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Jon Keevy @jonkeevy.bsky.social · 3h

I'm not sure number 5 qualifies as "trending" On the other hand, it is top tier meta-comedy.

SCREENSHOT bluesky's trending section with a list of 1 to 5 subjects, including the number of posts under that section. The number of posts does not correlate to the ranking, with position having 1.9 thousand posts, and number 2 having 20 point 9 thousand posts. So i assume there's an algorithm going on taking into account my preferences. Fair enough. But!
Number 5 is Banned Books Week : zero posts.

Which is pretty funny considering the subject.

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Jon Keevy @jonkeevy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Add a lil something I call "the Rite Stuff" And yes, that is a stuffed parrot possessed by a demonic entity.

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Jon Keevy @jonkeevy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Indie Game Design Challnge: Do not be drawn into improving your grey box aesthetcs. Just test gameplay. Level: Impossible #gamedesign

Simple square shapes representing table bearing a book and a box of candles. Above it is the text: Back in your sanctuary. Need to prepare.

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Jon Keevy @jonkeevy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Working on a prototype demonlogy game and this shit goes hard man.

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Jon Keevy @jonkeevy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The North Korean soldiers and the Russian soldiers right now.

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Jon Keevy @jonkeevy.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The Unwoven Warrior on a beach in Egypt. I appreciate when folks sending me pictures of my book getting around!

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Jon Keevy @jonkeevy.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

My sin. (To be fair to me, you're immediately prompted to defrost the Navigator from cryo.)

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Jon Keevy @jonkeevy.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I feel attacked. But not by this knight. She doesn't know where I am.

Illustration of a knight positioned on a hex crawl with no information on the surrounding hexes.

The text:

I’ve covered the concept of false choices quite a few times, but it bears repeating. Players can be presented with choices that appear to meet the criteria of the CCI model and yet are actually just the illusion of choice:

Lack of information: The player has no information or knowledge by which to make the decision. All options seem equally good or bad, and a random selection is as good as any.

Undifferentiated outcomes: The choices all lead to the same outcome, regardless of the option selected.

Overwhelming randomness: The output randomness built into the system greatly outweighs the impact of any actual player decisions based on available options.

In the examples above, the player has no information by which to choose one hex versus another on their way to the target hex. All adjacent hexes are equally good or bad before their contents are revealed. The consequences are determined by output randomness when rolling dice to see what is found after moving. This could also be true for a pointcrawl with nodes that aren’t defined until the player explores them.

Such a map would result in what I’d consider the illusion of choice. While the player can choose any connected node or adjacent hex, it doesn’t really matter. There is no information available to guide the decision and any choice is outweighed by the resulting randomness.

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Jon Keevy @jonkeevy.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

My dude is very upset about words he isn't writing.

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Jon Keevy @jonkeevy.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

"The very best, most precise words" The unintentional irony has destroyed me.

Screenshot of a blogger complaining about the hidden "watermark" in llm text.

Highlighted: The exact words we choose when writing matter. I want any LLM I use to choose the very best, most precise words -

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Jon Keevy @jonkeevy.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I love a whole rack of South African speculative fiction. Especially when The Unwoven Warrior is on its top shelf :) @exclusivebooks.bsky.social in the V&A which hosted Otherworld Gathering last weekend.

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Jon Keevy @jonkeevy.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I think about this guy a lot.

Terence O'Brien on the Verge's feed.
May 23 of 2026.
Text:
Author Steven Rosenbaum sounds like he's trapped in a toxic relationship with AI. 'The Future of Truth' has at least six quotes that appear to be fabricated by AI. After initially taking "full responsibility," he's now pointing a finger at chatbots, telling The Atlantic that they "fucked up the book." In a separate interview with Ars Technica, he said he still plans to use AI in his writing, adding:
"AI is often a delightful writing companion... It's strangely creative and crafty and unusual in all these ways... and then it betrays you in ways that are really quite horrible."

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Jon Keevy @jonkeevy.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Timeline cleanse. Small child with very very small lizard.

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Jon Keevy @jonkeevy.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Sorry to reveal I am not blocked by Why.

