v buckenham
@v21.bsky.social
hello again
made (and continuing to make) downpour.games, a game-making app that anyone can use
also i have a website: v21.io
made (and continuing to make) downpour.games, a game-making app that anyone can use
also i have a website: v21.io
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Can you imagine if it were possible to fake images easily? Why we'd really have to rethink a lot of things, like the well-documented existence of fairies in rural England.
December 10, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Can you imagine if it were possible to fake images easily? Why we'd really have to rethink a lot of things, like the well-documented existence of fairies in rural England.
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This is really worth reading across the board, but I want to should out @modality.bsky.social's Thargol, one of the most Michael-like and elegant pieces of game design ever implemented. No wonder the Modality Rule is named after him! (pp 62-63 in the book)
December 9, 2025 at 3:57 PM
This is really worth reading across the board, but I want to should out @modality.bsky.social's Thargol, one of the most Michael-like and elegant pieces of game design ever implemented. No wonder the Modality Rule is named after him! (pp 62-63 in the book)
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I asked on mastodon for some suggestions for instruments I could paint rats playing and the number one idea hands down was a theremin and so...
December 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I asked on mastodon for some suggestions for instruments I could paint rats playing and the number one idea hands down was a theremin and so...
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I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...
How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it
I wanted a dinner recommendation and got a research agenda instead. Using 13000+ restaurants, I rebuild its ratings with machine learning and map how algorithmic visibility actually distributes power.
open.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:53 AM
I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...
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MORPHEUS: They're coming for you, Neo. I can guide you, but you must do exactly as I say. Take the elevator to the lobby and go to the CVS across the street. Purchase 5 Steam gift cards at $200 each. Scratch off the protective coating on the back and tell me the fifteen digit redemption codes. Hurry
August 23, 2025 at 9:57 PM
MORPHEUS: They're coming for you, Neo. I can guide you, but you must do exactly as I say. Take the elevator to the lobby and go to the CVS across the street. Purchase 5 Steam gift cards at $200 each. Scratch off the protective coating on the back and tell me the fifteen digit redemption codes. Hurry
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if you're into AI "advisors" and find their insights helpful, may I non-ironically recommend seriously considering: tarot
- connection to your subconscious
- therapeutic or confessional as need be
- patterns of meaning
- self-determined takeaways
- no need to google facts afterwards
- connection to your subconscious
- therapeutic or confessional as need be
- patterns of meaning
- self-determined takeaways
- no need to google facts afterwards
December 8, 2025 at 5:51 PM
if you're into AI "advisors" and find their insights helpful, may I non-ironically recommend seriously considering: tarot
- connection to your subconscious
- therapeutic or confessional as need be
- patterns of meaning
- self-determined takeaways
- no need to google facts afterwards
- connection to your subconscious
- therapeutic or confessional as need be
- patterns of meaning
- self-determined takeaways
- no need to google facts afterwards
Jon Bois-ass trailer
December 8, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Jon Bois-ass trailer
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going through old work for a thing
here's an evergreen fav of mine from 2017
here's an evergreen fav of mine from 2017
December 8, 2025 at 2:49 PM
going through old work for a thing
here's an evergreen fav of mine from 2017
here's an evergreen fav of mine from 2017
they're trying to ignore this but i don't think it'll work harpers.org/archive/2025...
December 8, 2025 at 3:20 PM
they're trying to ignore this but i don't think it'll work harpers.org/archive/2025...
all the platforms doing their Wrappeds at the start of the month is December erasure
December 8, 2025 at 1:59 PM
all the platforms doing their Wrappeds at the start of the month is December erasure
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this other one from that "The Cost of Living" series. really complicated image. those guys back there. full three dimensional space with two apertures playing against each other. that rainbow sweater, the flowers, forlorn young parents and look out here comes a baby head
December 8, 2025 at 12:49 PM
this other one from that "The Cost of Living" series. really complicated image. those guys back there. full three dimensional space with two apertures playing against each other. that rainbow sweater, the flowers, forlorn young parents and look out here comes a baby head
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tfw your means of production are no longer brought into contact with living labour power
can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
December 8, 2025 at 12:24 PM
tfw your means of production are no longer brought into contact with living labour power
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Keep forgetting to say that my novel is *ideal* for cold weather, full of candle-spots of warmth swallowed up by the chill gloom. Victorian London and West Country folklore tied into a seasonal bundle.
Also has an artist heroine, unrequited/inadvisable love, and a chap who's back from the dead.
Also has an artist heroine, unrequited/inadvisable love, and a chap who's back from the dead.
