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sigrim.bsky.social
Fiddling with computers for fun and profit. Loves science, beer, curry and running, amongst other things.
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Pretty dull fess but at the same time - do sign up. We lost 75,000 subs when Yahoo Groups died - it's about 25,000 now. Just the hardcore, absolute best people, but would be nice if it was bigger. b3ta.com/subscribe

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Just beat, and really enjoyed, this: danielben.itch.io/dragonsweeper

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

This is Jerry Lawson. He invented the video game cartridge for the Fairchild Channel F system. Because of his invention, many consoles had cartridges and CD formats and would become the norm. The Atari 2600, NES, Genesis, and many consoles wouldn't exist without him. Happy Black History Month.

submitted 27 days ago • 60 comments

Oh hai #proofofcat

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

I sometimes thinking about this Canon ad with Godzilla at a copy machine when I’m feeling sad

submitted 31 days ago • 119 comments

5 tongue-in-cheek game writing exercises that are a more realistic representation of what most game writers do (in my experience) than a branching dialog tree:

submitted 45 days ago • 44 comments

Please continue to share this picture to raise awareness of the plight of cats trapped in a folk music environment.

submitted 35 days ago • 12 comments

This is your annual reminder to watch Trading Places.

submitted 68 days ago • 9 comments

maybe my favourite etymology: the phrase “curry favour” originates from a medieval french morality poem about a conniving horse named fauvel who amasses a following of sycophantic humans to groom and tend to him. over time, “currying fauvel” eventually became “currying favour.”

submitted 73 days ago • 28 comments

There’s an antiques emporium in Norwich of such unfathomable strangeness every visit produces fresh gasps of bewilderment and terror. Recent finds: 1. Mounted photo print of depressed steam train driver (£1)

submitted 74 days ago • 45 comments

Even Gabriel García Márquez has a cookbook out this Christmas…

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

When they have to tell you it’s yummy, you know it isn’t.

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

The Bechdel test is for a film that has a scene where two named female characters discuss something other than a man. I've been working on some variants.

submitted 84 days ago • 1 comment

Messing around with feeds and made this, though maybe @ukrunchat.bsky.social already had this on their to-do list! bsky.app/profile/did:...

submitted 95 days ago • 1 comment

damn this quote about london from the 1200s makes it sound so epic????

submitted 266 days ago • 95 comments

Just short of six years since my most popular ever tweet Wanna feel old? This is what the kid from The Omen looks like now

submitted 111 days ago • 2 comments