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Lex Joy

@aeneas-nin.bsky.social
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Ph.D. in Comparative Literature. Occasional game dev. Author of LEGEND OF THE RIVER KING (Boss Fight Books) and editor of FLAXMAN LOW: OCCULT DETECTIVE (MIT Press). He/him. alexanderbjoy.com

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berserk du soleil @aetataureate.bsky.social · 11h
my #lifeSkillsJam zine is live now. it is and will always be completely free. you don't need an itchio account or anything else in order to download the PDF. aeta.itch.io/making-do
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Making Do: a life skills zine by aeta
Stuff you can do, fold, cut up, tape together, paint, tie, hang, store, mix, use, reheat, and make your own
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Laura E. Hall @lauraehall.bsky.social · 9h
My free annual newsletter, 31 Days of Halloween, hits inboxes tomorrow! One spooky-themed email with cool art and links every day of October, and then it goes back in the crypt. (Did I mention it's free?) Sign up here: buttondown.email/31daysofhall...
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31 Days of Halloween
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Lex Joy @aeneas-nin.bsky.social · 18h
Nowadays, I even have to scrutinize fan mail as being potential AI slop. Worst goddamn timeline.
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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I was shot at (I don't know why.)
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 29/09/2026
awoke this morning with a Vision
that diagram showing  the SUV blind spot in the front but it's lowly worm driving his little applemobile
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Nora Blake @skulldaughter.exportaud.io · 13/09/2026
the amano cover for the japanese release of claw of the conciliator has maybe the most moe severian i've seen yet
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Lex Joy @aeneas-nin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
As someone who has compulsively saved JPEGs and GIFs since the first days of the Internet, this tool scratches a MAJOR itch. Looks fun as hell!
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Lex Joy @aeneas-nin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I'm always a little nervous when U2 announce a new album. But Easter Lily was pretty darn good, so perhaps some optimism is warranted for this next one.
rollingstone.com
U2 Dream It All Up Again
In a Rolling Stone cover story, U2 discuss 'Carnaval De Luz,' the return of Larry Mullen Jr., writing about Rosalía, and working with Dolly Parton
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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026
Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.
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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport
Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.
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Lex Joy @aeneas-nin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Not the best photo of it, unfortunately, but I witnessed an incredible moonrise tonight.
A bright orange almost-full moon peeking above the line of the treetops. It's so bright it looks like a sunrise.
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Lex Joy @aeneas-nin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
What I'd give for a good English translation of this game...
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Lex Joy @aeneas-nin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
There was a time when I still wouldn't be worried about a score like this.
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Ross Reelachart @rossreelachart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Y'know how fighting games used to have "Bruce Lee clones?" Do that again but with this dude.
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David Shimomura @unwinnabledavid.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Jensen Huang's comments about basic knowledge are interesting to me because: 1: He points out ways our systems are increasingly divorced from certain skills and knowledge. 2: He points out the way that he is specifically not required to participate in those systems.
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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"i've never heard of that song" you tell someone and their eyes narrow to serpentine hatred as they lean forward and hiss at you "you're just saying that for clout"
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Lex Joy @aeneas-nin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
RSL hasn't won in 13 games, and hadn't scored in 4. So of course they immediately bury one against us.
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Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A digital illustration of a version of the big board from Wheel of Fortune. An array of green rectangles (each bearing an icon of a hand with crossed fingers inside a circle with rays), and white rectangles that indicate the letters in the secret phrase contestants are trying to guess. The board is not yet solved and reads like this:

M_YB_ I_
_ILL H_PP_N
__D_Y

Standing next to the board in a shiny pink and maroon evening gown and ready to turn around newly-guessed letters is a woman whose head is a human hand with crossed fingers. 

