“In 10 years’ time we’re going to turn around and say ‘where are all the artists, where are all the stories, where are all the good ideas?’. There needs to be a moment of rejuvenation where people can get back to a place of financial strength.” Spot on from David Byrne

Reminder that at least 2 execs from Take-Two received $70 million bonus last year.

The money that could directly benefit their studio’s creating BAFTA winning games going into the pockets of 2 people last year.

So sorry to the teams at Roll7 and Intercept 💔

One year update: TakeTwo shut this entire studio down

A couple of years ago I blithely told students ‘go to scratch nights, get involved in scratch nights’. Then we googled and found there were hardly any scratch nights ! We need to organise some more scratch nights imho

You can create a Golden Joystick nominated Indie game that has 9/10 on IGN and Steam reviews, wins a BAFTA for best British Game, is profitable, and the megacorps will still shut you down 💔

They got two people in Cardiff today and I'm fucking furious. Took them away from routine meetings in an unmarked car.

I'll see you all at 31-33 Newport Road tomorrow morning to make sure they can't get any more of us

I'm old enough to remember when the word 'cunt' was used almost exclusively by Irish and Australians as a way to describe people like Ricky Gervais and James Corden in order to shock Americans out of their comedy complacency.

Back in 2022 I was just getting my start and, even as an artist, I was encouraged to 'just use AI'. It wasn't common knowledge where/how AI was trained, entire TTRPG discord servers had channels dedicated to midjourney and its finger-fixing cousins, it was normalized. 🧵:

One of the most savage things I've read in a long time.

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New video goes live now! This one's about the rowdy queer rebels who made TV gay by invading TV stations and interrupting broadcasts in the 1970s: youtu.be/m9OswGSHgwM

Our 2023 unReview is now out, read all about how our last year as a producing theatre company unfolded and how we’ve moved to a new grant-giving model unlimited.earth/unreview-2023/

Araki loves trans-rights. Unsurprisingly.

Dragona Joestar has been confirmed as transgender woman in JJBA part 9 THE JOJOLands by French editor of the series.

Anyone performing at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, you have until 10am Monday to apply for the Keep It Fringe Fund - £2500 to spend on anything related to your Fringe run.

Also worth checking out the accommodation portal for digs. The 'festival village' at QMU just added more rooms.

1st week done on 2nd R&D for Truthformation. Loved getting the (newly expanded) team back in the room and starting to finalise what the show will be. Great to be working out of the ever amazing Riverfront. Thx to Arts Council Wales for supporting neurodivergent artists like me!

1/ Two years ago today, on 4/25/22, Twitter’s Board accepted Elon Musk’s offer to acquire the company at $54.20/share.

As an ex-director for civic integrity at Twitter, I’ve watched what Musk has done since then.

And today is my last post on this platform.

I’m leaving.
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'I know some brilliant Welsh artists and creatives who make their work in England, because they can get their funding from Arts Council England, therefore don't tour [Welsh work] in Wales' - Theatr Clwyd' Liam Evans-Ford 💡 #FutureOfTheatre

Baby Reindeer is undoubtedly fantastically crafted TV. But for any aspiring writers watching it, don’t think that you have to mine your personal trauma to get something away. You can be influenced by it of course. But BR really is the extreme end of ‘write what you know’