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Jonathan Lloyd

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Game dev, comedian, and aspiring fae creature. | they/them

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Jonathan Lloyd @mxjlloyd.bsky.social · Nov 18

By day I'm a producer in the games industry, happily making little spreadsheets and Gantt charts, and by night I improvise nonsense or wander around stage with a microphone.

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Jonathan Lloyd @mxjlloyd.bsky.social · 7h

London friends, I'm down for AdventureX at the end of November. If anyone is around and fancies a drink or has a show on the evening of Saturday 22nd, let me know!

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 1d

In my opinion it’s time to retire the Nobel prizes for fields where most of the important discoveries have already been made, like physics, and add prizes for newer fields where substantial innovations occur every year, like speedrunning

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Jonathan Lloyd @mxjlloyd.bsky.social · 1d

A lot of these sentences are contradictory. I just feel that music is something slightly out of my grasp. But also something I long to understand. I'd love to pick up an instrument again someday.

Jonathan Lloyd @mxjlloyd.bsky.social · 1d

I am jealous of people who love music, who can talk about it, celebrate the artistry in specific ways, know how to discover more and newer things to spark joy.

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Jonathan Lloyd @mxjlloyd.bsky.social · 1d

I don't go to many live gigs. The only gigs I've been to in the past six years or so have been Grace Petrie. In 2018 I went to a Metric gig, who are one of my favourite bands, but I don't know if I'd cope with going again to something so loud and full of people. I like being able to sit down.

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Jonathan Lloyd @mxjlloyd.bsky.social · 1d

Recently I've found myself enjoying jazz a lot though. I think it tickles my brain with the same surprises and rhythm that comedy does. My favourite band currently is a jazz fusion trio from Japan that I don't know if I will ever get to see live.

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Jonathan Lloyd @mxjlloyd.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes I will find one new song I enjoy, but that does not translate into enjoying other work by the same artist, or even on the same album. I often find myself out off a track once the vocals kick in. I have no idea what different genre labels mean.

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Jonathan Lloyd @mxjlloyd.bsky.social · 1d

I wish I enjoyed music more. I own a record player because I've discovered I really enjoy consciously picking an album and listening to it start to finish, but I find it so hard to find new music I enjoy.

Dana, 🌒 Night & Gale 🌬️ @danaenight.bsky.social · 1d

How do you like to enjoy music?

I like listening to albums. Often I don't know the names of individual songs. When I find a song I really like I want to listen to the rest of the album. If I am a fan of a band I'll want to know about their discography.

I have a vinyl collection.

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Jonathan Lloyd @mxjlloyd.bsky.social · 1d

There's a bit in Josie Long's show where she gets out a UV light and I regret that it's getting cold now and I'm covering up my arms because I have so few places I go and can actually show off my tattoo.

Jonathan Lloyd @mxjlloyd.bsky.social · 1d

2025 Comedy Shows 72/52 - Josie Long: Now Is The Time Of Monsters

I would be on the side of bringing back prehistoric megafauna but also there was a larger than normal spider in my house the other week and I freaked out.

Jonathan Lloyd @mxjlloyd.bsky.social · 2d

This has become my curse! Any time a scene ends, or even just a demo in a workshop, I *have* to put the thing down or hang it up somewhere.

Jonathan Lloyd @mxjlloyd.bsky.social · 2d

If you can track it down in the States I think you'd really enjoy it - the earlier seasons at least!

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perfect knight @shiningknightx.bsky.social · 2d

"we cant uninvent ai" no we cant but we couldnt uninvent nfts either and nobody gives a fuck about them anymore

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Jonathan Lloyd @mxjlloyd.bsky.social · 2d

Can we have Rian Johnson do an episode of Jonathan Creek next.

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Jonathan Lloyd @mxjlloyd.bsky.social · 2d

To conclude, autism.

Jonathan Lloyd @mxjlloyd.bsky.social · 2d

In March 2022 I went across to Manchester for four days and in that time saw Andy Zaltzman and Hannah Gadsby, then went to Blizzard Comedy and XS Malarkey. Think that was also when I met my friend Silky for the first time.

Jonathan Lloyd @mxjlloyd.bsky.social · 2d

A few I regret missing out on, a few I'd forgotten I'd gone to see, and a few, looking back, truly ridiculous runs of shows.

Jonathan Lloyd @mxjlloyd.bsky.social · 2d

I have a spreadsheet going back to 2018 of not just comedy shows I've seen, but shows I was thinking of seeing depending on energy levels.

Jonathan Lloyd @mxjlloyd.bsky.social · 2d

I was at a show once and an American who'd come over was trying to warm up the crowd by going "I'd heard the accents over here were hot, but the Leeds accent has to be the hottest." and you could feel a room full of Yorkshire folk going "... What accent does she think we have and why is she lying."

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Si Turner @siturner.bsky.social · 3d

Our hilarious Funny Friday is back to start your weekend off *right*. 4 great new acts saying the unsayable.

£18 advance £20 on the door

Ravin BOO!dram 👻 🎃 - FREE ŁINK @rvbdrm.com · 3d

There’s so many more in the article…

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Four young men, all Gen Z Tories, posed against a plain backdrop.

Top left: Danny Mosley, 19, with curly hair, draped in a Union Jack flag and holding a can of Dr. Pepper, an ID badge hanging from a blue lanyard around his neck.

Top right: Rhydian Lloyd-Francis, 15, wearing a navy double-breasted suit and striped tie, stands formally with a serious expression.

Bottom left: Harry Cansdale, 21, in glasses and a dark suit with a patterned blue tie and small flag pin, with a blue lanyard around his neck.

Bottom right: Miller Casson, 17, with long hair, wearing a blue plaid suit, lavender shirt, and patterned tie, holding a booklet.

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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 3d

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Jonathan Lloyd @mxjlloyd.bsky.social · 3d

The London Video Game Orchestra are great, I think they're doing a family matinee for their December show? Always do a breadth of music at the shows I've seen.

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Jonathan Lloyd @mxjlloyd.bsky.social · 3d

Coincidentally what I'm spinning this morning!

An open double vinyl sleeve containing Formentera I and Formentera II by Metric. The title is written in cursive across both halves.

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Jonathan Lloyd @mxjlloyd.bsky.social · 3d

I mean, I used to live on Penistone Road.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 3d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

Jonathan Lloyd @mxjlloyd.bsky.social · 3d

The cinema is attached to the National Media Museum and so they have so many cool props all around! I think this is only one of several daleks they have!