Hannah Nicklin
@hannahnicklin.bsky.social
10+ years of writing, game & narrative design. Recently worked on: Black Mirror: Thronglets; Saltsea Chronicles; Mutazione. Past Creative Director of gutefabrik.com. Author of writingfor.games. PhD in play as anti-capitalist practice. Bike person.
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Hannah Nicklin
@hannahnicklin.bsky.social
· Sep 25
Hi! I'm Hannah Nicklin, award-winning game director, writer & narrative designer (for 10+ years).
💛 Author writingfor.games
⛵️ Creative Director saltseachronicles.com
☄️Writer & ND mutazionegame.com
🃏 Writer & ND – Black Mirror: Thronglets
👩🏫 Phd interactive theatre
👩🏼💼 linkedin.com/in/hannah-nicklin
💛 Author writingfor.games
⛵️ Creative Director saltseachronicles.com
☄️Writer & ND mutazionegame.com
🃏 Writer & ND – Black Mirror: Thronglets
👩🏫 Phd interactive theatre
👩🏼💼 linkedin.com/in/hannah-nicklin
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This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:24 PM
This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
My online supermarket shop keeps on supplying me with the limited edition foodstuff no one asked for
November 6, 2025 at 9:25 PM
My online supermarket shop keeps on supplying me with the limited edition foodstuff no one asked for
This petition asks the UK health body to track and therefore be equipped to respond to Covid outbreaks in healthcare settings, care homes, and schools (ie where the most vulnerable are) — easy to sign! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Petition: Direct the UKHSA to monitor COVID infections that occur in particular settings
Ensure that the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) monitors, and reports on, the numbers of COVID infections that occur in healthcare settings through its routine surveillance programmes, and advises o...
petition.parliament.uk
November 6, 2025 at 5:09 PM
This petition asks the UK health body to track and therefore be equipped to respond to Covid outbreaks in healthcare settings, care homes, and schools (ie where the most vulnerable are) — easy to sign! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
One of the most interesting games I ever played has a new cute edition
We’re stoked to bring this project back and cant wait to share it with y’all 🍃 #ttrpg #ttrpgs #thequietyear #CapCut
November 6, 2025 at 2:11 AM
One of the most interesting games I ever played has a new cute edition
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FYI this is what you do when your business is great and you are very liquid and creditworthy
BREAKING: OpenAI is requesting US government support to help guarantee financing for the massive investments in AI chips and data centers it needs for expansion, per Bloomberg.
November 6, 2025 at 12:51 AM
FYI this is what you do when your business is great and you are very liquid and creditworthy
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I'm proud to be included alongside so many great contributors to this much-needed book. Mine is a short essay on what ordinary people and activists can do to resist AI and big tech. I hope you'll check it out.
It's publication day for Read This When Things Fall Apart! So grateful to our contributors and to @akpress.org for making this book a reality. This is a strange time to be promoting a book, but I believe it's a text that has the potential to help us right now. Please get yourself a copy. ❤️
Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis
Letters to Activists in Crisis
bookshop.org
November 5, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I'm proud to be included alongside so many great contributors to this much-needed book. Mine is a short essay on what ordinary people and activists can do to resist AI and big tech. I hope you'll check it out.
My awesome pal @eleanorturney.co.uk has set up www.many-hats.org to provide affordable (including low income and lottery places) professional development for Freelancers!
Many Hats | Professional development for freelancers
Many Hats offers professional development workshops tailored for freelancers to enhance skills, stay up-tp-date, and advance careers.
www.many-hats.org
November 5, 2025 at 8:07 PM
My awesome pal @eleanorturney.co.uk has set up www.many-hats.org to provide affordable (including low income and lottery places) professional development for Freelancers!
Yesterday someone complimented my skirt, to which I gave the age-old answer: "It has pockets!"
November 5, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Yesterday someone complimented my skirt, to which I gave the age-old answer: "It has pockets!"
