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Tufty McTavish
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Gamer 🎮 Grower 👨‍🌾 Reader 📚 Rock Star 🎸 🥁 🎹
I‘ve more intel for you! Replying to old post to avoid bothering others.

3.17 has 🐞 screen.

⬅️ is two views where I quickly found a missing post.
➡️ is the Boost debug screen. It’s filtering out “AI” (correct), but is it using an includes anywhere regex because it’s matching “Adelaide” or “daily”??
January 12, 2026 at 10:59 PM
🚋 I travelled in a train to the next puzzle hub area in #Viewfinder.

🎮 #VideoGames 🕹️
January 12, 2026 at 8:42 PM
🎞️ I was curious if I could reach one of the far off buildings in one optional challenge that I was puzzled by.

I eventually decided I wasn’t getting anywhere!

🎮 #VideoGames 🕹️
January 12, 2026 at 8:42 PM
📸 I first read about #SadOwlStudios and @mattstark256.bsky.social’s #Viewfinder from @thunderfulgames.bsky.social in @debugmag.com issue 1, where it was the (eventual!) cover story (which I only learned recently in a livestream).

I’ve completed first few levels and onto the train.

🎮 #VideoGames 🕹️
January 12, 2026 at 8:42 PM
I’ve got a couple of them… 😉

But I read (some of) these decades ago, when I were a wee lad, so I do not remember anymore. These are all old MMP editions that I’ve held on to.

I do know that @dominishbooks.bsky.social has read some recently on his #BookTube channel, may have vastly superior answer?
January 12, 2026 at 7:00 PM
📆 End of a week reading update!

My pace dipped dramatically after I completed my 2025 reading goals, but it seems to have picked back up a little by the weekend 🧐

Finished “The Dervish House”, continued “A City on Mars”, returning to “Artifact Space”.

📚⚔️ #FantasyBooks 🚀 #SciFiBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋
January 11, 2026 at 8:35 PM
🥬 Since the cold weather has passed us for the time being, I’ve taken the opportunity to take the fleece cover off of the Pak-Choi plantlings growing outside in the cold frames.

They look to be doing okay so far, despite some very cold 🌡️

👨‍🌾 #Gardening #VegetableGrowing #GrowYourOwn 🌱
January 11, 2026 at 11:17 AM
🔊 Delighted to learn that @emmanewman.bsky.social’s mum had a crush on Avon 😘

She was not the only one, as the Liberation documentary on the Series 2 Blu-Ray reveals when they interview Sheila Ruskin… (Alta One on “Redemption”).

These are ready for your viewing!

📺 #TVSky 🚀 #Blakes7 7️⃣ #Podcasts 📻
January 11, 2026 at 11:01 AM
📖 One of my currently active books has occasional 1-2 footnotes.

Whenever I see these appear it’s a struggle to avoid scanning the page looking for little footnote symbols, so that I know when to branch my reading to the footnote text.

Sometimes my scan absorbs more than I’d like 🫣

📚💙 #BookSky 🦋
January 10, 2026 at 4:29 PM
I’ve left that one on my Library chair upstair, perhaps for next month 🤔, for I am still working on “The Dervish House” at 58% today.

The Chair is an official adjunct to The Up Next Shelf for TBR planning 😆
January 10, 2026 at 11:48 AM
🎬 Found out that #Apollo13 was on ITV towards the end of December. So I downloaded it to watch tonight.

This inspiration miiiiight be related to the book I’m currently reading 👇 which was describing some early disasters as it details the difficulty of the task.

📽️💙 #FilmSky #MovieSky 🍿🎥
January 9, 2026 at 7:12 PM
💎 The Romaya fight in #SeaOfStars’ Necromancer’s Lair was a toughie!

I saw a Game Over screen 6 or 7 times as I steadily refined my approach. Had to get more tactical than usual, focusing efforts and timing shields.

Reckoned I was on after piles were down, then shields up before 💥

🎮 #VideoGames 🕹️
January 9, 2026 at 6:51 PM
🔊 The one where @rafaelbehr.bsky.social recs “hobbies that aren’t solitary and doing things with other people,” after listening to a podcast discussion “about the way in which digital environment craters social & civic interactions.”

