I thought I just dislocated my bay leaf while cooking a chilli, it took me ages to find it! I’m really not sure if they add all that much to the flavour either 🤔 #cooking #vegan

I am trying to reinforce my gold mansion by buying and melting more gold to coat the walls in

I’m an hour early for a meeting that I organised 😅 Glad it’s just an online one

Morning… I have a painful throbbing. Send Tylenol. #headache

All the creatives who use an Affinity tool as their daily driver are currently holding their collective breaths awaiting the horror that will be unleashed on October 30th. I'm pretty sure "Creative Freedom" means something very different to us than it does to the business bros. affinity.serif.com

This week’s Video Games Industry Memo argues that Saudi Arabia’s acquisition of EA is a power grab of a soft power asset by an authoritarian state, enabled by Jared Kushner‘s inappropriately close relationship with MbS. It’s an affront to democracy. www.videogamesindustrymemo.com/p/a-kushy-de...

This is a quick tour of my personality, strengths and values. It's purpose is to help others better understand me and get the most from our interactions. www.andycarolan.com/usermanual #PersonalUserManual #AboutMe #Portfolio

I cannot stress just how sucky being a creative is in 2025. Thanks bad timeline!

Man the camera system on this phone is so good Shot and graded with Kino @halideapp.bsky.social

Karuta is a collectible card bot powered by Discord that features 90k+ anime characters. Working closely with the Karuta team, I designed 240+ skill glyphs, and 50+ status and effect icons for use within the game. www.andycarolan.com/work/karuta-... #design #illustration #portfolio #glyphs #icons

You know what I could use?... permanent, ongoing #Remote #Work in the fields of #Illustration and #Design If only more people could look at my #Portfolio andycarolan.com

Burn, baby, burn! #GameDev

Tahoe is a whole thing today... I've had icons disappearing from my Safari Start Page, invisible App windows in Mission Control, A disappearing mouse cursor in Photoshop. And... what is it with the window corner radii? I mean come on! #Tahoe #Apple #MacOS26

CAPTCHAs are evil, but this is incredibly clever and fun. neal.fun/not-a-robot/

Also, Tahoe keeps unmounting my NAS FFS. Are we sure this actually left Beta? #Grrrr #Apple #OS26 #Tahoe

Well, this is just lovely /s ... HUGE icons that can't be removed from the top of the Safari Bookmarks Sidebar. Bonus almost unreadable "Reading List" text overlaying each enormous icon. #OS26 #Apple #Ugh

Giving this whole Liquid Glass vibe a try on my iPhone 16 today. #LiquidGlass #iOS26 #iPhone16 #Apple

Thinking back to that time when I noticed this review on the door in the toilet stall at the department store 😅 #ProductReview #Pen

for HTML, you're probably thinking of htmlforpeople.com

@nona.zone This thread makes me super happy. Shoutout to @andycarolan.bsky.social who did the excellent artwork on this project.

Fun fact! The Atuin logo is the wonderful work of @andycarolan.bsky.social and it was seeing this that led me to reach out to Andy to design the dogs you see in my more recent blog posts 😁

i finally gave in to using embedded fonts after i looked at my homepage on linux and decided the generic fonts weren't cutting it (⌒_⌒;) i also added some more people to the blogroll and some other stuff read about the updates on my blog: ellesho.me/page/website...

I've added a /ai slash page to my site andycarolan.com/ai #Slashpages #AI #GenerativeAI #indiedev

“We love working with Andy - he's a real talent, gets the brief quickly, delivers terrific work promptly and reacts really well to feedback. He's a boost to our team and our resource, we recommend him very highly indeed." Richard Morris — Whistlejacket andycarolan.com/success-stories #work

I would LOVE to hear from you if you have part or full time design/illustration roles. 18 years experience and am open to new challenges! Portfolio... andycarolan.com Personal User Manual... andycarolan.com/myusermanual CV/Resume on request

Custom Profile Pictures — Commissions open! 🌟 A unique profile picture for £30 🌟 Supplied as a 1000x1000px PNG 🌟 Vector version add-on available 🌟 FREE additional Pride background if requested 🌟 4-5 days delivery #commissionsopen #kofi #icons #avatars ko-fi.com/c/11a46f7c25

Well, that's another 28 months of #VPN - Incredible coincidence that my previous subscription ended just now lol.

