Please do yourself a favour and watch Tyne & Wear Metro the Musical

Every time I go to Newcastle I think about and listen to the masterpiece that is Tyne & Wear Metro the musical and I'm forever grateful to @hollynielsen.bsky.social for mentioning it on a podcast once #SubterraneanYoYo youtu.be/l5v3IbidCrI?...

I have absolutely no instincts when it comes to DIY. My partner’s away, the plug in the bathroom sink is stuck closed and the sink has water in it. So my brain just went to “well this is it. It’s stuck forever” Never occurred to me until I googled that I could just… soak up the water

Here I am with my “sports trophy” (Yes that was the name of it. Just generic “sports”)

I’m very happy to be one of the writers who contributed a story to this wild game… A surrealist tactical narrative game? Who can resist that?

Kitfox Games 🦊@kitfoxgames.com · last wk.

We're taking a trip to hell, but some of us won't make it back... Gather your party and join us when Thousand Hells: The Underworld Heists by @radiofreelunch.bsky.social releases on September 8th 😈 store.steampowered.com/app/3794210/...

It’s nice that despite the fact I’m now working full time in game development (though with history involved in ways I can’t talk about yet), other academics still reach out about publishing research and contributing to publications. Thank you for not forgetting about me and my research 🥲

While away at the weekend I read that Jacqueline Wilson book about the character from Girls in Love being grown up (I wanted a breezy read for by the pool). I read her books constantly when I was younger, so reading this and her using the phrase “sexy frock” felt like seeing an old relative.

If you see this, quote the energy you bring to bluesky

𝐆𝐑𝐈𝐌 @ BAD OMEN ᴰᴱᴹᴼ@gcbaccaris.itch.io · 2d ago

if you see this, quote the energy you bring to bluesky

“It also detected an “unintended consequence” of the ban: the proportion of parents who didn’t know their child had used social media increased by 10%.” Well who could have possibly seen that happening.

Ben Schwarz@benschwarz.bsky.social · 2d ago

Australia’s eSafety commissioner buried a report (released Friday afternoon) that shows the under 16 social media ban didn’t tangibly reduce teen social media use, and also resulted in parents tuning out of kids usage. We traded our privacy for no reason. theconversation.com/more-than-80...

Between this, no air con, a touch of tonsillitis, and over 20 unbearably itchy bug bites… it was not the best night’s sleep.

Lovely

Bonjour petit chien

I think green might be my colour

The last three weddings I’ve been to have been in Greece, Spain, and now the south of France. All in summer. Please, this needs to stop, I’m too pale

My partner looking hot (Both as in attractive and also because we’re at a wedding in the south of France)

We scrub up pretty well

At a family wedding for the weekend which means it’s time to 🌟slightly dread having to explain what your job is 🌟

It’s this gross freaks time to shine

Brandy Zadrozny@brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 6d ago

Someone posted this in slack and I actually thought it was The Onion. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Fool King is now on Steam to Wishlist! store.steampowered.com/app/4380860/...

Fool King on Steam

Dethrone the Fool King in this tactical autobattler with asynchronous PvP! Amass your troops, apply powerful upgrades and set your battle formations. Watch your plans come together or fall apart in fr...

store.steampowered.com

This is such a good game and it has a lovely team behind it! (Also, *love* the trailer) Huge congrats @lootdonkey.bsky.social !

Firefly Studios (Official)@fireflystudios.bsky.social · 7d ago

💀 FOOL KING 💀 Dethrone the Fool King in this tactical autobattler with asynchronous PvP! We are extremely excited to announce that Firefly Studios have gone into game publishing, with our first game coming from the stellar @lootdonkey team. TRAILER: youtu.be/E5r5bKE5CWY

Digitisation is great, but whenever I see people being like “yeah digitise everything, then you don’t need the originals!!” I despair. Even if you’re not interested in material culture, how *wildly* arrogant to think outcomes of digitisation are not as (if not more) vulnerable to decay and loss.

I really appreciate the sentiment of this, but it’s probably not “all” the studios. As I’m certain there are many that refuse to use it but also have no idea this list exists/aren’t active on places like Bluesky…

Aftermath@aftermath.site · 7d ago

All the video game studios that refuse to use generative AI aftermath.site/video-games-no...

We're taking a trip to hell, but some of us won't make it back... Gather your party and join us when Thousand Hells: The Underworld Heists by @radiofreelunch.bsky.social releases on September 8th 😈 store.steampowered.com/app/3794210/...

I haven’t even read the Odyseey piece yet, or seen the film, but I do find people being like “it shouldn’t be 4000 words!!” A bit funny because it’s like… I see you are new to LRB

I’m very happy to be one of the writers who contributed a story to this wild game… A surrealist tactical narrative game? Who can resist that?

Kitfox Games 🦊@kitfoxgames.com · last wk.

We're taking a trip to hell, but some of us won't make it back... Gather your party and join us when Thousand Hells: The Underworld Heists by @radiofreelunch.bsky.social releases on September 8th 😈 store.steampowered.com/app/3794210/...

If I spend too long thinking about that as parts of the world literally burn and heatwaves are commonplace, governments are ditching climate pledges… I will lose my mind.

Migraine last night and today battling yet another 33 degree London day with added sertraline heat intolerance I need this summer to end please

Really looking forward to this!

Writers' Guild of Great Britain@writersguildgb.bsky.social · last wk.

Come to our free event in London on 13 Aug on editing videogames + hear from our expert panel @cashdecuir.bsky.social @hollynielsen.bsky.social @coreybrotherson.bsky.social + WGGB Games Co-Chair @flom.bsky.social 7-8.30pm (non-members welcome too!) Register forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...

Come to our free event in London on 13 Aug on editing videogames + hear from our expert panel @cashdecuir.bsky.social @hollynielsen.bsky.social @coreybrotherson.bsky.social + WGGB Games Co-Chair @flom.bsky.social 7-8.30pm (non-members welcome too!) Register forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...

Can’t believe an expert had an informed nuance take on something in the place that published informed nuanced takes from experts