Been out and about with my camera this week, enjoying the occasional sunshine and the onrush of spring #Photography #Bloomscrolling

In a couple of weeks (the 27th) the InterfaceX Steam event will begin! We’re proud to have TR-49 representing the clunkier end of the fake OS game spectrum

The showcase will feature 31 games and will go live on Saturday May 2nd! Hosted by @gamespot.com's incredibly talented @lucyjames.games and @kurtindovina.bsky.social , and featuring a tremendous panel: @jessecox.bsky.social, @dexbonus.co.uk, Stormfall33, @nookrium.bsky.social I CAN'T WAIT🎉 #FakeOS

🎉FINALLY this can be announced! 🎉 An intense few months of volunteering has produced something really special; the #InterfaceX26 festival! ✔️Steam front page feature ✔️150+ titles ✔️Game announcements ✔️Game launches ✔️Playable demos ✔️A full showcase on Saturday 2nd May Learn more: interfacex.net

Happy Launch Day to me! First Mage On The Moon is out today.

new #StarsLightOurPath page today! the foundry awaits starslightourpath.neocities.org/page/5-the-f... #webcomic #comic #artsky #art

Finally for this morning's photos, here's a beautiful tiny snail friend I met while fixing our garden fence this weekend 🐌 #Photography #Snail

Every day this spring, a pair of goldfinches have visited our garden for a leisurely breakfast, and I think they're building a nest in the overhanging trees #Birds #Goldfinch #Photography

Some #Bloomscrolling to celebrate Spring really getting started

"We are not gods, but tinder. We turn the world, but in doing so, we burn." These Hearts, Who Once Held Up the Sky, my latest short story, about burnout, managed collapse and finding a road forward together. Read it here: factorfourmag.com/these-hearts... #Fiction #ShortStory #Fantasy #Burnout

REALIS, the science fantasy TTRPG I’ve been working on for the last five years, is now live on Kickstarter! 55 Player Classes 150+ NPC Classes 29 Factions 20 Example Moons of Realis GMing and Prep Guidance Over 100 incredible illustrations from 17 artists! www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...

Don't know about Twitter, but this is my favorite Tumblr post

Took advantage of the unseasonably warm March last week to sit outside with my camera, and was lucky enough to catch this red kite soaring overhead #Birds #Photography

I also took one of my favourite photos a couple of weeks ago, of this perfect cherry blossom my wife found in the garden. #Photography #Bloomscrolling

I also took one of my favourite photos a couple of weeks ago, of this perfect cherry blossom my wife found in the garden. #Photography #Bloomscrolling

Life's been real busy the past month or so, but I've still found time to host bird parties and take photos of increasingly small flowers. #Bloomscrolling #Photography

#StarsLightOurPath new page is ouuuuuuuut please go look at my weirdos starslightourpath.neocities.org/page/4-bones... #webcomic #comic #ocart #artistonbsky

I love inserting disc 2 man. Feels like you've beaten a big chapter Put this message in your games even if you have no discs

You’re not sticking to graphics when you stick to graphics.

ITS FLETCH FEST! Looking forward to kicking it all off later today on stream! Good luck to all of y'all making projects!! Don't know what Fletch Fest is? Read about how to participate here: fletchmakesstuff.com/fletchfest help us celebrate human creativity March 13-24!! #gamejam #artprompt

Been sitting on this news for a while! There's going to be a Children of Time TTRPG courtesy of the amazing folk at Rowan Rook and Decard (Heart, Spire, DIE, Eat the Reich and many more).

Last stretch for this solo journalling TTRPG made by a bunch of fantastic folks!

happy Stars day! the first pages of #StarsLightOurPath up now! starslightourpath.neocities.org/page/1-begin/ these pages serve as a little vibey intro to the world. we'll get to know the characters better soon. I hope you enjoy them! #webcomic #comic #artistonbsky

What you have to realise about all the people really kicking the shit out of GenAI and the idea that it is sentient or even capable of the most rudimentary forms of problem solving, is that most of them are people who have badly wanted to see an emergent machine sentience since they were kids.

As you advance from junior to senior developer, you typically write less code over time, which is good because every line of code is a liability. The best solutions are those that require no new software (and therefore bugs) to be built. Using generative “AI” is the antithesis to this. Laughable.

It’s normal in this profession to spend an entire day ruminating, debating with colleagues, reading other people’s work, only to then write 10 lines of actual production code that solve the problem. And that process usually reveals missing information, conflicts, even impossibilities. It’s crucial.

In my entire 15 year career in software development, “typing syntax into an editor” has never been the primary time sink. Most of the time was spent on understanding what the software was actually supposed to do and to resolve conflicting requirements.

