Reposted by Peter M.J. GrossSarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 8hThey put Indigenous People's Day & National Farmer's Day on the same day, good thing you can be boooooooth. Here's just some of the farm & food work NC-based tribes are doing! Corn+beans+squash plot, at the Catawba Nation. They recently pulled a corn variety back from almost-extinction 💪💪💪 334373
Peter M.J. Gross @petermjgross.bsky.social · 09/10/2026The rituals aren’t always successful; I hope this one ends like the time he nominated Matt Gaetz for attorney general. 000
Reposted by Peter M.J. Gross🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 09/10/2026none of these rubes have ever faced a hostile, political regulatory regime and they’re behaving like the last dodos wandering aimlessly on the beach 858134
Peter M.J. Gross @petermjgross.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I feel like more people should know about Nice Marines: gshowitt.itch.io/nice-marines 000
Peter M.J. Gross @petermjgross.bsky.social · 01/10/2026If I was going to list all the disappointments of living in the 21st century, I’d note that we’re getting a lot fewer Elvis sightings these days. 010
Reposted by Peter M.J. GrossFellow Traveller @fellowtraveller.games · 30/09/2026What do Harvest Moon and It's a Wonderful Life have in common? They both helped shape the small town of Lewthport! 🚢 Eric Rivers (Writer & Narrative Designer) of @saltstonestudios.bsky.social shares the biggest narrative inspirations behind The Hearth & Harbour 📚saltstonestudios.comNarrative Design and Inspirations for The Hearth and HarbourWriter and Narrative Designer Eric Rivers discusses The Hearth and Harbour’s narrative influences and inspirations – from other games, to films, literature and stage plays Any game, any… 0207
Peter M.J. Gross @petermjgross.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I wish I didn’t know just how fierce a burn this was. pmjg.blogspot.com/2011/06/i-re...pmjg.blogspot.comI read all 10 books of the Mission: Earth seriesGeneral shenanigans clearinghouse and repository of poorly articulated ideas. 001
Peter M.J. Gross @petermjgross.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I was talking about The Good Place with a friend today, and I described Kristen Bell‘s character as “A charming mix of combative and slutty.” 010
Peter M.J. Gross @petermjgross.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I hope he doesn’t think he can buy his way out of this, because the last time Bob Kraft tried to pay for a happy ending, it resulted in a criminal investigation. 000
Peter M.J. Gross @petermjgross.bsky.social · 15/09/2026This is bullshit. I’m tired of seeing this kind of hateful bigotry oppressing those of us with peccable grooming standards. 010
Peter M.J. Gross @petermjgross.bsky.social · 14/09/2026In a confrontation precipitated by Macklemore, no less! 030
Peter M.J. Gross @petermjgross.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Scott Bessent’s nonsense reminds me of the Jimmy Hoffa quote about being powerful. “If you have to say you is, then you ain’t.” 020
Peter M.J. Gross @petermjgross.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Laser pants. www.aiweirdness.com/laser-jeans/aiweirdness.comLaser JeansApparently they use lasers to put the wear marks in jeans now? Amazing. 000
Reposted by Peter M.J. GrossMr. Nick Beaudrot @nbeaudrot.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh--wait hold up a second 1739365
Reposted by Peter M.J. GrossCasey Brant @basecase.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Lately YouTube has been recommending me a lot of videos of videogame footage with titles like "The Devs Never Expected Anyone to Try THIS!!1!" my friend I guarantee they did. they did expect it. people spend like a trillion hours making a game. the devs did expect that you would do that thing. 221
Reposted by Peter M.J. GrossJohn Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Working on a piece for the newsletter, this is a data point - smart people keep shrugging and saying “communities don’t like data centers because of ‘vibes’” etc when it’s really that people are in fact smart enough to know they are bad faith neighbors. It is *entirely rational* not to trust them. 2423531007
Peter M.J. Gross @petermjgross.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Hear me out: -The best staff members are smart + lazy (von Hammerstein-Equord, 1933), but -People can't assess their own intelligence accurately (Dunning & Kruger, 1999), so -All dedicated employees should strive to be lazy. Anything else might be dangerous! 010
