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Philip Harris
@solitarymindset.com
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Game Director and writer. By day, I develop video games. By night, I write urban fantasy and horror novels and screenplays. He/him. Co-chair of Greater Vancouver Chapter of HWA. All opinions my own. http://www.solitarymindset.com
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Philip Harris @solitarymindset.com · Feb 10
Welcome new followers!

I’m a video game developer and horror writer, sometimes at the same time. I mostly post about horror, video games, and cats.

The first book in my serial killer vs zombies series, Serial Killer Z, is currently on sale for 0.99c. www.amazon.com/dp/B075ZXJM14 #booksky
Serial Killer Z
Amazon.com: Serial Killer Z eBook : Harris, Philip: Kindle Store
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solitarymindset.com
I can see no downside to this idea.
February 16, 2026 at 7:38 PM
solitarymindset.com
Tunnels and Trolls was the first RPG I ever bought. Definitely going to be checking this one out.
February 16, 2026 at 3:27 PM
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francoisebaylis.bsky.social
The Supreme Court of Canada no longer posts in X. Same for the Royal Society of Canada, the Canadian Medical Association, and so many other national organizations. It would be great to see the federal, provincial, and territorial governments do the same.
February 14, 2026 at 6:31 PM
solitarymindset.com
Spent a couple of hours travelling yesterday so that a doctor could spend a few minutes stabbing me in the back of my neck with a needle.

Enjoyed it so much I've signed up to do it all again next weekend.
February 15, 2026 at 7:17 PM
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February 15, 2026 at 3:10 AM
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jameelawahlgren.bsky.social
No but AI isn't theft, definitely not it's just a """tool"""
natasailincic.bsky.social Natasa Ilincic @natasailincic.bsky.social · 2d
I can't convey with words how utterly revolting is to find your own work regurgitated by genAI.

Left: Owl Witch, watercolour, 2021.
Right: ..whatever that is
February 15, 2026 at 12:34 AM
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rawfishandbeer.bsky.social
It's Mandatory Monday and AI is clearly the future.
mandatoryrollercoaster.com/post/8081046...
three panel webcomic 1st panel: one man says to another "we invented a robot that answers questions" 2nd panel: he continues "we just have to feed it 10 baby giraffes a day" 3rd panel: the other man asks "but it answers the questions correctly?" and the first man replies "oh my goodness, no. no no no no no."
February 9, 2026 at 8:27 PM
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spryfox.bsky.social
our lovely artists recently dug up some early development footage for some of the systems in Spirit Crossing.

we decided to put together a fun little side-by-side comparison to share with you all, starting with our glider system!
February 14, 2026 at 10:42 PM
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ajcalvin.bsky.social
Any indies have SF/F/H books coming out in March?

I'm building next month's new release post, and there's room for new titles! You can submit the book info using the form below 😊

#booksky #writingcommunity #writing #indiebooks

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Are you an indie author? Do you have a new release scheduled in SF/F/Horror? Would you like it to be featured on my blog's monthly new release list?
February 15, 2026 at 3:02 PM
solitarymindset.com
TIL that I still know all the words to the Shake n' Vac song.
February 14, 2026 at 6:14 PM
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davidgaider.bsky.social
"Bro, the games industry is cooked!" and it's always a video of some character running through an environment. Shooting enemies, maybe, or picking up hearts? Mostly running. Sure, the environment looks decent, from a distance... but this is, apparently, all they think is needed to show "potential".
February 14, 2026 at 2:09 AM
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danhawk333.bsky.social
If you hate Generative Al, the best way to fight back is to support real artists ✍️
Pen drawing of an alien covered in coral looking bio-mechanical growths and a fogged visor only showing eyes with tentacle like limbs 'crab-walking' towards the left. Its companion is folded up in a corner among the curved walls that are covered in alien machinery that has organic like textures that look carved or inscribed. Behind the moving alien is a large oval window showing a star scape in deep space. Pen drawing of a wooly mammoth skeleton with the tusks engraved with symbols with metallic rings at various intervals while a glowing orb is in the third eye position in its nasal cavity evoking the concept of the cyclops while the rest of its body is in a large, shaggy, furry robe with a few bones showing through and bare skeletal fingers in front of it as it is sitting as a human would cross-legged on the ground. It is surrounded by stone columns, some knocked over or broken, covered in symbols and buried in snow and ice while large, leathery canopies hang between others. All of this is under a night sky filled with stars and the glow of a full moon. Pen drawing of a feminine celestial being with a nearly featureless face, black hair and wearing a black collar around their neck with symbols and gems embedded down their torso and along their arms, all 4 on each side. The ones on the left are partially obscured by the copper and white energies radiating from their outstretched left hand as their body flows down into, and between the assorted root like organic shapes with hints of shelves full of books down towards the body. Up along the right side is a large tower of metal and lights behind the being but well in the foreground of a quarter arc of a large portal that vanishes from view being their shoulder with various aircraft in front of it with the entire scene set under a night sky. Pen drawing of a large, textured humanoid facing left with a large disc shaped headpiece with silver highlights and a face that has several bronze eyes from the forehead to the chin. Their body has root like and bone protruding structures on it as it stands above several smaller, kneeling and crawling beings of the same species. They are in front of a large wall like structure that has some Greco-Roman style columns behind the being on the right in front of a large stone Eye of Ra structure. Behind that is a webbing reminiscent of neural connections with several electric purple/pink nodes with 3 larger of the nodes with strange script in them and being overgrown by the black tendrils.
February 9, 2026 at 9:46 PM
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gekido.bsky.social
Games industry dot biz is asking how you are using AI, do your thing!

