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Martin Lynagh

@martinlynagh.bsky.social
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Game Maker, Lecturer in Game Production at Abertay University (Professional Projects Module Lead). Glasgow. Former Molecule. This is not a place of honour.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 24/09/2026
ME: So I can't put anything else on the scale? ANUBIS: No. Just your heart ME: No money, no good deeds? ANUBIS: No ME: What about steam points? I've got a ton of steam points ANUBIS: The point is to be lighter than the feather ME: I was just hoping to finally do something with the steam points
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If you made software not intended to kill everyone and now you think it might kill everyone that sounds like a product liability issue. You should go fix it and stop bothering me
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Joe Bain @ohcripes.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Hey my folk games talk from @amazefest.bsky.social is up! Watch me try to link Tarot cards, Monopoly, wicker men and Rainbow Friends like some wannabe Adam Curtis. youtu.be/ZWwOGSl50HM?...
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A MAZE. / Berlin 2026 - Day 1: Folk Games: Game Design by Passing Along
YouTube video by A MAZE.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 11/08/2026
This is so great. Paulina Borsook deserves her flowers. One of the best things about the past year has been (accidentally) helping to get her book re-published. Paulina is one of the only tech critics who got it right. Buy her book! Put her on your show! www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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A tech prophet finally gets her second coming
In 2000, Paulina Borsook published a book foretelling the anti-government sentiments of the tech world. Now that it’s too late, people are ready to listen.
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Scottish Games Network @scottishgames.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Call for Games: Showcase Your Project at DCA Drop In And Play Dundee Session Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA) has issued a call for new and unreleased games to feature in its upcoming…...
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Call for Games: Showcase Your Project at DCA Drop In And Play Dundee Session
Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA) has issued a call for new and unreleased games to feature in its upcoming Drop In And Play session taking place this August. The free public showcase gives members of the community an opportunity to try out unreleased titles created by Scottish developers, while offering creators a fabulous opportunity to gather real-world player feedback. Public Feedback for Developers…
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
The Battle of the Peasants, by M.D. Hout, 17th c
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Tom Reagan’s Witch’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
The only smart glasses I’d ever wear
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Peter Whitewood @pwhitewood.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Discouraging an activity with a benefit-to-cost ratio of nearly 10:1. A triumph of policymaking.
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Fall in international student numbers ‘cost UK £2.9 billion’
Latest cost-benefit analysis finds overseas enrolments generate nearly 10 times more money for UK than they take away
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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 08/07/2026
Aside from supporting genocide, destroying the arts and HE sectors, handing the NHS to palantir and american drug firms, and being the most anti-lgbt+ government since Thatcher, the starmer government had been pretty great
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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
game devs: what are the myths that a lot of players of games think are true about making games that are completely untrue? If you could snap your fingers and they suddenly all knew the truth about it what would it be?
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Also, if you boo the manager, he can’t just have you legally declared supporters of terrorism and arrested en masse
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"Government is not like a football team...you don't just sack the manager when things aren't going well."
Classicist Dame Mary Beard on the pressure facing political leaders in Britain today.
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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 06/07/2026
There's a reason why Arkane is a separate line both here and in the Xbox statement when compared to other studios French labor law requires a consultation process with the studio’s works council to ensure there is actual justification for the move and that all alternatives have been exhausted first
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Removing images from this app is progress but it won't really take off until they also remove posts
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Ben Abraham @afterclimate.com.au · 30/06/2026
Any game developers want to test a super quick (<5min) tool for identifying the material climate impacts of a game studio? Can be an indie, mid-size studio, or even someone at a big company! Just gotta jump on a call with me and let me watch while you use it.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
The most obvious answer for “Why is MAGA’s most respectable far right propagandist hiring so many mainstream British political commentators” is “The British press is ram-packed with utterly repellent wingnut cranks”.
