It is almost as though the BBC is not an independent public service broadcaster, but a state broadcaster like any other, which operates in service of the political imperatives of the British government, while using its public service broadcaster designation to obfuscate this fact to its viewers.

Demo running at MegaCon! Continue to be very pleased at how quickly people understand and engage with the mechanics. If you'll be there tomorrow for the 3pm session, make sure to sign up early at the TIN stall!

Mikhail, @happystoat.bsky.social, @hardyroachgames.bsky.social, @thirdvaultyarns.com, @nomadicbard93.bsky.social and Tori are doing fantastic work!

“Over a three‑year period, across 382 public authorities in England - including local councils, NHS trusts and domestic abuse refuges - only four formal complaints were recorded regarding trans women using facilities such as toilets, hospital wards or shelters.” Transphobic panics are manufactured.

In case anyone was curious, being (essentially) financially dependent on your partner fudging sucks. I don't recommend it. Hugely grateful to her though, as I try to claw at success in the tabletop industry.

I recently wrapped the alt text and accessibility pass for the Why We Fight PDFs. This game doesn't enable lone wolf characters; it's a community action from encounter to downtime, and this week especially that feels pretty damn relevant. www.sdrgames.studio

Personally I enjoyed dressing fashionably for my first 7 years out but after I hit my 30s I just wanted to dress like a mom. It is fine to dress like a mom. It is important for trans women to accept that they don’t need to dress to impress when they are buying cigarettes and milk

typical ai use case

In the Emily Holmes' original "tetris can help reduce PTSD" study, what was found was that tetris is an activity which busies the part of working memory called the visuospatial sketchpad: imagining the rotation of shapes. www.psych.ox.ac.uk/news/tetris-...

Was reminded of this again recently It is increasingly frustrating seeing creatives touting how beneficial gen ai is for everything but then getting pissed saying it shouldn't be used in THEIR medium Writers using it for book images, singers for covers, artists for stories etc Its hypocritical af

Double down on fascism.

To delete your TikTok account without agreeing to the new TOS: 1) put your phone in airplane mode 2) open TikTok and go to your profile 3) go to settings and scroll down to delete account 4) turn airplane mode off 5) delete your account Credit to @ kimsaira on instagram for this

they are very small and they're having an urgent meeting about it

Hey if you want one more chance to play for cheap, like basically the only AAA game of the last ten years that I have truly brain-on-fire loved, Control is on sale for $5 until the 27th. store.steampowered.com/app/870780/C... This is the PC version, so if you're playing on gamepad, TURN ON AUTOAIM

I'm always saying this on superdespairworld.com but there is no healthy way to engage with these sites dude. I know I'm out here on bluesky and getting off social media 100% isn't easy but I'm begging you guys to get off the shortform video sites.

Oh thank you for giving me the perfect argument for never using AI Ethics is one thing, but money and IP is going to make it Much more convincing

We continue to be governed by the crustiest of dinosaurs who struggle to attach a document to an email without asking someone half their age for help. Good good.

URGENT: Very important action by @goodlawproject.bsky.social Transphobes are trying to infiltrate the Council of Europe to roll back LGBTQ+ human rights by writing en masse to MPs on the CoE. Please use this tool to write to those MPs to counter this. Do it now. We have a week. Please share.

Yo, reminder that I'll be at Megacon this weekend. I'll be at the TIN stall (TTT1) selling my one-page games 3pm-6pm on Saturday, and I'll be running demo games of Il Fantasma at 12pm on Saturday and 3pm on Sunday. Everyone who plays a demo game also gets a little freebie...

As excited as I was for RE Requiem, I'm now looking to stream the worst vaguely-related game I can find on release day instead. My current idea is RE6. Any alternative ideas?

Quality performance art. Easy to parse, thematically relevant, kinda gross. Love it.

This is an excellent analogy, because my recollection from grade school is that the pen on the right looks fun and exciting, and then you play with it for a few minutes and realize it's not actually useful for anything and in fact makes some tasks more cumbersome, and never think about it again.

I'm excited to release Just the Browser! It helps you remove AI features, ads, shopping integrations, and other annoyances from desktop web browsers. This project includes configuration files, a simple setup script, and guides for manual installation. It supports Chrome, Firefox, and MS Edge.

