Nick Dymond
@monomoon.bsky.social
game/music/sound designer. Lover of films, games, ttrpg, everything audio. Worked on Shadows of Doubt, Silt, Cosmic Express, The Colonists + others. https://linktr.ee/monomoon_sound
People in thousands of years will be looking at this and it will never look any less deranged or stupid. His name will become detatched from his being. A future Midas of scat.
Trump’s letter is bonkers, batshit, emotionally dysregulated, vindictive & terrifying.
And who the fuck writes like this?!?
Also: a stated intent for total & complete control of Greenland, again.
This is BAD. BAD. BAD.
Congress can end this today or tomorrow or any time of their choosing
And who the fuck writes like this?!?
Also: a stated intent for total & complete control of Greenland, again.
This is BAD. BAD. BAD.
Congress can end this today or tomorrow or any time of their choosing
January 19, 2026 at 4:03 PM
People in thousands of years will be looking at this and it will never look any less deranged or stupid. His name will become detatched from his being. A future Midas of scat.
And the collatoral of agencies and studios who took gross Meta money to make things no-one played. Not a great long-term strategy imho...
The division has lost over $77 billion since its inception in 2020.
Meta Lays Off Thousands of VR Workers as Zuckerberg's Vision Fails
The company has laid off some 1,500 virtual reality developers as part of a broader shift toward AI wearable devices.
trib.al
January 18, 2026 at 4:35 PM
And the collatoral of agencies and studios who took gross Meta money to make things no-one played. Not a great long-term strategy imho...
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if you havent cancelled spotify yet and this isnt the final nail in the coffin for you, i really dont know what else to say other than i hope some introspection finds you soon
In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties.
The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized.
Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.
The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized.
Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.
January 16, 2026 at 8:06 AM
if you havent cancelled spotify yet and this isnt the final nail in the coffin for you, i really dont know what else to say other than i hope some introspection finds you soon
Another reminder to everyone that the moral choice is to ditch Spotify and pay artists directly.
You're welcome.
You're welcome.
January 14, 2026 at 8:28 AM
Another reminder to everyone that the moral choice is to ditch Spotify and pay artists directly.
You're welcome.
You're welcome.
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January 12, 2026 at 10:41 AM
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every once in a while i remember this door
January 10, 2026 at 6:00 PM
every once in a while i remember this door
"The key is not technology, it is institutions."
January 10, 2026 at 5:11 PM
"The key is not technology, it is institutions."
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Stop subsidizing fossil fuels and the renewables market will do good things for your country -just look at Uruguay
January 10, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Stop subsidizing fossil fuels and the renewables market will do good things for your country -just look at Uruguay
The Last Unicorn (1982)
January 9, 2026 at 9:18 PM
The Last Unicorn (1982)
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You think you’re so sensible and making the tough decisions but you have no idea how much genuine nastiness there is here, you think you can beat Reform by solemnly enacting their policies, but those people don’t want solemnity or false regret, they want hate, they want pain
to clarify, what I'm saying that the outcome of every single UK political vote in my adult life has been very obvious to me and if it's your job to know about these things and you've ever been wrong about it you need to spend more time in pubs in abandoned industrial towns and nasty little villages
years ago at Sidmouth folk festival there were some people doing one of those 'ohh Jeremy Corbyn' chants and the creep standing next to me said that he was really worried where this mindless populism would lead us, and I kind of want to look him up and ask him how he feels about that statement now
January 8, 2026 at 11:24 PM
You think you’re so sensible and making the tough decisions but you have no idea how much genuine nastiness there is here, you think you can beat Reform by solemnly enacting their policies, but those people don’t want solemnity or false regret, they want hate, they want pain
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not saying it can't get worse but this week really feels like a straightforward depiction of what worst-case 'post truth' information apocalypse ppl were warning of in the late 2010s
January 7, 2026 at 10:43 PM
not saying it can't get worse but this week really feels like a straightforward depiction of what worst-case 'post truth' information apocalypse ppl were warning of in the late 2010s
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Hey look, it's more "cognitive amplification."
LLM users also struggled to accurately quote their own work. While LLMs offer immediate convenience, our findings highlight potential cognitive costs. Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.
unlike this study which actually does establish a causal relationship between using LLMs and cognitive decline arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872
January 7, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Hey look, it's more "cognitive amplification."
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"We believe our energy, and we believe our fantasy. We don’t have reason to be sad or depressed or to be waiting for the darkness because that’s what THEY want – to push you to the dark..."
R.I.P. Béla Tarr
buff.ly/oMoTDfm
R.I.P. Béla Tarr
buff.ly/oMoTDfm
January 6, 2026 at 3:49 PM
"We believe our energy, and we believe our fantasy. We don’t have reason to be sad or depressed or to be waiting for the darkness because that’s what THEY want – to push you to the dark..."
