When you get the reputation of being the guy with the encouraging words on New Year's Eve, it can start to come through as a little pressure -- what if the situation on the ground is worse than usual? what if people are more scared than they usually are, and with cause? what use are good vibes then?

THIS. Did you know sickle cell is curable, now? FULLY curable. If you're feeling down or despairing about what FEELS like technology/advancement/science "standing still" or being fully malicious, I have great news: You're not paying attention to actual science. Just tech industry marketing.

Keep thinking about this term "pre-digested" that Kojima used to describe art that's instantly gratifying. And how it's better when people grow to love something instead. I've gravitated, as player and designer, toward the latter, but that term "pre-digested" is new and feels very strong.

"I had not touched a cat in 15 years when an orange kitten wandered over to sit with me in the grass one day. I was left without adequate words to describe that experience. It reminded me that I am alive."

The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."

I like games that give you tough choices

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

pals you gotta quit spotify

Some Loop Hero portraits

I 100% deserve tremendous derision for impulsively buying the Playmobil art heist advent calendar, and it is unsurprising yet hitting particularly hard that the first 5 days are all cop gear. Gun, keys, flashlight, handcuffs, happy Xmas, Colleen you absolute idiot

Remember folks: if you have any small amount of artistic talent, any sex appeal, or can make your friends laugh, the richest man on earth is crying screaming throwing up because he can’t be you.

Ireland calling the UK out for being stupid enough to fall for this 'gender critical' bollocks.

www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250704-spo... stop using spotify now

the original Guild Wars is one of my favourite games of all time. There really is nothing else like it.

If your choice is between an existential risk to your organisation, vs being a fascist collaborator, and you make the difficult choice to be a collaborator... ...then you are still a collaborator.

Obviously this is impossible because Alan Moore looks like he's genetically a wizard, it's simply impossible to imagine what he would look like as a schoolboy oh there he is.

This 1998 Tove Jansson piece about the kind of mail she gets is uncomfortably familiar. (From The Woman Who Borrowed Memories, NYR Books)

Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread

Politician who fanned anti-LGBT sentiment stunned to find rising levels of anti-LGBT sentiment

nimone in textposts part 2

nimone in textposts part 1 (character depiction technique shamelessly stolen from @insecretplaces.com, play fledgling manor btw) #chymicalia

nimone in textposts part 1 (character depiction technique shamelessly stolen from @insecretplaces.com, play fledgling manor btw) #chymicalia

the bbc changed their article from saying 'trans woman' to saying 'biological male who identifies as a woman'. even if you don't care about trans ppl it should alarm you just how captured the bbc has become. they will no longer even say 'trans woman'. that's not normal and shows massive bias.

(getting paralyzed and wrapped up in Shelob's web) And is there a Helob?

Trans Theft Horso is everything indie games should be. A brilliant and unique experience, made by a singular weirdo with a dream.

We just found a bug where the line 'I want to destroy something' is part of EVERY set of dialogue choices in the game. Sadly, @hugobille.bsky.social fixed the bug, with some regret in his heart. Nevertheless, a relatable sentiment. #IndieGame #IndieDev #politics

Things have been kinda rough lately, and I keep missing #ScreenshotSaturday but have some new character art of a total shitbag. This is Olly, who used to bully you in school, and hasn't improved, since.

Best version to cross my feed so far…

Your Party is dead on arrival, isn't it? Genuinely considering joining the Green Party, because by the time a GE comes around they're gonna be the only game in town (especially in East Bristol). I've been burned before, but I didn't think we'd get a second shot at this in my lifetime.

On the podcast we've been banging the "write to your MP" drum for quite a while and the TransActual tool makes doing so really straightforward. Thrilled to see that it's had so many people using it but let's keep those letters coming!

CAT

UK Politics has just taken an unexpected turn...

parents PLEASE check your kid's candy this year. i just found a copy of "the elder scrolls: tribunal" in a snickers bar. that is NOT playable without the morrowind base game

have you ever created a video game mod to make characters "look better" (whatever that means to you)? i want to talk to you for an article i'm writing! get at me via maddymyerswrites at gmail dot com. or repost this if it's not you and you just wanna help me spread the word. thanks <3

the key to game design is to imagine the target audience for your game and then imagine how you would make them the most upset

Had to clamber over a barbed wire fence, rip my coat and trespass to get a photo of this folkloric monster pretending half-successfully to be a tree. I have no regrets.

If you're a writer, read outside the genre you write in, and read old stuff. Partly this expands your horizons but mostly it gives you stuff to rip off without anyone noticing.

Not to be whiny, but I would really like for something good to happen. On a personal level. On a national level. On a global level. One of all three.

it’s pretty rich to call people who are rude about chatbots bigoted when the entire AI apparatus mostly seems to revolve around creating an illusory servant class. if you think the chatbot you’re designing to kiss your ass and do your work for you is alive, what does that make you?

Wow. I‘m not sure which part of this is weirder: that they think Starmer’s rep might be worse than theirs, or that they might be right.

So we're going to force brown people to do unpaid labour against their will? The british do have previous on this one, but I think we gave it another name.

Slots are open for October Vtuber models! ko-fi.com/T6T3EC4Z/com...

I played this recently and it's fucking great. Funny, sexy and totally gripping.

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

It's all fun and games until a cop handles a Tylenol gelcap with no gloves and within seconds their socks are bothering them.

tfw i come on here to tell everyone i have a new, obscure soccer history deep dive coming soon

the notion that trans women have an advantage in sports is entirely made up and has no basis in science. it's based on the notion that trans women are cross-dressing cis men what little peer reviewed science that has been done shows that, if anything, trans women have a disadvantage over cis women

i am once again asking if you know that if you routinely sing to a cat while they're curled up on your chest they will learn that singing means cuddle time and come trotting over from wherever they are when you do. it's important that we get this message out to those who need it most

me: i can't make the time to watch a film also me: new 8 hour morrowind dev interview video!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdQm...