That time of year again, getting out the Gino D'acampo fine matzo meal

Today's 🏴‍☠️ treat is a folder with all of Alan Moore's long-out-of-print Star Wars strips for Marvel UK, from way back in 1981-82!!! (Along with the other stories in those old anthologies...) They're great and totally fucked-up!! Enjoy!!!

Arnold Clark / PlayStation 5 / PlayStation Studios / 2025

1/ A few years ago I used Midjourney to create a D&D character portrait. After a bit of photoshop fixing, it was pretty good. Since then my position on genAI has become a lot more negative for a range of reasons...

A fun one today I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Apr 1st 2026 (Tricky), in 03:23 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

Mike Pence got totally owned here: Jewish plaintiffs won a ruling against Indiana's abortion ban, using the law he signed 11 years ago as governor to help evangelicals refuse to cater gay weddings and such. Now similar challenges could win in other red states. We tell the story at @forward.com.

“Sex testing has switched from genitals to genes to testosterone levels, and now back to genes. While the stated goal for these policies was to uncover males pretending to be female, they have never found any. Instead, they identified and excluded intersex women.” Sex testing in sport harms women.

Let's be serious. Forcing an institution to hand over a list of Jews to the government is not the way to fight antisemitism.

⏳ Deadline Extended! Applications for Questline: Online (formerly Virtual Exchange) & Questline: Gamescom are now open until April 5. Don’t miss your chance for mentorship, coaching, and industry connections. Apply now → buff.ly/rciJGIV #gamedev #questline

Here’s the government’s current anti-extremism expert. I urge you to note that his definition of “extremism” includes Scottish nationalism, gender recognition and talking about history in ways he doesn’t like. Do we think these clowns swarmed into government and media about two weeks ago?

A year from now they could be saying it'll be between 58-60 weeks and that was always the plan "Hegseth also told reporters the timeline of the war could now be six to eight weeks, a break from the previous four-to-six-week timeline that was earlier set out by the administration."

Glasgow friends (and those nearby): Please come join me and @amalelmohtar.com at Waterstones, Argyle Street, on Tuesday, 7 April, at 7 pm -- where we'll be talking about Amal's gorgeous new story collection, and much more. I hope to see you there. www.waterstones.com/events/off-w...

Oscar's house patreon.com/berkeleymews

Hey @nytimes.com , what does the 'J' in 'j-pilled' stand for? How is that short for "skepticism of Israeli influence"???

I'm building an ultra-realistic soccer simulator, ama.

Hairy Heart is excited to be entering the publishing scene with the irrefutable, belligerent, and downright perverted Anthology of the Killer. We're bringing thecatamites' award-winning cult classic murderfest to Nintendo Switch and PS5 in the very near future. 🔪😱🖤😱🔪

A find for @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social - 'Friend of the Festival' badge. Found in box of... Things.

Scottish EDGE has named twenty high-growth businesses from four regions as winners at the second Regional EDGE competition, sharing a prize fund of £400,000. www.digit.fyi/scots-firms-... #tech #ScottishAwards #businessprize @ScottishEDGE

So proud of the hard work of my colleagues across @glasgowschoolofart.bsky.social that has helped us to achieve this brilliant result!

The latest QS World Rankings are out, and congratulations to all colleagues across @glasgowschoolofart.bsky.social whose hard work has resulted in our global top ten recognition www.gsa.ac.uk

The book banning school in Manchester has now been named, the Lowry Academy. Some of the books have been returned to the shelves but not all. Glad to hear CILIP are supporting the librarian ://www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/greater-manchester-school-library-censorship-who-is-accountable/

Sometimes, in narrative design, you have to embrace the chaos - that's how you know you're doing something ambitious. Check out the full conversation with @starkholborn.bsky.social here: www.inklestudios.com/kaleidoscope...

Horse Magnifier (@sketbordcat.bsky.social) "game where you magnify horses" Free - Browser: warpdoor.com/2026/03/28/h...

