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Scottish Games Network @scottishgames.bsky.social · 20d

The EU GAME-ER project at Abertay University is looking for local expertise to help verify its map of Dundee's game development community

Dundee’s Games Cluster in the Spotlight as GAME-ER Research Project Seeks Local Expertise

Everyone knows Dundee is the beating heart of Scotland's games ecosystem, but how many studios are based in the city? Researchers from Abertay University are calling upon the collective knowledge of the Dundee games community to help verify a comprehensive map of the city's renowned games cluster. The request comes as part of GAME-ER, a major European research project dedicated to understanding the dynamics of local and regional video game ecosystems.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Sep 4

These guys are simply not smart.

sam altman tweet: i never took the dead internet theory that seriously but it seems like there are really a lot of LLM-run twitter accounts now

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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · Sep 2

Question to Zach Polanski at the leadership announcement:

"Q: How can you take on Nigel Farage when your policy on immigration is so different?"

Everything wrong with British politics and media summed up so succinctly in a single absolutely unhinged question.

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · Sep 2

It’s hard to look around—at Blair pitching a luxury resort to be built on the Gaza killing fields or Keir Starmer responding to anti-Asian hate by affirming his affinity for the perpetrators—and not conclude that the elite’s real problem with Corbyn was that he wasn’t sufficiently Islamophobic.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · Sep 2

I think George Osborne openly musing to the air that the security services probably wouldn’t have tolerated Labour winning in 2017, because of our relationship with America, is quite helpful and I’d like to hear more.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · Sep 2

Sensationally, it appears the grown ups have been put back in charge of the grown ups who were previously put back in charge

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Nate Bethea @inthesedeserts.bsky.social · Aug 26

I missed this when it happened and anyone who has ever used an analog synth is going to embarrass themselves laughing at this. Thank u Greg www.tumblr.com/decanting-ce...

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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · Aug 25

the last two news stories i saw, one after another, were israel bombing nasser hospital in gaza and then this one. genuinely ashamed of the UK right now

The National @scotnational.bsky.social · Aug 25

BREAKING: Award-winning Scottish screenwriter Paul Laverty has been arrested after wearing a T-shirt reading 'Genocide in Palestine, time to take action'

Police arrested the I, Daniel Blake writer in Edinburgh this morning

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.bsky.social · Aug 24

Compare the amount of coverage of a thousand or so fascist "protestors" has received with the tens and hundreds of thousands of left wing protestors over the years (austerity, Gaza, Iraq, BLM etc)

Some are painted as "legitimate concerns", others as noise or naive demands

Ask yourself why

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · Aug 18

(returning to work after a week of vacation and i don't remember how to do emails anymore): greetings, to my colleagues in officemongering

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Ben Abraham @afterclimate.com.au · Aug 15

Still one of the best most important books of this century. Just saw fantastic in its clarity of analysis, and virtually unassailable in the breadth of its evidence from history and anthropology.

deadward @deadward.bsky.social · Aug 15

Debt: The First 5,000 Years | David Graeber

"This is it, this is the nightmare debt trap and most people in the world are falling into it."

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · Aug 12

Labour MP: legitimate concerns

Russell England @russellengland.bsky.social · Aug 12

Village idiots verbally abusing an influx of "illegal immigrants" at a campsite in Newbridge, Wales

They were a group of Scouts from Scotland

Anti-immigrant rhetoric has consequences

Statement from Scouts Cymru

"We are aware of a racially aggravated incident targeting under-18s"

Important update from ScoutsCymru regarding CRAI Scout Activity Park

CRAI Scout Activity Park is an inclusive and welcoming campsite and activity centre in the South Wales Valleys offering a range of outdoor activities for youth and community groups.

We are aware of a racially aggravated incident targeting under-18s who were leaving after visiting our activity centre and are working closely with the South Wales Police to address this situation.

We are committed to ensuring the safety and wellbeing of everyone on site and will continue to take immediate and robust action against any behaviour that threatens this.

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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · Aug 12

as someone who likes to see the best in people the number of fuckers falling for the computer saying "while i'm just a chatbot... i think you're really special! ;)" is testing me

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Scottish Games Network @scottishgames.bsky.social · Aug 12

The 'Play For Good' exhibition from Abertays Games Lab is a major part of the RSE's 2025 Curious festival in September 2025.

