Child of Prog
@devindoyle.bsky.social
Writer for games and TV. Star Wars: Eclipse, Divinity: Original Sin 2, Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden. Red Planet Prize winner. Metalhead. Bassist. Social Democrat. Irish-Australian-British (but mostly Irish). Résident en France. Age: unverified.
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"You have to use AI."
...why?
...why?
December 12, 2025 at 4:40 PM
"You have to use AI."
...why?
...why?
Jesus.
Also I love Robin Ince.
Also I love Robin Ince.
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
December 13, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Jesus.
Also I love Robin Ince.
Also I love Robin Ince.
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Chatbots are not your friend. They have no ability to care about you. They experience no social repercussions from sociopathic behaviour. Yes, talking to humans is hard, but the alternative is dangerous for your literal grip on reality
The 19-year-old sophomore was found dead in her off-campus apartment.
Cause of death revealed in shocking death of Rice soccer player
The 19-year-old sophomore was found dead in her off-campus apartment.
bit.ly
December 12, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Chatbots are not your friend. They have no ability to care about you. They experience no social repercussions from sociopathic behaviour. Yes, talking to humans is hard, but the alternative is dangerous for your literal grip on reality
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The difference between humans and AI is not subtle. It's the difference between what holds us together in a collective shared material experience of reality and meaning, and a colonial mind poison built on the backs of environmental destruction and human exploitation.
This is not a fucking game
This is not a fucking game
December 12, 2025 at 5:26 PM
The difference between humans and AI is not subtle. It's the difference between what holds us together in a collective shared material experience of reality and meaning, and a colonial mind poison built on the backs of environmental destruction and human exploitation.
This is not a fucking game
This is not a fucking game
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Two mirrors mirroring each other. Endless Circles of Hell.
December 13, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Two mirrors mirroring each other. Endless Circles of Hell.
Yeah, this is roughly how I remember Gentse Feeste.
December 12, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Yeah, this is roughly how I remember Gentse Feeste.
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More First Nations people have died in custody in the past year than in any since 1980. It’s the inevitable result of policies that flout evidence of what would help.
‘Tough on crime’ policies are causing Indigenous people to die in custody
theconversation.com
December 12, 2025 at 2:03 AM
More First Nations people have died in custody in the past year than in any since 1980. It’s the inevitable result of policies that flout evidence of what would help.
This is galactic level stupidity.
NEW - Disney and OpenAI have struck a new three-year deal letting Sora generate short, fan-prompted social videos featuring 200+ characters from Disney, Marvel, Pixar, and Star Wars.
December 11, 2025 at 4:02 PM
This is galactic level stupidity.
First thought: I hope everyone recovers well.
Second thought: wouldn't it be amazing if the last decade of Peterson's entire thing turned out to be carbon monoxide poisoning.
Second thought: wouldn't it be amazing if the last decade of Peterson's entire thing turned out to be carbon monoxide poisoning.
Overlooked part of this is that her 6 month old daughter also went to the hospital for heart failure 😬
Jordan Peterson is finally home after a month in ICU, but his daughter says recovery has been “slow” and doctors still don’t fully know what’s going on.
December 11, 2025 at 8:47 AM
First thought: I hope everyone recovers well.
Second thought: wouldn't it be amazing if the last decade of Peterson's entire thing turned out to be carbon monoxide poisoning.
Second thought: wouldn't it be amazing if the last decade of Peterson's entire thing turned out to be carbon monoxide poisoning.
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Unfortunately I did not pay for Premium Grandma w/out Ads and had to settle for free Grandma, and she starts every conversation telling me it would be cool if I got a job with ICE.
IN DEPTH | If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
www.independent.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Unfortunately I did not pay for Premium Grandma w/out Ads and had to settle for free Grandma, and she starts every conversation telling me it would be cool if I got a job with ICE.
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we all got cowed into avoiding "virtue signaling" as if the public affirmation of socially agreed upon ethical principles was somehow cringey instead of a significant part of what a "society" even is. now all there's left is vice signaling, and it's reshaping society.
