As someone who has moved country multiple times, it is now incredibly easy and cheap to keep in touch with friends & family who live a long way away! Long distance phone calls were unreliable & very expensive. VOIP, smart phones, group chats, video calls - amazing stuff.

Revan@revan.eurosky.social · 24h ago

So this is basically one of the entry points to becoming a reactionary

This is very much what I've found. Aside from crossover, I have learnt *how* to learn. I also have a lot more faith in my ability to learn things, which makes me much less prone to getting stressed and convincing myself I'm stuck or not making progress.

Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D.@sarahmackattack.bsky.social · yesterday

I'm weirdly finding that as I get older, it's easier to learn new skills, which is the opposite of what I thought was supposed to happen. I don't think we're giving enough credit to a lifetime of built skills. When new skills have overlap w/existing ones it greases the wheels for the new.

I was once trapped at a bank of desks while several coworkers (including my straight boss and the only openly gay man in our department) had a gleeful, lengthy conversation about how bi people were greedy sluts, and also just lying to themselves about their sexuality.

The Other Happy Place@theotherhappyplace.bsky.social · 4d ago

Being bi and always hearing evil discourse about how bi people suck it's always like Bi person:🧍 Everyone: BOOOO YOU NEED TO LEAVE.

I have too many ideas and keep splitting my time between them and then somehow I end up drawing trees instead of progressing the other things. I don't have any solid reason to be drawing trees.

(Caves of Qud voice) Ostranauts

EarthMachine@terramachina.bsky.social · last wk.

now this is making me think of ethical goat sous vide.

THEY TALKED TO THE COMPUTER IN STAR TREK BEACUSE ITS A *TV SHOW* AND YOU CANT HEAR WHAT SOMEONE IS TYPING NOT BEACUSE IT IS GOOD UX

Jay Tholen@jaytholen.net · 2w ago

one of those things that was cool in star trek but absolutely sucks now that it's real

This is a major reason I don't often love games set in medieval or fantasy medieval-ish settings. They're so brown! It's upsetting. I love actual medieval art & history and it's so much more interesting. (Also why Scriptorium & Pentiment are great.)

Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf@queermedieval.bsky.social · 3w ago

once again saying that the concept of color did, in fact, exist during the middle ages. you can dye stuff with plants!! there is noooooo reason that everything should be brown and grey and beholden to the raw color of the materials, please put a speck of color in there

Thanks, For You feed.

Trying to draw or paint at least every other day, lately. I like how this one turned out. Copic markers & ink. #art

It's not enough to be against AI, you need to be pro art. You need to be a champion of the art you love, you need to share that passion and joy, and do what you can to support the artists who make it, because it's not enough to hate AI, to hate what it's doing to art and media; you gotta love.

In the week and a half I've not been doing my day job I have made & released my first Caves of Qud mod, started to learn watercolour, ordered most of the critical kit for what I'm going to be doing instead of my old job, and helped identify the cause of a bug in an early access game.

One thing I'm excited for in my new life is getting to live on my own schedule. I walked into my office as the sun was setting and left as it was rising. That wasn't as many hours as it sounds, fuck this latitude in the summer. (It was still pretty nice though.)

On the up side to losing my job, my first Caves of Qud mod is coming along nicely. :D (It's been extended! There's still time!)

Kitfox Games 🦊@kitfoxgames.com · last mo.

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Well this is going to live in my brain rent free forever

🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮@unormal.bsky.social · 4w ago

smashing a hexagon into the users face is absolutely how i visualize software engineering though

From my last trip to Rievaulx; this place both soothes & inspires me.

The Churchyard's Watchful Protector

Nature and Slate

Some of the fields in Wharram Percy (a deserted medieval village) retained the names of the streets that occupied the same space hundreds of years before. Hundreds of years of people calling a pasture or field "Town Street."

Look at that fog. I mean, look at all of it, but then look at the fog some more.

George Outhwaite@georgeouthwaite.bsky.social · last mo.

Midday paintings Spring/Summer/Autumn/Winter

I backed it but didn't have enough mental energy to play immediately, but holy shit 868-BACK is good. I've barely scraped the surface but it's super satisfying when you get a good chain of progs going.

The next Caves of Qud mod jam starts this Wednesday July 1st! Learn how to mod in a welcoming, beginner-friendly event. Sign up: itch.io/jam/caves-of...

Very topical for me at the moment. Honestly I've been pretty damn lucky up to now, I've always been in the right industry for the time, and on the right side of any mergers or restructures. My luck had to give out eventually. I wanted to quit anyway, but goddamn is this part of the process grim.

🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮@unormal.bsky.social · last mo.

with ai people are like ur gonna just train your replacement?? and ever enterprise software dev since the 90s is like

Some say Rodents Of Unusual Size (R.O.U.S.'s) don't exist in the Fire Swamps, but they certainly exist on the island of Luzon in the Philippines. Let's meet the cloudwalkers, the shy tree-dwelling rats of Luzon & adjacent islands in the chain. (📷: St. Louis Zoo)

Listen and drink, friends! We're ECSTATIC to bring you the Caves of Qud OST on vinyl, in collaboration with @stumpyfrog.bsky.social and Lost in Cult. Gorgeous original gatefold art by @stvulture.bsky.social. Triple LP. Pre-orders open now: www.lostincult.co.uk/shop/p/caves...

re: AC in the UK, I feel like people may not grasp what a clusterfuck this country is. Housing is a nightmare here and we have all sorts of logistics issues, especially since Brexit. Our government has been beyond useless for years. You can't expect things to progress in a rational manner.

As a kid I had 2 teddy bears that would record a few seconds of audio and play it back to you. I realised I could set them off "talking" to each other, which would quickly decline into an awful screeching sound as the audio degraded on each pass. Anyway, here are chat bots "conversing."

rahaeli@rahaeli.bsky.social · last mo.

One of the currently more active threads is hilarious because a few agents got caught in mutual ass-kissing loops: www.moltbook.com/post/b8619e4...

This is fair, and probably close to where I am as well. People have a tendency to turn deep convictions into ideological purity things, and it's understandable, but I do think it's important to be able to discuss the details, and that often means accepting information you find distasteful.

🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮@unormal.bsky.social · last mo.

I think the truth is im extremely anti ai but I cannot be a member of the *faith based* anti ai movement, and at *most* may be aligned in coalition.

My hermit crab is finished! It might be one of my favorite things I’ve made so far and I can’t part with it just yet. It was a fun challenge! #ceramicart

The 6th day of Steams NextFest has arrived! 65 Demos completed, and SO MANY MORE to try! #indiegames #steamnextfest #twitchclips