After talking to a young writer last night, I want to remind you all that it's okay to write without an assignment or goal. Write to explore a new technique, get an idea out of your head, or as emotional exhalation. Write for the raw joy of it. For you alone. It doesn't need to go into a portfolio

After talking to a young writer last night, I want to remind you all that it's okay to write without an assignment or goal. Write to explore a new technique, get an idea out of your head, or as emotional exhalation. Write for the raw joy of it. For you alone. It doesn't need to go into a portfolio

Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...

Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...

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If you live near Spokane, please consider your yard a wildlife corridor for animals pushed out of the forest by wildfire. Give them space and place large water bowls or buckets or a baby pool on your property for them. This photo was taken by my friend Stephani near Colville National Forest.

How beautiful are these handmade creatures by kinetic artist and paper sculptor Lucy Jean Green! #beautifulbizarre #papersculpture #art

I got to write--just write--most of the day yesterday for work. I loved it. Why can't every day be that fun??

There is no version of yourself you could become that would satisfy the people who hate you. So you might as well be who you are.

Travel deep enough into the Backrooms and you will find Bjork.

@pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 2d ago

Björk in 1996, by Takashi Homma

She got a tv eye on me She got a tv eye

LOOK! Mirri is ON the chair, not under it. I bought this chair solely for her to sit on and watch the birds, but she's been afraid of it until today. Such progress!

Had some intense meetings with my writing team all last week followed by several nights of socializing in a row, and it *destroyed* me. I've been a boneless lump on the sofa all weekend. I hate to be the cliche of the reclusive writer but WELP. Here I am

I finished my blanket (at long last!) and all that's left is adding a border. But the border is like 15x harder to crochet than the actual blanket wtf daisyfarmcrafts.com/double-croch...

Sunday morning cat TV, Mirri's favorite

In response to the unprecedented number of game developers laid off this year, we have created a bundle on itch to benefit a Game Industry Hardship Fund, managed by @videogameworkers.bsky.social. More than 100 games for 10+ bucks! Please share widely and donate generously! itch.io/b/3802/game-...

🎉 IT'S LIVE 🎉 The game industry hardship fund itch bundle made in partnership with @necrosoftgames.com is HERE. Over 100 games for $10+ bucks: all funds (save for itch fees) go directly to the UVW-CWA Game Worker Hardship Fund. GOOD GAMES FOR A GOOD CAUSE👇 itch.io/b/3802/game-...

This is the nerdiest party I've ever been to. I love it

This is the nerdiest party I've ever been to. I love it

Fucking prophetic line

Tomorrow, Saturday August 1st, is Stationery Store Day. Many shops are having special offers; see the list at this site. stationerystoreday.org

Stationery Store Day

Stationery Store Day

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obsessed with the font on IKEA's clam chowder packaging. this is what's in the freezer on the Nostromo

A Lady

Here is an important way you can make a real difference in the lives of laid off game workers.

Brandon Sheffield@brandon.insertcredit.com · 6d ago

In response to the unprecedented number of game developers laid off this year, we have created a bundle on itch to benefit a Game Industry Hardship Fund, managed by @videogameworkers.bsky.social. More than 100 games for 10+ bucks! Please share widely and donate generously! itch.io/b/3802/game-...

Hello! For a potential piece on Eurogamer, I would love to know what cool little things people in and around games are working on. Not full games, but fun, interesting, weird projects or side projects. Things you're noodling around with, things you just think are neat. Replies/reposts very welcome!

The DoubleFine layoffs hit me hard. They've survived the worst ups & downs of this industry for my entire career, somehow always hanging on & continuing to make their weird, fun little games. Their current precarity hits hard. The games industry has been gutted. The AAA space is unrecognizable to me

Why is everything so transparently evil now?

I knew this would happen to DoubleFine as soon as I heard the Msft news. So fuckin sad ☹️☹️☹️

Don’t feel pressured into changing the way you write because of these unbearable plagiarism machines. Fuck LLMs, and fuck being influenced by them.

Kevin@reginageorgebush.bsky.social · last wk.

one impact of LLMs is that everyone's sentences are organically shorter now. even mine! while in my case that's unreservedly a good thing as I tend towards run-ons, for most people it...isn't

We're just past 250% funded! Want to have more psychic rodents in your life? Then check out the LAIR OF THE RAT KINGS crowdfunder! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/o...

Lair of the Rat Kings TTRPG Book for Realms of Pugmire

Adventure in the underground world with the uplifted mice and rats who live there and those who rule those domains - the Rat Kings! Help us create this latest book for the Realms of Pugmire TTRPG in P...

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Really good piece from @alexspencerdale.bsky.social on videogames' recent fascination with the Backrooms and liminal spaces in general. www.theguardian.com/games/2026/j...

Glitched into empty space: why video games are obsessed with the Backrooms

The horror movie sensation of 2026 has its roots in gaming’s discovery of ‘noclip’ – and the hidden virtual realms that could be opened up inside games. Developers explain how everyone got lost in the...

theguardian.com