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Slibertius

@pycraft.is-a.dev

Hello Everyone! I have secured my own #is-a.dev subdomain for #PyCraft, and registered it as my #BlueSky handle! Yay!

#PyDungeon #News #Update #is-a-dev #GameDev #IndieGameDev #isadev #is.a.dev #IndieDev #indiegamedev

October 6, 2026 at 8:13 AM

🐈‍⬛ Cats & Cucumbers 👻

@cats-cucumbers.bsky.social

Steptoe and Son Ride Again if I’m not mistaken (or is it the first movie?)! Both great films though Ride Again with Frankie Barrow (the Godfather of Stepherds Bush) and Dr Popplewell to name but a few great characters was brilliant. Eileen Pycraft?! Who the bleeding hell is Eileen Pycraft!

August 7, 2026 at 10:56 PM

Philip Amies

@philipamies.eurosky.social

Pycraft wrote about evolution often quoting Frederick Courteney Selous who appears to have while shooting African mammals also have been an observant naturalist.

www.nature.com/articles/149...

Mr. W. P. Pycraft - Nature

Nature - Mr. W. P. Pycraft

www.nature.com

June 9, 2026 at 4:14 PM

charliepap

@charlespycraft.bsky.social

charlespycraft.co.uk/investigatio...

Consensus Reality, Algorithms, and the Economics of Attention - Charles Pycraft

How algorithms, attention economics, and digital media are reshaping perception, fragmenting consensus reality, and transforming the battleground of modern narr...

charlespycraft.co.uk

May 12, 2026 at 2:50 AM

South Downs National Park

@southdownsnp.bsky.social

Could you be our next Dragonfly Ambassador? 👀

We are looking for volunteers who are interested in identifying and recording dragonflies, and monitoring habitat condition, specifically ponds.

🔗Find out more: www.southdowns.gov.uk/volunteering...

📸: Robert Pycraft

Golden Ringed Dragonfly perched on a branch with a lush green background.

April 30, 2026 at 1:02 PM

Darren Naish

@tetzoo.bsky.social

It pains me to see that my article on Heilmann, Thompson, Beebe, Tetrapteryx and the Proavian is from >>2019<< and yet I never did get round to follow-up articles on the 'proavians' imagined by Pycraft and illustrated by Burian. Ah, one day!

tetzoo.com/blog/2019/1/...

Heilmann, Thompson, Beebe, Tetrapteryx and the Proavian — Tetrapod Zoology

Many people familiar with ideas on the early evolution of birds and of bird flight will know of the Proavis or proavian….

tetzoo.com

January 20, 2026 at 5:22 PM

Melissa Vandiver Art

@mvandiverart.bsky.social

More picture book illustrations!

The Octopus's Holiday - a Christmas book for weirdos, by weirdos (written by Paul Pycraft) is a favorite of mine because the moral of the story is mind ya own damn business. www.mvandiver-art.com/the-octopuss...

The cover of a book called the Octopus's Holiday: A Different Kind of Christmas Story, written by Paul Pycraft, illustrated by Melissa Vandiver. An orange Octopus with yellow spots and purple glasses and a yellow octopus with orange stripes and a red hat are on a snowy rooftop in an underwater town, throwing glowing orbs around with their many leggs. Behind them a town of underwater houses is lit up for Christmas. Illustration by New Orleans artist & illustrator Melissa Vandiver. #art #kidlit #kidlitart #kidlitartist #kidliillustration #dogs #blueskynightmarket #litsky #skylit #booksky

An illustration of an orange and pink octopus with yellow spots and purple glasses, smiling with two her legs folded near her face in anticipation. Behind her is a sandy ocean floor with plants and coral. Illustration by New Orleans artist & illustrator Melissa Vandiver. #art #kidlit #kidlitart #kidlitartist #kidliillustration #dogs #blueskynightmarket #litsky #skylit #booksky

An illustration of eight fish all looking happy and sentimental. The fish are all different colors. One is wearing pearls, and two are wearing hats. Behind them are their underwater houses with snowy roofs, glowing lights in windows, and wreaths on doors. Illustration by New Orleans artist & illustrator Melissa Vandiver. #art #kidlit #kidlitart #kidlitartist #kidliillustration #dogs #blueskynightmarket #litsky #skylit #booksky

An illustration of two octopuses picking up white stuff from an oyster b ed, and putting it into baskets. One is orange and pink with yellow spots, purple classes, and a yellow helmet. One is yellow and orange with orange stripes, a red helmet, and green goggles. Text on the pages says: Do you know about oyster snow? It's very rare. You see, everyone knows that oysters make pearls. But oyster snowflakes are
harder to get. You can only get them once a year, before they turn into little pearl snowballs, and you have to tickle the oysters just right, behind the ear, before they'll let the snowflakes go. And who can tickle as well as an octopus? Shelly used her many arms to tickle and tickle,
while Doris used her many arms to gather the snowflakes as the oysters laughed and laughed. While they gathered the snow, the friends sang a rare Christmas octopus song. It went, "O Spectacular O Tentacular, Illustration by New Orleans artist & illustrator Melissa Vandiver. #art #kidlit #kidlitart #kidlitartist #kidliillustration #dogs #blueskynightmarket #litsky #skylit #booksky

October 30, 2025 at 3:30 PM

Jebbo

@pycraftdev.bsky.social

... Support we can continue adding features that will expand even further upon our initial goal of PMMA, which is to be able to use it to then develop our game Pycraft using Python.

