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Alex Dixon

@dixonary.co.uk
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Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Warwick 🏳‍🌈 {they,he} Interests: Functional programming; theoretical computer science; Indie games; Gamedev; TTRPGs; Doctor Who (I made whodle! 📺)

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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 05/10/2026
Time Flies: CBBC show, whenever Mr Tumble does his trousers up he travels to a different point in history
Alan Partridge speaking into a dictophone
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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 17/08/2026
Can't get over how much this door on my walk home looks like a painted-on videogame texture
A metal grate door, surrounded by a thick gray inset surround. The metal grate is perfectly rusted. To its right is another door with a fire exit sign over the top, despite being on the outside of the building.
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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 01/08/2026
it bears repeating:
A duplicated picture of a bear using a computer (IT bears, repeating)
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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 29/07/2026
Promotion get! :)
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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 26/07/2026
Game dev moment: finding a random loose card with "Winston Churchill" on it and nothing else, and having no clue why
A white card with "Winston Churchill" written on it
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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 14/07/2026
The Message From Deep Space is a fantastic game. If you haven't played it yet, get on it! And if you have, come chat with us on the Deep Space Communication Relay :) [bring your own dictionary]: dscr.dixonary.co.uk
Deep Space Communication Relay
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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 03/07/2026
Since we're doing North-South divide discourse again, here's the objectively correct breakdown of the UK that everyone can agree on
Map of the UK, divided laterally into northern (around Manchester), midlands (around Birmingham) and southern (around  Bournemouth); and longitudinally into good (around Wales), neutral (around Birmingham), and evil (around Cambridge).
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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 27/05/2026
I beg your absolute fucking pardon
Email from ELEGOO UK titled "Grab your vibe. Literally."
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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 26/05/2026
I'm not saying it's hot or anything, but one of our drinking glasses just spontaneously exploded
Broken glass in a cupboard
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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 12/05/2026
Clearly false. I've seen him before
BBC: "Starmer seen for first time today on visit to college"
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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 12/05/2026
I apologise to the nation
Me 2 weeks ago: "sticking a bit of money onto UK markets today so good luck everyone"
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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 11/04/2026
I love Pope Leo #pokemon
Popplio
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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 30/03/2026
Either this is a weird bug or Google Play is absolutely roasting me
Three solitaire games tagged as "realistic"
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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 28/03/2026
society if the arguments to \href were the other way round #LaTeX
future utopia
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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 06/03/2026
Godot is about to become the best-funded engine we've ever seen and rightly so
A screenshot from SteamDB showing Slay the Spire II, with 430,000 concurrent players and "Technologies: Godot Engine".
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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 30/01/2026
Comilk Sans
Milk with a label written in the font Comic Sans
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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 20/01/2026
They've even added AI to Microsoft Excel now?!?! 😠😠😠
Portion of Microsoft Excel top bar with column AI highlighted
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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 20/01/2026
The best case against Microsoft's CoPilot AI just being a next token predictor: IT CAN'T EVEN PREDICT THE BLOODY OBVIOUS NEXT TOKEN
"[...] this week would be 3:30pm tomorrow"

Copilot suggests that would be followed by "morning".
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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 11/12/2025
Day 194105 of begging game writers to learn the word "gaze"
... "Then your eyes fall on the ground" ...
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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 11/12/2025
Wow this image is really crisp
crisps
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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 06/12/2025
Or, indeed, *what* Christmas is, based on some of those cards
BIG NICK
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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 17/11/2025
You have to give Great British Railways extra credit for hitting the @xkcd.com "Standards" number right on the nose www.gov.uk/government/p...
A screenshot from the Railways Bill link. Emphasis:

"Once GBR becomes the central rail retailer, it will combine the 14 rail operator websites and apps into one."https://xkcd.com/927/
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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 14/10/2025
Cyberman
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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 04/09/2025
Thanks for the warning
"footway closed ahead" followed by "footway closed" one foot later
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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 26/08/2025
guys don't look now but I think U+1F574 MAN IN BUSINESS SUIT LEVITATING is here
Silhouette in mirror
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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 18/08/2025
Good thing we plumped for for the plasma-arc furnace
Instructions: pre-heat your oven to 1750C. etc.
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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 13/08/2025
universal paperclips https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html but with the "make paperclip" button replaced with "delete email"
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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 27/07/2025
Bit unfair for the Lionesses - the whole opposing team have ESP
ENG vs ESP
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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 23/07/2025
I asked AI whether it was sentient yet. It told me to ask again later. This threat must be stopped | Opinion | The Guardian
magic 8 ball, the original llm
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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 13/06/2025
it was simply counting
more AI bollocks
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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 13/06/2025
you know that new superintelligence you're looking for? [holds up phone]
A screenshot of Google Gemini. It says there are two 'i's in "AI".
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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 11/06/2025
We already have a Balatro implementation in Haskell, so it stands to reason :)
A TUI reimplementation of Balatro, written in Haskell
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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 07/06/2025
Polish polish
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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 25/05/2025
Graham Norton when someone says a swear word on his show
A dog that looks a bit like Graham Norton pulling a face
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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 24/05/2025
i love simon peyton jones
simon
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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 21/04/2025
alan partridge: antipapa
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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 15/04/2025
David Tennant in The Satan Pit (Doctor Who)
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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 11/04/2025
Happy sad people looking out of bus windows. Out of both windows is the text "the capitalist system I live under is eating itself"
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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 08/04/2025
presented without comment
the website "computer.science" doesn't support SSL properly and therefore doesn't work
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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 04/04/2025
According to Amazon, this item has density slightly higher than the core of the Sun
Product dimensions: 1x1x1 cm; 210 g
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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 31/03/2025
A million well dones to @jackaphobia.bsky.social for another amazingly successful kickstarter! 🥰 If you want to play a TTRPG where everyone is geese, late pledges are still open! kickstarter.com/projects/adv...
One HONK Two Furious: A Goose-based TTRPG

Made £50,797 on Kickstarter in March 2025
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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 31/03/2025
Successfully reduced my feed to only being about 60% these topics
Muted words: maga, tesla, elon, musk, trump
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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 31/03/2025
There's only one Everything App and it's the good one
everything.exe (file search application)
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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 22/03/2025
A remarkable change of heart for the french
News posting title: France rejects backdoor mandate
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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 22/03/2025
It's necromancy, then
The Guardian: Reeves to raise spectre of Liz Truss to persuade Labour MPs to accept cuts
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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 19/03/2025
Love this Aperture Science poster which is in no way relevant to the current political situation
"You may work with robots... but you can't take a bullet like one!"
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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 08/03/2025
Seems like there's been a glitch in the matrix... Not only did Squaredle @squaredle.bsky.social release their March 9th puzzle on March 8th, but Whodle did too! (Saturday's and Sunday's are the wrong way round) 👻 Time travel indeed!
Squaredle: "The March 9th puzzle was released on March 8th due to a rift in the Squaredle space-time continuum."Whodle: Transcripts on Saturday. (Should be on Sunday)
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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 23/02/2025
Love to put in very specific and mean-spirited middle fingers to wizards when designing magic items for D&D >:) #dnd5e #dnd #ttrpg
Screenshot from upcoming RPG supplement: "It ways 501 lbs."
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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 20/02/2025
The incredible thing about this on GitHub's landing page is that they are probably the world's most adopted developer platform, and by adding "AI powered" they actually make the claim both weaker and more embarassing
Github's landing page which includes "Join the world's most widely adopted AI-powered developer platform"
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Alex Dixon @dixonary.co.uk · 20/02/2025
Microscopic violin
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