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Colin Simpson @gamerlearner.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Is everything ok Google Scholar?

Screenshot of 4 Google scholar results for Instructional Designer - the heading of the third result appears to describe porn

Colin Simpson @gamerlearner.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Excited to kick off a new blog for and about education third space practitioners. Weekly ed.advisors must-read posts and more edadvisors.beehiiv.com This week: Am I third space staff and do I want to be & Webinar/Research into ways that academic developers practice leadership

three silly men holding masks in a photo booth

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Colin Simpson @gamerlearner.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Welcome to Bluesky. Please familiarize yourself with the following accounts to understand the range of opinions it is acceptable to express

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Colin Simpson @gamerlearner.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Enjoying a nice talk and celebrating nothing at all in particular with a work friend

Screen in theatre says Cory Doctorow Enshittification

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Colin Simpson @gamerlearner.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Messenger by Jimmy Little is such a magical and underrated album. Def one of my top 3 gigs also. Velvety covers of oz classics

Screenshot of messenger album in music playlist. Text includes songs Down below, under the milky way, randwick bells and into temptation

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Colin Simpson @gamerlearner.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Best Bond Villain, wrong answers only

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Colin Simpson @gamerlearner.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Murder in the law building! (Technically on)

Brutalist concrete building topped with crows below a blue sky

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Colin Simpson @gamerlearner.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Melburnians of a certain age know the one true God

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Colin Simpson @gamerlearner.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

If you see this, post your blue art 💙

Wide shot of people watching a band, all bathed in blue light

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Colin Simpson @gamerlearner.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Is this what they mean by 'the ick'?

screenshot of ad for an Instructure webinar discussing B2C and B2B

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Colin Simpson @gamerlearner.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Actually Messenger, I don't need your help when discussing imagination, a thing you absolutely do not possess

Screenshot of facebook messenger offering to create an image in response to typing imagine

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Colin Simpson @gamerlearner.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Goddamnit, the theme of a project that I'm working on just popped up in Utopia as a buzzword used by a management guru

Screenshot of the words sustainable innovation written on a whiteboard with a man to the side

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Colin Simpson @gamerlearner.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Bluesky covers all facets of the BRS case

Bluesky screenshot with a post about warcrimes and another about riding unicorns

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Colin Simpson @gamerlearner.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

In fairness, I would hope architects and people in building understood foundations pretty well

Screenshot reads Employers rated architecture and building grads 100% for foundation skills; 20% ahead of creative arts.

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Colin Simpson @gamerlearner.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Excellent gig last night watching Pulp at the Myer Music Bowl. Common people was transcendent.

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Colin Simpson @gamerlearner.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Looking at the 'Most popular stories' - gosh it's a head-scratcher

Screenshot of AI article. Most popular stories next to it include job losses, bots sending offensive messages and spending cuts

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Colin Simpson @gamerlearner.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Found a dating site driven mostly by music taste, which is fun. Hopefully you can reorder the bands you like though.

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Colin Simpson @gamerlearner.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

It's the moooost wonderful tiiiime of the yeeear. Happy invalid date friends!

Screenshot of tightrope trivia game text says invalid date

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Colin Simpson @gamerlearner.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Interesting - age verification is here on Bluesky but I didn't think they are on the list. Only applies to DMs though, not posting. Given this post about the verification service and its appetite for your data, I think I will pass. www.reddit.com/r/BlueskySoc...

Screenshot of Bluesky chats saying age verification is needed

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Colin Simpson @gamerlearner.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

"AI makes everything the same. I don't want to be the same" - student voices. Kelly Matthews @ #ASCILITE2025

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Colin Simpson @gamerlearner.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Nice to get back to my version of church. Bleak squad at the recital centre

Woman with rock guitar in front of red curtains

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Colin Simpson @gamerlearner.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

H5P is going more WYSIWYG. Fewer forms. Huzzah

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Colin Simpson @gamerlearner.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Looking forward to a day of learning what cool things sector colleagues are doing with H5P and catching up with peeps at my old stomping grounds. I can't believe the cafe changed.

View from table of wide busy window and uni buildings

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Colin Simpson @gamerlearner.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

I'm a little puzzled by the logic on display here in this article in @futurecampus.bsky.social . If teaching is (by far) the chief driver of revenue, would you not (at the very least) want to maintain support at current levels instead of making it worse?

UTS made an $80m loss last year, the third deficit in a row with another three expected. And if savings to be made teaching and course support staff are where to search for savings. Teaching revenue was $1bn last year, 75% of total earnings.

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Colin Simpson @gamerlearner.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Some of y'all can't handle two high agency males going at it and it really shows

Kel knight and Geoffrey rush in Kath and Kim

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Colin Simpson @gamerlearner.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Omg it is space Gary Coleman as a tiny genius president on Buck Rogers. Also guest starring Malcolm McDowell

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Colin Simpson @gamerlearner.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Unusual set up for a comedy festival show, a library, but kind of fitting #micf

Library meeting room, powerpoint slide says adapt or perish: introverts in the modern world

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Colin Simpson @gamerlearner.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

"You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last tv show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you?"

Amos from the Expanse. Text says I am that guy

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Colin Simpson @gamerlearner.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

I have some questions first if that's ok

Sign says dental fit modern dental care and mural of Boston Dynamics dog robot below

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Colin Simpson @gamerlearner.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Making productive use of my museum time at the #ascilite2024 dinner

Dinosaur skeleton with wine held to mouth

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Colin Simpson @gamerlearner.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Navigating university-OPMs Presented by Ba Nguyen - Panel discussion of a topic which profoundly impacts L&T in HE but which is rarely explored. Not sure why #ascilite2024

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Colin Simpson @gamerlearner.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Power bleeting this morning has already taken my phone down to 4% so now I'm hugging the wall like a weirdo #ascilite2024

Screenshot of conference program and battery level 4%

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Colin Simpson @gamerlearner.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Learning about learning design and diversity with Bettina, Nhung and Lucila

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