survey.alchemer.com/s3/8679343/b...
GamesIndustry.biz AI Survey
survey.alchemer.com
February 13, 2026 at 6:03 PM
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nickcarver.bsky.social
'We should learn to speak in a language that rich people who don't dream can't comprehend.' - Beautifully put.
mikexnichols.bsky.social Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 3d
i often think about this review
Letterboxd screenshot Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) Watched by Branson Reese 28 Apr 2022 Abrams isn't a man so much as he's an avatar of cultural entropy. If you make something popular enough eventually you will die or sell it off and and a person in thick rimmed glasses whose main artistic vision is that he loves to have meetings will take it and sandblast it until it's nothing. I hate to see this happen here but maybe it's good that this happened. Maybe every franchise should collapse into a version of itself that makes shareholders nod and shake each others' hands. We should learn to speak in a language that rich people who don't dream can't comprehend.
February 14, 2026 at 9:27 AM
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cheriepriest.com
maaaaybe some of you might be interested in this...or know someone who might be ::waggles eyebrows::
February 13, 2026 at 7:20 PM
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annamegill.com
Buy this book and support a bunch of rising stars in game narrative
February 13, 2026 at 7:23 PM
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nuhahaha.bsky.social
Fun news! We're looking for a narrative designer to join our team. Help us work on Star Wars Jedi! ✨ jobs.ea.com/en_US/career...
Narrative Designer (Star Wars Jedi)
jobs.ea.com
February 12, 2026 at 6:09 PM
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charalanahzard.bsky.social
This video took me a whole ass month (on and off) to make, so hey, thank you so much for watching it!
charalanahzard.bsky.social Alanah Pearce @charalanahzard.bsky.social · 8d
Introducing the “AI-BOROS”: the few companies at the ‘top’ of the economy handing each other billions of (debt-ridden) dollars for a product that both doesn’t exist AND doesn’t make any money.

and we ALL get to go broke when it inevitably implodes ha ha i love it here!!!

youtu.be/ifyaI4TOsDM?...
The Entire Tech Industry is Screwed
YouTube video by Charalanahzard
youtu.be
February 12, 2026 at 8:22 PM
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sskorkowsky.bsky.social
Not gonna lie, I want an ALAN shirt.
February 12, 2026 at 10:15 PM
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richardkadrey.bsky.social
We already have a logline for the movie courtesy of @knaveryesque.bsky.social
"Eat, Flay, Love"
richardkadrey.bsky.social Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 4d
My million dollar idea: get all the coolest women from the Hellraiser series, put them in a van, and send them cross-country in a gritty Josie and the Pussycats reboot. Call me, Hollywood.
Angelique the original female cenobite Julia when she returned from the dead the female incarnation of Pinhead
February 12, 2026 at 5:57 PM
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writnelson.bsky.social
In voice acting news, Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival put out a new Love Story trailer! It's sexual and bloody, as it should be!! Wonderful.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFeP...
February 12, 2026 at 11:38 PM
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richardkadrey.bsky.social
All February, the ebook of KING BULLET—the novel that was supposed to be the end of the Sandman Slim series—is on sale for $1.99 in all your favorite formats. (the absolutely last, I'm not kidding, for real, final Sandman Slim book, IN THE DEVIL WIND, will be out later this year)
the cover of King Bullet
February 11, 2026 at 6:32 PM
solitarymindset.com
I definitely can't relate to any of this.
February 13, 2026 at 2:56 PM
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clarkesworldmagazine.com
It's time for your periodic reminder that we count on subscriptions to keep the lights on.
clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/
Thank you.
Fed up with your world? Visit ours. Picture of the Clarkesworld robot looking over at the cover of our February issue. That cover features a robot looking out at the sea while standing on the beach with their hands clasped behind their back. The water comes gently towards their feet. Peaceful ocean and sky. A contemplative moment of peace. Cover art by Matt Dixon.
February 11, 2026 at 3:07 PM
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pel.bsky.social
I love examples of other animals successfully communicating with us
February 13, 2026 at 2:11 AM