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Leigh Dodds @ldodds.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

If you see this, quote skeet with a screenshot from a video game that released the year you were born.

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Leigh Dodds @ldodds.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

It'll be shaped like a Thermos right?

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Leigh Dodds @ldodds.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

The Breakfast Club remake took a turn.

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Leigh Dodds @ldodds.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Walked a bit of the South West coastal path today near West Bay. 🤩☀️

View from the coastal path looking towards West Bay. Blue skies, green sea

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Leigh Dodds @ldodds.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Can't believe they released a set of custom emojis for Alien: Earth

Mixture of confounded face and face with stuck out tongue

Mixture of winking face with neutral mouth and face with stuck out tongue

Mixture of winking shushing face and face with stuck out tongue

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Leigh Dodds @ldodds.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

I didn't realise that there were some 2000AD themed Choose Your Own Adventure stories published as magazines in 1986. Only 5 issues published, think they're all on the Internet Archive. Tripped over them this week. Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diceman... Issue 1: archive.org/details/2000...

"Your are Judge Dredd in House of Death"

Cover of Dice Man Vol 1. Cover explains the basic concept: you roll dice to control the story. A figure says: "This is Boring! Get On With It!"

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Leigh Dodds @ldodds.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

This has been thinking about all the great cutaway diagrams that used to appear in 2000AD. Often to be found on my bedroom wall. Someone should do a book of these.

"Warriors of the Future!" a cutaway of a spaceship from Prog 146 of 2000AD

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Leigh Dodds @ldodds.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

A video of the covers of 131 issues of Dungeon Magazine published between 1986-2007. #ttrpg #dnd #tsr Source: archive.org/details/@ldo...

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Leigh Dodds @ldodds.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

I always tune in to FED GENT whenever I need to know more.

The Starship Troopers news channel. Along the top the options are Federal, Galaxy, Top News and Enlist. "Do you want to know more?" is shown at the bottom.

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Leigh Dodds @ldodds.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Had to chuckle at para 125 in the judgement though. Yes, hard to imagine any difficulty in presenting people with Wikipedia pages that only contain content from verified users. I'm sure those random selection of paragraphs and edits will be very coherent.

One of Wikipedia’s primary concerns is
the requirement to enable users to choose only to encounter content from users whose
identity has been verified. I accept that this runs completely counter to Wikipedia’s
operating model (which has, on the evidence, been shown to be effective in promoting
freedom of expression whilst promoting a high quality of content). There may,
however, be ways to accommodate the requirement without causing undue damage to
Wikipedia’s operations. It may, for example, be possible to ensure that users who make
the requisite choice are only able to access pages where every editor who has
contributed to the live content on the page has verified their identity. It is not obvious
that this would be unduly difficult to achieve. It would mean that such users would only
be able to access a small subset of Wikipedia’s content, but that would be their free,
autonomous choice. It may well be that only very few people would make that choice,
and that might then raise a question as to the proportionality of the entire exercise

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Leigh Dodds @ldodds.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Actually glad that there isn't an ancient alien spaceship passing through the solar system, because someone would suggest we use AI to talk to it

The Arrival meme: holding up a whiteboard with a message on it to talk to aliens. The whiteboard says "Bluebbberry".

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Leigh Dodds @ldodds.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Been married 25 years today 🥳 We celebrated at the weekend with an evening visit to the Roman Baths (where we got married). Had a glass of prosecco by the waters. 🥂

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Leigh Dodds @ldodds.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Still looking to add too my two examples of RSS in the media (Luther S2E04, Man of Steel). Because I'm a nerd. But just noting that this, spotted in the Caught Stealing trailer, does not count.

A New York licence plate that says "RSS HOLE".

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Leigh Dodds @ldodds.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Early doors beers at the Electric Bear taproom. Dinner (chicken kotthu) from the Srilicious food truck. 👍🍻

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Leigh Dodds @ldodds.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Might have told me this at the start. Curiously noncommittal phrasing. #digitalgovernment

"This service should be available daily 7am - 7pm"

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Leigh Dodds @ldodds.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Went to a exhibition by Bath Record Office today. Saw some playbills and miniature books. 📚

A playfully for the Theatre Royal in Bath. The show is called Peep O'Day

A page in a book showing pictures from playfully. One is for a show called Herne the Hunter

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Leigh Dodds @ldodds.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Pretty sure those new gov.uk dots are manufactured by ACME. www.gov.uk/guidance/cha...

