Tristan Gray
@eidyngray.scot
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https://linktr.ee/tgraywrites
Software engineer, TTRPG GM, and author of dark fantasy books
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https://linktr.ee/tgraywrites
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Tristan Gray
@eidyngray.scot
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Coming soon: Call of the Black Wing - An Audiobook
Bringing the tale of Fiadh and her quest for revenge though Scottish folklore and mythology to your ears
www.kickstarter.com
Early next year I will be launching the kickstarter for my very first audiobook! Read by @mhairi-bee.bsky.social.
You can sign up to stay updated by clicking "Notify me on launch" on the preview page today -
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tri...
You can sign up to stay updated by clicking "Notify me on launch" on the preview page today -
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tri...
It's not just politicians whose brains are being turned to racist gunk by Twitter, it's also the owner of Epic Games
aftermath.site/email/a085c7...
aftermath.site/email/a085c7...
Aftermath Bonus Blog: Now More Than Ever, It Is Imperative That Tim Sweeney Log Off
Please, Tim, we're begging you
aftermath.site
January 13, 2026 at 5:22 PM
It's not just politicians whose brains are being turned to racist gunk by Twitter, it's also the owner of Epic Games
aftermath.site/email/a085c7...
aftermath.site/email/a085c7...
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Oh, here's a question for the tabletop nerds: I remember when GenAI was becoming A Thing for images seeing some artists like "please do not use this for TTRPG NPC generation, I have made a pack of stock character illustrations you can get here" - can anyone point to examples? (paid, obviously!)
January 13, 2026 at 1:25 PM
Oh, here's a question for the tabletop nerds: I remember when GenAI was becoming A Thing for images seeing some artists like "please do not use this for TTRPG NPC generation, I have made a pack of stock character illustrations you can get here" - can anyone point to examples? (paid, obviously!)
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My employer, the University of Leeds, left X almost exactly a year ago. I did think then they'd be followed by some of our peer institutions but so far, no sign of a rush for the exits. Still the right thing to do.
January 12, 2026 at 7:29 PM
My employer, the University of Leeds, left X almost exactly a year ago. I did think then they'd be followed by some of our peer institutions but so far, no sign of a rush for the exits. Still the right thing to do.
Even "LLM" is an over-broad catch-all term for the technology which ends up including perfectly legitimate use-cases for LLMs.
GenAI is what we should be using specifically.
GenAI is what we should be using specifically.
January 13, 2026 at 1:24 AM
Even "LLM" is an over-broad catch-all term for the technology which ends up including perfectly legitimate use-cases for LLMs.
GenAI is what we should be using specifically.
GenAI is what we should be using specifically.
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Of the 31 games that won the 'now' votes, rank as many as you can. That could be just voting for your favourite, or a top 3, or 10, or just go mad and rank all 31.
I will NOT count ties
I will NOT count the same game in multiple ranks
If you need help deciding: czeckd.github.io/preference-r...
I will NOT count ties
I will NOT count the same game in multiple ranks
If you need help deciding: czeckd.github.io/preference-r...
January 12, 2026 at 1:59 PM
Of the 31 games that won the 'now' votes, rank as many as you can. That could be just voting for your favourite, or a top 3, or 10, or just go mad and rank all 31.
I will NOT count ties
I will NOT count the same game in multiple ranks
If you need help deciding: czeckd.github.io/preference-r...
I will NOT count ties
I will NOT count the same game in multiple ranks
If you need help deciding: czeckd.github.io/preference-r...
Ranking just the ones I've played:
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Final Fantasy X
Baldur's Gate 3
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
Hades
Super Mario 64
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
Dishonored
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Final Fantasy X
Baldur's Gate 3
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
Hades
Super Mario 64
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
Dishonored
Of the 31 games that won the 'now' votes, rank as many as you can. That could be just voting for your favourite, or a top 3, or 10, or just go mad and rank all 31.
I will NOT count ties
I will NOT count the same game in multiple ranks
If you need help deciding: czeckd.github.io/preference-r...
I will NOT count ties
I will NOT count the same game in multiple ranks
If you need help deciding: czeckd.github.io/preference-r...
January 12, 2026 at 11:45 PM
Ranking just the ones I've played:
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Final Fantasy X
Baldur's Gate 3
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
Hades
Super Mario 64
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
Dishonored
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Final Fantasy X
Baldur's Gate 3
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
Hades
Super Mario 64
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
Dishonored
They can hear you calling them monstrous shitheads trying to destroy society and the economy and it makes them sad.
So you just know the message is to keep doing it more and louder.
gizmodo.com/jensen-huang...
