Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I'm not sure if I'm glad that I can still be shocked by things like "GOP steals slain military funeral funds to buy ads to fluff Trump", of appalled that they're still finding ways to shock me. 010
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Even if you weren't against the death penalty because you believe killing people is wrong, you have options like "we routinely find that we convict the wrong person", and "we can't execute people without clumsily torturing them first". 100
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Increasingly I feel like the most surprising thing about Mace is that she held it together without looking obviously bugfuck insane for as long as she did. 020
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 25/09/2026One day game development will learn that girl's money spends just as well as boy's money and it will prop up like 2-3 2k sized publishers, but today is not that day. 220
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 23/09/2026If you sell insurance do you want customers who make claims or customers who don't make claims? Asking for a friend 000
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 16/09/2026It's so depressing that much of our economy is bound up in funding members of an insane sex cult made of people you would never ever want to fuck. 000
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I'd say I'm going to need someone to explain to me what animals are raping humans so often that they're denying us valuable FBI applicants, but I really REALLY don't want to know the answer. 010
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Seeing the people who were going after Talarico now going after McBride as a traitor for running for a caucus leadership position and I'm officially done. I'd been trying to keep an open mind, but this just seems like the same astroturfed republican wrecker stuff that showed up last election. 000
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I'll note that my hometown paper, the Philly Inquirer went a similar way a few years ago and is now a public benefit corporation owned by a non-profit. 011
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 09/09/2026The single most well established fact about LLM chat bots is that prolonged and extensive use absolutely cooks your critical reasoning abilities from spending all day with an indefatigable sycophant machine. People should keep that in mind when listening to the opinions of Anthropic/OpenAI people 010
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I increasingly feel like being at/near the blessing edge of AI research 20 years ago and then getting out of it completely has ended up being a positive. Even if I'm not completely up to date anymore, I got out before the brain poisoning started. 000
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 09/09/2026People believe the most ridiculous twaddle from brain-cooked genAI workers. We are not racing towards self improving super-intelligence and more than robotics is racing towards grey goo nanomachines. 191
Reposted by Nick EdwardsDjinn & Tonic @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 01/09/2026This is a hanging crime 1454996
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Ok, reading more, it seems like Brutal Legend 2 is being put out there as basically an unreachable stretch goal, which, fine, whatever. But their actual game jam plan thing also seems unfortunately unfocused. 000
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I'm sorry, but this is a terrible fucking idea. You're going to blow $100 MILLION on a game with a niche theme in a niche genre that's a sequel to an 80s rated game from 20 years ago that's most well known for its stunt casting of celebrities? 211
Reposted by Nick EdwardsHannah MacLeod is looking for work @macleodholdfast.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Hi there! I'm Hannah MacLeod, a senior narrative designer/game writer coming up on 10 years in the game industry. I'm currently looking for work (remote or in CA)! I also have a cat named Booey who loves zoom calls, if that helps. www.linkedin.com/in/macleoh/ 314047
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 18/08/2026My last is Zenless Zone Zero, so honestly this worked out pretty well. Only a year means I don't have to deal with the long term post-apocalypse of it all, so it's mostly a year of living in an urban city, with only a very small chance of horrific scifi zombification. 000
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 17/08/2026I continue to come back to the fact that Jeffries is, in many ways, Pelosi's heir. He is excellent at the politics of the house floor, he keeps his caucus together and whips his votes, but his politics are weak willed and he has the charisma of wall paper. 201
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 14/08/2026A conservative argument against taxing the rich is that we can't solve the budget shortfall with it. But I want to tax billionaires because in economics you tax things you want less of, closing some budget shortfall is just a bonus. 100
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 13/08/2026I have too many of these that most gamers would burn me in effigy for like: All Bethesda RPGs Every FromSoftware game Every Kojima game after MGS Dragon Age: Origins Every Zelda game 000
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Tom phrases it like this because if you accurately described his opinion as "adult citizens have no business voting in the district they live for the majority of the year" he would sound like a moron. 040
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 07/08/2026This is the second time I've seen AES so this, tarring a Republican with a state association that's dog whistle unpopular in Michigan (the other was Florida Mike for his opponent). It's the kind of dig Rs have often been so good at. 100
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 30/07/2026I don't know how Emily Wilson not getting movies, disliking the Odyssey, and having weird thoughts about POC took me by surprise. That the daughter of a Daily Mail columnist and an Oxford professor, who went to Baliol and Yale to study Classics is a weird out of touch toff seems overdetermined 000
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 30/07/2026I am a single issue voter, and that issue is ensuring as many members of the Trump administration as possible never take another breath of free air. 110
