Now do the rest of Canada

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Hellloo I'm about to ~announce~ my side project and I'm looking for journos and press interested in cozy horror/fake OS/visual novel/set in the 90s style games. If that's you hmu! Or if you know of folks pls lemme know! I'm building my own list but I'm bound to miss the perfect person.

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Fuck off. Seriously. They bombed a school for girls.

The first proof of the dust jacket / hardback version of The Game Narrative Kaleidoscope has arrived! It is a thing of beauty! @jon.inkle.co

[with alt-text] Media release, Assembly of Nova Scotia Mi'kmaw Chiefs Provincial Reductions Are Harmful and Appear Targeted Mikma'ki - Premier Houston and his government announced substantial cutbacks across Provincial spending. In that, 21 different Mikmaw-specific programs were targeted and cut

It's necessary but often stressful when you need to use all your writing time to organize thoughts and create new thoughts, but no words are laid down.

The Barrington Woolen Mill is an actively-used community space overseen by the Cape Sable historical society, which has helped me with my research, as an out-of-province writer. These institutions are important to their own community and also help give #NovaScotia a voice beyond its borders.

Reason 304 why we can't have nice things

Look at these ghouls showing off Nova Scotia Tartan scarves while they cut budgets to the museums that house Nova Scotia Tartan archives (or close them). Do they even know NS adopted the tartan to promote tourism? The same tourism that needs cultural attractions like museums to sustain itself?

I just got confirmation that Tim Houston’s PCs cut the entire Writers in the Schools program. This man is cutting a program that lets children meet and learn from local authors (among many many other things) so he can spend $5 million teaching civil servants to use AI.

Canadian publishers are deeply disappointed by Nova Scotia's cancellation of the Publishers Assistance program. Support for local publishers has been reduced from $700,000 to $0, making NS the only province that does not invest in its own publishers. @nsgov.bsky.social publishers.ca/nova-scotia-...

Earlier this week, Nova Scotia drastically cut funding to all the cultural amenities that studies show drive revenue to communities year over year. (like ALL funding to book publishers). Beyond irresponsible and apparently accountability is not on the table.

If you've ever celebrated being featured in a Critical Distance roundup, please help them keep the lights on. They put in a lot of work for not very much pay (most members are purely volunteer!) and help keep what remains of the game criticism community together

Only 20 more Patreon subs needed to keep Critical Distance in the black! That’s such an achieveable number! If you can’t give right now please share the post instead:

I have become a person who can eat the same dish at every meal if nothing intervenes. Tofu. Vegetables. Brown rice. Some seasonings/condiments. Repeat.

Diabolical

Weird seeing ppls "I'll be at GDC" posts and feeling like GDC is on a remote, inaccessible ice floe rather than having fomo.

A picturesque day for the monochromatic among us. #nofilter

The museum that exhibits the Wool Mural in which my grandmother, Bessie Murray, created her first sample of Nova Scotia Tartan, faces intense budget cuts & closures. What will happen to the community, artifacts, & the people who keep history alive? #NovaScotia #Museums #Barrington #CapeSable #Tartan

Wasn’t kidding about the spontaneous crying the first note out of her mouth I erupted in goosebumps and tears poured out of me

A very special #TartanTuesday because among the 12 tartans registered in the last week is this one, symbolizing the Metric System www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetail...

Redrafting my design theory book to say “listen, fuckers” every 3 pages.

I'm told publishers are receiving so many AI-authored submissions that if you want to stand out it's better to write "voicier" manuscripts, as in writing that really sounds like a particular person is sharing it. In a world of robots, be your messy people self.

I've been cooking Isa's food for over 20 years, and I still get excited about new recipes.

Now I’m supposed to have FUN? I didn’t need THAT extra pressure! 😂

”My bone chair is made from over 200 human bones, but it you think about it, a human is also made from over 200 human bones…”

The least believable part of the Jurassic World films is that people grew bored of dinosaurs. The other day, a pigeon walked into a Tim Horton's I was in and immediately became the focus of everyone's attention.

Half of business owners on this Toronto street estimated that more than 25% of their customers arrived by car. In fact, it was 4%. And the % of customers who who walked or cycled? 72%. Retailers routinely overestimate the # of “car customers.” Via @carltonreid.com www.forbes.com/sites/carlto...

the video game bullshit ticker should have a decimal point. measure the days in fractions until we can prove we deserve whole numbers again

After a while, a million, billion, trillion, gazillion-- wait, Mom, Mom, what's bigger than a gazillion?-- GAJILLION dollars just doesn't even sound that impressive anymore. It's all mouth sounds at this point.

It is not clear from reading comments on street renovation projects that drivers understand that as soon as they step out of their cars, they too become pedestrians.

If I had a nickel for every AI story where lack of consent was a key part of the story, I would have... many nickels. Just so many nickels.

Dug into this absolutely wild thing happening to Finji. The deeper I read into their increasingly baffling conversations with TikTok "support" the more I felt like I was on something. www.ign.com/articles/tun...

Please tell me someone is working on a The Pitt spinoff about those Black ambulance trailblazers in the 60s. www.npr.org/sections/hea...

Working in games in 2026: Three times a day, I just want to jump out of my brain and run away. I get to the door of my brain and am like "but to where????" and then feel like I'm five years old and trying to run away from home with nothing more than a pocket full of banana chips and my anger.

The Poly Fighter demo is live on Steam!! Please check it out if you like fighting games and/or roguelikes! Thank you!! ❤️❤️❤️

This GOOD BOY ran onto the course during the Women’s Cross-Country Skiing Team Sprint event, crossing the finish line and being automatically recorded by OMEGA’s photofinish camera 😆

lol they have so little confidence in this demand being sustained, at all, that they're not wasting a penny of capex

Wow, this is great. I love this.

I do not know who these speed-skating spectators are, but I adore them.

It's #TartanTuesday! 16 Tartans registered since last week, including this one, honouring a child's toy Dinosaur that gets taken on adventures around the world by helpful grownups. www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetail...

This write up from @touchofallright.bsky.social about how she adapted her teaching methods to give college students what they really needed in 2025 is a balm for the soul.

Or I dunno is the idea that everyone making anything more or less randomly becomes a game designer and every single thing is now a game where every choice and action costs money per action? Everything there is, is a not-free-to-play?

Kind of feel like if my books are going to be software I could just keep making software instead?

These detectors are rubbish, they're LLMs too and they're trying to sell the poison and the cure. It said my book was 70% AI-generated. It was published in 2016.

As I near the halfway mark of my MFA, I feel increasingly confident that this is the second worst way to write a book, after NaNoWriMo.

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