I'm not able to attend PAX Unplugged this year, but it's always so good to have my work there through IPR (who do so much for us crowd-shy writers). They've got copies of both The Ground Itself & World Ending Game at the booth if you've been looking to pick them up!

I've spent the last few days just thinking about how completely perfect this screenshot is

Surprise, we're getting pretty close to the final version of REALIS! ICYMI: I've been making a TTRPG about mystical moons and living spaceships and sentences that can kill you. A preview is available now (see my pinned post), but the full version draws near! www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...

this is today! we'll be approximately here. look for the rainbow parachutes. some reminders: - wear warm clothes, it's 47F at best! we're outside for 3 hours, sometimes standing still - bring a mug / cup of some sort for tea - if you want, bring a toy / prop of some kind to play with

Also worth noting that "well, I guess I just can't leave the country right now because the government's fucking with me" is a situation green card holders have been used for a long time—another demonstration any indiginity the government pushes on immigrants will eventually be turned on citizens too

You gotta click that cuomo live stream. Every song they play feels like a prank. I can’t look away www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI8h...

You don't even need hype men with haters like this.

Cheney was so evil that him dying actually lifted a curse

Nothing is inevitable. Effort is everything. Ignore the polls and run through the tape. Vote: zohranfornyc.com/vote Canvass + phonebank: zohranfornyc.com/gotv

Come work with me!

 We've opened the search for a full time, tenure-track Assistant Professor in Game Arts at Pratt Institute. 

A good match would be an artist, game developer, or educator with an active creative practice in indie games, game studies and theory, playful coding, or art games.

no hate to the blessed interviewers who live outside of the discourse, but i was recently asked “when was the first time you realized games could also be art?” and pulled my first ever no comment

video games won't be art by the time i'm done with em

a fascinating writeup on the making of a set of widely distributed IDF propaganda videos, specifically identifying assets they used. there's something incredibly unsettling about the creative ethos here. stolen assets. no actual intelligence information at all. just hubris and pure fabrication.

When you realize how long it takes for a single tree to become fully mature and how many trees it takes to be productive... This is just one more method of *generational* violence.

super cool study found human artifacts in Bearded vulture nests, incl. "weaponry like a crossbow bolt and wooden lance, decorated sheep leather, and parts of a slingshot....a shoe made from twigs and grass is ~675-years-old." link to paper: doi.org/10.1002/ecy..... www.popsci.com/environment/... 🧪🌍🦉

Hostile Platforms / Beloved Margins, a solo exhibition by @everest.bsky.social Pipkin, is now in its last week, on view until 2 October, Wednesday and Thursday, 3–7 PM. panke.gallery/exhibition/h... Welcome!

did a big post on the Piranesi larp I did last month blog.vbuckenham.com/i-was-a-chil... - my first ever big larp, and i thought people might want to have a sense what it's like to do something like this!

omg the talk/speaker lineup for Roguelike Celebration (@roguelike.club) 2025 looks sooo good: www.roguelike.club/event2025.html So obviously one of the most vital events in videogames right now, I really hope I can make the time to attend this year.

it occurs to me that some of you may not be aware of the completely insane UI for the Legend Entertainment quasi-text adventures

Built in the 13th century. So that mosque stood for 800 years with every sort of person from every place and every religion in the world passing through Gaza century after century, only for it to be blown up by some shithead loser sitting behind a computer that we probably paid for.

This Wednesday at panke.gallery: Hostile Platforms / Beloved Margins – solo show by Everest Pipkin; opening: 10 Sep 2025, 7 PM panke.gallery/exhibition/h... This is a retrospective of browser-based works from the last decade, from the lens of (or lack of) stability practices on corporate platforms.

Lilith Zone: The Immersive Experience A show of games, crypts, and dungeons by Pittsburgh-based artist Lilith, one of the most influential experimental game makers imho. This Friday + next month LIKELIKE, Pittsburgh likelike.org/2025/08/31/l...

I am trying to be on here less so it is genuinely kind of hilarious to come on and learn that my country is no longer receiving international mail

Honestly some of the best students I’ve ever encountered. As Everest says: sophisticated, kind, community-focused, and innately curious (which in my experience has become more of a rarity these days). So excited for the Fall.

I'm at PlayNYC for the rest of the day with students from Pratt Game Arts! They're showing their work from the last year, demoing projects... we had Hatsune Miku get a high score... so you have 3 more hours of showroom floor to come through and try to beat Hatsune Miku. Booth 1B-123!

Spend your Saturday playing a game that makes you sad! Or listening to six hours of talking meta about cultural criticism!

an actual gift of the internet age is how relatively easy it has become for non-wealthy people to maintain memory systems. both personal ones (photos, backups, searchable mail) and collective ones (wikis, archives, fan communities) the glee with which that is being destroyed right now floors me

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

if you're at Gencon this weekend, IPR has World Ending Game in stock! what good neighbors they've got, too

Can’t wait to introduce bird-based storage into my backup system

best thing I've read on the itch situation yet. remind me to mull over these thoughts again in the future harmonyzone.org/blog/posts/t...

There is no longer any doubt that Israel has set up a fake humanitarian organisation so it can kettle Gazans into a kill box and murder them en masse It is evil beyond description and in a decent world it would result in immediate, massive, global action to stop them and prosecute those responsible

sent to the lithium mines after a human services broker buys your indenture as part of restructuring your dad's uma musume debts

Imagine being part of a floundering political establishment at historic lows in favorability, seeing this guy's absolutely infectuous energy, and deciding to try to stop it through an array of embarrassing media appearances and editorial blunders.

the thing about layoffs of this scale is that so much is happening it involves days and days of discovering fresh horrors

How might we inhabit the internet now, when the commercialization of culture seems relentless & unnavigable? @teehehe.bsky.social‬ wrote a blog post about reclaiming the web browser as a space of playfulness + their Winter class w/ @everest.bsky.social‬ sfpc.study/blog/the-pla...

Join us as we return to picket the New York Times offices this Saturday, July 5th. RSVP at this link: transexualmenacenyc.com/calendar

just saw someone do a visuals set by making a scene in Bitsy. little castle of blood for some live coded metal. (cc @adamledoux.net)

And you can too

i'm so happy to have my work with Knave of Cups! their catalog is really wonderful to browse through, lucky to be in it

Have poured many many many hours into this over the past year, pretty proud of where things are at and hopeful for making it even better with support from others. Check out the new Namesake app and announcement :)

Ok so I finally got around to finishing my round-up for the Essay Games blog: www.essay-games.com/blog/some-re... I had such an excellent time over the weekend. Probably one of the best conferences I've ever attended.

truly, tonight is a banner night for the “a better world is always possible” posters. secondly, and more importantly, it is one for the Haters

Brad Lander you will see the Kingdom of Heaven

I'm in touch with a source in Cuomo's camp. They're all screaming and turning back into rats. Not looking good so far

im barking at the tv clapping like its the super bowl. im getting a bacon egg and cheese tattooed on my chest. im feeling gratitude for and solidarity with my fellow man

might fuck around and feel aligned in shared principles and wants with others in my chosen city