Below the board in the space where viewers at home are informed what type of  phrase is in play it simply reads ‘PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE’
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Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Games without narrative: There’s yellow paint on ladders and doors Games with narrative: One thousand years ago the gods were slain during the God Wars. Their golden ichor still rains down from the heavens upon ladders and doors, guiding us…
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Lex Joy @aeneas-nin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
All hail the Mighty Mouse! It's so cool to see a more-or-less successful rikishi whose approach is the total opposite of the Weight Wars of decades past.
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WinRAR Earle @tommchenry.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Happy 10th anniversary to one of my favorite overheard conversations: MAN 1: (gestures to Buckingham Fountain with great gravity) That's Chicago's 9/11 Memorial. MAN 2: I thought 9/11 was more a New York thing. MAN 1: It happened a lot of places. People forget.
A picture of Chicago's Buckingham Fountain. Yes, the one from the Married With Children title sequence.Text from Wikipedia identifying the fountain as having been dedicated in 1927 so the overly maudlin will understand the funny thing in the overheard is that MAN1 doesn't know what the hell he's talking about re: Chicago architecture.
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Robert Vaux @rvaux16.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Lex Joy @aeneas-nin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Golden reaction image.
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Sharkmeister77 @sharkmeister77.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Lex Joy @aeneas-nin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Procedurally generate some guys, you say?
aeneas-nin.itch.io
Wunderball by Aeneas Nin Games
Zero-player elimination game.
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 24/09/2026
Botanists in Thailand have discovered Thismia daemona, a new "fairy lantern" species with a devil-like appearance. The non-photosynthetic plant lives hidden beneath leaf litter and feeds on fungi. Found at a single site, fewer than 50 individuals exist, making it critically endangered.
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A ‘devil-like’ flower from Thailand is new to science — and critically endangered
Botanists in Thailand have identified a new-to-science species of “fairy lantern” — plants that live almost entirely buried under leaf litter, emerging aboveground only occasionally to flower.…
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.
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Lex Joy @aeneas-nin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
An interesting website that documents the known predators and prey of any animal you enter.
whoeatswhom.org
WhoEatsWhom
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Lex Joy @aeneas-nin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A good Robert Burns poem, courtesy of the episode of Antiques Road Trip my wife was watching last night.
bbc.co.uk
BBC - Robert Burns - On Seeing A Wounded Hare
On Seeing A Wounded Hare is a poem written by Robert Burns in 1788 and read here by Crawford Logan.
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The first reply to this post is a stickied comment by the auto-mod calling the thread a pity party. This is art.
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Lex Joy @aeneas-nin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I wish I could have a job polishing furniture. It's the most Zen activity out there for me.
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Chase | Commissions... Open!! @chaseburns.art · 22/09/2026
"borzoi" really sounds like a kind of mobile suit, doesn't it?
a digital sketch of a zaku ii that resembles a borzoi dog, because of its white coloration and elongated snout
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Lex Joy @aeneas-nin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Reading Sword of the Lictor now. Quite fun to run into a minor character who is basically Evil Zaphod Beeblebrox.
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berserk du soleil @aetataureate.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
if you play a daily game like Catfishing, Krillion, Learned League, Geoguessr -- any game, not just daily ones, where you expect to get a score or percentage instead of ever winning -- would you like to answer a few questions about it for a piece i'm working on? DM me if so! also boosts help!
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Lex Joy @aeneas-nin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I have come to believe the rules are: 1) If two parents are the same animal, their kids will be that animal (ex: Rona). 2) If they're the same order, their kids will be in that order (ex: Noel). 3) If they're totally different, their kids are basically gacha pulls (ex: Swanson, Sebastian).
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ᴡᴇ ʙᴜɪʟᴛ ᴛʜɪꜱ ᴄɪᴛʏ @webuiltthiscity.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This genuinely made me laugh out loud today
HOW AM I DRIVING?
HOW DOES AN ENGINE EVEN WORK?
HOW CAN A LOVING GOD CAUSE SUCH AGONY
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Lex Joy @aeneas-nin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Neat find of the night: a juvenile Chinese mantis clinging to the back door.
A young Chinese mantis splayed out against a black wooden door. This species has large, dark eyes, unlike the green-with-conspicuous-pupil configuration you'd commonly associate with mantises.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.
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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Death Dragging an Old Man to His Tomb, by Stefano della Bella, 1648
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g0m @g0m.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A world where a twist ending is repurposed as a video title. where a thing's climax has been removed, leaving an advertisment for the gap where it used to be. such things are commonplace in. the twilight zone
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blink-sun8tzu @suntzufuntzu.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I have taken the horse that was outside the city walls and which you probably left for Athena forgive me it was beautiful so big and so heavy
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blink-sun8tzu @suntzufuntzu.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"treatment is simple," doctor says. "this morning someone left this beautiful horse sculpture outside my office. take it and display it prominently in your own home. it's elegant lines and fine craftsmanship will lift your spirits." odysseus bursts into tears. "but doctor,
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uel @greaterrealityarea.net · 19/09/2026
SCHEHERAZADE NUMBERS In Buckminster Fuller’s Synergetics, there is a section titled “Numerology,” serving as a strange appendix to the compendium of his knowledge and beliefs. In this section of the book, he preserved several of his more unusual... www.greaterrealityarea.net/scheherazade...
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SCHEHERAZADE NUMBERS
In Buckminster Fuller’s Synergetics, there is a section titled “Numerology,” serving as a strange appendix to the compendium of his knowledge and beliefs. In this section of the book, he preserved sev...
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Dr. Thinking is fun @evenannaliese.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Maybe not hyperbole that it’s urgent for all creatives to make clear in their estates/wills, right now, whether they permit digital/artificial replication of themselves or their art as if newly created after their death. See also: the Agatha Christie “ai” project.
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Lex Joy @aeneas-nin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
These principles are probably common knowledge to most of you, but for someone like me who knows nothing of photography, I found this a helpful primer.
clondon.me
Compositional Guidelines for Better Photography — Chelsea London Phillips
There are many visual tools in your artist’s toolbox which help create more striking visual narrative. One such toolset includes so called “compositional rules.”
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Lex Joy @aeneas-nin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Miller answering that disgusting VAR decision with a late third goal was legendary. Love this team.
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Lex Joy @aeneas-nin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Unintentionally artistic selfie
A high-contrast selfie in black and dark blue, where only my eyes and eyebrows are visible.
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Lex Joy @aeneas-nin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I went and bought one of these silly things, and they're surprisingly fun. They come with a harsh monochrome pixel filter that makes ordinary sights look like line drawings.
A traffic cone on a sidewalk, with a ribbon of CAUTION tape wrapped around it. Rendered in harsh black and white pixels, it resembles a line drawing.A black wrought-iron fence. Rendered in harsh black and white pixels, it looks rather like a line drawing.
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Lex Joy @aeneas-nin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Someone saw that last Detroit snap...
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FLEB @flebpuzzles.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Okay, it's out! store.steampowered.com/app/4428890/...
store.steampowered.com
20 More, Somehow Even Smaller, Mazes on Steam
A puzzle game with twenty small mazes.
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JC @jamescurcio.com · 16/09/2026
Some of those that work forces, are the same that fuck horses.
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