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Joel Kallstrom

@joelkallstrom.bsky.social

Co-host the Seria Ludo gaming podcast with @tsraveling.bsky.social. Contact us if you're a game dev interested in coming on! Software developer. Former bookseller. Dilettante. Edinburgh-based. www.serialudo.com https://www.instagram.com/seria_ludo/

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Latest posts by joelkallstrom.bsky.social on Bluesky

Yeah happened to me at some stage... never went back to it. The old, "let me play something else real quick" and then years pass.

08.01.2026 18:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Picture of cerebus the aardvark from the comic book series

Picture of cerebus the aardvark from the comic book series

04.10.2025 20:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!

30.09.2025 17:59 β€” πŸ‘ 7406    πŸ” 2666    πŸ’¬ 112    πŸ“Œ 205

If you care about games, take a moment to read through this and take action. NSFW games might not be for you - they're not for me - but we cannot allow a small group of censorious extremists to decide that people can not make games about sex, about sexuality, and about the role of sex in our world.

25.07.2025 21:08 β€” πŸ‘ 835    πŸ” 400    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 3

i feel like i should just stop watching any new series until they've gotten a full series run

24.05.2025 10:19 β€” πŸ‘ 86    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 1

why the fuck am i not a wizard. this fucking sucks

24.05.2025 03:36 β€” πŸ‘ 114    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 1

Just as a statistic, Israel's government has gruesomely murdered 38 Palestinians today so far, statistically over half of them under the age of 16, many through methods explicitly prohibited even in the violence-accepting rules of war. It is 13:00 / 1 PM.

22.05.2025 10:18 β€” πŸ‘ 276    πŸ” 79    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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"We don't give a fuck. You need to get sober."

08.05.2025 15:42 β€” πŸ‘ 10820    πŸ” 3064    πŸ’¬ 53    πŸ“Œ 111

Israel is saying that Gaza has enough aid for five months now, despite the fact they never met their aid requirements in the last few weeks, fucking monsters

02.03.2025 11:30 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
One handed spring kick in the gym

One handed spring kick in the gym

11.02.2025 14:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Remain open to chance encounters - they can change your life. Celebrate the success of others. Anyone who stops being a student never truly was one. Kindness can feel unnecessary when young - but it pays off with time, and is the right thing to do regardless of eventual reward.

08.02.2025 11:46 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

- Work harder than anyone you know; it’s one of the rare things u control
- Constantly ask Why & What-if
- Enjoy the journey; the destination is out of ur hands
- Trust your gut; it’s what makes you you
- Be honest w people; cherish those that are honest w you
- Try to be understanding and helpful

31.01.2025 17:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hi Dr. Jazzey πŸ₯°

08.02.2025 11:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We are in the midst of an administrative coup the like of which we have never seen - or even imagined - in our lifetimes.

Every day brings new abuses, new scandals, which can’t just be undone or fixed.

We are in a very dark place as a country and as a constitutional republic right now.

06.02.2025 21:30 β€” πŸ‘ 6746    πŸ” 1414    πŸ’¬ 263    πŸ“Œ 51
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Israel Has Killed at Least 20 Palestinians in Rafah, Southern Gaza, Despite β€œCeasefire”

24.01.2025 19:19 β€” πŸ‘ 533    πŸ” 208    πŸ’¬ 22    πŸ“Œ 10

On our podcast, @ekhudson.bsky.social went into some of the politics of Hardspace: Shipbreaker - open.spotify.com/episode/10b0...

20.01.2025 12:00 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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a cartoon character says hi kyle in front of a snowy landscape Alt: a cartoon character says hi kyle in front of a snowy landscape
08.01.2025 10:41 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This looks sick! Maybe a very subtle intermittent shaking animation to indicate "looseness".

28.12.2024 10:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Snippet from ts Eliot poem journey of the Magi: 

All this was a long time ago, I remember,
And I would do it again, but set down
This set down
This: were we led all that way for
Birth or Death? There was a Birth, certainly
We had evidence and no doubt. I had seen birth and death,
But had thought they were different; this Birth was
Hard and bitter agony for us, like Death, our death.
We returned to our places, these Kingdoms,
But no longer at ease here, in the old dispensation,
With an alien people clutching their gods.
I should be glad of another death.

Snippet from ts Eliot poem journey of the Magi: All this was a long time ago, I remember, And I would do it again, but set down This set down This: were we led all that way for Birth or Death? There was a Birth, certainly We had evidence and no doubt. I had seen birth and death, But had thought they were different; this Birth was Hard and bitter agony for us, like Death, our death. We returned to our places, these Kingdoms, But no longer at ease here, in the old dispensation, With an alien people clutching their gods. I should be glad of another death.

from The Journey of the Magi, T.S. Eliot

23.12.2024 17:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The freedom to pilfer, steal, and plunder creativity the UK is formally going to give to AI companies is absolutely staggering. If you're in the UK, take this stand right now. This is a fence that you can't put back up if it passes you, and it will kill the UK creative sector.

19.12.2024 13:00 β€” πŸ‘ 466    πŸ” 259    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 0
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I honestly don't even know what to do with this anymore. The baseless narrative that every mass shooter is trans is completely solidified on the online right. It's completely memeified. No amount of fact checking breaks through. It's so incredibly dangerous at this moment.

17.12.2024 15:08 β€” πŸ‘ 3563    πŸ” 747    πŸ’¬ 98    πŸ“Œ 61
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It's like my guy Auden says

17.12.2024 14:49 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This looks sick, just saw the trailer. This genre has so much potential!

13.12.2024 14:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This sounds siiiick

13.12.2024 13:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Semi playable plot recaps, that both highlighted major gameplay events and refreshed the player's memory for the game's control scheme, would be so sick.

10.12.2024 15:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is beautiful ❀️

10.12.2024 11:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Developer Interview: Elliot Hudson of Blackbird Interactive Seria Ludo Β· Episode

open.spotify.com/episode/4ASZ...

08.12.2024 18:55 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sick, thanks for the shout out πŸ™

07.12.2024 20:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's now six-thousand dollars to 50% funded! This game cannot get made without your support, because none of the publishers want to take up a Palestinian-made narrative game about a historical ethnic cleansing. Without you, it doesn't happen.

07.12.2024 14:39 β€” πŸ‘ 621    πŸ” 457    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 3
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Today we remember the legacy of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson

04.12.2024 16:30 β€” πŸ‘ 10177    πŸ” 3180    πŸ’¬ 322    πŸ“Œ 322

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