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Elliott Hall @hallmorph.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Inevitably, I went into a bookstore to get a book on my reading list, and came out with two that are not

Covers of There is no Antimemetics Division and In a Quiet Place

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Turned down last week: 2 festivals with no budget for speakers 1 writing course with no budget for teachers 1 film project with no budget to option the book - plus they wanted me to write the screenplay. For free. Don't do it, kids. Don't work for free. Because to them, what's free is worthless.

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Elliott Hall @hallmorph.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Belated thoughts from the Big Thing last week, including a talk from @itsquinns.bsky.social about the need to get out of our immersive silos and play Chinese Script Murder (#Jubensha) and my life as a Professional Genre Weirdo elliott-hall.co.uk/posts/genrew... #Thebigthing #Immersiveartsuk

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Professional Genre Weirdo

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Elliott Hall @hallmorph.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

On my way to The Big Thing immersivearts.uk/events/the-b... #Thebigthing #Immersiveartsuk

Poster for The Big Thing conference, some kind of Eldritch horror emerging from the depths to lay waste to civilisation

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Elliott Hall @hallmorph.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Effectos Especiales at #gdif was enjoyably berserk, a long take filmed live and chased by a crowd as it moved around the O2

A performer roller skates during a tracking shot for Effectos Especiales

A performer falls to the ground, filmed a camera as she's covered in fake snow during Effectos Especiales

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

No. This is somewhere to be. This is all you have, but it's still something. Streets and sodium lights. The sky, the world. You're still alive.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Note from my notebook (2017). Still true.

Truths About Writing
Most people will ignore what you write
Someone dead did it better than you
You will be misunderstood
That's all ok

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Elliott Hall @hallmorph.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Marat was a wellness influencer:“ Having gained a degree in absentia from the University of St Andrews and set up practice in what is now Romilly Street in Soho, he ventured into the unregulated bazaar of the bourgeois wellness industry. ” www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Oliver Cussen · Doctor of the Incurable: Marat Unmade

Beyond the violence and immediacy of his language, perhaps Jean-Paul Marat was popular for a more straightforward reason...

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 19/08/2026

The reTerminal Sticky is a $50 device that is gunning for the Xteink X4 on features while leaning in to the hackable nature that made the X4 a viral hit. aftermath.site/reterminal-sti...

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The ReTerminal Sticky Is An E-Paper Display Begging You To Hack It

While companies like Xteink have found an unlikely audience with hackers and tinkerers, Seeed Studio is actively cultivating one.

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Elliott Hall @hallmorph.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

“It’s actually quite pleasant and a bit futuristic to go to your fridge for a snack, see an updating magnet… If a company tried to pull that shit with my fridge I’d put it in a faraday cage, but it’s entirely different when you choose to do that.”

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 10/08/2026

'Supposably' is a word. supposably = “as may be conceived or imagined” supposedly = "allegedly"

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 10/08/2026

According to an *Economist* editorial, "AI is breaking the British state" by making it too easy to file complaints, demands and appeals, which will "drown the state" with "demands as well-crafted as a first-class lawyer's": archive.is/VTrj9 1/

Boston's brutalist city hall; it is surrounded by warring armies of vintage pulp robots, under a flaming sky.

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The Twilight Zone @thenightgallery.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Happy National Book Lovers Day, Twilight Zone fans!

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 16/07/2026

“A.I. Movies” www.tiktok.com/@americanbar...

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Elliott Hall @hallmorph.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Moderately (insanely) excited that this arrived today

The cover of Thomas Pynchon’s Shadow Ticket, a street Milwaukee in 1932

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Silksong is wild because i’m miserable but i can’t stop

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

I love London so much. So much. Did you know that London has the lowest level of ethnic violence of any city of comparable size in the world? Multiculturalism has in fact worked here. They just don’t want it to be true because we happen to have a Muslim mayor.

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 10/09/2025

Simply the best slide I have ever seen in a powerpoint presentation care of @premeemohamed.com’s talk at @banffcentre.bsky.social re: Putting the Science in Science Fiction

Text mounted on a screen reads as follows:

WHAT IS SCIENCE FICTION?

1. DOESN'T MATTER
2. WHO CARES
3. MARKETING DEPARTMENT'S PROBLEM
4. NOT YOURS

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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

anybody else’s gyre feel wider lately

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

I suppose this is the point when I should say again that: the amount of money the videogames industry brings into the UK economy every year is *more than double* the value of the fishing and steel industries *combined* what this country is really good at is producing culture

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Nate Federman @natefederman.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

A few years into my TV writing career, I was struggling! But one simple piece of advice changed the entire trajectory of my career. So I wanted to do a #Scriptsky #Screenwriting thread about that advice and the ways in which CREATIVITY CAN FLOURISH (and also how it wanes). 🧵1

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Jimmie Myers @jimmiemyers.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

“The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them." -Brian Eno

"Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature.
CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It's the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them."
-Brian Eno

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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Letter from a young reader today who was “forced” to read a book by his teacher and “forced” to write a letter to the author, but who’s going to buy the book (More Than This) over the summer to finish it, “which is a big deal if you know me”. Honestly, best compliment a writer can get.

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

We need to not safely park Unbound as an outlier. Treat it more as an example of how even the most author-centric model can easily leave the people who make the damn product in the first place as disposable raw materials, plundered, drained and scrapped, part of a messy game of luck and hope.

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Robin Bradford @tuphlos.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

This made me laugh. And then I sat and thought about it. This is correct.

