This map is grossly incorrect. Ukraine covers 6% of the total U.S. land area--about the size of Texas. Russia is demanding 19-20% of Ukraine, approximately 125,000 – 135,000 sq km--about the size of Alabama.

See you there! @tinselman.bsky.social 🤘

#oilpaint #art

I’m years behind on this D’ni clock made by Mike Ando (Rium). Very cool… youtu.be/xDaKi6vqnOw?... Instructions: www.riumplus.com/25-hour-digi...

The President of the United States just called for my arrest and execution. In these moments, fear is contagious, but so is courage:

More paintings. #art #oilpaint

playing Riven: The Sequel to Myst (1997 adventure) twitch.tv/RetrogradeTom #retrogaming

Left: big portrait, in progress. Right: small portrait, complete. #oilpaint #escapingAI

The right use of AI.

Faces. Oil

Continuing to paint. 🎨 About two dozen so far, drying out in various stages of completion all over our apartment. Piles in my office. Above the cabinets in our kitchen. Above refrigerator. All over my wife's office. This is not sustainable! NOTE: Skull is reproduction.

Roughly 30 years ago, I recorded the Riven soundtrack in the basement of CYAN's offices on the KORG Trinity (and a Yamaha VL-1). Korg has recently released the Trinity as a software synth. By the way, it's on sale for $149. www.korg.com/us/products/...

Having more fun with oil painting. Biggest problem: finding places to dry them.

I created this video years ago as part of promotion for Augustus Gladstone, a feature film that I wrote and directed. I was glad to see that this video holds up. The feature is available on YouTube for free. #soundtrack youtube.com/watch?v=-t3H...

Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

Live from "war ravaged" Portland

Today we're having a gander at the minute books of the Merchant Adventurers. The archive is held with our friends @uoyborthwick.bsky.social and contains documents from the 1200s to the present day. The minutes from meetings are from the 17th to the late 20th century. A short thread...

I just hit 27 million streams across all my albums, so I decided to award myself with this (virtual) gold record (which I don't exactly deserve). 🎵 Most streamed: Atrus’ Theme, from RIVEN 🥈 Runner-up: Gehn’s Theme from RIVEN Thank you to everyone who continues to support my music!

Clown tower

CAUTION! #Myst

And today on Myst island…

If it were not for Bill Atkinson’s HyperCard, Rand and I would have never begun making games and we would have never made Myst and Riven. He was a gentle soul and a brilliant human. We owe so much to him.

I haven’t seen these for decades. I’m not sure these were finals, especially the grayscale map on the left. Even so, cool beans.

I had a blast hanging out with Ron, Joel, and Jawmaster at the Retro Repair Roundup last night. We talked about everything from the birth of Cyan, to the joys of creating our early 1 bit kids games, to some of our early inspirations.

A two year old baby forced onto a plane by her government—our government. That’s what Ilan Wurman and Kurt Lash and their academic collaborators and defenders have been paving the way for with their bullshit articles. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

AI is slop trash? Please don’t tell me it’s because it steals from artists. I’m an artist. Every half-decent artist steals from everything they’ve seen. Art is ideas. Concepts. Expression. AI is a tool with which one can create new ideas. AI is not creative and cannot express (and I’m not your guy.)

Myst action figures and island collectibles. Failed due to shoddy production and bad marketing.

Cosmic Osmo Reboot? If only.

Does anyone remember the Myst Happy Meals! Collect all five toys!

Myst (1993). Fun for the entire family!

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Don't Look

Welcome to another ultra-exciting 'Wavelength Wednesdays'. youtu.be/FkMFOsp1tow?...

Anyone young enough to remember 'Cosmic Osmo and the Worlds Beyond the Mackerel'? ⚡Time for a reboot! ⚡ @cyan.com

Boo!

Ancient Myst

A Myst that never was.

Transparent Mac

Furry Mac

Only white pandas from here on out.

"Lost Tracks, Part III" is a collection of recordings and demos that I had previously never released. Available on Bandcamp and anywhere else you stream music. youtu.be/qqgV1FuuGFQ?...

Two news stories. TODAY. The world no longer trusts the United States to safeguard its citizens.

New interactive version of _Tadpoles_. Works best on larger screens (computers/iPads). claude.site/artifacts/3b...

I decided to play around with Claude.ai to see if I could simulate living organisms. These swimmers eat nutrients, they grow, battle, form families, and give birth. claude.site/artifacts/50...

Thanks Christophe!

Do you see a house? It’s right there, I promise! In Queen Anne, Seattle. I’ve met the owner: peculiar but kind. I like to wonder, does the inside mirror the outside?