My friend sent me this image of an ad she got in her timeline and y'all the straights are not okay "Please join our dating site no women are signing up for some reason" is a hell of a thing to confess in an ad

I had always thought surely this is an exaggeration until I was a creative lead sitting in a game leadership meeting listening to a VP unironically say as he did every week “but what IS a horror game anyway? I saw this show on Netflix and—”

This week: another 1000 words of progress in the novel, another bit of writing introspection, and a h*ckin' cute photo from National Geographic.

This comic is 95% @jeffhamilton.bsky.social’s fault.

My partner hit me with a “my boyfriend trained at CalArts you know” when I answered his question in a silly voice and I’ve never been devastated quite like this before

The remarks weren’t “about Charlie Kirk,” they were about how this administration is using Kirk’s death as an excuse to shut down critics … and they responded by proving him completely correct.

This is all he said?! This is why ABC (in response to threats from Trump's FCC) is taking Kimmel off the air?!

TIL that for some people with irreparably damaged corneas, you can pull one of their teeth, drill a hole in it, install an artificial lens, sew it into their cheek (so tissue attaches), then pull it out and stick it in their damaged eye, and ... it works fine!?! www.nbcboston.com/news/health/...

Anyone can say anything on the internet when the fact of the matter is most people should not say anything at anytime

Our parents's pup. She's so dang photogenic ✨

Thank goodness for these AI questions; how else will I know how to Continue the Conversation™?

This might be the best reminder text I've ever seen on a custom card. Wizards, hire this designer.

My friend doodled this card for me while we were playing board games and I’ve never felt more seen in my life

Me: hey love text me what you want from the chicken place for dinner I'm about to place orders for everyone MBF:

New studio. New game. Step into the ring with Poly Fighter, a single-player roguelike fighting game where every run reshapes your style. 🖊️ Sign up to playtest: bit.ly/polyfighterplaytest www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ilkn...

This is the accidental best promotion for a game I’ve seen and it’s not even close

Expert level realtor spin just dropped FOR ALL YOU SPOOKY FALL GIRLIES OUT THERE

Watched a video about tizz to rizz ratios on LinkedIn a day ago that is more than mildly offensive and I'm catastrophically embarrassed to say I haven't been able to stop thinking about it since, S+ maybe the best content on LinkedIn to date

I know I am a broken man because I saw the words "ai ai ai!" in a script and read it as "AI AI AI" and was deeply confused for a second why this farce suddenly pivoted into shouting about artificial intelligence like they were a LinkedInfluencer from 2025

Got this email to an old inbox I don’t use anymore and utterly perplexed at why high school me made an account called peaspeaspeas01

reading industry news

I just wanted to see how bad it really was. perfect, adobe. no notes. great tech.

Japan Post just announced they will no longer deliver mail to the United States, joining Germany, Austria, Denmark, Italy, France, and Sweden.

Made the mistake of reading LinkedIn comments on a post i made and y'all the website is a parody of itself

Grabbed tacos from this spot that was on the way for my walk home from a day of volunteering at my local community theatre and yall I think this is the future conservatives warned us about

Me: they're 100% about to kill this character MBF: What? Why? Me: Charming, optimistic sweetheart who everyone says how endearing and bright their future is? Yeah she's not making it to the act break *Character, dying a tragic death literally 30 seconds later* MBF: Respect. Me: Thanks I hate it ✨

Committing to spend $45 billion for detention facilities when the estimated cost to *end homelessness* in this country is $11-30 billion is certifiably unhinged

Mood for the day: 🌊

So weird how AI CEOs keep predicting a bright future but only if we keep dumping billions into AI companies

Sam Altman: I see humans achieving omnipotence using dark matter by… 2030 maybe? That’s if OpenAI is given a quadrillion dollars Theo Von: Yeah Altman: Or, we may become a race of slaves, genetically modified to be harvested by robot spiders. That’s if OpenAI doesn’t get the money Von: Right

Maybe there's no such thing as a good social media platform

They're trying to convince everyone that building a Dyson Sphere around the solar system is more realistic than increasing the capital gains tax

Okay but where my CalArtians at

“Folks often ask where ideas come from. The best incubator I’ve found to create a rich environment for ideas is: just the right amount of boredom. *Just* enough space for your mind to wander. But in a world of smart phones and packed schedules, it can be hard to find time and space to be bored."

losing my mind out here

I was watching my partner play Blue Prince until “playing Blue Prince” meant writing a “quick little python script” to solve a puzzle

It's hard to overemphasize just how impressive this is. Josh Johnson's raw output and quantity of material is absolutely bananas. That it's all *incredibly good* is the definition of skill and craft. 👏

Your job is not your worth. Your bank account is not your worth. Capitalistic society wants to quantify each individual’s value. But capitalism also thought for a brief window of time that pictures of disengaged monkeys were worth millions. Capitalism is dumb as shit. Don’t let it try to define you.

...I got got

This is narrative design.

Wild to watch Cuomo try to play the “he’s rich and out of touch and evil for being rich” card

This is narrative design.

HARD: making to do lists HARDER: doing the things on said to do list EASY: changing the font and moving thing around on to do lists TRANSCENDENT: calling it "backlog clean up", adding that to the do to list, and checking it off the to do list

Dissatisfied to leave plagiarism to the robots, the CPO decided to take matters into his own hands

Hi folks! I’m Yichao. I’m a creative director and writer for games and theatre. Past works include kpop hunter girls (not that kind), time traveling boy friends (that kind 👀), making tiny pictures of dragons, and writing chill stage shows for The Mouse. Obligatory website link: michaelyichao.com

I aspire to someday have half the aura this Isamaru has

Unexpectedly finding myself at GenCon! Would love to eat things and drink coffees with other neat humans also in the vincinity :D

I’ve spent a disappointing amount of time trying to reassure engineers that they didn’t need to have GPT write their first drafts of dev blogs or posts. Helping them shape writing that was their voice and their ideas was so much easier than trying to inject life and meaning into beige GPT mush.

One of my biggest pet peeves is folks who claim they’re “just not creative.” Creativity is something you can practice, and something everyone can learn and improve at! It just takes effort and work. Outsourcing it to something that robs you of the chance to *think* is deeply tragic.