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

incredible

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)

"cozeballs" would be a good new term for being super cozy "omg go my blankie and cocoa, totes cozemaxxing it" "cozeballs, bro🔥"

Its a snow day in denmark so my plan is to code by the fire while eating vast quantities of pastry

Call for papers: for a special issue on contemporary craft work and digital economies. See below and alt text.

my discord server has predictably gone nuts for rose.systems/animalist current record: 289 animals listed 🐶🐺🦊🦊🦊🦝🦘🦘🐨🐀🐀🐭🐱𓃬🐅🐯🐯🐻🐻‍❄️🐻🐻🐼🦦🦭🦫🦫🦬🦬🐃𓃜🦌🦌🐐🐇🐷🐗🦡🫍🐋🦇🦇𓇼🐙🐙🐦🐦𓆁🦩🦩🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🦅🦅🐦🦜🦍🦧𓃻𓃸𓅪🐦🦜🦜🐦🐦🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦🐦𓅦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐧🦖🦕🦕🦣🦥🐌🐌🪲𓆣🐛🦀🦐🦞🐌🦈🦈🦈🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐊𓆌🐊𓆉🐢𓆉𓆈🦎🦎🦎🦎🦎🦎🦎🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🦎🐍🐍🐍🐍🐦🐛🐛🐛🪰🪰🪰🦟🐜🐜🐛🐛🕷🪰🕷🕸️🕷🕷🕷🕷🐍𓆏🐛🦋🐛🪱🦚🕷🐛

hallo, I am hiring again! - SF Digital Services is looking for a new Engineering Director careers.sf.gov/role/?id=374... This reports directly to me, & I’m looking for a practical & flexible technical expert with excellent communication & coaching skills, who is excited to do both. More below...

Nothing but respect for the *real* social network for bots

After four months of edits and multiple mental breakdowns, I am delighted to announce the release of *Logic for Programmers* v0.13! All content is in, all that's left is copyediting (and technical editing and layout and proofreading and) logicforprogrammers.com

v0.13 is a full 9,000 words longer than v0.12, the net result of deleting 11,000 and adding 20,000. That makes the changes to this release bigger than the original v0.1 release two years ago. Additions include answer set programming, inductive proofs, schema migrations, refinement, and more!

they should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit

do not go piggly into that good wiggly

This is unfairly triggering my love of But Im A Cheerleader

You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs) Good tech. Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales) Bad tech.

“Technically this is interactive in some way so that counts as a game” is a game in the same way fondant counts as food

half of all tech news lately is some variation of "the computer company has discontinued their well known product, the computer"

Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center Philip Glass Philip Glass Philip Glass Philip Glass Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center

We got games to play while you're buried in the snow! ❄🥶

I worked with the irrepressible @jonremedios.bsky.social @tylermakesgames.bsky.social @rainysector.bsky.social @bravemule.bsky.social to write a paper on why permadeath (and other forms of loss in games) appeals, and what we lose when we try to paper over it with metaprogression. Check it out!

The most important part of software dev is having debug output that makes you happy

My UCSB colleague Gurusha Juneja wrote a python tool to auto-check your bibtex for hallucinated citations: pypi.org/project/harcx/ It supports papers, books, and URLs. Usage: pip install harcx harcx references.bib

Call for Speakers! We are looking for passionate speakers to deliver a talk during Everything Procedural 2026. Are you excited to share your experiences with an audience? Then we encourage you to submit your proposal: forms.office.com/e/sG6z0eCAyG #procgen #procedural #gamedev

'Sandpipers' by Julia Berman.

It's the Polaris 2025 reports! They've come! They're here! It's a bumper crop of five, count'em FIVE papers! We got comedy, we got death, we got cringe, we got trust... something for the whole team. Piping hot game design knowledge and insight await: polarisgamedesign.com/reports/

Collage time with vintage British computing magazines

Drew some lil guys as drawing club today

museums are cool because the people who work there are like look at this neat thing and you're like wow that is neat and you just do it over and over again until it is time to go

Advantage of countryside living, watch nordic lights from the comfort of bed

Hello

All the 90s kids who read @tamorapierce.bsky.social’s Immortals series just started yelling at their screens

Among many great things about Evanston was Bennisons bakery, which dedicates itself to making every kind of local culturally-festive cream-filled pasty at the appropriate time of year. Italian, polish, jewish, irish. Multiculturalism = full pastry calendar

Owner of the farm.

[Exit Bastard.]

If you like ASMR and casual creators, you can now watch me give a whisper-only keynote presentation as people draw live on my slides at @aiide.bsky.social #AIIDE2025 www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlW8...

Everybody thinks 'https://' stands for 'hypertext transfer protocol secure' but it actually stands for 'head to this place, sucka' followed by a colon and two laser sounds

one of the major evolutionary benefits of walking on two legs is it frees up your hands for doing various bullshit

reposting my translation of Sappho fragment 16 here

Suddenly a bit more curious about the Federal Reserve? Wondering what happens when a president pressures the Fed? Here's a playlist of our fav episodes on Fed Independence.

post something beautiful to combat the awful

“Tarot” is short for “Tater Tot”, surprising how few of you know this.

edges2cats is back, baby!

portal opened to the library of babel, books are burned as a source of infinite energy by Libco