Regardless of how long we maintain support for PMMA for, it will...

October 15, 2025 at 10:57 PM

Melissa Vandiver Art

@mvandiverart.bsky.social

Well I do the insides too but hey

BOOK COVER ARTISTS

QRP with your book covers 📚

#BookCovers

Cover of a book with text that says Bruno & Frida Go To Mexico City, The Adventures of Bruno & Frida, Written by Gary Mallon, Illustrated by Melissa Vandiver. In the center, two smiling bulldogs sit in a bed of flowers with Frida Kahlo in the background smiling. There are also prayer flags, candles, a mariachi band, and people in Day of the Dead makeup. All on a blue background

Cover of a book that says The Octopus's Holiday, A Different Kind of Christmas Story. Written by Paul Pycraft and Illustrated by Melissa Vandiver. An orange octopus with glasses and yellow polka dots and a yellow octopus with a red hat and orange stripes play on snowy rooftops, with a bunch of other underwater houses in the distance

The cover of a book with text that says The Mermaids of New Orleans. Two big mermaid fins to the left, one green and in the shape of a fleur de LIS and one orange in a typical fin shape. On the right are a black mermaid with purple fin and afro, and a white mermaid with red hair and a red and purple fin. The background is splashy watercolors depicting blue and green water with the silhouette of a school of fish

The cover of a book with text Semi Sam is a Trucker Man and written by Cornell P Landry and illustrated by Melissa Vandiver. A man with a long white beard and mustache and sunglasses wears a green and white trucker hat and an orange plaid shirt. He is waving out the window of the yellow cab of a semi truck with two bulldogs on his lap

September 25, 2025 at 7:10 PM

Muhammad Muneer Khattak

@mmkhattak.bsky.social

ICC has turned down Pakistan's demand for removal of Andy Pycraft from panel of match referees for Asia Cup 2025. He, however, will not officiate Pakistan's matches. Richie Richardson is expected to officiate matches of Pakistan.

September 16, 2025 at 9:04 AM

Jebbo

@pycraftdev.bsky.social

So, as you may already know, PMMA started as a scattered arrangement of utility programs, a significant proportion of which started life in one of our separate projects: Pycraft.

We found it frustrating to need to keep rewriting out the same...

September 1, 2025 at 10:53 PM

Jebbo

@pycraftdev.bsky.social

... You can find PMMA, and our other projects on our GitHub profile here: github.com/PycraftDevel...

We release programming updates 6 days a week so stay tuned!
#buildinpublic #programming #Python #developer #gamedev #softwaredevelopment #SoftwareEngineer

Thanks for reading :D

PycraftDeveloper - Overview

I am the developer currently making a 3D game called Pycraft here on GitHub and documenting my progress on Bluesky, Twitter and Threads! - PycraftDeveloper

github.com

August 15, 2025 at 11:15 PM

Jebbo

@pycraftdev.bsky.social

... You can find PMMA, and our other projects on our GitHub profile here: github.com/PycraftDevel...

We release programming updates 6 days a week so stay tuned!
#buildinpublic #programming #Python #developer #gamedev #softwaredevelopment #SoftwareEngineer

Thanks for reading :D

PycraftDeveloper - Overview

I am the developer currently making a 3D game called Pycraft here on GitHub and documenting my progress on Bluesky, Twitter and Threads! - PycraftDeveloper

github.com

August 12, 2025 at 10:43 PM

Jebbo

@pycraftdev.bsky.social

... You can find PMMA, and our other projects on our GitHub profile here: github.com/PycraftDevel...

We release programming updates 6 days a week so stay tuned!
#buildinpublic #programming #Python #developer #gamedev #softwaredevelopment #SoftwareEngineer

Thanks for reading :D

PycraftDeveloper - Overview

I am the developer currently making a 3D game called Pycraft here on GitHub and documenting my progress on Bluesky, Twitter and Threads! - PycraftDeveloper

github.com

August 10, 2025 at 9:50 PM

Jebbo

@pycraftdev.bsky.social

... You can find PMMA, and our other projects on our GitHub profile here: github.com/PycraftDevel...

We release programming updates 6 days a week so stay tuned!
#buildinpublic #programming #Python #developer #gamedev #softwaredevelopment #SoftwareEngineer

Thanks for reading :D

PycraftDeveloper - Overview

I am the developer currently making a 3D game called Pycraft here on GitHub and documenting my progress on Bluesky, Twitter and Threads! - PycraftDeveloper

github.com

August 8, 2025 at 10:54 PM

Jebbo

@pycraftdev.bsky.social

... You can find PMMA, and our other projects on our GitHub profile here: github.com/PycraftDevel...

We release programming updates 6 days a week so stay tuned!
#buildinpublic #programming #Python #developer #gamedev #softwaredevelopment #SoftwareEngineer

Thanks for reading :D

PycraftDeveloper - Overview

I am the developer currently making a 3D game called Pycraft here on GitHub and documenting my progress on Bluesky, Twitter and Threads! - PycraftDeveloper

github.com

August 6, 2025 at 10:50 PM

Jebbo

@pycraftdev.bsky.social

... As it started from the utility programs that made up Pycraft, the open source OpenGL based game we are making in Python.

Since we split Pycraft and PMMA we have continued to use OpenGL in the form of ModernGL up to PMMA version 4.2.2.

...

August 6, 2025 at 10:50 PM