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gril 🔜 hel

@funambulism.com

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Narratives, philosophies, arts. Currently: (Unannounced x 2), Tides of Tomorrow, Min/Max Previously: ZEPHON, Nightingale, RimWorld, Total War: Warhammer III, Endless Dungeon, Warhammer 40K: Gladius, Absolver... https://linktr.ee/griddleoctopus

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gril 🔜 hel @funambulism.com · Apr 28

My article for Worldbuilding Magazine on using philosophy to create believable settings.

Babysteps in Belief-Building

"The richness an enshrined contradiction gives to a belief system and world cannot be understated."

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gril 🔜 hel @funambulism.com · 9h

Just cooked a rarebit with homemade sourdough and pale ale for brunch. Tasted like dogshit, just awful, terrible decision all round. Regretting everything.

How have *you* failed utterly today?

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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 20h

with one of the most incredible kickers i've ever seen

NYT excerpt that reads:

On Thursday, Mr. Benioff said he had never been progressive even if many San Franciscans thought he was. He said he was a longtime Republican before switching to become an independent voter.

At the end of the interview, he turned to a public relations executive. He could be heard asking why her mouth was wide open and if he had said anything he shouldn’t have.

“What about the political questions?” he asked. “Too spicy?”

Then he hung up.

Heather Knight is a reporter in San Francisco, leading The Times’s coverage of the Bay Area and Northern California.

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gril 🔜 hel @funambulism.com · 1d

I didn’t know you still did it! Wowee.

gril 🔜 hel @funambulism.com · 1d

The poor person who drew this thing and who not only got accused of being an AI but also now will forever be the birdwang artist.

gril 🔜 hel @funambulism.com · 1d

Ah! I’m very distant from the big city here, by the sea.

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 1d

melmoth the wanderer absolutely slaps. we've got a sinister manor, a cursed painting, an evil dying miser, a gentle young idiot hero and a sinister irish witch in chapter 1

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gril 🔜 hel @funambulism.com · 1d

Yessss please Jon

gril 🔜 hel @funambulism.com · 1d

Had an afternoon off! Got rid of nearly all the veg from my garden, now have kimchi, pickled cucumber, fermented peppers galore, dried tomatoes. Almost hoping the greenhouse is done for the year as I’m whacked and I can’t eat all this… but my hands tingle and smell wonderful!

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Chris Schilling @schillingc.bsky.social · 3d

A good friend has submitted this brilliant model of the library from Buffy to Lego Ideas. I’d be very grateful for your help in getting her to 5k supporters: beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...

Buffy the Vampire Slayer Library | LEGO® Ideas

"Sunnydale High isn't really like other high schools. A lot of weird stuff happens here." Buffy the Vampire Slayer first exploded onto our TV screens in the lat…

beta.ideas.lego.com

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 3d

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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gril 🔜 hel @funambulism.com · 3d

Whoah, micro-patch for Microcivilizations. 272 bytes?!

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 4d

increasingly thinking these might be the only ethical scifi novels to write...

Mel G (spooky) @a4rdvark.bsky.social · 4d

Accepting recommendations for scifi novels about dismantling the torment nexus

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gril 🔜 hel @funambulism.com · 4d

Totally agree. Very much loved it, dealing with age, loss and Keanu as depressed middle aged game dev.

gril 🔜 hel @funambulism.com · 4d

(Later…)

gril 🔜 hel @funambulism.com · 4d

W/o downloading anything new, where are you, mentally?

A nebbish Roman who always loses his bread in the fondue orgy.

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gril 🔜 hel @funambulism.com · 4d

too hot to burn innocent old ladies? Darn

gril 🔜 hel @funambulism.com · 5d

I look forward to looking forward to the day when I can look forward to something without wanting it to be over.

gril 🔜 hel @funambulism.com · 7d

Baked beans, heavy dose of pimentos and cayenne. Nom.

Ben Sledge @bensledge.co.uk · 7d

shh americans are asleep post your baked beans recipes

A small pan of baked beans with a knob of butter melting in the centre and sriracha drizzled on top

gril 🔜 hel @funambulism.com · 7d

“Fertility rites”

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grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 7d

Chart showing Gen X just chugging lead like a frat boy at a kegger

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gril 🔜 hel @funambulism.com · 7d

I don’t know, there’s a missing apostrophe in an “its” implying it was a crap human instead… commiserations, whoever nicked it.

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 7d

oh wow. this finally happened to me. a piece I wrote lifted wholesale by the Daily Mail, lightly rewritten and without any links back to my original piece of writing.

most amazingly, a weird use of the word 'pacing' suggests to me that they did it with ChatGPT.

archive.ph/LFmzR

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Ben Ward @timegentleman.bsky.social · 7d

All the Size Five games are on sale! So yeah, if at least 349 of you could buy Lair Of The Clockwork God at a wildly reasonable 65% off and give it a positive review, that'd be *lovely*.
And while you're there, may as well buy all the others for a few quid more!

store.steampowered.com/dev/sizefive

Ben Ward @timegentleman.bsky.social · 12d

One nice thing about EMD coming out is that I'll be able to stop nagging people to give LOTCG a Steam review!
That said: give LOTCG a Steam review! COME ON, we only need a paltry 349 more to hit the big 1K, let's get that done before EMD comes out!
store.steampowered.com/app/1060600/...

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gril 🔜 hel @funambulism.com · 7d

“The good news is that the aggressive AI capex build-out almost guarantees AI’s future ubiquity. The bad news is that this will probably only come after a period of Schumpeterian creative destruction.”

www.ft.com/content/c7b9...

The AI capex endgame is approaching

The rapid building of excess capacity both extends bubbles and ultimately bursts them

www.ft.com

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Bertine van Hövell @baroness.bsky.social · 9d

There should be a game with at least a moderate budget about women and sexuality not written by a man

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