The Fool

This is a generalisation, however, the data industry is an embarrassment. The willingness we have displayed to relinquish our knowledge, skills, and critical thinking is worrying at best, but closer to truly pathetic. I'm struggling to comprehend how bad it has become in such a short space of time.

Samus & Kirby

I’m not sure who said it first, but I’ve been thinking about this line all week

I see them everywhere 😔 #bigwalk @panic.com

here's what's gonna happen

BIG WALK IS SO GOOD The colourfulness of it just felt like a good reason to mess with more risograph brushes. @househouse.com you folks have made something incredible!

Hey... Big Walk is very good, guys... [ #art #CastorArt #BigWalk ]

I can't stress enough the importance of making shitty things. Shitty writing. Shitty art. Shitty paintings. Shitty films. Shitty songs. Shitty sculptures. Shitty is beautiful, because it's human. There's no glory without shitty. Get out there and shit things up.

All of this applies to games too, btw :)

Big Walk so good it’s got me scribbling fan art

Rebecca fan art. #pixelart

It’s great to have spaces where you can indulge in a hobby without constant reminders of how stupid *everything* is.

It's not enough to be against AI, you need to be pro art. You need to be a champion of the art you love, you need to share that passion and joy, and do what you can to support the artists who make it, because it's not enough to hate AI, to hate what it's doing to art and media; you gotta love.

We are given only a limited number of truly perfect summer days in our time on Earth. One of the more insidious cruelties of fossil fuel greed is how it slowly strips those days from us, more and more throughout our lifetimes, perhaps without us even realizing what we have lost.

Unpopular decisions make stock prices go up. Successful art leads to firings. AI is in everything and data centers are going up everywhere. Welcome to the Because Fuck You, That's Why economy. www.rogue.site/editorials/f...

The wait was worth it, these look beautiful. Looking forward to what comes next @lostincult.co.uk 🥳✨

I don’t know who was the one in here that recommended Wide Ocean Big Jacket, whoever you are you didn’t miss. It’s such a charming, funny and heartfelt game.

The most dangerous charts are the ones you agree with. 📊 "Motivation skepticism is the deployment of critical thinking not as a neutral tool, but as a mechanism to defend prior beliefs." nightingaledvs.com/we-taught-st...

¡Vamos Ecuador! Cheering on Ecuador in today's World Cup match! An excellent excuse to play/pickup @despelote.game, a slice-of-life adventure set in 2001 Quito, Ecuador during the World Cup qualifiers ⚽🇪🇨

"Game dev is one of those jobs you only do when you really want to. It's not going to make your parents proud, you're unlikely to get rich in an industry that lays off people for making superhits, and its a demanding & confrontative job. Why would you let a machine do the thing you're here to do?"

c o s m o s

On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world 😍 airesistlist.org

The biggest problem with AI is not that it is unreliable, but that we believe it nevertheless. www.ft.com/content/a61c...

This and the third season announcement. Playdate owners are eating good ✨

It’s been a while since I’ve been so excited for a game.

A reminder that if you’re looking for dataviz content on Bluesky, there’s a lot here 👇📊

The Open Visualization Academy launches on FRIDAY! openvisualizationacademy.org More information in our newsletter: openvisualizationacademy.beehiiv.com/p/the-open-v... #dataViz #dataVisualization #infographics #dataJournalism

First game of the year done! Replayed Thank Goodness You're Here for the @slowgameclub.bsky.social. It continues to be a gem, really looking forward to the @lostincult.co.uk physical version of the game and the vinyl.

🎉 We’ve received 482 responses to the 2025 State of the Data Viz Industry Survey so far! Take the survey if you create #dataviz in any capacity (hobby, work, school, art), and help us spread the word: www.surveyhero.com/c/soti2025-b...

Some amazing data visualizations in here. First time seeing the “Talk to strangers” article and, as always, blown away by @puddingviz.bsky.social work

Want a look behind the scenes? People are curious about how we come up with (good) ideas at Voilà:. Here are five examples in a blog post. 🐝 📊

📢 our friends have launched the incredible Goodnight Universe!! 💫 to celebrate, we're giving away 5 Goodnight Universe Steam keys!! enter by: 1. following @nicedreamgames.com 2. like + repost this post entries close tomorrow, 12pm PST 💖 s.team/a/2416100/

I will beg you all time, and time, and time again: Play 1000xRESIST. It is one of the best storytelling titles we have in the artful medium of video games.

APWOT 5 is real! 🦄 We'll be shipping in the next week or so. Thank you all for supporting the mag and making this a reality 💙

So happy I got this one from @stumpyfrog.bsky.social. It sounds and looks great. The Arctic Eggs OST is 👌🍳🔥

My end of year gift to myself 💖

Get your spooky playdate games for the season 💀🎃

Extremely happy and proud to have been a part of this project 🎉