Mandy J Watson

And when I say I deep dived, I even listened to an episode of a costume design/fashion podcast that focussed on the show so that should tell you.

(I have deep dived so much into this show that it is my answer to the "What could you give an impromptu talk about for an hour with no preparation? question.

They fuck everything up that they're trying to do but it gives you things to think about & analyse if you're that kind of person, which I am)

Jonathan Majors but Wunmi Mosaku's character is by far the best char in the show and she does such a great job that it's worth watching if you like her work.

It's a problematic show for other reasons too but I respect that they were trying to do something. I would watch it 1000X over Marvel films.

My interest in the Archive is for the magazine, Upbeat - which SACHED published. The magazine was a counter to the State's Apartheid education system.
The letters sent by kids and poetry, are a snapshot of the time.
Angry, sad and at times hopeful.
It also had comics by the great Andy Mason.

Home - SACHED The SACHED Archiving Project seeks to consolidate the history and materials of SACHED so that the past can interact with the present to create the future of a fair and just society through education. ...

Finally!
A forgotten and crucial part of the #SouthAfrican anti-apartheid struggle has finally been unearthed from Wits University's basement and is being digitized.
The Story of SACHED - its archive, now available for all to see.
Yay!🎉

sached.org.za

Absolute red flag, yeah.

That was an awesome jam! Thanks so much for organising it. It was my first Bitsy game too!

We knew this would happen. Note how realistic the visuals and voices are.
This AI deepfake video of Catherine Connolly ‘withdrawing’ from presidential contest and that Friday’s poll is ‘cancelled’ is live and viral on Facebook tonight.
1000s watching, commenters believing it.

Heist At The Museum by Mandy J Watson An absolute fantasy about repatriating looted antiquities. Made in Bitsy for Bitsy Jam #77.

Since museum heists are all the rage at the moment, just a reminder that a few years ago I made a little Bitsy game about a museum heist in which you repatriate looted antiquities:

mandyjwatson.itch.io/heist-at-the...

#IndieGames

With covid doing the rounds right now, its a good time to remind everyone that doctors recommend you avoid strenuous activity for at least 6 weeks post infection - EVEN IF YOU FEEL TOTALLY NORMAL.

Covid is much more than a respiratory infection; it is busy ripping through all your internal organs.

Have you seen her in Lovecraft Country? (It's a problematic show to watch now because of the lead but she was really, really good in it.)

We are such different people.

We Build a Home - call for submissions We Build a Home - call for submissions Call for submissions for illustrations and short comics of max. 3 pages* about stories of what a home might mean to someone in the context of being queer. > SU...

🌱 WE BUILD A HOME: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

We're looking for existing or new illustrations and short comics (max 3 pages) for a digital fundraiser zine to support East African LGBTQIA+ refugees build a home in South Sudan.

More about the project here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Yes. I've had a little bit of that thrown at me in the past by people who weren't even alive when I started gaming and who have probably never heard of half of the platforms and devices I have played games on.

represented when "gamers" are shown in any form of media so they've never seen themselves anywhere either.

True, although I didn't necessarily mean it in a negative way, although there are those types of gamers too as a subset, of course, just that I can see that they just don't compute on any level that they are a gamer because no one's ever had a conversation with them about it and they are never

heyhey do you wanna support artists on bsky?

how about hitting that sweet sweet 🔁 button. it really helps us out and makes our art more visible to other people who might be interested in following for our art or even buying from us.
it's free, only a button to press, and makes an artist's day!

This works for supporting artists, game-devs, and other creators too, I do feel!

Another vote here for the tiered returnable areas.

Then I watch the mental penny drop in slow motion, which always amuses me.

So many people think games are only expensive PC or console things for A Certain Type Of Person.

I've had many conversations, mainly with women who don't think they're gamers, and then I'll go "Do you play [runs through list like Candy Crush, Angry Birds, Minesweeper, Solitaire until I hit something]? Well, that's a game. You're a gamer!" [Said in the nicest possible "welcome to the club" way.]

Heist At The Museum by Mandy J Watson An absolute fantasy about repatriating looted antiquities. Made in Bitsy for Bitsy Jam #77.

Since museum heists are all the rage at the moment, just a reminder that a few years ago I made a little Bitsy game about a museum heist in which you repatriate looted antiquities:

mandyjwatson.itch.io/heist-at-the...

#IndieGames

Vivaldi has a built in session system. But you have to remember to save manually.

Exclusive: Instagram shows more ‘eating disorder adjacent’ content to vulnerable teens, internal Meta research shows Meta researchers found that teens who report that Instagram regularly made them feel bad about their bodies saw significantly more “eating disorder adjacent content” than those who did not, according to an internal document reviewed by Reuters.

Absolute bombshell from @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social:

Meta's internal research found that Instagram's algorithms preferentially displayed harmful content to vulnerable teens.

I'm glad I left Instagram back when I did, even if it was for other reasons (their anti-LGBTQ policies).

Japanese convenience stores are hiring robots run by workers in the Philippines Filipino tele-operators remotely control Japan’s convenience store robots and train AI, benefiting from an uptick in automation-related jobs.

“Inside a multistory office building in Manila’s financial district, around 60 young men and women monitored and controlled artificial intelligence robots restocking convenience store shelves in distant Japan.”

Mine is older than that but it hasn't gone sticky. Rust, though.... Aaaaaaaaaaaarrggggghhhh.

I meant weird in a good way.

What makes you think that the people who live there want him around?

This is one of the first things you see in the airport in Medellín.

I haven't heard of this happening to cars before but certain kinds of plastic eventually degrade and turn sticky (or yellow). It's called polymer degradation. I have a bunch of older tech products this has happened to and there are many museums tackling how to deal with their vintage toy collections