gril
@funambulism.com
Narratives, philosophies, arts.
Currently: (Unannounced x 2), Tides of Tomorrow, Min/Max
Previously: ZEPHON, Nightingale, RimWorld, Total War: Warhammer III, Endless Dungeon, Warhammer 40K: Gladius, Absolver...
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Currently: (Unannounced x 2), Tides of Tomorrow, Min/Max
Previously: ZEPHON, Nightingale, RimWorld, Total War: Warhammer III, Endless Dungeon, Warhammer 40K: Gladius, Absolver...
https://linktr.ee/griddleoctopus
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gril
@funambulism.com
· Apr 28
Babysteps in Belief-Building
"The richness an enshrined contradiction gives to a belief system and world cannot be understated."
funambulism.com
My article for Worldbuilding Magazine on using philosophy to create believable settings.
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at a certain level of any creative or intellectual collaborative job the main task is sin-eater: to fix what you can and get blamed for what you can’t, secretly knowing how much worse it would have been if you hadn’t done what you did.
December 10, 2025 at 4:18 AM
at a certain level of any creative or intellectual collaborative job the main task is sin-eater: to fix what you can and get blamed for what you can’t, secretly knowing how much worse it would have been if you hadn’t done what you did.
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This makes me so furious!! I'm so furious!!
1. Curbing human rights in a centrist way to stop the far right from doing so??
2. Mass migration is going to be an unavoidable circumstance after 2'c warming
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
1. Curbing human rights in a centrist way to stop the far right from doing so??
2. Mass migration is going to be an unavoidable circumstance after 2'c warming
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
Starmer urges Europe’s leaders to curb ECHR to halt rise of far right
Exclusive: PM calls for members of European convention on human rights to allow tougher action to protect borders
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 11:25 PM
This makes me so furious!! I'm so furious!!
1. Curbing human rights in a centrist way to stop the far right from doing so??
2. Mass migration is going to be an unavoidable circumstance after 2'c warming
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
1. Curbing human rights in a centrist way to stop the far right from doing so??
2. Mass migration is going to be an unavoidable circumstance after 2'c warming
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
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Wow, so unimpressed with all of these lists. Even Best British Game is basically a "what is the most recognisable brand name" contest.
If you want to get your game into the BAFTA Game Awards, you better have a game name that starts with the letter H or before.
youtu.be/GHPfOGQx78I
If you want to get your game into the BAFTA Game Awards, you better have a game name that starts with the letter H or before.
youtu.be/GHPfOGQx78I
Jane Douglas Reveals The 2026 BAFTA Games Awards Longlist | BAFTA
YouTube video by BAFTA
youtu.be
December 9, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Wow, so unimpressed with all of these lists. Even Best British Game is basically a "what is the most recognisable brand name" contest.
If you want to get your game into the BAFTA Game Awards, you better have a game name that starts with the letter H or before.
youtu.be/GHPfOGQx78I
If you want to get your game into the BAFTA Game Awards, you better have a game name that starts with the letter H or before.
youtu.be/GHPfOGQx78I
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if you give a mouse a cookie
December 8, 2025 at 10:46 PM
if you give a mouse a cookie
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"I can see how organisations would be tempted to capitulate – especially when they think the legal threats are all coming from one side. It doesn’t matter if they would eventually win in court – the question is whether they can justify the risk." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The WI and Girlguiding have been pressured to exclude trans women – yet the law is clear as mud | Jess O’Thomson
Since the supreme court decision, organisations have faced lobbying and legal threats. But trans people are protected by discrimination law too, says Jess O’Thomson of the Good Law Project
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:43 PM
"I can see how organisations would be tempted to capitulate – especially when they think the legal threats are all coming from one side. It doesn’t matter if they would eventually win in court – the question is whether they can justify the risk." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Open question: what, in your opinion, does the BBC do better than anything in the private sector? Not necessarily for your benefit, but what does the BBC do that means it or to exist in its present form?
December 8, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Open question: what, in your opinion, does the BBC do better than anything in the private sector? Not necessarily for your benefit, but what does the BBC do that means it or to exist in its present form?
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Two ways to read this. One is “she lost on every substantive claim, completely failed in her attempts to ban trans staff from the workplace, and won mild procedural victories against her employers handling of her case”.
The other way is, I guess, “point one is longer so it must be more important”
The other way is, I guess, “point one is longer so it must be more important”
December 8, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Two ways to read this. One is “she lost on every substantive claim, completely failed in her attempts to ban trans staff from the workplace, and won mild procedural victories against her employers handling of her case”.
The other way is, I guess, “point one is longer so it must be more important”
The other way is, I guess, “point one is longer so it must be more important”
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You’d never know this was what was decided as part of that tribunal ruling…
December 9, 2025 at 8:27 AM
You’d never know this was what was decided as part of that tribunal ruling…
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I've seen that somewhere before.
December 8, 2025 at 5:25 PM
I've seen that somewhere before.
