I used to have all sorts of weird symptoms from my RSI such as tingling, numbness, electric shock sensations down my arm, in addition to aches/pain. It was so bad that I had to leave my job at Frontier. Now if I overdo it, my hands and arms just feel really itchy.

Craving that pure 90s high-speed arcade racing feeling? The latest Nitrania dev update is out! See the new sweeping tropical tracks, sun-drenched sprints, and smoother driving rhythm. Next stop: Steam Next Fest demo! Wishlist: store.steampowered.com/app/3980930/... #IndieGame #RacingGame #GameDev

Oh wow, Nethack 5.0! nethack.org/v500/release...

In a rational world the government would be asking people to respond to the current fossil fuel crisis by car sharing, turning lights off, and generally saving fuel and energy. And yet Ministers can’t even propose better efficiency standards for tumble dryers without the right wing press going mad.

Scary note in this article - when Grok told this guy that people were coming to kill him, it named real people at real companies, including one near him. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Someone wrote a bot that replies to people's posts with AI slop, but they didn't code a feature to keep track of posts it has already replied to. I'm now on day 3 of receiving an AI slop reply on the same post every few hours.

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So there are crazy headlines, and then there are "I'm sorry WTAF now?" headlines...😳 Yes, the Telegraph have deduced that Ed Miliband hates mothers because of some new legislation making tumble dryers more efficient and cheaper to run! 🧵 1/24

We have a wild hedgehog who lives in our garden and is friends with our cat (this isn’t their first meeting, they know each other well)

The cat's outta the box! 📦🙀 Schrodinger's Cat Burglar has a launch date! COMING TO STEAM 🗓️ MAY 21 Wishlist now ⤵️ store.steampowered.com/app/2111550/...

Having watched the video several times now, just to make sure we weren’t being unfair, the framing of “repeatedly and violently” (3 times, to get him to disarm) “a mentally ill man” (locating victimhood in the attacker) and “already incapacitated” (you can hear the police repeatedly note otherwise)?

Just a reminder for my fellow sci-fi fans: @aptshadow.bsky.social Children of Time series exists and is OUTSTANDING. The profundity of ideas and hard science in these books is complemented by Adrian’s vibrant prose and skilled story-telling. My all-time favourite series.

Looking at replacing the first screenshot on the Reality Drift Steam page - from this to this. In some ways it's a shame to lose the simplicity of the first image, but it's important to convey that this is not just a simple arcade racing game, it's a deckbuilding racing game with depth.

He doesn't understand why the jurors don't like him

Laika is channelling the spirit of Discworld's Lord Vetinari

I think the tonal thing I miss in Star Trek is the arrogance of its optimism. It wasn’t ostensively trying to convince you of its progressive values, it was flat out telling you that one day you and your petty bigotries would be dead and gone and laughed at. I’d like some of that energy in the 2030s

On a long enough timeline, every game is a PC game www.jank.cool/on-a-long-en...

1. The brother contacted them after the shooting 2. He was not on a watch list 3. People at the venue weren’t warned 4. Leavitt didn’t “tease” it she happened to use the phrase “shots will be fired” 5. Admins always do press conferences after such incidents Stop spreading misinformation.

I have a theory that if you liked Public Domain games in the early 90s that you could get on disk for Amiga etc, then you may like indie games too.

One detail I hadn't realised about parliament finishing today - today is the last day a hereditary peer will ever sit in the House of Lords.

Punk looks great. A little bit PixelJunk Shooter, a little bit BBC Micro. I'm into it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOBO...

Lots of friends with sore wrists - endemic for coders. I'm not a doctor, but anecdataly lifting heavy things and putting them down again is really good for this. This is very counterintuitive - most recommend rest. But rest is not a long-term solution.

