Nathan Leigh

I really cannot think of a reason not to!

one thing's for sure, the next cirqueSaw show will have the most jokes in Esperanto of any of our pieces

i can be in bed by 10:30 on election night. a better world is possible

An “all you fascists bound to lose” sort of night

3 rows with each NYC mayoral candidate: (blue bar) Zohran Mamdani (yellow bar) Andrew M. Cuomo (red bar) Curtis Sliwa (wearing a red had)

sorry but mamdani and cuomo should have worn blue and yellow hats, respectively

I guess I reflexively resist engaging with art when the creators call it "content" the same way I wouldn't order a dish that a restaurant lists only as "stuff."

i just realized that my cat's habit of scratching exactly twice on her scratch pad, then looking up at me, and then crying to request a treat is exactly the same thing as kids trick or treating and I'm here for it.

exactly! I actually used to the Winchester fight when I'd teach sound design, cause if you replace the score with the score to Dawn of the Dead and change nothing else about it, it's just a really intense well-choreographed zombie fight.

Shaun of the Dead is great cause they really understood that you have to invest equally in the comedy and the horror. It works cause it's clear how deeply they love Romero in every frame. They never make the audience feel dumb for liking the thing they're mocking.

my cat Commodore Welcome started purring REALLY loudly when @themountaingoats.bsky.social came on and just sat in front of the speakers and listened for the whole song. I always knew she had impeccable taste.

OpenAI will be releasing a new version of flappy bird

yay! me too! let me know when you do it again!!

@sirathena.bsky.social killed it tonight! Sisters is the funniest thing they've ever done!

the thing is done and it all pretty much worked!! i'm feeling considerably less anxious about our next piece now! maybe we'll do it full out in a few months...

cirqueSaw's semi-quartarly digital art salon betaTest is tonight! we're getting ready to preview the first steps towards a new piece we're creating. i think it's gonna be a lot of fun. betaTest is free and there are still seats available here: www.tickettailor.com/events/cirqu...

Hear me out, but maybe it's not superb that most of the internet is hosted on three very large providers?

I am given to hyperbole and I hate it; it’s the absolute WORST trait a person can have.

being a musician over 40 involves looking through your own music on bandcamp to remember what songs you know

happy birthday!!

You either die a hero, or you live long enough to hear the radio segue from The Offspring into Steely Dan.

i know those metrics don't really matter. noone cares how many brushstrokes go into a painting. but this shit is really hard and thankless and traditional arts folks are weirdly dismissive about it, so metrics of how much went into a thing are way of saying "here's how much of me went into the art."

today's labRats will have the largest number of updates between shows we've ever attempted. 45 new visual assets, 3000 new lines of code, 2 new puzzles, 1 new area, a ton of bug fixes and inconsistencies ironed out. sooooo hopefully it all works!

black and white pen drawing of two robots in a wrestling ring and another robot ref on the floor

the code for labRats is finally stable enough to start adding some of the planned new areas to it! the first new mini-game is a fun little robot fighting game that may be very tricky to find. we'll see what happens tomorrow!

There's a social media trend of people attempting to run marathons with zero training and a take that really resonated with me is doing this means that you never really fail. I think the AI people have a similar mentality. They want to be able to say they have done a thing without doing it

huh! That seems really helpful actually! I can't handle gore, but I like spooky.

ha haaa! I just finished the first draft of the script to a new cirqueSaw thing we've been brainstorming for a while!!!

Microblogging is terrible. It's all context collapse and unbridled id: notifications as conversation. We need more long-form, considered discussion. The internet needs more nuance and structured thought.

Every day is “Zorp Inc given 3 trillion dollars to launch Blooper Quarks in an effort to create the first artificial intelligence in applesauce manufacturing, universal healthcare still an impossible pipe dream”