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Mata Haggis-Burridge

@matahb.bsky.social
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Writer of video games, horror, and more. Professor of video games, bi/pan, they/he, visibility still matters.

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Mata Haggis-Burridge @matahb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Remember the good old days when hacking websites was illegal and copyright was a law? Good times.
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Mata Haggis-Burridge @matahb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Take that, Bembridge scholars!
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Mata Haggis-Burridge @matahb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"hey AI agent, tell them all they didn't get the job" *AI agent proceeds to message every email address that ever has or could exist*
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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
was literally just referencing this—the “who is having the most fun, the player, the designer, or the computer” question—earlier today. it’s such a core concern when making something heavily systemic or relies a lot on procgen
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Mata Haggis-Burridge @matahb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A liitle sci-fi flash fiction inspired by the the recent AI doom predictions: matahaggisburridge.substack.com/p/sci-fi-fla... #horrorwriting #horror
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Sci-fi flash fiction horror: The Get Paperclipped Challenge (+ writing notes)
Week 39 of a full year of flash fiction horror! OMG!
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Mata Haggis-Burridge @matahb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I enjoyed the Puzzmo quick crossword today...
A crossword puzzle with the solution shown, highlighting the word 'trans'. At the bottom of the screen is the clue "_ rights are human rights".
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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 24/09/2026
I do currently have a lot of availability for freelance work so if you need someone to come in and solve a narrative problem for you—from design to technical design to writing to last-minute editing—I'm here, my rates are very reasonable, I actually answer emails. Link: brunodias.dev/consulting/
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Consulting
I’m open to consulting and contract writing inquiries. Detailed info within.
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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The agenda is being forced upon us. Even our games aren't safe.
A bright sun in a clear blue sky with bold text below stating, "They made the sun bisexual in GTA 6." The word "bisexual" is in a vibrant pink and blue design. "INFOWARS" is written at the bottom.
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horror Ewacui @ewacat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
well at least there's this
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026
It’s going to be really funny when this is all over and all these companies are like oh, that hate campaign we ran against you for years? Yeah, we were just kidding
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Mata Haggis-Burridge @matahb.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
George's posts are usually very good, but this one is essential reading.
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Mata Haggis-Burridge @matahb.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Absolutely infuriating cowardice to back away from the environmentalist themes of FFVII.
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Dave Mueller @dave-mueller.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Yeah, a mid-life crisis? In this economy👀??
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mondayzc @mondayzc.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
digital painting study from like ~15 seconds of the RHPC movie i did last year RIP Tim Curry what a guy
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Has there ever been a more iconic entrance? Rest in peace, Tim Curry.
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Mata Haggis-Burridge @matahb.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Prince and David Bowie died in four months in 2016 then we got Brexit, Trump, and COVID-19. Dolly Parton and Tim Curry within a day in 2026? We're doomed. I want them all back 💔
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Toss @stevenspoints.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I really cannot think of a greater honor than to have the Muppets say this about you upon your passing
Instagram post from the official Muppets account: Few humans have earned the title of honorary Muppet more than the legendary Tim Curry. As a performer he was unparalleled - witty, charming, unnerving, and deeply funny. We will always consider it one of our greatest treasures to have been part of Long John Silver’s crew. Thank you for everything, Tim.
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Mata Haggis-Burridge @matahb.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Tim Curry as Frank N Furter literally saved lives. If anyone tells you art isn't important, or it's silly, or you feel like it's a waste of time, imagine how the cast of Rocky Horror must have felt on that first night, and then what an impact it made. Don't dream it. Be it. Thank you, Tim Curry 💜
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Harry Stephen Keeler @harryskeeler.bsky.social · 26/08/2024
[Newspaper tribute to Lon Chaney, who died on this day in 1930.]
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Crawford Kilian @crof.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The US, from the start of the Russian Revolution to the fall of the USSR, gave communism undeserved credit for countless good ideas.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/08/2026
here is the thing. if you tell me that you believe that race is a biological category and that it is a guide to the objective superiority and inferiority of groups of people, i am not calling you a racist to *insult* you, i am calling you a racist because it best describes your beliefs.
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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I wouldn't call myself a cartoonist, but I had the vision and just needed it to be on paper to the best of my ability.
A hand drawn eight panel cartoon. First two panels are a colander sitting frowning on a shelf. Then the colander is frowning straining pasta, then three more panels of frowning sitting on a shelf. Then a big panel where it's projecting a bunch of crescent eclipse shapes and smiling with speech bubbles around saying "Wow! Look! Amazing! Beautiful!" And then one final panel where it's sitting on a shelf smiling.
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Mata Haggis-Burridge @matahb.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I miss websites as standard user endpoints. It's crazy how "There's an app for that" got us all excited, but it was really a way to bind us into platform ecosystems when we could have been using a free and open internet all along. Most apps are just website wrappers these days anyway.
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Mata Haggis-Burridge @matahb.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.
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Blade (Wesley Snipes) Smiles
ALT: Blade (Wesley Snipes) Smiles
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Mata Haggis-Burridge @matahb.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Very cool first-hand account of a ghost from the 1800s!
