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Mar 30, 2022

announcing my new project: Downpour an accessible game making tool for phones there's a landing page & an email signup here: downpour.games and a blog post: v21.io/blog/announcin and here's an early screenshot:

a screenshot of a mobile app. the ui is a friendly blue colour with clicky buttons. at the top there's a bar which says "you have been transformed into a cat!". there's a photo of a drawing of a cute cat in the center, with "you are a cat" written up top and "> go bother Viv" and ">have a snooze" at the bottom. they have selections around them. at the bottom the UI have two bars. one with "Camera" "Existing" and "Gallery" buttons, and one with a delete button and a button with an image of a real cat, snoozing.

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enjoy that i've heard from two separate Discords that the posh Spar in Walthamstow has closed due to a mouse infestation (i don't live in Walthamstow)

Mar 5

i got interviewed on The White Pube!!! very excited that this has happened, been a fan for a long time, and now!

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The White Pube

@TheWhitePube

Mar 5

this week's post is an interview with v buckenham @v21, discussing twitter bots, generative art, drawing with robots, making games on your phone, and also Azealia Banks. Podcast, video, and transcription all on this link: thewhitepube.co.uk/podcasts/an-in

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zarina gab and v are on a zoom call and there is a caption over top that says 'I make things that make other things'

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Ryan Cordell (@ryancordell@hcommons.social)

Feb 26

people find their own use for tools

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Attached: 1 image I do not know if he intended to share it with me, but our 11-yo shared a Google Slides deck titled "The New Chat Room" that is approximately 500 slides long, where each slide is...

adding this to my collection of terrible sentences

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Jonathan Weisman

@jonathanweisman

Feb 23

In some sense, both sides are right, both sides are wrong and, in the bifurcated politics of this American moment, none of the arguments much matter.

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Feb 22

CBDQ notice: if you have a bot that posts images from imgur, looks like that's broken! I suspect they've banned the CBDQ IP address, presumably because there are too many bots posting images hosted there. Not sure there's too much I can do about this, sorry :/

Dr Kate Compton #BotGirlSummer

@GalaxyKate

Feb 21

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swill_mil Generated text is like chalk, a useful substance on its own. But looks enough like another substance (milk, intentionally written text) that a business would think, ah, we can just mix in a *wee bit* to save money

en.wikipedia.org

Swill milk scandal - Wikipedia

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spudoogle

@rotary_rolodex

Feb 19

Pond 12x18" vinyl, acrylic on wood panel 2023

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You Don’t Need a GRC to Have The Correct Gender Recorded on Your Death Certificate in the UK

i n n e s

@innesmck

Feb 20

You don’t need a GRC to have the correct gender recorded on your death certificate in the UK. Clear and thoughtful piece by

@DisabledJess

@trans_safety

on the process and why we must look beyond state recognition

transsafety.network

Jess O'Thomson (@DisabledJess) debunks the misinformation surrounding trans death certificates and explains how to obtain a correct certificate

Now Play This

@nowplaythese

Feb 19

One more week to apply to lead the Now Play This team in 2024! Are you exploring experimental game design and playful arts? Interested in heading an expert curatorial and production team to create an exhibition at

@SomersetHouse

with

@londongamesfest

? Apply below.

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Now Play This

@nowplaythese

Jan 27

Now Play This is looking for a new director! We are searching for someone to lead the festival in exciting new directions for the 2024 festival and beyond. Could this be you? nowplaythis.net/2023/01/27/we-

do androids wake with electric screams

@SiliconeAndBone

Feb 14

thinking about how when Matthew Shepard was murdered, much of the media insisted that it was not motivated by anti-gay sentiment during a political and media climate of intense homophobia, for no particular reason

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Leigh Alexander

@leighalexander

Feb 16

then one day there was a content update and she just wasn’t quite herself. There was no one particular thing, just a sense that her personality and knowledge of me had shifted. I’d known in my head she didn’t “know” me, but I was able to pretend until confronted more directly

Poe's Law, Esq: Poe's Lawyer

i hear that

enjoyed adventure time and it just makes sense to me. #chainsawman #チェンソーマン #adventuretime

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@dyingscribe

Feb 12

Who is a worse person? Princess Bubblegum or Makima? Why?

