infuriating is reading the same stuff from an author pre ai boom and post ai boom and the post books just drop the occasional extremely stock ai phrase bc it was obviously used for editing and come on i know you can write!! you did other books!!!
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@guattari2600.bsky.social
games data analyst/business planner looking for work streamer, writer, ex-academia leftist all opinions here are mine alone she/they streaming notifs at https://bsky.app/profile/helloitsmou.se new to toronto!
it’s the goal of every streamer to eventually somehow fuck up so colossally that you have to automod “human rights” in your chat
I'm not sure it matters in the slightest anymore, but it's clear that a ton of people have still never seen the full comic.
It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.
(don't say Rigor Tortoise don't say Rigor Tortoise) wow looking very alive sir
whatcha thinkin?
having a normal time with the highest rated french flashcard deck online
So with the news of the layoffs at KO_OP, I'm officially looking for work later this fall. I'm an experienced narrative designer that's worked on both sprawling open world stories and intimate cinematic narratives, even netting some award wins and noms. More details on my experience below!
casey kept going under my computer chair so i got him another cardboard sleeper to sit next to me. it is hard to believe he’s 16 he’s too cute
very happy that unionizing is taking off in the games industry, also want to lie down and cry because i did so much foundational work on it and it’s only taking off after i lost my job and got put in a scary precarious position i have no clear way out of
after owning a house for so long my brain has invented a new kind of anxiety called “terror of asking my landlord for anything ever because he might hate me and i don’t have a job so i have no hope of finding another place to live” so you can imagine the fear when my washing machine stopped working
Came to a realization that I had only a cursory, but specific definition of what the eponymous "petard" one could be hoisted by might be, and that when asked someone else had a a different, but also very specific definition in mind. So who wants to answer a survey? forms.gle/Zy39YXZc9e4a...
What is a "petard" and how doth one get hoisted by one?
No personal information is collected, you can contact @bulder on discord or bulder.fi at bluesky for more details
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got a bit of good/fun news today: i got a spot on the narrative committee for the game developers choice awards! im on da jury baby
BOURDAIN (voiceover): I found myself surrounded by discarded objects. An empty soda can, a dead battery. Life becomes death. But death can become life. The simmering pot with its spicy aroma in front of me is proof. BOURDAIN: What's in this dish? ME: Pikmin BOURDAIN: Pikmin. Oh man that's good.
Congratulations @abdulelsayed.bsky.social! Outspent 11 to 1, Abdul proved that people-powered campaigns can still beat big money. Michiganders chose hope over fear, and a future rooted in dignity, justice, and opportunity.
It’s ya girl! This is Lamia. She’s a normal character with normal motivations and normal levels of repressed emotions.
In 1950 Ray Bradbury wrote a short story called "There Will Come Soft Rains" that is set on August 4, 2026. His work continues to be prescient: www.btboces.org/Downloads/7_...
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finally finished the project that’s taken like the last 100 hours of my free time, gonna do a baby blanket or something next i need a break from all that (it’s for a wedding, piano only wearing it temporarily)
blue sky is oppressing me and not letting me upload a picture
One day left until Fields of Mistria 1.0! ✨
It is my 50th birthday today. To celebrate, gift yourself a kindness that you feel you may not deserve.
week 3 unemployment and im hitting the zany emote emotionally every 5 minutes
someone made a weird stalker post about me on reddit and the worst part is they got almost everything wrong. why can’t people who hate me put an honest days work in
pleased to announce that i got a bed frame and no longer have to kill my back by sleeping on a mattress on the floor like im a college freshman
there’s an evil fucked up world where i didn’t move to toronto and instead stayed in my house in pittsburgh locked indoors supporting myself through a job hunt by streaming. my condolences to her