Braydon Beaulieu
@ludoclast.bsky.social
Writer and game designer. Team Lead Narrative Designer at Ubisoft Toronto. Instructor at Toronto Metropolitan University. PhD in English from the University of Calgary. Bad at everything else. Latest: “The Event Horizon of Honey” in Augur 8.2 🍕 he/him
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Braydon Beaulieu
@ludoclast.bsky.social
· Oct 18
Hey, new blues!
I’m Braydon (he/him), and I write stuff. I currently work at Ubisoft Toronto as a Team Lead Narrative Designer, and I teach games courses at Toronto Metropolitan University. I like pizza, bees, and non-Euclidean spaces.
I’m Braydon (he/him), and I write stuff. I currently work at Ubisoft Toronto as a Team Lead Narrative Designer, and I teach games courses at Toronto Metropolitan University. I like pizza, bees, and non-Euclidean spaces.
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hard to think of a better example of "you may not believe in class war, but billionaires know they're in one" than this
This is bleak: Jes Staley, currently CEO of Barclays, reassuring Epstein that popular revolt against financial elites is unlikely because capitalism and pop culture have defanged social movements, leaving people more invested in consumption than justice.
February 7, 2026 at 3:53 AM
hard to think of a better example of "you may not believe in class war, but billionaires know they're in one" than this
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newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Jacqueline Valencia @jacquelinevalencia.ca : Two poems
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periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/02/jacq...
Jacqueline Valencia : Two poems
Stilts Knees wish I had them not a semblance just aged and used irresponsibly no glue to bond sorry I walk on impossible stilts/...
periodicityjournal.blogspot.com
February 5, 2026 at 2:24 PM
newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Jacqueline Valencia @jacquelinevalencia.ca : Two poems
periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/02/jacq...
periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/02/jacq...
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Some more games have been added to the Language Deciphering Games list.
Blightseed by Zen of Mars
The Apothecary of Trubiz by Kinjo Games Lab
Lessons on Strange Symbols by nants00
Lost in Translation by @featurekreep.bsky.social
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Blightseed by Zen of Mars
The Apothecary of Trubiz by Kinjo Games Lab
Lessons on Strange Symbols by nants00
Lost in Translation by @featurekreep.bsky.social
7 tags have been added so you can sort the list further.
A new collection added to Exhibit:Play 👀
Deciphering Languages
Featuring games from @inkle.co, @rundisc.bsky.social, @kevindu.itch.io, @playismen.bsky.social @lizardrydev.bsky.social and more.
11 games in total and always on the lookout for more.
Deciphering Languages
Featuring games from @inkle.co, @rundisc.bsky.social, @kevindu.itch.io, @playismen.bsky.social @lizardrydev.bsky.social and more.
11 games in total and always on the lookout for more.
Deciphering Languages in Video Games
From ancient scripts to alien tongues, these games challenge you to decode unfamiliar languages and unravel mysteries through communication.
exhibitplay.com
January 29, 2026 at 5:18 AM
Some more games have been added to the Language Deciphering Games list.
Blightseed by Zen of Mars
The Apothecary of Trubiz by Kinjo Games Lab
Lessons on Strange Symbols by nants00
Lost in Translation by @featurekreep.bsky.social
7 tags have been added so you can sort the list further.
Blightseed by Zen of Mars
The Apothecary of Trubiz by Kinjo Games Lab
Lessons on Strange Symbols by nants00
Lost in Translation by @featurekreep.bsky.social
7 tags have been added so you can sort the list further.
“The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone.” Absolute banger of a line from Adam. Keep standing strong against fascism. For as long as it takes.
Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
January 27, 2026 at 2:02 PM
“The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone.” Absolute banger of a line from Adam. Keep standing strong against fascism. For as long as it takes.
Home sick today. Hit me with your movie recommendations. Here are some of my recent 5-star watches:
January 26, 2026 at 2:12 PM
Home sick today. Hit me with your movie recommendations. Here are some of my recent 5-star watches:
80s horror double-header tonight.
January 23, 2026 at 1:50 AM
80s horror double-header tonight.
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These are the icy mountains of Pluto. It took 9 years to get these magnificent images… and 4.8 billion kilometers.
January 18, 2026 at 7:39 PM
These are the icy mountains of Pluto. It took 9 years to get these magnificent images… and 4.8 billion kilometers.
I’m awake again. It’s transcendent to finally feel creatively inspired once more, to get excited by stories, to want to take pen to paper and craft something beautiful, haunting, fierce. Your boy is back; here come the stories.
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www.littlefiction.com
January 19, 2026 at 1:55 PM
I’m awake again. It’s transcendent to finally feel creatively inspired once more, to get excited by stories, to want to take pen to paper and craft something beautiful, haunting, fierce. Your boy is back; here come the stories.
How I feel when I finish watching a fantastic movie
a woman in a pink skirt is singing into a microphone on stage .
ALT: a woman in a pink skirt is singing into a microphone on stage .
media.tenor.com
January 17, 2026 at 4:40 AM
How I feel when I finish watching a fantastic movie
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You have to block them immediately. The full nuclear. They are only here to make folks angry, and that can’t happen if we lock them out.
✅ @icegov.bsky.social has been verified by @bsky.app.
January 16, 2026 at 11:59 PM
You have to block them immediately. The full nuclear. They are only here to make folks angry, and that can’t happen if we lock them out.
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Happy Birthday, John Carpenter!
January 16, 2026 at 2:45 PM
Happy Birthday, John Carpenter!
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David Lynch passed a year ago today. I hope we all can absorb just a little bit of the energy he put out in his lifetime.
