Reposted by Jo BerryJon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 3hOne of the most underappreciated unforeseen consequences of the smartphone/streaming/social media era is the elimination of boredom as a key driver of creativity. Without boredom, there just isn't enough impetus for most people do go out and learn and do things. 318157
Reposted by Jo BerryArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 22hCircus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social 168120542560
Reposted by Jo BerryMARC in a Cold Climate @marccold.bsky.social · 23hnothing can go wrong if we tell the cataloger to teach a library instruction session for a comparative literature seminar on the Brothers Grimm, they said 010828
Reposted by Jo BerryCrispy-Ghee✨️ @crispy-ghee.bsky.social · 29/09/2026DO NOT SEEK THE TREASURE One of my favorite scenes from O Brother Where Art Thou. I figured I should try to draw all 3 of the Soggy bottom boys, why not. #art #comic 362290655
Reposted by Jo BerryKingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 29/09/2026It’s Launch Day, darling! This one is not cozy or for the faint of heart, please note the warnings, but it’s here at last! And while you should read in the way you like the best—dude, Neil Newbon’s narration knocks it out of the PARK. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/813073...penguinrandomhouse.comBaldur's Gate 3: Astarion by T. Kingfisher: 9798217298594 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: BooksThe roguish charlatan Astarion will free himself from a centuries-long fate of servitude or die (a second time) trying—in this decadently dark fantasy adventure by award-winning author T. Kingfisher..... 57876212
Reposted by Jo BerryPremee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 29/09/2026OK lemme see if this works (quickly recorded on desktop, LOL) 0508
Reposted by Jo Berry🔥 Napalm ErAnn🔥 @annlemay.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Question (please share)! What games industry speaker and/or what topic (games or not!) would make you consider travel to attend a conference/convention? Or as a games industry person, what speaker from outside of games would like to see at a con? Or topics that are not games specific? 61422
Reposted by Jo BerryPrasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/20265 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables 773441852
Reposted by Jo BerryDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026Seriously, just do not use muse 16811266
Reposted by Jo BerryBen Chandler @threeohfour.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Nighthawks has been out for a week! I’m happy people are enjoying it. Here’s a fun behind the scenes look, because sometimes the easiest way to get a good reference is to dress up and pose yourself… 817622
Reposted by Jo BerryRuo Shui @ruoshuiresearch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026this Pope quoted Gandalf in his first encyclical titled "Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence" 1167
Reposted by Jo BerryHannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward 11128783554
Reposted by Jo BerryAlex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026With alt text. I yelled 1297123
Reposted by Jo BerryBenne W. Holwerda @benneholwerda.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Andromeda came out okay. 1386
Reposted by Jo BerryJohn Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It is extremely encouraging to know the Youngs understand Bookshop Girl is an erotic icon. Some things *are* eternal. 1551879
Reposted by Jo BerryAlanah Pearce @alanahpearce.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Are you or have you ever been a narrative designer (as your official job title)? I would like to interview you for a video! Pls reply to this if you’re interested ❤️. 87370177
Reposted by Jo BerryDavey Wilbury @daveishere.bsky.social · 29/09/2026oh no, the scam everyone says is a scam may turn out to be a scam 151936583
Reposted by Jo BerryMikki Kendall @karnythia.blacksky.app · 13/02/2025So someone asked me to retell the story of the old lady that told me about killing her husband. Are we ready for a trip back in time to 1999? Some of you already know this story, but if you don't it is a wild ride. Apply all appropriate trigger warnings! 8534621080
Reposted by Jo BerryAura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026subscribing increasingly to what I'd describe as the Chunky Peanut Butter theory of game design, which is that it solves a lot of problems for you if your core game mechanic, in its simplest form, still has something for the player to "chew on" - that they can fail at, be better at, think about 411111
Reposted by Jo BerryAftermath @aftermath.site · 28/09/2026These AI companies should be responsible for everything they do, and they fact nobody is holding them accountable is driving me insane: aftermath.site/ai-agents-resp... 5747235
Reposted by Jo BerryUrsula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026In that moment Ged understood the singing of the bird, and the language of the water falling in the basin of the fountain, and the shape of the clouds, and the beginning and end of the wind that stirred the leaves. 0449
Reposted by Jo BerryAlex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 13/04/2026this audre lorde quote is never far from my mind: 113844
