Paul [Atreides] Wood
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Paul [Atreides] Wood
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Tech tinkerer, nerd talker, cat liker, lefty, 70s kid, former Eurogamer forum Mod if anyone remembers those

Bad things are bad things no matter who does them.

Morality is not a team sport.
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IT DIDN'T GET JINXED

My new retro purchase is this arcade cabinet which formerly stood in an Arbroath pub. The 1942 arcade PCB was included.

I spent a good part of yesterday making space and shuffling things around for it.
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February 4, 2026 at 4:02 PM
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February 10, 2026 at 3:27 AM
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douglas adams was our most accurate futurist
We are at an airport restaurant. A robot just drove up to us with our food, said, "Hi! Here I am!" and then drove away with our food.
February 15, 2026 at 10:10 PM
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Hilary Cass is not and never was an expert in children's gender healthcare. She's a hired assassin paid by the UK government to give them cover to torture trans kids.
The expert who led the review into children's gender healthcare in the UK has said young people have been "weaponised" and misled about the realities of transitioning by social media.
Children 'weaponised', says author of UK gender report
The expert who led the review into children's gender healthcare in the UK has said young people have been "weaponised" and misled about the realities of transitioning by social media.
www.rte.ie
February 15, 2026 at 1:42 PM
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Bluesky was literally meant to be a cryptobro social network for grifters, LinkedIn sludge, and libertarians who know way too much about age of consent laws.

Jack Dorsey *left* when instead of weird and off-putting cryptonerds, trans people started hanging out here.
Can you think of examples where people use technologies differently from what the developers intended, whether unintentionally or as an act of resistance?
February 15, 2026 at 10:50 PM
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"We have such mites to show you"

Today is the last day to vote in the 2026 Bug of the Year contest!

Vote now for the Hellraiser Mite: bugoftheyear.ento.org.nz/vote-here-20...

P.S. There is also a giant earthworm worthy of your love (you get 3 votes) 🪱

#BugOfTheYear #BugOfTheYear2026 🧪
February 15, 2026 at 11:27 PM
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Time is a flat circle
February 15, 2026 at 3:22 PM
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My adolescence can be precisely described by the fact that I learned to touch-type by hanging out in a busy X-Files chat room on CompuServe where I had to break typing speed records to get my deep and insightful comments in before the conversation moved on
February 15, 2026 at 10:01 PM
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Here's the intro to infe2tation, also showing the title screen (no menu yet) and map screen (showing only the first area unlocked). Working on the cutscenes next. #c64 #commodore64 #pixelart #8bit #retrogame #indiedev #indiegame
February 15, 2026 at 7:58 AM
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"You are the one who take the time to attend warkness", damn, romantic
February 15, 2026 at 9:17 PM
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i can’t think about deer anymore without thinking of this tweet
February 7, 2026 at 4:27 AM
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I see Roger Avary is saying that it was impossible for him to get any films made until he started an "AI" company. Maybe, just maybe, rather than an indictment of the film industry, this is actually an indictment of Roger Avary.
February 15, 2026 at 8:34 PM
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Happy #ValentinesDay 💘

I was once paid to write about the history of Valentine's Day. But this was back in the bad days of pre-2012 Penguin update Google Search.

But here's the thing, we're closer to shitty Google Search than ever before.

So, here's a Valentine's Story
geryow.com/that-one-tim...
February 14, 2026 at 8:33 AM
February 15, 2026 at 8:32 PM
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(Gunsister, PC) [NSFW 18+]
[ガンシスター]
January 22, 2026 at 7:23 PM
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Windows 3.1 boot screens included with "Mink Deluxe" (PC) [NSFW 18+]
[ミンクデラックス]
February 15, 2026 at 7:17 PM
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November 14, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Studios (Games) Covered:
-Abogado Powers (Shuumatsu no Sugoshikata)
-Xyz (Ryakudatsu Kinbaku no Yakata Kanketsu Hen)
-CROWD (Xchange2)
-Blue Gale (Pile Driver)
-Nikukyuu (Shimai Ijiri ~Chiru Hana, Nirin~)
-Studio Mebius (Zetsubou ~Aoi Kajitsu no Sanka~)
-AIR PLANTS (Dearest Vampire)
February 8, 2026 at 7:19 PM
February 15, 2026 at 7:14 PM
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Oh nooo that thing literally everyone warned me could happen has happened, how could I have ever anticipated such a turn of events
lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard
February 15, 2026 at 12:31 AM
Lo-Fi beats to study to.
February 15, 2026 at 7:12 PM
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My love story with X-wing began a little later, with the release of Star Wars: X-Wing - Collector's CD-ROM. 🤩
February 15, 2026 at 6:43 PM
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Laughing and crying and then laughing some more
February 15, 2026 at 3:47 PM
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I work from 9 to 6 and then spend the rest of the time with my family. I do whatever I want at weekends. I read lots of books and haven't switched netflix for claude. I don't lie in bed worrying about my agents. I have no agents. I don't care and these people are chasing ghosts
Token Anxiety

i think i mostly echo this for myself. with so much that can be done, i often feel like i *should* be doing something, always
February 15, 2026 at 6:49 PM
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“They were hellbent on not allowing anybody to help him until he was dead,” she said. interc.pt/4bVVAG2
February 14, 2026 at 3:35 PM