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Yoz Grahame @yoz.bsky.social · 1d

oh that’s good

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Foone @foone.bsky.social · 10d

I've been bedridden for the last 10 months, unable to work as I try to get a surgeon and insurance lined up for my operation to let me work again.
If you could send a couple dollars, it'd really help. Time isn't on my side here, and waiting is very expensive.

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Yoz Grahame @yoz.bsky.social · 3d

At age fifty I led my first few services at the shul I grew up with, because I was an ovel. But just weekday minchah & maariv, nowhere near as daunting as High Holy days. Well done!

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Yoz Grahame @yoz.bsky.social · 4d

So glad I only had to scroll down about two pages of skeet-quotes to find this, saving me from looking it up myself, so thank you

“Bill Is Dead” AND “Telephone Thing”? DONE

Yoz Grahame @yoz.bsky.social · 4d

*ADULATORY SQUEAL*

ALL HAIL THE NEW GANG OF FOUR

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Yoz Grahame @yoz.bsky.social · 6d

Standard Master Flash and the Fairly Cross Three

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Yoz Grahame @yoz.bsky.social · 7d

I adore Spiritfarer, but i am lowkey obsessed with Rymdkapsel

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Yoz Grahame @yoz.bsky.social · 7d

Not necessarily. This is a great opportunity for the Rails community to loudly reject him, thus making the project more welcoming to the majority of devs, who are understandably put off by the presence of outspoken racists

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Yoz Grahame @yoz.bsky.social · 9d

youtu.be/xA9X4KgGHzM?...

2020-08-21: What Microsoft Flight Simulator has in common with "Spec Ops: The Line"

YouTube video by Yoz Grahame

youtu.be

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Yoz Grahame @yoz.bsky.social · 9d

Spiritfarer
Knights and Bikes
Burnout Paradise
Enter The Gungeon
Thirty Flights Of Loving
Devil Daggers
Little Inferno
Space Channel 5 (okay, that’s pre-2000)
Buckshot Roulette
Dustforce
Risk Of Rain
Baba Is You
Superflight
Rymdkapsel
Battleblock Theater
The Procession To Cavalry
Trombone Champ

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Yoz Grahame @yoz.bsky.social · 9d

Amazing art that I haven’t seen mentioned:

Qix (1981)
Colossal Cave Adventure (Crowther & Woods, 1976)
Knot In 3D (Malcolm Evans, 1983)
Deus Ex Machina (Automata, 1984)
Portal (Activision, 1986)
XOR (Astral, 1987)
Extase (Cryo, 1990)
WipeOut (Psygnosis, 1995)

And then, post-2000…

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Yoz Grahame @yoz.bsky.social · 9d

YES KNYTT

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Yoz Grahame @yoz.bsky.social · 9d

Tetris is the purest of all video games, in being the simplest real game that requires a computer

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Yoz Grahame @yoz.bsky.social · 9d

you seem to be missing Burnout Paradise, let me fix that for you

Yoz Grahame @yoz.bsky.social · 9d

not least because of all the commentary on emotionally abusive fathers

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Yoz Grahame @yoz.bsky.social · 11d

I posed this question to my 11 yr old and she answered “mile - it becomes ‘smiles’ and they’re much shorter than a mile”

Yoz Grahame @yoz.bsky.social · 11d

What’s your sign?

A sign attached to a post, photographed from below. It reads:

WILL YOU TURN TOWARDS ME

I AM LONELY TOO
THIS AUTUMN EVENING

(Found via @waxpancake)

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Yoz Grahame @yoz.bsky.social · 11d

*cough* James Cleverly

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Yoz Grahame @yoz.bsky.social · 12d

Vaguely? Alas I have no idea where it might be!

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Yoz Grahame @yoz.bsky.social · 13d

"The whole reason I got security clearance was so I could visit every intelligence agency and buy something from their gift shop. They all have gift shops. Even [$AGENCY] whose existence was classified until the 1960s - they have a gift shop." -- @procuremancer.bsky.social

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Yoz Grahame @yoz.bsky.social · 15d

with that track record, I look forward to Meta’s bot going so leftie that it accuses itself of being a class traitor

Yoz Grahame @yoz.bsky.social · 17d

BEA ARTHUR

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Yoz Grahame @yoz.bsky.social · 18d

First time I came to the West Coast was 1998. I remember seeing a billboard for Macromedia Shockwave; was amazed to see such a big ad for something from My World (Internet tech) but also surprised that it didn’t move

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Yoz Grahame @yoz.bsky.social · 20d

I feel sick. I'm sure all my trans friends feel a hell of a lot worse, though.

Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 21d

The FBI is preparing to label transgender people as “violent extremists” in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/fbi-readie...

FBI Readies New War on Trans People

“We’re looking at the entire web”

www.kenklippenstein.com

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Yoz Grahame @yoz.bsky.social · 20d

When I got my UCL CS login in Sept ‘93, I sat down at a SunSPARC 1 and typed in two commands from Wired issue 3 (found in a Jerusalem second-hand bookshop)

1. Finger the Carnegie-Mellon Coke machine www.livinginternet.com/i/ia_myths_c...

2. telnet to PMC-MOO pmc.iath.virginia.edu/Virtual.Comm...

Internet Coke Machine | LivingInternet

Internet Coke Machine

www.livinginternet.com

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