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Tony

@eightbittony.bsky.social

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Live from the basement. Games, Gamers, Gaming, and in a surprise turn of events, wood turning. Been playing ttrpg's & D&D since the 80's, and have enjoyed every edition. #ttrpg #gaming #woodturning #dungeonsanddragons #d&d #dnd

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Tony @eightbittony.bsky.social · Nov 19

My complex social media policy

Follow: you post stuff I want to see

Block: you post stuff I actively dislike and do not want to see

Mute: I'm not interested but lots of people quote you (and that's fine)

None of the above: you're mostly harmless or I don't know you.

:)

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Tony @eightbittony.bsky.social · 5h

Wait, does he blow, or suck? I'm getting mixed messages here.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 20h

Glad to see Nigel Farage has finally remembered Nathan Gill, former leader of Reform in Wales - found guilty of taking bribes from Russia.

Maybe he'll now remember how much he took from Putin's propaganda broadcaster Russia Today for all his TV appearances when he was a MEP?

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🌱Elaine Lithgow 🌱 @elainelithgow.bsky.social · 23h

Last week I challenged myself to film daily vlogs about making TTRPGs for a living.

They're now live on youtube. Featuring chill vibes, broken ankles, and a creaking bucketload of my infamous vocal fry.

Is This Something? Daily TTRPG Dev Vlogs - YouTube

A series of daily vlogs where I talk about what it's like to make TTRPGs for a living.

youtube.com

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 1d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Tony @eightbittony.bsky.social · 19h

It's 2129.

Humanity is.....

Ah fuck it, I did this joke last time.

JUST TALK. That's it. That's the trick. Just HAVE A FUCKING CONVERSATION WITH YOUR PARTNER.

FFS.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 1d

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it is still shaping policy. So were we all wrong to leave?

Was the left wrong to leave X for BlueSky?

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it's still shaping policy

www.newstatesman.com

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Pete Paphides @petepaphides.bsky.social · 1d

I'd love to know what every comedian who played the Riyadh Comedy Festival thinks of this piece by Jonathan Liew. It's an electrifying read. And really hard to think what any counter-justification from the participating comics would consist of. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We know what the comedians got out of the Riyadh comedy festival. What about the Saudi regime? | Jonathan Liew

The tawdry event was an ultimately doomed attempt by the Saudi government to buy the kind of authentic grassroots culture it is unwilling to countenance, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

www.theguardian.com

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack.

Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.

Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

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Tony @eightbittony.bsky.social · 1d

I've wondered how crime scene photographs will need to change once machine generated images are indistinguishable from the truth.

I guess digital signatures, so a camera will need to insert a cryptographic signature into every image file, and we'll get an arms race of faking that and IDing it. etc.

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 1d

An observation test for you - for your inner 8 year-old

“The artist has hidden 12 things in this picture. How many can you find?”

Treasure magazine, 1964
Official answers coming soon

(Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one? 🙏)

Black-and-white picture of two children playing in woodland. Also in the picture, there are 12 hidden animals including an owl, a bat and a squirrel.

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Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 4d

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

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Tony @eightbittony.bsky.social · 2d

Since it's the Eurovision *Song* Contest they should have the same session band play every song, and then vote for the winning song.

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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 2d

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Tony @eightbittony.bsky.social · 2d

Art is life!

(I'm mostly making short assertions today!)

Tony @eightbittony.bsky.social · 2d

yes! create!

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No More Robots @nomorerobots.io · 2d

Here's how we handle manchildren on the Steam forums at No More Robots:

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Tony @eightbittony.bsky.social · 3d

[link contains distressing images]

It's the second one here - www.jonathanbachmanphotography.com/index/G00008...

Jonathan Bachman Photography

www.jonathanbachmanphotography.com

Tony @eightbittony.bsky.social · 3d

All of Jonathan Bachman's photo's from the Baton Rouge protests are haunting, the one you're referring to, and the one of the guy on the ground, eyes wide open and accusing, with a cop kneeling on his head.

Haunting. But we don't change. We don't learn.

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neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 5d

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

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BunnyBadgerGames 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦🇬🇱🇪🇺🇵🇸 @badbabybunny.bsky.social · 4d

The fucking gall of this after they robbed Jennie Maizels blind of her IP when making Paddington 2

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Paddington creators sue after Spitting Image depicts him as crude podcast host

It follows Spitting Image creating a parody version of the children's character for its YouTube series.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Tony @eightbittony.bsky.social · 4d

Critical thinking needs to be on the global curriculum

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Tony @eightbittony.bsky.social · 4d

If only we were part of a free trade agreement.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 4d

EU plan to match Trump steel tariffs spurs ‘existential threat’ to UK steel industry

Alarm sounds over plan in Brussels to double import tariff to 50% with four-fifths of UK exports heading to Europe The EU has announced it will match Donald Trump’s steel tariffs, doubling levies on imports to 50% in a move condemned as “an existential threat” to the industry in the UK. With 80% of British exports going to the EU, the change poses the UK steel industry’s biggest ever crisis, according to the lobby group representing the sector. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 5d

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 5d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 5d

An experiment:

If you see this post, please like it. Am comparing numbers to the other place for a piece.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 6d

Tax wealth.

Not work.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Green Party Political Broadcast. Monday 6.25pm on ITV and 6.55pm on BBC 1.

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