3 years ago today, Riot Games offered me a job making more money than I ever thought I’d make in my life. I had 19 interviews over 2.5 months to get it. Partner and I were moving to LA for it. I put in notice at my job and apartment. 2 weeks later they rescinded the offer due to “headcount issues”.

The font would appear to be English 111 Adagio CE, available for the highly presidential sum of just $39.75 USD Note "The" is not kerned correctly (see perspective-corrected still for reference)

So I try not to give too many gory details about life with long covid, but I also think it’s important to give a clear picture of what can happen to anyone. Over the last yearish, I’ve become allergic to more than 70 foods. Today I lost soy. I’m not how long I can keep eating at all.

Stop using AI for placeholder assets. Use sketches. Use lorem ipsum. Use bright pink materials. Use programmer art for fucks sake, literally anything else. If your studio is using AI even for temp, even if they think they've covered their tracks, SPEAK UP because people WILL FIND IT

Despite the casting choice—which doesn't thrill me, to be honest—I look forward to seeing this film after watching "Predator: Killer of Killers." Also, @mandyjwatson.bsky.social from @brainwavez.bsky.social writes some of the best film reviews around.

Film Review: Predator: Badlands www.brainwavez.org/screen/film/...

If you are in #CapeTown, pop round to Central library. The Emergent #Artists exhibit will be happening the whole of November - new exhibits every week.

A rare interview with the creators of the always-funny, always-brilliant, and *usually*-sexy—or occasionally anti-sexy—OGLAF! Cooper has kept a low profile over the years, but is legitimately one of the very best artists in comics today. Read OGLAF if you're old enough to drive!

Authors, Beware! There's a firm called "ClaimsHero" doing aggressive social media outreach claiming to "help" you file to get $ in the Anthropic class action. In fact, it's a bait-and-switch, they are luring authors to sign up with them, then OPTING THEM OUT of the class action so they'll get zilch.

Growing concerned that Boo Boo might be the world's most photogenic kitten.

when you start thinking of their tax cuts and billions in government contracts as an investment we couldve put towards something else you eventually ask yourself “what have we gotten in return?” so far the answer is NFTs and chatbots that tell teens to take their own lives

and honestly im sick of not pushing back on this specifically you want to advance human civilization? - universal health care - ubi - green energy - high speed rail and public transportation - free education through college

This is evil. Don't use AI. Don't download AI apps. AI kills jobs, the planet, and people -- intentionally.

We are looking for teachers willing to test Jasper, a CO2 monitor in their classrooms. Jasper is a prototype and we would like to receive user feedback as soon as possible from several countries. If you are interested, please fill out the form: letsair.org/jasper

I'm not related (as far as I know). Just so everyone's clear about that.

Before her (too early) death, the amazing Sharon Begley wrote this piece on double helix co-discoverer James Watson and the racist and sexist pronouncements he seemed to revel in making in later life. Fascinating read about a troubling individual. www.statnews.com/2025/11/07/j...

@andrebruwer.bsky.social Ok, I've now watched the trailer and although it is better than most it would still have spoiled too much for me.

Yet another digital comic book app, Sweet Shop, launched its beta today with 24 publishers. Biggest selling point, per the press release? "As part of their commitment to the hard work of creators and publishers, Sweet Shop does not accept AI comics." sweetshop.app

Posting this again because I need to find an illustrator to help me with a project. Anyone currently taking commissions? Let's talk about details and quotations.

WW3 is going to be the craziest war with Donald at the helm. We’ll be fighting a Canadian-Danish-Iranian-Venezuelan-Nigerian-South African-Korean alliance alongside Russia, El Salvador, Israel, and FIFA.

There are a couple of cool illusions to look at.

The whole of the internet is now run on the things that would have not made it past your email junk filter 20 years ago.

We know from scientific research that up to 75% of intersex people with varations of sex chromosomes never become aware of this during their life. You, a boring cis woman, might find yourself in the man section of a DHS holding facility and being charged with fraud just by traveling to the US.

