toy company CEOs: "at long last, we have created the Sinister Talking Doll Factory from the acclaimed movie 'Don't Create the Sinister Talking Doll Factory'" futurism.com/artificial-i...

Today’s web is fragmented, paywalled & dominated by a few powerful platforms. Some of the internet’s founders & current leaders discuss how it can still be saved: “a game with many winners.” More ⤵️ blog.archive.org/2025/11/10/i... #Wayback1T

Watching Labour MPs take a wrecking ball to nature makes me so angry & so sad. Their action tonight voting down amendments to the #PlanningBill intended to protect wildlife & habitats from destruction is so reckless & so counterproductive. People didn’t vote Labour for this 👇

Great conversation with @natashadevon.bsky.social - How the Education system became a mental health crisis. Full YouTube Premiere at 7pm. youtu.be/308kvoBM3xw?...

Dear game companies, I have played the same games over and over my entire life. I’m not afraid to continue to do this and boycott future games if you decide generative AI is more important than human effort when creating your games. Thank you. #FuckAI #NoToAI #SayNoToAI

See, look, U.S.A., it's this easy (and should have been done immediately upon the knowledge that these cheats and grifters were STEALING our work)

This is so good. A few choice quotes -- 'AI is a "normal technology,"... But what we have come to see as "normal" is, in fact, utterly abhorrent, abysmal. Yiyun Li writes a lot in her book on learning to inhabit the abyss of grief. What does it mean to normalize the abyss?'

💡 CSS Tip! Using modern CSS to create a responsive list of stacked images. The overlap will automatically adjust based on the available space and the number of images. css-tip.com/responsive-s... No hardcoded values, no magic numbers, and the gap is transparent!

When I joined BlueSky I was going to be intentional and limit usage to work related things. But it seems I've been engaging mostly with people who share my non-work interests. Visiting here does feel confusing and overwhelming now. What's a good solution? Lists? Feeds? Thoughts welcome, thanks!

I spotted a book I have in my personal collection in Guillermo del Toro new adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Elizabeth shows Victor a book she bought and it is “Episodes of Insect Life” by Acheta Domestica, M. E. S. a pseudonym for Louise M. Budgen, London, 1851. #hernaturalhistory

Good employers and colleagues never schedule meetings during lunch.

Science says: global CO2 must fall ~45% by 2030 and reach net-zero 2050. The IEA says oil and gas demand may rise until 2050. Those two facts can’t coexist. The planet can’t afford it. www.ft.com/content/8696...

Do you ever wonder if social media platforms were a mistake? Yes? We can do our own thing instead by creating personal spaces and our own communities. Here's some cool things to get you started: First off is "The Good Internet" by @sachajudd.com www.sachajudd.com/the-good-int... 🧵

🚀 NEW MAGAZINE ⌨️ Back in the ’80s there were printed mags of BASIC programs to type in, we’ve brought that back but for web pages! 10 amazing games, toys, puzzles and utilities, no coding knowledge needed vole.wtf/doctype/

You know when Terry Pratchett said 'It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works'? Yeah, he meant this.

@coopgames.bsky.social Thanks for keeping all this old fantasy art alive. I remember your old tumblr for British old school gaming, an excellent collection! I'm curious: have you ever got into copyright trouble posting this stuff? Or is it old enough that it gets a "free pass"?

Ah this is neat. Just like it used to be back in the day: dump some handwritten html into folder and serve it immediately. Nostalgia overload!

THE GAME IS OUT, I REPEAT, THE GAME IS OUT Hopefully I squashed all the bugs, hope everyone enjoys it! store.steampowered.com/app/2980260/...

thank you #btconf you are such a great crowd. here’s the text and slides to the talk (it’s a directors cut bc it has 20 mins more than the original version!) 1/2 www.sachajudd.com/the-good-int...

People might think “Andy can be a real arsehole about AI” but I’m not being enough of an arsehole about it. The hatred runs deep, specifically because of stuff like this.

Ethan Hawke is 55. Here’s his 9min Ted Talk on creativity. I’ve shown this to my students to inspire them to be true to themselves as artists now & in the future. Refreshingly sincere & just great advice. youtu.be/WRS9Gek4V5Q

That the UK - one of the architects of this fund, designed to save the world’s forests - is now refusing to put any money into it is frankly shameful. Starmer’s claim that he still continues to back the fund is meaningless without resources - so much for climate leadership

X is designed to radicalise people. The algorithm promotes Elon Musk's agenda to promote racists and people who want violence bought - specifically - to the streets of Britain. Members of Parliament, major institutions and the media should not be there. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

if the curriculm review does nothing else, binning the fronted adverbials nonsense in Year 6 (if you know you know) means it was worth it frankly www.theguardian.com/education/20...

