Jim Rossignol
@rossignol.bsky.social
Writer. Makes games. Co-founded Rock, Paper, Shotgun and Big Robot (Sir, You Are Being Hunted). Now: TEETH RPG, MILESHIPS.
And https://oldmenrunningtheworld.com/
email: jim at big-robot.com
And https://oldmenrunningtheworld.com/
email: jim at big-robot.com
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Guest Post: On OVER/UNDER, by Our Man In California
Ahoy! You probably know what this newsletter is, since you signed up for it. But if you don’t, why not come by the Discord and ask someone? Perhaps Marsh or...
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The latest TEETH newsletter features a guest essay on OVER/UNDER by prolific journalist and role-player @markwallace.bsky.social
It's really good. Have a read!
It's really good. Have a read!
Steam users, do you find games are routinely tagged as "Family Sharing" but aren't actually available for family sharing? Baffling and annoying!
December 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Steam users, do you find games are routinely tagged as "Family Sharing" but aren't actually available for family sharing? Baffling and annoying!
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Ok, Nearly the end of the year, and 6 months since Highrook was released! I wrote a little postmortem, covering some nerdy production info and my thoughts on what it was like to be an indie in the last few years.
www.nullpointer.co.uk/game-post-mo...
www.nullpointer.co.uk/game-post-mo...
Indie Game Post-mortem - Highrook
A rocky road to Highrook So 'The Horror At Highrook' has been…
www.nullpointer.co.uk
December 2, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Ok, Nearly the end of the year, and 6 months since Highrook was released! I wrote a little postmortem, covering some nerdy production info and my thoughts on what it was like to be an indie in the last few years.
www.nullpointer.co.uk/game-post-mo...
www.nullpointer.co.uk/game-post-mo...
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Wilder Blean - the largest contiguous area of woodland in Kent hosts *European bison*. These big beasts need a hand. @kentwildlife.bsky.social
Wider Blean: Wilder Woodlands – Big Give
Nature needs us. Habitats are being destroyed and species are declining at their fastest rate for thousands of years. The …
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December 7, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Wilder Blean - the largest contiguous area of woodland in Kent hosts *European bison*. These big beasts need a hand. @kentwildlife.bsky.social
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Re-reading Lord of the Rings at the moment, and I'd forgotten how relentlessly Gandalf drags Hobbits.
"Of course, The Enemy has overlooked one thing: dipshits such as yourself, Frodo. Buffoons with fat feet and shithole burrows. Yes, perhaps your painful loser energy may surprise Sauron yet!"
"Of course, The Enemy has overlooked one thing: dipshits such as yourself, Frodo. Buffoons with fat feet and shithole burrows. Yes, perhaps your painful loser energy may surprise Sauron yet!"
December 7, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Re-reading Lord of the Rings at the moment, and I'd forgotten how relentlessly Gandalf drags Hobbits.
"Of course, The Enemy has overlooked one thing: dipshits such as yourself, Frodo. Buffoons with fat feet and shithole burrows. Yes, perhaps your painful loser energy may surprise Sauron yet!"
"Of course, The Enemy has overlooked one thing: dipshits such as yourself, Frodo. Buffoons with fat feet and shithole burrows. Yes, perhaps your painful loser energy may surprise Sauron yet!"
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All of this is fascism. And not early stage either. This is the embedding of the Right Wing Daily Mail press consensus as the absolutely unshakable common sense of the UK state. Made possible because the "left wing" party has abdicated any kind of moral position on it.
December 7, 2025 at 11:31 AM
All of this is fascism. And not early stage either. This is the embedding of the Right Wing Daily Mail press consensus as the absolutely unshakable common sense of the UK state. Made possible because the "left wing" party has abdicated any kind of moral position on it.
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It’s telling how, whether it be music or film or whatever else, the AI companies are less keen to invest in creators capable of making this worthwhile genAI art that they claim is possible than they are to pay off established names to come out saying genAI is inevitable and unstoppable.
December 7, 2025 at 12:18 PM
It’s telling how, whether it be music or film or whatever else, the AI companies are less keen to invest in creators capable of making this worthwhile genAI art that they claim is possible than they are to pay off established names to come out saying genAI is inevitable and unstoppable.
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What an interesting coincidence.
December 6, 2025 at 5:43 PM
What an interesting coincidence.
Listening to jazz and looking out of the window at the rain as I attempt to write. Channelling the 1970s art movie Rossignol that I have in my heart.
