Reposted by embhowTallFroGuy - Shape Decider @tallfroguy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026up periscope #critterposting 71405464
Reposted by embhowlit_patches @litpatches.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath v1.01: Added some mythical dungeons, materials, and related temple quests 02312
Reposted by embhowThew @amazingthew.bsky.social · 18/09/2026god i love videogames. have you heard about "places"? they are called locations 3132171096
Reposted by embhowBrendy_C @brendyc.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I love a thecatamites blog post. harmonyzone.org/blog/posts/a... 1313
embhow @scribbledawn.bsky.social · 01/09/2026okay so i've been pagan my whole life but to imagine the summer before the lord's birth has such a texture; soft moments of miracle, before everything we know to come, in service of nothing more than a young mother's cravings. beautiful 100
Reposted by embhowCoraline Jortay 喬海霖 @qiaoj.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Got a new google scholar notification, so I go check and find this very cool poem by Wang Jibing 王计兵, the recent Lu Xun prize winner, prefacing a PhD thesis on women migrant workers and the gig economy PhD students in all disciplines: more poems in theses please, we love to see them! ✨💫 81764491
Reposted by embhowMichael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Barbara Kruger, Untitled (You construct intricate rituals...), 1980 118854
embhow @scribbledawn.bsky.social · 19/07/2026it is such a blessing to be drawn into something, so captivated that in order to savour it, you have to resist the urge to tumble down into it. perfect tides: station to station is my thoughts now, and i intend to keep that running as long as possible 000
Reposted by embhowlit_patches @litpatches.bsky.social · 15/07/2026"The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe but now you can expect new abilities, animations, VFX, summons and cantrips, and unique voiced dialogue lines 04910
Reposted by embhowCat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 25/06/2026obsessed with this comment on a reel of an opossum eating live crawfish in a bathtub 152548602
Reposted by embhowDr. Nic Junius @quakefultales.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Narrative rarely gets to be the high level decision driver outside of very specific kinds of projects and a lot of what narrative ends up doing, especially on larger projects, is unpacking the implications of decisions on emotional engagement 08819
Reposted by embhowChris Gardiner @chrisgardiner.bsky.social · 07/07/2026My go-to on this topic has always been Terry Pratchett: 0588123
Reposted by embhowmichael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 06/07/2026I will be honest that was one of the most interesting few minutes of you guys watching sports that I've ever read 5712105
Reposted by embhowRichard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Happy birthday, Franz Kafka. This is the tattoo I got while I was in Prague. It's a Franz quote inside one of his drawings. 936574
Reposted by embhowDr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 25/06/2026I especially love this diagram. 5248552012
Reposted by embhowTyver Foucault @thedoorthedoor.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Everyone thinks the vegetables are the garden. But the garden is the soil and the garden is the the trellises and the garden is the insects and the garden is the sun. Remember that when you look in the mirror. You are more than what you see in the glass 224267
Reposted by embhowErin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 19/06/2026HOLLERING START TO FINISH this is so good 513136
Reposted by embhowJeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Last and least, FWIW, my current AI policy for students. Subject to revision. Recommendations welcome. 461554165
Reposted by embhowJP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 09/06/2026the phrase "lipstick on a pig" has always inspired a deep sadness in me. I think of the pig, looking forward to her big night out, and I bring myself to the verge of tears. 9795091397
Reposted by embhowJennifer Adcock @jenkatwrites.bsky.social · 01/06/2026happy pride, shoutout as always to the 1978 gilbert baker pride flag which had pink and turquoise stripes for SEX AND MAGIC AND ART, and in this house we support gay sex and gay magic and gay art 3392684134
Reposted by embhowMike Elgan @mikeelgan.bsky.social · 24/05/2026Now you can keep track of how many billions the AI companies are losing on AI. (Red is spending, green is revenue.) isaiprofitable.com 10171203401
Reposted by embhowDerek Yu @mossmouth.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Genuinely, this concern about AI is one of the reasons why I think having friction in video games is good and why it's increasingly important to have games that simply exist instead of catering to our expectations. Reposting this message from Kojima about "pre-digested" art: 2659652124
embhow @scribbledawn.bsky.social · 21/05/2026no one would believe me, but the writing got really shockingly good. I put it down when the story ended in Final Shape, but riding the peaks of seasonal storytelling for a couple hours each week was really special, and I hope somebody somewhere is able to preserve or recreate that for posterity 100
embhow @scribbledawn.bsky.social · 21/05/2026as a couple of contracts wind down and a bit of time opens up to work on personal stuff, i am once again forced to decide if i want to be comprehensible or if i want to have fun 000
Reposted by embhowJill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Here’s a video from the same podcast as linked in my previous post where you can hear the audio too. I love this because it really lays bare how LLMs fool us - but really they’re just slotting words into linguistic patterns that we’re familiar with. Genres like a podcast or LinkedIn post. 21935316
Reposted by embhowkat @katbamkapow.bsky.social · 13/05/2026heard a guy say "you have to access it through the portal" and i was momentarily struck by how sad it is that what he said is so boring :( "accessing it via the portal" should be wonderful. we deserve that at least. it should be cool to access it via the portal and instead it sucks shit 5185751941
Reposted by embhowCohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 06/05/2026if you can make it to lunch on wednesday you can make it to the end of the week. stay strong o you children of this hideous age 019246
Reposted by embhowLevon Jihanian @forkfrenzy.bsky.social · 05/05/2026The "out of the way swine" comic is great but this is the best comic strip of all time 2775561990
Reposted by embhowNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 03/05/2026I am once again tapping the "it is a genuine qualitative break from 99.9% of human history that society can now produce massive food surpluses with the labor only a tiny percent of the population and nobody has any idea how to grasp this" sign. 494191625
Reposted by embhowRafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 03/05/2026At this point I think we do have to hand it to psychoanalysis for discovering the concept of projection which is apparently central to a lot of our lives 729260
Reposted by embhowshaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 29/04/2026i have never understood "you could put yourself in the movie!" as a selling point, especially a uniquely generated movie. anyone who actually wants to watch an "AI" rom com starring a soulless digital avatar of themselves should be getting professional help for that 601760200
embhow @scribbledawn.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Three passes: Clear, then Subtle, then Clear (shorter). Subtlety is overrated AND it's worth it to try. My best reception by far has come from taking risks, and even players who didn't resonate still saw what made it special, but folks is tired. Toss them a lure before you try to reel 'em in. 020
Reposted by embhowNick Carver @nickcarver.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Narrow gauge mining trains have got their own vibe. 621041
Reposted by embhowCorey Atad @coreyatad.com · 17/04/2026this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w... 1270571674
Reposted by embhowGretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 15/04/2026They sell ANDOR action figures, of course, and of course the audience is 35-50-year-olds, but it's deeply funny to imagine children playing with little Luthen Rael and Saw Gerrera dolls. CHILD 1: I think violence is not only justified, but demanded CHILD 2: I agree, but haste could be our undoing 5847701007
embhow @scribbledawn.bsky.social · 15/04/2026consider this your reminder to go back and re-read something nice that someone once wrote about you or your work!! there is much genuine kindness in the world 000
embhow @scribbledawn.bsky.social · 15/04/2026i think all the time about how it truly is this easy. just put half a thought into how affordance design shapes experience -- and then, gasp, maybe apply that to systems that people are forced to interface with as well as the fun stuff!! 120