Here we go here we go here we go
November 5, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Here we go here we go here we go
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It's happening
November 5, 2025 at 2:03 PM
It's happening
It’s chasing the sun home season and I am here for it
November 2, 2025 at 6:25 PM
It’s chasing the sun home season and I am here for it
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I was sad to read that folk singer Archie Fisher has passed away. Men O' Worth is a powerful song of his about how the oil and gas industry transformed life in Northern Scotland.
But when the job is over and your boat rots on the shore
How will you feed your family when the companies go away?
But when the job is over and your boat rots on the shore
How will you feed your family when the companies go away?
Men O' Worth
YouTube video by Archie Fisher - Topic
www.youtube.com
November 2, 2025 at 2:12 PM
I was sad to read that folk singer Archie Fisher has passed away. Men O' Worth is a powerful song of his about how the oil and gas industry transformed life in Northern Scotland.
But when the job is over and your boat rots on the shore
How will you feed your family when the companies go away?
But when the job is over and your boat rots on the shore
How will you feed your family when the companies go away?
Marmite toast and a glass of wine
October 30, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Marmite toast and a glass of wine
@ppfideas.bsky.social was just thinking as a millennial I’m vaguely aware of the poll tax riots but not really what the tax was/how it was proposed/communicated/opposed/beaten. Would love a mini series deep dive or 3-part episode etc on it all if it ever fits in.
October 29, 2025 at 2:08 AM
@ppfideas.bsky.social was just thinking as a millennial I’m vaguely aware of the poll tax riots but not really what the tax was/how it was proposed/communicated/opposed/beaten. Would love a mini series deep dive or 3-part episode etc on it all if it ever fits in.
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Weasel Wes's Cycling Simulator
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4049620/
$1.49
Weasel Wes's Cycling Simulator is a 2D indoor cycling simulator that connects to your indoor sensors and bike trainers.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4049620/
$1.49
Weasel Wes's Cycling Simulator is a 2D indoor cycling simulator that connects to your indoor sensors and bike trainers.
October 28, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Weasel Wes's Cycling Simulator
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4049620/
$1.49
Weasel Wes's Cycling Simulator is a 2D indoor cycling simulator that connects to your indoor sensors and bike trainers.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4049620/
$1.49
Weasel Wes's Cycling Simulator is a 2D indoor cycling simulator that connects to your indoor sensors and bike trainers.
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In @yougov.co.uk polling of the trans community, to the best of our knowledge the first of its kind ever conducted, an astonishing 84% said Britain is “fairly unsafe” or “very unsafe” for trans people.
goodlaw.social/ncfw
goodlaw.social/ncfw
‘Abject terror’: survey shows 84% of trans people feel Britain is unsafe
YouGov poll reveals safety crisis for trans people in the UK
goodlaw.social
October 27, 2025 at 12:29 PM
In @yougov.co.uk polling of the trans community, to the best of our knowledge the first of its kind ever conducted, an astonishing 84% said Britain is “fairly unsafe” or “very unsafe” for trans people.
goodlaw.social/ncfw
goodlaw.social/ncfw
GenAI is going to cost lives, again: "AI-generated videos have been clogging social media as Hurricane Melissa heads towards Jamaica, diverting attention from critical safety information about the storm."
Hurricane Melissa live: Jamaicans take shelter as slow-moving category 5 storm increases in intensity
Hurricane expected to make landfall on the island by Tuesday morning is strongest since records began in 1850s
www.theguardian.com
October 27, 2025 at 11:54 PM
GenAI is going to cost lives, again: "AI-generated videos have been clogging social media as Hurricane Melissa heads towards Jamaica, diverting attention from critical safety information about the storm."
