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Robin Johnson @robinjohnson.bsky.social · 1h

oh come the heck on there were like four original series Star Trek episodes about this

Robin Johnson @robinjohnson.bsky.social · 3h

look EVEN IF IT WERE TRUE that "ai" could make something that sounds like good music or looks like good art or reads like good writing - and for what's currently fraudulently called "ai" I assure you it never will be - that would miss THE ENTIRE POINT OF ART which is PEOPLE EXPRESSING THEMSELVES

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Robin Johnson @robinjohnson.bsky.social · 4h

"Block Pushing Puzzle Game But You Can Time Travel" is a thinky puzzle game I made ages ago. In this level, you have to walk the route, then go back in time and put the crate in front of your past self so that they push(ed) it to the goal, & avoiding paradoxes. versificator.itch.io/block-pushin...

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Robin Johnson @robinjohnson.bsky.social · 6h

I have a new (secondhand) laptop, what software have I forgotten to install got so far: VLC, nethack

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Failbetter Games | Wishlist Mandrake on Steam! @failbettergames.com · 7h

We're hiring! We're looking for a Writer and Narrative Designer to join the Fallen London team at a senior or mid level. This position is permanent, remote, and full time, which for us means 35 hours a week. #GamesJobs

Night. The House of Chimes - a tower which you might immediately think of as Big Ben - is adrift in the River Thames. It still seems to be keeping time. In the background, a large, alien building looms over the city of London.

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

you will encounter more opportunities in life to change the batteries on a smoke alarm than you will to run into a burning building and no one gives a shit you changed those batteries but it is still very important and why are you waiting on a burning building, know what i’m saying, it’s a metaphor

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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Robin Johnson @robinjohnson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

> Embark has struggled to balance the needs of millions of players with those of its workforce "I want time to eat, sleep and have a social life": a need "I want to play Arc Raiders nooooow": not a need

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Robin Johnson @robinjohnson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There's a bible thumping evangelical "prophet" with the same name as me, how can I use this information to my advantage

The fake Robin Johnson ranting "Ephesians you wrestle not against your mother-in-law your in-law flesh", insightful

"Robin Johnson" (not me) in a studio earnestly telling you that the best way to serve God is to send money to his PO Box (address blurred). CC reads "anything through the mail, it needs to go to Robin Johnson Prophetic Ministries"

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Robin Johnson @robinjohnson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Someone in this park has a dog named Golliwog :-/

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Robin Johnson @robinjohnson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Overheard "fucking weirdo with a cat on his shoulder" from someone who thought they were out of earshot (or thought that weird = deaf). Gave them a cheery hello, got a "mind your own business" look as if they'd been talking about some other fucking cat weirdo

Me, a fucking weirdo with a cat on my shoulder. It's a beautiful sunny day and we're both smiling and minding our own business

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Robin Johnson @robinjohnson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There's a busier playing Losing My Religion but I think they've changed it into major? and it sounds weird as heck and I don't know whether it's on purpose

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *inclusion*, it would be all over the Times, Telegraph, Mail etc. This last weekend, attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *exclusion*. Crickets.

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Arvind Venkataramani @avenk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Happy Stanislav Petrov day to those who celebrate en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisl...

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Stanislav Petrov - Wikipedia

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Vivian Moira Valentine @itsviviactually.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Once again, hotties would post way more selfies if cishet guys would just be fucking normal about them

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Robin Johnson @robinjohnson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I bought the sheet music for John Cage's 4'33" and it's perfect. No notes.

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My weird girl lit novel got a STARRED REVIEW in Publishers Weekly! 🤩 "Using aliens to explore alienation, SHE ISN'T HERSELF TONIGHT brilliantly turns abduction narratives on their heads. Piper continues to outdo herself.“ out October 27 from Saga! 🛸 www.publishersweekly.com/9781668077122

