Jo Berry

Solstices, the turning of the year, competition between the Holly and Oak Kings... and a goddess defending both her kingdom and her marriage. Feels like a good day to talk about The Cold Iron of Summer ❄️ ☀️ www.amazon.com/dp/B0BXBQSM3F

New call for Submissions! 📣📣📣 AFTER THE FIRE, an anthology honoring the legacy of Ray Bradbury, edited by @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social and Assistant Director of the Ray Bradbury Center Carrie Cooper, is open to submissions until January 31st, 2027. Full submission guidelines below ⬇️

Look, I know all the reasons we got here, but we really need to start seriously thinking about what we do in a world where The Markets punish whole countries for voting for decency, compassion, and fairness. We must stop pretending the capitalist machine is an objective, value neutral force.

Saaame I was too sad to share my Bioware inspired art yesterday but here are some faves 💜 both personal fanart and commissions for some lovely fans of the games. Dragon Age is by far the world that's inspired me the most over the years and I'll cherish that forever

I've always believed Oxford Street could be so much more than a road. Today we begin a new chapter as the nation’s high street goes traffic free, creating a place where people can spend time, enjoy the atmosphere and experience the very best of our city.

The largest chocolate manufacturers made the switch and hoped you wouldn’t notice but now the price of cacao is collapsing which threatens the economic stability of these countries. Anyway if you love chocolate here are some great African brands to choose from. www.tasteatlas.com/best-rated-c...

This article does not discuss one major reason why chocolate in the West got worse - Ghana and Ivory Coast, the two African countries that are the biggest suppliers of cacao globally, got organised and started demanding fair prices for it. www.reuters.com/world/africa...

Did you know Einstein wasn't real? He was a theoretical physicist.

So here you go ... Thank you again to my friends at both BioWare and EA. To even dream in your sandbox was a privilege. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBO8...

Bioware forever.

No you see AI won’t replace jobs it will simply make the jobs easier

As someone whose first shipped game as a writer was Mass Effect and is now using Yarn Spinner, knowing that the team was inspired by a game I was a tinny part of is pretty cool. Here's to more stories, wherever they come from.

the one who had to tell him. He was so instantly struck. "No. I wasn't supposed to outlive him. He was supposed to be Checkov. That's not fair." He told me about getting to meet him & we had a pretty heavy talk about life & death. A beautiful soul. Our world is a bit dimmer without his light today.

Walter Koenig and I were guests at the same convention a decade ago. At lunch the first day he asked if he could join me and Jess, and I was like, of fucking course. We ended up hanging out and chatting all weekend. Wonderful man. Sadly was the weekend Anton Yelchin passe and I ended up being...

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

Voice actors and voice directors: tell me about the shortest, fastest bit of direction you’ve given or taken that really worked!

It’s hard to decide what part of this story on Marissa Mayer’s new startup is most loathsome, but this “women need a wife or, in other words, a digital servant” construction makes me want to flip over an actual table www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/s...

Just FYI 'cause she's not on social media, Jennifer is kind of stunned by this. We're big fans of the N.K. here. Edit: obvs, I'm not speaking for Hale here, who is awesome but I don't live with her.

Fork found in kitchen

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 3609: If ever you feel discouraged, know this. Every day you get up to write is an act of courage. Every word you manage to write is a light against the darkness. You may not see it from where you are now, but it's there. It's shining.

boy it sure seems like the main threat to democracy everywhere across the globe is right wing media and certain social media companies

Discworld QOTD, from The Truth

"You don't turn the Titanic around overnight" has been really bugging me because a) yes you can and b) you definitely should, that was the main problem

Eric Bauza was an amazing human. I met him while running a charity campaign for my 40th birthday to raise $1,000,000 for disabled gamers. He didn't know me from Adam, but when a mutual friend asked him to get involved, he was nothing but kind. He did voices on my stream for people who donated.

Omg no, he was so young. Damn. He was such a talented voice actor. It’s on the mind because I literally just watched it yesterday, but he got asked to do the taken monologue as porky pig and its a masterpiece

You must go home and be born over again; you don’t know how to cook a whale-steak yet.

In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.

Almost-full moon at the Gardens of Light tonight 🌔

The mossy stone steps and torii gate of Kamo Shrine (Kamo Jinja) located in the cedar forests of Keihoku, Ukyo-ku, Kyoto.

“He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory” — Obama

Sign this Authors Guild petition against the Australian government allowing AI to legally scrape books — any books, your books, even if they’re not Australian authorsguild.org/news/austral...

YOU GET A RESSIKAN FLUTE AT THE END. This is a normal set. Just another Magic set. Everything is fine. #MTGxStarTrek #WotCstaff

“Heat killed a record 50k people in European cities this summer, new research suggests, with scientists blaming climate breakdown for 2/3rds of the deaths. Morgues and funeral homes filled with bodies from June to August as the heat added by planet-baking pollution cut short an extra 32,000 lives…”

Between tick & tock lies a dislocated hour. Home to things with names too terrible to say. In the lost hours, in the gained hours, temporal spirits come through. Between tick and tock, some swear they can hear a soul trapped in time, scratching at glass. #ClocksGoBack

While North Mist figures out fast approaching Nov 7th and Dec 4th we'll shine slittle bit of light on our own projects we've been working away at since leaving BioWare. Will it replace the loss? Absolutely not. But hope for new beginnings seems what the doctor ordered about now.

BioWare's loss has impacted our team as many of us spent over a decade working on their games. While we'll never be able to recapture the glory days exactly as they were, you can find some of the former BW team are still here, still making games, trying to do our roots proud.

It always comes back to this for me; if AI was so good, such a disclosure would be a selling point. If AI was everything these slop jockeys said it was, they should be proud to let people know their game was AI made. But the proof is in the pudding, and they can't stand that people don't want it.

We acknowledge that no one has the bandwidth for this, but if it helps: -It’s ‘sleight of hand’ -It’s ‘bated breath’ -It’s ‘lo and behold’ -It's 'buck naked' -It’s ‘brass tacks’ -It’s ‘free rein’ -It’s ‘toe the line'

I think my ability to distinguish between "I am feeling weirdly anxious and low today" and "I am just a person having a totally normal reaction to being alive during the 2020s" might have completely vanished.

THREAD. I've been feeling bad that Jim (tomcox.substack.com/p/jim-an-ins...) & Roscoe (tomcox.substack.com/p/at-home-wi...) have had all the attention recently so I wanted to say a bit about our other cat, Professor Charles Cardigan, who is also an uncompromising individual & fabulous companion...

Looking for game devs who have been directly inspired by anything BioWare for my next video. I suspect the public likely doesn’t quite realize the extent of their influence on the industry, so I’d really like to highlight that. If you are one such game devs, pls reply to this post!

No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.

Absolutely destroyed by the news about BioWare today… As difficult as Veilguard was, those were some of the best, most talented and passionate people I’ve ever worked with and I’d give anything to do it again if it meant I got to do it with them. I genuinely had some of my best years there.