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Viv Schwarz @vivschwarz.bsky.social · 5h

"To show that someone has touched this", they said.
I've been a bit worried that this time around I'll find that the children want to use AI to make their pictures look "good". But they absolutely still want to think with their hands and make their mark. Of course they do.

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Viv Schwarz @vivschwarz.bsky.social · 5h

In every class I visit the kids all why I use fingerprints in my books. I ask them right back and this is what they suggested this week:

Because it's a circle
To make it beautiful
To show that it's real

They used to say "because they are all different". They still said that but first, "real"

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 15h

ugh I tried doing that and then it turned out it was a readable book talking about the rise of the modern police state through the lens of Judge Dredd and I felt like maybe I had not stepped away from the horrors enough

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max and 19 others 🌌 @sneptech.bsky.social · 1d

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brawls @brawlite.badvibes.party · 1d

look at my TOOTH BOWLS

four images of scronched ceramic bowls that have been adorned with the likeness of human teeth

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Charlie the Half Time Orange @clementinedanger.bsky.social · 2d

work work

Tumblr post:

video games are all about meeting a little elf
outside the city gates that says 'ah... the pernicious
weed!' when you give him a healing herb and then
finding yourself fifteen years later saying "ah... the
pernicious weed!" to yourself in the shower

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 2d

yup - it's Mastodon, it still runs : oulipo.social

Oulipo.social (Mark II)

A spot for chatting with a lipogrammatic constraint. 25 out of 26 symbols in latin script comply.

oulipo.social

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 2d

Too hard, you've lost me.

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 2d

It's just hard to talk about that glyph without also including it. "That fifth glyph" was our shorthand, but that's not a thing that most folks would clock without a bit of thinking.

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 2d

ugh okay, I'll do a post making up for it. How's this?

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 2d

I am probably in the world's top 1000 people for writing English without the letter "e"

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 2d

ugh I want to make a social network where you can only post (something approximating) iambic pentameter, just to get the practice in

Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · 2d

Six years ago, I wrote most of the Tragedian dialogue for Pathologic 2 in iambic pentameter. I'm back now doing the same for Pathologic 3. I figured it was helpful to write a guide on *how* I did it – in case I get hit by a bus and the team has to carry on without me.

azhdarchid.com/so-you-want-...

So You Want to Write Iambic Pentameter

In which I share the dirty secrets of the world's least useful skill

azhdarchid.com

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 2d

thank you! seems nice based on the last 5 hours!

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 2d

continues to be nice!

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 2d

damn, the combination of affirmation and disappointment when the cool idea you've had turns out to already exist

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 2d

hey Krakow is pretty nice

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 2d

this brought to you by struggling to explain larp from first concepts to the girl who was helping me buy a bus ticket and who is here for a festival

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 2d

I've realised that reading this essay: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/a-pro-huma... has changed me, and now I am a just a little bit more likely to make conversation with a stranger. It's a better way to live.

A Pro-Human Manifesto

Behold! I have had a thought.

youngvulgarian.substack.com

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 2d

"Why doesn't [site] communicate more about anything" well maybe because every time they do, hundreds of people lose their entire fucking shit for the next five days and a new completely wrong folk belief starts getting repeated as fact and becomes the basis for even more shit-losing

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 3d

don't think so! it was a long time ago!

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 3d

just played this & loved it. worth the half an hour of your time it will take to play - beautiful & pointed

Mario von Rickenbach @mariov.ch · 3d

Need a new job? Pocket Boss is OUT NOW!

pocketboss.ch 📊 💬

A delightfully odd fusion of work and play. Now available on iOS, Android, Steam and itch.io.

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 3d

ah Android finally decided to play ball? congratulations on the launch! I played the iOS build earlier - i do t think I was expecting it to be so beautiful or sexy?

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 3d

I think that having seen Bennett give a PowerPoint presentation about athletes crying predisposed me to get the point, tbh.

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 3d

approaching the third candle, I think!

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 3d

well right now I am waiting for my gate to be called to fly to Poland to go to this: chaosleague.org/eclipse-larp...

which is kind of a project. but when I'm back... back to trying to fix up the last bits on adding video to Downpour. maybe I'll do a Big Release about it when it's done.

Making sure you're not a bot!

chaosleague.org

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