the beautiful summer where all my friends were using the evelyn website app through testflight was an amazing vision of a possible future

today I learned that Wittgenstein worked on making a type of helicopter that go because of little thrusters on the tips of the rotor blades. he wasn't very good at building mechanical stuff, though, which might be one reason he jacked it in for philosophy instead.

a multiplayer map editor! what a rare thing to ship! also i hear that the Oeuf City map is really something special... god creative tools are great.

incredible graphic design

watching a friend play something, and "Advanced 3D Graphics" is an incredible joke

88 MPs have signed EDM 240 to reject the EHRC draft Code of Practice on single sex spaces. I wrote to mine to ask him to sign. We must keep up the pressure. Please ask your MP to sign. There’s a template letter further down the quoted thread if you need it.

I mean my *serious* opinion is we shouldn’t even do a lottery. 95% of researchers shouldn’t be writing grants at all, they should just be given money. It turns out it’s cheaper: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19247851/

ok but my serious opinion is that research grants should be awarded by lottery (fine fine fine yes after a pass for "this application is vaguely reasonable")

Me immediately thinking of a context that would invalidate the generalization you just posted

I used to think people in charge at game companies said they wanted fun games but actually wanted money. Now I think people in charge want power over something, money is a byproduct, and the games are an afterthought. The people working there aren't even the top 3 things they care about.

reading this thread and thinking about the multiple years i spent coming up with ideas that could turn into a videogame maybe at a games company which already had one game that printed money and a management which cared about games a little less than they cared about technology.

I have a longer thing I'm working on about this, with more data and stuff, but the key thing folks need to know: anyone on the left *CANNOT WIN* with any kind of content on platforms where the right owns the algorithm. Not just in politics — in entertainment media, or anything else.

realising I've just been overtaken by a car with NVidia stickers on the windows and a roof rack with a lidar mounted on it. a sudden unpleasant feeling that I've been researched.

new blog post: some thoughts on the London livecoding scene. blog.vbuckenham.com/why-i-disagr...

4 years ago in the Telltale Games Alumni FB group, Michael Parsons was asking if anyone had advice for helping his 15 year old son Kane achieve his dreams of being a filmmaker. Turned out alright.

Look at @boggo.bsky.social’s Fluff tool, man. Look at how beautiful this is.

I mean that’s how art is made right, that’s how everything is done, everything good haaa. Not in a dramatically lit studio w rising violins but just piecemeal on a couch, in a cafe, thinking about it in line at a pharmacy

releasing things is so difficult

Three events in reverse chronological order that made me think about gendered violence

wrote an email

The Supreme Court has today "strip[ped] fundamental human rights protections from potentially hundreds of thousands of severely disabled people" say a group of National Charities for disabled people. www.mind.org.uk/news-campaig...

Signups are open for Strandfall, an orienteering larp inspired by Stalker and Death Stranding! Set five years after a mysterious disaster unleashes deadly storms, players join a risky expedition to deploy "spatial computers" and put humanity back on its feet. Edinburgh / September 5th / *Free*

Londoners, watch it roll over you www.lightningmaps.org

I first saw "The Fomorians" by John Duncan exactly 30 years ago, as a small kid flipping through fancy Russian editions of "The Enchanted World" -- and then I spent most of my professional life seeking for a good opportunity and excuse to recreate it in some way. And now it's in ENTROPY!

I've started a new podcast called Art Dates I go to exhibitions with interesting people : ) ep1 out now artdates.co.uk

what if i call my new livecoding tool "picodevil"? is that a good name?

Basically the con of being a Borrower (4" tall person with normal intelligence but proportionally smaller strength) is the cats eating you. The pro is when you steal pills you can get seriously fucked up for a long time.

You can go home again, the General Temporal Theory asserts, so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.

MANIFESTO JAM 2026 An invitation/provocation for YOU to write a manifesto. Running for a full week from June 8th to June 15th (AEST). Participate and submit at: itch.io/jam/manifest...

The Fire Brigades Union has made a statement on the proposed EHRC Code of Practice on Services. Our message is clear. Equality matters, solidarity is essential, and we will continue to fight for both.

wow. wild to see something genuinely innovating on how to organise and present information. I guess we've largely stopped doing this?

hey my project epicycles is in this cool-looking magazine: www.slanted.de/news/digital...

heaven awaits

has anyone much smarter than me written about how much the post-gacha mode of fanservice where women perform their exaggerated sexual gimmick directly to camera with zero fourth wall or narrative cohesion has in common with drag etc. Everyone Is Bayonetta Now

Paintings by Nizo Yamamoto for Sherlock Hound (1984–1985), dir. Hayao Miyazaki and Kyosuke Mikuriya, Tokyo Movie Shinsha

can report that this is still a beautiful desktop wallpaper. looks great centered on a higher resolution monitor, too.

Lean HARDER into this. Make a game where with no options it's a character walking around in a black empty void. You have to turn on settings in a giant menu to get weapons, bosses, win conditions, lose conditions, ANYTHING. Have a system for sharing sets of options and it's like crafting a new game

jon (2017) (1/3)

I think there's something quite different about collaborating mutually with specific other people and pulling from/contributing to a collective understanding of the world. LLMs disrupt the second, for sure. And I think as they do so they push us towards the first.

this makes me want to write a blogpost about the similarities (and differences) I see between the larp and livecoding scenes I'm part of.

Do you make art and weird things with computers? Would you like to meet other people who do and talk to them about it? This June we're hosting a creativity unconference at King's - CUAK for short. Sat June 27th - Bush House - 9.30am-5.30pm Info and free tickets: www.possibilityspace.org/cuak/ 🦆

instant buy

this programme does look great. too many larps this year for me, but next year...?

ok ok why not: ☆ copy this to your profile and let your mutuals tell you their first impression of you ☆

[deep sigh] After being let down again, I call upon the powers of the network: Does anybody have an inflatable planetarium they would be willing to bring (or lend) to @emfcamp.bsky.social?

Wikimedia Foundation just fired a long time lead developer of MediaWiki as well as its entire community team for unionizing. If you’re a donor, email [email protected] to protest this move. medium.com/@jakeorlowit...

here's what the guy in the top hat had to say about it (from here: web.archive.org/web/20260211... - Wayback Machine archive of Lorelei's website - she's the one in the blue dress)

these sunglasses have lenses with polarisation, but the orientation doesn't match. which means that some things (puddles, the sky, some screens, some metal) have a little double vision sheen to it. makes me feel a bit like a bird.

just a small comment to say i decided to try out jj on a project this morning and it's... quite nice? less bewildering than i expected? they've started making GUIs for it!

Just found a subreddit that pairs people with fucked up balls of string with people who love detangling balls of string and it is *very* wholesome