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‘Not puff pieces and kid gloves’: why Bari Weiss is hiring British journalists at CBS News
Editor-in-chief has developed network of UK thinkers she believes reject what she regards as overly ‘woke’ consensus
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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 23/06/2026
The rewriting of Starmer's record and sympathy accorded to him is yet another sign of how broken this democracy is Starmer was elected by default against an alternative most had come to despise He chose to double down and go further right, at a huge direct cost for many communities
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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 23/06/2026
"I don't understand anything and I blame the voters" - me, for the guardian
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
There’s no point appealing for an end to “division” in politics when you have made it very clear your pledge to “end the culture wars” meant “end them, by joining with the crackpot right to smash fuck out of various uppity minorities and the left”. *You are* the division, it is you whom is divisive.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
There’s a reason why the global fascist movement is pushing so hard at Britain specifically, and it’s because they can see they are pushing at an open door.
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Emilia @lazerwalker.com · 19/04/2026
It’s absolutely incredible that one of the largest Japanese-run Go servers, which has been running since 1992, is still accessed entirely via Telnet. And while most players use GUI clients that use Telnet under the hood, you can still connect manually and get ASCII graphics streamed to you
A screenshot of a white-on-black terminal depicting a 19x19 go board in ascii graphics, with empty grid intersections as periods, and black and white as Os and #s
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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
An absolutely baffling time to be an historian of apocalyptic thought. Like my man is just straight up doing Antichrist stuff and I am meant to be normal???
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Let me get this straight: he called off global economic Armageddon right before the stock markets opened and announced a moratorium on blowing up the world economy, valid until the markets close on Friday night? Is that what happened, here
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
If you’re a Quest user PLEASE log out of Meta Horizon Worlds before June 15 or you’ll be trapped in there forever
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Joe Bain @ohcripes.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Chance is up on Steam now and in the board games festival. Give it a wishlist! Also check out the trailer...
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Please understand: just like Macron, these people will be just fine in a Sensible Centrists vs Fascists set up. There are jobs and influence for them in that system. There is no place for them in a Left vs Right one: in that country, they’re all back working in PR, lobbying and the law. Unacceptable
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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Worth remembering when looking at the horrific scenes in the US right now that both Reform and the Tories have pledged to bring in ICE-style organisations to the UK if they win power
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kate wehwalt @katewagner.wehwalt.net · 24/01/2026
hot tip: every Brecht poem hits insane right now
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Imagine what’s happening in the camps.
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
this is what happens when the regime, at the highest levels, sends the express message that it will defend any and all excesses
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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Can you design game progression and also help with level design and other modes of design too? We would like to see an application from you, especially if you like games that encourage people to play together
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
This is really bad; Grok is now going into is third day of regularly producing nonconsensual deepfake pornography and nobody is doing anything about it. The "Mechahitler" and "white genocide" episodes were stopped much more quickly. I suppose this tells us all about relative priorities.
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Scottish Games Network @scottishgames.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
The EU GAME-ER project at Abertay University is looking for local expertise to help verify its map of Dundee's game development community
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Dundee’s Games Cluster in the Spotlight as GAME-ER Research Project Seeks Local Expertise
Everyone knows Dundee is the beating heart of Scotland's games ecosystem, but how many studios are based in the city? Researchers from Abertay University are calling upon the collective knowledge of the Dundee games community to help verify a comprehensive map of the city's renowned games cluster. The request comes as part of GAME-ER, a major European research project dedicated to understanding the dynamics of local and regional video game ecosystems.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
These guys are simply not smart.
sam altman tweet: i never took the dead internet theory that seriously but it seems like there are really a lot of LLM-run twitter accounts now
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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 02/09/2025
Question to Zach Polanski at the leadership announcement: "Q: How can you take on Nigel Farage when your policy on immigration is so different?" Everything wrong with British politics and media summed up so succinctly in a single absolutely unhinged question.
