Alex O’Connor

This sign is doing NUMBERS on Nextdoor.

#paranoiattrpg

This is meant in the best way. This is absolutely so reminiscent of the direct interfaces and vision of programmable uis from the late 90s, even down to the aesthetic. Really wonderful to see these ideas modernised.

My favourite poem.

I stand by this

Jev is a dealer in harsh judgments.

“The fraction of desk rejected papers at TMLR used to be about 6% in 2023 but is now at about 53%.”

so I’m “under arrest.” interesting. perhaps you didn’t realize I’m one of bluesky’s 38 most influential posters

If we really want to honor Tim Curry's memory, then we have to publish like 8 different obituaries, each with a different and entirely plausible cause of death.

Dolly Parton was the subject of a long running thought exercise in Fermi estimation. How many times do you think she said the word Jolene in her lifetime?

The live music at @flysfo.bsky.social is really good.

So what’s the Venn diagram of shape rotators, vibes people, and spreadsheet people look like?

Watch: Louvre Museum reopens gallery after jewellery heist

Stately, plump Thanos came from the stairhead, bearing a glove of metal on which infinity stones lay crossed

Camera ready deadline is Aug 8! Also, financial assistance form is up: forms.gle/HhXhv8ND38X1... Deadline is July 31 Author registration is ongoing (authors, get on it!) Non-author registration will follow up in (very) early August

The r/osr blogroll - come share your ideas from this week! www.reddit.com/r/osr/commen... #ttrpg #DnD #bx #OSE #DIYrpg #rpg #GLOG #OSR #POSR #NSR

Would literary scholars care to comment on what the Bard might have thought of “agentic sonnets”?

I do love a good picture of a pelican riding a bicycle. bambamramfan.github.io/ai-compass/

We're thrilled to present the shortlist for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction:

I had the immense pleasure to be a reviewer for colm again this year and fully endorse what’s below. It’s a gem of a conference.

Interested to note this “humanizer” for grant proposals. github.com/AIScientists... My feeling is that a lot of the more “bot-like” forms are hallmarks of traditional human academic writing.

Group chats on bsky are just another source of FOMO for me, I suspect.

No other programming language has had such an excellent introductory movie as Erlang. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrIj...

Academic writing should be addressed neither to the public nor to other academics. It should be addressed to a single interlocutor with whom you have a petty rivalry and whose work you are trying to discredit

Can anyone help identify the address? It is likely to be a London address of the late 1840s/early 1850s. #handwriting

Could atrophy be a good name for the ATproto ephemeral messsging platform?

Generational tweet that might even spawn a school of architecture.

This is absolute gold, to be sure to be sure.

@tedunderwood.com x.com/DavidDuvenau... testing models trained on 1930s text on python.

All about Bookland - www.tiktok.com/t/ZTk9gnc1s/

VERY COOL PERSON: It's four-twenty, you know what that means? ME: Hell yeah! [starts shoving blackbirds into a pie]

This deserves to be on bsky. Original: www.threads.com/@iseethings4...

It’s always “this meeting could’ve been an email” and never “this email could’ve been a fine cask of delectable amontillado wine”

Our new album is out today! A sincere request to help spread the word!

I misread the headline as one movie and got very excited for a moment…

Fighter Wizard Elf: My Rules for Bare Metal d20 Gaming is now available by PDF, and you're hearing it here first. A print run of 20 physical copies has released for attendees at @the-kraken.bsky.social, and another, larger print run is planned. #ttrpg #DnD www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

China Miéville does the the criterion closet but for the Folio Society. This is a format that should be copied more widely. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTk6L5hdk/

Today, we’re excited to introduce Attie, currently as an invite-only closed beta. Attie is the first agentic social app on atproto. It’s something completely new — an experiment in making building on the protocol more accessible.