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The fireworks display in DC last night, modified after the opening of Apocalypse Now. It is November 2023, I sit with 2 colleagues in the control room of a...

July 5, 2026 at 10:02 PM

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JD Perrin

@jdperrin.bsky.social

I live several miles away from the Washington Monument, and last night, you could hear the finale of the fireworks from my window, as they plunged our whole area into a red alert health emergency.

My friend Weaver lives closer than that. Please take a minute and read what he has to say.

Weaver Walker @weaverswork.bsky.social · Jul 5

In today's newsletter I am completely honest about myself at my most afraid, about the cognitive dissonance of the 4th, about the way PTSD transforms my vision. It's about going crazy in America. It is an account vunerable and worth reading. Please read and share.

buttondown.com/weavers-coun...

Bombs Fall Over DC

Everything I Could Learn About Amazon's AI Slop Shows

July 5, 2026 at 10:53 PM

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JD Perrin

@jdperrin.bsky.social

I spent the last two weeks reading, writing and thinking about the three AI slop shows Amazon is having made. Each one has its own problems! One is canceled! I had to watch a bunch of kids YouTube for this! youtu.be/OjkzcxRtv_w?...

YouTube video by JD Perrin

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June 17, 2026 at 7:01 PM

Weaver Walker

@weaverswork.bsky.social

In today's newsletter I am completely honest about myself at my most afraid, about the cognitive dissonance of the 4th, about the way PTSD transforms my vision. It's about going crazy in America. It is an account vunerable and worth reading. Please read and share.

buttondown.com/weavers-coun...

Bombs Fall Over DC

The fireworks display in DC last night, modified after the opening of Apocalypse Now. It is November 2023, I sit with 2 colleagues in the control room of a...

boots on the ground reporting from a land worth living in updates on works in progress, research compiled, reflections and stories, game design, investigations, travel photos, exercises, pedagogy, som...

July 5, 2026 at 10:02 PM

Weaver Walker

@weaverswork.bsky.social

I've set up my bluesky to post my newsletter writing here Automatically. I'm not here much these days and social media no longer agrees with my constitution. So this is a way to make the writing I'm most enjoying visible and y'all have an easy way to share my work if it moves you.

July 4, 2026 at 10:14 PM

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Emma ✌️🦀

@crabmoney.bsky.social

It is very hard to get me to open an email. I have 36,942 unread emails. Not a damn one of these newsletter installments are in that unread count if that tells you how solid it is

Sasha Reneau @22to22.bsky.social · May 21

Weaver Walker, of Sports are Just Numerology and Together We Write Private Cathedrals (roswellian.itch.io), has a newsletter, and it's one of like three of the torrent of emails i get every day that i am always delighted to open. buttondown.com/weavers-coun...

Weaver's Country

boots on the ground reporting from a land worth living in updates on works in progress, research compiled, reflections and stories, game design, investigations, travel photos, exercises, pedagogy, som...

May 21, 2026 at 5:07 PM

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Sasha Reneau

@22to22.bsky.social

Weaver Walker, of Sports are Just Numerology and Together We Write Private Cathedrals (roswellian.itch.io), has a newsletter, and it's one of like three of the torrent of emails i get every day that i am always delighted to open. buttondown.com/weavers-coun...

Weaver's Country

Last Train to Bremen by Caro Asercion

May 21, 2026 at 1:22 AM

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caro

@seaexcursion.itch.io

the all-new edition of the award-winning game about a band on the run includes:
🚂 stunning interior illustrations by @badbucket.bsky.social
🚂 fresh layout by @rubylavin.bsky.social
🚂 same great dramaturgy and editing by @weaverswork.bsky.social

On the left, a woodcut style illustration of a trainyard at night. The quartet flees, carrying their instrument cases onto a freight car on a towering bridge. In the distance, the Black Barn burns. "They fled with their instruments and little else."

On the right: ACT I. THE BAND. In character order, the four doomed heroes of this fated endeavor:

• Cockerel: The one who met the Devil eye to eye. Flashy, charming, arrogant.
• Cat: The one who saw the writing on the wall. Vigilant, patient, shrewd.
• Hound: The one who put the target on our back. Impulsive, eager, passionate.
• Mule: The one who booked our passage out of town. Dry, stubborn, blunt.

December 9, 2025 at 9:53 PM

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caro

@seaexcursion.itch.io

Thirteen years of retribution, paid in full.

The 2025 Possum Creek edition of LAST TRAIN TO BREMEN, a Tragedy for a Doomed Quartet, is now available on itch: seaexcursion.itch.io/bremen

A tragedy for a doomed quartet

seaexcursion.itch.io

December 9, 2025 at 9:53 PM

Weaver Walker

@weaverswork.bsky.social

Sasha's idea of the game that you operate instead of play has been so integral to my development as a designer. It's really pivotal. You should check read this! It contains an incredibly sweet and sharp write up Of one of my favorite games I've ever written: Hollerith Communications Manual.

