Robin Johnson
@robinjohnson.bsky.social
Interactive fiction/gamedev/writer, audiodramatist
🎙️ Producer/writer/HPL in @midnightpals.bsky.social podcast
🏆 IFComp, Xyzzys
👨💻 XP: Gute Fabrik, Kythera
👾 versificator.itch.io
🌈ADHAu
covid is still a thing
nazis are bad
"ai" "art" is neither
he/him
🎙️ Producer/writer/HPL in @midnightpals.bsky.social podcast
🏆 IFComp, Xyzzys
👨💻 XP: Gute Fabrik, Kythera
👾 versificator.itch.io
🌈ADHAu
covid is still a thing
nazis are bad
"ai" "art" is neither
he/him
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Robin Johnson
@robinjohnson.bsky.social
· Jan 16
Submitted for the Approval of the Midnight Pals
Each week, a group of storytellers gathers around a campfire. There's world-weary club MC Edgar Allan Poe, nerd dad Stephen King, violent goth Mary Shelley, squid-obsessed wimp HP Lovecraft, and other...
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(CNs: see show notes)
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Who called it The Fellowship of the Ring and not The Band of the Band
January 17, 2026 at 11:33 AM
Who called it The Fellowship of the Ring and not The Band of the Band
How is this from 2001
January 17, 2026 at 11:21 AM
How is this from 2001
Reposted by Robin Johnson
I have two things to say to anyone considering visiting the US for GDC this year:
1) You’re fucking crazy, and
2) Don’t do it you’re fucking crazy
…
(Incidentally I offered the exact same advice last year around this time and was blasted for “fearmongering”. Right.)
1) You’re fucking crazy, and
2) Don’t do it you’re fucking crazy
…
(Incidentally I offered the exact same advice last year around this time and was blasted for “fearmongering”. Right.)
January 17, 2026 at 1:54 AM
I have two things to say to anyone considering visiting the US for GDC this year:
1) You’re fucking crazy, and
2) Don’t do it you’re fucking crazy
…
(Incidentally I offered the exact same advice last year around this time and was blasted for “fearmongering”. Right.)
1) You’re fucking crazy, and
2) Don’t do it you’re fucking crazy
…
(Incidentally I offered the exact same advice last year around this time and was blasted for “fearmongering”. Right.)
Humans remain pretty terrible at being kind to each other at scale, but at least we've created a utopia for the cats
January 17, 2026 at 10:57 AM
Humans remain pretty terrible at being kind to each other at scale, but at least we've created a utopia for the cats
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I am once again saying: Hire me to create/add to/improve/fix your story/narrative design/storylet system/system design/game
I'm wrapping up a major contract this month, so: hire me! I'm a writer/narrative designer/systems designer with a decade of industry experience and a lot of experience taming the complexity of intricate systems. Let me build your storylet system or write disquieting prose for you!
January 16, 2026 at 9:38 PM
I am once again saying: Hire me to create/add to/improve/fix your story/narrative design/storylet system/system design/game
Ake and Thok have an interesting dynamic with the cadets! It's like, you know when you're being interrogated by police, and one officer lights you a cigarette and the other shouts & hits you with a chair? There should be a name for this sort of double act, maybe "cordial policeman violent policeman"
January 16, 2026 at 7:55 PM
Ake and Thok have an interesting dynamic with the cadets! It's like, you know when you're being interrogated by police, and one officer lights you a cigarette and the other shouts & hits you with a chair? There should be a name for this sort of double act, maybe "cordial policeman violent policeman"
The purpose of the lying has changed from "make you believe the lie" to "make you doubt your sanity" to "make you question the nature of reality itself" to "show you how much lying they can get away with"
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt says the Danes agreed to form a working group to discuss the surrender of Greenland to Trump. "No we didn't" says the Danish foreign minister, indeed "there will be no discussion of turnover." www.berlingske.dk/indland/det-...
