Liz (E.M. Morrissey)

Founder of Dwarf Fortress and Caves of Qud publisher Kitfox Games says its procgen sims for sickos are 'giving storytelling tools back to the people when games and passive media took them away' Streets of Fortuna, Kitfox's own in-development "megasim," is chasing that same systems-driven storytelling.

"'The more we try to understand what's going on in the world around us—the more we don't just withdraw into a hermitude of my family and I as a nuclear unit, the more we try to understand our society—I think the more these kinds of games speak to us,' Short said."

I heard you like leaves

all a writer has to do is say "wow that sure was a bummer that no one read the thing i put so much work into!" for the community to start banshee shrieking "write for yourself or fail" as if writing for ourselves AND wanting as social creatures for our art to be seen and acknowledged can't coexist

Another incredible thread from Paul 👇

19" necklace with vintage glass beads and metal star pendants with a silver-coloured toggle clasp.

Poison Type necklace 🕷☠️💚💜🖤
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charcoal drawing of the poet wearing a big floppy artistic tie and with big floppy hair. He looks younger than his age in 1908. Still the romantic youth, not yet the romantic elder.

William Butler Yeats - John Singer Sargent, 1908

digital painting of snowy branches

Yeah yeah yeah, I'm still about

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

Homeward Books: The home for books without a home Splendor over mediocrity. Stories for the hot bath & the cold plunge. Defying the constraints of genre & delving deep into your heart.

There's a lot of stupid shit happening in the world but we still decided to start a small press. www.kickstarter.com/projects/hom...

Here I am, talking about how the second wave became TERFy, why it didn't need to, and how feminism can be better for everybody.

Oooh I like this one

I've been seeing a lot of this even in books that seem like they should be more driven, pulpier, more plot & action-focused. What frustrates me about it—to be clear, I adore a contemplative lost-in-the-landscape literary meander—is when it seems to stem from a televisual concept of *time*.

yeah there's a lot going on in that song 😅

oh no that sucks! I hope it can be fixed relatively painlessly 🙃

do we think it's good that entire economy is based on the same entities passing money back and forth on speculative investment without anyone making anything that someone outside the loop is buying

Hares on the Mountain! I don’t know why I never came across it before

I love finding a new (old) folk song. And conveniently someone has already made a playlist collecting all ten thousand versions.

Cyberpsychosis is when too much cyber, but unlike the literalist “wow cool robot” depictions of cyborgs in media like the Cyberpunk™️ universe, what is really meant is being too enmeshed in networks of cybernetic feedback loops that cause a person to loose touch with the feedback of actual reality

Koschei the Deathless - Perfume Extrait de Parfum by Fantôme Forest mushrooms, turmeric, myrrh, treemoss, dry bones, sea kelp, dark patchouli, creamy ylang. Earthy, spicy, floral, and a little dirty, Koschei the Deathless is a strange but addicting scent that y...

Daydreaming about being able to order a full-size of this one day.

If you want to smell like an overturned, mossy log in a forest after the rain, this is the scent you're looking for.

#Perfume #Fragrance

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A horned jousting helmet with some autumn leaves in the background and sun icons on three sides.

Something from the ol' comfort zone for the beginning of autumn

scary sea-weathered saint on the church near Hartlepool headland (body of saint is heavily eroded down to a veined or boxwork-like underlying structure of the stone, which looks like weird branching fungus).

As October begins, we contemplate how the sea wind had its way with this now-fungal saint.

Somersaulting in here to be like "There are war pteranodons in THE SIEGE OF BURNING GRASS but those are the least of everybody's problems for most of the book" :D

Explaining to my wife that I cannot simply “read the books I’ve already bought and haven’t read” like some kind of peasant.

Page from The Fantastic Art of Roy G. Krenkel

The Fantastic Art of Roy G. Krenkel

The Fantastic Art of Roy G. Krenkel

The Fantastic Art of Roy G. Krenkel

ICYMI: “The Fantastic Art of Roy G. Krenkel” brings Craig Yoe’s collection of Krenkel’s art out to inspire the world, now available in both a standard hardcover, and gorgeous limited edition! Details: https://bit.ly/4ncScJO

With Yoe Books @craigyoe.bsky.social

decarie apples, painted by royal charles steadman, 1919

decarie apples, painted by royal charles steadman, 1919

The Ig Nobel is incredible , one year an Indian guy won it for calculating the average surface area of an elephant and during his acceptance they had an elephant hold up a sign with the surface area of the scientist on it, they do showbiz better than the Oscars

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

A small frog-shaped amulet carved from dark reddish-brown porphyry, patterned with irregular white spots, shown in a crouching position against a plain light background.

A marvellous #Egyptian #frog amulet, made of porphyry (height 1.2 cm).
Because of their numerous offspring, #frogs were considered a symbol of fertility.

Dating ca. 1295–1185 BC, New Kingdom.

📷Metropolitan Museum

🏺 AncientEgyptBluesky

Wanna see a man get squelched?