com/en-gb/produc...

Judero is OUT NOW on Switch!!! www.nintendo.com/en-gb/Games/...

Writing Game Histories edited by Esther Wright, Iain Donald & Nick Webber explores how games shape—and are shaped by—our understanding of the past, offering a clear introduction to the fast‑growing field of Historical Game Studies. Discover the book https://bit.ly/4sAXVLm

So happy I could contribute the text Historical Theory and Game Design to the amazing Writing Game Histories anthology by @enwright.bsky.social, Iain Donald, and @doktornick.bsky.social! ✍️🕹️📜 Hit me up if you want to chat about anything related to historical game development 😺 Link in the comment!

Waste pickers in Nairobi boost recycling skills by playing a board game www.africanews.com/2026/05/01/w... #BoardGame#GameBasedLearning

Wrote about this a few years ago and Stephen is absolutely right – but another impact that came up for me was that, by suggesting the harms are an issue of age, it's much easier for Big Tech to avoid regulation/put the onus on users to navigate unsafe content by denying it's unsafe for *everyone*

Reminder that Na'amodniks are in the West Bank Follow along on instagram: www.instagram.com/naamoduk/ And tiktok: www.tiktok.com/@naamod1

If you are an aspiring SF/fantasy/weird fiction writer in or around Glasgow, you should really get yourself to the Glasgow SF Writers' Circle. And congrats to all the nominees!

The British Fantasy Awards shortlists are out -- and didn't we do well! Jenni Coutts, Christopher Caldwell, E.M. Faulds and Neil Williamson all made it, plus alumnae Amal El-Mohtar, Shona Kinsella and Annabel Campbell. While the juries are considering, here's what your GSFWC pals are up for.. (1/4)

Genuinely, this concern about AI is one of the reasons why I think having friction in video games is good and why it's increasingly important to have games that simply exist instead of catering to our expectations. Reposting this message from Kojima about "pre-digested" art:

It’s all kicking off…

Wanting to write a letter to my Labour MP regarding vehemently anti trans turn the party has taken in last few years. Honestly overwhelmed and don't know where to start. Experience of writing to MPs is that it is a thoroughly depressing thing to do, and a specific question or action is needed...

One of the many sources cited in the new papal encyclical is... Gandalf

Sit down & strap in: it’s a long, wild #Scottish #literature 🧵… What 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotsman was caught up in a civil war before he was 20? Wrote a book that inspired an Oscar-winning film? Met a runaway teenager in Paris & married her against the wishes of his family? Lost his ranch to raiding Apaches? 💙📚 1/18

Our book EMPIRES & REVOLUTIONS: Cunninghame Graham & His Contemporaries contains essays exploring ideas of revolution, emancipation, equality, & liberty in the works of RBCG & other Scottish writers of the period – in print & online via @projectmuse.bsky.social 17/18 asls.org.uk/publications...

“You ought, Mr Graham, to be the first president of a British Republic.” “I ought, madam, if I had my rights,” he answered sardonically, “to be the king of this country. And what a three weeks that would be!” —Ford Madox Ford, RETURN TO YESTERDAY 8/18

“They detail numerous operations — described internally as “cognitive strikes” against the West — that included other vandalism attacks in France and Germany, efforts to advance pro-Russian messages through Western opinion leaders, and election interference campaigns.”

Yorda #Ico #TeamIco

Wow! Did not know that.

The Marketplace of Ideas people immediately forcefully shut down all dissent, bought all media, sued & fired all critics & arrested & caged journalists reporting on their heinousness as soon as they got control & all of this was entirely predictable & people who warned of it were called overreactors

There are still a few very simple ways to do basic web searches via Google, free of AI bullshit. 1. There is a simple "Web" mode that *only* returns web results. Find it via the "More🔽" button under the search bar. 2. udm14.com - It does the same as above. 3. Browser Extensions. Search for "udm=14".

The guidance issued yesterday is a disgrace, and shows just how low Labour have sunk since the days when they believed in equality and human rights. But this is far from over. Legally, politically and practically, this can and will be fought. greens.scot/news/ehrc-gu...

What if you made a magic school larp that teaches tens about the dangers and allure of fascism – by making them play fascists? That's the idea behind Epos Daimon, a larp set in the His Dark Materials universe, where students become high-ranking members of a theocratic, fascist regime.

Congratulations... and also, oh bugger.

Yes. By not facing up to this, the leadership is saying "we're ok with antisemitism". Or at least, that's what antisemites would hear. There will be a price to pay for dealing with it. Some angry people would leave and call the Greens "Zionists". But there's a higher price for not dealing with it.

English and Welsh Green Party pls learn how to use "from:" in Twitter searches for candidates to avoid the embarrassment of another dough ball coughing up anti-Semitic nonsense.