Det Hvide Hus: Arbejdsgruppe skal drøfte »erhvervelsen af Grønland« – Løkke afviser
Onsdagens møde og NATO-allieredes styrker i Grønland ændrer ikke Trumps ambitioner om, at USA skal erhverve Grønland, lyder det torsdag aften fra Det Hvide Hus.
www.berlingske.dk
January 16, 2026 at 10:44 AM
The purpose of the lying has changed from "make you believe the lie" to "make you doubt your sanity" to "make you question the nature of reality itself" to "show you how much lying they can get away with"
Reposted by Robin Johnson
For non-German speakers:
“Dear media, I can’t stand the headline "No agreement between the US and Denmark” any longer. If an armed man storms a bank, you don't run the headline: "Robber and cashier can't reach an agreement on money transfer." Stop framing imperial aggression as normal diplomacy.”
“Dear media, I can’t stand the headline "No agreement between the US and Denmark” any longer. If an armed man storms a bank, you don't run the headline: "Robber and cashier can't reach an agreement on money transfer." Stop framing imperial aggression as normal diplomacy.”
Liebe Medien, ich kann die Schlagzeile "Keine Einigung zwischen USA und Dänemark" nicht mehr sehen. Wenn ein Bewaffneter eine Bank stürmt, titelt ihr doch auch nicht: "Räuber und Kassiererin finden keinen Konsens über Geldübergabe." Hört auf, imperiale Aggression als normale Diplomatie zu framen.
January 15, 2026 at 11:11 AM
For non-German speakers:
“Dear media, I can’t stand the headline "No agreement between the US and Denmark” any longer. If an armed man storms a bank, you don't run the headline: "Robber and cashier can't reach an agreement on money transfer." Stop framing imperial aggression as normal diplomacy.”
“Dear media, I can’t stand the headline "No agreement between the US and Denmark” any longer. If an armed man storms a bank, you don't run the headline: "Robber and cashier can't reach an agreement on money transfer." Stop framing imperial aggression as normal diplomacy.”
found a proto-meme in weird communist-Hungarian cheesecake comic Jucika
January 14, 2026 at 8:50 PM
found a proto-meme in weird communist-Hungarian cheesecake comic Jucika
Reposted by Robin Johnson
let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark.
January 14, 2026 at 2:49 PM
let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark.
Reposted by Robin Johnson
First time in 2026!
Hey folks -- Signal Boost time for this week's #TheFullLid. If you have a creative project to promote, leave the details in a reply. Include the title and a link please, so folks can find it. For pre-launch crowdfunders let us know about 2 weeks in advance.
Hey folks -- Signal Boost time for this week's #TheFullLid. If you have a creative project to promote, leave the details in a reply. Include the title and a link please, so folks can find it. For pre-launch crowdfunders let us know about 2 weeks in advance.
January 14, 2026 at 12:39 PM
First time in 2026!
Hey folks -- Signal Boost time for this week's #TheFullLid. If you have a creative project to promote, leave the details in a reply. Include the title and a link please, so folks can find it. For pre-launch crowdfunders let us know about 2 weeks in advance.
Hey folks -- Signal Boost time for this week's #TheFullLid. If you have a creative project to promote, leave the details in a reply. Include the title and a link please, so folks can find it. For pre-launch crowdfunders let us know about 2 weeks in advance.
Reposted by Robin Johnson
As an outside person with extensive MPLS connections, this is ONE HUNDRED PERCENT TRUE. Literally every one of them. In all the neighborhoods, all social strata. "They tear gassed outside my bagel place" "yeah they tried to take one of my kids art teachers" "yeah their building was raided." etc.
I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand
You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen
*Everyone has stories like this*
You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen
*Everyone has stories like this*
January 13, 2026 at 11:07 PM
As an outside person with extensive MPLS connections, this is ONE HUNDRED PERCENT TRUE. Literally every one of them. In all the neighborhoods, all social strata. "They tear gassed outside my bagel place" "yeah they tried to take one of my kids art teachers" "yeah their building was raided." etc.
Reposted by Robin Johnson
On Thurs 22nd January, we are hosting Lightning Talks with @arghscotland.bsky.social 🌩️
This will be a space for autistic and other ND folk to infodump and share the joy. Everyone is also welcome to just attend and enjoy!
Talks should be up to about 7 minutes long.
Sign up: luma.com/zh49tltt
This will be a space for autistic and other ND folk to infodump and share the joy. Everyone is also welcome to just attend and enjoy!
Talks should be up to about 7 minutes long.
