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Matthew Bloch @matthewblo.ch · 29/09/2026

These are the games I played with all the best people (via my9games.net/en/edit)

Descent
Magic Mushrooms
Conquests Of Camelot
Ico
Myst
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Chocks Away
Soul Calibur
Lemmings

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

incredibly well-done resident evil teaser from a movie theater

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Charles Snart (Histocrat) @thehistocrat.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Today I found out that pretty much all the original footage from the live action filming sessions for both Myst and Riven are viewable online over on the Video Game History Foundation Library in their original quality and I think thats pretty damn neat.

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Raw camera footage

View Raw camera footage in the Video Game History Foundation Library – Digital Archive.

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Rebecca Rideal @rebeccarideal.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I’m all for a bit of library sounds ASMR, but this is… well…?

Screenshot of a YouTube ASMR video where your in Salem and being accused of being a witch

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trouteyes @trouteyes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Have you seen my snooker table, Doris? No farmer Griffiths. I haven't seen any snooker tables at all this morning.

Old painting. Man and enormous rectangular sheep

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onlycans @onlycans.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

just stop oil protesters got five years in jail for *planning* to do this to the M25.

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Jack Bernhardt @jackbern.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

THE GREAT BRITISH SEWING BEE: oh my this is fun, oh what larks THE GREAT BRITISH REAPING BEE: well this is a spot of bother and make no mistake, what on earth

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J.A. Killingsound @kislingconnection.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Very pleased and excited to see that this generation of anti-smoking ads are going with the Cronenberg angle. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIhr...

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UNDO - Lab Rat (2026)

YouTube video by Diskki Hoax

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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 28/08/2026

This is the route Rockstar should have taken

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Matt Henderson @matthen.com · 26/08/2026

To tell if a maze is solvable, just hang it by its corners If it tears into pieces, you’ve found a solution

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Matthew Bloch @matthewblo.ch · 24/08/2026

Well blow me down, the sociologist defending the racist professor (sorry I mean academic freedom) is really into AI for classifying people (sorry, survey efficiency), and thinks the supreme court has been *perfectly* clear on gender. If that means nothing to you, be thankful, go free, enjoy life.

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Lucy Fishwife 🥐 @lucyfishwife.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

My post-punk playlist has obliquely reminded me that I won an in-house competition for best bookseller anthem with the suggestion “(When I Think About You) I Dust My Shelf”

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Matthew Bloch @matthewblo.ch · 19/08/2026

Richard Tice looks like Richard Madeley's Wario

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Matthew Bloch @matthewblo.ch · 14/08/2026

My brain still translates all alarm noises into this 30yo Spitting Image sketch youtu.be/CNJ4LEcZ4ak?...

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101 uses for a Björk - Spitting Image

YouTube video by bjorkfr

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Martin Heneghan @martinheneghan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

He’s been prime minister for five minutes and he’s already playing with the emergency alert.

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Matthew Bloch @matthewblo.ch · 14/08/2026

searching "how to disable emergency alerts forever android"

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Lucile Danilov @locdandloaded.net · 06/08/2026

You may not like it, but this is what peak localization looks like (Asterix: Mega Madness (PS1, 2001))

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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 02/08/2026

Median UK voter in 2026, as predicted by Hugh Laurie some decades ago:

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My father was a Conservative...

...my mother voted Labour...

...so suppose, by rights, ought
to be a Liberal Democrat...

...but in actual fact, I'm a Nazi!

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SlenderSherbet @slendersherbet.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

In celebration of #YorkshireDay, please enjoy this Sean Bean bastard collection. Sound up, bastards.

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Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · 30/07/2026

I actually know the answer to this and it's slightly insane. Google pulls from Wikipedia to determine if a place is a city, town, neighbourhood, whatever. Brighton's first line describes it as a "seaside resort" so Google Maps thinks it's a neighbourhood and doesn't display it in the "city" font.

