Jay Castello 🌻
@jaymcastello.bsky.social
freelance culture writer 🍏 book & game editor ☕ narrative designer 🎲 short (& long) fiction author 📚 ace attorney podcast host @turnaboutbreakdown.bsky.social 🌈 basically if it involves words i'll do it 🌙 jaycastello.com 🦢 they/she
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Jay Castello 🌻
@jaymcastello.bsky.social
· Mar 28
Jay Castello
jaycastello.com
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i'm Jay and i'm a storyteller in like 15 mediums:
📰 journalism & crit on media, internet culture, & fandom
📼 often available in video & podcast form
🔍 editing on books, articles, & games
🌌 published fiction author
🌒 other, weirder things
more details: jaycastello.com // jaymcastello @ gmail
i'm Jay and i'm a storyteller in like 15 mediums:
📰 journalism & crit on media, internet culture, & fandom
📼 often available in video & podcast form
🔍 editing on books, articles, & games
🌌 published fiction author
🌒 other, weirder things
more details: jaycastello.com // jaymcastello @ gmail
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So proud of this project!!! The books look beautiful
November 28, 2025 at 3:21 PM
So proud of this project!!! The books look beautiful
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🚨 Creator Day is LIVE! 🚨
For the next 24 hours we are waiving our platform fee! Creators will get the most they can from each transaction.
Support your favorite developers and check out over 15,000 projects participating in our Black Friday sale
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For the next 24 hours we are waiving our platform fee! Creators will get the most they can from each transaction.
Support your favorite developers and check out over 15,000 projects participating in our Black Friday sale
itch.io
November 28, 2025 at 8:10 AM
🚨 Creator Day is LIVE! 🚨
For the next 24 hours we are waiving our platform fee! Creators will get the most they can from each transaction.
Support your favorite developers and check out over 15,000 projects participating in our Black Friday sale
itch.io
For the next 24 hours we are waiving our platform fee! Creators will get the most they can from each transaction.
Support your favorite developers and check out over 15,000 projects participating in our Black Friday sale
itch.io
the things that lex does without making money off them, let alone a living, are genuinely astonishing and if i speak too much about what they say about the industry i will be in big trouble
November 27, 2025 at 10:06 PM
the things that lex does without making money off them, let alone a living, are genuinely astonishing and if i speak too much about what they say about the industry i will be in big trouble
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So I'm taking the plunge and ordering some PC parts over Black Friday.
If you appreciate what @startmenu.bsky.social has done over the years, like @rewinder.co.uk/my freelance work, or thought I didn't sound like an idiot on Game Mess Mornings, now would be a great time to show your appreciation.
If you appreciate what @startmenu.bsky.social has done over the years, like @rewinder.co.uk/my freelance work, or thought I didn't sound like an idiot on Game Mess Mornings, now would be a great time to show your appreciation.
November 27, 2025 at 4:52 PM
So I'm taking the plunge and ordering some PC parts over Black Friday.
If you appreciate what @startmenu.bsky.social has done over the years, like @rewinder.co.uk/my freelance work, or thought I didn't sound like an idiot on Game Mess Mornings, now would be a great time to show your appreciation.
If you appreciate what @startmenu.bsky.social has done over the years, like @rewinder.co.uk/my freelance work, or thought I didn't sound like an idiot on Game Mess Mornings, now would be a great time to show your appreciation.
finally got around to playing Windy Meadow: A Roadwarden Tale by @moralanxiety.bsky.social. great story about choosing your path in life but i am losing my mind at the fact that Iudicia getting justifiably angry at the people around her is the least popular choice in the game by far
November 27, 2025 at 9:22 PM
finally got around to playing Windy Meadow: A Roadwarden Tale by @moralanxiety.bsky.social. great story about choosing your path in life but i am losing my mind at the fact that Iudicia getting justifiably angry at the people around her is the least popular choice in the game by far
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obsessed with the Roseisle pictish silly goose
November 26, 2025 at 12:04 PM
obsessed with the Roseisle pictish silly goose
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I think about this little guy all the damned time.
I saw him in the DIA collection almost ten years ago and he's remained a permanent fixture in my brain ever since.
Art is fucking wonderful.
dia.org/collection/s...