January 16, 2026 at 6:47 PM
David Lynch passed a year ago today. I hope we all can absorb just a little bit of the energy he put out in his lifetime.
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Check out Augur issue 8.2 for my short story, "The Event Horizon of Honey," a surrealist horror tale exploring memory loss, grief, love, and the eldritch entities that stalk the woods beyond the beehives: augursociety.org/augur-issue-...
Augur Issue 8.2 Augur Magazine Issue 8.2 - Augur Literary Society
Augur Magazine Issue 8.2 asks you to exist in the in-between, in the cycles where yes, all things grow and die–but all things also live, vibrantly, exquisitely, and unapologetically–in revolutions whe...
augursociety.org
January 15, 2026 at 7:19 PM
Check out Augur issue 8.2 for my short story, "The Event Horizon of Honey," a surrealist horror tale exploring memory loss, grief, love, and the eldritch entities that stalk the woods beyond the beehives: augursociety.org/augur-issue-...
The Woman in the Dunes (1964)
January 15, 2026 at 5:04 PM
The Woman in the Dunes (1964)
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✨ Announcing...our FIRST NOVELLA ✨
Publisher @kercoby.bsky.social has acquired CREST by @thesuiway.bsky.social for our 2027 debut book line up.
This haunting, ethereal contemporary fantasy captured us from first glimpse, and we're so excited to share it next year.
Read on in the 🧵 for more deets!
Publisher @kercoby.bsky.social has acquired CREST by @thesuiway.bsky.social for our 2027 debut book line up.
This haunting, ethereal contemporary fantasy captured us from first glimpse, and we're so excited to share it next year.
Read on in the 🧵 for more deets!
![An announcement card for Augur's first novella acquisition, CREST. A mountain peak is featured in the background, with a pink gradient below.
Text reads:
ANNOUNCING AUGUR SOCIETY'S FIRST NOVELLA
CREST by A.D. Sui
After more than a decade no-contact, two former friends keep their promise from undergrad and meet up to hike the Pacific Crest Trail together.
But urban legends haunt the trails; secrets hang between them; and an eerie otherside pulls at them both, threatening to keep them from ever going home.
CREST weaves a story about complex friendships, love, and regret, told as an atmospheric contemporary fantasy travelogue by the Nebula-winning author of The Dragonfly Gambit (Neon Hemlock).
Coming Fall 2027
Tags: Contemporary Fantasy, Queer MC
For lovers of [When Marnie Was There, Love Death and Robots, Wild] as images](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lamjrufb4kabavnm4jojmbre/bafkreidlmhp2jdgite5bcvhxp4xwiah6hymfxxpcxlny7fu6im2atnfln4@jpeg)
January 15, 2026 at 3:55 PM
✨ Announcing...our FIRST NOVELLA ✨
Publisher @kercoby.bsky.social has acquired CREST by @thesuiway.bsky.social for our 2027 debut book line up.
This haunting, ethereal contemporary fantasy captured us from first glimpse, and we're so excited to share it next year.
Read on in the 🧵 for more deets!
Publisher @kercoby.bsky.social has acquired CREST by @thesuiway.bsky.social for our 2027 debut book line up.
This haunting, ethereal contemporary fantasy captured us from first glimpse, and we're so excited to share it next year.
Read on in the 🧵 for more deets!
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They got the names of ICE and FBI agents, judges, phone numbers home addresses hotel receipts transport maps sorry for repeating myself but I cant fucking believe this shit
January 15, 2026 at 5:13 AM
They got the names of ICE and FBI agents, judges, phone numbers home addresses hotel receipts transport maps sorry for repeating myself but I cant fucking believe this shit
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Booking info, staging plans, name of the hotels where theyre staying, literally got the receipts from the agent for the fucking hotel room "staging them in Wisconsin in a Wyndham " holy shit holy shit
January 15, 2026 at 5:12 AM
Booking info, staging plans, name of the hotels where theyre staying, literally got the receipts from the agent for the fucking hotel room "staging them in Wisconsin in a Wyndham " holy shit holy shit
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Literally they fled on foot and they left maps transports logistic plans operational details this is insane they are just straight getting completely owned on a fucking live stream by a crew of rioters ive never seen anything like it
January 15, 2026 at 5:11 AM
Literally they fled on foot and they left maps transports logistic plans operational details this is insane they are just straight getting completely owned on a fucking live stream by a crew of rioters ive never seen anything like it
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Some ICE vehicles got taken and a streamer is saying that the entire MPLS city wide battle plan, operational overviews, tactical details and agent lists + id info just got found in the car lmao these clowns driving around with hatchbacks full of their whole shit like the villains in an immersive sim
January 15, 2026 at 5:10 AM
Some ICE vehicles got taken and a streamer is saying that the entire MPLS city wide battle plan, operational overviews, tactical details and agent lists + id info just got found in the car lmao these clowns driving around with hatchbacks full of their whole shit like the villains in an immersive sim
Everyone please join me in wishing the happiest of birthdays to my beloved @salemskeeper.bsky.social! 🎂
a man wearing a party hat is eating a piece of cake and saying happy birthday ..
Alt: a man wearing a party hat is eating a piece of cake and saying happy birthday ..
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January 13, 2026 at 5:28 PM
Everyone please join me in wishing the happiest of birthdays to my beloved @salemskeeper.bsky.social! 🎂
01. AGENTS OF DREAMLAND by Caitlín R. Keirnan (2017) #2026reads
January 7, 2026 at 9:53 PM
01. AGENTS OF DREAMLAND by Caitlín R. Keirnan (2017) #2026reads