The millionth example of why UK governing bodies and legislators at all levels need to get off of X and the UK Government needs to seriously consider how to deal with the threat Musk and his companies pose to British democracy.

I dropped out of this years Quake brutalist jam for a few reasons, the main one being that I finally learned I'm not good at Quake gameplay... I just enjoy the architectural design. And my concrete cathedral was veering into the gothic. I might use it for another project one day. #quake #qbj3

Experimenting with the retro urban texture set from @strideh.bsky.social. If you use the '-Glow' texture as a specular map for glass, you can get a cool metallic effect (looks better in motion). This was quickly built in TrenchBroom and rendered in Sketchfab. #3d #lowpoly #trenchbroom #sketchfab

"You'll get much quicker answers if you pop onto our Discord.", I saw this said on a Github issue for an open source project. If you're hosting your FOSS project on Github you should discuss it there too. Moving the discussion to a third party chatroom defeats the point! Discord ruined the open web.

Major tech news sites reporting on the iOS update in terms of it allowing you to further remove the liquid glass effect tells you everything you need to know about how successful liquid glass is.

Looks like I went off in an unsalvageable direction with my quake brutalist jam map. Wrong vibes all round and way too symmetrical. So the question is, do I try to do something new in the time I have left or drop out and just complete it as a non-qbj map...? Hmmm.

Grinds my gears that BBC now force trailers on Kid's iPlayer for a different show after you selected a programme. It completely distracts them with something you don't want them to see. Insidious dark pattern on a kid's channel.

My statement on Ai from the mini-comic as syllabus i made for new class I'm teaching that starts tomorrow! It robs you of your decisions & struggles - and the joy of being surprised. We won’t to be robbed of our learning - this is essential. This & the full mini at post: bsky.app/profile/nsou...

Elon Musk’s latest tweets inciting violence in the UK should serve as the final evidence needed for the government to take action against the billionaire www.thelondoneconomic.com/opinion/elon...

A bit more progress on the vibe of my Quake brutalist jam map (qbj3). Might be going a bit too gothic and not enough brutalist. Plenty of time to experiment though. Will stop posting progress for now, tons of blockout still to do. #quake #blocktober #levedesign #qbj3

remember when computers did what you told them to

Read all of Joel's posts on this thread. It's both hilarious and brilliantly on-the-money:

A new chapter begins! The all-new #btconf website is here. Fresh, friendly, and full of love. Huge thanks to @mikekus.bsky.social for the design and @bastianallgeier.com for all the work bringing it to life – with @getkirby.com of course! Feels great to finally share this one. beyondtellerrand.com

So at this stage I won't be completing this for QBJ3, just far too burned out, but hey this is what I was chipping away at in my spare time. A massive retro brutalist solar-hydro facility. It might look pretty far along but this was like 4 art-tested rooms of 40. I got a bit excited blocking it out.

Farage: epic grifter

Climate change is a crisis of intergenerational justice. It’s not too late to make it right theconversation.com/climate-chan...

A little more progress. #quake #leveldesign #blocktober #qbj3 #quakebrutalistjam

Blocking out my Quake Brutalist Jam map, with some rough texture and lighting for mood. #quake #leveldesign #blocktober #qbj3

A while back I started a possible entry into Quake Brutalist Jam #3. It was a compact concrete cube based on the works of sculptor David Umemoto. It looked kinda cool but I couldn't work out good gameplay (too many stairs). Abandoned for now, might revisit... #quake #quakeart #qbj3

This is quite incredible.

Have a new Quake pack: High Seas! A cleaned up and hugely expanded version of the pirate themed textures I made for my old Remix Jam map I Shot The Albatross. strideh.itch.io/stridehs-hig...

Phenomenal pixel art icons pack. 1400 icons, CC0 licensed (public domain), but give the artist some gratuity if you use it nikoichu.itch.io/pixel-icons #pixelart #gamedev

If it’s not important enough for you to create it’s not important enough to make me look at it.

please watch movies and read books and play games and look at art, please view it with your own eyes through a lens you made yourself and not just through video essayists and ending explained videos please im begging you

How people use the mainstream internet is completely broken, destroyed by greed. But don't despair: It's still full of positive online communities, individual creation and curation, and companies doing really good things. Please don't fall into despair: the web is still a force for good.

This. All of weary this.