Peter M.J. Gross @petermjgross.bsky.social · 22/08/2026I’m old enough to remember when it was “free gift with purchase“ 010
Reposted by Peter M.J. GrossThe Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 21/08/2026"International assassin" always implies the existence of national assassins, or possibly local assassins. Every midsized town has a minor assassin working out of a storefront at the mall between the Cinnabon and the UBreakIFix guy 5449263
Reposted by Peter M.J. GrossDavid M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 20/08/2026what's funny about this is that monks were perfectly delighted with the printing press, the myth that the late medieval church resisted printing is false, you can actually embellish printed books and people did, illuminators and scribes are not the same people, and simon should read more. 663115569
Reposted by Peter M.J. GrossTessa Duvall @tessaduvall.bsky.social · 20/08/2026🚨 Kentucky has announced the finalists in its "I Voted" sticker contest. 🚨 Per the Secretary of State: Kentuckians can vote for their favorite sticker at the SOS's booth at the State Fair from August 20-30. 64939210
Reposted by Peter M.J. GrossDisco Central Banker @centralbanker.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Central banker here. This isn’t funny, interest rates only do this when they’re in extreme distress 2318
Reposted by Peter M.J. GrossIngrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 13/08/2026Learning that Chuck Schumer's daughter is a lobbyist for Amazon is a good reminder that as annoying as nepo babies becoming artists can be they can always do worse things with their wild and precious lives 8889139
Reposted by Peter M.J. GrossKelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 11/08/2026"technically any plane the president is on is Air Force One," the smuggest guy says, ignoring that the president had to flee allied airspace in a vessel other than the presidential sky yacht because of fear that the neighboring country whose leader he assassinated might successfully retaliate. 718428
Peter M.J. Gross @petermjgross.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Here's the radical truth that nobody is talking about: The proliferation of LLM-generated text is not a problem because of vapid, auto-generated prose, but because people are not bothering to read it, but think it's worth reading anyway. 010
Reposted by Peter M.J. Grossashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 07/08/2026just another white cat appropriating tabby culture 619152711297
Reposted by Peter M.J. GrossKimimi🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com · 07/08/2026I've made a game! A piece of interactive fiction, to be specific. A sci-fi caper, if you will. You can read about it here, and then play it in your browser (mobile browsers too)! kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2026/08/07/o...kimimithegameeatingshemonster.comOut of the drafts and into…Out of the drafts and into… About a thousand million years ago, I decided to follow up my mildly creepy little C64 text adventure Escape the Dragon Caves with a lighter sci-fi offering, written for… 711060
Reposted by Peter M.J. GrossSteve Kovach @stevekovach.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Nintendo had to raise prices because of tariffs, now it gets a refund and customers who bought the higher-priced items last year get nothing 7369
Reposted by Peter M.J. GrossMr Market Miscalculates 🇪🇺🇺🇦🏴☠️ @mrmarketmis.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Guys, did you all get your tariff refund together with the DOGE dividend? 1101
Peter M.J. Gross @petermjgross.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Age verification? I’m old enough to remember the Bud Ice penguin singing “Dooby dooby doo…” 020
Reposted by Peter M.J. GrossAnna Hollinrake 🌤️ @annahollinrake.com · 29/07/2026Hey all! I'm currently on the lookout for a freelance UI artist with experience in Unreal 5. Stylized art preferred as it's for Crescent County! Lmk if that sounds like YOU or SOMEONE YOU KNOW 🌟 #gamedev #indiedev #gamejobs 19168179
Reposted by Peter M.J. GrossOwen Barcala @obarcala.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Now that I'm reading this on something other than my phone, there are like ten pages I could quote-post word for word. It is an absolute Festivus-level airing of grievances. I highly recommend reading pages 71-80 for anyone who feels like they've been taking crazy pills when they think about SCOTUS 4387115
