Alice @asponge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026My readme.txt talk plans to make people focus on the words by using the screen for a Quake video with a ghastly nude mod installed rarely worked out as planned. I told them not to watch it! I told them it was their own fault if they saw it! And yet 110
Alice @asponge.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Too much risk of being detained. Doubt I could resist the instinct to lie when the customs officer holds up the book and asks "Did you pack this bag yourself?" 020
Alice @asponge.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Is it just me or did they change the recipe for the Babybell rind? Disgusting now. So thin, barely any bite to it, just gets stuck in your teeth. 030
Alice @asponge.bsky.social · 31/07/2026The secret is that writing is absolutely horrible but editing to make your own terrible writing good is pretty great. 040
Alice @asponge.bsky.social · 31/07/2026I am trying to write for the first time since my brain broke and I quit my professional writing job, and mostly I'm telling myself advice I gave others: get something on the page then make it good later; write like you're talking to someone; use human words; jokes are nice; video games is two words. 180
Alice @asponge.bsky.social · 20/07/2026I know I should rebuild my work site to help my jobhunt, but it's daunting to alter a perfect website. shoving.biz 130
Alice @asponge.bsky.social · 21/06/2026This past week I 'competed' in a thousand-mile self-supported bike race around Scotland (finishing 32nd of 47 starters), and the post-race photos and interview quotes sure do capture the state of me by the end. www.instagram.com/p/DZ2l4bujUoO/instagram.comInstagramCreate an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you. 190
Alice @asponge.bsky.social · 12/05/2026But it's comforting to know I've not listen my professional ability to think of the worst words I could use then become enamoured with how much I hate it and end up saying it all the time. 030
Alice @asponge.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Probably my worst trait as a cyclist is that I internally refer to muscling up a hill in the big chainring as "big ring gaming." Probably my worst trait as a person is I laugh every time I muscle up a hill and tell myself, "We're big ring gaming, boys." 160
Alice @asponge.bsky.social · 22/04/2026A joint research project between Alnwick Town Council and Abertay University is currently experimenting with spooking teens by leaving a smoking red crate or single roll of toilet paper right out in the open in the middle of the historic market square. 040
Alice @asponge.bsky.social · 22/04/2026It was counterproductive for councils in the noughties to discourage loitering by stripping public spaces of benches and other sittable surfaces. Research now shows teenagers subconsciously interpreted the waist-high cover as a combat zone, instilling anxiety leading them to roadie-run to Maccies. 150
Alice @asponge.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Been a long time since I found a CD in the gutter so I was excited to indulge a passion for finding weird CD-Rs ( www.rockpapershotgun.com/i-kinda-miss... ). Alas, no mystery, no romance: it's a regular CD, and one which takes little imagination to guess why someone would hoy it out their window. 160
Alice @asponge.bsky.social · 13/04/2026I probably won't play until it leaves early access but a new Cosmo D game is buy-on-sight for me. One of my favourite developers for years now, colourful and loud and quiet and curious and delightful games which commit to their style with striking confidence. store.steampowered.com/app/2778210/...store.steampowered.comSave 15% on Moves Of The Diamond Hand on SteamImmerse yourself in a first-person urban RPG, powered by dice and intrigue. Along the way, you might even shape the fate of a city. Become a Master of Disguise, a Master Sandwich Maker or ... somethin... 041
Alice @asponge.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Today at my volunteering I pulled this horrible object out the riverbed ok talk to you later bye 150
Alice @asponge.bsky.social · 05/04/2026On Friday I cycled 408km/253 miles from Edinburgh to York, through the night, as part of a wee team in the Easter Arrow event. Lots went awry (up to our leader sadly needing to drop out) but going gently loopy with great folks while riding dark country roads under a big moon into dawn was perfect. 0110
Alice @asponge.bsky.social · 28/03/2026Considering becoming a dot-com millionaire by founding some sort of website named Pick 'n' Clix. 020
Alice @asponge.bsky.social · 14/03/2026I have been cursed of late by an earworm smooshing the Sisters of Mercy's Temple of Love into the Bonanza theme song. We chased Lady Luck till we finally struck Bonanza! With a gun for a lover and a shot for the pain, we planted our family tree You run for cover in the temple of love Bonanza! Etc 040
Alice @asponge.bsky.social · 25/02/2026Roses are red Violets are blue What's up, gamer Ready Player Two 020
Alice @asponge.bsky.social · 25/02/2026I keep umming and ahhing about this but I don't think I'd ever fully trust it again, and I really want to trust my downtube. 000