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Matthew Bloch @matthewblo.ch · 30/07/2026

Christ, also a lesson for people implementing web service signup forms 😬

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Matthew Bloch @matthewblo.ch · 29/07/2026

I'm suspicious that the new "Indie Forever" stream & its relentless promotion this week is softening up the audience for the BBC to take another swing at 6 Music 🤨

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Matthew Bloch @matthewblo.ch · 27/07/2026

I enjoyed Everything Everything closing Deershed like the headmaster in this Fry & Laurie sketch youtu.be/zxru0HDs5_g?...

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A Bit of Fry and Laurie - "Prize Poem"

YouTube video by sunnydalegal

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Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

movement in non-euclidean quaternionic space

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Matthew Bloch @matthewblo.ch · 16/07/2026

This is an excellent take-down, and sold me a subscription. For the price of this bad book, I could have paid for >3 months!

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James @jamesrandall.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I've been spending some time analysing the code and systems of the epic 1988 BBC game Exile resulting in a (I hope) bit perfect recreation in TypeScript and a set of @markmoxon.bsky.social inspired deep dives into its working. bbcexile.com #retrocomputing #bbcmicro #gamehistory

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There Must And Shall Be Aspirin @boscobel1975.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Franz Liszt was the best Suede guitarist. I will not be taking questions.

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Matthew Bloch @matthewblo.ch · 11/07/2026

Such an anti-ad on TV for the pervert glasses - massive twats storming around the city with no friends shouting "Meta! Take a picture!" Sure dufuses that's much better than pressing a button.

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astro @ msx.gay @msx.gay · 09/07/2026

yeah, that eject spring works

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Matthew Bloch @matthewblo.ch · 07/07/2026

After release, a game costs the publisher $0 to keep selling forever. And therefore removing an old game from sale, or stopping its online service, is just mindless vandalism.

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Zac Thompson @zacthompson.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Pictures from a friend of mine who works on a crab-fishing boat off the coast of Newfoundland. I love the nightmare crab door.

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

*shaking my wife awake* KRAKEN HAS SUSPENDED WITHDRAWALS OF BONK

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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Oxford drinkers may finally be able to swear in the Three Goats’ Heads after the death of Humphrey Smith, the irascible owner of Sam Smiths Brewery, at the age of 81. The pub chain enforced strict bans on swearing and mobile phone use. Smith was described in a Facebook pubs group as “an absolute tit

The Three Goats Heads on St Michael’s Street. Ian S at geograph.org.uk, CC-BY-SA https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6665658

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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Watching the video from The Ring on my phone so she comes out of my screen real tiny and I can just put her in a mug

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Matthew Bloch @matthewblo.ch · 25/06/2026

Makes The Day Today's graphics look pretty sober

Chris Morris standing in front of a nonsense graph with "Scale", "Man", "Drugs" and "Dead Children" in geometric shapes.

A graphic looking like something off BBC News from the 90s, with the title "Currency Susan", with pictures of 3 differently-dressed women standing in front of UK, Japanese & German national flags.

Another BBC news graphic entitled "Finance Arse" with the caption "But increased trading formed a unified arse at around lunchtime", illustrated with two globes close together looking like a bum

A news graphic showing a British policeman pointing a spray can at a cutaway diagram of a dog, with the dog apparently full of metal. The caption reads "The inside of the dog is destroyed but the outside stays the same shape". The outside of the dog is labelled "Resin".

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Mark @vbloke.com · 20/06/2026

It’s only a USB port if it’s on the left side of your device, otherwise it’s a USB starboard.

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Tony Cliff @tangocharlie.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Who wants to make a PAPERS, PLEASE-style game about getting your child ready for each day of school, using the crumbs of information from the principal, the teacher, and the calendar, in their emails, PDF attachments, and assorted apps?

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Hate it when people suggest children will be happy if they play outside. I remember playing outside. It was fucking dreadful. I wanted to go back in and play video games and read comics, but apparently being outside held some kind of magic power which erased adults' critical faculties.

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Pessimists Archive @pessimistsarc.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

In 1908 the Lancet called for an 18+ age limit on reading in bed for U.K. children.

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