December 8, 2025 at 6:07 PM
we all got cowed into avoiding "virtue signaling" as if the public affirmation of socially agreed upon ethical principles was somehow cringey instead of a significant part of what a "society" even is. now all there's left is vice signaling, and it's reshaping society.
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People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!
December 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!
Let's follow this thread further, to the horror at the other end. (The danger seems obvious to me and no-one seems to be talking about it.)
Some of us are willingly replacing friends, therapists and now family members with simulacra OWNED AND CONTROLLED BY THE WORST PEOPLE ON THE PLANET. /
Some of us are willingly replacing friends, therapists and now family members with simulacra OWNED AND CONTROLLED BY THE WORST PEOPLE ON THE PLANET. /
Memory is highly malleable. By interacting with a chatbot imitating your grandmother, you would begin to alter your memories of the real woman to more closely align with the chatbot.
What would feel uncanny and unnatural at first would eventually fully supplant your grandmother if used long enough.
What would feel uncanny and unnatural at first would eventually fully supplant your grandmother if used long enough.
IN DEPTH | If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
December 10, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Let's follow this thread further, to the horror at the other end. (The danger seems obvious to me and no-one seems to be talking about it.)
Some of us are willingly replacing friends, therapists and now family members with simulacra OWNED AND CONTROLLED BY THE WORST PEOPLE ON THE PLANET. /
Some of us are willingly replacing friends, therapists and now family members with simulacra OWNED AND CONTROLLED BY THE WORST PEOPLE ON THE PLANET. /
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10th December is UN Human Rights Day. Here's a reminder of your fundamental human rights, as per the UN Declaration of Human Rights 1948.
And we see them broken and abolished every single day around the world.
And we see them broken and abolished every single day around the world.
December 10, 2025 at 6:34 AM
10th December is UN Human Rights Day. Here's a reminder of your fundamental human rights, as per the UN Declaration of Human Rights 1948.
And we see them broken and abolished every single day around the world.
And we see them broken and abolished every single day around the world.
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Saw this adorable French animation ad and I had to share it over here! The style looks familiar but I can’t my finger on what group it is. Any ideas?
December 9, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Saw this adorable French animation ad and I had to share it over here! The style looks familiar but I can’t my finger on what group it is. Any ideas?
You will be visited by three spirits.
December 9, 2025 at 6:22 AM
You will be visited by three spirits.
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"Before You" is a short film (15 mins, available at link) that follows a couple dealing with the grief of ending a complicated planned pregnancy. The film has been selected by several Oscar-qualifying festivals.
‘Before You’ Filmmaker Lauren Melinda Talks The Importance Of Destigmatizing Women’s Healthcare & Collaborating With Planned Parenthood
Flimmaker Lauren Melinda talks to Deadline about Simbelle Productions and her latest short film 'Before You'
deadline.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:57 AM
"Before You" is a short film (15 mins, available at link) that follows a couple dealing with the grief of ending a complicated planned pregnancy. The film has been selected by several Oscar-qualifying festivals.
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There is only one path to peace:
Apply devastating sanctions that destroy the war economy of aggressor Russia; impose a total embargo.
Give massive assistance to Ukrainian defenders to secure victory; liberate all occupied land and people.
Apply devastating sanctions that destroy the war economy of aggressor Russia; impose a total embargo.
Give massive assistance to Ukrainian defenders to secure victory; liberate all occupied land and people.
December 8, 2025 at 2:58 PM
There is only one path to peace:
Apply devastating sanctions that destroy the war economy of aggressor Russia; impose a total embargo.
Give massive assistance to Ukrainian defenders to secure victory; liberate all occupied land and people.
Apply devastating sanctions that destroy the war economy of aggressor Russia; impose a total embargo.
Give massive assistance to Ukrainian defenders to secure victory; liberate all occupied land and people.
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When I am finally victorious and my ideological enemies thwarted, all who opposed me shall be lined up and dutifully distributed their equitable share of the rights I fought for and they so vigorously opposed, because That Was The Fucking Point
nah dawg this is petty as shit
these people got brainwashed with propaganda and fearmongering
wanting only people who didn't vote for Trump to survive is misanthropic and gross
these people got brainwashed with propaganda and fearmongering
wanting only people who didn't vote for Trump to survive is misanthropic and gross
This.
