Solvei! Still you.
I'm an #education designer & #ProfessionalDevelopment projects #manager. 🎓 Also a player & aspiring developer of #TTRPG & #BoardGames. 🎲
You'll find me practicing #CreativeWriting & #reading #books. 📖 I like moving my body: #GymRat, #yoga enthusiast & lover of #adventure #cycling 💪🧘🎒🚲
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He/him, although in my #mind, I am a manifold of aspects. 👽
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Pokémon Go players thought they were catching Pikachus.
They were actually building the nervous system for robot civilization.
500M humans. 30B images. Zero consent forms.
The game was the harvest.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/03/10/1134099/how-pokemon-go-is-helping-robots-deliver-pizza-on-time/
I think, sometimes, that writing is a kind of ritual; that one must take up their pen or sit down at their keyboard and summon the wild thing that lives inside them; their child self, immortal and undying, to whom all music is passion, all stories are true, and all patterns are magic.
a summoning of the self
where is the little girl
with mud on her face
feathers in her hair
and a necklace made of flowers
o' wild thing, I call to you
it's time for songs and stories
where is the little girl
who speaks with the storms
and holds counsel with cats
while the cicadas sing
o' wild thing, I call to you
it is time to come forth
where is the little girl
who was left behind
the one who lives
in the wilds within
o' wild thing, I call to you
and make my hands yours
Some interesting #ttrpg discourse floating about...
On the one hand, the case for writing in complete sentences rather than using bullet points : https://samsorensen.blot.im/apologia-for-plain-paragraphs
On the other hand, the case for making RPG materials more ambiguous and less comprehensible : https://www.patreon.com/posts/bullet-points-in-152873553
This feels like an attempt at digesting the Ben Milton bullet-point discourse from a couple of months ago and I actually welcome it.
The strategic masterminds of the 3rd Galactic Impire have allowed The Chosen to wreak havoc upon our enemies as we fought the Great Khan and killed him. Now as we take the homeworlds of The Chosen, they soon shall fall, too. Come follow our epic SciFi journey:
I try to ALT text all my images according to recommended good practices, such as this one:
https://www.perkins.org/resource/how-write-alt-text-and-image-descriptions-visually-impaired/
This takes some effort and it helps only a minority. But to that minority, ALT text makes an incomparable difference. It's worth it, please do it.
However, I realised that sometimes context isn't implicit in ALT descriptions when we rely on experiences made for fully functioning senses. For example, if I post a still from a movie implying a certain meaning that is obvious to anyone who has seen it, that assumes the movie can be just as easily interpreted by people with impaired senses. Clearly, that's not the case.
So, if you encounter any of my posts and the ALT text isn't providing enough clarity, please reach out and I will do my best to explain.
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This kind of thing is infuriating:
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