Exciting times! 💪

Same 🤣 except it's more than 30 years for me!

It's been audiobooks as long as I can remember - and decades before I had a diagnosis!

Ah, so I'm not the only one this works for? Good to know.

Or maybe that's what Rei wants you to think. 😉

A friend's partner walked in on him playing something and, after watching for a while, said, "All video games are just 'chase the shiny thing', aren't they?"

We've not managed to refute this yet.

Need a bit of good news?

Panelists for Accessibility in Analogue Games

Day -1 of Knutpunkt 2026. Gonna try to liveskeet stuff, alt text gonna suffer unfortunately. Today, Nordic LARP Research Seminar - Mapping the Borders of LARP Research

www.larpresearch.com

First up, panel: Accessibility in Analogue Games

A chapel converted into a conference venue at Breda University of Applied Sciences, packed with people, with a large screen saying 'Welcome' to the Virtual Production Gathering 2026.

Virtual Production Gathering 2026 at Breda University of Applied Sciences is go! #vpgathering #BredaUniversityas

Dress for the job you want.

Ooh, the Body Lexicon sounds very handy. I'll check it out!

This.

There was website built to be a virtual theremin using webcams. I spent far too long noodling with it until I could play Mysterons! :D

So many of us are now textual Case Pollards, physically averse to pre-digested, mass extruded machine verbiage just as William Gibson's Pattern Recognition protagonist was made physically sick by fashion and brands.

It’s time

one immediate dramatic consequence of the Hungarian result:

Magyar has promised to repair relations with the EU and unblock a €90bn EU loan for Ukraine

The news from Hungary is wonderful for them, but also Europe and the world.

Good luck to Magyar trying to undo such extensive neglect. Labour is struggling with this in the UK, and this is tiny preview compared to whoever walks into the White House next...

But for tonight, it's fantastic news!

Wonderful news!

An orange boxy character drawn in pencil, biro, marker, pastel and ink

Times are tough so I've put a load more of my children up for sale. Mixed media original drawings in pencil, biro, marker, pastel and ink on heavy craft paper. www.ebay.co.uk/usr/happytoast

image from inside Artemis II text: i need more men to understand that two men crying and hugging in space after one of them announced they were naming a moon crater after the other one's late wife is actually what peak masculinity looks like.

Ooh, you've read Slow Chocolate Autopsy. I love that weird book. Dave McKean's art is amazing.

But here is the thing that gnaws at me every time I encounter this particular strain of criticism. It doesn't read like it was written by someone who loves books. It reads like it was written by someone who loves having opinions about books, which is an entirely different activity and one that requires considerably less actual reading

Because this is not really about prologues. It was never really about prologues. It is about the attention economy, and the discovery, sometime in the mid-2010s, that the most reliable way to generate engagement online is not to celebrate something but to condemn it. The algorithm does not reward nuance. It does not reward the measured appreciation of a literary device used well. It rewards outrage, certainty, and the clean dopamine hit of a hot take delivered with conviction. "Prologues are a sign of weak craft" gets clicked, shared, debated, and quote-posted in furious disagreement. "Prologues can be brilliant when handled well, here are some examples" gets eleven likes and a polite nod from someone's book club.

This rebirth of the prologue discussion has gotten under my skin. Stay tuned for my full thoughts

Feel like winning yourself some personalized limited-edition Wm. Gibson while helping Locus continue to do its wholly admirable and increasingly essential thing for sf and fantasy? Step right up!

One of my favourite vampire films. Love it, and criminally hard to find available to watch legally online.

Ooh, I hear that's good. I've not watched it yet.

We enjoyed that one in our house too. I didn't know a second season was confirmed. Cool!

Will do!

An illustration of my OC, Egg the Trans Raccoon (a blue, pink & white raccoon with a trans-flag-striped tail) laying down and looking at a small flower. They’re also wearing a flower crown in the colors of a trans flag. The illustration is soft and it says “grow into your best self” over Egg.

Happy Trans Day of Visibility! 🏳️‍⚧️🌸

[ #tdov #cuteart #trans ]

Happy #tdov

If you even vaguely enjoy spooky stories then you owe it to yourself to watch Something Very Bad Is Going To Happen on Netflix. It's absolutely superb throughout. Congrats to everyone who worked on it, and I hope it's a hit because I'm excited to see what the creators do next.

To whoever did this at the #NoKings in Boston: Thank you.❤️

It made me tear up. And we must to be reminded of needless damage to humanity that results directly from the careless, bellicose bluster coming from the Pentagon and White House.