Joel Kallstrom
@joelkallstrom.bsky.social
Co-host the Seria Ludo gaming podcast with @tsraveling.bsky.social. Contact us if you're a game dev interested in coming on! Software developer. Former bookseller. Dilettante. Edinburgh-based.
www.serialudo.com
https://www.instagram.com/seria_ludo/
www.serialudo.com
https://www.instagram.com/seria_ludo/
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Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!
September 30, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!
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If you care about games, take a moment to read through this and take action. NSFW games might not be for you - they're not for me - but we cannot allow a small group of censorious extremists to decide that people can not make games about sex, about sexuality, and about the role of sex in our world.
I know we're upset about itch, but they're not the only ones
Payment processors harassed companies bc of a 1,000 email hate campaign
But we can EASILY top 1,000!
I prewrote an email + got the contact info - you just have to send!
↻💬♡ to boost
We CAN make a difference 💕
#itch #censorship
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Payment processors harassed companies bc of a 1,000 email hate campaign
But we can EASILY top 1,000!
I prewrote an email + got the contact info - you just have to send!
↻💬♡ to boost
We CAN make a difference 💕
#itch #censorship
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July 25, 2025 at 9:08 PM
If you care about games, take a moment to read through this and take action. NSFW games might not be for you - they're not for me - but we cannot allow a small group of censorious extremists to decide that people can not make games about sex, about sexuality, and about the role of sex in our world.
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i feel like i should just stop watching any new series until they've gotten a full series run
The Wheel of Time has stopped turning on Prime Video after Amazon canceled the series following the end of Season 3.
Amazon Cancels Wheel of Time Prime Video Series After 3 Seasons, Leaving the Story Far From Finished
bit.ly
May 24, 2025 at 10:19 AM
i feel like i should just stop watching any new series until they've gotten a full series run
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why the fuck am i not a wizard. this fucking sucks
May 24, 2025 at 3:36 AM
why the fuck am i not a wizard. this fucking sucks
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Just as a statistic, Israel's government has gruesomely murdered 38 Palestinians today so far, statistically over half of them under the age of 16, many through methods explicitly prohibited even in the violence-accepting rules of war. It is 13:00 / 1 PM.
May 22, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Just as a statistic, Israel's government has gruesomely murdered 38 Palestinians today so far, statistically over half of them under the age of 16, many through methods explicitly prohibited even in the violence-accepting rules of war. It is 13:00 / 1 PM.
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"We don't give a fuck. You need to get sober."
May 8, 2025 at 3:42 PM
"We don't give a fuck. You need to get sober."
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Israel is saying that Gaza has enough aid for five months now, despite the fact they never met their aid requirements in the last few weeks, fucking monsters
March 2, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Israel is saying that Gaza has enough aid for five months now, despite the fact they never met their aid requirements in the last few weeks, fucking monsters
Remain open to chance encounters - they can change your life. Celebrate the success of others. Anyone who stops being a student never truly was one. Kindness can feel unnecessary when young - but it pays off with time, and is the right thing to do regardless of eventual reward.
people over 30 quote this with some life advice for the rest of us?
February 8, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Remain open to chance encounters - they can change your life. Celebrate the success of others. Anyone who stops being a student never truly was one. Kindness can feel unnecessary when young - but it pays off with time, and is the right thing to do regardless of eventual reward.
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- Work harder than anyone you know; it’s one of the rare things u control
- Constantly ask Why & What-if
- Enjoy the journey; the destination is out of ur hands
- Trust your gut; it’s what makes you you
- Be honest w people; cherish those that are honest w you
- Try to be understanding and helpful
- Constantly ask Why & What-if
- Enjoy the journey; the destination is out of ur hands
- Trust your gut; it’s what makes you you
- Be honest w people; cherish those that are honest w you
- Try to be understanding and helpful
people over 30 quote this with some life advice for the rest of us?
January 31, 2025 at 5:54 PM
- Work harder than anyone you know; it’s one of the rare things u control
- Constantly ask Why & What-if
- Enjoy the journey; the destination is out of ur hands
- Trust your gut; it’s what makes you you
- Be honest w people; cherish those that are honest w you
- Try to be understanding and helpful
- Constantly ask Why & What-if
- Enjoy the journey; the destination is out of ur hands
- Trust your gut; it’s what makes you you
- Be honest w people; cherish those that are honest w you
- Try to be understanding and helpful
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We are in the midst of an administrative coup the like of which we have never seen - or even imagined - in our lifetimes.
Every day brings new abuses, new scandals, which can’t just be undone or fixed.
We are in a very dark place as a country and as a constitutional republic right now.
Every day brings new abuses, new scandals, which can’t just be undone or fixed.
We are in a very dark place as a country and as a constitutional republic right now.
February 6, 2025 at 9:30 PM
We are in the midst of an administrative coup the like of which we have never seen - or even imagined - in our lifetimes.
Every day brings new abuses, new scandals, which can’t just be undone or fixed.
We are in a very dark place as a country and as a constitutional republic right now.
Every day brings new abuses, new scandals, which can’t just be undone or fixed.
We are in a very dark place as a country and as a constitutional republic right now.
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Israel Has Killed at Least 20 Palestinians in Rafah, Southern Gaza, Despite “Ceasefire”
January 24, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Israel Has Killed at Least 20 Palestinians in Rafah, Southern Gaza, Despite “Ceasefire”
On our podcast, @ekhudson.bsky.social went into some of the politics of Hardspace: Shipbreaker - open.spotify.com/episode/10b0...
