Nevin Flanagan
@nevin.playsmith.net
Reader, gamer, designer, programmer, teacher.
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An oldie but a goodie.
December 17, 2025 at 8:56 PM
An oldie but a goodie.
“[…] if it isn't to be thought of as evil, it could only mean that evil doesn't have any use as a word or a category.”
"Say I tell you 'My father is choking my brother.' What do you say to that?
"How does a culture of abuse end?
"What is our part in ending it?"
www.the-reframe.com/cult-ure-of-...
"How does a culture of abuse end?
"What is our part in ending it?"
www.the-reframe.com/cult-ure-of-...
Cult(ure) of Abuse
How do we deal with a culture of abuse? What is our part in ending it? How do we deal with an abusive cult of millions?
www.the-reframe.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:08 PM
“[…] if it isn't to be thought of as evil, it could only mean that evil doesn't have any use as a word or a category.”
“Such a wonderful drug. Any drug that makes you partners and impotent, oh yeah, gimme a little more of that…” —Robin Williams, more or less
"Cocaine is a helluva drug" explains a LOT of 80s movies, across many genres
December 11, 2025 at 11:38 AM
“Such a wonderful drug. Any drug that makes you partners and impotent, oh yeah, gimme a little more of that…” —Robin Williams, more or less
One thing I remember from David Wingrove’s Chung Kuo series is a sci-fi world in which eyewitness accounts are the pre-eminent form of judicial evidence, because recorded video evidence is too easy to fabricate or alter.
jfc
No, you can't believe your own eyes.
Yes, AI fake videos will damage America.
No, social media won't be able to police them. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/t...
No, you can't believe your own eyes.
Yes, AI fake videos will damage America.
No, social media won't be able to police them. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/t...
A.I. Videos Have Flooded Social Media. No One Was Ready.
www.nytimes.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:04 PM
One thing I remember from David Wingrove’s Chung Kuo series is a sci-fi world in which eyewitness accounts are the pre-eminent form of judicial evidence, because recorded video evidence is too easy to fabricate or alter.
He really has reverted to the 1980s, hasn’t he.
Trump entered the Mar-a-Lago ballroom for his Thanksgiving feast to the song “We Are the World,” a song used to raise money to help starving children.
Trump himself has cut aid to address global famine and has fought for the right to cut food stamps from American families.
Trump himself has cut aid to address global famine and has fought for the right to cut food stamps from American families.
November 29, 2025 at 12:33 PM
He really has reverted to the 1980s, hasn’t he.
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I want to live!
Get loud about helping, please? Do a fundraiser, bake-sale, ANYthing?
Please please please? My life is worth fighting for.
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Cash.app/$WishMage
PayPal.me/MousePounder
PayPal.me/WyldWish
linktr.ee/wylder
Get loud about helping, please? Do a fundraiser, bake-sale, ANYthing?
Please please please? My life is worth fighting for.
Venmo.com/u/MousePounder
Venmo.com/u/WishMage
Cash.app/$WishMage
PayPal.me/MousePounder
PayPal.me/WyldWish
linktr.ee/wylder
November 22, 2025 at 9:26 PM
I want to live!
Get loud about helping, please? Do a fundraiser, bake-sale, ANYthing?
Please please please? My life is worth fighting for.
Venmo.com/u/MousePounder
Venmo.com/u/WishMage
Cash.app/$WishMage
PayPal.me/MousePounder
PayPal.me/WyldWish
linktr.ee/wylder
Get loud about helping, please? Do a fundraiser, bake-sale, ANYthing?
Please please please? My life is worth fighting for.
Venmo.com/u/MousePounder
Venmo.com/u/WishMage
Cash.app/$WishMage
PayPal.me/MousePounder
PayPal.me/WyldWish
linktr.ee/wylder
“We have bowed at the altar of caution, and we have paid a mighty price.”
November 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
“We have bowed at the altar of caution, and we have paid a mighty price.”
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Today’s my birthday! 🎂🥳
It would mean so much to me if you shared my art! 💖🎨
It would mean so much to me if you shared my art! 💖🎨
October 29, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Today’s my birthday! 🎂🥳
It would mean so much to me if you shared my art! 💖🎨
It would mean so much to me if you shared my art! 💖🎨
Yes, we can learn that he’s getting a
very poor return on a colossal investment.
Johnson might end up living a few more years, but in exchange I expect he will have added several more years than that of dejection, drudgery, and misery.
very poor return on a colossal investment.
Johnson might end up living a few more years, but in exchange I expect he will have added several more years than that of dejection, drudgery, and misery.
Tech millionaire turned longevity pioneer Bryan Johnson devotes more than 6 hours a day to trialling different methods to turn back the clock. Can the rest of us learn anything from his radical approach?
The real scientific insights from Bryan Johnson’s immortality quest
Tech millionaire turned longevity pioneer Bryan Johnson devotes more than 6 hours a day to trialling different methods to turn back the clock. Can the rest of us learn anything from his radical approach?
www.newscientist.com
September 17, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Yes, we can learn that he’s getting a
very poor return on a colossal investment.
Johnson might end up living a few more years, but in exchange I expect he will have added several more years than that of dejection, drudgery, and misery.
very poor return on a colossal investment.
