it's nate!
@natescape.bsky.social
toronto designer + game dev + Appalachian folk musician from central pennsylvania. ui+ux. they/them/any. currently: caves of qud
Can't believe I got through an entire turkey discourse season without seeing the word "spatchcock" even once
November 28, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Can't believe I got through an entire turkey discourse season without seeing the word "spatchcock" even once
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so uh, announcement time?!
got scooped up by the @iii-initiative.bsky.social to help produce their next showcase! 🎉
if you have anything ✨ cool ✨ happening for ya in 2026, reach out! 👀
got scooped up by the @iii-initiative.bsky.social to help produce their next showcase! 🎉
if you have anything ✨ cool ✨ happening for ya in 2026, reach out! 👀
November 27, 2025 at 11:17 PM
so uh, announcement time?!
got scooped up by the @iii-initiative.bsky.social to help produce their next showcase! 🎉
if you have anything ✨ cool ✨ happening for ya in 2026, reach out! 👀
got scooped up by the @iii-initiative.bsky.social to help produce their next showcase! 🎉
if you have anything ✨ cool ✨ happening for ya in 2026, reach out! 👀
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I forget who is chronicling images of scanners’ hands in digitized records, but I came across a beautiful one while looking through the Jefferson County WV County Records from 1844-1847
November 25, 2025 at 8:39 PM
I forget who is chronicling images of scanners’ hands in digitized records, but I came across a beautiful one while looking through the Jefferson County WV County Records from 1844-1847
Every day I appreciate more and more the anthropology professor I had at university who'd immediately stop anybody who started making a point about "society"
November 25, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Every day I appreciate more and more the anthropology professor I had at university who'd immediately stop anybody who started making a point about "society"
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This is so incredible. You have to see the photos. These workers held the line for THREE YEARS www.publicsource.org/post-gazette...
November 25, 2025 at 5:29 AM
This is so incredible. You have to see the photos. These workers held the line for THREE YEARS www.publicsource.org/post-gazette...
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please share and join us tomorrow to see what we've been up to for the last few years. It's the future of KO_OP 🥺
Join us tomorrow at 12 PM EST for an exciting announcement of our upcoming game! youtu.be/rVEWbp1FiKg
KO_OP Game Reveal & Presentation
YouTube video by KO_OP
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 8:04 PM
please share and join us tomorrow to see what we've been up to for the last few years. It's the future of KO_OP 🥺
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I'm deeply honored that I am once again nominated for the Best Journalism Award for GA Conf! Especially honored that the story chosen was my AbleGamers report, a difficult investigative piece. Feel free to vote below, as well as read the nominated story:
www.ign.com/articles/for...
www.ign.com/articles/for...
November 24, 2025 at 5:51 PM
I'm deeply honored that I am once again nominated for the Best Journalism Award for GA Conf! Especially honored that the story chosen was my AbleGamers report, a difficult investigative piece. Feel free to vote below, as well as read the nominated story:
www.ign.com/articles/for...
www.ign.com/articles/for...
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I recommend checking out www.gamesur.com & the associated Discord if you want to get into Games UX Research, but I also want to point out that if you are already in the industry (even if you have been there for years) there is still immense value in networking & talking with others in your field!
Games User Research Community | Shaping Gameplay With User Research
www.gamesur.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I recommend checking out www.gamesur.com & the associated Discord if you want to get into Games UX Research, but I also want to point out that if you are already in the industry (even if you have been there for years) there is still immense value in networking & talking with others in your field!
I'm perpetually annoyed that searching ideas returns results for products, and the various ways that brands colonize language, but page 1 of google results for 'samsara' is really an all-timer
November 20, 2025 at 8:36 AM
I'm perpetually annoyed that searching ideas returns results for products, and the various ways that brands colonize language, but page 1 of google results for 'samsara' is really an all-timer
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Sadly, all the Learn Blender people were right. You couldn't pay me to go back to Maya or 3Ds Max. And I couldn't pay me either, because their license costs are insane
Support Blender today!!!
Support Blender today!!!
Blender is struggling. it's the best piece of 3d software on the market, and it's free. I'm not going back to autodesk.
please donate if you can!
fund.blender.org
please donate if you can!
fund.blender.org
Blender Development Fund
Join the Development Fund and support Blender Foundation to work on core Blender development.
fund.blender.org
November 20, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Sadly, all the Learn Blender people were right. You couldn't pay me to go back to Maya or 3Ds Max. And I couldn't pay me either, because their license costs are insane
Support Blender today!!!
Support Blender today!!!
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Designers are always inventing new titles. Web designer, UI designer, UX designer, UX/UI designer, Product designer, UX/AI designer (???)
These are all the same!
As long as your work is mediated entirely by Figma and Jira, you are just a production artist. Here's how to get out of that racket.
These are all the same!
As long as your work is mediated entirely by Figma and Jira, you are just a production artist. Here's how to get out of that racket.
Without UX governance, your app turns to "sludge"
Break out of the feature delivery mindset and attend to the architecture and maintenance of the product.
productpicnic.beehiiv.com
November 15, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Designers are always inventing new titles. Web designer, UI designer, UX designer, UX/UI designer, Product designer, UX/AI designer (???)
These are all the same!
As long as your work is mediated entirely by Figma and Jira, you are just a production artist. Here's how to get out of that racket.
These are all the same!
As long as your work is mediated entirely by Figma and Jira, you are just a production artist. Here's how to get out of that racket.
Chicken and waffles! No, the other chicken and waffles.
