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James Bareham @happicamp.bsky.social · 23h

Listening to more albums in their entirety rather than just playlists. This afternoon's album: 'Moving Pictures' by Rush.

Quick to judge, quick to anger
Slow to understand
Ignorance and prejudice
And fear, walk hand in hand

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Moving Pictures (Remastered) by Rush on Apple Music

Album · 1981 · 7 Songs

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James Bareham @happicamp.bsky.social · 3d

OMG, OMG, OMG, OMG!!!! variety.com/2025/music/n...

Rush Sets Reunion Tour for 2026; Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson Discuss the ‘Difficult Decision’ of Finding a New Drummer After Neil Peart’s Death

Rush will head out on a reunion tour in 2026, with Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson joined by a new drummer. The tour will pay homage to the late Neil Peart.

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James Bareham @happicamp.bsky.social · 8d

The @wired.com art department has been on fire recently, which also seens a particularly apt description on this occasion

WIRED @wired.com · 8d

“The high points of politics,” Thiel quotes Schmitt as saying, “are the moments in which the enemy is, in concrete clarity, recognized as the enemy.”

In Thiel’s mind, Osama bin Laden was capable of this kind of politics. The West, with its fetish for individual rights and procedures, was not.

The Real Stakes, and Real Story, of Peter Thiel’s Antichrist Obsession

Thirty years ago, a peace-loving Austrian theologian spoke to Peter Thiel about the apocalyptic theories of Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt. They’ve been a road map for the billionaire ever since.

www.wired.com

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James Bareham @happicamp.bsky.social · 13d

I genuinely feel it’s going to take me longer to beat Silksong than it took me to beat Sekiro —and it took me two years to beat Sekiro. jfc this game is hard

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James Bareham @happicamp.bsky.social · 21d

Love that track (the guitar solo is 🔥 🔥), but it's tough to beat Subdivisions

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James Bareham @happicamp.bsky.social · 21d

Listening to more albums in their entirety rather than just playlists. This afternoon's album: 'Signals' by Rush. "Be cool or be cast out" music.apple.com/us/album/sig...

Signals (Remastered) by Rush on Apple Music

Album · 1982 · 8 Songs

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James Bareham @happicamp.bsky.social · 25d

Lace is the Genichiro/Balteus of Silksong

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Chris Plante @plante.bsky.social · 26d

It's back-to-school season, which has me wondering...

Why do students go to college for video games? And what's like like as a video game professor?

Going to college for video games | Post Games

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James Bareham @happicamp.bsky.social · Sep 9

Another photo from the Bareham archive: Spinal Tap—left to right, Derek Smalls (Harry Shearer), David St. Hubbins (Michael McKean), and Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest)—photographed on the roof of 5th & Sunset Studios, Los Angeles, summer 2007

Three aging rock stars posing for the camera, backlit by the sun against a bright blue sky.

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James Bareham @happicamp.bsky.social · Sep 6

Happy Silksong weekend to all who celebrate. A reminder to take a pause from the game to read @ohnorosco.bsky.social's Reddit clown meme essay and my homage to art mbh4h.substack.com/p/hollow-kni...

Silksong is here. Reddit will never be the same

Clown No More. How can Team Cherry's Hollow Knight follow-up possibly live up to eight years of Creative Shitposting? Remembering r/HollowKnight and r/Silksong's weirdest moments.

mbh4h.substack.com

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James Bareham @happicamp.bsky.social · Sep 5

Silksong is so stupid hard it's taken me 10+ tries to get past the training boss and it’s been downhill from there. Unfortunately, I also have the sneaking suspicion this might just be me.

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James Bareham @happicamp.bsky.social · Sep 5

I know it's a cliche to write "end of an era" but in this case I think it's most apt. Welcome back to the big 'ol outside world and looking forward to the launch of your home improvement YouTube channel

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Ross Miller @ohnorosco.bsky.social · Sep 4

Hell yeah I convinced @happicamp.bsky.social to post his gorgeous 5K lead art—and my current desktop wallpaper—to Reddit for anyone else who wants it www.reddit.com/r/Silksong/s...

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James Bareham @happicamp.bsky.social · Sep 4

And now on r/Silksong www.reddit.com/r/Silksong/c...

