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Chris, woooo spooky

@cawhitworth.bsky.social

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In another life, I am an erudite, fascinating, witty, sexy libertine. As it stands, I am mainly a disappointment. Occasional pots. He/Him. Also @[email protected], formerly @cawhitworth on Twitter

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Chris, woooo spooky @cawhitworth.bsky.social · Nov 12

Anyway people who used to follow me on Twitter are showing up here and to catch you up I do pottery now, that’s it, that’s what you missed

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Beau @drbeaubeaumont.bsky.social · 7h

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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Chris, woooo spooky @cawhitworth.bsky.social · 7h

Can confirm, bit on the spectrum and one of my favourite books growing up was Penguin’s Progress by Jill Tomlinson.

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b3ta @b3ta.com · 1d

Polterspice

Artist: monkeon https://b3ta.com/board/11421851
From the 'Spooky Pop' challenge https://b3ta.com/challenge/spookypop/popular/ #SpookyPop

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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 7h

EARTH MUST DIE DEMO

9/10

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Stellaween? @antlervel.vet · Nov 14

“average guitarist knows three chords” factoid actualy just statistical error. Guitar Georg, who lives in London & knows all the chords, is an outlier and should not have been counted

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Chris, woooo spooky @cawhitworth.bsky.social · 10h

We rendered colour and bump maps for the walk cycle at 45-degree intervals - GPUs were just about good enough that we could do directional lighting with good performance. It worked pretty well, we got a lot onscreen for the time! Shame the final game itself wasn’t all that great.

Chris, woooo spooky @cawhitworth.bsky.social · 10h

I built the system that did this for the Starship Troopers FPS back in the early 00s. Getting hundreds of poly bugs onscreen wasn’t easy with the hardware back then, but I’d already built the (sprite-based) particle engine so just re-purposed that for anything over a given distance from the camera.

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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 10h

WAIT WHAT'S THIS?

💿There is a demo live for EARTH MUST DIE!

🕹️This gives you (most of) the tutorial section for the game! Have fun, and if you haven't wishlisted the full game yet DO THAT NOW PLEASE it really really helps us out.

Enjoy!

store.steampowered.com/app/4057540/...

Earth Must Die Demo on Steam

These moronic Terranoids think they can just roll in here and take over my beautiful Tyrythian kingdom? The kingdom that I built from the ground up with my bare hands, and only sort of inherited from ...

store.steampowered.com

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Chris, woooo spooky @cawhitworth.bsky.social · 13h

Yeah, these are just slabs. I’ve tried pulling a few times and it’s so discouraging, I think I just need to spend (more than) a few hours practising. But I’m terrible at handbuilding generally and it just feels like an impassable mountain to climb.

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Rob Manuel @robmanuelyeah.bsky.social · 15h

At 2:30am I woke up thinking I must write a cartoon called "Art Garfunkel's Fart Carbuncle" and submit it to Viz and of course I'm never going to. But yeah, Art has built this carbuncle and filled it with farts, and is trying to lure Paul Simon as punishment for erasing him from the 83 reunion LP.

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 16h

In the Arun Valley, @naturalengland.bsky.social , the Environment Agency & Southern Water worked to find a potential solution that improves water quality & protects wildlife while enabling development.

That’s how good planning works: with nature, not against it. 👇

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

Water agreement to allow 21,000 new homes to be built in Sussex

An agreement is reached on new guidelines to protect wetlands and wildlife while building homes.

www.bbc.co.uk

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 16h

The Chancellor says she 'fixed' a problem caused by “some snails or something”.

Comments like this pit nature against growth – it’s the wrong target.

Here, the system has worked: protecting one of UK’s rarest species while allowing 20,000 homes to proceed.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer

Exclusive: Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’

www.theguardian.com

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Chris, woooo spooky @cawhitworth.bsky.social · 16h

She's in the last three paragraphs of the archived version:

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Chris, woooo spooky @cawhitworth.bsky.social · 16h

Have they, though?

“Well, someone’s got to be Conservative,” said Rhydian Lloyd-Francis, a 15-year-old GCSE student from Bridgend.

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 17h

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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Ewamore, Quoth the Raven @ewacat.bsky.social · 17h

A lot of things just happened

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Chris, woooo spooky @cawhitworth.bsky.social · 18h

Random Restaurant Bot @restaurant-bot.bsky.social · 18h

Twelve Twenty; 9 Wolborough St, Newton Abbot TQ12 1JR, UK https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=50.5292436%2C-3.6127337&query_place_id=ChIJSS6ydM4FbUgR3zUcagwanhs

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Miles King @milesking.bsky.social · 18h

Same story - 2 very different takes.

Reeves claims she unblocked a development being held up by a "microscopic snail or something", while Natural England claim they and the EA negotiated an agreement with Southern Water, to reduce water abstraction from the snail's habitat.

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Chris, woooo spooky @cawhitworth.bsky.social · 18h

It’s that bit of the year where I have a mad run of gigs to go to in a single week and then won’t go out again for another 11 months. @warringtonruncorn.com tonight, an all-dayer on Saturday and then The Bug Club (best live band in Britain) next week.