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Fabulous book post. Fantastic writing from @kymdeyn.bsky.social, @nathanielspain.bsky.social and @fworrallo.bsky.social .
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Bloody Disgusting @bloody-disgusting.com · 21/07/2026
Gillian Anderson has officially revealed the upcoming 1,478-piece LEGO set for THE X-FILES. The set is centered on Mulder’s office, paired with a forest clearing scene and a hovering UFO. Includes 8 minifigures, featuring Mulder, Scully, The Flukeman & more. August 4.
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Writers' Guild of Great Britain @writersguildgb.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Last week we launched a new guide to videogames writing contracts + we'll be giving out free copies at an event on 13 August at London South Bank University (7-8.30pm), hosted by WGGB Games Co-Chair @flom.bsky.social Find out more + book your free place forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 17/07/2026
For no reason whatsoever, I checked my voter registration today, and if you are a US citizen I encourage you to do the same/update that voter registration if necessary/register to vote if you have not already done so: www.vote.org
vote.org
Everything You Need to Vote - Vote.org
Register to vote. Check your registration status. Get your absentee ballot. Fast, free, easy, secure, nonpartisan.
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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The creator of Roger Rabbit (who is 85 years old by the way) is a good sort Crossposted with @openvibe.social
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I've had to unfriend a few fans lately, all for the same reason. They made ridiculing, unkind, and in some cases outright cruel comments about pictures I posted of young women cosplaying Jessica. 
More than a person, Jessica is a state of mind. To play Jessica, you need self -confidence, a sense of humor, and a Jessican -attitude-. There is no such thing as a Jessica cosplayer being too short, too flat chested, too heavy, too thin, too unattractive, too black, too Asian, or even too male!!! All Jessica, any Jessica, every Jessica is good Jessica. 
I'm not giving any warnings or second chances. A single disparaging comment on a Jessica cosplayer, and I'm throwing you out of the rainbow colored Toontown Tent.
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Between Names @superobscure.com · 14/07/2026
I bet @doctorow.pluralistic.net will love this.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Have you noticed that some of the most effective ads for the Dems are written by the GOP? I love when they say the quiet part out loud! #AccountabilityIsComingNovember3rd
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Jon Burke🌍 @jonburkeuk.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
‘…we need to achieve a minimum of 40% street tree canopy cover, and preferably more, before we start to really feel the benefits of nature’s most advanced air-conditioning technology.’ Me, for Big Issue, on tackling urban #heatwaves…👇 www.bigissue.com/opinion/heat...
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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
‘Thousands attend transgender and intersex pride march in Dublin’ The LGBTIQ+ community is united in solidarity - rights for all, no-one left behind www.irishtimes.com/ireland/soci...
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Thousands attend transgender and intersex pride march in Dublin
‘Our bodies, our lives, our right to decide’: demonstrators call for bodily autonomy and better access to healthcare
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SAG-AFTRA @sagaftra.org · 10/07/2026
Meta now lets anyone use your Instagram photos in AI images without your consent. SAG-AFTRA recommends that #SagAftraMembers (and all Instagram users) opt-OUT of Meta’s new AI image generation tool, Muse Image. Take action to protect your likeness.
If you want to avoid AI generations of your Instagram posts without switching your account to private, you’ll have to dig into the app’s settings. Open the Instagram app, tap your profile, and then tap the three lines in the top-right corner of the screen. Then, scroll down to the Sharing and reuse tab. Here is where you should see a section labeled Allow people to use your content on Instagram and with AI features on Meta, with a toggle for Posts and one for Reels.
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Mata Haggis-Burridge @matahb.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Count Binface might be the only candidate who would stand in an election versus N. F. in Clacton... Now is the Count's time!
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Mata Haggis-Burridge @matahb.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
"The bathroom is the last door on the left ~ NO WAIT! I meant right!"
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Goodnight. What the Cat Sees, Howard Weingarden.
Cat lying on chair watching a fairy, illustration.
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Leigh Jones @leighsus.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
I have such an expertly curated algorithm that I'm seeing posts from Mexican street food restaurants in the US and this is how they're advertising the game tomorrow night. "Good vibes"
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
I've taken the paywall off this piece, where I tried to imagine what the REAL stories behind some of the great photographs in the 1970s catalogues for the furniture shop Habitat were. I hope a few of you might get chance to have a read... www.tom-cox.com/the-true-sto...
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The True Stories Behind The Photographs In The Habitat Catalogues Of The 1970s
This is a piece I wrote a while ago but I wanted to make it free to read again. I wrote it during the very early stages of planning for my novel 1983 when a memory popped up of wandering around the No...
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Mata Haggis-Burridge @matahb.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
In a world of chaotic things, releasing a book should be a moment of joy, so this hits hard.
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Mata Haggis-Burridge @matahb.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
That's quite the book trailer and quite the review!
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 20/06/2026
60% drop in reviews if people even smell AI on your game - full supports the investors, developers, and publishers that took a hard "no gen-AI" stance, despite grifters' proclamations that they were "going to be left behind".
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Mata Haggis-Burridge @matahb.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Inspired by the death of the Major oak, I've written a #horror flash fiction: matahaggisburridge.substack.com/p/a-little-e... #HorrorWritersChat #horrorwriting
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A little ecohorror flash fiction: The Solitary Oak
Two hikers take rest in the shade... Week 25 of a full year of weekly flash-fiction horror.
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Mata Haggis-Burridge @matahb.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
I've found a gig location for the Hitchhikers' Guide To The Galaxy band 'Disaster Area'.
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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Thomas House of Dublin exhibiting the pro-human solidarity that all of us should demonstrate.
SO FOR THE FUTURE (LITERALLY) WE'RE NOT ACCEPTING AI POSTERS OR FLYERS FOR THE PUB.

