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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 1d

One of the cartoons in my new book 'Physics for Cats' which is out now in the UK, USA, Canada, France and Germany. Order from your local bookshops or online: www.tomgauld.com/

Two beetles on a stick.
One beetle says to the other "Do you ever get the feeling we are being observed by another lifeform"
Zoom out to reveal that they are in a glass case with two scientists studying them.
One scientist says to the other "Do you ever get the feeling we are being observed by another lifeform"
Zoom out into space. Abouard a spaceship, two aliens watch the scientists on a screen.
One alien says to the other "Do you ever get the feeling we are being observed by another lifeform"
The aliens turn to look out at the reader.

Text below the cartoon reads:
From 'Physics for Cats' by Tom Gauld. Preorder it at www.tomgauld.

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Jacek Wesołowski @jzwesolowski.bsky.social · 1d

OK, I can see why some people could find the base ending of Hades II confusing, but it's one that makes me think there's a second one. I wonder how many people stopped playing the original Hades after its base ending, because they didn't realise there would be a whole final act following it.

Jacek Wesołowski @jzwesolowski.bsky.social · 2d

I do eyeball my potato pancakes *and* my lentil pancakes, but yes, the margin of freedom is narrower.

Jacek Wesołowski @jzwesolowski.bsky.social · 2d

Same principles apply to fried and/or stewed vegetables of any sort, and - to a somewhat lesser degree - to pancakes.

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Jacek Wesołowski @jzwesolowski.bsky.social · 2d

I need to stress this: there's nothing wrong with the clinic itself. It's not very well organized, but that's mostly little things like signage and workflow. The real problem is the fact it takes a month and a half to get any appointment. This 👏 clinic 👏needs 👏 money.

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Jacek Wesołowski @jzwesolowski.bsky.social · 2d

There's nothing inherently wrong with my local public clinic, except it takes a month and a half to get an appointment with a "basic care" doctor, who then refers you to specialists. I just got the referral I need, but it took three months and one private healthcare appointment.

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Jacek Wesołowski @jzwesolowski.bsky.social · 3d

My intuition is that even people who say EU is bad are still saying (on other occasions) that the EU has made Poland wealthier, because in their view it's not quite plausible that a Slavic nation could have possibly made itself wealthier on its own, without enlightened Western assistance.

Jacek Wesołowski @jzwesolowski.bsky.social · 3d

It's not so much the matter of reality, as it is one of consensus. GenAI is essentially an aggregator. It gives answers based on what's the most common information in its data set. EU's role in Poland's growth in recent years is pretty much unchallenged.

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Jacek Wesołowski @jzwesolowski.bsky.social · 3d

I need to stress this isn't anyone's fault. It's hard to focus because everything is either super important and can please we get this done somehow, or super unimportant because there's no way we're getting it done now, and on top of that things sometimes flip from one state to the other.

Jacek Wesołowski @jzwesolowski.bsky.social · 3d

The final weeks of a gamedev project, right before various versions of the game are pushed into various publication channels, have this unpleasant mix of "I need to focus because we're running out of time" and "I have next to no idea of what to focus on next".

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Jacek Wesołowski @jzwesolowski.bsky.social · 4d

How many sides does the story have? Can I play D&D with it?

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Jacek Wesołowski @jzwesolowski.bsky.social · 4d

Likewise, I think it's an interesting thought, and my impression is bad things happen when social media try too hard to get as many people as possible to participate in a conversation.

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Jacek Wesołowski @jzwesolowski.bsky.social · 5d

I'll let others decide if this counts, but a client once insisted I should be using copilot because "we really need those productivity gains", but then never followed up to verify if I'm actually using it (I'm not).

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Jacek Wesołowski @jzwesolowski.bsky.social · 6d

Tumors often don't hurt until it's almost too late, but you can detect them early. Sign up for examination now.

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 8d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

Jacek Wesołowski @jzwesolowski.bsky.social · 6d

Technically speaking a floppy holds about as much information as a book (unless there are pictures), but is smaller. Which makes me think of rooms full or rows upon rows of bookshelves, all filled with stacks of sloppies.

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Jacek Wesołowski @jzwesolowski.bsky.social · 7d

There are never enough potato pancakes.

A plate with a heap of potato pancakes on it. There are 30-40 of them on the plate, i.e. a light meal for two, or maybe three people.

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Jacek Wesołowski @jzwesolowski.bsky.social · 7d

Last spring shady YT channels kept saying "Russian economy isn't doing well, you can't go on like this forever, there are going to be first cracks in the Autumn". So I made a mental note to verify later.

Well, it's the Autumn and the cracks are there, so I guess shady YT channels got it right.

Jacek Wesołowski @jzwesolowski.bsky.social · 7d

The whole point of a six-figure salary is to be able to ignore all of that with impunity, which, granted, leads to a vicious circle of promoting incompetent people to positions where they can keep being incompetent while everybody else has to do that much more learning to compensate.

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Jacek Wesołowski @jzwesolowski.bsky.social · 8d

This is, of course, a wish fulfilment fantasy, because in real life no amount of kindness will suffice if the other person is not interested, an on top of that different people have different ideas of what counts as kindness vs. e.g. intrusion. But that's what fiction is for, isn't it?

Jacek Wesołowski @jzwesolowski.bsky.social · 8d

Video games have very limited capability for representing intangible phenomena, such as friendship, but I kind of admire how many authors have settled for the idea that you gain friends with small but repeating and consistent acts of kindness.

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Jacek Wesołowski @jzwesolowski.bsky.social · 8d

This is one of the two main reasons why I'm not in a political party anymore. It kills the community when people within that community beigin to do this to each other.

Jacek Wesołowski @jzwesolowski.bsky.social · 8d

That's easy. They hate (somewhat understandably) anything that has to do with the (nominally) communist regime of PRL, and on top of that they hate modern feminist and LGBT+ movements, which have adopted the monument as their own to some extent, due to its, well, shape.

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Jacek Wesołowski @jzwesolowski.bsky.social · 9d

They're going to send a strongly worded letter.

Jacek Wesołowski @jzwesolowski.bsky.social · 9d

Odysseus is so charmingly shy about it. xD
(I went for Nemesis, I can fix her, sorry not sorry)
(the funniest part is the artwork is literally steamy, and they keep talking about the literal hotness and humidity of the situation)

Jacek Wesołowski @jzwesolowski.bsky.social · 9d

I generally like how the characters have evolved between the two games.

(also, is it just me, or did they actually lean a bit further into the thirsty vibe? I mean, the whole bath thing for starters...)

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