Other candidates for the US ambassador position were Lee Anderson, Noel Edmonds and the ghost of Jimmy Savile

I first picked up his books as a teenager and there are a lot of paths a bookish teenage boy can go down in this day and age and many of them are less than ideal I am very glad I went down the path of Discworld

GNU Terry Pratchett, whose words will echo long after we, and our children, and our children’s children have moved on thank you, as always, for making me a better person (quote from Reaper Man)

Cesar Sayoc, a Trump super fan & obsessive Fox viewer, sent pipe bombs in 2018 to Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, & many other top Dems. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison. In the wake of the attacks, Trump said about his rhetoric: "Tone down, no. Could tone up."

you're gonna have to be more specific

And great to get a shot of most of the Cambridge-based gamedevs showcasing at the event! @arganoid.com @utopiansandwich.bsky.social @sarasteeves.bsky.social sadly missing @petedale.bsky.social, although he was there as well!

Had a blast showing off the latest version of Super Spelling Ducks this past Saturday at the inaugural Debug Games Festival in Norwich! Feeling super stoked about getting back into development after too long away! #indiegames

THREAD: Let's dig into one specific piece of the misguided "protect the kids" social media legislation that Massachusetts lawmakers are trying to rush through: The provisions that involve "parental consent." (Read my Boston Globe piece here for a primer) archive.ph/rAK4P But let's go deeper 🧵

this account is run by a human at NASA JPL who only posts real images with their receipts. it only has 11k followers compared to the 200k the ai slop space account has

the #satryn deluxe 5th anniversary update is out now on steam. steamcommunity.com/games/167736...

I have some good news and some bad news

LAUNCH DATE ANNOUNCEMENT! Forbidden Solitaire is officially launching NEXT WEEK, on April 30th! We unearthed a new trailer from the archives - an advertisement that originally aired in 1995! Wishlist on Steam and GOG: store.steampowered.com/app/3414580/... www.gog.com/en/game/forb...

Sektori coming to Switch 2 on May 14th according to eShops. This is one of the best twin-stick shooters out there www.nintendo.com/my/games/det... www.nintendo.com/sg/games/det...

Four years ago today, I posted my first beetle moses comic

Delighted to hear that Shroud is up for best novel in this year's Hugos - www.lacon.org/hugofinalists/ - hell of a slate this year. The game category in particular has Silksong, Blue Prince and Clair Obscur going head to head, among others.

If the internet is ready to absorb the impact of wild Amiga music, Savage is due for another round of re-discovery in today's Moon Child era: www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8ND...

Hi I wrote about the making of classic platformerChuckie Egg and talked to its creator Nigel Alderton. Please give it a read as I want to show there’s an audience for this gaming history stuff 🙏 www.theguardian.com/games/2026/a...

I'm going to be at Norwich on Saturday 25th April exhibiting my horse-themed RPG Resolute Bay! Come and try out the new combat system I've based on horse personalities and behaviours! @debugmag.com #dgf26 #debug #indiegame #indiedev

Terry had an excellent grasp of the kind of mind that craves a king, so long as the king is willing to sort the person in question into the “deserving” group of people and, of course, to sort everyone who they don’t like into “undeserving”

Discworld QOTD, from Guards! Guards!

For the love of God, could the "common sense" brigade PLEASE develop some actual COMMON SENSE?! No, the NHS has not ordered staff not to use the term "it's raining cats and dogs" for fear of either upsetting or offending anyone... Please engage your brains for a minute🙏 🧵1/15

I'll be demoing Reality Drift, a strategic roguelike racing game, at the Debug Games Festival on 25th April! gamesfestival.co.uk See you there! @debugmag.com #DGF26 #debug

The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.

Naming my security company after the giant evil eye that, crucially, was too distracted to see the actual threat sneaking in

Hi everyone! I'm finally bringing the Super Spelling Ducks out again! Come along to Debug's first games festival this Saturday (25th April) and see how they're getting on!

finally started working on boss introductions! #gamedev

Internet in Australia is rapidly becoming unusable without a VPN due to age verification. You need to verify your age to use some weather and calculator apps now. Scam apps and phishing sites are starting to realise they can just ask for your ID straight up and people will give it up. Insane shit.