Oops, guilty 🫣

🇬🇧 #UKPolitics 🌎 #PoliticsAndAllThat 🗳️ #Podcasts 📻
January 9, 2026 at 12:02 PM
📉 Gee, I really took my foot off my reading pace once I met my end of year reading goals!

☺️

I am clearly having a breather in January, according to my reading data in The #StoryGraph 😄

📚💙 #BookSky 🦋
January 8, 2026 at 11:22 PM
🥷 Recruited a new team member in #SeaOfStars!

Then got battered by the Necromancer in her lair 😬

I tend to focus on any bads that spawn support, so focused all my hits on the big bad… until I was spending each turn frantically healing.

I don’t even know if I scratched her much 🫤

🎮 #VideoGames 🕹️
January 8, 2026 at 8:53 PM
They were an older 2022 release, FYI.
January 8, 2026 at 2:45 PM
📕 One of my favourite tech history books is “High St@kes,
No Prisoners: A Winner's Tale of Greed and Glory in the Internet Wars” by Charles H. Ferguson, which describes the browser wars between Netscape and MS.

So I’m rather partial to QB’s rec. below 👇

🤔

👨‍🏫 #NonFictionBooks 💡📚💙 #BookSky 🦋
January 8, 2026 at 11:46 AM
👨‍💻 Get in! Look what I’ve got on the way… TBB 📨 must be quite empty just now because they got back to me in a day!

I am super delighted I caught your update on this 😮‍💨

I can only imagine that you must have a paddling pool by your desk now for all the 🫠 you’re doing from all the feels!

TSG looks 🫵😍👌
January 8, 2026 at 11:25 AM
📺 Right then, “The Walking Dead: Dead City S2”, you’re up next!

📺 #TVSky 🧟‍♂️ #TheWalkingDead 🚶‍♂️
January 7, 2026 at 8:04 PM
😍 I know I’ve got a well curated 🦋 feed when I open the app and get contiguous posts about ”Blake’s 7” right at the very top!

Nice job, @quiteamess.bsky.social @sihart.bsky.social @davidkitchen.bsky.social and @spacefallb7.bsky.social 👏

🫵😍👌

📺 #TVShows 🚀 #Blakes7 7️⃣
January 7, 2026 at 10:38 AM
Every update I make a point of checking that it’s still off and remains off.

I’ve also been nagged to “finish setting up my iPad” for years though, because of the Siri nonsense 😖
January 7, 2026 at 9:29 AM
💿 Right then, have decided it’s time to tackle all of the extras in the “Blake’s 7: The Collection - Series 2” box set.

Fired up disc 1 and went in for “Liberation: Blake’s 7: Year 2” and am delighted that Cally and Jenna have returned as a double act: “This… is… SERIES 2!”

📺 #TVShows 🚀 #Blakes7 7️⃣
January 5, 2026 at 7:53 PM
I’ve got three active books this week, but I’m primarily focusing on “The Dervish House” by Ian McDonald for the next few days.

It’s actually my first McDonald though I do have his “Luna” sat on my shelves too, awaiting its turn. Soon™️ 🤗

🪐📚💙
January 5, 2026 at 12:16 PM
💛 A fun Q from @joelstainer.bsky.social about my 🔖

I do indeed use identical yellow bookmarks rather than Post-It notes.

It’s hard to be sure why they’re all yellow, that’s a super tough mystery 🤔 Might be something subconscious, an unexpected choice over time. Any ideas, anyone? 😜😆

📚💙 #BookSky 🦋
January 5, 2026 at 10:37 AM
📆 End of the week reading update 🤓

It’s only the 4th January and I’ve already managed to start three books 🤦‍♂️

My January TBR now consists of four books, including a couple of Readalongs. I’ve temporarily paused a couple of the started books for focus.

📚⚔️ #FantasyBooks 🚀 #SciFiBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋
January 4, 2026 at 9:59 PM