Reposted by Jo BerryKendra Mellifera 🏳️⚧️ @kmellifera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It’s kind of exhausting when there’s studies being like when women speak up, no matter how, the issue is dismissed and the women are fired but a man says “hey that’s gross” and entire companies change almost immediately And men go: but how can *I* help it’s hard to speak up what do I even say :( 17925
Reposted by Jo BerryCarl Ballard @carlballard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026One thing is you don't need to do like a whole monologue about why harrassment is bad. You can just say "really?" in a disappointed voice or "come on, man." 428190
Reposted by Jo Berrymtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Our guy walks into a totally unfamiliar environment with the craziest possible shit happening all around him and still somehow manages to make the correct moral choice like 85 times in a row. 373466595
Reposted by Jo BerryJohn Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Every thriller and scifi writer in America: "Um, am I in trouble for having this in my Notes for like ten years?" 2531767
Reposted by Jo BerryStjepan Sejic @stjepansejic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026letters to the vampire queen the marrowsong it is a very important element to the story that first truly establishes the Duskmarrows a psychopomp type of a spirit meant to give comfort to the violently slain souls yearning for vengeance. they protect the world from revenant spirits seeking blood 331931
Reposted by Jo Berrycornish person girl @gemma.transwrites.world · 28/09/2026“By a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak." - Umberto Eco’s List of the 14 Common Features of Fascism 210821
Reposted by Jo BerryMikko Rautalahti @mikkihel.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Anyway, yes, it is a reference to David Lynch whose work has been very significant to me, but I didn't pick it just because I wanted to do a shoutout, I did it because it's a reference to him very specifically and intentionally saying "trans rights are human rights" and that shit is fucking true. 318638
Reposted by Jo BerryMikko Rautalahti @mikkihel.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Also, I cannot overemphasize how small a task this was for me. A routine request. "Hey, we need a coupla movie names here, please write." But a good spot to slip in a reference to something I loved and found meaninful. I think the takeaway is that often even very small things can hit kinda hard. 11129
Reposted by Jo BerryMikko Rautalahti @mikkihel.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I wrote a lot of this game and I suspect this is the thing that gets more attention than anything else I did for it. I'm okay with it. www.ign.com/articles/rem...ign.comControl Resonant Features a Powerful Twin Peaks Quote, Paying Tribute to the Late David Lynch Who Inspired Remedy's GamesRemedy's games have always had Lynchian inspirations, including its new open-world action game Control Resonant. 638376
Reposted by Jo BerryEric Ansley Díaz 🏳️🌈 @geekboyeric.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Fandom has always been toxic and leaned towards “This is gonna SUCK!” - they just didn’t have the bullhorn of the internet before. And everything didn’t become culture war ammunition. 02610
Reposted by Jo BerryWalter Hickey @walthickey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026this is one of the most inspirational photos i have ever seen www.bloomberg.com/news/article...bloomberg.comJapan Has No Space for Solar Farms Apart From Old Golf CoursesThe perfectly manicured fairways at Minohara Country Club wind through the forested hills of Gunma Prefecture about two hours from downtown Tokyo. In a few years, they’ll disappear under row-upon-row ... 436092
Reposted by Jo BerryFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend. 20643151106
Reposted by Jo BerryDr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 27/09/2026So you can learn about engineering disasters 1940253
Reposted by Jo Berrypmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 26/09/2026No one painted silk like Vittorio Reggianini 228352
Reposted by Jo BerryAmalas @amalasrosa.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Me and my perspective grid against the world 7559127
Reposted by Jo BerryJared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes. 16892843054
Reposted by Jo BerryViolet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social · 26/09/2026You can tell at this point that it'll be poor people who are stuck with AI doctors and faulty care/misdiagnosis/service denial while people who *can afford* human doctors/human services... 45620
Reposted by Jo BerryKate Gray @hownottodraw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026whenever people say “cancel culture isn’t real, it’s just facing the consequences of your actions” I think about all the people who were the target of the internet’s hate for things they didn’t do, or for things that had much more nuance. it can ruin lives, over things that often do not matter 221441
Reposted by Jo BerrySanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Happy Stanislav Petrov day! He saved the world from nuclear annihilation on this day in 1983. My freshman year in college would have been so much worse without his courage.🧵 5598185
Reposted by Jo BerryDinah Rose KC @dinahrose.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Magdalen water meadow this morning 2974