2021 Republicans: How dare tech companies talk to government about moderating speech!!! We’ll create a whole false narrative about it and take it all the way to the Supreme Court! 2025 Republicans: We run things now so

This is utterly jaw-dropping. A school that bans Atwood, Zadie Smith, Terry effing Pratchett and *literal George Orwell* is actively harming its pupils. www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/scho...

I had a great evening at the Scottish Game Developer's Association 'Games Talks Live' last night. Great talks, chat and icing on cake was winning these awesome dice in the charity raffle...

The demo of Less Miserables is released! Go play! https://collegefungames.itch.io/less-miserables https://store.steampowered.com/app/4380030/Less_Miserables_Demo/ #adventuregame #pointandclick #indiegame #gamedemo

From Instagram - today the Dyke Project shut down NHS England HQ to protest the politically motivated ban on trans youth healthcare.

'We bought a tomb' sounds like the start of a horror film, but it's actually the start of a great day out! Orkney's famous Tomb of the Eagles is now wholly community owned, and in one week we're re-opening for our first big season since COVID. Wednesday 1 April at 10am. Not an April Fool's joke 🏺💀🎉

This week on the Game Narrative Kaleidoscope Podcast: We talk to @starkholborn.bsky.social about writing for the procedural generation systems of Shadows of Doubt. How do you fill a world, but stay characterful? Check it out here: www.inklestudios.com/kaleidoscope... ... or any-podcast-place!

If Bilbo had Chat GPT

All right, the cover is done and without D&D signifies thanks to the photo skills of an awesome senior and some of my prototype stuff. I'm happy!

Irony alert: I wanted to read "Digital Sovereignty"—one of the first Scandinavian books devoted to strategies for gaining independence from US tech monopolies—but I couldn't even buy it without at least one account belonging to a US tech monopoly. QED @doctorow.pluralistic.net

Ahoj. Since I am a proponent of "right fit for the write job," here is a starter kit for people who do Game Narrative. @me if I've missed you — just have to be a not-shit person and have a writer/ND track record — or want to be taken off the list go.bsky.app/FwZqzcz

Myself and @mtrc.bsky.social are running a workshop on Games and Archaeological Play (GAP) at FDG 2026! Short papers of up to 4 pages are due by April 5th. We are interested in any work that broadly relates to video game archaeology. See the full CFP here: gapworkshop.org/call-for-pap...

Try this, just for today: expressing compassion and sensitive awareness *without* reference to Israel, Islamists, Iran, Palestine, false flags, insurance, Zionism.

from Fraser Nelson:

Wingnut welfare indeed

Our (@mahliann.bsky.social, @marcuscarter.com, and I) book GAME STUDIES: A CRITICAL INTRODUCTION TO THE FIELD is officially OUT everywhere in the world except the US for some reason. So here is an actual thread about why we wrote it and what we were trying to achieve with it.

Word of Piece By Piece (both of them) is still spreading far and wide. This week we were featured in Polygon, GamesRadar and PC Gamer!! Still feels unreal to me... Not only is my music in a game, but the game is actually successful?? And the Switch version isn't even out yet!

Show somebody who absolutely rocks a hat and isn't Indiana Jones.

Hilarious to me that Microsoft are like "Oh you didn't like it when we intentionally make Windows worse? Ok maybe we'll stop that" blogs.windows.com/windows-insi...

My excellent colleague @katiedd.bsky.social has just published this remarkable investigation into rampant book banning in a Greater Manchester secondary school library. 193 books including The Da Vinci Code, Twilight, White Teeth and 1984 Graphic Novel www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/scho...

I still haven't had a chance to revisit my (shared) island for 3.0 updates, as the Switch went with one of my daughters to uni 😭

great reporting here. basically yes DLSS 5 is running a gen AI model on the 2D output and nothing more. it doesn’t know anything about the 3D scene, textures / models / lighting / PBR other than what the model infers by looking at a frame. TL:DR, they sped up slop. youtu.be/D0EM1vKt36s?...

Developers of interface-based games are getting together to try to make a "Fake OS" tag a thing on Steam! If you like games where you interact with a fake operating system, join in and start tagging!