A screenshot from Pokémon Pokopia where Bulbasaur is telling the main character, a Ditto, that "Tangrowth seems really smart, and they're all tangly and messy like a professor, right?"
I... Feel very called out about needing a haircut right now
With LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER it could easily be 1000 Furbies singing through a 24-head analogue tape delay... okay I would also like that.
It's happening!
Cozy, emotional, poignant scrapbooking game Pieced Together is OUT NOW on Steam!
Tell your friends! Leave us reviews! 20% launch discount! GO GO GO 🥳 🥳 🥳
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The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer.
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picture from the game with a text with the game font that says: Pokopia accessibility settings
Pokémon Pokopia is finally out and with it being a flagship Nintendo game it is actually quite accessible, so let us highligh it! 🌱
Here is a list over all the accessibility settings in the game at launch ❤️
Season 1 was so good, really looking forward to diving into Season 2!
I joined 300+ security and privacy academics in calling for a global pause on online age verification: www.politico.eu/article/age-...
Hey yous! If you'd like a chill few hours watching me (mostly) successfully solve the first chapter of @letibus.bsky.social's excellent rule discovery puzzle game, Herd...
Well it's now on YouTube with nice chapters and whatnot! Spoilers: this is special game.
youtu.be/KlFAZXNA-NQ
#Stream #Puzzle
Hey yous! If you'd like a chill few hours watching me (mostly) successfully solve the first chapter of @letibus.bsky.social's excellent rule discovery puzzle game, Herd...
Well it's now on YouTube with nice chapters and whatnot! Spoilers: this is special game.
youtu.be/KlFAZXNA-NQ
#Stream #Puzzle
🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work.
This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public.
Please spread the word.
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There is something deeply fucking gross about a government who actively helps displace more people on the same day they boast about making life shittier for refugees.
This was such a fun stream to come back for. VOD is on Twitch on the link above, and I'll be putting it on Youtube soon too!
Spoilers: Herd is great.
Going live soon! Come join us for some cosy puzzle solving? 🧡
www.twitch.tv/amicableanim...
Two hours to go before we stream for the first time in 2026, the first time with a physical game, and the first time I've looked at the new game by @letibus.bsky.social, Herd.
With so many firsts what could go wrong?
Tune in at 14:00 UK Time today to find out:
www.twitch.tv/amicableanimal
Really looking forward to this today :)
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A capture of a video still of the board game Herd. It shows a spiral bound book on a wood-effect desk. On the book are grid-based puzzles, with some plastic pieces in black and white. Below the book are some dry erase markers. Above the book is a nano-block Tails!
You know what? It's been *a while* since I've done a stream, so how about we try something... complicated? Like recording me playing some of Herd by @letibus.bsky.social!
Sleepy Sunday Stream #45 - Herd: Shepherding My Brain Back Into Gear.
14:00 UK Time, 1st of March: www.twitch.tv/amicableanimal
You _could_ spend some of your Saturday playing our demo. It's good.
A screenshot of a BBC Indepth article entitled: "Polanski and Farage don't agree. But they have more in common than you might think"
This might be the most Laura Kuenssberg headline ever. Even when the Greens convincingly win, she *cannot stop* talking about Farage.
![A screenshot from the BBC news article which reads:
"Following the Greens' victory at Thursday's by-election, some Labour MPs have warned ministers not to try to "out-Reform Reform [UK]".
But a source close to Mahmood has told the BBC that the government should not learn the wrong lessons from the by-election result - and that it was "wrong" to assume Muslim voters were deserting Labour over immigration."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:z7rriivho3vlfnvb3aini3sl/bafkreibztirmugscnupgteuacjnpjy555n663fqmmjy62orzt5anmkl3hi)
A screenshot from the BBC news article which reads: "Following the Greens' victory at Thursday's by-election, some Labour MPs have warned ministers not to try to "out-Reform Reform [UK]". But a source close to Mahmood has told the BBC that the government should not learn the wrong lessons from the by-election result - and that it was "wrong" to assume Muslim voters were deserting Labour over immigration."
To be fair she's not totally wrong here, she just needed a bit more clarity. It should read "it was wrong to assume it is *just* Muslim voters who are deserting Labour over immigration.
I think with the state of things I'm just... Kinda in need of a chill game where you make some nice changes to your environment in order to make a bunch of strange looking dogs and cats happy 🤣
Gotta say, Pokopia is looking like something that is going to *consume me* for a while at this rate >.>
Imagine calling another party sectarian after:
Attacking pensioners, trans people, disabled folks, the creative industries, settled status, juries, pubs, and the right to vote while selling our data to Palantir, pushing for the shit Online Safety act plus digital IDs, and *employing Mandelson*
So the Telegraph is taking this well
Waking up to see Labour crashing into third place (in their own by-election) and the Tories losing their deposit because they've done so badly is *chef kiss*
It's so nice to see people giving Labour the kicking they deserve for being a bunch of transphobic, racist, useless pricks.
just spitballing but some of it might have something to do with 15 years of sociopathic behavior culminating in the enthusiastic embrace of violent fascism
A screenshot of a previous post reading "Docker is great. I can configure a server stack and know that it will run the same way in production. All you have to do is spend endless hours"
I love where the sentence broke here. Honestly, it's just feels spot on. All you have to do is spend endless hours indeed.
The most annoying thing about shit like this (and trust me I have a long list) is the fact that it's forcing us academics back towards more invigilated exam-style assessments and that totally sucks for accessibility!
Anyone who tells me AI democratises things next is getting a real hard stare.
A screenshot showing try BBC headlines. One reads: "Urgent research needed to tackle AI threats, says Google AI boss" The second reads: "Microsoft error sees confidential emails exposed to AI tool Copilot"
A screenshot of part of the Microsoft article in the previous screenshot. The highlighted part reads: "Under normal circumstances, organisations would simply switch off the feature and wait till governance caught up," Henein said.
We're all trying to find the guy who did this .gif
