Me, and half of my coworkers, have been laid off. I'm now looking for my next position as gameplay or tools programmer (remote, or relocating within Europe). More about me on my website: pauljoannon.com #gamejobs #gamedevjobs

It’s been a while, but this chat with @nathanfinney.com was worth the wait. open.spotify.com/episode/7njD...

Just finished up a great chat with @mickcook.bsky.social about “Orchestrating Power” for The Dead Prussian podcast…always good to gab with you, mate! Look for the episode soon… www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Tolkien is not perfect but he did, in fact, hate the fucking Nazis.

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

Attended (online) a writing session run by a local writers’ centre this morning. It was a standard pomodoro structured 2 hour session and it was productive as hell. A great reminder of how helpful it can be to attend group sessions for individual work. #writing

The UK games industry has had a huge class problem since its inception. Private school kids with generational wealth were first through the door and overwhelmingly hired people from similar backgrounds. www.bbc.com/news/article...

I’ve always been fascinated by the Plotter vs Pantser debate. I’ve never been what I would consider a super plotter but I plot out the basic structure for both fiction and non-fiction. My current #WIP is plotted fully with characters, locations, plot points etc. How do pansters do it? The vibe?

Am in a bit of a #HistoricalFiction book binge at the moment. Anyone else book binging?

Been a while, dear #GodotEngine people 👋🏼 Just wanted to get these more somber news out of the way, lest they overshadow what comes next when it's time to talk about that ✌🏼

Nat has been a driving force to make the #Godot social channels (most notably the Discord and Reddit) a well moderated space where professionals and newcomers were able to discuss and collaborate equally. I am saddened to not work alongside them anymore, but eager to see where they will end up!

I am just a simple country historian but isn’t the point of the Cuban Missile Crisis that JFK DIDN’T bomb anybody?

Am in a bit of a #HistoricalFiction book binge at the moment. Anyone else book binging?

This is an important point in my view. From a military technology point of view*, we shouldn’t take Ukraine as “this is what the future of fighting will look like”. *this is a *miltech* point. Obviously the war is not in the past at all. Article: www.forcesnews.com/ukraine/dron...

The workshop provides a unique opportunity for participants to engage in discussions and debates about theoretical approaches for studying the intersection of religion, culture, and video gaming. zemki.uni-bremen.de/en/gameviron...

Nicolas Sprenger delves into the structural violence of empire in this latest @jich.bsky.social Current Debates essay entitled: Imperial Violence: Thinking With and Against 'Perpetrator' and 'Victim'. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We updated our Starter Pack with even more game developers worth following💥 #gamedev #indiedev #indigames #starterpack

It’s not just the epic visuals of the remastered #TESOblivion that has me hooked. The gameplay is as good as it was 19 years ago. Oh to have been a fly on the wall during the design discussions around how to upgrade this classic & avoid “design creep” in adding new features, mechanics, etc

Very glad to have stayed up to 1am to see the launch of the @bethesda.net TES Oblivion remaster. Purchase made and now time for sleep so I can take on the Daedric hordes tomorrow (today)! www.youtube.com/live/Ed_E2cr...

The book turns 90 this fall!

Awesome

Toward Dawn is in #SteamNextFest! 🐺💕✨ Explore a world inspired by Welsh mythology! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Date a werewolf (or not, but just hear his voice)! 🐺 Experience unique turn-based combat! ⚔️ Cute pixels having lots of emotions! 💕 ▶️ store.steampowered.com/app/3140160/... #gamedev | #rpg | #Godot | #indiedev

After playing a fictional member of the Resistance a long time ago, I never could have imagined it ever happening in real life, but here we are.

Pass it on.

Great #FREE #books to check out: storyoriginapp.com/to/3UikJNP #fantasyreads #fantasyreader #fantasyadventure #fantasylover #booklover #bibliophile #bookstagram #bookish #bookaddict #bookdragon #booknerd #dragons #dragon #yafantasy #ya #fantasy #fantasybooks #fantasybookstagram

📢 #CfP for the 21st #Tolkien Seminar of the @germantolksoc.bsky.social in cooperation with the Department of #BookStudies of the @unimainz.bsky.social and WTP 📜Tolkien's Works on the #Book Market 🗓️ 31 Oct-02 Nov 2025 📍in-person in Mainz or online 💙📚 #fantasy #bookhistory #lit #booksky

Indie game devs! Please reach out to me so I can follow you on Bluesky and spread the word about your work Also, I just started doing some game dev myself for fun and will need some advice later 😁

Call for apps--open Ph.D. position in #sociology at Stockholm University. Well-funded, great department, wonderful city. Due 1 Mar. Spread the word! su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

New White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt did her first press briefing today and told a number of demonstrable lies (about condoms for Gaza, the criminal records of undocumented migrants, and more). This is how the New York Times covered it.

I'm looking for new space opera / space adventure short stories.

treebeard and the hobbits #thelordoftherings

Surely someone has thought about this but I reckon you could save the entire journalism industry by letting me just Apple Pay (or whatever the Google equivalent is) like 50c to read an article once without having to log in or make an account or see an ad.

Now we're talking. This is what social media is for. Thank you @mickcook.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/did:...

Is it sinking in?

my big AF list of indie book reviews has been updated! it includes genre! rebeccacrunden.com/indie-book-r...

"Here, in a corpus consisting of 709,577 abstracts published between 1881 and 2015 from 123 scientific journals, we show that the readability of science is steadily decreasing." It also looked only at abstracts, not articles. At least according to their abstract.

If you think PhD ABSTRACTS are representative of academic writing practices you clearly don't understand the topic you're writing about and your opinion on it can safely be discarded as hackery. May as well write a think-piece on narrative structures in fiction by analyzing 350k dust jacket blurbs.

I open X the everything app and I'm immediately met by an AI startup exec's meme going viral using the wrong colors on xyz axes

A few potential words of the day: Joblijock: a disturber of domestic peace (small children, cantankerous uncles, etc). Yule-hole: the furthest notch in your belt that you need to resort to at Christmas. Confelicity: joy in other people’s happiness. Merry Christmas.

Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING!

Simple, direct, accurate framing that informs the public. NYT is incapable of this apparently.

What always baffles me about this argument is the hubris involved in thinking that your confrontational micro blog post to a stranger is about to confer some rare knowledge unobtainable elsewhere

"Smart" does so much work in American culture. For example, another myth we don't talk about is how people who are intelligent and have technically marketable skills are also too "smart" to get duped by con artists. They are not. Nerds are huge marks tbh.

Did you ever want to try an #RPG that was not built around Medieval European themes? Islands of the Caliph is inspired by Middle Eastern Folklore and Islamic Spiritual tradition, and it's on sale right now! #IndieGameDev #DungeonCrawler store.steampowered.com/app/1845670/...

Also, courage is contagious. I continue to stand against American fascism in the hope that others will take heart, too.

"One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all." Arthur C. Clarke

Indeed, this is where we are.