Eliot
@scribbledawn.bsky.social
impact interactive wordjam heartune
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Prism: https://eliot-mb-howard.itch.io/prism-a-tale-of-heterogenous-futures
Game Director Story (demo): https://store.steampowered.com/app/1305180/Game_Director_Story/
they/them despite the circumstances
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Prism: https://eliot-mb-howard.itch.io/prism-a-tale-of-heterogenous-futures
Game Director Story (demo): https://store.steampowered.com/app/1305180/Game_Director_Story/
they/them despite the circumstances
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Eliot
@scribbledawn.bsky.social
· Jun 10
a lot of bus stops in SF are literally just a pole you have to stand next to, but today some guerilla-installed benches suddenly appeared
diy cozy architecture >>>>>
diy cozy architecture >>>>>
anyone can just take an afternoon and fix or improve their community in some small way. when i think about what is taken from us by time-first shift work and what folks would spend their time doing on UBI, this kind of thing is way up there.
saying grace actually rules and if you're non-religious you should work some form of gratitude into the moment before you feast
December 26, 2025 at 6:25 PM
saying grace actually rules and if you're non-religious you should work some form of gratitude into the moment before you feast
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Philosophers: Imagine yourself behind the veil of ignorance, not knowing what life you might be born into
Giving What We Can: But what if we unveiled it
Giving What We Can: But what if we unveiled it
Giving what we can has implemented a fun game where you spin a globe to see how your starting point in life would compare if you were reborn today, randomly somewhere on earth.
www.givingwhatwecan.org/birth-lottery
www.givingwhatwecan.org/birth-lottery
Birth Lottery
If you were reborn today, where would you land? And how would that change your life?
www.givingwhatwecan.org
December 25, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Philosophers: Imagine yourself behind the veil of ignorance, not knowing what life you might be born into
Giving What We Can: But what if we unveiled it
Giving What We Can: But what if we unveiled it
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Linus: well you see, mr. grinch, the true meaning of christmas is our lord and saviour Whoses Christ
December 25, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Linus: well you see, mr. grinch, the true meaning of christmas is our lord and saviour Whoses Christ
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We have a big problem: the media and punditry are overrun by people who are driven almost entirely by a desire to appear "openminded" and "contrarian." In order to burnish that image, they seek out conservative takes to endorse, carefully choosing ones that don't seem too MAGA (and thus gauche).
This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.
Congratulations to Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee, whose book In Covid's Wake has been recognized as:
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
December 24, 2025 at 4:07 PM
We have a big problem: the media and punditry are overrun by people who are driven almost entirely by a desire to appear "openminded" and "contrarian." In order to burnish that image, they seek out conservative takes to endorse, carefully choosing ones that don't seem too MAGA (and thus gauche).
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Jenny Holzer, Redacted (Top Secret), 2012
October 18, 2024 at 4:41 PM
Jenny Holzer, Redacted (Top Secret), 2012
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One thing I've accepted over the last decade or so is how much some people love to *hate* and feel morally superior to others, to the extent that they'll write fanfiction about others and convince themselves it's true to justify their feelings. It's depressing
This isn't about people being deranged online, it's about this woman being a terrible person, say the most deranged replies I've ever seen
December 19, 2025 at 6:57 PM
One thing I've accepted over the last decade or so is how much some people love to *hate* and feel morally superior to others, to the extent that they'll write fanfiction about others and convince themselves it's true to justify their feelings. It's depressing
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"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
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the thing about "AI" "agents" is a depressing number of people move through the world as if they are the only real person in it. when they "talk to" these chatbots they don't notice the shallowness because that's as far as they ever plumb anyway. the obvious if:then shadowplay fools them completely
December 19, 2025 at 3:42 PM
the thing about "AI" "agents" is a depressing number of people move through the world as if they are the only real person in it. when they "talk to" these chatbots they don't notice the shallowness because that's as far as they ever plumb anyway. the obvious if:then shadowplay fools them completely
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Good Morning✨
Paul Klee ~ Winter
Paul Klee ~ Winter
December 16, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Good Morning✨
Paul Klee ~ Winter
Paul Klee ~ Winter
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My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.
