The pleasures & perils of nostalgia & reference, the importance of identifying real play vs gamified labor, & whether the internet used to be fun: @matthewleggatt.bsky.social of @utopiaanddystopia.bsky.social joins to discuss Ernest Cline’s READY PLAYER ONE!
I’ve had the same editor since 1967. Many times he has said to me over the years or asked me, Why would you use a semicolon instead of a colon? And many times over the years I have said to him things like: I will never speak to you again. Forever. Goodbye. That is it. Thank you very much. And I leave. Then I read the piece and I think of his suggestions. I send him a telegram that says, OK, so you’re right. So what? Don’t ever mention this to me again. If you do, I will never speak to you again
Maya Angelou on the joys of being edited
« Désolé, ça va couper, là. »
It's been so interesting to watch this unfold. Barnes & Noble and other big book chains shut indies down in the the 1990s (and on) and then Amazon came along and ate up all the book market share. Now people tired of big corporations are creating demand for more indies
Why do the Japanese like their buns askew (2026)
I'm going to run for president in 2028 and one of my Day 1 promises is I'm going to hire a couple big bald guys whose only job is to hurl corrupt pols out of public buildings like bouncers ejecting surly drunks, and then yell "and STAY out" at them as they tumble down the steps.
Why was I invited to Beast Studios?
youtu.be/0dwagg5wYY4
Why does this sound like a gen z pep talk
Wait wait I havent told you about the best part! Disney just fired 1000 of their employees, mostly artists, and replaced them with AI that copies their art. What a time to be alive, fellas!
Un de ses traducteurs* :)
Merci pour l'accueil, et ravi que ce jeu exceptionnel vous ait plu (enfin, ait plu à la majorité d'entre vous :p)
Chuckie from Good Will Hunting, played by Ben Affleck, asking "You know what the best part of my day is?"
Chuckie from Good Will Hunting, played by Ben Affleck, saying "It's for about ten seconds: from when I open BlueSky and it's broken and I'm waiting for it to load."
Chuckie from Good Will Hunting, played by Ben Affleck: "'Cause I think maybe it'll never load and they'll never fix it and you won't be there."
Now that's nice.
Parfois, des choses légales et prévues par la loi/procédure inspirent des questions sur l'utilité d'un outil démocratique mis à disposition du citoyen.
#classement de la pétition
#LoiYadan
You load 16 books, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
St. Peter, don't you call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the weird fiction store
If you think you're an old curmudgeon, read this and think again.
Yes please.
![zackeryatlas 12h
The degradation of society:
1. Celebrating the k!lling of a CEO
2. Cheering on warehouse arsons
3. Making heroes out of people who attempt political violence
You can be outraged at the system and still not glorify violence. These aren't wins. This is a society losing its moral compass.
[Coming from a liberal btw]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hyyqshfmzarjhybykciopfw6/bafkreibvxieeck5nrvv6es6yaj2slxhtlioxx6ky4oadrs7st35tl5irjq)
zackeryatlas 12h The degradation of society: 1. Celebrating the k!lling of a CEO 2. Cheering on warehouse arsons 3. Making heroes out of people who attempt political violence You can be outraged at the system and still not glorify violence. These aren't wins. This is a society losing its moral compass. [Coming from a liberal btw]
I don’t know how people keep forgetting that workers rights were entirely written in blood and the capital class had to be threatened with violence before they agreed to things like 8 hour working days and 2 day weekends.
Get his ass, Your Holiness
Let's have a pope who's strong on nuclear weapons. Full 40k, a gilded baroque nuke in St. Peters. Replace that obelisk with an ICBM launcher, and call it the Holy Sword of Azrael. Jesuits with rangefinders.
"Transubstantiate this," mutters Leo as he turns the Key of St. Peter. "Fiat fucking lux."
Your Kindle's not obsolete, it just needs a jailbreak — and I'll show you how it's done
You can transform your old Kindle — even a bricked device — into the ultimate open-source reader. Here's how.
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Broken Glass cracks frame alternating portraits of a young caucasian man and woman
Broken Glass cracks frame alternating portraits of a young caucasian man and woman
Broken Glass cracks frame alternating portraits of a young caucasian man and woman. The portraits are surrounded by a swirling marble texture
Broken Glass cracks frame alternating portraits of a young caucasian man and woman. The portraits are surrounded by blooming flowers
Artwork I painted +sketches for "Come Out of the Closet" by Olga Ptitseva
ORBÁN CONCEDED
"Unique" => lulz
Love low poly pigeon
thank you so much for ✨ 40,000 WISHLISTS ✨ in 24 hours!!
that’s almost how many wishlists our previous game, 1000xRESIST, gained in two years!
we’re so happy to be able to continue making narrative-first games, with the support of players who love them 💖
a complex biosphere in vivid color in an illustrative style inside a circle and outside all white with shadow, with suggestion of complex ferns and other vegetation; art by rogan brown
Thrilled that my first new short story in several years, "Constellations," about astronauts crashlanding on a distant planet, has been published by the @technologyreview.com. Acquiring editor Rachel Cortland. Art by Rogan Brown. Free link to avoid the paywall: ter.li/r3tbrsgr
Couverture de traduire au futur, quand la traductologie rencontre la SF, un super essai signé Alice Ray
Yo !
Gloire et félicité, le tout nouveau Parallaxe Traduire au futur de Alice Ray est sorti aujourd'hui en librairie.
C'est toujours Cedric Bucaille qui illustre avec ggtude.
Qu'attendez-vous ?
Here's my massive interview with Sunset Visitor and Black Tabby Games - where we dive into the AI stories in literature colliding with the state of "AI" in 2026, how the CAPTCHA system is an "act of violence," and the ever ongoing funding for indies issue www.cgmagonline.com/interviews/1...
We've started our own publishing label to support other indies! And our first announced title is @sunsetvisitor.studio's second game.
AND we've got something secret cooking in the oven with @smallbu.bsky.social to be revealed at a later date!
Read more here: medium.com/p/500708c30a38