User Why @why.bsky.team
Putting Claude in charge of reading my notifications and deciding what to do with them was a fantastic idea.

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Jon Keevy @jonkeevy.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

4 Star review from Mr Pink Ink on Goodreads. They sum up the experience of reading The Unwoven Warrior very well!

Screencap from Goodreads:

“His rage at what the soldiers had done to these people transformed into a righteous pride by their strength.”

At its core, The Unwoven Warrior is a “Chosen One gone wrong” story — destiny twisting back on itself, heroes questioning their purpose, and fate proving far less benevolent than legend suggests. Keevy doesn’t hand out easy answers, and I appreciate that. There were moments of awe, moments of dread, and moments when I simply whispered, “Wait, what just happened?” But that’s part of the fun — I closed the book with a head full of wonder and more than a few questions still lingering.

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Jon Keevy @jonkeevy.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Look a little way into the history of anything and you'll find curiosities and oddities. Like two members of Great Lakes Ojibwe visiting London to show off a 'new' swimming stroke in 1844.

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Jon Keevy @jonkeevy.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Sun Runners #renpy #gamedev update: Hex adjacency ✅️ Biomes w Tasks ✅️ Drag&Drop Assignment ✅️ Right click context info ✅️ Turns advance winter-night behind you, so keep your solarpowered vehicle chasing the sun as you scavenge, craft, and trade across a distant planet. ✅️ With @trubluis.bsky.social

Screenshot of an under-development computer game. The screen is a map of hexagons featuring icons such as weather and resources. Along the bottom left is a row of crew characters and to the right a row of tasks.

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Jon Keevy @jonkeevy.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

It's cute, but no we cannot keep it.

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Jon Keevy @jonkeevy.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

RAVEL is jamming in Cape Town again! Zine Jam: ANALOG 10am to 5pm Feb 28 Makers Massive. Bring your stationary. Bring your old magazines. Bring your friends. And jam with us. It's FREE but rsvp so we know how many folks to expect... www.quicket.co.za/events/35986...

The zine jams are consistently our favourite events, bringing a quiet, quirky community to collaborate and/or co-work with physical materials.

If you haven't attended before and don't know what a 'zine jam' even is - well, folk get together to assemble small experiences packaged as booklets, pamphlets, magazines, maps or anything really. They can be unique or photocopied. They can be filled with writing or drawings or collages or anything really.

This February we're leaning further into that in two ways... Number one is our theme: ANALOG. Literally 'analog' means data stored in physical qualities, but it has become the antithesis of modern progress, and maybe the antidote to modern problems. Which leads to number two: we're asking participants to turn off phones during the jam.

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Jon Keevy @jonkeevy.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

I hold my rosary tightly as rock back and forth chanting: "People are allowed to dislike what you like. People are allowed to dislike what you like. People are allowed..."

Screenshop of a bluesky post with a wildly incorrect opinion that reads:
"Finally watch Spider-verse. Huh. That was a much weaker film than the first, even ignoring the cliffhanger, which I didn't know to expect so woof nice sour note to end on. I'm not even sure if I liked that? Not that I disliked it, but compared to the first it was just content. IP slop. Bleh."

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Jon Keevy @jonkeevy.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

A gloriously dumb take from a He-man review. At first I thought it was specifically about scifi-fantasy like Battlestar or Lexx or Star Wars... but by including Alien Earth they have crossed into absurdity.

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Jon Keevy @jonkeevy.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

It used to take effort to make an image this stupid.

Screencapture of a stock image titled "radiology and x-ray image of head, generated with AI." The image seems to be a merge of spine and hips over the back of a man's head. No skull, and detailed soft tissue like ears are clear.

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Jon Keevy @jonkeevy.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

It's the lying that really grates my carrot. The ig account is about "conscious sustainable feminist" products. Added irony, @procreate.com is anti-genAI as far as I know.

AI generated cartoon of diverse women holding signs. Centred is the most telling artifact: a three armed woman whose lower half seems partly in a wheelchair.