Teaching STEM without teaching the Humanities is how you get Spider-Man villians.
Teaching Theater without teaching the Humanities is how you get Batman villians.

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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Good to see them updating the Richard Scarry books

The cover of a Richard Scarry book showing the occupants of Busytown. The title has been changed to read “all We Do Is Work on Documents, That’s All Anyone Does Anymore.”

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James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

NO IT FUCKING ISNT ALL THE CREATIVES ARE FUCKING **BROKE**

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Ali Garfinkel @aligarchy.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

"too many people have main character syndrome" not me. i love being an npc. just idly standing around, watching the birds. oh you going on a quest? can you bring me back something

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Elliott Hall @hallmorph.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

I wrote an overview of Rob Morgan's excellent book about immersive storytelling, “Storytelling for Spatial Computing and Mixed Reality,” and the way those who want to play with the nature of reality have found themselves thinking more and more how to safeguard it www.linkedin.com/pulse/confes...

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Confessions of a reality poacher turned gamekeeper: some thoughts on “Storytelling for Spatial Computing and Mixed Reality” by Rob Morgan

“Storytelling for Spatial Computing and Mixed Reality” by Rob Morgan is a practical manual, fun activity book, and manifesto for storytelling in mixed reality. Writing about spatial storytelling is a ...

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

'the creative industries represent much of the best of what the UK and humanity does. The idea of handing over its output for free is abhorrent.'

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The copyright war between the AI industry and creatives

We have surely gone beyond being able to give the tech sector the benefit of the doubt

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Dr Florence Smith Nicholls @florencesn.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

My favourite part of the Electric Dreams exhibition at the Tate is Suzanne Treister's "Fictional Videogame Stills" that she made on an Amiga 1000 in the early 90s. We only have them now because she took photographs of her art on the screen back then - the original Amiga discs have corrupted!

Photograph of one of the fictional videogame stills
"Is this the beginning of an unsolved mystery?"

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

It is weird:

A cartoon by Tom Gauld about An Expensive Notebook Company which removes stories from old novels and sells the blank books in upmarket stationers.

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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Today UK authors are protesting against Meta for stealing our work to train their AI model. Authors earn an average of £7000 per year, we are not rich, and yet a trillion dollar company decided it didn’t want to license our work fairly as it was “too expensive” Theft is not a valid alternative.

META BOOK THIEVES - They Must Do The Write Thing

The Society of Authors are protesting Meta’s HQ today

This image shows illustrations of authors holding placards saying “make it fair” and “do the write thing”

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Elliott Hall @hallmorph.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Samantha Harvey’s Orbital is beautiful and sometimes transcendent about the Earth, but it’s the lives of the astronauts that I think I loved even more, the ordinary wonder of being in a tiny metal thimble forever falling towards but never quite hitting its home.

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Anna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Four years since my son wrote the best opening to a mystery novel ever written.

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Elliott Hall @hallmorph.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

I'm listening to In Our Time after a long break, and it struck me again how interesting, thoughtful, and simply humane it is. This should not be a novelty. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, The Venetian Empire

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the rise and eventual decline of the Venetian Empire.

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David Amador @djlink.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Here are over 150GB of free sound effects, royalty-free and commercially usable on your #gamedev projects sonniss.com/gameaudiogdc

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 05/10/2024

A book must be an axe for the frozen sea within us - Kafka. (My cartoon for today’s Guardian books.)

Panel one:
"A book must be an axe for the frozen sea within us." says Franz Kafka.
He looks solemn, and holds up a finger to show that he is serious.

Panel two:
The publishers across the table say "That's all very well, Franz. But we commissioned a board book for toddlers".

Panel three:
"And here it is!" Kafka answers proudly, holding up a colourful book. It is titled "Choppy Helps out" and shows a cute axe with a friendly face (presumably Choppy) and his friend, a frozen, smiling sea.

note: Herr Kafka gave me the manuscript for "Choppy Helps Out!" on the undertanding that I destroyed it after his death. I could not bring myself to do so. If you are a publisher and interested in purchasing the rights, please contact me via my website.

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Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou @kanaratron.bsky.social · 25/09/2024

Fun film fact. In Escape from New York (1981) they used reflective tape on a miniature model of the city & filmed it under black light to approximate 'cutting-edge' wireframe CG, which would have blown the budget at the time.

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Joe Fielder III: Season of the Witch @joefielder.bsky.social · 20/09/2024

Love this explanation of the game myth that "foxes lead you to treasure" in Skyrim by @joelburgess.bsky.social. (Abbreviated for repost.)

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Elliott Hall @hallmorph.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

Reading @rzubek.bsky.social excellent book Elements of Game Design and this part about grinding hit hard:

Robert Zubek elements of game design explaining grinding, especially that players complain but also still do it.

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Elliott Hall @hallmorph.bsky.social · 01/09/2024

A beautiful, succinct definition.

Maryanne Wolf’s definition of immersive reading

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Queen of the Brendamned @bhay.bsky.social · 09/08/2024

Fantastic summary of where we're at, what we're facing, and why The Animation Guild needs everyone's support right now. We can't keep saving Hollywood for zero credit. www.thewrap.com/animation-an...

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Animation Anger: Hollywood Artists Face Multifaceted Crisis as Contract Talks Near

The animators producing successes like “Inside Out 2” are facing mass layoffs and overseas outsourcing as Hollywood slashes production costs

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Eize Basa @eizebasa.baby · 10/07/2024

It’s so cool when game creators branch out into other media. For example, the creators of Myst designed the shower controls in this AirBnB.

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