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Retro tech can’t be enshittified because the enshittification era didn’t exist yet, You own it. Not license it. Not “terms of service” own, actually own. Hack it, mod it, repair it, keep it forever.
December 7, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Retro tech can’t be enshittified because the enshittification era didn’t exist yet, You own it. Not license it. Not “terms of service” own, actually own. Hack it, mod it, repair it, keep it forever.
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ITV just put the whole first series of The New Statesman on YouTube. Edited into a single video, annoyingly, but still...Peak Mayall.
The New Statesman | Entire Season 1 | Rik Mayall is the delightfully despicable Alan B'stard
YouTube video by ITV Retro
www.youtube.com
December 7, 2025 at 11:56 AM
ITV just put the whole first series of The New Statesman on YouTube. Edited into a single video, annoyingly, but still...Peak Mayall.
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It was a cold that got into the bone, into the marrow, and would not be dislodged.
December 7, 2025 at 8:10 AM
It was a cold that got into the bone, into the marrow, and would not be dislodged.
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I really can't emphasize enough that if you care about local politics, all you gotta do is show up. Just a regular schmegular person showing up. Literally just show up consistently in person and within a remarkably short amount of time, you will have a shocking amount of influence.
December 5, 2025 at 6:07 AM
I really can't emphasize enough that if you care about local politics, all you gotta do is show up. Just a regular schmegular person showing up. Literally just show up consistently in person and within a remarkably short amount of time, you will have a shocking amount of influence.
Ōdī et amō. Quārē id faciam fortasse requīris. Nesciŏ, sed fierī sentiō et excrucior.
(I hate and I love. Why I do this, perhaps you ask.
I know not, but I feel it happening and I am tortured.)
(I hate and I love. Why I do this, perhaps you ask.
I know not, but I feel it happening and I am tortured.)
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 7, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Ōdī et amō. Quārē id faciam fortasse requīris. Nesciŏ, sed fierī sentiō et excrucior.
(I hate and I love. Why I do this, perhaps you ask.
I know not, but I feel it happening and I am tortured.)
(I hate and I love. Why I do this, perhaps you ask.
I know not, but I feel it happening and I am tortured.)
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Hope” is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all -
December 6, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Hope” is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all -
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I should have been a pair of ragged claws
Scuttling across the floors of silent seas
Scuttling across the floors of silent seas
December 6, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I should have been a pair of ragged claws
Scuttling across the floors of silent seas
Scuttling across the floors of silent seas
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Now that my ladder's gone
I must lie down where all the ladders start
In the foul rag and bone shop of the heart.
I must lie down where all the ladders start
In the foul rag and bone shop of the heart.
December 6, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Now that my ladder's gone
I must lie down where all the ladders start
In the foul rag and bone shop of the heart.
I must lie down where all the ladders start
In the foul rag and bone shop of the heart.
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Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Dylan Thomas
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Dylan Thomas
December 6, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Dylan Thomas
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Dylan Thomas
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“for here there is no place
that does not see you. You must change your life.”
that does not see you. You must change your life.”
December 6, 2025 at 11:45 PM
“for here there is no place
that does not see you. You must change your life.”
that does not see you. You must change your life.”
Made a frankentree for Christmas instead of buying one. Collected fallen branches from the woods, three hours of arranging, tying, screwing and gluing.
One child burst into tears at the sight, one ran out of the room.
One child burst into tears at the sight, one ran out of the room.
December 6, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Made a frankentree for Christmas instead of buying one. Collected fallen branches from the woods, three hours of arranging, tying, screwing and gluing.
One child burst into tears at the sight, one ran out of the room.
One child burst into tears at the sight, one ran out of the room.
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I love this intro to a philosophy paper, though I can't actually remember which paper it's from.
December 5, 2025 at 8:53 AM
I love this intro to a philosophy paper, though I can't actually remember which paper it's from.
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I have eaten
the plume
that was of
ta tante
and which
you were probably
saving
for a French phrase book
Forgive me
it was delicious
also your postillion
has been struck by lightning
the plume
that was of
ta tante
and which
you were probably
saving
for a French phrase book
Forgive me
it was delicious
also your postillion
has been struck by lightning
December 5, 2025 at 3:20 PM
I have eaten
the plume
that was of
ta tante
and which
you were probably
saving
for a French phrase book
Forgive me
it was delicious
also your postillion
has been struck by lightning
the plume
that was of
ta tante
and which
you were probably
saving
for a French phrase book
Forgive me
it was delicious
also your postillion
has been struck by lightning
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An article in NATURE with a nonsense AI-generated graphic. NATURE.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Has everyone just stopped doing any intellectual work at all?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Has everyone just stopped doing any intellectual work at all?
December 3, 2025 at 5:05 PM
An article in NATURE with a nonsense AI-generated graphic. NATURE.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Has everyone just stopped doing any intellectual work at all?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Has everyone just stopped doing any intellectual work at all?