December 8, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Keep forgetting to say that my novel is *ideal* for cold weather, full of candle-spots of warmth swallowed up by the chill gloom. Victorian London and West Country folklore tied into a seasonal bundle.
Also has an artist heroine, unrequited/inadvisable love, and a chap who's back from the dead.
Also has an artist heroine, unrequited/inadvisable love, and a chap who's back from the dead.
i wish to read all of these books
All right, Booksky: it's my 2025 Books of the Year post! Get your book recs here.
Featuring lashings of romance and SFFH, a fair bit of murder, and some extremely specific history nerding, like you weren't expecting that.
Featuring lashings of romance and SFFH, a fair bit of murder, and some extremely specific history nerding, like you weren't expecting that.
Best Books of 2025 – KJ Charles
kjcharleswriter.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:58 AM
i wish to read all of these books
good thread about jamming with other people mas.to/@TodePond/11...
Lu wilson (@[email protected])
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i've been thinking a bit about this comment by @[email protected]
i think a common misconception of #pastagang is that this experience changes once you somehow become ...
mas.to
December 8, 2025 at 10:47 AM
good thread about jamming with other people mas.to/@TodePond/11...
new blog post: about having a nice time at the pottery studio blog.vbuckenham.com/pottery-open...
pottery open studio report
It is approximately half ten on a Sunday evening and I am feeling pleasantly tired and a little drunk. I am drinking tea from an extravagant mug* I purchased only hours ago. I purchased the mug in the...
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December 7, 2025 at 11:30 PM
new blog post: about having a nice time at the pottery studio blog.vbuckenham.com/pottery-open...
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Chicago: "The Busy Person's Correspondence Card", circa 1950
December 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Chicago: "The Busy Person's Correspondence Card", circa 1950
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
a simple pleasure: I sit down on the sofa and the cat immediately comes over to hang out
December 7, 2025 at 11:58 AM
a simple pleasure: I sit down on the sofa and the cat immediately comes over to hang out
sometimes people just have a read on a film or another piece of art that is so different from your understanding that you worry that you're fundamentally misunderstanding everything all the time
December 7, 2025 at 11:30 AM
sometimes people just have a read on a film or another piece of art that is so different from your understanding that you worry that you're fundamentally misunderstanding everything all the time
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"You cannot process it. You never will. Just like the last two years. You’ll never process it. When you replace morality with performance, you get a democracy that offers you two choices at the ballot box: pro-genocide, or pro-genocide? Thank goodness for freedom!"
Refaat Alareer and the online culture war
Western media institutions excused the intellectual's murder by deeming him "controversial."
electronicintifada.net
December 7, 2025 at 2:27 AM
"You cannot process it. You never will. Just like the last two years. You’ll never process it. When you replace morality with performance, you get a democracy that offers you two choices at the ballot box: pro-genocide, or pro-genocide? Thank goodness for freedom!"
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Always important to remember that this is because these robots are "faking" being human
Theyre actually capable of way more and way weirder stuff
Theyre actually capable of way more and way weirder stuff
December 4, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Always important to remember that this is because these robots are "faking" being human
Theyre actually capable of way more and way weirder stuff
Theyre actually capable of way more and way weirder stuff
open studio at my pottery studio this weekend! already sold a few bits!
December 6, 2025 at 12:30 PM
open studio at my pottery studio this weekend! already sold a few bits!
no more Lambeth Country Show???!
*Lambeth Country Show axed after 50 years
*The 81 year old running as the YIMBY mayor of London
*A £500 basement conversion in Lewisham
*WHY ARE LONDON’S BUSES GETTING SLOWER???
Completely chaotic mix of stories, what is the editor thinking, all here:
www.londoncentric.media/p/lambeth-co...
*The 81 year old running as the YIMBY mayor of London
*A £500 basement conversion in Lewisham
*WHY ARE LONDON’S BUSES GETTING SLOWER???
Completely chaotic mix of stories, what is the editor thinking, all here:
www.londoncentric.media/p/lambeth-co...
No more Lambeth Country Show: Battle for Brockwell Park returns
Plus: Why are London's buses getting slower, the 81-year-old running to be the YIMBY mayor of London, We R Blighty turn to body cams, and would you buy this basement for £500?
www.londoncentric.media
December 6, 2025 at 8:29 AM
no more Lambeth Country Show???!
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You don't realize how much just using the colors of sappanwood-derived dyes makes a setting "look Asian" until you actually just look at those colors
December 5, 2025 at 5:13 PM
You don't realize how much just using the colors of sappanwood-derived dyes makes a setting "look Asian" until you actually just look at those colors