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A particular favourite in the messages left in the memory garden today.

Two people sitting on the floor in front of a projected black and white image. There are some urns around them with candles in front.

Tamagotchi Seance #3: Memory Garden is on show at Voidspace Strange Play this weekend. Lots of little pots with memories inside, and a big garden to leave some of your own. @voidspacezine.bsky.social

One of my hands-down favourite games/performances/artworks of the last couple of years is Chris Diffin's The Invisible Casino. I still really know how to win, but I've seen it happen.

Amy Godliman and Paul Hayes have crystallised a particular feeling of distant memory and childhood nostalgia into a perfect diorama.

The Book Ritual is one of those games that people tell me about so much and so I was delighted to be able to actually play it finally. I love a melancholy office appliance. Especially when it looks like this:

Some favourites include this unhinged LinkedIn-limbo game from George Larkwright.

Day one of @voidspacezine.bsky.social Strange Play is almost up. What a brilliant selection of works. In terms of seeing genuinely surprising and genre-breaking games, it's been first rate.

Tamagotchi Seance #3 Memory Garden by Nick Murray | Winter Residencies 2026 | Watershed YouTube video by Watershed

The incredible Jon Aitken and Jack Offord, absolute wizards of film-craft, made a little video about me and my time on the @wshed.bsky.social @pmstudiouk.bsky.social Winter Residency. You can hear a little about my Tamagotchi memorial space game. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BKU...

And a little bit of Tamagotchi Seance #4. What started as one idea spun out to be two different pieces. This one is a webserver poetry sequence that you are invited to leave a little memory to be displayed onscreen when you're done.

A few snaps of Tamagotchi Seance #3 from Saturday at Pervasive Media Studio. So lovely to share these early ideas with players. Everyone at @wshed.bsky.social is unendingly generous with their time and energy.

If you happen to be in Bristol this weekend I'll be showing a prototype of a new little game as part of Watershed and Pervasive Media Studio's House Party on Saturday. Continuing my obsession with making tamagotchis a little bit melancholy. @wshed.bsky.social

I'll be showing a little prototype of a new game during this. I had the wonderful privilege of spending a couple of weeks on a residency at Pervasive Media Studio, and got to play around with some new ideas that have formed into something a bit weird and a bit cute.

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Barrister's powerful speech at Filton Trial reminds jury of its right to defy judge Starmer and the media need convictions to justify Palestine Action's proscription as a terrorist group. Rajiv Menon KC spells out to the jury why it is a vital last defence against government tyranny

If you are baffled by why the jury refused to convict the Palestine Action defendants, it's because – unlike them – you didn't hear the actual evidence. You heard what the media wanted you to know.

Here, I explain what the jury learnt from the trial: jonathancook.substack.com/p/barristers...

"Why do we have to take ethics classes for a computer science degree?"

This is why. And frankly, we should be failing more students for inadequately demonstrating their understanding of the topic.

Let's review some fun historical examples of why "No, actually quality will continue to matter."

I wrote a small thing for this. Burnout is hard and tricky to find the edges of. Instead of looking directly at it I wrote about those bits around the sides.

It’s DOGMAN95s anniversary 🏆 the first game adhering to the rules of the dogman95 movement

ComputerJames.itch.io/Dogman95 (Free / 5mins)

There was a thread (back on the other site) collecting GIFs of chunky machinery from anime. Stuff with big buttons, pistons, industrial lifts. That's sort of stuff. Does a similar one exist over here? I miss it so.

A few snaps from my show Return To Dreamphone. (I've never really used to checking/posting to bsky. This is a little tidbit to stay present.) Shown at Barham Park in March, and August as part of the Brent Biennial.
A ring of towers, connected through their root system, chirrup signals into the room.

Post from "The Rundown" July 18 at 5:30 PM · DuckDuckGo has introduced a new feature allowing users to filter out AI-generated images from search results, addressing growing concerns over synthetic content overwhelming authentic visuals online. The filter can be activated through a dropdown in the Images tab, search settings, or by using a dedicated AI-free domain: noai.duckduckgo.com. The system relies on curated blocklists, including uBlockOrigin’s Huge AI Blocklist, to detect and suppress AI-generated imagery. While not perfect, it significantly reduces synthetic content visibility. This move sets DuckDuckGo apart from competitors like Google and Bing by giving users direct control over their exposure to AI-generated material. Source: TechCrunch

DuckDuckGo has added a feature to filter out AI images from search results.

Wonderful to see that philome.la is still up and running!

If you use AI you’re accelerating climate crisis, polluting deprived communities, burning through water, giving bosses excuses to reduce workers rights and wages. It’s a moral and ethical degradation.

my painting of British lads hit each other with chair …

A wonderful world building workshop hosted by @cassettewitch.bsky.social 🤩😍 @amazefest.bsky.social

This is an incredible use of Bitsy. It's a messy and scrappy document of a brilliantly unexpected jamming method. I think watching the process was the best part of this, to the point where I reckon with a bit of production it could make a really cool audience event.

What are the video game equivalents? Flatgames comes to mind as something with similar rules/goals. Or maybe Overboard/Expelled?

Screenshot of the front cover of the digital zine "DIY web archiving", which has large-sized text stating: "Things disappear from the internet. Care about stuff on the web? You need to act to archive it. Anyone can do it—this zine shows you how."

#ICYMI folks w/deep experience re:crisis web archiving (@sucho-org.bsky.social)+building tools for it (@webrecorder.net) made a free zine teaching how anyone can archive the things you love on the web before they go away: zinebakery.com/homemade-zin... & why you shouldn't expect others will do so