Nick Brett.
@feedingmonsters.bsky.social
It's Fiddles. Web Developer. Art Monkey. Part-time Writer. Full-time Nuisance. Suspected brigand. Does not own a gas mask, actually.
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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
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the man has admitted to sexually assaulting people and was legally proven by a court of law to be sexually assaulting people (a notoriously hard thing to do) but I’m sure this new evidence that he was sexually assaulting people will really wake up the base. It’ll be our lucky sexual assault evidence
November 12, 2025 at 10:00 PM
the man has admitted to sexually assaulting people and was legally proven by a court of law to be sexually assaulting people (a notoriously hard thing to do) but I’m sure this new evidence that he was sexually assaulting people will really wake up the base. It’ll be our lucky sexual assault evidence
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There is no AI in Earth Must Die.
FULL DISCLOSURE in desperation, in my darkest hour, I did use CoPilot to try and fix a bug, but the code it spewed out was such absolute dogshit I couldn't have implemented it if I wanted to.
FULL DISCLOSURE in desperation, in my darkest hour, I did use CoPilot to try and fix a bug, but the code it spewed out was such absolute dogshit I couldn't have implemented it if I wanted to.
We don’t use generative AI at Strange Scaffold and I can confirm that a *lot* of other studios are not—whether indie or AAA.
Get outta here with this normalization bullshit.
Get outta here with this normalization bullshit.
“It’s important to assume every game company is now using AI.” Nexon CEO comments on role of human creativity as AI tools become the norm
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November 12, 2025 at 11:22 AM
There is no AI in Earth Must Die.
FULL DISCLOSURE in desperation, in my darkest hour, I did use CoPilot to try and fix a bug, but the code it spewed out was such absolute dogshit I couldn't have implemented it if I wanted to.
FULL DISCLOSURE in desperation, in my darkest hour, I did use CoPilot to try and fix a bug, but the code it spewed out was such absolute dogshit I couldn't have implemented it if I wanted to.
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I don’t know if I want to buy the deranged curtains, even at a discount
November 8, 2025 at 11:45 AM
I don’t know if I want to buy the deranged curtains, even at a discount
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I am so excited about this book. It's just a wild fun ride all the way through and I think, hope, people will love Irody.
No one even dies!*
*Some people may die.
No one even dies!*
*Some people may die.
November 7, 2025 at 4:36 PM
I am so excited about this book. It's just a wild fun ride all the way through and I think, hope, people will love Irody.
No one even dies!*
*Some people may die.
No one even dies!*
*Some people may die.
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Lastly the blurb from TOR.UK.
November 7, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Lastly the blurb from TOR.UK.
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Aaaaand here's the UK version. Gone for less Tim Burton more a classic 1930s feel which I also love and fits the book really well as it's a whodunnit.
I love them both.
I love them both.
November 7, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Aaaaand here's the UK version. Gone for less Tim Burton more a classic 1930s feel which I also love and fits the book really well as it's a whodunnit.
I love them both.
I love them both.
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AT LAST I CAN SHOW YOU! Here is the US cover for MORTEDANT'S PERIL! And ain't it a cracker?
November 7, 2025 at 4:18 PM
AT LAST I CAN SHOW YOU! Here is the US cover for MORTEDANT'S PERIL! And ain't it a cracker?
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A favourite variation was one I contrived for @thefence.bsky.social in 2020, re: Jeff Bezos' then wealth of $177bn.
"Iago first said 'Put money in thy purse’ at the premiere of Othello on Nov 1st 1604. You'd only need to put $1.1 million in said purse every single day since to match Bezos’ total".
"Iago first said 'Put money in thy purse’ at the premiere of Othello on Nov 1st 1604. You'd only need to put $1.1 million in said purse every single day since to match Bezos’ total".
Given the Mamdani discourse, I wrote a bit about billionaires. If you were given $100 a day and aimed to have as much wealth as the world’s billionaires, you’d have had to have started about when animals first developed the ability to breathe oxygen.
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July 1, 2025 at 10:34 AM
A favourite variation was one I contrived for @thefence.bsky.social in 2020, re: Jeff Bezos' then wealth of $177bn.
"Iago first said 'Put money in thy purse’ at the premiere of Othello on Nov 1st 1604. You'd only need to put $1.1 million in said purse every single day since to match Bezos’ total".
"Iago first said 'Put money in thy purse’ at the premiere of Othello on Nov 1st 1604. You'd only need to put $1.1 million in said purse every single day since to match Bezos’ total".
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At the self checkout it says "Would you like a receipt?" and if you press NO it says "Please take your receipt and bags" and it feels like that's the sort of thing that will get an indie game called "quite buggy" in Steam reviews.
November 7, 2025 at 9:45 AM
At the self checkout it says "Would you like a receipt?" and if you press NO it says "Please take your receipt and bags" and it feels like that's the sort of thing that will get an indie game called "quite buggy" in Steam reviews.
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My GTA6 delay opinion is that though it will obviously be brilliant I think I'd actually much rather play a fun blocky indie take on the genre that's fun and on a GTAIII-sized map and is mostly about going really fast over ramps.