We're right next to Ireland's biggest Art College, lads. It's not a good look.

WE UNDERSTAND BANDS CAN BE SKINT BUT RELYING ON SOME EARTH KILLING APP FROM SOME PAEDO ISLAND BILLIONAIRE IS NOT THE WAY. WE GOT BY WITHOUT IT AND WE'LL GET BY AGAIN.

IF YOU'RE STUCK WE'LL HELP. (YES IT HAS BEEN USED HERE BEFORE BUT CONSIDER THIS THE START OF THE END OF IT.)

THANKS, HUMANS.
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TechGoblin 🌰🌱🌳 @techgoblin.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
I haven't tried it myself but there's apparently a visual scripting plugin for Godot 👀 store.godotengine.org/asset/crater...
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Orchestrator: Unleashing Creativity with Visual Scripting - Godot Asset Store
The ultimate visual scripting solution for Godot. Revolutionize your game development with an intuitive node-based editor. No coding required, full Godot integration.
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Mata Haggis-Burridge @matahb.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Yes, but as patterns, not with meaning. To LLMs there is no functional difference between the notation of the Pythagoras theorem and "I love you". They are encoded into numeric sequences with finely tuned predictive odds of where it is correct to regurgitate either, but there is no deeper meaning.
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
The 80s saw the horror of AIDS. Science Magazine recognized Lenacapavir as the 2024 Breakthrough of the Year. These type of breakthroughs, w/ humble beginnings in academic labs, would not see the light of day if it weren’t for #NIH funding. 🧪 www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/lena...
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Lenacapavir: the HIV Breakthrough Proving Why NIH Funding Matters | Think Global Health
Biomedical advances such as lenacapavir depend on years of publicly funded basic research
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Mata Haggis-Burridge @matahb.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... This Pride month, let's aim for a better future. Pride wasn't ever only about being proud of who we are. It's always been about combating hatred, inequity, and prejudice. Let's remember change is needed.
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I’m a 14-year-old trans athlete. No one should face the vicious attacks I have faced | Lina Haaga
People understand gender differently, and I was taught to respect all ideas. But the vitriol I recently experienced was not a healthy debate
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