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Stephen Scott

@sassquad.net

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Breaking the web full time. Acorn User magazine alumnus. Written a few games for the BBC Micro, but spend more time playing other people's Beeb games! All views are my own. No AI slop here. https://www.sassquad.net/

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Stephen Scott @sassquad.net · Nov 2

Getting a lot of followers this past week. I've been here a while, but left X for good now.

My name is Stephen, and I am a front end developer. Have been for a long time, since Netscape 😱

But I love building retro games. Here's my latest ⬇️

bbcmicro.co.uk/game.php?id=...

Polymer Picker

Self-published in 2022

bbcmicro.co.uk

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Stephen Scott @sassquad.net · 14h

Same energy ⬇️

Timothy Dalton from Hot Fuzz, posing alongside a photo of himself.

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 15h

Alien 5

Sigourney Weaver: "Walter Hill is a very good friend of mine, and he wrote 50 pages where Ripley would be now, and they are quite extraordinary. I don’t know if it’s going to happen, but I have had a meeting with Fox, Disney, or whoever it is now. I said I have never felt the..."

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 15h

"...need. I was always like, ‘Let her rest, let her recover.’ But what Walter has written seems so true to me as very much about the society that would incarcerate someone who has tried to help mankind."

I don't know how many posts I've made about Sigourney and Alien 5, but here's another one.

Sigourney Weaver Has Met With Disney About a New ‘Alien’ Script: “It’s a Very Strong First 50 Pages”

The actress also spoke at New York Comic Con about what was really behind the crew clashes with James Cameron on the sequel.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 1d

It's weird. There were just no clues that this is what he was like.

Henry Dyer @direthoughts.com · 1d

Johnson refused to answer specific questions or to provide factual denials to allegations of rule-breaking, while insisting all the rules had been followed at all times. His responses led Acoba’s chair, Isabel Doverty, to find him in breach of the rules.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Boris Johnson breached rules designed to stop abuse of contacts made in public office, watchdog finds

Johnson found to have breached rules after refusing to answer specific questions about allegations published by the Guardian

www.theguardian.com

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Brian Hiatt @hiattb.bsky.social · 1d

A little moment in my newest James Gunn interview www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

Reporting live from Chicago, there’s no “hellscape” I’d rather be in.

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Stephen Scott @sassquad.net · 1d

"You ain't seen nothing yet... of that $20 beeeeeleon!"

Stephen Scott @sassquad.net · 1d

A bigger issue for all parties is the lack of voter turnout. Last year's turnout was 59%, lowest since 2001. At this rate we'll be below 1918 levels, which was just after World War I (for understandable reasons).

People are becoming more disengaged over time. FPTP continues to screw us over.

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Sarah Elizabeth Cox @oispooky.bsky.social · 1d

How ANYONE here can see these things and still vote for this grotesque man in 2029 is beyond me. I genuinely believe they won't. He's not even TRYING to make it look like he's interested in us. But how to show that? Not everyone's endlessly scrolling BlueSky or reading the Mirror.

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 2d

If you rename the Department of Defense the Department of War, then bomb fishing boats in the Caribbean, and shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper bullet, you should automatically be barred from receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for the rest of your life.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2d

Welp, here it is: maybe the funniest thing we've ever done, in its entirety.

The Onion Investigates: Jeffrey Epstein

YouTube video by The Onion

www.youtube.com

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Stephen Scott @sassquad.net · 2d

I thought I'd posted this but I didn't. Saw the film Heretic on Prime. Hugh Grant gives a terrific performance, not a bad horror movie at all.

Stephen Scott @sassquad.net · 2d

Love these pictures. The interdimensional portal reminded me of this near where I live.

Footpath tunnel under a railway line. Reminds me of Spirited Away for some reason.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 8d

This - which I explored today - is the kind of thing I live for on walks in the deep countryside: a 200+-year-old abandoned walled garden, totally overgrown and teeming with wildlife and ghosts.

Finding lost magic places like this, untouched and undeveloped, always fills me with weird kind of hope.

The entrance to the walled garden I found today, with its broken door and big ivy hat.

An interdimensional portal in the walled garden I found today

A hole in the wall of the walled garden I found today, leading to 1785.

Ruined potting sheds in the walled garden I found today.

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Beau @drbeaubeaumont.bsky.social · 2d

Thinking about Christmas presents for my wife. Does anyone know what it smells like?

A sign at the Westfield shopping centre. Reading “Please use the escalator by Prada”.

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Stephen Scott @sassquad.net · 2d

Chris Bradburne's Epsilon Protocol is now available on the BBC Games Archive. I've played it, and I can tell you now, it's excellent.

There's life left in the old Beeb yet!

bbcmicro.co.uk/game.php?id=...

Stephen Scott @sassquad.net · 3d

The Jurassic Park franchise continues to unfold in a way that really embraces chaos theory.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 4d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Stephen Scott @sassquad.net · 4d

Looks like Tron: Ares is a bit of a dog's dinner then.

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Kath @kathyburke.bsky.social · 4d

Yes, yes I know I keep banging on about my fucking book! However, if you want one repost this and I’ll do a random winner pick thing by the end of the week because I’m great like that. ♥️📚
#amindofmyown

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Richard Arugula @monkchips.com · 4d

sharing this for the second time today because i love it so much and dear LORD do we ever need some good news.

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 4d

solar and wind generated more electricity that coal for the first time ever in the first half of 2025. that's the good shit ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

Global Electricity Mid-Year Insights 2025 | Ember

Solar and wind outpaced demand growth in the first half of 2025, as renewables overtook coal’s share in the global electricity mix.

ember-energy.org

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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 4d

Tory party conference got you down?

Far-right rhetoric left you feeling scared for the future?

Then why not take a minute to enjoy eighteen (18) pictures of Ed Davey on a pumpkin farm with young carers 🎃🚜

www.gettyimages.co.uk/editorial-im...

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Stephen Scott @sassquad.net · 4d

Even the corner radius of the windows is excessive.

I mean even RISC OS wouldn't do such things 😱