From the Silksong community on Reddit: Hollow Knight/Silksong Desktop Wallpaper

Explore this post and more from the Silksong community

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James Bareham @happicamp.bsky.social · Sep 4

In further honor of Silksong day (t-minus 45 mins and counting) and an homage to all the clown fan art on r/HollowKnight (and @ohnorosco.bsky.social's essay on MBH4H), I made my own HollowSilk art, here in 5K wallpaper format

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James Bareham @happicamp.bsky.social · Sep 4

A very happy Silksong day to all who celebrate! I only started playing Hollow Knight last week and immediately wondered what I'd been doing with my life that I'd never played it before. And then @ohnorosco.bsky.social explained the whole clown thing, and his essay was born—and I got to make art

Ross Miller @ohnorosco.bsky.social · Sep 4

We're 100 minutes away from Silksong's release. Mourning the end of very creative shitposting from r/Silksong and r/HollowKnight. As always, incredible lead art from @happicamp.bsky.social, who took no convincing at all when I asked if he could draw clown makeup.

open.substack.com/pub/mbh4h/p/...

Silksong is here. Reddit will never be the same

Clown No More. How can Team Cherry's Hollow Knight follow-up possibly live up to eight years of Creative Shitposting? Remembering r/HollowKnight and r/Silksong's weirdest moments.

open.substack.com

James Bareham @happicamp.bsky.social · Aug 30

I'm going to have to watch this. I photographed the Quay brothers in their London studio in the early 2000s. Their work is seriously impressive, and deeply weird

The Quay brothers, both dressed in black, standing looking to the camera, surrounded by props and equipment in their animation studio in London.

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James Bareham @happicamp.bsky.social · Aug 30

Silksong drops September 4, so naturally I’ve just started playing Hollow Knight for the first time and only eight years late. How on earth did I miss this gorgeous and stupid-hard game?

James Bareham @happicamp.bsky.social · Aug 27

I cannot stress enough how good this documentary about 2000 AD is. The opening minutes are an incredible snapshot of coming of age in 1970s Britain www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZC7...

Future Shock! The Story of 2000AD | Official Trailer | DocPlay

YouTube video by DocPlay

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James Bareham @happicamp.bsky.social · Aug 26

In the interest of research for this essay, I rewatched Sylvester Stallone’s 1995 fiasco of a Judge Dredd film just to remind myself if it was as bad as I remembered. It was.

James Bareham @happicamp.bsky.social · Aug 26

It’s been decades since I last read Judge Dredd. But I still remember buying 2000 AD for the first time and the impact the comic—and the character—had on me as a teenager. Judge Dredd is a perfect movie on paper. It just hasn’t quite worked on the big screen. Yet. open.substack.com/pub/mbh4h/p/...

The bastard we deserve: Why we're still waiting for a real Judge Dredd movie

Judge Dredd is a perfect movie on paper. It just hasn’t quite worked on the big screen. Yet.

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James Bareham @happicamp.bsky.social · Aug 17

jfc, teenage engineering are trying to bankrupt me teenage.engineering/store/tp-7-b...

TP–7 black

the ultra-portable audio recorder. record and listen back using the internal mic and speaker, or use any number of the 3x two-way jacks for external mics, headsets or other signal sources. multiple co...

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James Bareham @happicamp.bsky.social · Aug 12

This Game Boy is astonishingly beautiful enough to make a grown nerd weep.

Sean Hollister @seanhollister.bsky.social · Aug 11

Just floored by @nataliethenerd.com's work here. Zoom in and see the copper traces!

This see-thru Game Boy is a work of art — because she designed a transparent circuit board

Those copper traces are a thing of beauty.

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James Bareham @happicamp.bsky.social · Aug 8

Gemini's understated burn when asked how people are responding to ChatGPT 5 on Reddit

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James Bareham @happicamp.bsky.social · Aug 7

Trying listen to more albums in their entirety rather than just playlists. This afternoon's album: REM's 'Out of Time' music.apple.com/us/album/out...

Out of Time (2016 Remaster) by R.E.M. on Apple Music

Album · 1991 · 11 Songs

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