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Reviews of the new Spider-Man movie are starting to hit and they all seem to include the obligatory "Well, it's not as good as the Sam Raimi Spider-man films, but it never could be" clause and...Am I alone in thinking the Raimi Spidey films aren't that great? 100
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 28/07/2026I don't know if anyone deserved this treatment more than Graham. 010
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 28/07/2026My 'exsanguinate' skill is on cooldown until the 6th, but if you're eligible go save a life and get a cookie. I'll also note that some companies count it as volunteering (e.g. Microsofties can claim it as GIVE campaign volunteer time). 000
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 23/07/2026This just sort of seems like a skill issue to me. I found and joined my local dem party with like 3 minutes of googling last year when Rs won my local council. They do shit like twice a month. I got asked my opinion of my town's situation on literally the first meeting I could attend in person. 110
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 22/07/2026This is all part of my overarching thesis that meetings are for getting people to take action either in the meeting or in the following ~2 hours, and if you can't identify what you want people to do in that time you should reconsider whether you really need to be having this meeting. 100
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 21/07/2026A side thought as I'm bitching about powerpoints: 95% of PPTs should never have a 'Thank You' slide at the end. The point of assembling people to listen to you present it to GET THEM TO DO SHIT FOR YOU. You should end on Next Steps so they leave remembering what they should do right away. 000
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 21/07/2026God save me from graphic designers making powerpoint templates for business use. For any designer out there doing this, a litany of shit not to do: 131
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Holy shit, I'd totally forgotten the New Yorker had put something this wildly racist on their cover. Obama really did fucking break some people's brains. 000
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 16/07/2026I feel like it's to his credit that basically every time I see a camera pointed at Ossoff he seems to be saying some variation of "Trump is crazy, and he's losing a war we don't need while our economy craters" like it's the only line they recorded for his pullstring. 010
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Interesting thread, and I'm going to fork it a bit. I think it's important to know there are at least two structural forces pushing towards more indecision by forcing work to be done before a good decision can be made: 111
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Every major war the US has been successful in has been because, not despite, the military being made of up of clerks and bookkeepers doing boring shit like keeping records, and every major war the US has lost has been when we've stupidly bought in to 'Warrior' ethos bullshit. 100
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 14/07/2026I always find it mildly distasteful seeing Americans with some distant (it's always distant) UK connection doing the 'fuck the English' routine on behalf of the Scots or Irish. It has a stolen valor vibe for me. Like a tone deaf stranger blundering into a family dispute. 000
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 11/07/2026It feels like we're 2-5 years from having one of these things in your town being about as attractive as an asbestos factory that stores nuclear waste on the side. 000
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Has any character ever been played as consistently well by multiple actresses across multiple poor to middling films as Supergirl? 000
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 03/07/2026There's a really good movie in Supergirl dying to get out. But a goofy villain, a Lobo that's both shoehorned in and underused, and Gillespie's maddeningly terrible choices (basically every needle drop in the movie) throttle it every time it starts getting momentum. 100
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 01/07/2026I'm an MBA and fully bought into the whole capitalist schtick, but we should absolutely treat capitalism like dynamite, an incredibly useful, incredibly powerful (for good and bad) tool that we should lock down with enough regulations that it won't blow us all up. 000
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Banning trans girls from sports and setting up any system at all for checking the physical gender of participants WILL lead to creepy old perverts doing genital inspections on cis girls either to get their rocks off or to humiliate the girl, or both. Grand Old Party or Group of Perverts? 000
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 30/06/2026The four dissents would be impeachable offenses in a real country. 000
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 28/06/2026This has been my thesis for a while, that we haven't had any tech innovation in 15-20 years, just crime innovation. A string of tech darlings whose business plan is 'let's pretend X law didn't exist and either we'll go bust or we'll get rich enough to pay lawyers to get away with it." 49625
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 27/06/2026The asshole at Google who decided that everything should just be a fucking AI chatbot in an ugly wrapper (including my Fitbit app) should fired into the fucking sun. 000
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Now the precedent is set, I genuinely hope a future Dem administration investigates and extracts painful concessions from every university that bent the knee to trump. And I include my Alma Mater @columbiauniversity.bsky.social and their mortifyingly servile surrender in this. 000
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 27/06/2026This feels a little more The Division 2 than I'm really comfortable with 010
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 26/06/2026As I get older I find myself getting both more lenient and more draconian in my criminal justice views. I increasingly feel like we should use more mercy with crimes of desperation or passion, e.g. theft when destitute, drug use, etc. 100
