✎⋆⑅˚₊ APPLICATIONS OPEN! ⋆⑅˚₊ New classes this Fall at the School for Poetic Computation! This season's classes invite us to connect with the transformative power of experimentation. Apply by Fri, Aug 7 at 11:59pm ET 🔗 sfpc.study/sessions/fal...
toddwords
@toddwords.bsky.social
Co-Director @sfpc.study // Developer of Bub // Host of wordhack // nyc internet poet
I have an announcement! I'm going to be teaching at the School For Poetic Computation this autumn! Want to spend time thinking about how to make tools that help people make things? We could do that together. sfpc.study/sessions/fal...
School for Poetic Computation
The School for Poetic Computation is an experimental school in New York City supporting interdisciplinary study in art, code, hardware and critical theory. It's a place for learning and unlearning.
sfpc.study
Hey, New Yorkers: Mayor Mamdani is recreating the city's digital service, after Mayor Adams destroyed it. They're hiring devs, designers, and product folks to work on-site in Brooklyn, starting now. You don't even have to be a city resident. Get on it!
NYC PIT Crew
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"BECOME A GREAT ARTIST IN JUST 10 SECONDS" The award-winning game/glitchy art program @smestorp.bsky.social and I made in 2013 has now been rereleased on Itch for modern OSes. Try it out!, and make sure to tell any friends you want to play a weird prank on mermaidindustries.itch.io/become-a-gre...
Alright, heres the round up of some of my highlights from Summer Game Fest. Shout out to Bub, Blood Dungeon, and End of Abyss. There’s another really good one I can’t talk about yet, but stay tuned in the next few weeks. www.polygon.com/best-games-s...
The best games we played at Summer Game Fest
Including Control, Onimusha, and more
polygon.com
A lot of people you take seriously say Bub is a serious game to watch! theindieinformer.com/2026/06/12/b...
Bub Is Summer Game Fest’s Surprise Best In Show
Get weird.
theindieinformer.com
I’ll do a proper list later this week, but my very clear game of the show for Summer Game Fest (in terms of stuff I played) was BUB. store.steampowered.com/app/4762110/...
I’ll do a proper list later this week, but my very clear game of the show for Summer Game Fest (in terms of stuff I played) was BUB. store.steampowered.com/app/4762110/...
Bub on Steam
A narrative adventure game about turning your memories into art while you still can. Made with slashes of ink and paint and thousands of cut paper pieces, Bub is a deeply personal, living, breathing g...
store.steampowered.com
You guys like indie games? Here are 11 of the best from Summer Game Fest 2026. postmode.substack.com/p/best-indie...
I Watched Every Summer Game Fest Showcase. Here Are the Best Indie Games On My Wishlist.
Fifteen indie showcases, hours upon hours of trailers. Here are the games that stopped me in my tracks alongside links to wishlist them before the algorithm swallows them whole.
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Big things are happening at SFPC this Summer! Join us online & in-person for: ✾ Online classes ✽ In-person workshops ✾ Free public talks ✽ Prom & graduation ✾ and our Future Schools Residency at the National Academy of Design! Browse the full program at sfpc.study
Save the date! Poetic Promenade is SFPC’s first large-scale community fundraiser: a two-day celebration that reimagines prom and graduation through art, code, and collective care. ∗ June 20 & 21 at Roulette, Brooklyn. Invitations, tickets, and full details coming soon!
New project out as part of the latest issue of The HTML Review 🐍 Kp'ọjọ kp'ọjọ is an interactive folktale that unveils itself as you learn words in Itsẹkiri. kpojo.world/story
Kp'ọjọ
An interactive narrative written in Itsẹkiri that is unveiled as you learn words from the language.
kpojo.world
I'm co-teaching a 2-day in-person workshop at @sfpc.study: "How To Find What You Are Looking For". sfpc.study/sessions/spr... "How can data collection be leveraged for liberatory, poetic, or critical ends? How can artists make use of techniques deployed by private investigators?"
