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Netflix will be kicking themselves!

I'd like to thank Mythic Quest: Side Quest for reminding me that The Weakerthans existed youtu.be/GGVEl9xuUEI

I'd like to thank Mythic Quest: Side Quest for reminding me that The Weakerthans existed youtu.be/GGVEl9xuUEI

May the fourth be with you Always #StarWarsDay

A belated Happy Ubuntu day to all who celebrate #Ubuntu #PluckyPuffin canonical.com/blog/canonic...

I've watched more golf in the last two days than in the last five years Congratulations Rory. History made #TheMasters

It's a year since the last update to real life comics. Hope Mae is doing ok reallifecomics.com/index.php

Ash mash up Beetlejuice and Evil Dead

I'm getting a lot of missed calls from Belgian numbers recently

Interesting read on what a gig in Dublin actually costs to put on, and what an act can make from it loscampesinos.com/in-the-black...

Cool www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/ea-j...

I'm not a big Kendrick Lamar fan, and thought his Superbowl half time performance was just fine, but I will say this - it's stayed with me longer than any other performance I've seen

The response to today's new show has been really heartening - thank you all so much 🙏 I'm not posting to the birdsite anymore and my Insta etc is... light, but anyone who DOES want to share widely it's welcome and encouraged 😁👍 youtu.be/50-PDnWMzVE?...

“Dark Roads, No Reception.” A new video single from Watch Out For Snakes. Available now on all platforms. youtu.be/k9usoQ1NUwU Featuring art/animation by Diego Sameshima, Brad Bretanha, and yours truly. ——— #chipwave #chiptune #synthwave #pixelart #pixelanimation #8bit #nes #nintendo #retrogaming

@watchoutforsnakes.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/mKuC9...

Never thought I'd find myself recommending a Boyzone documentary, but we live in unpredictable times I get the feeling a lot is going to come out when Louis Walsh dies #NoMatterWhat

Here’s this week’s cartoon for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/football/pic...

I've broken two different AI tools this week by asking them to solve a countdown numbers puzzle, e.g. "combine the numbers 2, 4, 6, 9, 25, and 75, using each number once, to reach 683" It's quite funny

Wordle 1,311 3/6* ⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜ 🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I wrote a little bit about David Lynch for @secondwindgroup.com. The piece is free to read. READ: www.patreon.com/posts/column...

One of my more bizarre earworms Bring the beat back

Notable works entering public domain this year include Popeye and the works of Frida Kahlo

Time for a swim #NewYear

Happy New Year all!

🎄 A Merry Christmas and peaceful New Year to all

Nailed it #Superman youtu.be/uhUht6vAsMY

If you wanted to know what I(and about 75% of my class) was like in university, basically this

Googling Stuff: Then v Now.

"In light of all the promise that AI will "revolutionize" gaming, this post is about how AI has already affected the home of experimental games: itch.io" www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/in-... I wrote about the Funko fiasco...because i think this scenario is like a "canary in the coal mine" for us.

TIL Batman had Irish citizenship, and studied in UCD x.com/RealKevinCon...

My big project: The Death Generator. It's a tool for making fake video game screenshots, just fill in new text and it'll give you a (generally) pixel-accurate image back, the correct fonts and everything. deathgenerator.com

@bngr24.bsky.social #tradition

@bngr24.bsky.social tradition?

In years past, tonight has broken stripe and revolut Let's see what the bluesky servers are made of #LateLateToyShow

🎶 I listened for 13,280 minutes in 2024. What about you? Few surprising tracks in the Top Songs list #SpotifyWrapped open.spotify.com/wrapped/shar...

Iwayagawauchi Dam in Japan has image of Godzilla power hosed onto it! www.instagram.com/p/DCqQeKtAJ7k

I've been roasted! blueskyroast.com

Wordle 1,258 5/6* ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Apt.

Stream of all photos as they are posted on bluesky As you might expect, some are quite NSFW

This is one of a very few songs that, when they are played at random, I put it on repeat

Was searching for some old tech articles I wrote, and found out one of them was cited in a Master's thesis in Madrid in 2013! oa.upm.es/32820/1/PFC_...