So you just know the message is to keep doing it more and louder.
gizmodo.com/jensen-huang...
Jensen Huang Is Begging You to Stop Being So Negative About AI
gizmodo.com
January 12, 2026 at 11:22 PM
They can hear you calling them monstrous shitheads trying to destroy society and the economy and it makes them sad.
So you just know the message is to keep doing it more and louder.
gizmodo.com/jensen-huang...
So you just know the message is to keep doing it more and louder.
gizmodo.com/jensen-huang...
People who grow to rely on AI tools to do their work will swiftly find themselves falling behind people who maintain their skills independently of AI and companies who rely on employees switching to AI workflows will swiftly find their employee pipeline withering down to nothing.
January 12, 2026 at 11:18 PM
People who grow to rely on AI tools to do their work will swiftly find themselves falling behind people who maintain their skills independently of AI and companies who rely on employees switching to AI workflows will swiftly find their employee pipeline withering down to nothing.
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Keep hearing devs say that they only use ai for "pre-concept art"
There is no pre-concept art. There is concept art. That's where the idea starts. With the concept.
You're using ai for concept art.
There is no pre-concept art. There is concept art. That's where the idea starts. With the concept.
You're using ai for concept art.
January 12, 2026 at 5:31 PM
Keep hearing devs say that they only use ai for "pre-concept art"
There is no pre-concept art. There is concept art. That's where the idea starts. With the concept.
You're using ai for concept art.
There is no pre-concept art. There is concept art. That's where the idea starts. With the concept.
You're using ai for concept art.
This isn't a question of taste. Gervais is a troll who picks on people to punch down at and laughing with him is contributing to him doing harm.
You should feel bad about that at much as if you were landing the punches yourself.
You should feel bad about that at much as if you were landing the punches yourself.
January 12, 2026 at 3:21 PM
This isn't a question of taste. Gervais is a troll who picks on people to punch down at and laughing with him is contributing to him doing harm.
You should feel bad about that at much as if you were landing the punches yourself.
You should feel bad about that at much as if you were landing the punches yourself.
"I got piled on for saying I found Ricky Gervais funny, wah!"
Good, finding Ricky Gervais funny should be a social tabboo. It should be embarrassing to admit, you should feel bad.
Good, finding Ricky Gervais funny should be a social tabboo. It should be embarrassing to admit, you should feel bad.
January 12, 2026 at 3:20 PM
"I got piled on for saying I found Ricky Gervais funny, wah!"
Good, finding Ricky Gervais funny should be a social tabboo. It should be embarrassing to admit, you should feel bad.
Good, finding Ricky Gervais funny should be a social tabboo. It should be embarrassing to admit, you should feel bad.
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Art festival boycotts are effective because the festivals, despite all their protestations otherwise, need the participants more than the participants need them.
The reason they make financiers and the media so angry is because they're so effective and it interrupts how *they* use the arts.
The reason they make financiers and the media so angry is because they're so effective and it interrupts how *they* use the arts.
January 12, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Art festival boycotts are effective because the festivals, despite all their protestations otherwise, need the participants more than the participants need them.
The reason they make financiers and the media so angry is because they're so effective and it interrupts how *they* use the arts.
The reason they make financiers and the media so angry is because they're so effective and it interrupts how *they* use the arts.
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Perhaps the surest sign of AI not being super intelligent is the amount of tailored scams targeting the finances of authors, which is as rewarding as trying to mug a seagull.
January 12, 2026 at 11:51 AM
Perhaps the surest sign of AI not being super intelligent is the amount of tailored scams targeting the finances of authors, which is as rewarding as trying to mug a seagull.
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I watched the new Gerva1s special so you didn't have to but there was little point writing anything about it coz it was the usual lazy, tepid stuff...underwritten, paranoid and more hollow than ever when he insisted it was gonna get him cancelled.
It has Golden Globe now and Wanda Sykes is great.
It has Golden Globe now and Wanda Sykes is great.
January 12, 2026 at 11:08 AM
I watched the new Gerva1s special so you didn't have to but there was little point writing anything about it coz it was the usual lazy, tepid stuff...underwritten, paranoid and more hollow than ever when he insisted it was gonna get him cancelled.
It has Golden Globe now and Wanda Sykes is great.
It has Golden Globe now and Wanda Sykes is great.
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wanda sykes accepting an award on your behalf and throwing shade at your transphobic ass while doing so.
that's gonna be a hard one to take if you're a vulnerable narcissist like ricky gervais.
that's gonna be a hard one to take if you're a vulnerable narcissist like ricky gervais.