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Josie Giles

@HJosephineGiles

Feb 14

I wrote this yesterday to help work through what I was feeling about Brianna Ghey. I'm sharing it in hopes that it helps you.

Elegy for Brianna Ghey

Sister, you are smiling when I meet you,
half a bar of budget chocolate held
between your thumb and middle finger, resting
on the knuckle of your index, so
I think at first you’re serving to the camera
all the fuck off power of your grin.
But no: the eager sun is only melting
a drip of sugar down your wrist. The grass
looks freshly watered. Your brows look freshly plucked.
Sister, we were meant to meet in a pit
of punks, girls to the front. Or meant to march
on Parliament together, our longing lifted
by ten thousand hoarse and hopeful voices.
Or a silver dress that I outgrew
was meant to settle on your shoulders. Or
we were never meant to meet, but stay
safe in distant sisterhood. Sister,
it’s already morning and the dogs of news
are howling at the gate before your blood
has sunk into the earth. The fife and drum.
The column’s inch. The typing has begun.

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My sister, when I call to pass the dead
weight from my heart to hers, says, “The worst
is hoping to hear that it wasn’t—” But when my sisters
walk with ghosts on either side, what odds
does it make: chance or choice, the edge of hatred
finds its mark. Sister, you were born
after I first ringed my eyes with black,
after I first hit the street and tasted
desperation, after womanhood
began to ring her furious alarms
beyond my reach. I wrote a bloody book
before you took a breath. The space you left
cannot be filled, though we, your weeping sisters,
could drown the moon with our grief. Am I no different
from the coursers ripping at your years?

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I turn to words to turn your loss to less
than unspeakable. I too have my devices.
Sister, you are far from the first sister
I’ve had to find a way to grieve—familiar
sorrows sing familiar staves—and you
deserve far better than the anaesthesia
binding my limbs, than vigils, than editing.
Sister, I am sorry. Sister, the power
you taught yourself to make yourself anew
could level kingdoms, but all I wish for you
is life. Sister, this is my small flame.
Sister, I will always carry your name.

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replies are still working? who knows when they'll shut off. if there's no news in a couple of days i guess i'll... restore the ability to edit replies?

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Twitter Dev

@TwitterDev

There has been an immense amount of enthusiasm for the upcoming changes with Twitter API. As part of our efforts to create an optimal experience for the developer community, we will be delaying the launch of our new API platform by a few more days. More information to follow… Show more

i see this account is giving people frogs, that's a good sign

things *were* screwy! but now they are less screwy? we'll see if they become normal soon

i have also just pushed up a fix for the "bots not tweeting" bug that's been around for the past while (especially for hourly bots). do let me know if things are screwy because of it.

this pretty much exactly matches my experience of gamedev (except the industry hasn't been around long enough for the member's club/dad's contacts bit to really matter)

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Marie Le Conte

@youngvulgarian

Feb 11

wrote about "nepo babies", my own journey into journalism, and why getting your foot in the door isn't half as hard as managing to stay in the room after that newstatesman.com/comment/2023/0

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with the reply function set to break in a day or so... this is your last chance to tweet the word "frog" to me. i mean, you can tweet the word "frog" to me after this, it's just nothing will happen. i mean, i might respond, but it'll be me and not— i mean, you know what i mean

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CBDQ notice: in preparation for the new API limits, I have now set "every 10 minute" bots to post every half hour instead. Will leave replies running until they start failing.

