I too am an enjoyer of joy and whimsy. The only thing I’d change is making the horn slightly larger lol

trans lesbians be like yeah dude let me paint some minis while i listen to a podcast

shoutout to americans for being fairly bizarre little creatures

This is owned by a LANlord

I guess I’m on a bit of a purple kick

I like how in the UK, they say car park. It makes me think of, like, a Subaru on a swingset.

Oh hey who wants a retelling of Sherlock Holmes where Holmes is an abrasive female scholar and Watson is a traumatized sentient spaceship who ekes out a living by making space tea? Nebula Award Winning book right here, and on sale!

Patrick Stewart admits popular music "has never played a big part in my life" and recalls how he didn't recognize Sting on the set of Dune

I encourage writers to never disparage their earlier works. Are they as polished as your current ones? No. But in their totality, they're a map showing where you started and what you learned. YOU made that journey, be proud, celebrate it. (Bonus: it proves you're human, and not an AI word monkey.)

I moved to Doraville in Atlanta yesterday with the cats, and Poe escaped before I got him in. Not looking for advice but if you're in the area please watch for him. He's all black with golden eyes, with an occlusion in the right eye. He's very shy. Lost on Winters Park Dr. @decaturish.bsky.social

One thing you will never think after reading a great book or listening to a great album or seeing a great piece of art is, “I’m really glad this person remained cautious while they were making this and guarded against being perceived as weird.”

> New tech platform sets up > Furries flock to it and essentially are the core reason it's user base grows rapidly > Website becomes popular > Website starts banning NSFW/adult content > Starts to marginalize furries once it no longer needs them > Rinse and repeat 😞

Spun up an Oracle Cloud instance for a wee tech project, and whew. Just. Yikes. One of the most unpleasant and anti-user systems I've ever seen and this is for a service they presumably want me to like and pay for. I don't generally touch Oracle stuff but I'm going to be avoiding it even more.

i can’t remember anything that has felt more foisted upon us than AI. repeatedly telling us why we actually need is like thinking a joke will get funnier the more you explain it.

Here’s a comic I drew when I was 19.

Looking for a UK-based user of screen reader assistive technology on Windows (eg JAWS or NVDA) for a short paid user study. No required tech knowledge or location, just that you're comfortable regularly using a screen reader for web browsing and have an existing set-up for it. Drop me an @!

I think it's pretty telling that responses to this quickly got crabby.

Yolk Heroes: A Long Tamago ($5.59) - idler, virtual pet, hero raising sim, RPG, fishing minigames, this little game is packed! the Fairy Queen has appointed YOU to raise the hero of legend (she's really busy, you see) that will rise up to defeat the dark lord. store.steampowered.com/app/2417850/...

Anode Heart ($8.09) - don't come to this looking for a Pokemon-alike, this is more inspired by the Digimon World games. you take the role of the amnesiac robot named Seek, teaming up with digital beasts named Tama to discover your true purpose. store.steampowered.com/app/1592750/...

Blood Typers ($8.99) - Multiplayer horror typing action ideal for Typing of the Dead fans or L4D fans who like their shit weird, where EVERYTHING is keyboard driven. type your way through procgen life or death situations alone or with friends for grand fun. store.steampowered.com/app/2790330/...

you already know what's up (summer game sale rec thread is what's up) as always, i focus primarily on more obscure, older, and just plain weirder games, as big name titles don't need the help. with that out of the way: onwards!

New verse: If he recruited you on Bluesky he's a Fed If he recruited you on Bluesky he's a Fed If he's talking 'bout a bomb Log off now and tell your mom If he recruited you on Bluesky he's a Fed

They literally federally indicted a guy for his Bluesky threats 21 days ago. He's in federal custody right now. They'd been tracking him for years. Feds don't even need to pay for API access to Bluesky it's freaking free. You're all on a Palantir dashboard right goddamn now. Simply shut the fuck up.

£4.19 for a single bottle of Bru?! Get absolutely fucked, airport W.H. Smiths, ye bastard.

I know this feel extremely well

Honestly make sure any conference has one talk which will just tell people this in so many words. #CampDigital

Love we being 300 seconds to #CampDigital @sharonodea.com. Suspect Ryan would have stepped up to do a keynote if given the chance

#CampDigital Michael Palmer's running a fantastic talk about how spirituality can shape Web and software and print design, and affect people who might not necessarily share the same religion. Really fascinating stuff!

‘AI shows novel cognitive vulnerability, such as being completely confident in sharing an incorrect answer’ *stares in Has Been A Woman At Work* #CampDigital

The flipping legend @herahussain.bsky.social kicks off #campDigital with her 3 month old in a pram by her side 🌟💪🏽

Kanika Selvan setting some ground rules for her talk, including "You can heckle but I will respond and if you cry that's not on me." Funny and terrifying, my kind of woman. #CampDigital

Oh no I feel seen #CampDigital

Wild applause due to @pixlz.com for transcribing this lovely humans.txt slide from the end of @jukes.ie's talk on working in the open at #CampDigital 🫶

So no-one told you change was gonna be this way #CampDigital

Lovely honesty from @kwastell.bsky.social about sometimes needing to get some emotional distance to make change productive. The inadvertent downside of passionate people wanting to make things better is that they can take delays very personally. Look at the bigger picture! #CampDigital

"It was so long ago that TechCrunch was still cool" Wait they're not cool anymore? Actually when did I last even look at their site? Time for "oh god time happens so much so fast" crisis number two. #CampDigital

Give me more conferences in which extraordinary keynote speakers do their thing, on stage, with their children in a pram, to the audible delight and welcome of everyone in the room. Hera Hussain on trauma-informed design is powerful and deeply thought-provoking. #CampDigital2025

Really loving @jukes.ie talking about working in the open VS the quote “Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life and a secret life." I keep *trying* to having 'just for me' stuff but my brain is not built for secret lives. I must YAP. #CampDigital

Working in the open is… #campdigital

Jukesie! Jukesie! Jukesie! #CampDigital

Good morning campers! @nexerdigital.com are excited to welcome you all to our 13th annual conference #CampDigital at the Royal Northern College of Music today. Come say hi, enjoy the day and have fun! 🏕️💕

Hera bringing her baby on stage during her keynote 🥰 #campdigital

Baby's first keynote. lconic @herahussain.bsky.social presents the opening talk at #CampDigital while simultaneously being a parent. Normalise this!

Let's go #CampDigital! Looking forward to seeing everyone - hope to have some lovely chats, but also if you need help do feel free to grab me or anyone with a staff badge. I'm a white woman with brown hair wearing a blue top, black cargos, and a green handbag.

Morning everyone! We’re really looking forward to welcoming you to #CampDigital tomorrow. Before we the doors open, we’ve got a few updates to the agenda to share with you: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Up first, @herahussain.bsky.social sky.social talking about the valuable work her organisation Chayn does with survivors of gender-based violence, and the value of trauma-informed design. #CampDigital

Fuck that guy, eternally. Link within to Lila Shapiro's definitive @nymag.com piece. Using this link because some folks might not be aware that NG is **suing** one of the survivors of his alleged abuse. something something "ally" something something "feminism" www.vulture.com/article/neil...