Phenry Ewing

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

Wracking my brain and coming up blank- but if anyone comes to mind I’ll let you know!! Unfortunately I just don’t know a lot of folks in MA anymore :(

Kristi Noem: "We are not going away. We are staying here to liberate the city from the socialists and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country and what they have tried to insert into the city."

Sen. Alex Padilla is then forcibly removed!

Many English placenames contain 'mere', a word that's not often used anymore. It means "body of standing water".

'Mere' is closely related to German 'Meer', whose meaning is now "sea" but used include "lake". Conversely, Dutch 'meer' now only means "lake".

Read more in the graphic and the thread:

A wizard ponders five blue crystal orbs labeled WIP

Them: So what have y'all been up to?
Me: Haha, you know. The usual.

The Usual:

Kimmel reinstatement preempted Disney+ price increase The Handbasket reported first Monday evening on Bluesky

"More than a million people had canceled Disney streaming subscriptions as of Monday, the Disney source told me, and the company likely knew that trend would only continue the longer they kept Kimmel silenced."

@marisakabas.bsky.social w/ a doozy. 👀

Entering my “DO judge a book by its cover” era I guess 😝

Now THAT is cover design. Preordered!

The anime turn-based RPG Wander Stars is OUT NOW!

Buy the game on Steam to claim the digital sketchbook and original soundtrack for FREE‼️

💥 Steam: bit.ly/WanderStars
💥 Nintendo Switch: bit.ly/WS-Switch
💥 PlayStation 5: bit.ly/WS-PlayStation
💥 Xbox Series X|S: bit.ly/WS-Xbox

Too late, Batman. Once this Tylenol floods the city's water supply, my wiki won't run out of editors ever again

A color portrait of NBA superstar Patrick Ewing, the 7-foot tall center who helped the Knicks dominate professional basketball in the 1990s. Something most biographies of Ewing omit is that during his 17-year NBA career, Ewing wore the same shoes for every game. Not just the same brand or make of shoe, but the exact same pair of shoes. Whenever he was asked how this single pair of shoes could last so long Ewing would only smile, with a twinkle in his eyes. Sportswriters assumed Ewing was being coy. But in fact, Ewing could not say. Literally. He could not form the words to explain. In his darker moments, Ewing thought of the deal he’d made with the strange slender man in a green tunic as a curse. But then he’d look down at the shoes and tell himself that it was not a curse. It was a charm.

EWING1.BMF

Boycotting Disney and Hulu. It’s actually so, so much easier than you might be thinking rn

Where the sidewalk ends… goblin mode begins

Ta-Nehisi Coates has a predictably wonderful essay about the political class's reaction to the death of Charlie Kirk. to quote a post I saw on here a few weeks back, "we're gonna need a bigger Reconstruction"

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Supported!!

A graph titled Scope of video games according to Hushcrasher Classification System. The Y axis shows Game Size (from 10 MB to 100GB), the X axis shows Credits count (sourced from Mobygames). The clustered dots on the graph represent 4 distinct scale categories of games - Kei, Midi, AA, AAA. The larger correlation between the size and the credits means larger category of a game.

I love this analytical take on video game categorization from Antoine Mayerowitz and Julie Belzanne:

hushcrasher.substack.com/p/taxonomy-o...

Instead of trying to vibe-intuit the definition of an "indie" game, the authors analyzed the data from the perspective of game size and credits length

It will never not be amazing to me that journalists and other people in positions of public influence willingly stay on a site that is being openly manipulated on every level by one of the worst human beings on Earth.

Pour one out for a true legend

We’ve been living through 72 nonstop hours of this exact tweet

Neo Cab is back on the App Store!

We had to re-submit as a brand new game & unfortunately lost all of our reviews. If you've already enjoyed Neo Cab, please consider leaving a new review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

If you haven't played Neo Cab yet, now's a great time to check it out - the first chapter is free!

Where's the Shovelware? Why AI Coding Claims Don't Add Up 78% of developers claim AI makes them more productive. 14% say it's a 10x improvement. So where's the flood of new software? Turns out those productivity claims are bullshit.

Where's the Shovelware? Why AI Coding Claims Don't Add Up
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Maybe the best experience I've ever had playing a mobile game. Highly recommend Neo Cab and it's possible that it's more topical than ever now.

Neo Cab has a mechanic that I think is a really nice representation of emotional awareness, and the results of healthy vs unhealthy reactions to negative feelings. I love how well it translates that feelings can not simply be ignored, and have consequences if they are. Highly recommend!

So if if our humble little (slash award-winning 😉) game meant anything to you, OR you’ve just been meaning to give it a spin- now is the perfect moment to throw us a (free) download, a share, or a 5-star rating. Stay human and don't forget to tip your rideshare drivers, friends!

The backstory— when our Apple Arcade contract expired, we've had to re-submit to the App Store as brand new game. Ironically for a game about surviving the app economy on the kindness of strangers, this meant losing our hundreds of five star ratings and starting over 🙁

‎Neo Cab ‎Hold on to humanity in a world overcome by automation. Play as Lina, the last human driver-for-hire on the streets of Los Ojos. Your friend and only lifeline has gone missing; with no money and nowhe...

Neo Cab is BACK on the App Store, baby!

If you love soft sci-fi, cozy mysteries, and/or themes of staying human in a world overrun by tech oligarchies and automation… well, have we got a game for you 💜

Chapter One is a free download- please give us a try & plz share!
apps.apple.com/us/app/neo-c...

ICE is turning around now, escorted by Broadview police.

Crowd is jubilant.

Someone is shouting, "this is what it takes! They are turning around!"

One of the projects I'm working on is currently delayed, so I remain open to contract work. Pay me human money for:

- Game writing and editing
- Narrative design
- Technical, systems, narrative, economy or general game design consulting on a variety of topics
- Un-spaghetti your Ink
- Storylets

David Attenborough: brief as its life may be, in order to protect its fragile exoskeleton the Spirit Halloween must seek a vacant commercial shell

We’re preparing Neo Cab, a game I’m immensely proud of, for a mobile re-release soon!

I’d love to celebrate this. #Gamedev pals- can you recommend any streamers/podcasters (esp narrative games focused) who might want to host a behind-the-scenes “let’s play” / interview with me? Shares appreciated!