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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 02/09/2025
It’s hard to look around—at Blair pitching a luxury resort to be built on the Gaza killing fields or Keir Starmer responding to anti-Asian hate by affirming his affinity for the perpetrators—and not conclude that the elite’s real problem with Corbyn was that he wasn’t sufficiently Islamophobic.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
I think George Osborne openly musing to the air that the security services probably wouldn’t have tolerated Labour winning in 2017, because of our relationship with America, is quite helpful and I’d like to hear more.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Sensationally, it appears the grown ups have been put back in charge of the grown ups who were previously put back in charge
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Nate Bethea @inthesedeserts.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
I missed this when it happened and anyone who has ever used an analog synth is going to embarrass themselves laughing at this. Thank u Greg www.tumblr.com/decanting-ce...
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💬 0  🔁 7  ❤️ 28 · Despite All My Flange: Oneohtrix Point Never Reviews Siddhartha · i will now do live play by play of billy corgan's live ambient thing some bossy lady laying down the groundrules…
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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
the last two news stories i saw, one after another, were israel bombing nasser hospital in gaza and then this one. genuinely ashamed of the UK right now
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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 24/08/2025
Compare the amount of coverage of a thousand or so fascist "protestors" has received with the tens and hundreds of thousands of left wing protestors over the years (austerity, Gaza, Iraq, BLM etc) Some are painted as "legitimate concerns", others as noise or naive demands Ask yourself why
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 18/08/2025
(returning to work after a week of vacation and i don't remember how to do emails anymore): greetings, to my colleagues in officemongering
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Ben Abraham @afterclimate.com.au · 16/08/2025
Still one of the best most important books of this century. Just saw fantastic in its clarity of analysis, and virtually unassailable in the breadth of its evidence from history and anthropology.
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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 12/08/2025
Labour MP: legitimate concerns
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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
as someone who likes to see the best in people the number of fuckers falling for the computer saying "while i'm just a chatbot... i think you're really special! ;)" is testing me
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Scottish Games Network @scottishgames.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
The 'Play For Good' exhibition from Abertays Games Lab is a major part of the RSE's 2025 Curious festival in September 2025.
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Abertay’s ‘Play For Good’ To Showcase the Power of Games at RSE Curious Festival
The transformative power of video games to address real-world challenges will be on full display this September, as Abertay University's Applied Games Lab presents its Play for Good exhibition as part of the prestigious Royal Society of Edinburgh's Curious festival of knowledge. This is a significant and welcome inclusion, demonstrating the growing recognition of games as a powerful tool for social and cultural impact.
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Glasgow Independent Games Festival @glasgowindiegamesfest.org · 09/08/2025
#GIGF25 is in full swing! With talks and games a plenty. Thanks to everyone who showed us support <3 #festival #indiegames #convention #scotland #glasgow
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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 09/08/2025
400 counter protestors vs 15 fascists in Bristol And yet it is the latter who are painted as expressing the "legitimate grievances" of "the people" by the mainstream media and politicians This leads to emboldening and mainstreaming and it is a top down effect
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Ben Abraham @afterclimate.com.au · 11/11/2024
I have done almost zero promo/sharing of the work I've done this year, so let's correct that with a thread of stuff I've written, worked on, helped with, etc. I started the year with a post about European gaming emissions & what we can do about them. gtg.benabraham.net/european-gam...
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European Gaming Emissions, and how we address them
I was asked earlier this week by Joost Raessens (Utrecht University Professor, and coordinator of STRATEGIES: Sustainable Transition for Europe’s Game Industries a major Horizon-funded research projec...
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404 Media @404media.co · 08/08/2025
Man Gave Himself 19th Century Psychiatric Illness After Consulting With ChatGPT 🔗 www.404media.co/guy-gives-hi...
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Guy Gives Himself 19th Century Psychiatric Illness After Consulting With ChatGPT
"For 3 months, he had replaced sodium chloride with sodium bromide obtained from the internet after consultation with ChatGPT."
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
this will open the floodgates
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