This is actually a good reminder to go into the advanced settings of all the moderation tools you're subscribed to and tweak the settings.

If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.

Plus how much of it will be American English? This is absolutely despicable.

Reading an English exam paper for a grade 8 learner today and the source text for the comprehension, summary, and language sections of the paper are all listed as being AI generated. I'm sure the grammatical errors in the paper have nothing to do with that.

Took the cats out for a walk with my brother and accidentally created a 90s Britpop album cover

Introducing Ozzy! This prehensile-tailed porcupine, Zoo Boise's newest resident, is already becoming a star. 🌠 Settling into the renovated Small Animal Kingdom's Rainforest Building, Ozzy likes to nimbly climb and flip around his habitat’s canopy. 📷: Lead zookeeper Taylor S

Predator: Badlands is horrible. I don't even know if I'm going to write a review because even though it is (somewhat) better than Tron: Ares at least with Tron: Ares I had something to say. With Predator: Badlands I just don't care, which means writing is going to be an absolute slog.

anyway for my fellow devs I recommend filling out the state of the industry survey, it's imperfect but about as good as we get in trying to get a yearly pulse of the industry gdconf.typeform.com/SOTI26

I know, my friend, that you are tired of getting strange looks simply because you are still wearing a mask in this ongoing pandemic, but, my friend, for what it’s worth please just know that Tom Hanks gets those strange looks for masking too.

My nieces and nephews could not comprehend how I could draw, how I was drawing something right in front of them. This sucks.

The world is watching.

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

back on the old site i had a running thread where i would post a bunch of different maps of the US interior and point out that they're all the same map. climate, population, voting, some others. anyway do y'all want to see a series of different world maps that are all the same map?

First ever Indigenous Futurisms Seattle for National Native American Heritage Month on Nov 15th Free admissions, come check it out! Indigenous Futurists Society with Native Pathways Program, 4Culture, Seattle Colleges sponsor the event. www.indigenousfuturists.org/events-2-1

it hasn't helped sell any mags but it appears our nonsense on here has just pushed our account over 5K 'followers', so let's embrace that as some kind of achievement! Like & repost this to be in with a chance to win every in-print issue of Wyrd Science & a t-shirt of your choice*

Latest game dev news from me: I've updated one of my first games, The Time Machine, with text tweaks, art updates, better formatting and display on screen, a new piece of art, a new passage, and bonus materials from the zine. #IndieGames #PixelArt #TextAdventure

Both zines are also now available at Obz Books in Observatory, Cape Town!

Le tote-bag Richard Scarry, c'était impossible de ne pas l'acheter. 😔

There's a whole Halloween trick or treat and costume thing going on in Observatory this evening. I caught the start of it as I was leaving the area. Lots of families and groups of young adults walking around the neighbourhood all dressed up. I think the end point event is at Obz Books. Very cool.

🥳My 1st cosmic-comic-collab hits the shelves today in the "Geology Rocks" edition of Aquila Magazine (for 8-14yos). The amazing comic artist Edward Ross created "Galactro the Elder God", a chef who demos his (astrophysically accurate) neutron star recipe to make gold goujons! Dee-licious! #scicomm 🔭

If you're in #London today then come along to the @geolassoc.bsky.social FREE 'Festival of Geology' @geolsoc.bsky.social on Piccadilly. We'll be there showcasing some #chalk fossils and talking about our work on #Cretaceous ecosystems and environmental change. Come and say hello!

so my friend asked me to help him get to the Halloween parade

Happy Halloween ✨💄👠

Just about ready for Halloween! We put together a few fun things for folks of all ages this year. We will also have a table with bags and non perishable foods for anyone who wants or needs them.

Doing it right in the West Village.

'We saw people murdered in front of us' - Sudan siege survivors speak to the BBC #KeepEyesOnSudan www.bbc.com/news/article...