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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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Paul [Atreides] Wood @retroid.bsky.social · Aug 23

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.

A splendid arcade cabinet now standing in our flat, powered up and playing Capcom's 1942

The same arcade cabinet with the main lights off, showing the lit marquee

An original (Romstar) Capcom 1942 PCB imported from the States

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 4h

Reminder that Mount Rushmore was designed by a white supremacist and literal Klansman as a deliberate desecration of a site sacred to multiple Indigenous nations. Imagine if a Klansman blew up St. Peter's Basilica or the Western Wall and built a statue of Trump instead. That's what Rushmore is.

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Paul [Atreides] Wood @retroid.bsky.social · 4h

Blimey!

That's excellent \o/

Was stunned when I saw one here in Dundee in our first place, but that was much closer to Dundee Law and Balgay Park in the other direction. Ended up seeing it a few times, hope you do too.

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Ian @wordsoup.bsky.social · 6h

Just saw a fox. I was putting the bin out before bed & it was sitting on the pavement fairly near the front door. (far enough away to feel safe) Waited for me to go & get my phone then let me take pics, then backed off when I put the bin out, but came back when I went back in. @retroid.bsky.social

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Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 23h

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Ana Valens | 🔞 | COMMS: (3/5) @acvalens.net · 8d

Thank you Patricia & Polygon for covering this story when so many others have dropped it. Shout out also to TheGamer, RPS, PC Gamer, Automaton, 80 Level

www.polygon.com/steam-adult-...

As Steam cracks down on adult games, one dev urges taking back control

Game developers fear for the future of games with LGBTQ themes, which is leading some to pursue alternate (and way cooler) forms of distribution

www.polygon.com

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Ashley @meadowofashxo.bsky.social · 9h

Looks like a pic from the soon to be filmed Knives Out prequel with a young Benoit Blanc participating in an exchange program in Paris.

Carrie Tait @carrietait.bsky.social · 1d

This photo accompanying a news story about the heist at the Louvre is perfection.

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Neugin @lostcitymagic.bsky.social · 1d

Jfc he's like the riddler, he's doing everything for you to see how huge of a monster he is except come right out and say it.

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 1d

“All my friends murdered and raped, sometimes they hung out at my house. Get over yourself.”

RFK Jr. explains why socializing with Jeffrey Epstein wasn't such a big deal for him:
...l ran into everybody in NY. I mean, I knew Harvey Weinstein, I knew Roger Ailes, I knew
-- O.J. Simpson came to my house. Bill Cosby came to my house."

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Jeremy Parish, imperial aerosol kid @jparish.bsky.social · 9h

Connecting in Chicago on my way home from Portland and imagining the sheer pants-pissing existential terror this itinerary would instill in the average numbskull Trumpist

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Kelly McKernan is launching an oracle deck 10/31 🔮 @kellymckernan.bsky.social · 9h

“So you’re saying we should bully companies that use AI?”

“Yes absolutely.”

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11h

shocked to learn that the president lied about this and also this is a horrible defacing of a building that belongs to the people of the United States, not donald trump

Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 11h

Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU

White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom

The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.

wapo.st

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The Onion @theonion.com · 11h

Lawyer Friend Makes Strong Case For Nachos https://theonion.com/lawyer-friend-makes-strong-case-for-nachos-1819567126/

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Eyes on the Fright 🎃 @eyesontheright.bsky.social · 12h

I knew Republicans were gonna fall in line and talk about how much they loved the President's shit video but my god

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 12h

Donald Trump: *posts video of himself dumping diarrhea on Americans*

Mike Johnson: "You can argue [Trump's] probably the most effective person who's ever used social media."

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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 11h

These folks have plainly joined the Dark Side (while trying to hide it under a cloak of sweet reasonableness). Also: you CAN refuse every project that uses generative AI. It's called "choosing a side." (And if we're playing with idioms: it's easy to wind up with too much nose and not enough face...)

Dontae M! (Swordtee40) @swordtee40.bsky.social · 13h

A kind reminder to be careful what you submit to and avoid this “talent agency” called Right Voice Casting.

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CrazyMyra @outonthemoors.bsky.social · 17h

Chill

A capybara enjoying a shower - with water flowing from a pipe above onto its head - while snow falls all around.
This is a popular tradition in Japanese zoos, where the animals are provided with hot springs.

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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 17h

Every now and then you can still spot one of these beautiful creatures roaming free in the wild, and not brutally enslaved by humans, being exploited for its scales.

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 11h

“Well journalism and science will walk hand in hand with digital online age… oh.”

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 11h

I feel like the fact we enter an age of infinite access to data & information being accompanied by multiple pro-ignorance movements is sort of telling on the species a bit.

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Sexy Andrew Hickey Costume @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 12h

This is vile, not only because of the idea (no LLM can know what I want) but also because of the cavalier attitudes to patients' wishes in general here.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 17h

“For more than a decade, researchers have wondered whether artificial intelligence could help predict what incapacitated patients might want when doctors must make life-or-death decisions on their behalf.”

Should an AI copy of you help decide if you live or die?

Doctors share top concerns of AI surrogates aiding life-or-death decisions.

arstechnica.com

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Paul [Atreides] Wood @retroid.bsky.social · 12h

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DCminx 🕊🌍🔥🌱 @dcminx.bsky.social · 15h

🚨 New evidence suggests Jeffrey Epstein channelled millions of dollars through Russian-linked banks. Byline Times reveals fresh details of the Kremlin-connected tech figures at the heart of his circle.
@bylinetimes.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/20/i...

Screenshot of Byline Times.
Inside Epstein’s Russian Tech Web: How Oligarch Cash and Three Women Connected Moscow to Silicon Valley
Leaked records obtained by Byline Times reveal how Kremlin-linked investors used Epstein’s network to channel oligarch money into Silicon Valley

Matt Bernardini
20 October 2025
Photo from bottom left: Masha Drokova (Bucher) on the cover of Authority Magazine, Masha and Victoria Drokova in Putin’s Kiss (2011), Lana Pozhidaeva with Jeffrey Epstein in 2013, . Photo: Elder Ordonez

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 1d

So, MAGA, you still think your King, Trump, deserves a Peace Prize for an Israel-Hamas ceasefire that didn't even last a week?

For wanting a war with Venezuela?

For helping Putin occupy Ukraine?

For unleashing ICE against Americans?

Cool, cool.

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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 12h

Lots of this “violent left” spirit at the No Kings rallies

Woody Guthrie would have approved

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Kat Bailey @katbailey.bsky.social · 13h

Job update time! Today was my first day as Larian Studios' new Storytelling Lead! It's wild to be back in an office fulltime for the first time in more than a decade -- and in another country to boot -- but it's wonderful to find community so far from home.

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 13h

The horror of emerging from a recording session to find a message from your husband saying that one of the cats has had a digestive malfunction and has “Donald Trumped the whole flat”

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Euan @euan.bsky.social · 13h

Bloomberg calling Zack Polanski ‘the British Zohran Mamdani’

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