Teacabbage is working... @teacabbage.bsky.social · Oct 26

What's a machine game? Is a book a machine game? It's certainly more machinic than a movie is. But is interpreting a movie through a certain lens machinic? Is this post machinic? Maybe not, but is reading this post machinic? Is asking "is this machinic?" machinic?

Machine Games | Sasha Reneau

Get more from Sasha Reneau on Patreon

www.patreon.com

November 3, 2025 at 6:38 PM

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Jenna "the" Yow

@jannouna.bsky.social

hi guys, my friend maisa and her family are trying to raise 1k in 8 days before their fundraiser closes. i just donated €20, can anybody match me or share?

www.paypal.com/pools/c/9gnU...

Help Raed's family

Hello my friends I'm Ronya and I'm the host of Raed Fares Family Fundraiser. Raed is my dear friend from Gaza. His family consists of Raed 38, Maisa 37, Fares 15, Adam 13, Lana 7. They are living bot...

www.paypal.com

July 30, 2025 at 6:38 PM

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JD Perrin

@jdperrin.bsky.social

Anything you read or play made by my friend Weaver will be unlike anything else you ever read or play. Check out an uncompromising game by my uncompromising good pal - print and play for yourself!

Weaver Walker @weaverswork.bsky.social · Jun 26

I just posted an update to The Ship Sinks Here, my anti-war sequel to battle ship. It's gotten a complete rewrite, a new print at home layout, and an a remodeled itch page with the best banner I've ever made. This game was one of my favs, now its even better. You can read about the update here:

This week I updated my game The Ship Sinks Here , an anti-war sequel to battleship, with a full second edition. It's been five years since I originally published it, and looking back it's still some o...

June 27, 2025 at 1:12 AM

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Weaver Walker

@weaverswork.bsky.social

I just posted an update to The Ship Sinks Here, my anti-war sequel to battle ship. It's gotten a complete rewrite, a new print at home layout, and an a remodeled itch page with the best banner I've ever made. This game was one of my favs, now its even better. You can read about the update here:

This week I updated my game The Ship Sinks Here , an anti-war sequel to battleship, with a full second edition. It's been five years since I originally published it, and looking back it's still some o...

June 26, 2025 at 9:10 PM

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Rem(She/They)

@remspeedwagon.bsky.social

Gang I absolutely adore this game, one of the coolest small pagecount games I know, and Weaver's done an awesome job with it. Highly recommend for anyone interested in an incredibly unique two player story

Weaver Walker @weaverswork.bsky.social · Jun 26

I just posted an update to The Ship Sinks Here, my anti-war sequel to battle ship. It's gotten a complete rewrite, a new print at home layout, and an a remodeled itch page with the best banner I've ever made. This game was one of my favs, now its even better. You can read about the update here:

This week I updated my game The Ship Sinks Here , an anti-war sequel to battleship, with a full second edition. It's been five years since I originally published it, and looking back it's still some o...

June 26, 2025 at 9:14 PM

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Jenna "the" Yow

@jannouna.bsky.social

weaver's one of the most thoughtful people i know and just reading his games, let alone playing them, is an act of caring for and challenging yourself to be hopeful and keep moving forward in a culture that feeds on your despair

June 26, 2025 at 9:59 PM

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Jenna "the" Yow

@jannouna.bsky.social

in an age of what feels like perpetual war and infinite cultural replications and homages to it, check out a game that turns a classic war game on its head to invite players to ask thoughtful questions and explore a radical vision of disarmament as not a possibility but an inevitability

Weaver Walker @weaverswork.bsky.social · Jun 26

I just posted an update to The Ship Sinks Here, my anti-war sequel to battle ship. It's gotten a complete rewrite, a new print at home layout, and an a remodeled itch page with the best banner I've ever made. This game was one of my favs, now its even better. You can read about the update here:

This week I updated my game The Ship Sinks Here , an anti-war sequel to battleship, with a full second edition. It's been five years since I originally published it, and looking back it's still some o...

June 26, 2025 at 9:56 PM

Weaver Walker

@weaverswork.bsky.social

I just posted an update to The Ship Sinks Here, my anti-war sequel to battle ship. It's gotten a complete rewrite, a new print at home layout, and an a remodeled itch page with the best banner I've ever made. This game was one of my favs, now its even better. You can read about the update here:

This week I updated my game The Ship Sinks Here , an anti-war sequel to battleship, with a full second edition. It's been five years since I originally published it, and looking back it's still some o...