Thom Cote
@thomcote.bsky.social
(He/Him) Chicago game fellow. One part of @cantgetenoughgames.bsky.social
Try my silly switchboard game's demo! https://store.steampowered.com/app/3874780/Cold_Calling_Demo/
Blog: https://thomcote.neocities.org/
Try my silly switchboard game's demo! https://store.steampowered.com/app/3874780/Cold_Calling_Demo/
Blog: https://thomcote.neocities.org/
My advice to the Trib editorial board is to move to a town they don't actively hate
From the editorial board:
Even though downtown Chicago desperately needs a shot in the arm, woe betide you if you imply that it is more important than the “neighborhoods.”
Even though downtown Chicago desperately needs a shot in the arm, woe betide you if you imply that it is more important than the “neighborhoods.”
Editorial: Chicago tourism fundamentally is about downtown, not all 77 neighborhoods.
Chicago tourists primarily are coming for downtown, not “all 77 neighborhoods.”
trib.al
November 16, 2025 at 11:11 PM
My advice to the Trib editorial board is to move to a town they don't actively hate
yea i'm a bit of a gamer (boots up I Spy Treasure Hunt (2001, PC))
November 16, 2025 at 6:50 AM
yea i'm a bit of a gamer (boots up I Spy Treasure Hunt (2001, PC))
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Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.
November 12, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.
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your game is only in competition with tik tok if you see your game as "vague time filler"
November 15, 2025 at 11:43 PM
your game is only in competition with tik tok if you see your game as "vague time filler"
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your game isn't in competition with tik tok in the same way it's not in competition with huffing glue or eating drywall
November 15, 2025 at 11:39 PM
your game isn't in competition with tik tok in the same way it's not in competition with huffing glue or eating drywall
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I've been really into chess lately and made this little knight piece out of sculpy
November 15, 2025 at 11:15 PM
I've been really into chess lately and made this little knight piece out of sculpy
Most "AI" productivity use cases would be covered by Windows's OS level search being remotely usable in any way. But something went wrong in computer literacy education in such a way that it's impossible for the average user to imagine using something like Agent Ransack
this goes right along with my theory that the AI obsession in *users* is often bc…
1. they were never educated (esp "ipad generation") & don't know how computers work
2. our tools and services are all SO AWFUL NOW, degraded at best, actively user-hostile at worst
1. they were never educated (esp "ipad generation") & don't know how computers work
2. our tools and services are all SO AWFUL NOW, degraded at best, actively user-hostile at worst
November 15, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Most "AI" productivity use cases would be covered by Windows's OS level search being remotely usable in any way. But something went wrong in computer literacy education in such a way that it's impossible for the average user to imagine using something like Agent Ransack
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this goes right along with my theory that the AI obsession in *users* is often bc…
1. they were never educated (esp "ipad generation") & don't know how computers work
2. our tools and services are all SO AWFUL NOW, degraded at best, actively user-hostile at worst
1. they were never educated (esp "ipad generation") & don't know how computers work
2. our tools and services are all SO AWFUL NOW, degraded at best, actively user-hostile at worst
November 15, 2025 at 6:47 PM
this goes right along with my theory that the AI obsession in *users* is often bc…
1. they were never educated (esp "ipad generation") & don't know how computers work
2. our tools and services are all SO AWFUL NOW, degraded at best, actively user-hostile at worst
1. they were never educated (esp "ipad generation") & don't know how computers work
2. our tools and services are all SO AWFUL NOW, degraded at best, actively user-hostile at worst
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‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’
—Alice Wong
—Alice Wong
November 15, 2025 at 6:12 AM
‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’
—Alice Wong
—Alice Wong
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“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
November 15, 2025 at 6:15 AM
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
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Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
November 15, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
Heartbreaking to find out Chicago Puppet Fest will have a new adaptation of The Left Hand of Darkness, but tickets are already sold out...
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Untitled Theatre Company No. 61 and Yara Arts Group: The Left Hand of Darkness - Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival %
The Left Hand of Darkness is a new work based on the 1969 novel by famed sci-fi author Ursula K. Le Guin, wherein a lone human emissary to an alien world tries to facilitate inclusion in a growing int...
chicagopuppetfest.org
November 15, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Heartbreaking to find out Chicago Puppet Fest will have a new adaptation of The Left Hand of Darkness, but tickets are already sold out...
chicagopuppetfest.org/event/tom-le...
chicagopuppetfest.org/event/tom-le...
