The sheer audacity to write this when your company is cutting 30% of the workforce and the CEO is out there making jokes about how cheap it is to replace workers with AI. Company executives believe that you are their possessions and should be greatful that they allow you to belong to them.

Contract all signed. For the fourth year I’ll be sponsoring the Oceania Dancesport championships and THIS YEAR I’m providing a $1000 prize for the Under-21 Ballroom winners. I feel strongly about supporting the sport that has given me so much so this is me doing my bit ^_^.

The same goes for the arts and humanities. Including from Neil deGrasse Tyson himself. If you’ve ever seen this guy’s thoughts on films you would think that he’s a particularly stupid Twitter troll. Not part of the so-called global intelligentsia.

Just in time for the long weekend: we've added the next 100 CDs to our collection of press assets from GamePro magazine! Check out the original marketing art for games like Ape Escape, Sonic Adventure, Soulcalibur, and more gamehistory.org/gamepro-cds-...

Yeah these games have aged like the finest of fine wine. Seriously I think Baten Kaitos’ aesthetics, gameplay and narrative become more and more appealing every year, as the general games industry becomes more and more focus grouped and best practice-d. They’re almost subversive now.

Yeah okay I can do this (I do like how friendly Bluesky is towards literature FTR). My book #1 is Marshland. A massive brick of a novel that rips the Japanese legal system and the way it goes about its 99% conviction rate to shreds. Is also an amazing period piece for post WW2 social tensions.

If you happen to be at @momocon.bsky.social this weekend, go say hi to @themistern.bsky.social! He’s there and has cute little flyers for The Last Waltz to share, featuring everyone’s favourite, Dee Dee <3

RPG Maker U2U announced for PC Following a teaser in March, Gotcha Gotcha Games has officially announced RPG Maker U2U, the latest entry in the role-playing game creation software series for PC. A release date was not announced.

Look I just gotta say it but there is a perverse LOL about the American liberals suddenly caring about reparations when America has been a shitstain for 100 years, both domestically and internationally. It’s only when the white people feels are upset that the liberal springs into action.

The crash can't come soon enough.

Australia's U21 Dancesport champions, Michael and Cici, dancing to music from The Last Waltz: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjAH... Wishlist The Last Waltz - A visual novel on why dance is life: store.steampowered.com/app/3693000/... And special thanks to @chuji.bsky.social for the brilliant editing!

I feel seen.

Watched Project Hail Mary finally. Wow was that a good film. Ryan Gosling just absolutely nailed it. Was a little disappointed in the uplifting ending when the story was driving towards being beautifully melancholic, but that's a fault of the book's author rather than the film.

That was fun. Light show at a national park in Wollongong.

Does anyone think Musk, let alone Sorbo, has even read The Odyssey? Like there’s just no way these men are well read enough to read classical literature.

Ana de Armas pls.

It is truly fascinating what has happened with Atari in recent years. An absolutely spectacular pivot from the deeply weird and dubious company it was. Not usually a fan of praising CEOs but this one does seem to have hit a leadership groove.

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Here is a very important video of an otter having his head stroked.

Self-promotion time <3. Authenticity matters. My VN - The Last Waltz - has a soundtrack of 30+ pieces of true Dancesport music… and they used it for the finals of one of Australia’s major Dancesport championships last year! Wishlist The Last Waltz here: store.steampowered.com/app/3693000/...

I’ve done communications for startups, VCs and entrepreneurs and convincing Australians to get enthusiastic about startups and unicorns drove me to day drinking. It’s incredible just how little interest this country has in it. We sure as hell don’t “revere” them. That’s Silicon Valley talk.

Look I’m just going to say it: if I want a concert I’ll buy tickets to a bloody concert. The American obsession with thoughtless spectacle is exhausting. Not that I was watching anyway. Boycott Hitler’s Sporting Event Image Laundering (BHSEIL)

Random thought: I absolutely loathe the phrase “speak your truth”. That implies that truth is subjective and that other people might have different truths. That is not the definition of the word. Stop it.

As a man I have zero patience for AI. I guess I'm broken :-(

On the anniversary of Vagina Bones being a cornerstone of the gooner right empowerment resulting in Trump and MAGA (I really wish that was a joke) this is an excellent thread because Puritanism is a really big issue that is having a very real impact in throttling artists.

Another review today at TouchArcade, this time covering the Parasol Combo that is Parasol Superstars. Pretty fun stuff. www.patreon.com/posts/158150...