Alice @asponge.bsky.social · 25/02/2026On one hand, it's probably a bad idea to ride 400km in one day without gears. On the other, it's a FUNNY bad idea - and a lot cheaper than buying a replacement frame. I'd be mega-upset if I hadn't decided my quads must be so mighty that they cracked steel, and therefore it's funny this happened. 120
Alice @asponge.bsky.social · 25/02/2026I got into cycling longer distances over the winter, with a couple 230k rides complete then a 300k last week I had to abandon after my frame almost cracked in half. So now I'm uh getting into distance on my backup singlespeed, doing a 160k day last week and half-thinking about a 400k event in April. 150
Alice @asponge.bsky.social · 03/02/2026Probably just hit the Screwfix and get a ton more rings. I think 550 zinc-plated lock rings would be quite pleasing. 040
Alice @asponge.bsky.social · 27/01/2026I'm glad to see these nerds writing. Too good to have become management! 2130
Alice @asponge.bsky.social · 22/01/2026You know, I sometimes fear I accomplished nothing and left no legacy in 15 years of writing about video games, and this is greater than I could have hoped. 0211
Alice @asponge.bsky.social · 21/01/2026Your job is photograph safety hazards! Such a strong vintage Source look! Tricky optional puzzles! Dial phone numbers for funsies! Parts are frustrating or hostile! There may be a secret underground civilization! Great feeling of being lost and alone! You're such a weird dude! youtu.be/Y4OAZfG4iQQyoutu.bePhone fun in InfraYouTube video by Alice O'Connor 082
Alice @asponge.bsky.social · 21/01/2026I still think about Infra, and wish I had pushed more people to play it when I had a platform. It's nobbly and weird and surprising, a first-person explore-o-puzzler which opens with PowerPoint then tumbles into conspiracy and catastrophe. Down to £5 for a bit: store.steampowered.com/app/251110/I... 911930
Alice @asponge.bsky.social · 01/12/2025If you need a Cyber Monday movie recommendation, Nemesis is free (with ads) on Plex and endlessly pleasing. l.plex.tv/wbbBNKRtl.plex.tvNemesisAlex, a burned out LA cyborg cop, is forced by commissioner Farnsworth to find his former cyborg partner and lover Jared who's about to deliver sensitive data to cyborg terrorists who wish to wage war... 020
Alice @asponge.bsky.social · 01/12/2025Wishing you a very merry Cyber Monday! Whatever your A/S/L, may you and your closest webring enjoy a day of mulling Jolt Cola and singing Front Line Assembly carols, free from trolls, lag, and power-tripping channel ops. 3185
Alice @asponge.bsky.social · 20/10/2025The winner is whoever en route finds and starts wearing the most bebuckled leather coat. Fashion show in the final pub. 000
Alice @asponge.bsky.social · 16/09/2025Congrats on the next phase in your career as a professional Tomboss! 020
Alice @asponge.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Ah that's very kind, thank you! And I'm delighted to hear there was a WAWAPATWAPAW meetup of sorts. 100
Alice @asponge.bsky.social · 18/08/2025Anyway, the best thing at the festivals for a second year running was the Clown Olympics, where clowns from around the world compete in clown sports in the park. The winners take custody of the Clown Olympic Flame (a toilet brush). Dominating victory from Japan, who hadn't even planned to take part. 070
Alice @asponge.bsky.social · 18/08/2025I only noticed because I was in the front row and recognised the flash of metal tape from the guts of the Doom Piano. It's such a tiny detail but so pleasing. And yet: at times I wondered if the technoaccordion was doing anything at all, because we're all wearing headphones with a soundscape so 120
Alice @asponge.bsky.social · 18/08/2025Like, you don't carefully conceal copper tape inside paper letters if you don't intend for them to have an effect when alligator-clipped into the guts of a technoaccordion, do you. Do you? No one would notice if you faked it and only a few could even recognise you're doing it for real. Agh it's cool 120
Alice @asponge.bsky.social · 18/08/2025I would love to know more about the tech because I spotted some edges that could be such cool and clever ideas but I don't know if you'd bother because the effects would be easy to fake and who would notice anyway, so I'm left wondering how much actually is real, and if it matters, and why. 120
Alice @asponge.bsky.social · 18/08/2025I won't reel off Edinburgh festival picks but if you're following me because of PC games, Stampin' in the Graveyard makes magical transformative use of trashed PCs. I was delighted by each turn as they were variously worn, illuminated, gazed into, held aloft, more. www.edfringe.com/tickets/what... 160
Alice @asponge.bsky.social · 18/08/2025I am admittedly torn between "Oh god" and "Wait why does that sound like something I would have done, oh god." 100
Alice @asponge.bsky.social · 22/07/2025That's a bit unkind of Nate; Drukhari are cringe tryhards. Have you considered bug friend? 140
Alice @asponge.bsky.social · 08/07/2025I spoke to this conference's organisers and they told me that the code of conduct you agreed to when you signed up means you have to invite me to your birthday party. 1100
Alice @asponge.bsky.social · 22/06/2025Ugh that Brutalism 2 hub #blewmeaway, just delighted poking around. Took me ages to even start playing the maps. 010
Alice @asponge.bsky.social · 07/06/2025On your first day of NCT, go up to the biggest dad there, tell him he's your son now, and give him 50p pocket money. 050
