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Mike Ando @riumplus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Here's my "top 9 most influential games" meme that's going around! Get yours at my9games.net/en/edit

1) Riven, 2) Super Mario World, 3) The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, 4) The Secret of Monkey Island, 5) Final Fantasy IX, 6) To The Moon, 7) Secret of Mana, 8) Relentless: Twinsen's Little Big Adventure, 9) Chrono Trigger

Mike Ando @riumplus.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Yarrr, it be Talk Like A Pirate Day!! And in honour of such a momentous occasion, here be me as a pirate Lego minifig. #pirate

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Mike Ando @riumplus.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

There's far less red things here than I imagined #RedmondWA

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Mike Ando @riumplus.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Sydney I am in you, demoing my #Andotrope technology!

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Mike Ando @riumplus.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Fun fact! Here's what the theatre to #Beetlejuice The Musical looks like in normal vision & in night vision so you can see all the hidden stuff. (The show was very good I recommend it A++)

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Mike Ando @riumplus.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

It's the humble 555 timer IC chip's 55th birthday this year! Naturally I'm posting about this on 5/5. Because today seems most appropriate. #electronics

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Mike Ando @riumplus.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Driving to the other side of town so I can go to the last remaining Wendy's milkbar here just so I can relive the 90s and have an Agro cone one more time again #Agro

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Mike Ando @riumplus.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Colin Mochrie from Whose Line is it Anyway fame signed my rubber chicken

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Mike Ando @riumplus.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Web developers know how satisfying it is to score a perfect 100 on Google PageSpeed for my #Andotrope website (on cheap shared hosting, no less!).

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Mike Ando @riumplus.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

My computer monitor is making a quiet buzzing sound like a Cylon. No really. Should I be worried? #BattlestarGalactica

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Mike Ando @riumplus.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

My home away from home for the next month

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Mike Ando @riumplus.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Some more bowling alley behind-the-scenes pics

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Mike Ando @riumplus.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Life goal unlocked... I got a backstage tour of an old-fashioned #bowling alley!

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Mike Ando @riumplus.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

First big project of 2026 finished - this adjustable-angle laser-cut #bookstand for my #Myst book! @cyan.com

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Mike Ando @riumplus.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

This week marks 3 months since Lana has bitten or scratched anyone* and we're so proud of our cranky, judgy, blep-y little girl #CatsOfBluesky

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Mike Ando @riumplus.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

I can confirm that if you order a #Milo McFlurry from McDonald's with 5x the amount of Milo, it comes with what I consider the correct amount of Milo to put on your ice cream. SO MUCH MILO

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Mike Ando @riumplus.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Went to see Australia's largest #Christmas tree. 45m/148ft high, 50,000 lights, took them 6 months to wire it up!

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Mike Ando @riumplus.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

It's Lana's birthday this week! She is a 14 year old baby cat and forever a kitten ♥️ #catsofbluesky

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Mike Ando @riumplus.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Presented without comment as I'm not revealing what it is until it arrives, but ohh boy am I excited! #JimHenson

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Mike Ando @riumplus.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Is it just me or do these boxes of resealable bags look like #VHS tape boxes?

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Mike Ando @riumplus.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

I gotta admit, she does look pretty all shined up. It's good to finally have her back on the road again. #DeLorean

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Mike Ando @riumplus.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

ALERT! ALERT! There are #ALPACAS at this wedding

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Mike Ando @riumplus.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

I'd like to thank the two plain-clothed police officers who kept me safe yesterday where I broke down in my #DeLorean on Ipswich Rd in the middle lane during peak hours. I'd not like to thank the two bad relays so far identified (but still no idea what made them both fail together?)

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Mike Ando @riumplus.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

For proof I'm still alive, here's a photo of me with a recently-acquired newspaper.

