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Matt Wieteska
@gamecat.bsky.social
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Freelance Writer, Game Designer, Director.

BAFTA Member.

Previously: Writer @ Techland; Head of Production @ Six to Start; Creative Lead on Marvel Move; Voice Director & Radio Abel creator on Zombies, Run!
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Being in this job market is hell.
Screenshot of the header of a job posting: Company name is Braintrust. Job title is "organizing the content of 450 archived newsletters from website". Screenshot of the company information section of the job post, it reads: "Braintrust is revolutionizing hiring with Braintrust AIR, the world's first and only end-to-end Al recruiting platform. Trained with human insights and proprietary data, Braintrust AIR reduces time to hire from months to days, instantly matching you with pre-vetted qualified candidates, and conducting the first round phone screen for you. Trusted by hundreds of Fortune 1000 enterprises including Nestlé, Porsche, Atlassian, Goldman Sachs, and Nike, Braintrust AIR is making talent acquisition professionals 100x more effective and saving companies hundreds of thousands of dollars in recruiting costs." Screenshot of the job summary from the listing, it reads: "trying to find a good LLM approach to organize and summarize all the insights of 450 blog posts. it would be great if the solution organized the content into a new web page where the content was grouped/clustered by topic. basically i cant read 400 blog posts but thinking if content is grouped into a new website easier to read it all"
July 21, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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Have discovered some of the most inexplicable colouring sheets in existence
July 9, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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Every industry, pointing at every other industry: they'll be safe from their bosses replacing them with AI!

Every industry: *endless screaming*
A screenshot from the article linked in the quoted post, which reads: So far, creative fields, and those that involve real-life human contact, seem more impervious to this trend. It will probably be a period of time before doctors or nurses, or professions that rely on genuine creativity such as painters or performing artists, find themselves replaced with an AI model. Even so, if people become increasingly unable to spot AI, and businesses continue to embrace it, the risk is that professions such as art and illustration also get devalued over time, and replaced by a bleak, AI-generated cocktail of eerily familiar "creative" work.
July 6, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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LinkedIn, today, after a full year of unemployment: "you might be suitable for (impersonating Only Fans creators in their discord DMs)”
Screenshot of a job posting, which reads: About the job We're hiring Remote Digital Chatters and we're looking specifically for people who grew up online, know how to match tone fast, and keep convos spicy, flirty, funny, or comforting based on the vibe. You'll be managing text-based chats on behalf of top creators on an adult subscription platform. This is a behind-the-scenes role, and it's 100% text. You'll Be Responsible For: Messaging fans under a digital persona Creating fun, flirty, emotionally charged conversations Selling content naturally through engaging chat Keeping fans interested and coming back for more Ideal Background: Gamers, streamers, roleplayers, Reddit/Twitter lurkers you get it Comfortable shifting tone (from flirty to heartfelt to sarcastic) Quick-witted and emotionally smart Fluent in English, strong grammar, and fast typing You need a PC or laptop and stable internet What's in It for You: Remote role with flexible shifts (8 hour shifts) Commission-based with minimum guaranteed earnings Weekly bonuses, monthly rewards Zero face time - 100% text-based If you've got rizz, humour, and keyboard charisma, you'll thrive here.
July 2, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Book found on the table at an incredibly rural pub. I'm utterly against book burning but this is testing my patience... How the hell does this end up next to the discarded holiday reads?

Trigger warnings aplenty on the blurb here: If in doubt, move on.
April 16, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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More like Blue Balls, amirite?
An image of the steam page for Blue Prince, a hotly anticipated game, showing it will release in "approximately less than an hour"
April 10, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Puzzle designer life in two images: intended solution vs player solution
A maze from a kids' menu at pizza hut. A red line indicates the intended solution, which is circuitous and covers most of the maze. A small maze from the kids' menu at Pizza Hut. A green crayon line shows the solution found by a child. It is incredibly short, and takes an almost perfectly straight path to the centre of the maze.
February 13, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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If you would have to charge £6k a ticket to pay your staff, you do not have a functional production, you have an attractive mask to put on wage theft.
January 28, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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🙏 thanks for the inspiration!
January 25, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Crypto idiots out here sounding like a game of Mornington Crescent, but somehow even more insufferable.
September 1, 2024 at 7:58 PM
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IKEA pegboard with little clear buckets and clips for packets like in my pantry?
April 18, 2024 at 5:19 PM
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Part one of a poem: "On most occasions By the time I'm properly Aware I'm part of The conversation Everyone in it already hates me Not in a major way Just in a Like This would all be so much better for us If you were a fundamentally different person Way" Part two of a poem: "You'd be jumpy too And apologise too much If every mundane interaction Began with the shock Of being kicked out of the back of a personnel carrier And ended with the muffled confusion Of people slowly giving up on the effort of including you" Part three of a poem: "These days The words I hear clearest are Never mind It doesn't matter Or some minor variation on that theme Always about a second after Three exclamation points laser their way Into my attention So I'm hanging vented Hypnic-jerked Into new-minted vacuum And the anxious debris Of whatever just ceased to be worth yelling at me about" Part four of a poem: "Lonely doesn't cover it It's a 30% life I get 30% of the words, at best A third of the ambient humanity 30% of the meaning and the rest I make for myself from replayed scraps and context clues and the unshakable look of disappointment on my daughter's face when she turns for someone else to talk to"
March 4, 2024 at 8:59 PM
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A screenshot of a poem, which reads: A paper wasp takes weeks to build a nest The guy in the Orioles hat on my FYP needs only thirty seconds of cap-cuts to bring it down for one eightieth of a penny per view Unlived futures Wisping down In shreds Below the caption And the hashtags And the auto-generated subtitles It's my fault He says, and zoom, sensing the moment, renders it in full caps MY FAULT as the subsidiaries' logos in his virtual backdrop Shiver Remembering the days of their own Surprise mandatory all-hands Thirteen years of careful growth Sheltered symbiotically under the second story eaves Where the bark of local trees was plenty sufficient And we kept the aphids at bay all summer We were able to balance the acidity Of our mastication perfectly Just bitter enough And the warmth of our bodies together Vibrated a season into memory
September 30, 2023 at 1:11 PM
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Obsessed by how terrible this print on demand kids' book is. Random Wolfram Alpha output + mail merge. Completely tedious for everyone involved.
A page of a children's book which reads "Amy, now that you are four, you have drunk at least 11,680 glasses of water/fluid. That's the same as 9.7 bathtubs" A page of a children's book which reads "Amy now that you are four, Mount Everest has grown by 0.8 inches. Are you growing faster than that?" A page of a children's book which reads "Amy, now that you are four, an albatross has flown continuously, only touching the ground four times. That's a lot of flapping! How many times can you flap your arms in a minute?" A page of a children's book which reads "Amy, now that you are four, you have smiled at least 584,000 times. Show us your best smile!"
September 4, 2023 at 6:27 PM