Kestrel about to dive

Writing a résumé but instead of listing skills, listing every bird you've ever seen

A cool thing about the natural world is that if you kinda let your mind unfocus enough to not have all the shit we learned growing up at the forefront of your brain, batshit stuff happens constantly that can make you kinda see how we ended up with so many superstitions trying to make sense of it all

I've not birdposted in a while, but I have a super cool update. After searching for this gorgeous Ruff for 3 hours yesterday and finally finding her, I can officially declare: I have now seen ✨ 150 species of bird ✨ worldwide in 2025!!! 🐦

Just sent an email accidentally saying "provides some much needed laity" instead of "much needed levity" and I'm expecting the clergy to come busting through the door any minute now

Speaker announcement, and it's a big one 📢 An all-star group of speakers from the ESA, EA, @riotgames.com, @xbox.com, Google & Nintendo on what's next for the Accessible Games Initiative! Sept 29th - 30th, registration & line-up at gaconf.com #gamedevelopment #indiedev

this just redirects to my whatsapp apparently

This is some of the hardest shit I've seen in my life

I'm all for choosing boring reliable tech. Postgres is boring (though with flashy providers) React is fairly boring (with some cool modern elements) Is Kubernetes boring yet? It was way too hyped up for ages, would love to see stabilised best practice and long term postmortems

So anyway here's some wonderful news about my local birdwatching site. Bitterns! Avocets!! Lapwings!!! It's been a good year for birds yo www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Education is important, but our Ancient English Woodland is importanter

Bumped into a neighbour this morning, who was complaining how he didn't understand his friend who "spends all day inside playing those damn computer games". I listened for a little while, and he asks "So what are you up to today?" "... Just off to go make some video games for your friend 😅"

REALLY?

"When someone [opted in] is actively signing it elevates them to active speaker status, with a border around their video tile, like for someone speaking through audio. This ensures that the D/HH signer can be seen by everyone while they are actively participating in the meeting." This is amazing!

Absolutely wild that Rare Replay shipped 10 years ago - my first title and a brilliant team to work with. Rare is such a special place, and Sea Of Thieves goes from strength to strength. Happy 40th birthday Rare, here's to many more! 🎂

how the fuck did i not know about Eyes on The Solar System until now man a 3d map of the objects artificial and not, in real time, with a ton of tools including time controls that allow you to rewind back to any recorded event and replay it eyes.nasa.gov/apps/solar-s...

Save on file size by instead saving as a JayPEG

Here is a polite baby robin

Front page of Twitch at prime time is exactly the visibility Nothing Without Us and the brilliant accessibility crew deserve! Go learn you an inclusivity ✨

✨DISABILITY PRIDE ON FRONT PAGE✨ 25TH JULY at 7:45pm UK time! Our director @littlemotac.bsky.social, @meleemira.bsky.social, Annabel of @melaningamers.bsky.social & @laurakbuzz.bsky.social will be chatting disability and accessibility! twitch.tv/NothingWitho...

Unreal having a string split function which implemented a hidden edge case for parsing CSVs and then also quietly removing that after people wrote documentation relying on it is peak Unreal C++ God I love this awful, brilliant engine

Alt text, on social media, is mostly just about being included. I want a similar comparable experience to what sighted people are having. Altogether text should describe what's funny, or cute, or hot. "Why are you posting this? What do you want people to see?"

He thinks he's people.

Welp, that's it. The Outer Wilds is one of the best games I've ever played, and I'll never get to play it again. 10/10, would highly recommend. Reminds me of titles like Subnautica, Myst, or Spore - go play it, and for goodness sake do *not* look up the plot or gameplay before-hand!

thought this was really beautiful

Atomfall was my first credit as an accessibility consultant I’ve set myself a ridiculously high bar 🤣 In all honesty I didn’t have to do a lot @cariwatterton.bsky.social and the team at Rebellion had already done such a great job, all I had to do was pat them on the back 🤣

Absolutely brilliant day. No notes

classic rule of thumb for writing alt text when you're lost, lands every time. i guess we just need the familiar social context, rather than thinking of it as an academic writing assignment

En route to #SoTFest25 to talk all things accessibility! Let's have a kickass day (and for goodness sake stay hydrated! ☀️)

Awesome 24h for accessibility! Congrats to @atomfall.com and @jarvdusa.bsky.social on the award wins, @cariwatterton.bsky.social & Joe Kulik knocking it out of the park with the 2nd Game A11y Gathering, and @irongalaxystudios.com on the Tony Hawks info drop 👀 www.tonyhawkthegame.com/blog/2025/07...

People discussing Veni Vidi Vici on a vid I’m watching and it suddenly popped into my head that this is a really good accidental metaphor for wheelchair accessibility. If you’re not familiar with the game, you can’t jump, so the only path past that tiiiiiiny block is up, by flipping gravity…

Got kicked out of Wetherspoons for saving a sick pigeon yesterday, happy Friday x

Death Stranding is a story of connection. But disabled players are once again disconnected from discovering why Kojima's games are important to this medium. Just because we physically can't play them. We're waiting for Sam to connect us but we've been neglected and left behind.

Thrilled that Sea Of Thieves picked up the MCV Develop Accessibility Innovation Of The Year award! We put a lot of love, effort, and compassion into making games as inclusive as we can - and we've got more on the way! 🫡 Love to anyone and everyone advancing #accessibility - you're kicking ass 🎉

Here is a good luck lapwing just for you!

Go learn you some language understanding good with the brilliant Steph!

🎤 Speaker Spotlight! Our first micro talk of the Gathering will be from Adam Russell, Lead Designer at Studio Gobo, with his talk "Advocating Accessibility at Studio Gobo" which will highlight the ways Studio Gobo has built a culture of championing accessibility. 🎟️ Ticket link in our bio.

🎉 WE WON! We could not be more thrilled to win the Outstanding Association Award at the MCV/DEVELOP Awards last night. Limit Break would not be where it is today without the support of our incredible committee members, our sponsors, & the mentors & mentees who sign up for Limit Break every year 💖

If you’re disabled and from England, Wales or Scotland – apply for travel funding to Develop:Conference!

Sleepy

Ross is a smart wonderful soul and I'm so glad I've got to work with him in the past - if you need an expert in blind accessibility, go hire him!

I have a new gardening understudy

Ok, this fucking rocks. Everyone should be able to use the bathroom when they're out and about.

A rare Wood Duck! An escapee, we don't get naturalized wood ducks in the UK to my knowledge!

Last night at the pizza place for my father's 70th birthday, I told everyone that geeking out is the purest form of personal expression. Everyone should find something they can geek out about. Video games, biking, lichen, I don't care what. Geek out about something. You will live a fuller life.