December 7, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Listening to jazz and looking out of the window at the rain as I attempt to write. Channelling the 1970s art movie Rossignol that I have in my heart.
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Everything about this is as exactly as bad as you think it's going to be www.ft.com/content/b127...
Tech elites are starting their own for-profit cities
They want to escape from regulation and ‘failing’ democracy — but are they more opportunistic than libertarian?
www.ft.com
December 7, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Everything about this is as exactly as bad as you think it's going to be www.ft.com/content/b127...
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Governments are always keen to have reviews into benefits and overdiagnosis of mental health difficulties. But they always ignore every study that says 4 day weeks and UBI dramatically improve people's wellbeing and the economy.
December 6, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Governments are always keen to have reviews into benefits and overdiagnosis of mental health difficulties. But they always ignore every study that says 4 day weeks and UBI dramatically improve people's wellbeing and the economy.
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hey, I am not gonna doompost about it necessarily but, a glance around will tell you it's a hard & stressful time for artists, and especially so this year
consider dropping a kofi donation, or reposting a shop link, or even just, leave a comment so someone knows you like their work
it does matter
consider dropping a kofi donation, or reposting a shop link, or even just, leave a comment so someone knows you like their work
it does matter
December 6, 2025 at 6:48 PM
hey, I am not gonna doompost about it necessarily but, a glance around will tell you it's a hard & stressful time for artists, and especially so this year
consider dropping a kofi donation, or reposting a shop link, or even just, leave a comment so someone knows you like their work
it does matter
consider dropping a kofi donation, or reposting a shop link, or even just, leave a comment so someone knows you like their work
it does matter
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What the British government is letting happen to universities is unconscionable
December 6, 2025 at 10:55 AM
What the British government is letting happen to universities is unconscionable
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Interesting thing to take away here.
BBC asked 5000 doctors to take part in a survey about overdiagnosis of mental health conditions. Only 15% of them responded.
And what do you think the belief will be of that 15% who specifically wanted to respond to a study into overdiagnosis? 🤔
BBC asked 5000 doctors to take part in a survey about overdiagnosis of mental health conditions. Only 15% of them responded.
And what do you think the belief will be of that 15% who specifically wanted to respond to a study into overdiagnosis? 🤔
December 6, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Interesting thing to take away here.
BBC asked 5000 doctors to take part in a survey about overdiagnosis of mental health conditions. Only 15% of them responded.
And what do you think the belief will be of that 15% who specifically wanted to respond to a study into overdiagnosis? 🤔
BBC asked 5000 doctors to take part in a survey about overdiagnosis of mental health conditions. Only 15% of them responded.
And what do you think the belief will be of that 15% who specifically wanted to respond to a study into overdiagnosis? 🤔
Still occasionally think about the road trip I undertook last winter.
December 5, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Still occasionally think about the road trip I undertook last winter.
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Exactly. The new U.S. National Security Strategy is much worse for Europe than most people had imagined. Europe is described as a bigger threat than both China and Russia, and they outline the need for regime change in Western European countries as part of a civilizational struggle.
I assumed the NSS would just ignore/deprioritize Europe (It did that on defense/NATO).
But the actual message was: Europe matters to us, we must save it from itself, the EU and its wokeness. Thus, the USG is going all in on foreign interference to help the far-right win a civilizational war.
But the actual message was: Europe matters to us, we must save it from itself, the EU and its wokeness. Thus, the USG is going all in on foreign interference to help the far-right win a civilizational war.
a man with a mustache is wearing a white shirt and a blue sweater .
ALT: a man with a mustache is wearing a white shirt and a blue sweater .
media.tenor.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Exactly. The new U.S. National Security Strategy is much worse for Europe than most people had imagined. Europe is described as a bigger threat than both China and Russia, and they outline the need for regime change in Western European countries as part of a civilizational struggle.
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Duolingo announced it was going “AI-first” just over six months ago. Since then its stock is down 64%.
December 5, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Duolingo announced it was going “AI-first” just over six months ago. Since then its stock is down 64%.
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I'm sorry, this guy has been a public figure for well over twenty years and this comes out NOW???
It is alleged that Nigel Farage aged 16-18 (1980-82) vocally objected to the number of Patels at Dulwich College.
A fellow pupil remembers him burning the booklet on these grounds.
The Guardian shows that this witness testimony aligns with the names + stats in the 1980 yearbook
A fellow pupil remembers him burning the booklet on these grounds.
