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Stephen Scott

@sassquad.net

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Breaking the web full time. Acorn User magazine alumnus. Written a few games for the BBC Micro, but spend more time playing other people's Beeb games! All views are my own. No AI slop here. https://www.sassquad.net/

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Stephen Scott @sassquad.net · Nov 2

Getting a lot of followers this past week. I've been here a while, but left X for good now.

My name is Stephen, and I am a front end developer. Have been for a long time, since Netscape 😱

But I love building retro games. Here's my latest ⬇️

bbcmicro.co.uk/game.php?id=...

Polymer Picker

Self-published in 2022

bbcmicro.co.uk

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 9h

It's weird. There were just no clues that this is what he was like.

Henry Dyer @direthoughts.com · 9h

Johnson refused to answer specific questions or to provide factual denials to allegations of rule-breaking, while insisting all the rules had been followed at all times. His responses led Acoba’s chair, Isabel Doverty, to find him in breach of the rules.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Boris Johnson breached rules designed to stop abuse of contacts made in public office, watchdog finds

Johnson found to have breached rules after refusing to answer specific questions about allegations published by the Guardian

www.theguardian.com

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 9h

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 10h

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Brian Hiatt @hiattb.bsky.social · 7h

A little moment in my newest James Gunn interview www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

Reporting live from Chicago, there’s no “hellscape” I’d rather be in.

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Stephen Scott @sassquad.net · 17h

"You ain't seen nothing yet... of that $20 beeeeeleon!"

Stephen Scott @sassquad.net · 17h

A bigger issue for all parties is the lack of voter turnout. Last year's turnout was 59%, lowest since 2001. At this rate we'll be below 1918 levels, which was just after World War I (for understandable reasons).

People are becoming more disengaged over time. FPTP continues to screw us over.

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Sarah Elizabeth Cox @oispooky.bsky.social · 21h

How ANYONE here can see these things and still vote for this grotesque man in 2029 is beyond me. I genuinely believe they won't. He's not even TRYING to make it look like he's interested in us. But how to show that? Not everyone's endlessly scrolling BlueSky or reading the Mirror.

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 1d

If you rename the Department of Defense the Department of War, then bomb fishing boats in the Caribbean, and shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper bullet, you should automatically be barred from receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for the rest of your life.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

Welp, here it is: maybe the funniest thing we've ever done, in its entirety.

The Onion Investigates: Jeffrey Epstein

YouTube video by The Onion

www.youtube.com

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Stephen Scott @sassquad.net · 1d

I thought I'd posted this but I didn't. Saw the film Heretic on Prime. Hugh Grant gives a terrific performance, not a bad horror movie at all.

Stephen Scott @sassquad.net · 1d

Love these pictures. The interdimensional portal reminded me of this near where I live.

Footpath tunnel under a railway line. Reminds me of Spirited Away for some reason.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 7d

This - which I explored today - is the kind of thing I live for on walks in the deep countryside: a 200+-year-old abandoned walled garden, totally overgrown and teeming with wildlife and ghosts.

Finding lost magic places like this, untouched and undeveloped, always fills me with weird kind of hope.

The entrance to the walled garden I found today, with its broken door and big ivy hat.

An interdimensional portal in the walled garden I found today

A hole in the wall of the walled garden I found today, leading to 1785.

Ruined potting sheds in the walled garden I found today.

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Beau @drbeaubeaumont.bsky.social · 1d

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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Stephen Scott @sassquad.net · 1d

Chris Bradburne's Epsilon Protocol is now available on the BBC Games Archive. I've played it, and I can tell you now, it's excellent.

There's life left in the old Beeb yet!

bbcmicro.co.uk/game.php?id=...

Stephen Scott @sassquad.net · 2d

The Jurassic Park franchise continues to unfold in a way that really embraces chaos theory.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 3d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Stephen Scott @sassquad.net · 3d

Looks like Tron: Ares is a bit of a dog's dinner then.

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Kath @kathyburke.bsky.social · 3d

Yes, yes I know I keep banging on about my fucking book! However, if you want one repost this and I’ll do a random winner pick thing by the end of the week because I’m great like that. ♥️📚
#amindofmyown

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Richard Arugula @monkchips.com · 3d

sharing this for the second time today because i love it so much and dear LORD do we ever need some good news.

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 3d

solar and wind generated more electricity that coal for the first time ever in the first half of 2025. that's the good shit ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

Global Electricity Mid-Year Insights 2025 | Ember

Solar and wind outpaced demand growth in the first half of 2025, as renewables overtook coal’s share in the global electricity mix.

ember-energy.org

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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 3d

Tory party conference got you down?

Far-right rhetoric left you feeling scared for the future?

Then why not take a minute to enjoy eighteen (18) pictures of Ed Davey on a pumpkin farm with young carers 🎃🚜

www.gettyimages.co.uk/editorial-im...

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Stephen Scott @sassquad.net · 3d

Even the corner radius of the windows is excessive.

I mean even RISC OS wouldn't do such things 😱

Stephen Scott @sassquad.net · 3d

As a front end developer, some of Mac OS Taco really is trolling me.

The layout of this notification is making my teeth itch and my hair clenched.

Screenshot of the Empty bin notification from Mac OS Tahoe.

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Elijah Seed-Arita [INTDEV] @elij.dev · 4d

Wanted to share how easy it is to create a simple game in JavaScript. Set aside about 20 minutes, this is what we'll create today - a player you can control with WASD.

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 4d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 4d

Dear Gods of all that is stupid...

IT'S REAL.

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