I'm sure no one involved feels this, but it's deeply funny to me that the subject of one of Shakespeare's greatest hachet jobs has produced a film which has done a whole new great hachet job www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
Steve Coogan to pay ‘substantial damages’ to academic defamed in Richard III film
Case had been due to go to trial after judge ruled 2022’s The Lost King, which Coogan co-wrote, portrayed claimant as ‘smug, unduly dismissive and patronising’
www.theguardian.com
October 27, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I'm sure no one involved feels this, but it's deeply funny to me that the subject of one of Shakespeare's greatest hachet jobs has produced a film which has done a whole new great hachet job www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
Click through for a shocking reminder of how fucked first past the post is
🚨 BREAKING | Greens surge to **17%**
➡️ REF – 28% (+1)
🔴 LAB – 18% (-4)
🔵 CON – 18% (-1)
🟢 GRN – 17% (+4)
🟠 LD – 11% (+1)
Via @LordAPolls, 16-20 Oct (+/- vs 11-15 Sep)
➡️ REF – 28% (+1)
🔴 LAB – 18% (-4)
🔵 CON – 18% (-1)
🟢 GRN – 17% (+4)
🟠 LD – 11% (+1)
Via @LordAPolls, 16-20 Oct (+/- vs 11-15 Sep)
October 27, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Click through for a shocking reminder of how fucked first past the post is
Watching 2003’s Code 46 (dir. Michael Winterbottom) and it’s fascinating. Spec fic, but not big in how they approach what it’s about, it feels claustrophobic. Dirty. Normal. And they do the kind of muttered, shrugged, gestured at exposition of world I love.
It’s on BBC iPlayer! Go watch it!
It’s on BBC iPlayer! Go watch it!
October 26, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Watching 2003’s Code 46 (dir. Michael Winterbottom) and it’s fascinating. Spec fic, but not big in how they approach what it’s about, it feels claustrophobic. Dirty. Normal. And they do the kind of muttered, shrugged, gestured at exposition of world I love.
It’s on BBC iPlayer! Go watch it!
It’s on BBC iPlayer! Go watch it!
This is very funny: "Researchers struggle to come up with ways to make unsupervised AIs pro-human without hobbling their other capabilities – the ones governments and private investors back them for."
Like, if we made AI models prioritise being nice to humans they'd stop doing profitable stuff.
Like, if we made AI models prioritise being nice to humans they'd stop doing profitable stuff.
James Meek · Computers that want things
For all the fluency and synthetic friendliness of public-facing AI chatbots like ChatGPT, it seems important to remember...
www.lrb.co.uk
October 23, 2025 at 11:13 PM
This is very funny: "Researchers struggle to come up with ways to make unsupervised AIs pro-human without hobbling their other capabilities – the ones governments and private investors back them for."
Like, if we made AI models prioritise being nice to humans they'd stop doing profitable stuff.
Like, if we made AI models prioritise being nice to humans they'd stop doing profitable stuff.
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It should die like Mussolini
Meet Mico, Microsoft’s AI version of Clippy
Meet Mico, Microsoft’s AI version of Clippy
Copilot now has its own virtual character for its voice mode.
buff.ly
October 23, 2025 at 9:57 PM
It should die like Mussolini
Love Brain & Brain games!
ANNOUNCEMENT: introducing our latest game!
The Marvelous Raincaster of Yell Holler, a time-looping puzzle ballad. 🪕
💧 Unravel a story-based time puzzle
💧 Employ a traveling c̶o̶n̶m̶a̶n̶ salesman
💧 Orchestrate a shindig and other such matters
Wishlist now! store.steampowered.com/app/3800300/
The Marvelous Raincaster of Yell Holler, a time-looping puzzle ballad. 🪕
💧 Unravel a story-based time puzzle
💧 Employ a traveling c̶o̶n̶m̶a̶n̶ salesman
💧 Orchestrate a shindig and other such matters
Wishlist now! store.steampowered.com/app/3800300/
October 23, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Love Brain & Brain games!
Melbourne pals! This looks great!
Melbourne folks! I'm going to be part of a Luddite Tribunal organised by the Brunswick Library — you gotta love public libraries and their critical workers — on November 27th at 6:30pm. I'll be joined by Lizzie O'Shea; it'll be a ton of fun! Free registration: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/the-luddit...
October 23, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Melbourne pals! This looks great!
Roast carrots are underrated
October 22, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Roast carrots are underrated