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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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Dave Convery @zomda.bsky.social · 10h

what the fuck are you talking about

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 1d

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, country-music legend Johnny Cash can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength, writes Jon Fasman.

Essay | Can We Finally Give Johnny Cash His Due?

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, the country-music legend can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 12h

a friend of mine in antifa told me that antifa's headquarters is SHEIN and if the company fell the whole network would fall

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John O'Connell @jdpoc.bsky.social · 15h

🎵 🎵 "Freed from desire, mind and senses purified ..." 🎵 🎵

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Shawn's Socialist Slipstreaming（宇祥）- he/him/他/dia @shawnybantzy.bsky.social · 17h

Apparently our newest Nobel Peace Prize winner wrote to fucking Netanyahu for help in overthrowing the government of her own country dawg

The population of Venezuela needs international protection against the widespread and systematic attack to which the Venezuelan regime subjects it. This is demonstrated by the report dated May 29, 2018, submitted by the Organisation of American States to the International Criminal Court. This has served as the basis for nine states, including Argentina, to file complaints against the regime before that international body. We deeply appreciate this effort, which is decisive for the outcome of the Venezuelan tragedy.

I am convinced that the international community, in accordance with the responsibility to protect doctrine, is called upon to provide Venezuelans with the necessary support to bring about the regime change that is urgently needed to restore national and international security. Therefore, I have recently sent letters to several of the world’s leading figures to promote before the United Nations Security Council the adoption of effective protection measures for Venezuela by fostering regime change, a step that necessarily entails strengthening international security. Today I want to ask Israel and Argentina to contribute their expertise and influence to advance a sound and urgent decision-making process in the Security Council.

Such measures are imperative in the face of a hemispheric security hotspot like the one currently posed by the regime oppressing Venezuela. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the International Organisation for Migration have certified that the current refugee crisis of people fleeing Venezuela is the largest in the history of the Americas. Argentina is an example of this crisis, having welcomed hundreds of thousands of our compatriots—a gesture for which Venezuelans will always be grateful. However, we must be aware that without a change of regime in our country, hemispheric and global security will be at risk.

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

A few pictures from last night's @warringtonruncorn.com gig at the Portland in Cambridge.

A contrasty black-and-white image Gordon Chapman-Fox standing behind a chest-high table full of electronics, concentrating hard. There is a dark void around him, four small pentagonal lights above.

A colour image similar to the previous one, but from a wide angle, with a second, lower table full of electronics visible. Gordon is looking down and tweaking things with both hands. Some heads from the crowd are visible in the foreground, in shadow, haloed by the lights in the venue.

A colour image, similar to the previous one but from a tighter angle. Gordon looks very serious.

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PJ Holden @pauljholden.com · 1d

Cat believe these are all owned by one guy.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Experience: I own the world’s largest Monopoly collection

Every set is exciting. I’ve currently got 4,379 different ones. The dream is to hit 4,500, maybe even 5,000

www.theguardian.com

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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · Jan 24

In the first 100 days I will dig down into the place of honor. On day one I will issue an Executive Order that the radical woke warning signs be removed and anyone perpetuating the "dangerous and repulsive" lie to be terminated. I will restore the country by touching the ancient treasures.

Graphic showing the proposed pictogram warning of the dangers of buried nuclear waste for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant.

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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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Chris, woooo spooky @cawhitworth.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 2d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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

archive.ph/KZZC1

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Chris, woooo spooky @cawhitworth.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

A lot of things just happened

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Chris, woooo spooky @cawhitworth.bsky.social · 1d

Random Restaurant Bot @restaurant-bot.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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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