I've done another collaboration with Dino and Dog and this time Nikola has sculpted Skiphosoura, the interesting transitional pterosaurs that I helped name in 2024. It's another lovely (and free!) model, so if you want to 3D print a copy for yourself you can. www.myminifactory.com/object/3d-pr...

I've been using the Rogue notebook as my bullet journal for this year and it's absolutely brilliant! Excellent quality paper, lovely to write in. You can buy them at MegaCon in London THIS WEEKEND at the UK TIN stall.

🦕 Prehistoric buddies! 🦖 A new drop just in time for my bday today, shares would be deeply appreciated 🙏 wallpapers + more 🔗👇

Big news today! people.com/tj-klune-new... Always a delight to work with the talented @katieklim.bsky.social

Pretty sure the neurotypicals in my life aren't alarmed by the sheer (and growing) proliferation of gambling, investment, and marketplaces-for-pre-owned-goods platforms. I, meanwhile, am terrified.

Can wargames atlantic or a company that makes plastic bit boxes make a just birds box? Like a sprue of plastic 28mm birds, vultures, owls, crows, etc. I want more birds with my character models.

I feel seen

Ah yes. The perfect thing to wind the brain down with after an afternoon of writing: designing stupid pride pun stickers to sell at cons.

We're 20 days into 2026. That's it. Yet it feels like we're in November already.

My post about the pcg rascal article is just that I believe white people should DO MORE to support and advocate for bipoc in work spaces. Yes, even freelancing. Privately support them, offer assistance, keep their confidence, and move in a way that has their best interest in mind. /1

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Some fun numbers to watch out for vis a vis Tory defections 15 more until the party is smaller than Labour in 1935 46 more until they cease being the largest opposition party and the Davey train ends up on the front bench 56 more until Reform would replace them as the third party in the Commons

I love this thread. It nails the structure of nearly every conversation I have about LLMs. It is very, very frustrating to try to have a discussion with people who make a dismissive motion with their hand and say “that will go away” when I bring up my objections.

Well. That’s the dumbest thing i’ll read today, but probably not this whole year.

“Beyond privacy concerns, being forced to disclose sex assigned at birth may also significantly increase people’s vulnerability to harassment, abuse and even violence…” The British government has pursued the erosion of trans rights. Letting people use spaces that align to their identity is basic.

I can't watch TV/Movies without subtitles because I have an audio processing disorder. Subtitles have become, as anyone who needs them knows, REALLY REALLY BAD. Simple words and phrases are failed, fumbled by what looks like the AI breaking it down phonetically and then guessing

Noooo you mustn’t reveal the dark secrets of the forbidden tongue its too embarrassing

How dare you!

Howdy! I'm a mostly solo dev working on a fantasy shop simulator game called Dungeon Boedga Simulator! Grow crops, raise slimes as pets, brew potions, forge weapons, and maybe solve some dungeon mysteries Coming out before summer! store.steampowered.com/app/3458180/...

Creativity is wonderful, but the idea of “being creative” is highly romanticized and largely unreasonable. A lot of the work around a creative effort is still just work, of the kind that has been done many times before. I think this difference has been a real enabler for LLM slop.

Hey you! Are you a TTRPG writer staring at discourse on bluesky??? Would you rather be writing for a game? I want to pay you (at $0.20/word) to write for a zine month project! I'm seeking folks interested in folk stories and examining power structures in storytelling!

Yes, that is exactly it! They've driven themselves mad, and then not being taken seriously, entirely correctly because its just spurious prejudiced induced bollocks , but then that has removed their dignity because their bigotry wasnt taken seriously. Fucked.

The effective conclusion of the ET is that trans people have to use third spaces. I think based on very poor legal analysis and uncritical adoption of "gender critical" talking points. But as I say, not binding, and all the relevant issues hopefully to be decided shortly by the High Court.

“a biological male trans woman“ we really are through the looking glass where insane phrases like that are now treated as normal and official

“ICE agents, get out now because historically, this ends with you hanging from a lamppost and your body paraded through the streets.” - the …we rate dogs guy

UK has and is giving Palantir some big contracts. If you live in the UK that's your money going to a business that does this and a whole host of other horrible things.