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Mike Ando @riumplus.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Not sure if genuine Officeworks feedback URL or error-404 broken link URL

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Mike Ando @riumplus.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Sending ~$20k worth of Lithium EV batteries off for recycling... Sad to see them go but they're too old & worn to be reused! #Recycling

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Mike Ando @riumplus.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

I'm laughing because you've just stumbled upon the great Chicken Salt conspiracy - all the small containers of it you can buy at a supermarket are all wrong! This is the stuff I (and actual fish & chip shops) use. Fair warning, it comes in a literal bucket.

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Mike Ando @riumplus.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Paid for some professional photos of Lana. Worth every cent ♥️ #CatsOfBluesky

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Mike Ando @riumplus.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

When enough parts finally arrive it's time to start assembling the next invention version... #Andotrope

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Mike Ando @riumplus.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

The #DeLorean part I needed ASAP so I ordered via fastest express internationally, vs the box it came in... Thanks DMC, I had to pay for that 👍

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Mike Ando @riumplus.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Playing the #Riven remake on something it's defs not designed to run on: a N100 CPU (low-power cheap 4-core thing with Intel Integrated graphics), no external GPU, only 8GB of RAM, plastic heatsink not metal, no cooling fans, in a case smaller than a laptop power supply, off a USB charger. 1/2

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Mike Ando @riumplus.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

If you didn't know TC stands for Tropical Cyclone or which Alfred they're talking about, this SMS I received reads rather scary. Is Alfred a zombie virus? Giant cyclops? A drunk guy singing karaoke? Who knows #Brisbane

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Mike Ando @riumplus.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Current state of the weather here: the Bureau of Meteorology is using icons in this week's forecast I've never seen used before for here #Brisbane

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Mike Ando @riumplus.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

King Floof has come to visit again #cats

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Mike Ando @riumplus.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Lana kitty sticks her tongue out at you #cats

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Mike Ando @riumplus.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

New artwork for my wall - proper Death Star plans, printed on blueprint canvas. Because many Bothans died to bring me this information #StarWars

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Mike Ando @riumplus.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Today is National Appreciate A Dragon Day, and today I appreciate Lana #HugACat Show me pictures of a dragon you appreciate in the replies!

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Mike Ando @riumplus.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

My present to Meka's family - this custom #pokemon sign. Now they have an excuse for not mowing their grass

A back yard with a section of unmowed, waist-high grass in front of some mowed grass. There's a black & white, pixellated sign on a post that reads "OAK: It's unsafe! Wild POKEMON live in tall grass!"

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Mike Ando @riumplus.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

SCIENCE with @asavage.bsky.social (Doctor Horrible smock is an identical copy screen-used in Aliens 4, courtesy of one of Universal's wardrobe suppliers) #Supanova #Brisbane #DrHorrible #DoctorHorrible #Mythbusters #Tested

A man dressed as Dr Horrible, an evil mad scientist with a white medical smock, standing next to Adam Savage

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Mike Ando @riumplus.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

DMC released photos of their newly-remanufactured #DeLorean body panels and all I can think is how they look like fantastic baking trays "Happy Birthday! I baked you a cake in the shape of a Left Front Fender, just what you always wanted!"

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Mike Ando @riumplus.bsky.social · 31/08/2024

#StarTrek DS9 S3 episodes 11 & 12 happen in San Francisco this week. Give these eps a watch if you can - now's your rare chance to watch something written in the past, set in the future, go back to the past, but still a form of future, happen in the present!

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Mike Ando @riumplus.bsky.social · 15/08/2024

Gehn's Imager Andotrope has been featured by the Official Raspberry Pi magazine, The MagPi Magazine! Issue 144 pages 18-21, check out my article below, or get a PDF or physical copy of the magazine at magpi.raspberrypi.com/issues/144

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Mike Ando @riumplus.bsky.social · 02/07/2024

Hi I'm Mike and this is Mike's Hard Lemonade. The innuendo writes itself really

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Mike Ando @riumplus.bsky.social · 19/06/2024

Finally visiting the place that Google keeps thinking I live in

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