Sign up: luma.com/zh49tltt
Lightning Talks with AMASE & ARGH Scotland · Zoom · Luma
On Thursday, 22nd of January, 7:30-8:30pm GMT, the Autistic Mutual Aid Society Edinburgh (AMASE) and ARGH Scotland are running a Lightning Talks event…
luma.com
January 13, 2026 at 10:00 PM
On Thurs 22nd January, we are hosting Lightning Talks with @arghscotland.bsky.social 🌩️
This will be a space for autistic and other ND folk to infodump and share the joy. Everyone is also welcome to just attend and enjoy!
Talks should be up to about 7 minutes long.
Sign up: luma.com/zh49tltt
This will be a space for autistic and other ND folk to infodump and share the joy. Everyone is also welcome to just attend and enjoy!
Talks should be up to about 7 minutes long.
Sign up: luma.com/zh49tltt
Reposted by Robin Johnson
Remember, Scott Adams won't see your posts focusing on his late-career bigotry, but J.K. Rowling might.
January 13, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Remember, Scott Adams won't see your posts focusing on his late-career bigotry, but J.K. Rowling might.
Gordon fucking Bennett
Ukip have submitted a new logo and slogan to the Electoral Commission, swapping the £ pound sterling symbol for a cross, that looks very much like it is modelled on the Iron Cross used by Prussia & Germany 1871-1918 and Hitler's Nazi regime from 1933-45
January 13, 2026 at 12:23 PM
Gordon fucking Bennett
Reposted by Robin Johnson
i'm not posting much lately, but i feel like we all need a little bit of distraction lately on social media so
ONE LIKE = ONE WEB GAME YOU SHOULD PLAY
ONE LIKE = ONE WEB GAME YOU SHOULD PLAY
January 12, 2026 at 9:24 AM
i'm not posting much lately, but i feel like we all need a little bit of distraction lately on social media so
ONE LIKE = ONE WEB GAME YOU SHOULD PLAY
ONE LIKE = ONE WEB GAME YOU SHOULD PLAY
Reposted by Robin Johnson
John Cage, submitting the sheet music for "4'33"" to his publisher: What do you think?
Publisher: No notes.
Publisher: No notes.
January 11, 2026 at 8:54 PM
John Cage, submitting the sheet music for "4'33"" to his publisher: What do you think?
Publisher: No notes.
Publisher: No notes.
Reposted by Robin Johnson
A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter.
I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.
I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.
January 10, 2026 at 3:24 PM
A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter.
I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.
I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.
I shouldn't care but someone has put me on a list of "shitlibs" and I'm NOT, I really REALLY hate the fascists, a LOT
(is it a gdpr/hepa/data protection/whatever violation to allow public lists that people can't remove themselves from?)
(is it a gdpr/hepa/data protection/whatever violation to allow public lists that people can't remove themselves from?)
January 11, 2026 at 12:58 PM
I shouldn't care but someone has put me on a list of "shitlibs" and I'm NOT, I really REALLY hate the fascists, a LOT
(is it a gdpr/hepa/data protection/whatever violation to allow public lists that people can't remove themselves from?)
(is it a gdpr/hepa/data protection/whatever violation to allow public lists that people can't remove themselves from?)
You know the bit in back to the future where Alt-Biff's henchmen tell Marty "We can do this the easy way or the hard way" then one of them coshes him unconscious and says "The easy way" :-/
January 11, 2026 at 11:31 AM
You know the bit in back to the future where Alt-Biff's henchmen tell Marty "We can do this the easy way or the hard way" then one of them coshes him unconscious and says "The easy way" :-/
Reposted by Robin Johnson
The ol' thing where a centrist is pro every resistance movement and activist and revolution in history....apart from the ones happening right now.
January 11, 2026 at 10:57 AM
The ol' thing where a centrist is pro every resistance movement and activist and revolution in history....apart from the ones happening right now.
There was a protest this morning against the attack on Venezuela* but my mental health and sleep pattern weren't up to it. I'm sure he'll give me other opportunities. Solidarity to everyone out there today.
* organised a few days ago, so it's not even the most recent atrocity
* organised a few days ago, so it's not even the most recent atrocity
January 10, 2026 at 2:00 PM
There was a protest this morning against the attack on Venezuela* but my mental health and sleep pattern weren't up to it. I'm sure he'll give me other opportunities. Solidarity to everyone out there today.
* organised a few days ago, so it's not even the most recent atrocity
* organised a few days ago, so it's not even the most recent atrocity