I saw him in the DIA collection almost ten years ago and he's remained a permanent fixture in my brain ever since.
Art is fucking wonderful.
dia.org/collection/s...
November 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
I think about this little guy all the damned time.
I saw him in the DIA collection almost ten years ago and he's remained a permanent fixture in my brain ever since.
Art is fucking wonderful.
dia.org/collection/s...
I saw him in the DIA collection almost ten years ago and he's remained a permanent fixture in my brain ever since.
Art is fucking wonderful.
dia.org/collection/s...
i started rewriting this today I deserve a medal for bravery
[through gritted teeth] no it's fine that i was 4500 words deep into writing about this again
November 26, 2025 at 6:10 PM
i started rewriting this today I deserve a medal for bravery
i have a really clear memory of hearing about the turing test when i was like 13 and being like well that makes no fucking sense and quite frankly it was the most ahead of my time i've ever been
November 26, 2025 at 5:45 PM
i have a really clear memory of hearing about the turing test when i was like 13 and being like well that makes no fucking sense and quite frankly it was the most ahead of my time i've ever been
the louvre has a virtual tour of an exhibit called 'founding myths: from hercules to darth vader' except that darth vader is blurred out
November 26, 2025 at 3:53 PM
the louvre has a virtual tour of an exhibit called 'founding myths: from hercules to darth vader' except that darth vader is blurred out
i was really trying to save the 650 useless words i just cut from this video essay and then it ended like this and i was like damn i guess i have to live by my principles 😔
November 26, 2025 at 9:59 AM
i was really trying to save the 650 useless words i just cut from this video essay and then it ended like this and i was like damn i guess i have to live by my principles 😔
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As a permalancer I am a secret 4th thing. Person who posts in order to get job.
there are some people who post because it's their job, some people who post like it's their job, and some people who post in spite of their job. you really want to avoid that second one
November 25, 2025 at 6:43 PM
As a permalancer I am a secret 4th thing. Person who posts in order to get job.
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it's finally time: we're plaing MIND CHESS open.spotify.com/episode/0rbI...
November 25, 2025 at 6:38 PM
it's finally time: we're plaing MIND CHESS open.spotify.com/episode/0rbI...
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A big story on EG this eve - the incredible @santaragione.com seems likely to close, after a bizarre decision from Valve to ban Horses from the platform, submit it to several unusual extra layers of scrutiny in the application process, and offer the studio no recourse to make changes or re-apply.
"It's extremely frustrating and also f*cked up" - one of the world's best indie studios is facing shock closure following confounding Steam ban
www.eurogamer.net/its-extremel...
www.eurogamer.net/its-extremel...
November 25, 2025 at 5:09 PM
A big story on EG this eve - the incredible @santaragione.com seems likely to close, after a bizarre decision from Valve to ban Horses from the platform, submit it to several unusual extra layers of scrutiny in the application process, and offer the studio no recourse to make changes or re-apply.
i was wondering why i was so spaced all day and then i remembered the first thing that happened this morning was that i opened my phone and got knocked out by the xkcd 15 years cancer free entry (xkcd.com/3172/) and many things are suddenly making sense
November 25, 2025 at 4:48 PM
i was wondering why i was so spaced all day and then i remembered the first thing that happened this morning was that i opened my phone and got knocked out by the xkcd 15 years cancer free entry (xkcd.com/3172/) and many things are suddenly making sense
so sleepy tired that i forgot i get video game press releases and i looked at my inbox and it said "you need to manage your trade routes!" and for a split second i was like oh god what. as if i forgot some responsibilities i had as master of commerce for a medieval empire
November 25, 2025 at 1:23 PM
so sleepy tired that i forgot i get video game press releases and i looked at my inbox and it said "you need to manage your trade routes!" and for a split second i was like oh god what. as if i forgot some responsibilities i had as master of commerce for a medieval empire
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The “google is using your email to train AI” debacle is imo most instructively seen as tracer dye for multiple failures: many people are instinctively skeptical of tech companies now; and many outlets that should have had experts able to cogently weigh in and go “wait a minute” simply don’t anymore.
November 23, 2025 at 6:54 AM
The “google is using your email to train AI” debacle is imo most instructively seen as tracer dye for multiple failures: many people are instinctively skeptical of tech companies now; and many outlets that should have had experts able to cogently weigh in and go “wait a minute” simply don’t anymore.
