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• Ahmed Zewail (Egypt / US): Won 1999 Nobel Prize in #Chemistry • Nader Masmoudi (Tunisia): Won Fermat Prize in #mathematics • Abbas Bahri (Tunisia): also received the Fermat Prize • Sir Michael Atiyah (Lebanese descent / British): #mathematician who won both Fields Medal and Abel Prize.

🫩 don’t make me tap the sign.

Social media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?

It's a rough time to be an indie dev, so we got to thinking what we could do about it... Announcing MATES' RATES 🍻 We're offering 12 month-long co-dev engagements where we work on whatever you need to succeed! Very permissive terms. Flat rate of US$5,000ea (+ taxes). 🎟️ yarnspinner.dev/mates-rates

Casting a net of questionable size here, if you’re an ex-BioWare dev (or know of one who may not see this) working on something cool you’d like featured in a roundup at Kotaku, drop it below. Store page links helpful, and let me know what your role was at BW. Projects big and small welcome! RTs plz!

The BioWare news is so depressing, but not at all surprising. The games industry is so weary, we're all so tired.

Roses are red. Tires are flammable...

cloud’s identity crisis 🐥 #ff7rebirth

🎉 HUGE CAREER ANNOUNCEMENT 🎉 Today, I'm launching Vertical Slice, a new independent trade outlet committed to producing quality video game journalism that inspires, informs, and interrogates. That means daily news, incisive interviews, vital investigative work, and more. www.verticalslice.news

American small business owners largely see themselves as lower-level rentiers in a quasi-feudal economy as opposed to service providers in a competitive market economy, and part of that means not having to actually be competent at providing services

Australopithecus 3 million years ago:

Game developer explores colonialism through the eyes of a penguin: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10-11/penguin-colony-game-explores-colonialism-and-cosmic-horror/107243792

if you don’t keep up with the youth i want you to know they’ve renamed “tramp stamps” to “cake toppers” which feels like the first advancement for feminism in a long time

four years ago I posted this image of paleontologist Jan Smit looking at rocks and his son-in-law replied with something even better

Did a pattern for grass and tested it out in a study

Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf

Back in May, Double Fine employees petitioned for a union. Two weeks later, that petition was withdrawn. What happened? https://kotaku.com/inside-the-failed-fight-to-unionize-one-of-gamings-most-idealized-studios-2000742755

Dressmaker is a masterpiece.

Do you want good tortoise news? I thought so. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

NEW: Staff at HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, and Hachette told @adamm0rgan.bsky.social AI is infiltrating their workplaces, from generating cover art and back cover copy, to publicity materials, to rejection emails, as execs tell junior staff to "champion" the tech. www.wired.com/story/book-p...

We bullied a bunch of vulnerable kids back into the closet with threats of explicit violence and parental abuse. Why do they suddenly feel less secure?

this is the funniest thing i've seen in a looooong time. city passes new rule allowing prayer before city council meetings. satanist prays. city council then debates proper time to "undo the curse that was just put on our city" www.404media.co/it-is-done-h...

decided to hop on the latest art trend how did I do

when the washing machine goes off-balance one of the things i like to do is scream "Aaaagh you piece of shit you piece of goddamn shit you are a vile thing a hateful thing a thing thrice times thrice damned to me

[job interview] interviewer: so god killed all your kids? job: that's right

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

I ran an acorn foraging workshop today for a colleague’s food history class! Knowing some students would inevitably come face to face with their first acorn weevil while cracking nuts, I made a few little pins as prizes for weevil-finding 🐛

Races are overdone and don't make sense. Which is why Breakaway has Cultures instead! Makes way more sense. Also so tired of options being "human but with weird bits and bobs". Get weird with it!

I spotted a lovely little Palm Warbler perching on a Nutter's Battery branch this week. Stopped by Central Park on its way south from Canada to Florida/Caribbean. Safe travels! 🥰🥰🥰 #Warblers #CentralPark #birdsseenin2026

So uhhhhhh… Apparently meta's muse "AI" is just straight up doxxing people to strangers on FB marketplace??? This has the potential to hurt so so many people, and I genuinely wonder how long before they roll out a fix for it.

The dam removals that get the most press tend to be superlative western ones, like the Klamath and Elwha—big rivers, big fish. For @biographic.bsky.social, I wrote about some equally vital, under-the-radar projects now restoring eastern streams, one old mill dam at a time. #AlewivesAreTheNewSalmon

What's the difference between bi- and pansexuality? We Asked LGBT Elders and They Asked if We Were Cops

Still thinking about her

Me when someone turns on the light

I played plenty of games before, but Planescape: Torment blew my MIND. So many branching possibilities, and how you unlocked more information about yourself and your surroundings had no equal.

comic, personal computing, magazine (1978) archive.org/details/Pers...

This is exactly why I'm making Breakaway's backgrounds the way that I am. I find the class track in RPGs boring, I want shit to get really weird.

youtu.be/jYKAQZUAbHU?...

Big Video Game be like NOOO you can't go out of bounds! That's not our intended game experience! You're gonna ruin your immersion!! Meanwhile games made by like two Finnish devs with sleep deprivation and drugs are "what boundaries? You just broke free of the tutorial! The real game starts now!"

I feel like the kids who did poorly in science and history class are trying to get revenge on the kids who did well at science and history class and now we’re all going to die