Reposted by Peter M.J. Gross(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 06/07/2026I do think it's actually worth taking a minute to try to understand what it even means for the Minions to work for an "evil" boss. One of the contradictions of the series, and of the minions characters in particular, is that they are not *themselves* notably evil -- 1135
Reposted by Peter M.J. GrossSummer Brennan @summerbrennan.bsky.social · 05/07/2026I ran an absolutely 100% human, zero AI-involvement at any stage passage of my writing through an "AI detector," curious if it could really tell human from AI work, and it said my own writing was "84% AI written" then asked I wanted to pay to have it "humanized." So there's that to keep in mind. 10654041526
Reposted by Peter M.J. GrossDonutShoes🍩👟 @donutshoes.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Did you know? You can book chiptune artists to perform at your shows! Try booking a chiptune artist today! 15515
Reposted by Peter M.J. GrossKate Compton @galaxykate.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Its a subtle point, but its worth seeing how the difference isnt the medium, but the artificial controls put over how we access it. Its worth owning physical media, but also looking at what prevents the digital media that passes through your devices from being “owned” by you in the same way 0111
Peter M.J. Gross @petermjgross.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Excellent job counting, Google. This AI-assisted search is really doing great work. 000
Reposted by Peter M.J. GrossIvan the K ™ @ivanthek.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Do they break out the data between BRIBES and RUBES? 34510
Peter M.J. Gross @petermjgross.bsky.social · 28/06/2026Out here in “Your scientists got so could up in whether they COULD that they never stopped to ask whether they SHOULD” territory 010
Reposted by Peter M.J. GrossGhoulothy @landbeforetim.myatproto.social · 25/06/2026Also the FBI hunted down Patrick for joking about putting algae spots in the reflecting pool faster than they did Luigi Mangione, the alleged shooter of the UnitedHealthcare 862838
Reposted by Peter M.J. GrossNicholas O / Essay Games @essaygames.bsky.social · 25/06/2026I totally forgot to post that my games are on sale as part of the @itch.io Summer Sale. It's the best deal I've had on either of my commercial games! essaygames.itch.io/ne9jwnt7tk Itch takes only 10% of sales compared to Steam's 30%, so now's the perfect time to support Essay Games!essaygames.itch.ioSummer Sale 2026 by Essay GamesA bundle by Essay Games, $5.00 for The Last Survey, Bundle of Joy 0116
Reposted by Peter M.J. GrossMatthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 24/06/2026In Ottawa, the police chief had to make a 7-minute video telling officers to stop using databases and surveillance tools to look up women they found attractive out in the world. This is a major problem *everywhere* and one that has only gotten worse as police have gotten access to more technology.youtube.comOttawa police chief tells officers to change or quitYouTube video by CTV News 12452211
Reposted by Peter M.J. GrossJ. Isaac Gadient (they/them) @jisaacgadient.bsky.social · 24/06/2026ICYMI my most recent piece of published writing is here: thehook.entrylvl.ca/uncategorize... 252041228
Peter M.J. Gross @petermjgross.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Happy Michael Collins Sentencing Day to all who celebrate. nypost.com/2026/06/22/u...nypost.comGreedy NYC exec who stole $6M — and bought $150K engagement ring — learns his fate“I hope this sentencing sends a message to New York executives who exploit Manhattan businesses – you will be held accountable.” 000
Reposted by Peter M.J. GrossAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 24/06/2026you people need to show more respect for the political machinery that lost to donald trump twice 8885391548
Reposted by Peter M.J. GrossEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 23/06/2026A phenomenon I've noticed recently is people trying to occupy some untenable middleground wrt to the use of systems sold as "AI" -- this is a position where people try to recognize the harms of this tech but also hold space for "responsible" or "ethical" use. 🧵>> 17598255
Reposted by Peter M.J. GrossOdd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 23/06/2025It’s 23 June, or Midsummer Eve, which can mean only one thing... YES, THAT’S RIGHT! Tonight’s the night when single women everywhere should make a cake with their own wee in order to attract a husband 98317