January 12, 2026 at 9:49 AM
wanda sykes accepting an award on your behalf and throwing shade at your transphobic ass while doing so.
that's gonna be a hard one to take if you're a vulnerable narcissist like ricky gervais.
that's gonna be a hard one to take if you're a vulnerable narcissist like ricky gervais.
Up next - British columnists condemn boycott as an assault on the arts, "don't the arts know they rely on festivals for their survival?"
Arts festival in doubt after Ardern joins boycott over axing of Palestinian writer
Arts festival in doubt after Ardern joins boycott over axing of Palestinian writer
Arts festival in doubt after Ardern joins boycott over axing of Palestinian writer
www.independent.co.uk
January 12, 2026 at 11:49 AM
Up next - British columnists condemn boycott as an assault on the arts, "don't the arts know they rely on festivals for their survival?"
Golden Globes so white
January 12, 2026 at 10:12 AM
Golden Globes so white
Hi - there's a pair of people who deliberately added me to their list because they were angry at me for putting them on mine because of their repeated unrepentant use of GenAI images.
Could you give me the tag so I can check it's the same people?
Could you give me the tag so I can check it's the same people?
January 12, 2026 at 9:41 AM
Hi - there's a pair of people who deliberately added me to their list because they were angry at me for putting them on mine because of their repeated unrepentant use of GenAI images.
Could you give me the tag so I can check it's the same people?
Could you give me the tag so I can check it's the same people?
There's one episode in particular which looks to be leaning heavily into that nasty nihilistic feeling and then spins it last minute which has me thinking they get the need for some sign of hopeful optimism
January 11, 2026 at 4:14 PM
There's one episode in particular which looks to be leaning heavily into that nasty nihilistic feeling and then spins it last minute which has me thinking they get the need for some sign of hopeful optimism
That shifts in time, I think by the end of the season and especially into the second season it's a lot better balanced
January 11, 2026 at 4:07 PM
That shifts in time, I think by the end of the season and especially into the second season it's a lot better balanced
"Where was Brian Cox as his co-host and friend of 16 years was being sacked by the BBC for being a trans ally?"
The same place he's always been as his wife became a key figure in a hate campaign - silent.
The same place he's always been as his wife became a key figure in a hate campaign - silent.
Oh wow, so that Gia goon of Sex Matters harassed coworkers
youtu.be/pWm3dK8tPto
youtu.be/pWm3dK8tPto
The BBC Chose Transphobia over Science
YouTube video by Rebecca Watson (Skepchick)
youtu.be
January 11, 2026 at 4:04 PM
"Where was Brian Cox as his co-host and friend of 16 years was being sacked by the BBC for being a trans ally?"
The same place he's always been as his wife became a key figure in a hate campaign - silent.
The same place he's always been as his wife became a key figure in a hate campaign - silent.
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"the people of Iran right now are waging a war that Aleksandr and Sergei would be proud of" - chief marketing director of Compare The Meerkat, drying eyes
January 11, 2026 at 12:02 PM
"the people of Iran right now are waging a war that Aleksandr and Sergei would be proud of" - chief marketing director of Compare The Meerkat, drying eyes
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[sombrely, with tears in eyes] "truly the people of Iran embody the great spirit of Flumpo The Fart Wizard" - author of Flumpo The Fart Wizard
January 11, 2026 at 11:53 AM
[sombrely, with tears in eyes] "truly the people of Iran embody the great spirit of Flumpo The Fart Wizard" - author of Flumpo The Fart Wizard
It's interesting when the conservative-coded "mean girl" type persona can be played by two people with very different politics (Syndey Sweeney and Sabrina Carpenter).
It think there's credit due there to Carpenter as an actress where, like Ariana Grande, you can tell she knows this stuff.
It think there's credit due there to Carpenter as an actress where, like Ariana Grande, you can tell she knows this stuff.
January 10, 2026 at 4:31 PM
It's interesting when the conservative-coded "mean girl" type persona can be played by two people with very different politics (Syndey Sweeney and Sabrina Carpenter).
It think there's credit due there to Carpenter as an actress where, like Ariana Grande, you can tell she knows this stuff.
It think there's credit due there to Carpenter as an actress where, like Ariana Grande, you can tell she knows this stuff.
That contempt might well have been justified and a message that audience needed in the 90s - but I'm not that audience, so I only ended up finding it incredibly and unnecessarily unpleasant and wrenched me right out of the world.
January 10, 2026 at 2:45 PM
That contempt might well have been justified and a message that audience needed in the 90s - but I'm not that audience, so I only ended up finding it incredibly and unnecessarily unpleasant and wrenched me right out of the world.