Younès ★

you're my hero

i'm a big fan of this piece

this is why the whole “oh, suffering creates great art” thing is bullshit

you know what’s conducive to art? a roof over your head and food on the table

you know what isn’t? stressing out over where the fuck the rent money is going to come from

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland.

And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

People talk about this stuff in terms of how much it'll suck for gaming and I hate to inform you how many MRI machines, X-Rays, all sorts of other vital machinery are just a Windows IoT Edition PC in a beige plastic box with a big magnet/accelerator/whatever attached.

Background images of an illustration card showing a tall glass of homemade lemonade, as well as sheet music and lemon plants. Header text in an elongated purple font with white outline reads: Brindlewood Bay, Forever Sour - Part One. Subheader reads: Tonight, 7pm GMT/8pm CET at twitch.tv/euphoriaap Rectangular frames show headshots for Jen, Younés, Flavia, and Fresh

TONIGHT!

The Murder Madames face their final challenge. Life in the beautiful town of Petitpoisson has handed them lemons - what will they make of it?

Join @thejenya.bsky.social, @pyrofoux.itch.io, @vinhaar.bsky.social and @freshtesh.bsky.social for the end of our four-part Brindlewood Bay series!

Thank you so much to the amazing team at All Will Rise for signing our pledge and refusing to publish their game (which you should buy and support!) on Xbox until Microsoft end their complicity in Israel's genocide.

If you're a developer team interested in doing the same, give us an email!

I'm blessed to be the partner of this sweet sweet man ☀️💕🌙

Background illustrations of an illustration card showing a tall glass of homemade lemonade, as well as sheet music and lemon plants. Header text in an elongated purple font with white outline reads: Brindlewood Bay, Forever Sour - Part One. Subheader reads: Tonight, 7pm GMT/8pm CET at twitch.tv/euphoriaap Rectangular frames show headshots for Jen, Younés, Flavia, and Fresh

TONIGHT!

@thejenya.bsky.social, @pyrofoux.itch.io, @vinhaar.bsky.social and @freshtesh.bsky.social return to Petitpoisson for the start of a new mystery!

When trouble comes to a local lemon festival, these inquisitive grand-mères are ready to leave no fruit unsqueezed in the search for justice.

Starting in 2.5 hours! Brindlewood Bay: Forever Sour features the finest gran-grans @pyrofoux.itch.io + @vinhaar.bsky.social + @freshtesh.bsky.social

With the tiniest 🍋 lemon twist 🍋 of being in a fictional French town!

ash-brown haired white girl sitting on a light pink couch. she's wearing a revealing outfit with flowers, transparent parts and green/pink/beige/gold colors !

Egglantine 🕊️ | #ttrpg #art

In love with this outfit design i bought from @johdaa.bsky.social and of course I had to draw the best girl in it! 😭

(character of @pyrofoux.itch.io 💖)

A photo of a bunch of NASA research documents, with titles like "STRUCTURAL MARGINS OBSERVED IMMEDIATELY PRIOR TO EXCEEDANCE", "PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS OF UNEXPECTED WOBBLE IN A RIGIDLY NON-WOBBLING SYSTEM", "OBSERVED PERFORMANCE OF COMPONENTS KNOWN TO HAVE BEEN INSTALLED BACKWARDS", "COGNITIVE LOAD IMPLICATIONS OF ACRONYMS REFERRING TO OTHER ACRONYMS", "THRMAL CHARACTERISTICS OF MATERIALS DESCRIBED AS 'PROBABLY INFLAMMABLE'", "ON THE REPEATED SURVIVAL OF SYSTEMS NEVER INTENDED TO WORK", "THE EFFECT OF CLIPBOARD ON PERCEIVED AUTHORITY IN TEST ENVIRONMENTS", "MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF SUBSTANCES EXPOSED TO REPEATED MEETINGS", "ANOMALOUS RESULTS WHICH PERSIST DESPITE STRONG MANAGEMENT DISAPPROVAL", and "A PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT OF THE MOON'S APPARENT DISINTEREST IN OUR ACTIVITIES"

Some terrifically titled papers from a discovered collection of NASA research documents found in a skip

(with thanks to @juliarez.placid.horse)

I remember you coming to Tourcoing for a gamejam festival. My little brother played your game, and you complimented him on the way he put his fingers on the keyboard. You gave me a "P" floppy disk and it became one of my most prized possession.

let's keep sharing the post and donate if you're able to!!!

