April 8, 2026 𝟏𝟎𝟎 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐖𝐞𝐝𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲 challenge 𝐈𝐒 𝐁𝐀𝐂𝐊. Can you write a compelling story in exactly 100 words? 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐲 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐤… unleash your imagination and participate directly on our blog weekly. #100WW
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Delighted to have work in this lovely issue. Check it out!
April 1st, HAPPY #NationalPoetryMonth & 𝟏𝟎𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐲 to 𝙄𝙣𝙠 𝙄𝙣 𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙧𝙙𝙨!
""Hope" is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all..."
~Dickinson
𝐅𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐀𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭 - Helen Hejl 𝟏𝟎𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐲 - 𝐕𝐨𝐥. 𝟕, 𝐈𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐞 𝟏 (Original acrylic painting on greytone and watercolor paper.) View her work and more on our website! inkinthirds.org/vol-7-i-1/ Grab a copy of the issue today!
Just ONE MORE WEEK!!! It's FREE! It takes only a minute! Go and do the thing, Space Unicorns!!!
If you want to read some excellent fiction about people working together and looking out for each other in hard times, "The Year Without Sunshine" is a very good choice, as many have said lately.
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I've been bedridden for the last 10 months, unable to work as I try to get a surgeon and insurance lined up for my operation to let me work again.
If you could send a couple dollars, it'd really help. Time isn't on my side here, and waiting is very expensive.
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Crafting Interactive Fiction with Bitsy. With Anna Anthropy. September 28 to October 19. 4 weeks online workshop, 150 minutes per session.
What if a work of fiction were more like a space – something readers could wander, struggle against, push at the boundaries of? Digital games let us weave interactivity, spatiality and friction into storytelling. In this class, we’ll use Adam Le Doux’s Bitsy – a free browser-based game tool – to create interactive narratives. If you love storytelling and want experiment with new tools to tell new kinds of stories, this class is for you. Beijing Time: September 28, October 5, October 12, October 19, Sundays, 9:00 - 11:30 AM New York Time: September 27, October 4, October 11, October 18, Saturdays, 9:00 - 11:30 PM
Our 150-minute workshops will consist of guided tutorials, artistic discussions and creative exercises. Over the course of four meetings, participants will write, develop and revise a work of original interactive fiction. At the end of the class, outstanding projects will have the opportunity to be featured in an exhibition at Accent Sisters in New York.
Anna Anthropy is a game designer, educator and cyborg. Her work, both digital and tabletop, explores themes of queerness, kink and disability. Her most well-known digital games include dys4ia and Lesbian Spider-Queens of Mars; some of her recent tabletop work includes Coldbloods, The Fool's Journey, and the award-winning Forgotten Palaces. Anna is the author of several books on games and game design, including A Game Design Vocabulary, Rise of the Video Game Zinesters, ZZT, and the Make Your Own Video Games! series from No Starch press. She has shown work in the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and the Museum of the Moving Image in New York. She lives in Chicago with a little black cat named Encyclopedia Frown.
I'm excited to announce I'm going to be running a four-week remote workshop on creating interactive fiction with #bitsy starting at the end of September! Games created in the workshop will be featured in an exhibition at Accent Sisters in New York, with whom I'm partnering on this project!
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Join this week’s #CIOChat 2-3 p.m. EST Thursday. Topic: Removing Bureaucracy from IT Governance
There's special punishment in being someone who finds self-promotion not just difficult as a concept but also painful. "Oh, just sell yourself and be super confident at what you do!"
Easy.
Anyway, I *am* great at what I do, so do you know anyone who needs my help?
www.verylittlegravitas.com
“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”—Socrates
💯 Start small, focus on the customer, iterate and scale.
💯 “To be fair, my Brain often makes me believe I have committed an unpardonable offence every time I neglect to check something at least fifteen times.”
Enjoying the splendid book by Sylvie Cathrall, A LETTER FROM THE LONESOME SHORE 👏👏👏
Written by Carl Butler with a bottle or two of high end whiskey? 😅🥃
Hey. We humans live on connections. Shoot someone a text or email - or even a live visit - today and let them know you like being connected to them.
Tesla robotaxis swerving into the wrong lane and driving over the speed limit have already caught the eye of federal regulators, as @kirstenkorosec.bsky.social uncovered.
And in two instances, a robotaxi suddenly hit the breaks near police vehicles in adjacent parking lots.
White text "Enter the Elflands" with the book covers for THE GOBLIN EMPEROR, THE WITNESS FOR THE DEAD, THE GRIEF OF STONES and THE TOMB OF DRAGONS by Katherine Addison. The white Solaris logo is in the top left corner.
Dive into @pennyvixen.bsky.social 's tales of the Elflands! Explore the early days of reluctant emperor Maia's rule and the investigations of Thara Celehar!
THE GOBLIN EMPEROR bit.ly/457K5EF
CEMETERIES OF AMALO
Book 1 bit.ly/3KiqGsY
Book 2 bit.ly/3QgKxMR
Book 3 geni.us/tombofdragons
I've been bedridden for the last 6 months, unable to work as I try to get a surgeon and insurance lined up for my operation to let me work again.
If you could send a couple dollars, it'd really help. Time isn't on my side here, and waiting is very expensive.
ko-fi.com/fooneturing
So sorry to hear this and thank you for reaching out. You have so many people who admire you and want you to be ok!
Well, assuming I get one, that is. 😅
Planning my break around this!!
Big tech companies such as Dell, Google, Microsoft, and Red Hat are spending millions this week to hold their tech conferences. Let me summarize their news for you: AI is great! They should have gotten together for one gigantic show—AI is Great!-- and saved a ton of cash. I'm just saying!
To be fair, you did say that it was difficult to pull off. (see? Somebody does read your Ende notes! 🤣)
A screengrab from the campaign that says You Wouldn't Steal A Car
The anti-piracy campaign from the early 2000s ‘You Wouldn’t Steal a Car’ used a pirated typeface.
4/ Total cost of IT ownership now has a new formula:
Tariff rates 📈
Shipping volatility 🚢
Currency moves 💱
Resilience value ✅
It’s time for your IT org to get serious about TCO modeling at the component + device level.
Some astonishing numbers in here:
-OpenAI loses $2 for every $1 it makes
-OpenAI projects annual losses of $14 billion by 2026
-To break even OpenAI needs to increase revenue 25x in just 5 years
-33% of VC portfolios are committed to AI
-5 AI-heavy stocks account for 29% of the S&P 500's value
“You think yourself alone. You think yourself lost … We didn’t come to hurt you. We didn’t come to save you. Only you can do that. We came to be your friend. To make you understand that, in the end, you are never alone.”
—TJ Klune, THE BONES BENEATH MY SKIN