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"I don’t want her to think her sacrifices were in vain."
Tomás Neumann Aspee (@tomeitou.bsky.social) faces the reality of no longer caring about the most important day of his life.
intothespine.com/2025/11/22/t...
Tomás Neumann Aspee (@tomeitou.bsky.social) faces the reality of no longer caring about the most important day of his life.
intothespine.com/2025/11/22/t...
The Weight of Expectations - Into The Spine
For this week's Fragments, Tomás Neumann Aspee explores Many Nights a Whisper and no longer caring about the most important day in your life.
intothespine.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:24 PM
"I don’t want her to think her sacrifices were in vain."
Tomás Neumann Aspee (@tomeitou.bsky.social) faces the reality of no longer caring about the most important day of his life.
intothespine.com/2025/11/22/t...
Tomás Neumann Aspee (@tomeitou.bsky.social) faces the reality of no longer caring about the most important day of his life.
intothespine.com/2025/11/22/t...
i love to do and enjoy the crossword with my friends :)
November 22, 2025 at 4:25 PM
i love to do and enjoy the crossword with my friends :)
woke up early today because I dreamed bout how I need to take the butter out the fridge IRL and sternly thought, in my sleep, 'if you're dreaming about chores it's time to do them'
November 22, 2025 at 6:39 AM
woke up early today because I dreamed bout how I need to take the butter out the fridge IRL and sternly thought, in my sleep, 'if you're dreaming about chores it's time to do them'
i heard everyone talking about the roblox interview and i still wasn't prepared to open it and get hit with the OPENING gambit of Q: "how do you think of the problem of predators on Roblox?" A: "We think of it not necessarily just as a problem, but an opportunity as well."
November 21, 2025 at 6:54 PM
i heard everyone talking about the roblox interview and i still wasn't prepared to open it and get hit with the OPENING gambit of Q: "how do you think of the problem of predators on Roblox?" A: "We think of it not necessarily just as a problem, but an opportunity as well."
read my beech tree essay that also mentions pokemon sometimes
November 21, 2025 at 6:37 PM
read my beech tree essay that also mentions pokemon sometimes
I really think gen-AI requires people to learn a bit about 1) how it works and 2) how the industries it affects work bc if you just assume there's a misinfo machine that could appear anywhere in any form you do not at all have a handle on interpreting whether what you're reading is in fact misinfo
Worth stating: I have not seen any reason to assume that this report, or the gamesindustry article, is the product of an AI hallucination. Confusingly written literature reviews are much older than LLMs, and I'm a little unnerved by how quickly people jump to "study I don't like is probably AI"
November 19, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I really think gen-AI requires people to learn a bit about 1) how it works and 2) how the industries it affects work bc if you just assume there's a misinfo machine that could appear anywhere in any form you do not at all have a handle on interpreting whether what you're reading is in fact misinfo
he didn't have it but he just got it shipped to me...a commitment has been made in my name
[staring down a slippery slope] I'm not gonna read along with this. but it can't hurt to check if my dad would let me borrow the silmarillion
Let's make it official:
SHELVED BY GENRE's next unit, spanning ALL of 2026, will be a delve into the depths of modern genre with J.R.R. Tolkien's THE HOBBIT, THE LORD OF THE RINGS, and THE SILMARILLION.
If you don't have those, you can grab them through our Bookshop:
bookshop.org/lists/shelve...
SHELVED BY GENRE's next unit, spanning ALL of 2026, will be a delve into the depths of modern genre with J.R.R. Tolkien's THE HOBBIT, THE LORD OF THE RINGS, and THE SILMARILLION.
If you don't have those, you can grab them through our Bookshop:
bookshop.org/lists/shelve...
November 19, 2025 at 1:07 PM
he didn't have it but he just got it shipped to me...a commitment has been made in my name
it is CRAZY to me that this only has 200 reviews what do you MEAN everyone in the world hasn't played Mediterranea Inferno
Two years after its release, Mediterranea Inferno reaches 200 reviews on Steam! 98% positive.
November 19, 2025 at 12:07 PM
it is CRAZY to me that this only has 200 reviews what do you MEAN everyone in the world hasn't played Mediterranea Inferno