Abertay’s ‘Play For Good’ To Showcase the Power of Games at RSE Curious Festival

The transformative power of video games to address real-world challenges will be on full display this September, as Abertay University's Applied Games Lab presents its Play for Good exhibition as part of the prestigious Royal Society of Edinburgh's Curious festival of knowledge. This is a significant and welcome inclusion, demonstrating the growing recognition of games as a powerful tool for social and cultural impact.

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Glasgow Independent Games Festival @glasgowindiegamesfest.org · Aug 9

#GIGF25 is in full swing! With talks and games a plenty. Thanks to everyone who showed us support <3

#festival #indiegames #convention #scotland #glasgow

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.bsky.social · Aug 9

400 counter protestors vs 15 fascists in Bristol

And yet it is the latter who are painted as expressing the "legitimate grievances" of "the people" by the mainstream media and politicians

This leads to emboldening and mainstreaming and it is a top down effect

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Ben Abraham @afterclimate.com.au · Nov 11

I have done almost zero promo/sharing of the work I've done this year, so let's correct that with a thread of stuff I've written, worked on, helped with, etc.

I started the year with a post about European gaming emissions & what we can do about them.
gtg.benabraham.net/european-gam...

European Gaming Emissions, and how we address them

I was asked earlier this week by Joost Raessens (Utrecht University Professor, and coordinator of STRATEGIES: Sustainable Transition for Europe’s Game Industries a major Horizon-funded research projec...

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404 Media @404media.co · Aug 8

Man Gave Himself 19th Century Psychiatric Illness After Consulting With ChatGPT

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Guy Gives Himself 19th Century Psychiatric Illness After Consulting With ChatGPT

"For 3 months, he had replaced sodium chloride with sodium bromide obtained from the internet after consultation with ChatGPT."

www.404media.co

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · Aug 2

this will open the floodgates

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · Jul 28

It wouldn’t have been possible to turn aid delivery into daily machine gun massacres of civilians without all kinds of important people agreeing to pretend they were terrified that the UN aid programme was a terrorist enterprise. Specific people, whose statements are publicly available.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Jul 28

BBC News: Do you think you were a witness to war crimes?

American veteran who worked at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid distribution center: Without question I witnessed war crimes.

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Glasgow Independent Games Festival @glasgowindiegamesfest.org · Jul 25

Agent Squidge is a silly, cooperative, physics based stealth game by @brainleakstudios.bsky.social! Go rogue or duo as the best of the worst that infiltrates a very evil corporation.

Do wobbly, sneaky puzzle co-op games interest you? Come to #GIGF25 and play Agent Squidge yourself! :3

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · Jul 25

Try to imagine any other context where a news presenter describes credible reports that soldiers have been shooting huge numbers of teenagers and children *for sport*, for fun, and a politician gives this reaction.

Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · Jul 25

Adil Ray recounts the testimony of a doctor who explains IDF soldiers play a game where each day they decide to shoot Palestinian boys in a different part of their body

Flint: "Israel is a functioning democracy. It is understandable when you have Hamas in control.." #GMB

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · Jul 25

I imagine the public can see very clearly how this stuff doesn’t match up terribly well with what they’ve had screamed at them for two years: that the people opposing this are extremist “hate marchers”.

Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · Jul 25

This morning a British dr who has just returned from Gaza explained how IDF soldiers play a game when they shoot Palestinian kids - one day they'll shoot them in the head, the next day in the chest, & so on

Adil ray asks govt minister Peter Kyle, should we be training IDF soldiers in the UK?

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Glasgow Independent Games Festival @glasgowindiegamesfest.org · Jul 25

The Honours Project, an autobiographical walking simulator by Scott Cambell, provides dark and sometimes comical dialogue about being a student in game development.

Do dream-like, relatable narrative games interest you? Come to #GIGF25 and play The Honours Project yourself! :3

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · Jul 24

A feature of the british politcial-media class is they exist in an eternal state of now. None of them gamed out "one day everybody in gaza will be starving." It is just a thing that has happened, now, like an earthquake

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