My proposed Minister for AI:

This is an excellent take-down, and sold me a subscription. For the price of this bad book, I could have paid for >3 months!

I've been spending some time analysing the code and systems of the epic 1988 BBC game Exile resulting in a (I hope) bit perfect recreation in TypeScript and a set of @markmoxon.bsky.social inspired deep dives into its working. bbcexile.com #retrocomputing #bbcmicro #gamehistory

This is not a category, #Connections

Franz Liszt was the best Suede guitarist. I will not be taking questions.

Such an anti-ad on TV for the pervert glasses - massive twats storming around the city with no friends shouting "Meta! Take a picture!" Sure dufuses that's much better than pressing a button.

yeah, that eject spring works

After release, a game costs the publisher $0 to keep selling forever. And therefore removing an old game from sale, or stopping its online service, is just mindless vandalism.

Pictures from a friend of mine who works on a crab-fishing boat off the coast of Newfoundland. I love the nightmare crab door.

*shaking my wife awake* KRAKEN HAS SUSPENDED WITHDRAWALS OF BONK

Oxford drinkers may finally be able to swear in the Three Goats’ Heads after the death of Humphrey Smith, the irascible owner of Sam Smiths Brewery, at the age of 81. The pub chain enforced strict bans on swearing and mobile phone use. Smith was described in a Facebook pubs group as “an absolute tit

Watching the video from The Ring on my phone so she comes out of my screen real tiny and I can just put her in a mug

Makes The Day Today's graphics look pretty sober

I mean, obviously

It’s only a USB port if it’s on the left side of your device, otherwise it’s a USB starboard.

SJÄMSÅRA

Who wants to make a PAPERS, PLEASE-style game about getting your child ready for each day of school, using the crumbs of information from the principal, the teacher, and the calendar, in their emails, PDF attachments, and assorted apps?

Hate it when people suggest children will be happy if they play outside. I remember playing outside. It was fucking dreadful. I wanted to go back in and play video games and read comics, but apparently being outside held some kind of magic power which erased adults' critical faculties.

In 1908 the Lancet called for an 18+ age limit on reading in bed for U.K. children.

A discussion about the social media ban on under 16s. BBC: “You’re gong to have a lot more time to fill. What will you do?” Student: “Stare at a wall.”

Looking forward to the new generation of network engineers this ban is going to inspire 🧑🏻‍🔧👩🏽‍🔧

This is one of my favorite pieces of footage from space. Remember the early Macs had a motorized floppy drive that would eject the disk?

If Starmer was worth anything he would be on TV first thing saying that every thug is getting the book thrown at them. If he was the man he claims to be he'd make a speech saying he's on the side of the minority families who've had their doors kicked in tonight. He could lead if he wanted to.

This is not overstating the situation. It's just a web site. Shut it down. People can use other web sites!

Puntcon 2026 will be on the 16th August with @billt.bsky.social www.disruptiveproactivity.com/2026/06/punt...

Here's an easter egg in the new Lego Batman that I think all of you will REALLY appreciate. It's so good, I had to make a video.

anyway here's a very short clip of Head saying "forget the shooty dog thing"

"DEI"

Veronica this is no time to be hawking merch

Ok this is a truly great tweet

My favourite fact in ages, via @lucyjames.games on the Besties: Widow's Bay (which is great btw) was created by the overdressed Babadook from this historic tweet.

We need more walkable, mixed-use datacenters. Like community gardens, people should be able to experience the joy and satisfaction of cultivating their own hardware. Big Cloud has alienated the connection people felt with their computers. Kids should know what it's like to swear at rack mount rails.

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It's perfect.

We're officially in talks with Story Kitchen and Evan Spiliotopoulos about making our long dream of a Broken Sword movie a reality! We hope you understand that we can't go into more detail about any of this yet, but here is the Variety exclusive that just went live 🍿📽️ variety.com/2026/digital...

GIVEAWAY! Dead Weight is coming out next week and to celebrate I'm giving away two copies that have been personally bitten by Uggi and will be personally signed by me and shipped to the winners wherever they live! To enter just like and share this post and I'll select the winners on May 26th!

9pm: yawning 2:12am: time to become a scholar on uncontacted tribes

New one about record shopping in the 90s, how intentional discovery used to be, how algorithms have taken that away from us and why we should probably start putting in the work again. (It's about games eventually, promise) Accidentally made it free. Oops! Go: newsletter.hitpoints.co/374-blue-note/

The last time I was turned down for Arts Council funding, they sent me a model application for a project to demonstrate what they were ideally looking for. The model application was by me a year earlier. And was also turned down.

Impeccable Netrunner vibes from Martin's new game. The fast combat sneaks a really clever design past you. Try the demo & back it! www.kickstarter.com/projects/sha... Good luck with the Kickstarter @sharkbombs.bsky.social

Releasing a new tool today: Blendo Localizer For managing localization text assets. Loads CSV or JSON files. This is a cleaned-up version of what we used during Skin Deep's development. Free Download: blendogames.itch.io/blendo-local... Source code: github.com/blendogames/...

Yeah, there really is a book for sale on Amazon called Infinite Jeffs, where they replaced all the words of Infinite Jest with the word "Jeff". It's 25 bucks. www.amazon.com/Infinite-Jef...

So 5pm is when a blue tit flies into our house through an unknown entrance, and we all run around like that Irish family chasing a bat.

I'm proud, excited (and a little bit nervous) to announce that CROWNBREAKERS will launch on Kickstarter May 12, 2026 - 4:00 PM CEST (Central Europe Summer Time). www.kickstarter.com/projects/sha... #gamedev #kickstarter #indiedev #deckbuilder #turnbasedthursday (a day late, I know...)

I get a lot of AI slop book marketing emails, but this is the first time I have ever been . . . mistaken for Jane Austen.

Mein Pferd brennt #ReplaceHeartWithHorse

Absolute nightmare fuel