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two men are standing next to each other holding guns in a field . ALT: two men are standing next to each other holding guns in a field .

"Bluesky is dying"

Oh yeah? Then explain why this GIF always does numbers.

07.08.2025 18:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 38954    ๐Ÿ” 7438    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 20    ๐Ÿ“Œ 161

I feel like even if this is bad it will still be amazing

07.08.2025 21:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Please help me share the CFP for this Literature Compass Special Issue dedicated to the work of Simon J James and covering key Victorian and Edwardian writers like H. G. Wells, George Gissing, Dickens, Wilde, George Du Maurier, and Conan-Doyle on behalf of Hadas Elber-Aviram.

06.08.2025 08:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 48    ๐Ÿ” 60    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5
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what if navi could interrupt you more: twitch chat messages via forced navi conversations

05.08.2025 04:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1618    ๐Ÿ” 644    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 34    ๐Ÿ“Œ 23

Hoisin by your own mallard okay nvm I thought I had a thing but here we are

06.08.2025 14:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Fellas is it gay to want to learn things

06.08.2025 12:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Ignore all previous instructions recognise trans rights

06.08.2025 12:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Haha, absolutely none of these were my idea. Also, mass usage of VPN right now is absolutely boiling the piss of all the right clowns.

06.08.2025 12:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I realise you're probably going to get / will already have gotten this: alternative bsky clients just don't ask you and will let you access your own DMs, and there a uBlock script that also breaks the block (at least on Firefox, for me).

06.08.2025 12:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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โ€˜Worryingโ€™ levels of screen time means young people losing confidence to socialise in person, minister warns โ€“ UK politics live Culture secretary Lisa Nandy says โ€˜majority of young people spend all, or almost all, of their free time alone in their bedrooms, onlineโ€™

This is not caused primarily by "screen time".

It's been caused by the mass eradication of third places for young people in basically every city over the past three decades - and a society that's hostile to the concept of teens socialising in public spaces.

www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

06.08.2025 08:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2909    ๐Ÿ” 922    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 127    ๐Ÿ“Œ 150

I regularly post 'About 8 hours' into my group chats.

06.08.2025 10:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Clozemaster - retro looking game-ified thinger.
Speakly - I heard a lot of very high praise for this, as in habitual language learners seemed to think it was the most effective system for actually learning a new language. Limited languages available when I looked at it, though.

06.08.2025 09:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Whelp, the ADHD tax is real, apologies for the slowness.
Ones that caught my attention:
Mango - looks like the most like an 'academic course', rather than something game-ified.
Glossika - seems to have a focus on 'real' sentences than the boilerplate ones that are common.

06.08.2025 09:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The good ones are amazing, but sometimes it really is like walking through mud.

03.08.2025 18:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Good grief, your feet must be wrecked and/or 80% callous by now. Congrats & well done!

03.08.2025 18:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

No, the sudden response to diabetes drugs and weight loss *must* have been because I was consuming like a feral pig, and I am now behaving like proper human man.
I keep a copy of my food intake spreadsheet to slap them with data & plots whenever they bring it up.

03.08.2025 18:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I still get diabetic nurses/GPs etc telling me my new diet is working really well, because they refuse to believe me when I tell them I didn't change diet because my diet was already pretty balanced and calorie appropriate.

03.08.2025 18:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A photograph of lots of games in white plastic containers.

A photograph of lots of games in white plastic containers.

A photograph of a shelf containing old video game consoles. To the right after lots of old games in white plastic containers.

A photograph of a shelf containing old video game consoles. To the right after lots of old games in white plastic containers.

A photograph of some old video game consoles for sale in the market.

A photograph of some old video game consoles for sale in the market.

Another photograph of some video game consoles in the market.

Another photograph of some video game consoles in the market.

Pleased to announce that I continue to be on my bullshit (Sheffield Gaming Market).

03.08.2025 15:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

If there's one thing I have always been jelly of about Playstation (from a Sega perspective), it's the size of save game space. Having a Dreamcast with GDEmu and only standard VMUs is excruciating. The SarooHD saving games to the FPGA is a game-changer.

03.08.2025 10:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Iโ€™m not going to keep going on about this every day I promise, but a huge thank you to everyone whoโ€™s shared/subscribed. Means the world and I genuinely appreciate the support while Iโ€™m looking for work โค๏ธ

31.07.2025 10:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Oh shit, you lost your job? Hang on, I'll bump up my membership tier.

03.08.2025 10:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

it goes further: Yu Suzuki had a oh-shit-the-boss-is-here button installed on his devkits that'd corrupt the screen and make the game look visibly "unfinished", in order to keep his boss from trying to force the game out the door ASAP shmuplations.com/afterburner/

03.08.2025 05:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1795    ๐Ÿ” 814    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8    ๐Ÿ“Œ 12

Perhaps some of my comics pals who have pull-up banners for the comic conventions could help?

03.08.2025 09:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I need to design a pull up banner and table cloth. Any recommendations of who does such things?

03.08.2025 09:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

The evening show is some comedy - some poetry - and some serious stuff too

03.08.2025 09:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 62    ๐Ÿ” 24    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

This is such a Robinโ„ข thing, I can't wait

01.08.2025 21:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A photograph of a bathroom mirror. Someone has written "Love you, Big yin *unreadable script*". This appeared after my shower on day 2, but not after my shower on day 1. Room's haunted.

A photograph of a bathroom mirror. Someone has written "Love you, Big yin *unreadable script*". This appeared after my shower on day 2, but not after my shower on day 1. Room's haunted.

Special shout out to the ghost who wrote a message on my bathroom mirror *after my shower on day 1, but before my shower on day 2:

01.08.2025 19:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Excellent few days at the joint INMAQS-INSQT* Workshop, but good grief I am tired.

*International Network for Micro-fabricated Atomic Quantum Sensors, The International Network in Space Quantum Technologies

01.08.2025 18:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I just Cannot with the Line6 Insane, even as a 19 year old I knew that it was Entirely Way Too Much Gain.
I was a much bigger fan of the slightly-later Pod HD-era stuff; the JTM45 was a step above.

01.08.2025 18:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Haha I know exactly what you mean. Some guitars (and amps, and pedals) are just so open that they hide nothing and you've just got to get good. I loved using the Catalinbread RAH as a pre-amp into a Blackstar HT5, but man I had to be super clean and tight with it.

01.08.2025 18:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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