Road runner standing next to an ACME portable hole

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Leigh Dodds @ldodds.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

I expect the behind the scenes footage from Walking Without Rhythm with Sandworms will be amazing. Must have been difficult filming out in the bled.

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Leigh Dodds @ldodds.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

The BBC have gone all out on the new Walking with Dinosaurs series, but I'm really excited by the trailer for the next in the franchise 🍿

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Leigh Dodds @ldodds.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

I bought the PS2 at the midnight launch here in Bath. Was v. excited to get the console. Ended up queueing for over an hour with my (very bored) wife to pick up my preorder. Ended up buying more games as I was waiting. Went home and was too tired to set it up so went to bed. Might as well waited!

Receipt for PS2 console, shockpad, memory card, Tekken Tag Tournament, Fantavision and Ridge Racer. 512.93 paid for at 1.08am

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Leigh Dodds @ldodds.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

In his latest show, Stewart Lee looks like a furry Space Marine

Stewart Lee in his Man Wulf costume. The big shoulder pads have strong Space Marine energy

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Leigh Dodds @ldodds.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

When you suspect the survey is not for you.

Survey question is "How old are you?" Ages are in 5 year increment up until 50, then its just 50+

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Leigh Dodds @ldodds.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

The Dungeon? Through there and on the right. #somerset

In the lower right a door is marked "Dungeon" another sign point left to "The Abbot's Carthusian Coombes"

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Leigh Dodds @ldodds.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Today's walk around Norton St Phillip and Hinton Charterhouse #somerset

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Leigh Dodds @ldodds.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Spent the day at Lacock. Walk in the sun, lunch, couple of beers. Fantastic.

Magnolia tree by the side of the steps leading to the entrance of Lacock Abbey

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Leigh Dodds @ldodds.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Signed up for a Solid Pod. Extremely ready for widespread adoption as a means to host sensitive personal data.

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Leigh Dodds @ldodds.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

No. But also, how will it magic up precisely 7.6 hours to extend my week?

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Leigh Dodds @ldodds.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Best Star Trek crew, wrong answers only.

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Leigh Dodds @ldodds.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Also, from the data broker consultation, this does not make sense? www.gov.uk/government/c...

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Leigh Dodds @ldodds.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

The Three Laws of Digital

A digital may not task a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to do things poorly.

A digital must obey the prompts given it by human beings except where such prompts would conflict with the First Law.

A digital must protect its own existence, using cyber, as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

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Leigh Dodds @ldodds.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

I know this is hardly the point but I can't help but get caught up on how people use words, especially wrt tech. "Digital" seems to be some amorphous thing here like how people refer to "cyber". What's the venn diagram of digital, cyber and AI? Also implies that "digital" is a thing with agency.

Officials will be told to abide by a mantra that says: “No person’s substantive time should be spent on a task where digital or AI can do it better, quicker and to the same high quality and standard.”

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Leigh Dodds @ldodds.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Started a Slugblaster campaign this evening. We're playing online so I decided to use a Miro board as our virtual tabletop. Spent too long creating polaroids from the game art. Seems to work OK! Players are already using it as a mood board as we do our first run. #slugblaster #ttrpg

Miro board showing playsheet and art from the TTRPG game Slugblaster. Some grafitti text reads: "Nope", "Check It" and "Trouble".

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Leigh Dodds @ldodds.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Harry Tuttle is here to sort out your data plumbing

Robert De Niro as Harry Tuttle, heating engineer, in Brazil. He's wearing a balaclava and glasses with torches on them

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Leigh Dodds @ldodds.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

We've just published our latest report showing how schools are able to save money and reduce carbon emissions when they have better access to their energy data. Insights and link to full report is here: blog.energysparks.uk/our-new-ener... #energysparks #energy #climatechange #energydata