My creatures are glaaazed!!

Love coming to Bluesky and folks are posting vague statements about the same unexpected noun set and you’re just like, well, something happened with illegal fishing, garfield (president, cat or andrew) and Activitypub and I dont need to know anything more about it.

Mighty queen surveys her land (and will not take her worm pill)

Fun request: my friend, the owner of the Vejle Timepiece museum, would like to add a nice marine chronometer to his collection of antique clocks. Anyone (pre in Europe) got an old ship clock looking for a loving home?

Folks, Next Level is out now in bookshops and online and many of you already have copies and I'm so grateful! Just a few last things before I stop talking about it quite as much as I was this week... first, I have an auxiliary site for the book here: www.possibilityspace.org/nextlevel/

If all billionaires got into repopulating and eating their own favourite threatened megafauna, we would be doing ok

The Call for Proposals for Roguelike Celebration 2026 is OPEN! We're looking for speakers to deliver cool talks about procedural content, roguelike game design, generative art, and more! Roguelike Celebration is a virtual conference, no physical attendance required. Check it out and tell a friend!

My painting SUMMER STORM

look how fancy the ocellated turkey is. such a fancy lad

when ur on a walk and there's a dog

A 3,400 year-old Mycenaean amphora with a spectacular octopus inspired by the ‘Marine Style’ of Minoan Crete. Mycenaean cemetery of Prosymna. National Archaeological Museum, Athens 📷 by me #Archaeology

I am fed up with it.

Impossible to not read this in the Lower Decks Pakled voice

every time someone's like Claude deleted this or Claude convinced a teen to kill themselves I picture a mischievous french guy

> SOUP can be combined with BREAD to increase HP gained during REST. > BREAD can be crafted from materials you find during the TRAVEL action, but requires an OVEN > No one knows where SOUP comes from, only that it exists.

All my strange beasties made it through the kiln and are ready to get glazzzzy

Reclaim "vibe coding" to mean "putting some instrumental electronic music in your headphones as you buckle in for a serious coding sesh".

Just had a dream about sending a drone to kiss someone remotely

Made some more weirdos Psychopomp that also functions as a gravy boat

most people focus on the immediate & obvious dangers, but actually the worst aspect of godzilla romping thru a city tends to be the hazardous particulates that get kicked up into the air. way more people die of godzilla-related mesothelioma than get crushed, radiation-lasered, &c

This is just Street Fighter

In 2002, at the age of 91 years, artist Louise Bourgeois created 'Ode a L'Oubli' (Ode to Forgetting),  a book of 35 fabric pages made from her own cloth saved from different eras of her life #Womensart

𝕸𝖆𝖓𝖙𝖎𝖘 𝕾𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖒𝖕 𝕾𝖙𝖔𝖒𝖆𝖙𝖔𝖕𝖔𝖉𝖆 ✦

Made a goat

Come see Mel and I in conversation at CCA next week! I think I'm going to do a little guy trade - bring me a human-made drawing of a little guy and I'll give you a very tiny original painting of a little guy(we'll see how many I get done).

Love low poly pigeon

welp this is becoming part of my vocabulary forever

The plural of “bus” is “bi”

Happy 8th anniversary to the tweet that changed us forever. Look at this absolute unit.

Fantastic 2.5 year postdoc working on 🤩emojis🤩 ! Are you a #linguist with experience in running experiments in formal semantics & pragmatics? Please come join our lab and the @vicom#linguistvisual communication research cluster! Apply by April 28 - or contact me with questions. #emojis #linguistics #job […]

We have achieved a full walkthrough with only one minor hissytussle

are there any dating sites I can use from a laptop because I just don't like typing on my phone, sorry i am 10000 years old.

Happy Easter! Just a reminder that we extended the call for papers for the Games and Archaeological Play workshop at FDG till April 12th! gapworkshop.org/call-for-pap... #archaeogaming #archaeology #gamedev #hci

This is out in just over a month! If the Easter bunny did not, for some reason, preorder the book for you, then you can fix that right now! Some UK preorder links here: linktr.ee/next_level

One final plug for some weekend viewing: part 1 of my big 'AI hype is ruining traditional game AI' essay is now a YouTube video. Will keep working on it throughout the year in between my regular output. youtu.be/mixkOgBs32s?...

Kraft Mac and Cheese tastes incomplete without ketchup and hotsauce

nasa employee: oh hey u guys are back early astronaut: Office365 in spaceship nasa employee: what? astronaut: *loading a pistol and getting back on the rocket-ship* Office365 in spaceship

moby-dick, his eyes enormous: from hell's heart you STAB at moby? for hate's sake you spit your last BREATH at moby? oh! oh! the great shroud of the sea for ahab! the great shroud of the sea rolling on as it rolled five thousand years ago!!!!

wow the symbolism in this book goes crazy. and you're saying all these symbols make up little words?

Anyone wanna play Mystery Painting? Found this gentleman in the thrift store outside of LEGO (Billund 🇩🇰). $8, approx 40x70cm I bought it as I needed a frame, and there are lots of these faded twee prints so I don't feel bad about removing them. But, reader, it appears to be an oil painting!

My flower painting 🪻

Joining in for the first day of #pleinairapril by @warriorpainters.bsky.social Painting outside is always a bit intimidating but I'm glad I went for it, just sat down on the roadside in between narcissus and go! #traditionalart #gouache

Im luring in a new cat

Today in pottery class I made a lil rhino based on a Durer print. figured this would be up some of ya'll alley

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HuG... Enjoy a new very well-edited podcast episode by Approximately Correct Where we have a go at answering: What is AI for? What is art for? Should we have a version of Pokemon Go where old people talk to trees?

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.