January 20, 2025 at 12:00 PM
On our podcast, @ekhudson.bsky.social went into some of the politics of Hardspace: Shipbreaker - open.spotify.com/episode/10b0...
from The Journey of the Magi, T.S. Eliot
December 23, 2024 at 5:41 PM
from The Journey of the Magi, T.S. Eliot
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The freedom to pilfer, steal, and plunder creativity the UK is formally going to give to AI companies is absolutely staggering. If you're in the UK, take this stand right now. This is a fence that you can't put back up if it passes you, and it will kill the UK creative sector.
UK Folks.
If you're concerned about the catastrophic impact of generative AI on the creative industries & the theft of artists/writers creations, then you REALLY NEED to complete the below online consultation form.
This is your chance to say 'fuck off, this is not okay'
www.gov.uk/government/c...
If you're concerned about the catastrophic impact of generative AI on the creative industries & the theft of artists/writers creations, then you REALLY NEED to complete the below online consultation form.
This is your chance to say 'fuck off, this is not okay'
www.gov.uk/government/c...
Copyright and Artificial Intelligence
This consultation seeks views on how the government can ensure the UK’s legal framework for AI and copyright supports the UK creative industries and AI sector together.
www.gov.uk
December 19, 2024 at 1:00 PM
The freedom to pilfer, steal, and plunder creativity the UK is formally going to give to AI companies is absolutely staggering. If you're in the UK, take this stand right now. This is a fence that you can't put back up if it passes you, and it will kill the UK creative sector.
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I honestly don't even know what to do with this anymore. The baseless narrative that every mass shooter is trans is completely solidified on the online right. It's completely memeified. No amount of fact checking breaks through. It's so incredibly dangerous at this moment.
December 17, 2024 at 3:08 PM
I honestly don't even know what to do with this anymore. The baseless narrative that every mass shooter is trans is completely solidified on the online right. It's completely memeified. No amount of fact checking breaks through. It's so incredibly dangerous at this moment.
Semi playable plot recaps, that both highlighted major gameplay events and refreshed the player's memory for the game's control scheme, would be so sick.
Number four: recaps.
Whenever I fire up the game, having a pause menu or codex that recaps what's going on in my active questline is sooooo important. It's rare I can play a game every day, or over the course of a whole weekend. Help me catch up🥲
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Whenever I fire up the game, having a pause menu or codex that recaps what's going on in my active questline is sooooo important. It's rare I can play a game every day, or over the course of a whole weekend. Help me catch up🥲
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December 10, 2024 at 3:06 PM
Semi playable plot recaps, that both highlighted major gameplay events and refreshed the player's memory for the game's control scheme, would be so sick.
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It's now six-thousand dollars to 50% funded! This game cannot get made without your support, because none of the publishers want to take up a Palestinian-made narrative game about a historical ethnic cleansing. Without you, it doesn't happen.
🎯 Almost halfway there! 🚀 Let’s hit 50% by today, we’re counting on you! 🍉
✨ Challenge: Share & tag 3 friends to join the journey. Every bit counts! 💪❤️
👉 launchgood.com/1948
#DreamsOnAPillow #SupportIndieGames #NakbaStories
✨ Challenge: Share & tag 3 friends to join the journey. Every bit counts! 💪❤️
👉 launchgood.com/1948
#DreamsOnAPillow #SupportIndieGames #NakbaStories
December 7, 2024 at 2:39 PM
It's now six-thousand dollars to 50% funded! This game cannot get made without your support, because none of the publishers want to take up a Palestinian-made narrative game about a historical ethnic cleansing. Without you, it doesn't happen.
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Today we remember the legacy of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson
December 4, 2024 at 4:30 PM
Today we remember the legacy of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson
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I looked up the webpage and confirmed it's not viral marketing for a dystopian streaming series. It is grimly funny how public advertising now looks like what you'd see if you wore the glasses in They Live.
December 4, 2024 at 8:13 PM
I looked up the webpage and confirmed it's not viral marketing for a dystopian streaming series. It is grimly funny how public advertising now looks like what you'd see if you wore the glasses in They Live.
Good info for booksellers #booksky
When I was a buyer at a large indie, my rule of thumb was:
1 preorder: huh, let me take a closer look at this one
2 preorders: we need to stock this book
3 preorders: we should order enough to face this out
4+ preorders: this should be on front-of-store display
1 preorder: huh, let me take a closer look at this one
2 preorders: we need to stock this book
3 preorders: we should order enough to face this out
4+ preorders: this should be on front-of-store display
More detail: When booksellers get pre-orders, it's a quantitative and qualitative signal that there is like *something here* about a book. The avalanche of new books out there is hard to communicate if you're not in the industry, and pre-orders are one of vanishingly few signals. It is a real thing!
December 3, 2024 at 2:04 PM
Good info for booksellers #booksky
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About the Lebanon ceasefire Biden is so pleased with — CNN just reported that "Israel has violated that ceasefire about 100 times."
December 2, 2024 at 6:36 PM
About the Lebanon ceasefire Biden is so pleased with — CNN just reported that "Israel has violated that ceasefire about 100 times."
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Thank god there's finally some useful technology. Yi-Fei Chen, aTaiwanese designer, has built a beautiful gun that collects and freezes tears, so you can shoot them at the person who caused them
December 1, 2024 at 5:49 PM
Thank god there's finally some useful technology. Yi-Fei Chen, aTaiwanese designer, has built a beautiful gun that collects and freezes tears, so you can shoot them at the person who caused them
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Oh great job guys. You know that tech oligarch who amassed obscene wealth by doing financialization? He was super left wing until he saw your post
December 2, 2024 at 9:16 PM
Oh great job guys. You know that tech oligarch who amassed obscene wealth by doing financialization? He was super left wing until he saw your post