Johnson might end up living a few more years, but in exchange I expect he will have added several more years than that of dejection, drudgery, and misery.
The castle from Patricia Wrede’s Enchanted Forest, complete with all the bonkers staircases and secret doors.
in case you - how do I put this delicately - also need perhaps a bit of a wholesome palate cleanser in your feed tonight, let's play a game
what is the #1 thing in all the world you MOST would want to build and display a huge Lego set of
(money no object. say you get one free bc it was your idea)
what is the #1 thing in all the world you MOST would want to build and display a huge Lego set of
(money no object. say you get one free bc it was your idea)
September 15, 2025 at 1:55 AM
The castle from Patricia Wrede’s Enchanted Forest, complete with all the bonkers staircases and secret doors.
A doctor I trust more than RFK Jr.
September 7, 2025 at 11:31 AM
A doctor I trust more than RFK Jr.
HUNTR/X songs: I have transcended my limitations and become my best self.
Saja Boys songs: I am going to eat you.
#kpdh #kpopdemonhunters
Saja Boys songs: I am going to eat you.
#kpdh #kpopdemonhunters
September 1, 2025 at 1:12 PM
HUNTR/X songs: I have transcended my limitations and become my best self.
Saja Boys songs: I am going to eat you.
#kpdh #kpopdemonhunters
Saja Boys songs: I am going to eat you.
#kpdh #kpopdemonhunters
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Repost if you support trans people and think we're neato
December 23, 2023 at 12:49 AM
Repost if you support trans people and think we're neato
#bookmark research gaming
Gaming Toxicity Scale (GTOX): an assessment tool of toxic behaviours within online video games by Adrian Díaz-Moreno,
@ivanbonilla.bsky.social & Andrés Chamarro www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@ivanbonilla.bsky.social & Andrés Chamarro www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Gaming Toxicity Scale (GTOX): an assessment tool of toxic behaviours within online video games
Toxic behaviour could be defined as an umbrella term that encompasses any behavioural or verbal action performed during online video games that negatively impact other gamers’ experiences, well-bei...
www.tandfonline.com
August 21, 2025 at 11:33 AM
#bookmark research gaming
#bookmark games
16 years ago, I found myself in the back garden of a couple I'd just met, as they showed me their pillow fighting arena. The lesson they taught me about games - especially competitive ones - has stayed with me ever since, but I forgot to mention it in interviews when asked if competition is bad. So:
July 1, 2025 at 11:41 PM
#bookmark games
Someone get Andreas Marm on the line.
Literal cages — in sweltering, 100 degree temperatures. 🥵
Ron DeSantis should be brought up on criminal charges.
Ron DeSantis should be brought up on criminal charges.
July 1, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Someone get Andreas Marm on the line.
People keep saying we can’t tax billionaires and corporations because then they’ll leave for lower-tax jurisdictions. And…ok?
Saying we need to keep billionaires in our communities is like saying we need to keep dragons in our kingdom for their big piles of gold. Where exactly did they get it?
Saying we need to keep billionaires in our communities is like saying we need to keep dragons in our kingdom for their big piles of gold. Where exactly did they get it?
June 25, 2025 at 4:31 AM
People keep saying we can’t tax billionaires and corporations because then they’ll leave for lower-tax jurisdictions. And…ok?
Saying we need to keep billionaires in our communities is like saying we need to keep dragons in our kingdom for their big piles of gold. Where exactly did they get it?
Saying we need to keep billionaires in our communities is like saying we need to keep dragons in our kingdom for their big piles of gold. Where exactly did they get it?
Sometimes he wants someone to nap next to:
June 24, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Sometimes he wants someone to nap next to:
Honestly what this really sounds like it would work as is a stage play.
The zombies and the world outside the Waffle House are never shown. Camera angles never focus on the windows. Outside events are mostly relayed by people reading things out loud off their phone until someone tells them to shut up, or related by someone stumbling in from outside.
June 16, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Honestly what this really sounds like it would work as is a stage play.
#bookmark game design ttrpg
Energy cost can be concentrated in one person or divided amongst the gaming table. When it is concentrated in one person (a GM/DM) they don't have to check in with other people so much... meaning that overall energy cost for the game is lower even though one person bears it alone.
2/10
2/10
June 12, 2025 at 1:32 PM
#bookmark game design ttrpg
My first serious programming experience was built on the Macintosh Toolbox using QuickDraw. Without Atkinson’s with it’s very likely I would be in a different field now.
Bill Atkinson, Who Made Computers Easier to Use, Is Dead at 74. QuickDraw, MacPaint, HyperCard ... Bill changed the world www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/t...
Bill Atkinson, Who Made Computers Easier to Use, Is Dead at 74
www.nytimes.com
June 9, 2025 at 2:42 AM
My first serious programming experience was built on the Macintosh Toolbox using QuickDraw. Without Atkinson’s with it’s very likely I would be in a different field now.
Great question. I ask a lot of open ended questions about whatever he has made to make him think about the details. He makes a lot of overpowered items and monsters so I ask what level party would use this item or fight this monster and I ask him to run me through a game scenario with whatever it is
June 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM
If you see this I IMPLORE you to post a picture from whatever device you're using without explanation
May 20, 2025 at 2:42 PM
If you see this I IMPLORE you to post a picture from whatever device you're using without explanation