are there any more things like this

yeah im bummed about sora. bummed i sora bunch of stupid fake videos

h/t @bullheadpsalms.bsky.social #TarotSky #OccultSky #WitchSky

>10,000 STEM PhDs have left federal service over the past year (including 30% of the federal colleagues with whom I’ve worked closely). Those still left are holding federal science together with duct tape. What an extraordinary act of sabotage against the American people.

Daily bunny no.3268 uses his tracking skills

anyway here’s a kitty who’s doing…something? I don’t know

when I tell you this t-shirt I just found in a thrift store was the best six dollars I've ever spent

I’ve been playing two games lately

a bit tangential here but something i deeply love about people born in la is that we WILL tell you about the chaparral biome

sadie: "we were at costco, and we were talking about Marathon, and this Guy comes up, with a beard and trucker hat and nice jeans, and he's like 'you guys talking about Marathon? game fuckin' rules'" you can't tell me this game isn't going to be a hit in the fullness of time

saw a magazine offering “132 pages of expert advice” on how to use chatgpt that claimed to be “written by humans for humans” and now I need to [redacted]

free idea for new website: on registration you are randomly categorized as 'poster' or 'observer'. posters can only post but cannot see posts. observers can see all posts, but cannot make new posts, they can only comment on pre-existing posts. and i guess they kill you if you violate these rules idk

Mel Brooks saying "I was never crazy about Hitler" might be the funniest thing anyone has ever said.

I'm pretty sure we're in that phase of a Vicky 3 diplomatic crisis where negotiations are technically still ongoing but one of the belligerents just pressed the mobilize button

This silly little guy was just hanging out outside my window. And this photo is not rotated, lol. He's just being silly. #birds

Yeah, the wise man’s stance here is “we’ll see what happens” instead of reacting to every statement from either side

yes. this is a regime that just slaughtered like 10s of thousands of people for wanting a functioning economy and some measure of political freedom. do not kid yourself about who they are and what they’ll do. their only goal is to hold onto power - at any cost to the iranian people.

god a really good Rook run… nothing like it.

Please. I just want to work on a game where I’m getting paid for doing so. Please give me a job writing your game. Thanks

One day I'll remember how to post a newsletter at a time when people read their email but in my defence I am on a ship in the Pacific ocean & time is, among other things, a social construct from which I have been abstracted for the foreseeable future ANYWAY MY NEW BOOK IS OUT TODAY

bruh if fabs have to turn off

2 weeks ago we got a 2nd cat…he was friends/colony mates with our cat Yajirobe when he was out on the street! New cat (we’re naming Jotaro/Jojo) is taking a while to adjust but is doing well! (this pic is when we 1st brought him in)

hey, this is really good. one of the best things I’ve read recently

everyone talks about the personal risks to individuals but i think the systemic risk of strongly incentivizing insider training is a lot more important than people think

some folk are more at risk than others but there's no way of being individually safe. there's only all of us protecting each other or nothing

wouldn't be the first time disney killed sora

at no point was I able to accurately predict the next word

2026’s refresh rate is wild I go do some chores and like 14 major world events have happened

lots of valid criticisms of bluesky. none of them come within grapeshot of how great it is none of these guys spend time in my consciousness anymore

More layoffs today: PlayStation is closing Dark Outlaw Games, a studio formed last year by former Call of Duty lead Jason Blundell (his previous PlayStation studio, Deviation, was shut down in 2024). PlayStation is also making other cuts including in mobile development. Around 50 people laid off.

Yes, exactly this. I spoke to a class of hopeful writers recentl, and all I could say was "It's not your fault if you can't find work. There are no jobs."

Reminder to share with your friends who love a Weird City, and to the rest of your friends who just don't know it yet

Because we have to judge people’s actions based on outcomes and the outcome of Epic v Apple is that it was a quixotic waste of money that didn’t actually improve anything for mobile developers but did contribute to Epic having laid off 1800 people in three years.

500 mil is a lottttt of money. Like. We're hearing about 1000 in layoffs but knowing how fortnite operates I can only imagine a bunch of that figure also includes ending _huge_ contracts with outsource companies too.

Ahoj. Since I am a proponent of "right fit for the write job," here is a starter kit for people who do Game Narrative. @me if I've missed you — just have to be a not-shit person and have a writer/ND track record — or want to be taken off the list go.bsky.app/FwZqzcz

Listen, academia and the games industry are completely on fire. Life is too short to write the safe, boring, iterative twenty page journal article. Write something stupid and exciting in a zine or a four pager and come hang out with us to chat about games.

Two pilots dead at LaGuardia. A lone controller managing two simultaneous emergencies. The FAA is 3,000 controllers short. We will blame the human. We should fix the system. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

I don’t know man, I like it when people can do the thing they’re trained for and afford to eat at the same time.

I'm sitting here thinking how do we price our game to be fair to players that we spent years on while there are so many options out there. It's going to cost less than a single Fortnite skin. What a time to be making games.

Epic Games is giving laid-off staff at least four months of severance, which is significantly above average for a US company. During normal times, that'd be a healthy cushion. But in this climate for the video-game industry it can take *at least* a year for someone to find full-time work

Incredible day once again for people who don’t know shit about how things are made and/or love to be snarky about shit while real people’s livelihoods are impacted

When a game becomes so big it collapses under the weight of its shareholder's expectations. At a certain point, the market has been claimed. That's it. That's the market. There are no new people to add and they have to make a different game. But they can't. Because they didn't even make that one.

This fucking industry I swear to god