Starting my 13th yearly holiday social media vacation. 👋 I'll leave you with my picks for top #Manitoba #hiphop tracks of 2025. YouTube: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/6nM... Back around NYE to drop two more 2025 MB music #playlists. Peace to your pieces.

For me, December is crazy inspiring. The past few Decembers I've been exploring the 300ish #Manitoban musical acts that released music in the past year. So much talent here. I'll be posting currated playlists of my fav new MB music 'round year end.

At $65 dollars/night the yurts are still such a steal. Rent a yurt in a Manitoba Provincial Park this summer! I'm partial to the Nutimik ones, but there are many lovely options!

Four Tet DJ set. Watch a master at work. Chills. Can only imagine what this would have felt like live.

@grittycitywpg.bsky.social Thanks for the heads up on the new Buck album in your newsletter! It's incredible. I hadn't really kept up with his music beyond the 00s. There was a time in the early 00s where it felt like he was at the Pyramid every other month. So many good shows.

Absolutely criminal that this music video from FINN only has 193 views. Love this track. Incredible #Winnipeg music.

Dragonsweeper (danielben.itch.io/dragonsweeper) was one of my favourite games of 2025. Check out this mobile-friendly remake! It's a minesweeper roguelike.

elegance

Skate Story is out now. Try the free demo. Eat the moon.

#Winnipeg made guitar pedals that look like Hilroy Scribblers. :) winnipegelectricalco.myshopify.com/collections/...

🥁 About a month ago I asked how are y'all managing your sound effect archive... 🎺 And today I'm sharing SLAMY with the world! It's a super-simple sound library manager w/ built-in mixer for quick edits. It's a great help for me, and maybe for you too? yurisizov.itch.io/slamy #foss #audio #gamedev

Push The Button ▶️

Love this! A colour palette compilation zine: d-unveiled.itch.io/the-color-pa...

crescent

Here for this. Issue 01 was dope. The photo zine is a lovely addition. Lots of #Winnipeg / #Canadian hiphop talent on this one. Twenty buck for disc and zine.

Shout out to LiveJournal.

Tonight & Tomorrow Night in #Winnipeg: Christmas Camp Art Show & Sale Featuring the works of 36 artists @ 226 Main Street Gallery. December 4th to 18th, with opening reception tonight from 7pm–10pm and First Friday opening tomorrow from 5pm-10pm.

Love, love is a verb Love is a doing word Teardrop, Massive Attack

Heads up #Winnipeg, #Manitoba

Getting Bouncy with Four Tet 🎶🕺

clarity

Not only was the Granite Curling Club looking to veto the development of affordable housing, in their lease negotiations they were requesting subsidies & reimbursements amounting to over $800,000 annually, including rent reduced to $1, tax subsidies, building repairs & river bank stabilization.

The West End needs your donation. Help support a true #Winnipeg cultural institution! www.wecc.ca/donate

The Confounding Calendar has returned! Each day this month there'll be a new small puzzle game at confoundingcalendar.itch.io I really enjoyed the second game, Midwinter Springtime by pap4qlxxlevb: pap4qlxxlevb.itch.io/midwinter-sp...

City of #Winnipeg 2025 Housing Needs Assessment Report Read it here: clkapps.winnipeg.ca/DMIS/ViewDoc... 👀

love

Isaludo - Ten Modern Solo Games Using a Deck of Cards Free PDF by Wil Su: drive.google.com/file/d/1DB2Y...

And then, in a fit of hate, as i worked again at abulafia’s obtuse question “do you have the password?” i typed: no.

creative incubation

chaos

I made an 8.5 hour playlist for board game night. The conceit is that it's the Friday night setlist of fictional radio station WKYL, playing hits and deep cuts from the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s, 10s, and 20s. Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/0zb... YouTube: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

grace

Let's hope the Manitoba NDP rethinks their plan for a new $3-billion fossil fuel burning turbine power plant in Brandon.

Check out Crownfell and support a #Manitoban board-game dev. Mike makes cool fun games. Cost is only $11.62 USD and dropping!

flow

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Fun documentary about a group of friends who spent 8 years building a music-based RPG. #gamedev

Not the 1st use of the Manitoba Municipal Board by NIMBYs to overrule a city decision. In 2022 a city-approved 199-unit complex in Charleswood was blocked by the MMB. That complex was later re-approved by the city, but with only 119 units. We need housing! www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...

levity

Every time!

This looks great! A few of my #gamedev student and I are writing minesweeper clones atm in C++ with @raysan5.bsky.social's Raylib. Lots of interesting edge cases and some deep gameplay given the simple rules.

pagedout.institute Paged Out! is a free experimental (1 article == 1 page) #zine about programming, hacking, security, retro computers, electronics, demoscene, human-made art, and more. Love the one page format. The world needs more #zines. Know other zines I should check out? Let me know!

creativity

stillness

balance

Love this. This is the weird and wonder full future I always hoped the internet would enable.

patience

"6-7"?! Boy I say boy you gen alpha kids cant be doin' that! Your signifiers need signs boy! You've laid a rhetorical claim to an empty space son! You're creatin' a nihilistic dialectic! Your broccoli hairs obfuscatin' some much needed communication! Find some MEANIN', kid!