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max and 19 others 🌌 @sneptech.bsky.social · 17h

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brawls @brawlite.badvibes.party · 20h

look at my TOOTH BOWLS

four images of scronched ceramic bowls that have been adorned with the likeness of human teeth

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Charlie the Half Time Orange @clementinedanger.bsky.social · 1d

work work

Tumblr post:

video games are all about meeting a little elf
outside the city gates that says 'ah... the pernicious
weed!' when you give him a healing herb and then
finding yourself fifteen years later saying "ah... the
pernicious weed!" to yourself in the shower

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 1d

yup - it's Mastodon, it still runs : oulipo.social

Oulipo.social (Mark II)

A spot for chatting with a lipogrammatic constraint. 25 out of 26 symbols in latin script comply.

oulipo.social

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 1d

Too hard, you've lost me.

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 1d

It's just hard to talk about that glyph without also including it. "That fifth glyph" was our shorthand, but that's not a thing that most folks would clock without a bit of thinking.

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 1d

ugh okay, I'll do a post making up for it. How's this?

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 1d

I am probably in the world's top 1000 people for writing English without the letter "e"

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 1d

ugh I want to make a social network where you can only post (something approximating) iambic pentameter, just to get the practice in

Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · 2d

Six years ago, I wrote most of the Tragedian dialogue for Pathologic 2 in iambic pentameter. I'm back now doing the same for Pathologic 3. I figured it was helpful to write a guide on *how* I did it – in case I get hit by a bus and the team has to carry on without me.

azhdarchid.com/so-you-want-...

So You Want to Write Iambic Pentameter

In which I share the dirty secrets of the world's least useful skill

azhdarchid.com

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 2d

thank you! seems nice based on the last 5 hours!

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 2d

continues to be nice!

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 2d

damn, the combination of affirmation and disappointment when the cool idea you've had turns out to already exist

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 2d

hey Krakow is pretty nice

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 2d

this brought to you by struggling to explain larp from first concepts to the girl who was helping me buy a bus ticket and who is here for a festival

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 2d

I've realised that reading this essay: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/a-pro-huma... has changed me, and now I am a just a little bit more likely to make conversation with a stranger. It's a better way to live.

A Pro-Human Manifesto

Behold! I have had a thought.

youngvulgarian.substack.com

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 2d

"Why doesn't [site] communicate more about anything" well maybe because every time they do, hundreds of people lose their entire fucking shit for the next five days and a new completely wrong folk belief starts getting repeated as fact and becomes the basis for even more shit-losing

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 2d

don't think so! it was a long time ago!

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 2d

just played this & loved it. worth the half an hour of your time it will take to play - beautiful & pointed

Mario von Rickenbach @mariov.ch · 2d

Need a new job? Pocket Boss is OUT NOW!

pocketboss.ch 📊 💬

A delightfully odd fusion of work and play. Now available on iOS, Android, Steam and itch.io.

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 2d

ah Android finally decided to play ball? congratulations on the launch! I played the iOS build earlier - i do t think I was expecting it to be so beautiful or sexy?

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 2d

I think that having seen Bennett give a PowerPoint presentation about athletes crying predisposed me to get the point, tbh.

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 2d

approaching the third candle, I think!

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 2d

well right now I am waiting for my gate to be called to fly to Poland to go to this: chaosleague.org/eclipse-larp...

which is kind of a project. but when I'm back... back to trying to fix up the last bits on adding video to Downpour. maybe I'll do a Big Release about it when it's done.

Making sure you're not a bot!

chaosleague.org

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 2d

I am most curious about the way they will thread the needle between getting paid & not being a "commercial larp". But yes, agreed that I think they'll easily get the ticket numbers.

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 2d

btw I'm flying out to go to this larp: chaosleague.org/eclipse-larp...
excited to go to space and discover aliens! got my big black boots on!

(I don't think I'm gonna be a Ripley. I think my character is actually likely to be a whiny self-hating dude? need to figure out some stuff there)

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 2d

Heathrow is the sixth busiest airport in the world!

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