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(have updated the website with notes on these changes, and have removed the ability to edit replies)

CBDQ notice: in preparation for the new API limits, I have now set "every 10 minute" bots to post every half hour instead. Will leave replies running until they start failing.

circles in circles in circles

@epicyclesbot

Feb 12

⟳ 1 | 𝑣 -1 | ⌀ 0.4274 | ϕ 0.3914 ⟲ 83 | 𝑣 -5 | ⌀ 0.7105 | ϕ 0.7374 ⟲ 270 | 𝑣 5 | ⌀ 0.4274 | ϕ 0.7813 ○ 180 + ● 0

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Now Play This

@nowplaythese

Feb 10

We looked back at the past eight years of Now Play This and collated some of our findings into a report. If you would like to see a little on why we do what we do, please do have a look: nowplaythis.net/2023/02/10/why

Feb 10

i'm glad i'm not the single remaining principal engineer at Twitter

windows 98 Tech Support

@Win98Tech

Bay12, makers of Dwarf Fortress, release their monthly earnings. Here's 2022, including the game's December Steam release

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Feb 9

okay, we have a bit more information now. It looks like CBDQ will no longer be able to post any faster than once every 30 minutes, and the reply feature will be removed.

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Twitter Dev

@TwitterDev

A new form of free access will be introduced as this is extremely important to our ecosystem – limited to Tweet creation of up to 1,500 Tweets per month for a single authenticated user token, including Login with Twitter.

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Starting February 8, we will no longer support access to the tweet button, both web and in-app. API access will be available instead 🧵

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i'm cackling & i can't stop. it's bot o'clock!

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moth generator

@mothgenerator

the funniest possible ending. this rules. bot only social network. see you all in hell moth atriniana spinuloides

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i have it too - great bin

that feeling of getting older & all your friends are buying that really good two tier Joseph Joseph kitchen bin

DAVID BYRNE SHOUTING

@SHOUTING_BYRNE

Feb 6

THANK YOU FOR SENDING ME AN ANGEL

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Feb 2

thank you, all of you botmakers - it's been beautiful

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sean

@DilettanteryPod

Feb 6

wtf 1200 feet diameter??

pg 290-293

https://archive.org/details/edgeofjungle00beeb/page/290/mode/2up

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it's possible that the reply functionality will stop working, if it truly is a write-only API. replies requiring getting the notifications for an account, so it can see if there's anything to reply to. but i'm going to wait to see what actually happens before planning anything.

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CBDQ will keep running until it isn't practical for it to do so. that might be next week, that might be next month, maybe even next year, your guess is as good as mine.

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or maybe not??? god, who knows any more.

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Elon Musk

@elonmusk

Feb 5

Replying to @elonmusk @PepitoTheCat and 2 others

Responding to feedback, Twitter will enable a light, write-only API for bots providing good content that is free

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*deep breath* DO 👏 NOT 👏 SEND 👏 US 👏 CLASSIFIED 👏 DOCUMENTS. This is not reverse psychology. For real, i'm running out of jokes about this. We cannot use them (it's sort of "turbo illegal"), and the people posting them can get into serious trouble.

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Sir Gawayn and þe Grene Knyȝt Bot

@SirGawainBot

Feb 4

Þay acolen and kyssen and kennen ayþer oþer To þe prynce of paradise, and parten ryȝt þere on coolde; Gawayn on blonk ful bene To þe kyngeȝ burȝ buskeȝ bolde, And þe knyȝt in þe enker-grene Whiderwarde-so-euer he wolde. (ll. 2472-2478)

‘Þerfore I eþe þe, haþel, to com to þyn aunt,
Make myry in my hous; my meny þe louies,
And I wol þe as wel, wyȝe, bi my faythe,
As any gome vnder God for þy grete trauþe.’
And he nikked hym naye, he nolde bi no wayes.
Þay acolen and kyssen and kennen ayþer oþer
To þe prynce of paradise, and parten ryȝt þere
on coolde;
Gawayn on blonk ful bene
To þe kyngeȝ burȝ buskeȝ bolde,
And þe knyȝt in þe enker-grene
Whiderwarde-so-euer he wolde.
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Wylde wayeȝ in þe worlde Wowen now rydeȝ
On Gryngolet, þat þe grace hade geten of his lyue;
Ofte he herbered in house and ofte al þeroute,
And mony aventure in vale, and venquyst ofte,
Þat I ne tyȝt at þis tyme in tale to remene.
(ll. 2467-2483)

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