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Child of Prog @devindoyle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Beaten by the Big Blind at 840,000.

Balatro GAME OVER screen.
Best hand: 137,950
Ante 10
Round 29

Child of Prog @devindoyle.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Monster in the house. (She's outside now. Feisty AF though. Had to use a salad bowl instead of a glass, she ran around it like a motorbike on a wall of death.)

A massive spider (by European standards) on an inside wall in my house.

Close up on the massive spider (by European standards) on an inside wall in my house.

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Child of Prog @devindoyle.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The open beta is live. It's pretty good, I think. It's an interactive celtic noir crime novel. Which I suppose means it's an interactive novel set in Ireland, there's crime involved, and the tone is a little bit heightened. devinho.itch.io/kingdom

The title page of my interactive novel. It reads:

There Is a Kingdom
by Devin Doyle

Episode 1
Isolation

> Open beta, August 2026.

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Child of Prog @devindoyle.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Changed the cover art as an experiment in engagement. devinho.itch.io/kingdom

A bloody knife on the kitchen floor, with text overlaid reading

There Is a Kingdom
An interactive novel
by Devin Doyle
(Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden, Divinity: Original Sin 2)

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Child of Prog @devindoyle.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The NYT listed the top 100 films of the 21st Century so far.

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Child of Prog @devindoyle.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

During the week I'll be launching the open beta of the first slice of an interactive fiction piece I've written, and I'd love you to read it. DM me for the link if you want advance access. /

During a storm, waves crash in on a beach in southwestern Ireland. Overlaid type on the image reads "There Is a Kingdom, by Devin Doyle". (That's me.)

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Child of Prog @devindoyle.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Didn't put a writing desk in yet. But we will!

The bathroom alcôve with a little sitting area with two turn-of-the-century armchairs and fancy schmancy chandeliers.

The bathroom sink unit, which is black and gold with parrots on. Which sounds awful, I know. But it's not, I swear.

The end of the bed and the very tall window beyond.

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Child of Prog @devindoyle.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Got a third chambre d'hote ready. Bathroom's kinda cool, will post photos later. This one will have a writing desk all of its own.

The queen-sized bed in our nicest chambre d'hote in our 19th-Century presbytery in western France that was built in 1869 on the orders of the empress Eugénie, wife of Napoléon III.

Not that we're in favour of the monarchy.

Or the Church, for that matter.

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Child of Prog @devindoyle.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

We finished another room. Pretty proud of this one too. Three people can stay in this one (as long as two are happy sharing a bed). Chambres d'hotes in western France, you say? Et voila.

A lovely beige-themed room in our 19th-Century presbytery in Western France.

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Child of Prog @devindoyle.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Archaeological discovery. Mummified giraffe. France, 2026.

The mummified corpse of a Sophie Le Girafe (an iconic French teether, most babies get one).

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Child of Prog @devindoyle.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Here's the house itself. I've always found the proportions extraordinarily lovely.

A view from the garden (in Spring - there are flowers!) of our 19th-Century presbytery.

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Child of Prog @devindoyle.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

We're doing chambres d'hote in our 19th-Century presbytery in western France*, and I'm pretty proud of the first room we've gotten fully finished. We're thinking writers' retreats in the off-season. *Not currently on fire.

The "Green Room" has an older-style wooden double bed, green walls (naturally) and an en-suite bathroom. It looks pretty classy, if I say so myself.

The shower fits into an alcove, with the washstand - a sink that sits on a 100-year-old beside locker we found - at the door. Above it there's a mirror with an ornate oval frame, just don't tell anyone it's plastic.

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Child of Prog @devindoyle.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Wildfire smoke haze, two hours north of Bordeaux.

A view from my bedroom window in France. What at first looks like light cloud cover sitting low has a sepia tinge to it.

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Child of Prog @devindoyle.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Pour les francais parmis nous.

The opening frame of Johnny Cash's video for "Hurt", featuring a carved wooden fresco, possibly, of a Greek god or something.

The second frame of Johnny Cash's video for "Hurt", featuring a cutaway of Johnny playing his signature black acoustic guitar.

The first sung line of Johnny Cash's video for "Hurt", featuring Johnny playing guitar, but - haha - I've changed to subtitle to read "J'aime le jambon".

The second sung line of Johnny Cash's video for "Hurt", featuring Johnny playing guitar, but - haha - I've changed to subtitle to read "Et j'aime la saucisse".

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Child of Prog @devindoyle.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

[Trigger warning: LinkedIn-like post incoming.] Today's my last day on Star Wars. I've had a ball. I've learned loads. I've met extraordinary people. I've done the best work of my career. If you need a senior/lead writer/narrative director, shout.

A long shot of Luke Skywalker heading off into the twin sunset (okay he's going home) at his aunt and uncle's moisture farm on Tatooine, from the original Star Wars (1977).

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Child of Prog @devindoyle.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

People trying not to look bored while sitting for Rembrandt van Rijn. (I love @rijksmuseum.bsky.social.)