November 6, 2025 at 10:27 PM
My GTA6 delay opinion is that though it will obviously be brilliant I think I'd actually much rather play a fun blocky indie take on the genre that's fun and on a GTAIII-sized map and is mostly about going really fast over ramps.
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*picture of Braelinn, with Uggs, Lululemon, and a PSL in hand*
This Woman is Your FRIEND
She Fights for FREEDOM
This Woman is Your FRIEND
She Fights for FREEDOM
I gotta say, I’m seeing the most Live Laugh Love women I went to all girls high school with in Ohio posting anti-ICE Instagram reels and demanding people pay attention to the threat of fascism
November 6, 2025 at 6:14 PM
*picture of Braelinn, with Uggs, Lululemon, and a PSL in hand*
This Woman is Your FRIEND
She Fights for FREEDOM
This Woman is Your FRIEND
She Fights for FREEDOM
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Kicking in the doors of daycares is a great way to turn wine moms into molotov cocktail moms.
November 6, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Kicking in the doors of daycares is a great way to turn wine moms into molotov cocktail moms.
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I gotta say, I’m seeing the most Live Laugh Love women I went to all girls high school with in Ohio posting anti-ICE Instagram reels and demanding people pay attention to the threat of fascism
November 6, 2025 at 4:58 PM
I gotta say, I’m seeing the most Live Laugh Love women I went to all girls high school with in Ohio posting anti-ICE Instagram reels and demanding people pay attention to the threat of fascism
I can't explain the freelance squirrelbrain experience better than having eight million pressing things to do, and still being instantly destroyed by learning about an incandescently angry rock from thomas the tank engine. Read the thread, abandon all focus :'D
Everything in here is of course insane but engines... I want engines! is making me crack up
November 6, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I can't explain the freelance squirrelbrain experience better than having eight million pressing things to do, and still being instantly destroyed by learning about an incandescently angry rock from thomas the tank engine. Read the thread, abandon all focus :'D
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Boulder had a replica built for display at the hara model railway museum. This can be proven by the difference in the ridges between the replica and the official prop - WHO CHECKED? WHO WENT YEAH LETS CHECK IF THIS WAS MODELLED OFF THE ORIGINAL BOULDER PROP AND NOT ANY ROCK WITH A FACE. WHO CHECKED?
November 6, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Boulder had a replica built for display at the hara model railway museum. This can be proven by the difference in the ridges between the replica and the official prop - WHO CHECKED? WHO WENT YEAH LETS CHECK IF THIS WAS MODELLED OFF THE ORIGINAL BOULDER PROP AND NOT ANY ROCK WITH A FACE. WHO CHECKED?
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My friend just told me about boulder from Thomas the Tank engine and I think he might be the funniest character possible to me conceptually
November 6, 2025 at 3:06 PM
My friend just told me about boulder from Thomas the Tank engine and I think he might be the funniest character possible to me conceptually
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Ditching Photoshop for Krita, day 3
November 6, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Ditching Photoshop for Krita, day 3
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we can chalk it up to youth and inexperience but the biggest mistake the mamdani campaign made was winning by 8.8% and not 1.5%, which is the margin needed for the media to say it’s a total mandate
November 5, 2025 at 2:25 PM
we can chalk it up to youth and inexperience but the biggest mistake the mamdani campaign made was winning by 8.8% and not 1.5%, which is the margin needed for the media to say it’s a total mandate
Do try to keep struggling conservatives in your thoughts during this trying time. It's quite funny to dwell on! They're very upset. Go on, it'll cheer you up. It's hump day, treat yourself.
November 5, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Do try to keep struggling conservatives in your thoughts during this trying time. It's quite funny to dwell on! They're very upset. Go on, it'll cheer you up. It's hump day, treat yourself.
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I have to imagine far-right Catholics are really struggling with the fact that they can now hear this stuff in English directly from the pope.
“How did you receive the foreigner? And did you receive him and welcome him or not?”
Pope Leo XIV challenges us to reflect on the moral cost of policies that target deeply-root immigrants and families.
Pope Leo XIV challenges us to reflect on the moral cost of policies that target deeply-root immigrants and families.
November 5, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I have to imagine far-right Catholics are really struggling with the fact that they can now hear this stuff in English directly from the pope.
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Alas, I can only dream of what a paradise New York City must be, with pizza by the slice and talking trash-can puppets. Here in grimy old London, pizzas can only be purchased whole and every single puppet is haunted.
November 5, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Alas, I can only dream of what a paradise New York City must be, with pizza by the slice and talking trash-can puppets. Here in grimy old London, pizzas can only be purchased whole and every single puppet is haunted.
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Devastated to see Mamdani plummet to victory with a result that shows his critics were right all along. Now is the time for the left to move towards the centre. It's time to reach across the aisle, to swing your partner, do-si-do and really lay into trans people for no reason.
November 5, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Devastated to see Mamdani plummet to victory with a result that shows his critics were right all along. Now is the time for the left to move towards the centre. It's time to reach across the aisle, to swing your partner, do-si-do and really lay into trans people for no reason.