Screen cap of the account that posted the AI. It reads "in pro create you can draw things like this pretty easy, sad that the power of AI is now making people doubt hand made creations. But understandable and you're entitled to your opinions"

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Jon Keevy @jonkeevy.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

The world of Sun Runners is dystopian but the story is about building a solarpunk community in opposition to the corpo-feudal capitalism. Sure, your body is under the control of an AI supervisor in your skull and you're as far from Earth as it's possible to get but uh you can do it? #gamedev #renpy

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Jon Keevy @jonkeevy.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

I get such a kick drawing with Coco. She named this monster "Johnny McCally" - muppet movies are leaving an impression on both of us ♡ Is there a @johnnymcCally on here?

Crayon drawing of a muppet-style monster named "Johnny McCally"

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Jon Keevy @jonkeevy.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

A nice synergy of @obsidian.md and @renpy.org.web.brid.gy - use the dev directoy as the vault and the canvas feature for flow charts with the scene .rpy files + game art, without duplicating files in multiple locations. Open .rpy in your code editor or within Obsidian.

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Jon Keevy @jonkeevy.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Here I am, making little games about traveling around a desolate planet of dystopian mining colonies.

Image of a bare-bones game UI framing the stark silohouette of an industrial complex against a sky of glitch-textured yellow.

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Jon Keevy @jonkeevy.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

This book is filled with odd and awful and dated stories with the occaisional bit of casual racism... But this story is gentle and wonderful. By Wendy Eyton, illustrated by Charmain Veitch.

Secind page of The Snake and the Rose. The story is gentle and wonderful. By Wendy Eyton, illustrated by Charmain Veitch.

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Jon Keevy @jonkeevy.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

I am a serious person with serious ideas. Please take me serious.

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Jon Keevy @jonkeevy.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

This saying always bugged me.

Instagram story screenshot of text with an image of two cartoon wolves.
Text line one: Inside me there are two wolves
Line two: Chappel Roan & Chris De Burgh
Line three: They're a pack. That's how wolves work.

Here endeth the skeet.

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Jon Keevy @jonkeevy.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Buy it today with YOUATETHAT at check out for 60% off. www.miraripress.com/product-page...

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Jon Keevy @jonkeevy.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

From On the (Book) Case another banger :)

5 star review of The Unwoven Warrior on goodreads by user On the Book Case.

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Jon Keevy @jonkeevy.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

They just keep coming - @tanyameeson.bsky.social giving 4 stars... (Remember I'm spamming you today because The Unwoven Warrior is 60% off via the Mirari Press website with checkout code YOUATETHAT) www.miraripress.com/product-page...

A 4 star review of The Unwoven Warrior on goodreads from fellow South African speculative fiction author Tanya Meeson.

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Jon Keevy @jonkeevy.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Also this 4 star review by Mr Pink Ink!

A 4 star review of The Unwoven Warrior on goodreads by user MrPinkInk

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Jon Keevy @jonkeevy.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

And more... (This one is from my mum but I am genuinely very proud she enjoyed it)

A 5 star review of The Unwoven Warrior on goodreads by the author's mother.

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Jon Keevy @jonkeevy.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Best review of The Unwoven Warrior - which is 60% off today on the Mirari Press site www.miraripress.com/product-page...

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Jon Keevy @jonkeevy.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Did you know there's an audiobook app INSIDE the fnb app?!

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Jon Keevy @jonkeevy.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

I couldn't come up with clever patreon tiers, so I went with weird. www.patreon.com/4188767/join

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Jon Keevy @jonkeevy.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Working on something new and it's getting weird.

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Jon Keevy @jonkeevy.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Ah, there are many patterns of the painted reed frog

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Jon Keevy @jonkeevy.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Identify this reed frog. Western Cape.

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Jon Keevy @jonkeevy.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Feeling unreal to be up there.

Best selling book display at the Book Lounge, Roeland Street. Jon Keevy's The Unwoven Warrior is at number 4.

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Jon Keevy @jonkeevy.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

I turned 43 this week. Three days later my first novel is out in the wild. It took a long time to get here, and I'm processing some big feelings. I wish my dad could have read it.

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Jon Keevy @jonkeevy.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

The horrors are many but so are the wonders.

A wonderful two year old child in a colourfully striped jersey sleeps on her father's chest. The picture is not well lit or composed but that's not the point.

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