brb bulldozing all the jam factories then telling everyone who liked jam to man up and learn to steal jam

I wonder if she was involved in local politics #gravespotting

It's Trans Day of Visibility today. If you're trans and are raising money for something (I don't care what it is), reply to this thread and I will boost you. If you are a cis person, take a look and find someone to support if you can. Everyone give this a share after.

People who say "oh but the technology is always getting better" are missing the point entirely. Better at *what*? At homogenizing culture into undifferentiated slop? At convincing people to deploy it in unsafe contexts? At wasting everyone's time?

AI boosters and fence-sitters think viscerally negative reactions to AI are "irrational" but mass deployment of LLMs is actively destroying everything I care about (the open internet, the planet, creative industries, art, my ability to buy RAM). Total rejection is the most logical response.

Lol attie now more blocked than the white house. Loving the energy

I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats o'er pedestals and plinths When all at once I saw a crowd A host of Roman hyacinths (thinks) nah that's not it

can we make this the new #1 most blocked account pls

You would get so many more amazing books if you had Universal Basic Income. Not even the most dream-scenario AI could compete with the creativity of a world of authors no longer afraid of affording rent.

◽STARFLEET ENGINEERS: Pre-emptively protect your ship from all sorts of mishaps by leaving the polarity in reverse

The fact that we aren't treating the ADHD medication shortages and the miles' long waitlist for ADHD/autism assessments as the healthcare crises that they are makes me so angry. We need to take healthcare for neurodevelopmental conditions seriously

Hmmm. Pretty sure Butt-head wasn't this cruel to Beavis in the original run. However toxic, mean (to others), ignorant and destructive these two were, they were at least friends. The good bits are still good, I think

If you think this is actually about assigned sex at birth, you are being played They're not simple, easy to follow laws that trans people are being obstinate about They're intentionally impossible to follow laws, that will be unfairly applied, in order to punish us as a community, ideally to death

JK Rowling is calling women athletes men even after they pass genetic testing. People in her replies are talking about these women having “ambiguous” genitalia. We are in an extremely frightening moment for ALL women thanks to transphobia.

catching up on Beavis and Butt-Head for the first time since the '90s and while not all of it has aged well, the good bits are still good

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

If you thought you liked the wizard school stories for bright characters, rich settings, deep lore, political machinations and page-turnability and you haven't read Discworld yet, what are you even doing?? And it has a lovely trans(-allegory) subplot.

instead of watching the new harry potter trailer, why not pick up some horror books by trans and nb writers for the trans rights readathon?? there are so many good options. For example, check out some of these writers:

I've seen people admonishing Harry Potter because "adults shouldn't like children's stories" and let's not do that. Winnie-the-Pooh and Wind in the Willows are Great Literature. The Moomins is a surrealist masterpiece. HP is ethically bad because it funds a massive hate campaign with a death toll.

This week on the Game Narrative Kaleidoscope Podcast: We talk to @starkholborn.bsky.social about writing for the procedural generation systems of Shadows of Doubt. How do you fill a world, but stay characterful? Check it out here: www.inklestudios.com/kaleidoscope... ... or any-podcast-place!

How I'm responding to the latest Star Trek: Starfleet Academy news

Oh, this is adorable! Duckling citizen science! (UK.) Going to repost this with alt text.

Oh ffs Starfleet Academy. Trekbros gotta ruin everything

ahaha someone put me on a blocklist called "tech haters". Probably because I keep pointing out that imitative "AI" is shite. Which is a) admittedly not the best use of my time on earth b) entirely correct how many programming languages have YOU written bro

the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes

This is a real photo of some real (long neglected) shop signage on my street that's been there decades and not, as the lettering suggests, bad genAI #aters&plastererszier

is there a goth jewellery shop called Accessories To Murder and if not why not

ah, in this age of chaos and unpredictability at least we can always rely on keith to do the wrong thing

I don’t think people realize how much anti trans shit is literally just “I find these people disgusting” and they can’t just pass laws on that so they have to make shit up like “trans people are hurting kids” “trans people’s healthcare is hurting kids” “trans people using the bathroom is perverted”

Ah yes, the two genders

I don't have an AuDHD joke but I've figured out *how* to make an AuDHD joke, which is the interesting bit, so I have no motivation to actually make one

Fuck yeah Afroman!

If your river's blocked By a barricade Who ya gonna call DAM BUSTERS If there's something strange That a beaver's made Who ya gonna call DAM BUSTERS

Happy birthday to - Grover Cleveland - Neville Chamberlain - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov - Queen Latifah - still me

Just once I'd like to have a birthday (tomorrow) unplagued by arseholes in green wigs

I was asked to give my thoughts on generative AI usage in games - here they are!

So, BlueSky, one of my passions is the study of tea in WW2. I need you to watch this oral history from three ex-tea ladies from the Bermondsey WVS. Because you could guess for ONE THOUSAND YEARS and you would not guess where it is going... #skystorians #history #tea

Have you read my longlisted short story Head Babies, yet? It's weird and dark and messed up, but I'm afraid that seems to be my thing now? Anyway, if not, and that hasn't put you off, give it a go: www.galleybeggar.co.uk/new-page-78

NYT connections spoiler: "blog" isn't a portmanteau, I will fight you

Judge me not by my successes, but by whether in 2000 years there is a cat playing sundial on the spot where I was murdered

People are losing the spirit of the Ides of March. It's not about just stabbing. It's about coming together to stab in groups

Ninja will happily be walked through the busy park several times a week, but in new areas she wants to go STILL whenever she sees a human. This causes the human to think I'm an eejit because clearly cats can't be walked. It's very like the cartoon with the gaslighting frog that sings Vaudeville #cat

Hey if any of you want to pay me to write your video game, I love to write video games and am quite good at writing video games. You should pay me to write your video game

This is a fantastic looking game by a fantastic team of developer standing up on their ethics in an industry that's been burning to the fucking ground for years now. They deserve your respect, attention and help. Go fund this if you possibly can.

We keep leaving the 'e' out of book titles so the cover artist draws something misleading

The chuds mad that a game has pronoun selection are easy to dismiss as idiots mad at a totally optional feature that doesn't affect their experience, but it speaks to the world they want: Them wanting trans people to not exist in fiction is them saying they don't want trans people to exist 1/

Game of Thrones notoriously used "sexposition" to give the viewer something to look at during long monologues. Elementary had Lucy Liu making a peanut butter sandwich and it was so much better

Here is a delightful article discussing thigmotaxis in cats. That rainbow harness was sewn by me, by the way!

He's a cocaine-using man And no one understands him but his Watson

Who's the London consulting detective whose methods of deduction are singularly effective? HOLMES Ya daaaamn right