Complaining about out of towners from your micro-municipality surrounded by five thousand other micro-municipalities
broadview mayor katrina thompson blames today’s brutality on “out-of-town protesters” who’ve “chosen their fists” over their voices.
does this look like cops “protecting [protesters’] free speech”?
does this look like cops “protecting [protesters’] free speech”?
November 14, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Complaining about out of towners from your micro-municipality surrounded by five thousand other micro-municipalities
Metroid x Star Trek Enterprise crossover. Imagine Samus and Dr Phlox getting up to some antics
November 14, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Metroid x Star Trek Enterprise crossover. Imagine Samus and Dr Phlox getting up to some antics
Anyway Stay Children is great so far even if I have yet to decipher the logic of some of these Talk solutions. Moon logic indeed
November 14, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Anyway Stay Children is great so far even if I have yet to decipher the logic of some of these Talk solutions. Moon logic indeed
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I swear this isn't (strictly) related to today's Gaming Discourse Topic (because I haven't really read any of the posts about it enough to get a sense of what anybody's talking about).
But here's my gaming take today: Loneliness is an underrated emotion in video games.
But here's my gaming take today: Loneliness is an underrated emotion in video games.
November 14, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I swear this isn't (strictly) related to today's Gaming Discourse Topic (because I haven't really read any of the posts about it enough to get a sense of what anybody's talking about).
But here's my gaming take today: Loneliness is an underrated emotion in video games.
But here's my gaming take today: Loneliness is an underrated emotion in video games.
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Really difficult to overstate the fury one should feel that the GOP and institutions like the New York Times went all in on transphobia as some mortal threat to women and girls while covering up something like this.
When you read these Epstein emails, you start to understand why so many prominent conservatives are obsessed with checking the genitals of children. It's a big thing for them!
November 13, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Really difficult to overstate the fury one should feel that the GOP and institutions like the New York Times went all in on transphobia as some mortal threat to women and girls while covering up something like this.
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I have to subscribe to the daily Hitler so I can figure out how to cook a fuckin chicken
November 12, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I have to subscribe to the daily Hitler so I can figure out how to cook a fuckin chicken
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every few years it's revealed that the NYT was sitting on information about some horrific thing that public knowledge of would have changed the country's course and for some reason a ton of people still give them money. you can play those games on other sites
November 12, 2025 at 10:41 PM
every few years it's revealed that the NYT was sitting on information about some horrific thing that public knowledge of would have changed the country's course and for some reason a ton of people still give them money. you can play those games on other sites
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NYT really not beating the "run by actual Nazis" charges.
so the new york times could very well have destroyed donald trump's presidential run due to epstein back in 2015 but chose not too.
awesome. 🙄
awesome. 🙄
To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
November 12, 2025 at 10:31 PM
NYT really not beating the "run by actual Nazis" charges.
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they were very busy interviewing 3 detransitioners
so the new york times could very well have destroyed donald trump's presidential run due to epstein back in 2015 but chose not too.
awesome. 🙄
awesome. 🙄
To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
November 12, 2025 at 10:42 PM
they were very busy interviewing 3 detransitioners
The history books will list November 12, 2025 as the turning point the old world order (pedophilia ring-based government) began giving way to the new utopia (post-scarcity society with universal government-issued steam machines)
November 12, 2025 at 10:25 PM
The history books will list November 12, 2025 as the turning point the old world order (pedophilia ring-based government) began giving way to the new utopia (post-scarcity society with universal government-issued steam machines)
They coulda got me day 1 if it were called the Steam Engine
Valve is making a console. The Steam Machine, a sleek box with the guts of a mid-range PC that runs SteamOS, will arrive in early 2026. Prices TBD, but unlike the failed Steam Machine initiative from a decade ago, this is Valve's own device. Big news www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Valve Announces Steam Machine, a New Video-Game Console
The US gaming company behind the popular, handheld Steam Deck is making a living-room device for PC games
www.bloomberg.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:01 PM
They coulda got me day 1 if it were called the Steam Engine
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There are literally hundreds of videos and photos that say differently
“This is my ward! This is my ward!” Rodriguez (22nd) chirps back as Sigcho-Lopez (25th) grills Gov., saying, “the State Police are arresting protesters.”
“They’re protecting our protesters,” Gov. JB Pritzker responds.
“They’re protecting our protesters,” Gov. JB Pritzker responds.
November 11, 2025 at 7:24 PM
There are literally hundreds of videos and photos that say differently
Why is Tim Kaine on TV looking like Windom Earle
Kaine on why he thinks just getting a vote on healthcare is a win: "We're the minority party, but everybody will get to see who is standing for them when it comes to lowering their healthcare costs"
November 10, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Why is Tim Kaine on TV looking like Windom Earle