#webcomic project i'm cooking up: #StarsLightOurPath is a warm fantasy journey following scavengers Sky and Ruko as they travel through strange forests, windswept ruins (perhaps some haunted boneyards as well), reclaiming old tech and magic to clear their debts and get a chance to start new lives.

Welp. Seems like it's a good day to highlight trans books. I'll do this off and on all day, no idea how long the thread will eventually be. And if you need any trans book recommendations, post in here and I'll point you toward people who might know if I don't since I mostly do romantasy.

Took advantage of this week's occasional sunshine to enjoy the garden, and watched the buzzards circling high overhead. #Birds #Photography

i know people are intentionally lumping things like spell check in with AI to make opposition feel ridiculous but honestly don't push me. i'd strangle clippy with my bare hands if it meant getting rid of AI

It's the return of rage blogging and it's not even about the pandemic this time! ... instead it's about the OTHER thing that everyone's doing that makes me feel like I'm in Pluribus or something. Cool cool cool. lia-sae.net/articles/202...

"It'll only get better!" Cool, call me back then. "It won't destroy jobs!" It's already destroying jobs. "It's like working with research assistants!" I already do that, it's called teamwork, humans are cool actually. "You just need to review the code carefully" THAT WAS ALWAYS THE HARD PART

As much as I love the comparison here this is why I'm saying that programming is a wedge. So we urgently need to become hardliners for code too: we are murdering pathways to seniority and sawing off the branch we're sitting on as a profession. My job is already exorcism so NO EXTRA GHOSTS, TA

I don't know who needs to hear this but: Motivation is a muscle and burnout is what it looks like to tear it. You can heal, but it'll change you. Not everything you did before may be an option again. That's okay. What you were doing before is how you hurt yourself. Rest and rehabilitation take time.

Sci-fi about robot / AI rights is about people being treated inhumanly. It’s not about whether to kill -9 the process you should not have allowed to access the internet to begin with. Start by treating people like people and then we can have a conversation

Today is the day! Or a day, anyway. The Call in its spanking new cover is available right... this... second... in bookshops across Ireland and the UK. Woohoo! My publisher sent me flowers too 😀

I just filled out this consultation, and now I'm doubly pissed-off. Please, if you're in the UK and you have a spare twenty minutes today or tomorrow, go tell the Home Office that forcing good folks into 10 to 20 years of uncertainty and exorbitant expenses doesn't "help them integrate" 🤬

Genuinely, if you live in the UK you should so the consultation just to find out some of the unbelievable details of what's being proposed. Even with their spin and obfuscation it's shocking

I'm sure @robhainescreative.space is so glad he gave me this Otomatone today, whose high-pitched keening I discovered is the perfect response to sensible questions I don't feel like answering.

It's LIVE!!! Spirit Swap: A Slice-of-Life solo TTRPG is now funding on @kickstarter.com for #zinequest!! Can't wait for people to see what we've been cooking! www.kickstarter.com/projects/sof...

The mag that gave Fermi's Progress it's first cover feature, right there between Lil Nas X and Dracula, where it belongs.

Took some photos of the glorious full moon last weekend #Photography #Moon

exploring space! oh my god why is the sun doing that ... exploring ... sobbing in front of my computer

Last chance to take advantage of the Unwinnable year-end special subscription offer: sign up for $5, get all 24 issues from 2025. Ends tonight! Easily one whole day of distraction from doomscrolling. unwinnable.com/subscribe/ @unwinnable.com

Hey! Do you want to pitch a feature for @unwinnable.com's Final Fantasy x Politics theme issue this spring? Use this form: forms.gle/3jqN8rJavyQc... !!!

With the loudest mega-spoilers warnings for Outer Wilds / Echoes of the Eye, and with thanks to @robhainescreative.space: on Outer Wilds, stubbornness in dark times, and saying no to things. Props to @emilyprice.bsky.social for the piece and post that tied this together. lia-sae.net/articles/202...

Iykyk, but the one thing I've learned about game dev very early on is that if there's a big controversial writing decision, the writing team will have flagged it, they were ignored, and they will be the ones blamed regardless

Good evening! I'm looking to get a new subscriber for @unwinnable.com every day this year. Right now, if you sign up, you get all of our 2025 issues for free. But when the January issue comes out this week, that will end. Strike while the iron is hot! unwinnable.com/subscribe/

Hi #PortfolioDay! I'm Jenny, a UK-based freelance artist who loves painting colorful, dreamy environments, often inspired by my love of retro games. I'm available for 2D games concept art and fantasy illustration! 🖌️ www.jennyhainesart.com ✉️ [email protected] 🎨 cara.app/snarkylamassu