R.I.P. Béla Tarr
buff.ly/oMoTDfm
R.I.P. Béla Tarr
buff.ly/oMoTDfm
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Required listening www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
The Reith Lectures - Rutger Bregman - Moral Revolution - 1. A Time of Monsters - BBC Sounds
Dutch historian Rutger Bregman delivers his first BBC Reith Lecture: Moral Revolution.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 6, 2026 at 9:51 AM
Required listening www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Tell me we should trust AI to give us the facts. Tell me it's a future we can put our faith in. Come at me. I'm right here, waiting.
January 4, 2026 at 3:24 PM
Tell me we should trust AI to give us the facts. Tell me it's a future we can put our faith in. Come at me. I'm right here, waiting.
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It’s with great sadness and a heavy heart that we announce the passing of Ken Downie on 20/12/25. Rest In Peace brother, you will be deeply missed and never forgotten. Our condolences to Sheena and his family.
December 21, 2025 at 8:00 PM
It’s with great sadness and a heavy heart that we announce the passing of Ken Downie on 20/12/25. Rest In Peace brother, you will be deeply missed and never forgotten. Our condolences to Sheena and his family.
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Our company is in a pretty weird spot. On one hand we're getting invited to prestigious award shows and getting a lot of validation for our games. On the other hand we can't even afford the entry price.
December 18, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Our company is in a pretty weird spot. On one hand we're getting invited to prestigious award shows and getting a lot of validation for our games. On the other hand we can't even afford the entry price.
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GAME DEVS. I got tired of mind maps spaghetti, so I built a game design tool that lets me see exactly what I need to see. It lets you scrub dependency depth: see only direct connections, or expand the chain when you need it.
This is for people who design games, let me know what you think 👀
This is for people who design games, let me know what you think 👀
December 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM
GAME DEVS. I got tired of mind maps spaghetti, so I built a game design tool that lets me see exactly what I need to see. It lets you scrub dependency depth: see only direct connections, or expand the chain when you need it.
This is for people who design games, let me know what you think 👀
This is for people who design games, let me know what you think 👀
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"We, the techbro community, are delighted to announce our new device that allows you to ejaculate immediately. Where messy sex and blowjobs used to take minutes or even hours to complete, our new tech will allow you to reach climax in *nanoseconds*, allowing you more time to do work and chores."
December 15, 2025 at 9:19 AM
"We, the techbro community, are delighted to announce our new device that allows you to ejaculate immediately. Where messy sex and blowjobs used to take minutes or even hours to complete, our new tech will allow you to reach climax in *nanoseconds*, allowing you more time to do work and chores."
So the new Fatboy Slim video is slop. Totally forgettable. A technology that inspires the tamest, most trivial, boring ideas. "What if the Rolling Stones and Fatboy Slim were young and playing this song?"
Board room drivel.
Board room drivel.
December 12, 2025 at 3:11 PM
So the new Fatboy Slim video is slop. Totally forgettable. A technology that inspires the tamest, most trivial, boring ideas. "What if the Rolling Stones and Fatboy Slim were young and playing this song?"
Board room drivel.
Board room drivel.
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Valve has now rejected my complaint, confirming that "I don't like muslims" is a valid reason to leave a negative review on a game on Steam
This is where we're at now.
This is where we're at now.
December 10, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Valve has now rejected my complaint, confirming that "I don't like muslims" is a valid reason to leave a negative review on a game on Steam
This is where we're at now.
This is where we're at now.
Forgot that I called a Toast Time level "Enter Snowman".
December 9, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Forgot that I called a Toast Time level "Enter Snowman".
😍😍😍
This isn't just a new release; it's a complete rebuild of the UI, code, and major aspects of the sound engine. What's new, hands-on:
Alien resurrection: Absynth 6 delivers a powerful update to a futuristic classic - CDM Create Digital Music
Back in green: three years after Native Instruments announced its demise, Absynth 6 makes an unexpected return from the dead. What we get is not just a rerelease, but the biggest update for the polysy...
cdm.link
December 9, 2025 at 3:15 PM
😍😍😍
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COVERDRIVE is a small zine I made, all about how to make an album cover. I have some physical copies, and you can download it in pdf form here:
lukeoram.itch.io/coverdrive
#art #albumcover #guide #howto #doit #zine
lukeoram.itch.io/coverdrive
#art #albumcover #guide #howto #doit #zine
December 8, 2025 at 3:56 PM
COVERDRIVE is a small zine I made, all about how to make an album cover. I have some physical copies, and you can download it in pdf form here:
lukeoram.itch.io/coverdrive
#art #albumcover #guide #howto #doit #zine
lukeoram.itch.io/coverdrive
#art #albumcover #guide #howto #doit #zine