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James Alone

@alonemusic.bsky.social

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Designer of things Maker of sounds Painter of toys Head of User Experience @ Smartbox <3 accessibility Alone-music.co.uk

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James Alone @alonemusic.bsky.social · Oct 23

Hey Bluesky 👋! I should pin something about me I guess?
I'm James! I contain 📦:
- Making books and tabletop games sometimes! 📚
- I make music and illustrations as Alone (alone-music.co.uk) 🖌️🎶
- I love to paint Warhammer and other things! 🎨
- I work in accessibility as a designer! 🧑‍🦼

Front cover of a hardback rule book of A Crown of Salt and Shadow. Pink with a black and white skull in salt on the front.

Cover illustration for a single. a hand with a ribbon over fine lines. The title is The Curse of Sport

A painted Sphianx Mindstealer from Warcry. Painted purple and gold.

A standard white man (me) with long mousy hair, glasses and a short beard holding a microphone giving a talk

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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 3h

BREAKING: Yesterday Grand Theft Auto VI maker Rockstar Games fired dozens of people, all of whom were involved in union efforts. A British union calls it "blatant and ruthless" union-busting. Take-Two Interactive says it was due to misconduct.

Here's the scoop: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

‘Grand Theft Auto’ Studio Accused of Union Busting After Firings

Union says 30 and 40 people were terminated. Rockstar Games’ parent company cites ‘gross misconduct’

www.bloomberg.com

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

So either Labour need to ask candidates to step aside for the Greens to take on Reform....

Or actually bring in a fair democratic process where everyone's votes count equally.

It's time for Proportional Representation.

www.thenational.scot/news/2558507...

'Just getting started': Zack Polanski reacts as Greens SECOND in new poll

ZACK Polanski has welcomed a new poll putting his party in second place at Westminster.

www.thenational.scot

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

We're just getting started.

Time to lower bills. And tax billionaires.

If you want to see the Green Party take on Reform - this is the moment.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 1d

Westminster Voting Intention:

RFM: 32% (=)
GRN: 17% (+2)
CON: 16% (-1)
LAB: 16% (=)
LDM: 12% (=)
SNP: 2% (=)

Via @findoutnow.bsky.social, 29 Oct.
Changes w/ 22 Oct.

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Mega64 @mega64official.bsky.social · 3d

Man spends night ALONE in Xbox haunted house

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James Alone @alonemusic.bsky.social · 5d

Clock change jump scare

James Alone @alonemusic.bsky.social · 7d

Meat draw with roguelite elements

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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 10d

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 12d

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Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area

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Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction

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Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it

Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…

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Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely

[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over

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Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat

[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster

Minister:
I understand your concerns…

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Nurse:
Are you OK love?

Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters

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Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian

[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]

Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love

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Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to

[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]

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Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR

[woman looks baffled]

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woman:
I just want a bus service

Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG
[produces a St George's flag]

[ends]

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Retro Tech Dreams @retrotechdreams.bsky.social · 12d

How to use Windows

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James Alone @alonemusic.bsky.social · 12d

Actually composed some music today! Nothing special or shareable or even very good.
But I had to overcome a desk of nonsense, cables of ill repute and my own talentless fingers to get to that point so I call it a win.

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 12d

"We are coming for the Labour government and we are taking the fight to Reform.”

Be part of it. Join the Green Party today! 👇

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James Alone @alonemusic.bsky.social · 12d

This was, at least, intentional and with purpose.
Three knights attempting what an army of Ents did to Isengard.
I'm impressed one survived!

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James Alone @alonemusic.bsky.social · 12d

It's basically what I always thought TTRPGs were until everyone watched too many actual plays.

James Alone @alonemusic.bsky.social · 12d

It's such a good game for just playing out an unplanned adventure.

I'm pretty new to DMing, but the game just flexes around what the players really want to do and gives you tools to just keep improvising around them while giving just enough structure to keep them on target.

James Alone @alonemusic.bsky.social · 12d

Finished a very silly Mythic Bastionland one (well two) shot with my buddies.
Started with them failing to help townsfolk, then ended with them blowing up a dam, while they were still on it.
Pure TTRPG goodness.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 15d

Belt Looks Weird On Child

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James Alone @alonemusic.bsky.social · 15d

Had the opportunity to enforce mandatory fun on my workmates and chose Two Rooms and a Boom.

What a winner for a room of 40+ R&D nerds

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Adharanand Finn @adharanand.bsky.social · 16d

If you're left leaning and haven't really considered the Green party before, there's some serious momentum behind them right now. They could actually make a difference. I became a member about a year ago.

Think about it, at least

The Rest Is Politics @therestpolitics.bsky.social · 16d

We see you Zack Polanski 👀

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James Alone @alonemusic.bsky.social · 16d

Me waking up for another day of work.

James Alone @alonemusic.bsky.social · 17d

Glorious.
One of my favourites.
(That I'm terrible at)

Retro Tech Dreams @retrotechdreams.bsky.social · 17d

SimTower (1994). One of my favorite Sim games.

James Alone @alonemusic.bsky.social · 18d

I am weirdly into Blippo+

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 18d

We should be asking this
c o n s t a n t l y.

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James Alone @alonemusic.bsky.social · 20d

Continuing to play with oil paint.
It's fun!

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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 20d

Maternity pay in the UK is insultingly low. It's no wonder the birth rate is declining so much.
I don't know why this isn't more of a national scandal.

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 21d

All my comics have happy endings!

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