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Child of Prog @devindoyle.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

1998 was a very odd year for me, so it's not surprising that I missed Pleasantville the first time around. I rectified that last night. Holy shit, what a film. Radical agitprop disguised as a mild-mannered fluffy Hollywood comedy. (Spoilers incoming...) /

The poster for the 1998 movie Pleasantville, with the tagline "Nothing is as simple as black and white", featuring Tobey Maguire and Reese Witherspoon in 1950s costume before a billboard for the eponymous TV show within the movie.

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Child of Prog @devindoyle.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I made this fifteen years ago. I remain stupidly proud of it.

A three-panel meme.

In the first, from Game of Thrones, the sly, untrustworthy Littlefinger, saying "I've brought you a gift."

In the second, from the same scene in Game of Thrones, Catelyn Stark, husband of the beheaded Ned Stark, lord of the north, asks "What's this?" as she's about to look in the bag.

In the third, we switch instead to Bruce Willis and Maria de Medeiros on Zed's chopper in Pulp Fiction, with the caption "Ned's head, baby. Ned's head."

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Child of Prog @devindoyle.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

The benefit of the royal family to the UK tourism industry is often cited as a defence of the monarchy.

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Child of Prog @devindoyle.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I like the Honda, but not because it reminds me of the Lambo...

The amazing swept-back form of the Panthermobile. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panthermobile

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Child of Prog @devindoyle.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Quote with a fictional band that isn’t Spinal Tap.

A stylized publicity flyer for the grunge band Citizen Dick from the film Singles. The members are played by Jeff Ament, Eddie Vedder and Stone Gossard (I think) from Pearl Jam, and actor Matt Dillon.

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Child of Prog @devindoyle.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

I'm human and this has me fucking baffled.

A bizarra captcha-style test that reads

"Let's prove you're human"

above a weird drawing of... I don't know what, followed by the instruction "Press and hold the button." above a blank white rectangle.

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Child of Prog @devindoyle.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

I... uh... aren't they supposed to be keeping it open?

A headline reads "US navy will blockade strait of Hormuz".

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Child of Prog @devindoyle.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Gama Bomb and Lich King put on a fun fucken thrash show tonight in the back room of the pub next door to the Moulin Rouge.

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Child of Prog @devindoyle.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Thanks for letting me play with you, Ludo. I'll value the memories always, and arms around his friends and his partner and those who loved him.

Ludovic Coirier of the Electric Beans, live on stage - complete with cowboy hat and Fender Stratocaster.

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Child of Prog @devindoyle.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

This is us. L to r Arnaud, Francois, Ludo, and moi-meme. /

Electric Beans. Left to right: Arnaud on vocals, Francois on drums, Ludo on guitar, me on bass.

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Child of Prog @devindoyle.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

What's a horror film that more people should be aware of?

The poster for the 1990 movie HARDWARE, starring Dylan McDermott and Stacey Travis, and featuring Iggy Pop and Lemmy, it features a robotic skull painted with the stars'n'stripes, along with the admittedly weak tagline "This is what you want. This is what you get."

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Child of Prog @devindoyle.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Post a pic of the venue where you saw your first concert and the band or artist.

A flyer for Dio at the SFX Concert Hall in Dublin on Wednesday 5th September 1984. Support group Queensryche were misspelled as Queensrycht. (They were Queens Rycht on the ticket.)

The St. Francis Xavier Hall in Dublin, more commonly known as the SFX. Was bulldozed for apartments a good twenty years ago at least.

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Child of Prog @devindoyle.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

You will be visited by three spirits.

Lemmy, Fast Eddie Clarke and Philthy Animal Taylor of Motorhead dressed as heavy rock cowboys or something during the shoot for the cover of the Ace of Spades album.

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Child of Prog @devindoyle.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Paris, November 2019. (I swear I do my best work as a writer in the alt text of bsky images.)

One storey up in a residential building in the 19th arrondissement of Paris, a man dressed in black stands smoking on a window ledge.

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Child of Prog @devindoyle.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Go. To. Smaller. Gigs. I've no photos of the band because I was busy protecting the 16-year-old from the pit, but Shaârghot were incredible last night. /

Me, my 16-year-old and our friend Julie in the pit at Shaarghott at the Salle Diff'art in Parthenay, as part of the Rise & Fall Festival.

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Child of Prog @devindoyle.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Not a bad morning, even with the cold.

The low morning sun shines through the mist over a field of scrub, as seen through the leafless branches of a sparse hedgerow.

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Child of Prog @devindoyle.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

My dad grew up in Howth in the 1950s. There was a gang of lads used to hang around at the harbour when they weren't employed, which was often. Back then everyone had The One Suit. Dark grey, a white shirt under it, a tie on special occasions, and if it was cold you'd put a jumper over the shirt. /

My grandfather Cyril Doyle, probably late 1950s or early 1960s. He's wearing his Sunday best - by which I mean he's added a tie to his usual suit/shirt/jumper/hat combo.

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Child of Prog @devindoyle.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

I scared the living crap out of at least three children last week.

Me in my porch on Halloween night, wearing all black, a cowl, and a really fucken scary weird mask that looks a bit like a low-detail skull only with black fluid running from the eyes and mouth.

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