If you're someone who's still somehow staying afloat in all this mess, tbh this month has been particularly rough for us in terms of having people cancel, so now would be an extra helpful time You can have bonus episodes! Or a warm glow of satisfaction at helping more linguistics get out there

mavis beacon did not teach you typing so you could make such terrible posts

Jim Holland (American, b.1955) "The Green Room," 2011 Oil on canvas 36 x 36 in #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

20 years ago today.

Hector McDonnell. Looking towards the Sitting Room in Risis's House. oil on canvas 2016.

Playing my favorite game of “which art goes where”

I always love when I stumble on zine discourse

I know some of you design perverts are hot for something out there

Any zines/small press/etc out there really killing it with layout/design/typography lately?

DLSS5 on Wordle now

Narratively having Ever Given getting stuck in 2021 to set up Hormuz in 2026 is great foreshadowing. You want your audience to understand the basics of international shipping in a lower stakes context so you drop the real plot without a lot of saggy exposition about the minutiae of cargo logistics.

I've written a book! Next Level: Making Games That Make Themselves is the story of procedural generation - the tech behind games like Minecraft and Dwarf Fortress. It's about how it works, the games that use it, and the art and magic behind it. Out May 7th, in bookshops: linktr.ee/next_level 🎲🔮

AI is like early radioactive tech - Wonderfully effective for some good tasks - Horrifyingly effective for some evil tasks - Bad and actively harmful for lot of mundane tasks that it is being rapidly deployed into Just because it glows doesn't mean you should use it for skincare

Greek mythology makes a lot more sense now that I have a set of unaccountable powerful people with stupid and obvious flaws and no way to smite them myself

I can't believe we're literally running into @galaxykate.bsky.social's oatmeal problem on an existential scale.

other academics: Kate why do you have such a light publication record? me, writing an academic book chapter: "yo wat up nerds, its ya kate with some more generative terminology, or as I call it, werd-bergles"

my cat has unlocked a new meow

With GPS jamming in wartime, what are the odds sailors have to go back to astrolabes?

Sending my love and fomo to all the lovely people at GDC this year! I wish I was there with you ❤️

wow it works

Just reminded myself how hard the ending of Coffin Text Spell 714 goes

Doomscrolling is the weaponization of literacy

Why a 10-year-old Tumblr post by @galaxykate.bsky.social is still the most important thing I've read about generating text

A strange forest, full of unsettling creatures #procgen

The King is mad

I want tarot gays to find my game! We worked so hard on the reading procgen, I'm so proud of the ~ * grammar * ~

There are at least three discourses on Bluesky today that I see only through people complaining about them. I do a lot of blocking - if someone is Twitter-style rage posting, even in comment, I check their feed. If there’s no normal posts, I block them Just blocking a few weirdos rebalances you!

"Concise helpful memo" is one of the best forms of writing and I will die on this hill* * Sun Tzu: "a hill is a good place to try not to die"

Concept art for SLEEPING BEAUTY (1957) by Eyvind Earle. #wardsmorguefile

Kraft Mac is American Ramen They should experiment with form factor and packaging in that direction

hey fun fact did you know that you can recast Rocky Horror with tomato varietals

Snow's melted, lets go b🌱tches

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How is no-one selling indulgences on the blockchain yet

Convince me to buy an electric ceramic kiln.

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

no one: no one: no one: guy who made a little ceramic creature: look at my little ceramic creature

Pink lippys #oilpainting #art

Hear me out - - we are overdue for a Edgar Allen Poe-themed reality tv dating show.

me too pepper me too

I think car door handles should still work when the car is on fire

They should have an Olympic sport just called Finnish where you have to do Finnish things with a Finnish person for a whole day without freezing to death

Breaking: Tragedy at the Winter Olympics

I've just published a new userscript that remembers the path of your cursor over the linked pages of Wikipedia, averaging and wearing them into the page, showing your browsing history over time Install at greasyfork.org/en/scripts/5... or read more about it everest-pipkin.com#projects/des...

This does not include paperwhite butterflies who are The Devils Confetti and whos ravenous children devour everthing you love (If what you love is brassica)

Doing art badly is good and sacred

production of The Muppet Show should not be dependent on petty vulgarities like “ratings” or “revenue.” it should be preserved as a vital function of american culture. it should have a taxpayer-funded budget rivaling the CIA

Toy design doesn't seem to have the same communication culture that games and software does, or if it does, I'm not finding it. Are there any good sources of toy designers (or academics) writing or speaking about the field? (not looking for aesthetics or collectibility, but for play interaction)