A man: "Whyyyyy am I so miserable all the time" The same, but she's now a woman: "Ok that helped but everything else is still fucked"

It has now been four years

Should artists get a basic income like they do in Ireland? Could the government pay salaries to musicians and artists - no strings attached like they do in Ireland?

The correct answer to this is "Yes, and everyone else too."

what happens when you give 3 different authors the exact same TINY sprite sheet? you get 3 COMPLETELY different PICO-8 games!! it's...

adamatomic.itch.io/update-jam

🎰 A Jackpot of Skulls by @brainfruit.bsky.social
🐤 Bird Watcher by @curseofremy.bsky.social
🐸 Frogwell by @adamatomic.bsky.social

EU friends, please take a moment to sign this initiative, especially if you're from the countries still below the support threshold

No. This is somewhere to be. This is all you have, but it's still something. Streets and sodium lights. The sky, the world. You're still alive.

Oh, that's intended behavior then! The challenge is to find a set of three guesses that will break all rules. It's a different sort of puzzle, that you can only really try after solving the puzzle normally. I hope that's clearer 😌

Darynda Jones: The fact that there’s a Highway to Hell and only a Stairway to Heaven says a lot about anticipated traffic numbers

me (nodding wisely): car owners will go to hell, got it

(This rule is another artefact of the puzzle engine, I need to remove it from Scriddle)

The "See Rules" page sometimes lack the "There must be at least one shaded cell in the grid" rule. 😅

I didn't know, my best tentative was 4 😄

Seems like you can!

Ah, I explained it poorly then. That's a challenge you can try *after* solving it for the first time. You can refresh the page to restart playing

I'd love to see the full credits roll of our larp

- A group of fully grown adults collapsed into emotional rubble this week after encountering a teacher title that did not personally receive their approval. The incident triggered mass Facebook posts, legal threats, and a community-wide reminder that the people screaming "kids are too soft" cannot emotionally survive one new word. Parents immediately announced they were pulling children from music class, threatening lawsuits, and demanding firings, all because children accepted something calmly, politely, and without a meltdown. This response enraged adults, who had worked very hard to be upset. Children processed the situation in under 30 seconds. Adults have now entered day three of spiral posting. Several parents described the issue as "dangerous" and "immoral," words they apparently reserve for situations involving tambourines and basic respect. One adult warned that children might ask questions, confirming the real horror is not gender, but curiosity. The fragility on display has been remarkable. These are the same adults who mock participation trophies, complain about snowflakes, and brag about "how we were raised." That upbringing, it turns out, produced people who short-circuit when reality fails to match their Facebook comfort zone.

Experts note that not one child reported confusion, distress, or identity crisis. However, dozens of adults reported being personally wounded, spiritually attacked, and victimized by the existence of a teacher who did not cater to their feelings. At press time, children remained fine. Music class remained fine. The school remained fine. Only the adults were broken, trembling before the terrifying idea that the world does not freeze until they approve it. Community Note: If you would like to counter the noise, the district needs supportive messages reminding them that calm, inclusive adults still exist and that children do not need to be rescued from basic human respect. The encourages these parents to locate the nearest mirror and ask themselves why a second grader has more emotional stability than they do.

Lmao apparently people near me are freaking out about a non binary teacher

And I am watching the entire community come together to dunk on the much smaller group of transphobic dipshits and it is DELICIOUS

The local newspaper even snarkily wrote about them and I am CRYING

Yes, you're missing three rules. Almost there!

Deliberate! It's surprising, but there's no bugs there.