Saw this rather neat video on Facebook (www.facebook.com/SophiesPhoto...), of the *first round* of *amateur* competition at the Blackpool dancesport championships. That's one powerful Rumba.

It kinda makes me sad that the Dancesport equivalent to Wimbledon or the Superbowl is this week and... literally not a single post about it on BlueSky. It's such a waste that such a wonderful sport struggles so much to gain visibility. Le sigh.

I know this is insignificant compared to the way the budget impacts living standards, but it always distresses me that every Australian budget finds plenty of money for sport - a lucrative sector commercially - and almost nothing for culture - which struggles commercially. Australia is uncultured.

I don't know what's funnier. That Tarric would share with us his AI girlfriend, or that he thinks that 22 year old Woolies workers are managing stock portfolios.

Tyson really is the greatest example we have of a scientist who is highly educated and credentialed and yet is so very stupid and has contempt for anything he doesn’t understand. The arts being a thing Neil doesn’t understand. He has no concept for abstraction, or metaphor, or symbolism.

The writer of one of the greatest trilogies of literary horror has passed away. This is sad. Suzuki will be studied in schools and universities as a genius for the Ring trilogy. www.nippon.com/en/news/yjj2...

Dancesport is arguably the most technically complex sport of all. Ten dances, each has ten technique books, each with 100-odd pages of physics and instructions on how to move every individual part of the body. There are nine contact points of the foot with the floor and you need to use all of them!

You have got to be kidding me. MFW is a blatant grift by a serial grifter and The Saturday Paper is giving it free PR, lol. Australia's media landscape truly is decrepit.

Dancesport is an incredibly difficult thing to capture in art. The bodies in motion, the poise, the million lines through the core to the toes and fingertips. I have been so privileged to work with an artist that truly gets it, and delivers art that reflects the majesty of Dancesport every time.

Digression, but related: People don't make a big enough deal about the fact that "IQ" is related to eugenics and so discredited that the guy that invented the test distanced himself from a measuement of intelligence. If you cite IQ you are an doing a very bad thing.

What's wild is the media was running interference for Abbott back then, but I'm pretty sure the only speech I remember of Tones during his time as Prime Minister was the one he made where he said that Australia was uninhabited prior to white people coming.

I find it funny that Dawkins is considered a towering intellect when he is clearly a moron (and overt, raging racist). It’s amazing what you can achieve when you give the most bigoted end of atheism an academic citation that they can name drop with the smug superiority they love to project.

I have played way too much Wingspan. I see this lovely photo and go “expensive bird, costs three food, but not bad because it’s five points and a choice of two bonus cards”. Normal people see a colourful bird, Matt.

Me: XBOX, turn on My XBOX with Copilot: Excellent idea! Turning on would be a great choice, demonstrating not only your shrewd decision-making, fast-paced gamer instincts, and strong desire to kick back and keep it casual-- but also your desire to play the wonderful games on offer on Game Pass!

America has a dude with a Nazi tattoo getting a lot of support as a "leftist" running on a "similar platform to Zohran" and I am wondering if anyone reads history books any more because a certain German party pulled this trick after WW1. Even threw "socialist" in the name as part of the grift.

Beloved classics Myst and Riven are coming to more contemporary consoles. 🎮 #DDNet #News #GameNews #Gaming #GamingNews

I still get whining Sony fans on my Ghost of Yotai review. This one today made me laugh. I'm apparently a "weeaboo" because I criticised American orientalism, and if something sells well and gets a good review (score, he can't actually read the reviews), no one is allowed to critise it. Gamers.

My top 10 movies of all time (now sure if in order tbh) The Crow Triangle of Sadness LOTR trilogy Chungking Express Rurouni Kenshin trilogy Aliens The Big Sleep Goldeneye Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels Princess Mononoke

Heroes of Might & Magic has escaped Ubisoft's clutches and - shock and surprise - it's good again. In fact, it's very, very, very good. So good I can't stop playing it. And it's just Early Access still! www.digitallydownloaded.net/2026/05/revi...

How dare we criticise things in 2026 because back when Jesus Christ was the Taylor Swift of his time things were so much worse.

My write up of the Console Archives release of Ninja Gaiden III is now up on the free blog for all to read: postgamecontent.com/post/8156113...

Daily bunny no.3305 trained for this mission in VR