Lydia Choy
@choy.bsky.social
Exploring sculpture and ceramics. Former director of Substance Modeler, Adobe Medium, games and film vfx.
"Indies will save us" No! YOU WILL SAVE INDIES! Go leave a review for that neat indie game you like, share the trailer for an upcoming game you're anticipating, tell your fave developer they did a good job, go tell people about such and such game that's just come out, you can make a difference!
Tales of everyday corruption. Pete Hegseth cancelled the $400,000 contract for making uniforms for the Blue Angels on the grounds that the contract with "The Sewing Box" was DEI since the firm is Black-owned. Instead, he awarded it to a Trump donor for $1,690,000, a 325% price increase!
We need a name for when the Overton Window for a problem doesn’t include mention of its primary cause. e.g. * Articles about extreme weather that don’t mention climate change * …about the loneliness epidemic that don’t mention the decline of walkable urbanism www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/h...
How Americans Became Less Connected
Plus, the start of a series on the opposite of violence.
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This test piece was inspired by a bronze mixed-media sculpture I saw in a museum. Unglazed porcelain + embroidery thread. #pottery
She was Hayao Miyazaki's "right-hand" collaborator from the '70s onward. Her name was Michiyo Yasuda -- the best color designer in animation. Yasuda's eye for color gave Ghibli's work a totally different look. We explore her methods: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-artist...
Well, this article is incredibly depressing for cooking enthusiasts. The short version: private equity has, over the last couple of decades, quietly bought up most of the classic brands you’ve heard of and then traded on their names while drastically cutting quality and closing American factories
@laperry2.bsky.social · 4w ago
This sucks on so many levels. False representation for the artist and big corps attempting to normalize GenAI by suggesting EVERYTHING is made with it.
Ian McQue@ianmcque.bsky.social · 4w agoA new example of Meta shithousery. This is a post of mine on Instagram (left). Click the dots top right and this advisory note appears (right). I never use ai, never will. Why would they do this? Who benefits? Are they just trying to make viewers think everything is genAI so they just accept it?
This large porcelain tile ended up having a crack on the left side but still turned out pretty neat. #pottery
Live your life so that when you die, people will remember you fondly like Sam Neill, instead of making explosive diarrhea jokes at your expense like Lindsey Graham 🤗
“What I loved about Senator Lindsey Graham is that we belonged to the same social class”
Elizabeth Warren@warren.senate.gov · last mo.I got to know Senator Lindsey Graham traveling with him abroad in Afghanistan and Ukraine. We had just met to renew the fight for our Big Tech bill. Even though we disagreed on much, he was always willing to negotiate, with humor and wit. My heart goes out to his loved ones.
It has been criminally underreported but Kelsey Pfendler has just rowed solo across the Pacific Ocean from the US coast to Hawaii in record time. A 2,400-mile unsupported journey in 43 days, 17 hours, and 55 minutes. Notably beating the Men’s record by 9 whole days.
ICE is engaged in a very large escalation nationwide, with the agency claiming to be hitting record arrest numbers amid the return of quotas. This has gotten very little attention from the media because ICE learned lessons from the chaotic disasters of Kristi Noem’s tenure. Keep a watch.
WA Whistles@wawhistles.bsky.social · last mo.ICE is surging in the Seattle area. (Map shows activity in the last week) Do you have your whistle with you?
the thing about that double fine matt booty clip is you gotta understand that once you work for a certain size of company you have to have a meeting with someone that annoying at least once a week possibly more
Le Guin on the idea that there is a secret to getting good at writing.
Yesterday while driving in the PNW I saw a bald eagle flying over the highway being chased by a raven.
The REAL hero of T2... the tech bro who actually heeded the warnings from the future.
Sophia_Nyx 🐰@sophianyx.bsky.social · 2mo agoName a character that deserves more love from fans than they get.
explaining vim as "what if the Backrooms was a text editor"
Stacking might be my favorite Double Fine game. It's a tribute to silent film, and a metroidvania, and an adventure game, and a combinatorial systems sandbox?? And the art direction holds up well over a decade later. store.steampowered.com/app/115110/S...
Save 80% on Stacking on Steam
Embark on an adventure to rescue Charlie’s family from the nefarious industrialist known only as the 'Baron.'
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Such good news. Human beings are capable of magical and wonderful things. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Cervical cancer deaths fall to zero in young women given HPV vaccine
A new study finds that hundreds of lives have been saved since school-age girls were offered the HPV jab in 2008.
bbc.co.uk