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Christopher Wickham @cwickham.bsky.social · 16h

Some highly significant analysis of the adventure gamebook scene in the early nineties. cwickham.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

A rather sinister-looking scarecrow, from the cover of Fighting Fantasy #44 'Legend of the Shadow Warriors'.

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Hieronymous J Doom @hjdoom.bsky.social · 18h

In this case one that makes me feel like I'm vitamin deficient but also that lard is a critical vitamin.

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Hieronymous J Doom @hjdoom.bsky.social · 18h

At the mildly delirious stage of feeling ill where I'm idly wondering whether you could serve a battered sausage roll inside a giant Yorkshire pudding.

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Hieronymous J Doom @hjdoom.bsky.social · 21h

My eyes feel like someone rubbed cocoa pops into them and for once it wasn't me.

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.bsky.social · 23h

i hope the nobel committee have quietly told trump that he’s a shoo-in for the 2028 peace prize provided the ceasefire holds and he doesn’t invade any american cities and/or other countries and he stops murdering people in international waters

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Hieronymous J Doom @hjdoom.bsky.social · 23h

Look everyone! The lizardman is capable of basic empathy! A millionaire experiencing the bare minimum you would expect from a functioning human is somehow news!

Picture of William Windsor looking sad on the BBC website. The headline reads: William visibly moved as widow tells of husband's suicide

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Hieronymous J Doom @hjdoom.bsky.social · 1d

Smitten by some minor lurgy and the cat is delighted by my plan of being hot and stationary.

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Hieronymous J Doom @hjdoom.bsky.social · 1d

So sorry. Caring is hard.

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Hieronymous J Doom @hjdoom.bsky.social · 1d

Watching Smallville and I'm both delighted and amazed to discover that the use of music is somehow even worse than The Bronze in Buffy.

Hieronymous J Doom @hjdoom.bsky.social · 1d

There's a pub round the the corner from me and every time I walk past I look in the window. I don't think I've ever seen a single woman in there. If there's ever an atrocity in Northampton it'll have been planned in that pub.

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 2d

Almost immediately finding out one of the Bad Dr Who Cosplay Young Tories whose clothes we were making fun of wants to legalise sisterfucking is like a really quick Milkshake Duck if instead of drinking milkshake, the duck had been filmed masturbating into a neighbour's wheelie bin

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Hieronymous J Doom @hjdoom.bsky.social · 2d

Tired and colicky like a big, haggard baby. I look forward to waking my husband in the middle of the night with a sound like a disaster in a whoopie cushion factory.

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 3d

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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svenning🌲 @svenning.io · 2d

We are already seeing some fantastic (but horrible) contributions to the Bad UX World Cup! 😃

This year's challenge: Create a horrible date picker!

See all the contributions (so far) here: badux.lol

#baduxworldcup

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Hieronymous J Doom @hjdoom.bsky.social · 3d

Searching for guidance on a crossword clue with 9 letters and the AI summary excels itself by providing 9 nine different answers and not a single one actually has 9 letters. How is Google this fucking shit all the time now?

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Two prominent Russian cities with nine letters in their English names are Vladivostok and Murmansk. Vladivostok is a large port city in the Russian Far East, while Murmansk is a major port city north of the Arctic Circle.
Here are some other 9-letter Russian city names:
• Belgorod
• Birobidzhan
• Novokuznetsk
• Pyatigorsk
• Ulan-Ude
• Yakutsk
• Yekaterinburg

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Chris Miller @iamcurious.bsky.social · 4d

WOW....👀👀👀

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Hieronymous J Doom @hjdoom.bsky.social · 4d

That's very kind, thank you.

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 4d

Tories: "The people of this country have had enough of (spelling) experts"

Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 4d

Genuinely love this. 10/10, thank you Tories, everything you do is a gift 👏👏👏

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Hieronymous J Doom @hjdoom.bsky.social · 4d

There are bits I would love to automate. Editing out my many gross mouth sounds. Checking that the links in the gamebooks work and point where they're supposed to. I don't want to automate away my sense of purpose or sharing myself. 2/2

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Hieronymous J Doom @hjdoom.bsky.social · 4d

I work really hard on my dumb little podcasts and my dumb little gamebooks. They give me a sense of purpose in the world and allow me to share something of myself with an audience. The hard work is part of the point. 1/2

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Hieronymous J Doom @hjdoom.bsky.social · 4d

Hi, I'm a pathologist in a detective show and I exclusively eat large sloppy sandwiches which I consume while standing next to cadavars so that people can see I have become innured to the presence of death. If male I may sport a combover or an unfortunate moustache.

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