Infuriating. Packed with the denial that is leaving our planet to burn. The Committee on Climate Change have been clear no more aviation expansion - and demand reduction (frequent flyer levy) is the conversation we need to have. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

An interview in The Bookseller about DEATH OF THE AUTHOR "Part SFF, part literary fiction, part family saga and part diasporic tale, the novel defies labelling." Also, I explain the title a bit more (outside of the Barthes reference). Read it here: www.thebookseller.com/author-inter...

It’s that glorious time of year again, folks, where we can curl up on the sofa and read this amazing review of Love Actually. It’s never not funny. www.jezebel.com/i-rewatched-...

🔴MoD Blocks National Audit Office Report Amid Calls for Transparency Over Defence Spending ‘This is a truly appalling decision from a department which for decades has been notorious for its careless and wasteful attitude towards taxpayers’ money’ bylinetimes.com/2024/11/26/m...

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"It's not zealotry, it's science." Ellie Chowns calls out climate science denial on BBC Politics Live.

Well, last night I was practicing my Blood Bowl vamp tactics with @jennycromwell.bsky.social and her Black Orcs. Lesson learned: always prepare for the deep field lob. This gobbo made the one turn touchdown after being thrown on a long pass! What a hero.

Mark your calendar: Festival of Game Culture (29.–31.5.2025, Tampere) is a celebration of games, play and scholarship. This witty, playful, thought-provoking and fun event both summarizes some of the work conducted in the CoE GameCult in 2018-25 and explores the future prospectives for game culture.

Don’t photograph Azathoth while he’s sleeping. They might wake up.

Finally getting back to some writing today. My mission - deconstruct game studies’ cosy relationship with systems thinking to properly decolonize how we make, play and think about games. There’s better ways to do games - we don’t have to repeat imperialist dogma to understand how games work.

Post you from a different era…. Here’s two. 90s indie album cover and that time I was an elf.

I adore Indigenizing Philosophy through the Land - the book I’m reading right now. It has the absolute best takedown of the concept of identity I’ve read anywhere. “The most vacuous concept ever invented, at least in relation to something as concrete as a human person.” Suck it, Locke.

Birthday so far: Ate too much cheesecake made by my boyf and his son and got cool presents, including a raven skull necklace. Will celebrate part 2 with my son tomorrow. Rumour has it that he’s got me the undead BB team. Being 42 doesn’t mean you stop getting toys and goth jewelry so it’s alright.

This is an old article but worth reading. We were caught up in the aftermath of the police pursuit that shut down the M62 yesterday. Luckily all we had to endure was four hours of being stuck in traffic - but someone else wasn’t so lucky and is now in hospital. amp.theguardian.com/news/2019/ju...

Tonight we are making and eating vegan chilli and playing the newly arrived Death May Die! It’s got the makings of an excellent night in.

A thread 🧵 on why we're not watching I'm a celeb 👇

Hello Bluesky! I had checked out of a lot of social media but I’m cautiously optimistic about this platform. I’m an academic and writer. I’ve written about games and children’s books, gothic and fantastic fiction, climate change, participatory research and I make games. Nice to meet you!