November 19, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Chicken and waffles! No, the other chicken and waffles.
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Okay, I'm making my case for the only Muppet I want to see on Broadway right now...
November 19, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Okay, I'm making my case for the only Muppet I want to see on Broadway right now...
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so I think this is going to cost $500-$600
$200 for appointment, buses, lyfts
$350 for progressive lenses and cheap frames
if you wanted to help a girl out
Venmo: @qstarshine
$200 for appointment, buses, lyfts
$350 for progressive lenses and cheap frames
if you wanted to help a girl out
Venmo: @qstarshine
fml glasses broke
November 19, 2025 at 5:17 AM
so I think this is going to cost $500-$600
$200 for appointment, buses, lyfts
$350 for progressive lenses and cheap frames
if you wanted to help a girl out
Venmo: @qstarshine
$200 for appointment, buses, lyfts
$350 for progressive lenses and cheap frames
if you wanted to help a girl out
Venmo: @qstarshine
this survey format makes some sense when asking how the connection of a call was I'm uh not sure it makes sense as a way to ask about the entire experiencing of 'blocking'
November 19, 2025 at 5:23 AM
this survey format makes some sense when asking how the connection of a call was I'm uh not sure it makes sense as a way to ask about the entire experiencing of 'blocking'
"What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?"
One of the defining sounds of my teenage years. Catch me blasting this one from one of the stereo assemblages we pieced together at the back of the Goodwill donation center I worked for a few summers.
One of the defining sounds of my teenage years. Catch me blasting this one from one of the stereo assemblages we pieced together at the back of the Goodwill donation center I worked for a few summers.
November 18, 2025 at 12:26 AM
"What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?"
One of the defining sounds of my teenage years. Catch me blasting this one from one of the stereo assemblages we pieced together at the back of the Goodwill donation center I worked for a few summers.
One of the defining sounds of my teenage years. Catch me blasting this one from one of the stereo assemblages we pieced together at the back of the Goodwill donation center I worked for a few summers.
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November 17, 2025 at 10:43 PM
In my observation this is a big motivator for cross-border regional identity, eg emerging pan-appalachianism. People look for cultural surface area old and new to build on natural solidarities, and reliance on the mason-dixon as a hard map of a hard territory simply makes less and less sense.
also kinda inescapable now that the dixiefication of rural american is directly linked with a homogenizing reactionary turn
November 17, 2025 at 9:12 PM
In my observation this is a big motivator for cross-border regional identity, eg emerging pan-appalachianism. People look for cultural surface area old and new to build on natural solidarities, and reliance on the mason-dixon as a hard map of a hard territory simply makes less and less sense.
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Watching disabled people around the world mourn Alice is a reminder of the good aspect of the internet. 30 years ago, few people outside of SF would ever have known Alice existed. I never would have met her. The internet connected us all. Let’s honor Alice’s memory by using that power and community.
My social media is wall-to-wall love for the incomparable Alice Wong, and I need more words. What captures sadness and/also affection for a community that knows what's been lost?
Alice could not eat food for years.
And yet at Christmas she would bake cookies and mail them to me—such was her desire to provide care for the people she loved.
And yet at Christmas she would bake cookies and mail them to me—such was her desire to provide care for the people she loved.
November 16, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Watching disabled people around the world mourn Alice is a reminder of the good aspect of the internet. 30 years ago, few people outside of SF would ever have known Alice existed. I never would have met her. The internet connected us all. Let’s honor Alice’s memory by using that power and community.
Priesthood of all app downloaders
What if I told you you didn't need an app to chat with Jesus
November 15, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Priesthood of all app downloaders
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when the NYT reporter shows up to profile me I’ll have 12”x12” reprints of Cow Tools stacked around the house so that they’ll know something about me
November 14, 2025 at 5:46 PM
when the NYT reporter shows up to profile me I’ll have 12”x12” reprints of Cow Tools stacked around the house so that they’ll know something about me
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This woman, Florence Reese, wrote the protest song "Which Side Are You On?" on the back of the calendar off the kitchen wall after seeing her husband, union organizer Sam Reece, dragged away by sheriff JH Blair's mercenaries during the Harlan War in 1931
November 13, 2025 at 6:48 PM
This woman, Florence Reese, wrote the protest song "Which Side Are You On?" on the back of the calendar off the kitchen wall after seeing her husband, union organizer Sam Reece, dragged away by sheriff JH Blair's mercenaries during the Harlan War in 1931
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Above all else, these people have absolutely NO moral standing to lecture the rest of us about the art we enjoy, the books we read, the relationships we have, or what we do with our bodies.
November 13, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Above all else, these people have absolutely NO moral standing to lecture the rest of us about the art we enjoy, the books we read, the relationships we have, or what we do with our bodies.
Megan is awesome, smart, AND cool and you should be learning music from her tbh
Hi I had my first lesson with a new composition/theory student today and it was a nice reminder that I rly enjoy teaching people how to make music! And good news, I have room for a few new students! Feel free to email or DM me to learn more 🩷🎼
November 11, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Megan is awesome, smart, AND cool and you should be learning music from her tbh
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It is hard to come up with a better analogy for whiteness than preferring the AI simulacra of your supposed authentic art form to whatever a Black woman from your art form’s cultural geography might make.
As long as it's not Beyonce country music fans are fine with this development
November 11, 2025 at 7:53 PM
It is hard to come up with a better analogy for whiteness than preferring the AI simulacra of your supposed authentic art form to whatever a Black woman from your art form’s cultural geography might make.