School for Poetic Computation
The School for Poetic Computation is an experimental school in New York City supporting interdisciplinary study in art, code, hardware and critical theory. It's a place for learning and unlearning.
sfpc.study
5PM-6PM ET: @chadtoprak.bsky.social joins us from around the world to showcase the unfinished adventure game, Escape from Woomera 6PM-7PM: @toddwords.bsky.social taps in to play the OG Magic computer game experience, Magic: The Gathering (Microprose, 1997)
Do you feel like the internet isn’t fun anymore? Want to spend more time on websites not affiliated with massive corporations? Then this is the class for you! Join us for HTTPoetics, taught by @toddwords.bsky.social >>> sfpc.study/sessions/win...
Last day to apply to our Fall classes eligible for extended application!
APPLICATIONS EXTENDED UNTIL THURSDAY at 11:59pm ET! You can still apply to three Fall classes: 🃏 Poetics & Politics of Sampling ♦️ OOPS! (Off-Purpose Software) 🃏 Interrogating Computational Approaches to Art ༻ Apply at forms.gle/hp5phtw1sPum... Scholarships available!
a poem a day keeps the blues away I’ve been collecting the poems I read in this Google sheets spreadsheet site. Each emoji opens to a new poem link. This map has been handcrafted for the past 2 years on and off, and I hope you will share your favorite poems -> 💌
many thanks to internet archive always, but especially since may 14th when they launched a lofi beats to scan / archive microfiche to www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPg2...
lofi Archive radio 🎞️ beats to scan/read microfiche to
YouTube video by Internet Archive
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We’re hiring a Program Coordinator at SFPC! If you’re organized, collaborative, and enthusiastic about art, technology, and alternative education, we’d love to hear from you. This is a full-time (4 days/week) role based in New York. 🔗 Read the full job description here: sfpc.study/blog/program...
i keep websites on my keychain in stone & clay charms they bring me a lot of joy & i get to share that with other people when i meet them
SFPC is visiting London and YOU’RE invited to join us for an Open Projector! ⋆✴︎˚。⋆ Come in, plug in and share a poem, essay, talk, or idea in progress for 5 mins! ✏︎ Hosted by @toddwords.bsky.social in the @thecommonpress.bsky.social at Shoreditch ✐ RSVP: withfriends.co/event/23367219
“What are the politics of grinding? Grinding is the copium of liberal democracy: enough small instances of inoffensive protest and general decorum will gradually push society to Max Level.” —“The Anxiety of Grinding” by @toddwords.bsky.social. evergreenreview.com/read/the-anx...
[DAS VIDEOSPIEL] The Anxiety of Grinding
Evergreen Review
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Applications for Summer classes close tomorrow at 11:59pm! Apply now: sfpc.study
Announcing SUMMER 2025 at SFPC! 𓇢 Like mycelium overtaking old circuits, these programs invite slowness, subversion, & speculative reassembly. Maybe it’s time old code returns to soil, fertilizing what’s taking root. 🍃🍃 Read the full program (including classes + weekend intensives) at sfpc.study
Excited to share my first published piece of games criticism, "The Anxiety of Grinding", about grinding in metaphor refantazio and more broadly. Proud to be part of the launch of games at the evergreen review with so many other great writers! evergreenreview.com/read/the-anx...
[DAS VIDEOSPIEL] The Anxiety of Grinding
Evergreen Review
evergreenreview.com
The new issue of The HTML Review is here! Twelve pieces of poetry, fiction, essays, and experiments, all of which use and explore the world wide web as medium. The table of contents as always designed by my brilliant co-editor Shelby thehtml.review/04/
the html review 04
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WordHack is next Thursday 3/20 at 7pm at @wonderville.nyc with an all star lineup of Maya Man, @herdimasanggara.bsky.social, Ruben Son, Blair Johnson and Luke Williams as well as the Open Projector. $15. withfriends.co/event/229813...
3/20 - WordHack feat. Maya Man, Herdimas Anggara, Reuben Son, Blair Johnson & Luke Williams by Wonderville
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