December 9, 2025 at 12:50 AM
When I am finally victorious and my ideological enemies thwarted, all who opposed me shall be lined up and dutifully distributed their equitable share of the rights I fought for and they so vigorously opposed, because That Was The Fucking Point
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I appreciate that Stranger Things 5 chose to layer in a positive conversation that absolutely could not have happened between two midwestern queer kids in 1987. If we can save Sharon Tate and murder the Nazis, we can give queer Xers the childhood affirmation they didn't receive.
December 8, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I appreciate that Stranger Things 5 chose to layer in a positive conversation that absolutely could not have happened between two midwestern queer kids in 1987. If we can save Sharon Tate and murder the Nazis, we can give queer Xers the childhood affirmation they didn't receive.
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Reminder that I'm still looking fulltime or contract work as a senior writer or narrative designer. If you need someone who can write sharp characters, poetic prose, and emotional stories, I'm available! You can find my portfolio here: www.hazelmonforton.com
It's #portfolioday! I'm presently a senior narrative designer at Blizzard, but before that I was at Bungie and Arkane. I wrote for the Writer's Guild award-nominated Dishonored: Death of the Outsider, and a bunch of critically acclaimed seasons and expansions in Destiny 2.
December 6, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Reminder that I'm still looking fulltime or contract work as a senior writer or narrative designer. If you need someone who can write sharp characters, poetic prose, and emotional stories, I'm available! You can find my portfolio here: www.hazelmonforton.com
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I see the PM is being very rattled and very untruthful about the Greens again in the papers.
He couldn’t say this stuff in Parliament because he would be lying to the House - both about what our popular, evidence-based policies are, and about him believing this guff.
Trumpian
He couldn’t say this stuff in Parliament because he would be lying to the House - both about what our popular, evidence-based policies are, and about him believing this guff.
Trumpian
December 7, 2025 at 10:26 AM
I see the PM is being very rattled and very untruthful about the Greens again in the papers.
He couldn’t say this stuff in Parliament because he would be lying to the House - both about what our popular, evidence-based policies are, and about him believing this guff.
Trumpian
He couldn’t say this stuff in Parliament because he would be lying to the House - both about what our popular, evidence-based policies are, and about him believing this guff.
Trumpian
The Nobel committee should announce a prize for Ethics In World Football, then not award it for the lack of meritorious candidates.
The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
December 6, 2025 at 12:06 PM
The Nobel committee should announce a prize for Ethics In World Football, then not award it for the lack of meritorious candidates.
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$20 billion could end homelessness in the US
$40 billion could end hunger globally
Both would still only cost 3/4 of what Meta blew on Mark Zuckerberg’s obviously bad ideas because nobody would tell him they were stupid because he’s worth over $200 billion because he doesn’t pay his share of taxes
$40 billion could end hunger globally
Both would still only cost 3/4 of what Meta blew on Mark Zuckerberg’s obviously bad ideas because nobody would tell him they were stupid because he’s worth over $200 billion because he doesn’t pay his share of taxes
Mark Zuckerberg’s gamble on the "Metaverse" has lost his company more than $77 billion.
December 6, 2025 at 11:54 AM
$20 billion could end homelessness in the US
$40 billion could end hunger globally
Both would still only cost 3/4 of what Meta blew on Mark Zuckerberg’s obviously bad ideas because nobody would tell him they were stupid because he’s worth over $200 billion because he doesn’t pay his share of taxes
$40 billion could end hunger globally
Both would still only cost 3/4 of what Meta blew on Mark Zuckerberg’s obviously bad ideas because nobody would tell him they were stupid because he’s worth over $200 billion because he doesn’t pay his share of taxes
You can't polish a turd, but you can roll it in gold lamé glitter and call it the FIFA Peace Prize.
December 5, 2025 at 10:32 PM
You can't polish a turd, but you can roll it in gold lamé glitter and call it the FIFA Peace Prize.