December 16, 2025 at 10:42 PM
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.
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I hate the part of writing where I know it's over for the day but maybe if I click between the dozens of tabs I have open for 30 minutes straight it will come back
December 5, 2025 at 9:06 PM
I hate the part of writing where I know it's over for the day but maybe if I click between the dozens of tabs I have open for 30 minutes straight it will come back
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tapping the sign
December 4, 2025 at 4:35 PM
tapping the sign
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Chris Person takes a look at Horses, "the indie game that is too scandalous for either Valve or Epic, is only beyond the pale if you're not familiar with any other art form" (quoted from the article blurb).
aftermath.site/horses-indie...
At least read this paragraph:
aftermath.site/horses-indie...
At least read this paragraph:
December 4, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Chris Person takes a look at Horses, "the indie game that is too scandalous for either Valve or Epic, is only beyond the pale if you're not familiar with any other art form" (quoted from the article blurb).
aftermath.site/horses-indie...
At least read this paragraph:
aftermath.site/horses-indie...
At least read this paragraph:
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last week i remembered that macOS lets you set your own icons and that *I* have the power to delegitimize the professionalism of the software that runs on my machine, so here's a thread of the 16 new icons i've made so far
i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')
i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')
November 29, 2025 at 1:48 AM
last week i remembered that macOS lets you set your own icons and that *I* have the power to delegitimize the professionalism of the software that runs on my machine, so here's a thread of the 16 new icons i've made so far
i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')
i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')
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no I'm not "posting through it." it's posting through me
November 28, 2025 at 4:04 AM
no I'm not "posting through it." it's posting through me
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I think a lot about the story Carl Reiner told: he’d have been a sewing machine repairman if not for a free WPA drama class. That led to other theater work, to Sid Caesar, to Mel Brooks, and all the rest. All because of one free class paid for by a government that felt the arts were worth teaching.
you ever think about the works progress administration? I sure do. I wish that was a thing now. I would be so glad to contribute my labor to like. A random ass local bridge
November 7, 2025 at 1:28 AM
I think a lot about the story Carl Reiner told: he’d have been a sewing machine repairman if not for a free WPA drama class. That led to other theater work, to Sid Caesar, to Mel Brooks, and all the rest. All because of one free class paid for by a government that felt the arts were worth teaching.
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Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
November 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
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I think about this LeGuin essay a lot. (link in next post; you should read it too.)
October 27, 2025 at 10:26 PM
I think about this LeGuin essay a lot. (link in next post; you should read it too.)
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it is darkly funny that "trillion dollar computer oracle that will never work" is good and inevitable technology and "inexpensive hormonal treatments which completely transform the human body" is bad technology to be banished like witchcraft
i do kind of think that the awareness and commonality of hrt is sort of like a turning point people havent fully grappled with. a technological shift on par with the advent of people getting personal computers & hooking up to the internet in the 90s. theyre trying to suppress it hard bc of that
October 26, 2025 at 4:12 PM
it is darkly funny that "trillion dollar computer oracle that will never work" is good and inevitable technology and "inexpensive hormonal treatments which completely transform the human body" is bad technology to be banished like witchcraft
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Anxiety is a geode.
You are filled with wonderous things
That no one will ever see
Unless you take a hammer
And mean it when you swing.
You are filled with wonderous things
That no one will ever see
Unless you take a hammer
And mean it when you swing.
October 1, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Anxiety is a geode.
You are filled with wonderous things
That no one will ever see
Unless you take a hammer
And mean it when you swing.
You are filled with wonderous things
That no one will ever see
Unless you take a hammer
And mean it when you swing.
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I mean this in all seriousness: this is the point of being alive
Hi guys, did you already know there are competitions for window tinting? With better commentators than most of the tennis matches I’ve watched on ESPN? (Low bar I know)
Anyway if you need to procrastinate harder than you’ve ever procrastinated before, I got you
Anyway if you need to procrastinate harder than you’ve ever procrastinated before, I got you
September 16, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I mean this in all seriousness: this is the point of being alive