I suppose by now most creative people are accustomed to illogical but loud opinons, from people who have no idea how we do what we do, telling us how to do it better, but this survey takes it to the next level.

They're coming for your archives. www.404media.co/ai-companies...

For real the survey is terribly biased, and the only way to say you don’t want AI is to write it into a scant couple of text boxes. Why is it our government’s job to “encourage AI adoption?”

Canadian arts and culture folks: the federal government has launched a (methodologically flawed) survey on "the Cultural Sector's readiness for Artificial Intelligence". If you're ready to resist or refuse genAI, here's your chance to let them know. pch.research-recherche.ca/f/s.aspx?lan...

Pleased to announce I'll be doing a talk at AdventureX! I'll be talking about creating transgressive game narratives and what to watch out for It's a subject very dear to my heart and I'm super chuffed they let me do it despite the controversial nature of such games 💜

This is a great episode. @nessathewriter.bsky.social has a unique and accessible approach to writing personal projects and learning from them, that I found uplifting and motivating.

look, if the game industry wants to go the route where they just contract a team for the length of a game's development, fine. I don't think that's the smart way to build a studio, but fine. we need unions and union-provided healthcare badly, but fine. just stop pretending you're hiring full-time

the divinuet steam store page has been updated with some much prettier screenshots than i had on there before. seems like i might be getting it ready for something, who knows 👁️ (also if you haven't wishlisted it yet you should rectify that now! support indie megans!)

A business where I run Luddite Camps where we go into the woods with notebooks and no one mentions AI for a full 72 hours. Is this anything?

Obra Dinn

This. This all day. You could have sent this piece to me in the past, and I would have been completely unsurprised. Also, choice quotes from some of my favorite scientists - @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social and @miriamgoldstein.bsky.social

Going to #sandiegocomiccon next week? Step out next Thurs. July 23 11 am & join San Diegans mourning people killed by ICE. Folks will come to the Convention Center around 12:30 pm if you can't get to Front St first! #sdcc #comiccon #IceOut #SanDiego #sdcc2026 www.mobilize.us/sdiclaborcou...

Smoke in the air outside, but also smoke in the air inside, because our neighbours fell asleep and burned food at 4am, so badly that we called the fire department.

Quick update to clarify that this jam is open to everyone, including online and international participants!

Covering surface parking lots in solar panels is the worst way to use solar panels. It’s expensive, and locks in a land use that facilitates environmentally destructive travel. Solar panels belong on buildings. Buildings belong on surface parking lots.

Every once in a while I think "I'll make a plan and then do the plan, and the thing will be done by Thursday" and then ADHD goes, "lol no we have to stare into space, contemplate GOING to space, make a little maquette of the spaceship, and have a shower."

Very excited for this one. Like everyone I also loved Type Help.

Happy Bastille Day! 🇫🇷 The perfect day to start a revolution of your own in Bonaparte: A Mechanized Revolution This grand strategy game lets you politically manipulate & mechanically alter the course of the French Revolution to reshape the regime. store.steampowered.com/app/2560340/... #indiegame

The UK's National Film & Television School @nftsfilmtv.bsky.social is hosting a public Game Poems Jam in September. Perfect chance to work on a small game that you could also submit to the next issue of @gamepoems.bsky.social Mark your calendar and spread the word: itch.io/jam/nfts-gam...

There is no way. My sibling works with energy and math. He might be able to do my jobs (or maybe not…) but I can’t do his; people could die.

I yell this at windmills every day. Furthermore, intelligence that can be expressed in language (words, pictures, structured sound) is only a fraction of actual human intelligence.

What a STEAL.

🐾 Happy National Capybara Day!! 🐾 Get you some cute heckin capybara wallpapers to celebrate this cool day ✨

I'm sorry, "sunlight-on-demand" ?

ICYMI: you can listen to my new short story "Ostraka" at the link below or on Apple Podcasts, with fantastic narration by @rileywritehere.bsky.social 😁 ! #amwriting #scifi #booksky

Being a freelancer in the games industry feels really lonely and scary. So I started a newsletter to vent, share and put some of my spitefulness into words heh! If you're also feeling a little lonely, isolated and scared, check it out ❤️

I'm finally able to swim again, after a long series of rotator cuff and sacroiliac issues. I can't swim very far before those joints get tired, but I did manage to add 100 metres yesterday, bringing me up to 500, which feels very encouraging.

This is entertainment

reposting for all the new layoffs. If you need some help figuring out how to make a portfolio for all that stuff you can't publicly share, feel free to hit me up!

“The Big Con is something we don't see too often on mobile, which is a game that has equal amounts of plot, puzzles and improvisation.” www.pocketgamer.com/the-big-con/...

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I worked out the exact right amount this morning and now no bad news can touch me; the endorphins are set for the day. I'm sorry there's not more room on this cloud.

All Windows users who accidentally hit Win+G are now Xbox users

Just gonna listen to this cover of Maniac 400 times in a row, that'll fix it...

My music app has decided I only ever want to hear trombone jazz, which is frankly the most The Big Con coded thing ever.

Less fun playing a good game, knowing your choices and failures and progress are tracked, but the team’s been laid off, and will never learn from the data, will not use it to make the next game. There is no next game. Neither you nor the devs are a part of any legacy. Both of you are just numbers.

My family reacts positively to publishing a book because Book has a kind of known stature. I don’t think they understand that the games have literally millions of ppl more audience, or value them the same way. Friends do but their own to-play/read lists are so long.

All set up @montrealcomiccon.com table C31 sporting @iamthecomicbook chapter 23 art by @shazleenmkhan.bsky.social Come say hello! Come buy books! Come gaze at my promenade performance body art comic!

Who doesn’t love a little fanfare🎉 When you skate through cones you now get a little celebration!

this game is so colourful and fun pls play it's FREE!

Super hurricanes, heat domes, flooding and megafires—but we are a resource economy. Extinctions and social collapse—but this is the smart money. Don't you love Canada? Good point, I concede, my lips turning asthma attack blue. And with my final breath, I return the refrain: elbows up.

How is it that the fossil fuel industry is the economic powerhouse that carries the rest of Canada on its back and also it can't survive in the free market without government handouts?

"while just 4.9% of cyclists broke road rules when riding on cycleways, 14% did so when there was no cycling infrastructure present. The most common transgression was pavement (sidewalk) cycling." The absolute worst argument against bike infrastructure is that bicyclists break the law

I have a newsletter going out later this week, that includes a recap of what the UKC Creative Nonfiction MFA residency is like, and one really cute photo of a groundhog. Subscribe and make me feel cool: www.jillmurray.com/newsletter-s...

The name’s Checkpoint, Restart Checkpoint.

(the sound of a heartbeat from under the floorboards but when I tear up the planks back it's the 1/8 of a novel I swore I would finish writing)

"Trans rights are not the most important issue right now" Not standing up to protect our trans siblings is letting someone put a jackhammer into the foundation of human rights. It is absolutely critical we support one another.

That’s right.

This #TartanTuesday, a tartan dedicated to the general concept of mathematics. www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetail...

Yessss. Blue Heron is terrific.