She Isn’t Herself Tonight
Hailey Piper. Saga, $18 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-1-6680-7712-2
The latest foray into supernatural horror from Bram Stoker award winner Piper (A Game in Yellow) offers an enthralling twist on the classic alien abduction plot. At age 30, Rabbit (a reclaimed childhood nickname) is eagerly awaiting the return of the aliens, or “Guests,” as she refers to them, that first came for her at age 10 and then again at age 20. She has never felt truly understood, not by her mother, who paraded her around local churches as a child to tell the story of her first abduction—substituting the aliens for angels—nor her recent ex-boyfriend, Leo, who accused her of being “too much work.” As she reels from the breakup, she takes comfort in knowing that the “Guests,” the only ones who have ever made her feel safe and cared for, will be returning soon. Piper mines a lot of tension from Rabbit’s yearning for her abductors, making readers just as anxious for their arrival as Rabbit herself, even as, in the meantime, Rabbit’s body undergoes a mysterious, possibly extraterrestrial transformation. Using aliens to explore alienation, this brilliantly turns abduction narratives on their heads. Piper continues to outdo herself. Agent: Lane Heymont, Tobias Literary. (Oct.)

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nora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 25/09/2026

"Theories that diseases are caused by mental states and cured by will power are always an index of how much is not understood about the physical terrain of a disease." (Susan Sontag, "Illness as Metaphor", 1978)

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Robin Johnson @robinjohnson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

So were Scotty and Uhura sneaking around for the whole of the original series?

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Robin Johnson @robinjohnson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Don't forget she was also clueless ABOUT SCOTLAND. Hogwarts is canonically set here! And she writes Hogsmeade as a cosy Brexity little West Country village and makes Robbie Coltrane put on a Cornish accent! I guess we didn't have feckin windows or ears in the '90s either

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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

There is a website that tells you how “woke” a movie or television show is and it’s one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen

Creator track record context
Jordan Peele has a clear pattern of horror films that incorporate social and racial commentary, including Get Out's focus on race and class. He has said his race informs his work and specifically tied Nope to fixing the erasure of black figures from cinema history and exploring spectacle through that lens.
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Factors & Ratings
These are the editorial factors and ratings behind our score for Nope.
Woke representation / casting
The film stars black actors Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer as the central siblings running the horse ranch. Their family backstory directly links to an uncredited black jockey in early cinema history. This makes the casting and identity elements audience-visible and tied to the story's visibility themes, though the characters' horse skills fit the setting without obvious mismatch or unearned dominance.
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Robin Johnson @robinjohnson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Why did nobody tell me Columbo had a murder lesbians episode with Faye Dunaway and Claudia Christian

Co-murderesses Claudia Christian and Faye Dunaway holding each other's faces in a *just* plausibly deniable manner in a dimly lit LA apartment

The two meeting illicitly in a women's restroom BUT NOT LIKE THAT! They are merely there to innocently discuss the murder they did last night

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emily fraser 🌿🐌✨ @emilyesfraser.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Can y’all PLEASE start recognizing how hard you’re being propagandized against disabled people & maybe stop contributing to the hate?

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You got what you wanted! You are living your normal lives, as demanded, free of legal or social responsibility toward disabled people who are still at high risk. Now you’re going to laugh at us trying to find ways to keep going? That’s not just discrimination, that’s dehumanization.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I know you’re now rolling your eyes and going “ughhh Bluesky scolllld” and I’m going to tell you right this very second you have absolutely no idea, not one fucking clue, the trauma there is from the social isolation that immunocompromised people have faced since Covid started.

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Robin Johnson @robinjohnson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Actually this picture shows a thoroughly literate understanding of the complex relationship between Holmes and Watson, no notes

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Robin Johnson @robinjohnson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I respect our British culture. DO YOU?

The puppets Zippy and George from "Rainbow". George is a pink hippo and Zippy is a strange yellowish-brown creature with a zip around his mouth. Zippy is dressed as Sherlock Holmes for reasons that are unlikely to become apparent

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Well, if it’s 23 September... YES, THAT’S RIGHT! It’s the 72nd anniversary of the hunt for the Gorbals Vampire, in which hundreds of children aged from four to 14, armed with dogs, knives, and sharpened sticks went looking for an urban myth

Daily Mirror front page shows grainy image of horde of children in a cemetery, and the headline “Amazing scene as hundreds of children rush cemetery”

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Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

England has done a complete 180 in terms of school policy in the last month. Rights have been fundamentally & catastrophically removed. There is no press coverage. No discussion. No cis outrage. Not even cis acknowledgement. Everyone else has just moved on, accepted this as normal

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Grant Howitt @gshowitt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Looking for someone who can do 90’s point-and-click style pixel art for a commission. Short notice but it’d need to be done in the next two weeks. Lemme know if that’s you, and share your portfolio please!