Hyping a tech war that won’t ever happen The Quest for the Unicorn AI Device #Apple #AI #META https://warnercrocker.com/2025/08/04/the-quest-for-the-unicorn-ai-device/

Damn hay fever is kicking my ass today 🤧 I would happily live somewhere where there's nothing but ice and snow right now. #Hayfever #Hoth

I am a big fan of Dick Bruna and his Miffy books. I love his design style and use of bright colours and bold lines. These illustrations of my space and the things I surround myself with is my tribute to Dick Bruna. www.andycarolan.com/work/wfh-ill... #illustration #design #sustainability #wfh

The more I'm exposed to AAA games, the more I'm encouraged to check out Indie games and revisit offline titles that I already own. In AAA, there's barely anything new that excites me that hasn't already been done tbh. It's all iterative. #Gaming #VideoGames

If my Ad-Blocker is causing your site to not operate correctly, maybe that's because your site has more ads than content!

If you are reading this, you can do it. I believe in you! https://htmlforpeople.com/ https://mastodon.social/@ethanschoonover/114939346322019002 https://social.lol/@bw/114939810963339207

You know... it just might be easier to just leave the internet and start a new one. Leave this one for the bots, billionaires and big tech 🤔

Is anyone here old enough to remember when the internet was more open, contained more content and was less manipulated by the wealthy and powerful? *gets misty eyed*

My son was getting stressed about Fortnite, so now he’s playing Little Kitty, Big City 😅

After a long absence from Twitter, I'm now on Bluesky. Looking forward to sharing thoughts, research, and rants about the lack of attention paid to water. Let's kick this off with a new paper alert. Please share widely. Title says it all. Please help me grow followers www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Making Kimbap while listening to Twice. K-pop Demon Hunters has had a huge influence on my family 😅 #KoreanFood #Vegan

Bought an amazing Snoopy Pride Tote Bag from the supermarket yesterday ♥️ #Snoopy #Pride

Be honest, do you feel just a bit smug when you get home JUST as it starts raining? 😏

Nana-chan, the image character of Television Setouchi (TSC), has blue, rabbit-like ears and is shaped like an egg.

This is a quick tour of my personality, strengths and values. It's purpose is to help others better understand me and get the most from our interactions. www.andycarolan.com/usermanual #personalusermanual

I'm running a bit slow on things this week as summer holidays have started. So, if you are waiting for a reply from me, I will get back to you ASAP 😅

I think we need to reboot the video games industry to Pong 🤔 #VideoGames #GamingNews

One of the most fun projects I've worked on recently was the illustration for htmlforpeople.com/ with @blakewatson.com I especially love how Blake animated the SVGs I delivered! (note to self... I really should add this to my portfolio!) #Illustration #Work #Design #Animation #HTML

If you have no stuff to do today, GO WATCH K-POP DEMON HUNTERS!!!!! If you have stuff to do today, GO WATCH K-POP DEMON HUNTERS!!!!! GO WATCH K-POP DEMON HUNTERS!!!!!

Norway's largest PTCG database, asked me to help update their community site branding with a new logo, a fresh new banner and a logo for the busy forum, PokéSnakk. www.andycarolan.com/work/pkmn-no #design #illustration #portfolio #PTCG #branding

This is the first time I've seen this, but it is also somewhat alarmingly just one pillar of a Russian strategy to use games, the communication channels surrounding them, and the communities who play to advance its aims in Ukraine (and beyond). Really grimly disturbing stuff.

Follow me on Ko-fi to receive page, gallery, and commission updates. Remember to check out the Free and Pay What You Want items in the shop! ko-fi.com/andycarolan/... #KoFi #KofiChallenge

I'm not always a vain man, but @vgim.bsky.social is only nine subscribers away from crossing the 5,000 email subs mark. So if you like the newsletter, think it's a great read for anyone into Those Them Video Games and could give it a share, I'd be a happy chappie. www.videogamesindustrymemo.com