The Guardian shows that this witness testimony aligns with the names + stats in the 1980 yearbook
December 5, 2025 at 8:47 AM
I'm sorry, this guy has been a public figure for well over twenty years and this comes out NOW???
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Everyone’s talking about whether Farage was racist to schoolchildren as a boy when he was racist to schoolchildren THIS WEEK. All the kids who are of reading age can read what he says about them.
John Swinney has responded to Nigel Farage's attack on Glasgow schoolchildren, calling it 'quite simply racist'
John Swinney responds to Nigel Farage's 'racist' attack on Glasgow schoolchildren
www.thenational.scot
December 5, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Everyone’s talking about whether Farage was racist to schoolchildren as a boy when he was racist to schoolchildren THIS WEEK. All the kids who are of reading age can read what he says about them.
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It's #sketchpadvent – celebrating amazing modernist concept drawings and models. December 1: Milton Keynes from 1981
December 1, 2025 at 10:39 AM
It's #sketchpadvent – celebrating amazing modernist concept drawings and models. December 1: Milton Keynes from 1981
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Quite breathtaking story - military grade drones at Dublin airport which flew on the path Zelensky's plane took. The drones reached the flight path of his plane exactly the time it should have been there, but just missed it because Zelensky arrived ahead of schedule:
Four unidentified military-style drones breached no-fly zone to target Zelenskyy's arrival in Dublin
Gardaí are investigating whether the drones took off from land in Dublin or from an undetected ship.
www.thejournal.ie
December 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Quite breathtaking story - military grade drones at Dublin airport which flew on the path Zelensky's plane took. The drones reached the flight path of his plane exactly the time it should have been there, but just missed it because Zelensky arrived ahead of schedule:
What a gig.
OPPORTUNITY Arc Raiders - Narrative Designer
Not affiliated. Shares welcome!
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Not affiliated. Shares welcome!
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Narrative Designer - ARC Raiders - Embark Studios
As a Narrative Designer, you will be the key link between the story and the gameplay. You will design, implement, and maintain the gameplay systems and interactions that help deliver narrative to t...
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December 5, 2025 at 8:14 AM
What a gig.
The news from the US is a constant stream of derangement, but this is quite something.
Holy shit.
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
December 5, 2025 at 7:48 AM
The news from the US is a constant stream of derangement, but this is quite something.
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Instead of relying on wealthy donors, congressional candidate @katmabu.bsky.social is using a Twitch stream to raise money – and fight a federal indictment
aftermath.site/kat-abughaza...
aftermath.site/kat-abughaza...
December 4, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Instead of relying on wealthy donors, congressional candidate @katmabu.bsky.social is using a Twitch stream to raise money – and fight a federal indictment
aftermath.site/kat-abughaza...
aftermath.site/kat-abughaza...
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SURPRISE! A new Keeper update just dropped with some EXCITING features!
🖤 NOIR MODE 🖤
A custom-tuned black & white experience!
⬅️ ULTRAWIDE SUPPORT➡️
For maximum immersion!
👁️ HIGH CONTRAST MODE 👁️
Accessibility options for players with vision impairments!
More Info: youtu.be/watch?v=Qhyf...
🖤 NOIR MODE 🖤
A custom-tuned black & white experience!
⬅️ ULTRAWIDE SUPPORT➡️
For maximum immersion!
👁️ HIGH CONTRAST MODE 👁️
Accessibility options for players with vision impairments!
More Info: youtu.be/watch?v=Qhyf...
Keeper · Back In Black (and White) Update
Surprise! We’re starting December with a really cool KEEPER update, and it’s one we’re very excited to put into your hands. This update is all about color:
1. Noir Mode - A silly experiment by one…
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December 4, 2025 at 6:37 PM
SURPRISE! A new Keeper update just dropped with some EXCITING features!
🖤 NOIR MODE 🖤
A custom-tuned black & white experience!
⬅️ ULTRAWIDE SUPPORT➡️
For maximum immersion!
👁️ HIGH CONTRAST MODE 👁️
Accessibility options for players with vision impairments!
More Info: youtu.be/watch?v=Qhyf...
🖤 NOIR MODE 🖤
A custom-tuned black & white experience!
⬅️ ULTRAWIDE SUPPORT➡️
For maximum immersion!
👁️ HIGH CONTRAST MODE 👁️
Accessibility options for players with vision impairments!
More Info: youtu.be/watch?v=Qhyf...