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Robin Johnson @robinjohnson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It's really good and you should read it!

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Robin Johnson @robinjohnson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Enshittification is going to make piracy the only tolerable way to watch anything

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Robin Johnson @robinjohnson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Dr Johnson, inventing English idioms: "Goody...", hmmm, what's something a total virtuous kissass would do Boswell: Wear two shoes? Johnson: YES

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Robin Johnson @robinjohnson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

You know how it was weird when Americans started thinking there was no Islamophobia or US neo-imperialist bombing in the Middle East before 9/11? Well, now they think people didn't hate America before Trump

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Robin Johnson @robinjohnson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Just realised Eä-Nasir was an incarnation of CMOT Dibbler That's the finest copper there is, Šarru! Cheap at twice the price an' I'm stonin' meself to death

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Robin Johnson @robinjohnson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Saw some "interview" with "Tilly Norwood" and like, of course it's an artistically & ethically terrible idea but I at least imagined there'd be some *superficially* impressive tech behind it. The picture sits vacantly & drones the same avoidant bullshit as chatgpt. Any reddit bro could make that

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Sara Gibbs @sararoseg.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

We are putting together a mammoth crowdfunder for the next season of It’s a Superpower?? I cannot stress how much we will need everyone’s help, ideas, hype and if people have any spare, cash. We need to raise £30k per season & that currently feels so far beyond impossible it’s overwhelming.

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Robin Johnson @robinjohnson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Invention: slopy plate so you can put down a slightly precarious burrito without the fixins falling out

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聖☆Alex Degen @adactivity.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

What, new pussycat? Whoaaa

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

In regards to the video game industry 'adopts AI tools' no, they've pushed out human workers to make a buck Meanwhile some of the best games have been made by a single person laboring without ai and I will continue to buy those games fucking asshats

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Robin Johnson @robinjohnson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

White people: if you say "Badenoch/Mahmoud/etc's parents could not have immigrated under their own policies" you are saying "POC are in the country at the pleasure of white people & we may withdraw that permission at any time." Do better.

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

So basically these people want black and brown people to drown in the sea and will attack anyone who prevents that. They do not have legitimate concerns they are evil fucking racists

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

NEW CAT JUST DROPPED!!!!!

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Charles R. Rutledge @crutledge.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Cue the Law and order opening sound. Duh Duh. In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: the cats, who kill mice; and the humans,who clean up after them. These are their stories.

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Robin Johnson @robinjohnson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Hey, Peculiar Productions are doing my one-act play "Stitched Up" in Cardiff on 30 October! It's a literary satire about Frankenstein that I may or may not have self-plagiarised a bunched of jokes from into the first @midnightpals.bsky.social episode. www.ticketsource.com/porters-card...

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Stitched Up! at Porter's Theatre

Tickets are now available for Stitched Up! at Porter's Theatre, Cardiff on Fri 30 Oct 2026. Click the link for further information and to secure your tickets now!

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Robin Johnson @robinjohnson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Cis people, please refuse to answer these questions, so that the refusal itself isn't a forced self-outing for trans people.

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Robin Johnson @robinjohnson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

But the clone of the game as it was 40 years ago doesn't have *any* play or players "behind" it. By definition, it's at the very back, and all that play is "behind" the newest edition. You're allowed to prefer it but being older means it's LESS tried & tested, not more. (See also: Star Trek)

screenshotted skeet because I don't really want to argue with this person:

Funnest thing about helping out in a FLGS is when someone omes in fresh looking [to] start playing 5e. "You could do that, or you could play this version of DnD that's got 40 years of play and players behind it and it half the price and a third the size" and they walk out with Swords & Wizardry

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 15/09/2026

Every time one of these stories comes out, it's shown that the parents were actually abusive. There is an asymmetry where the parents are given a platform by Christian nationalist orgs and Fox News while the state cannot discuss any details due to privacy. So the narrative is set by the parents.

Screenshot of a Fox News post on X reporting on a Massachusetts family whose daughter was placed in state custody over gender transition disputes, with an embedded Fox News broadcast segment titled "Gender Treatment Lawsuit."

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