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Jam Walker @jamwa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

For those heading down for Melbourne International Games Week & PAX, here is your reminder to BRING YOUR 3DS, for I am once again hosting a StreetPass meet. :)

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Mascot Texorcism 🐯 @texsaber.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've had this stupid joke in my head for the past 3 weeks, I had to put it into drawing

Theatrical poster for "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me," except the portrait of Laura Palmer is replaced with a Walkling from the game Big Walk, and the film name is replaced with "Big Walk with Me"

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Seamus Byrne @seamusbyrne.me · 02/10/2026

One of my fave bits of my PhD research is being almost two years deep and now and then I discover a vein of reading I hadn't found yet. "Where the hell have *you* been?" I exclaim as I add another ten readings to Zotero.

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Hand Reaching for Book in Library

Alt: A hand gently caresses a shelf of fancy old library books.

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Seamus Byrne @seamusbyrne.me · 01/10/2026

Just watched “Who Killed The KLF” on SBS On Demand and it’s a really good documentary. If you knew them from the era, or you’ve only heard folklore, it’s worth the watch. And it goes away in three days so catch it while you can.

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Tammy Wynette Justified And Ancient

Alt: Tammy Wynette costumed and singing from the Justified And Ancient music video. Captioned “All Bound For Mu-Mu Land”

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Seamus Byrne @seamusbyrne.me · 01/10/2026

Narrator voice: the games industry does not value its media.

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Reselsnark @reselsnark.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The inversion of status quo by SCOTUS to mean “let government continue to act illegally” rather than “pause the government action to return the situation to before the government acted” makes the entire US legal system a laughing stock to anyone that ever studied law anywhere in the world.

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Seamus Byrne @seamusbyrne.me · 30/09/2026

I stan for Catherine Standish.

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Seamus Byrne @seamusbyrne.me · 30/09/2026

Maybe we need to explain AI creative labour issues in sports terms so our nation’s leaders get half a clue? “Imagine if the robots came for the NRL, and there was no more blood and brain injury. You’d hate that, right?” Hmmm… probably not the right argument…

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Edmond Tran @edmondtran.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Here’s the rub: We cater to many readers, but as an indie, non-commercial publication, it’s that small portion of paid subscribers that keeps us afloat and allows us to pursue the kind of stories that earned these accolades. Please consider backing us if you believe in a better games media!

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Seamus Byrne @seamusbyrne.me · 27/09/2026

This century has been full of perfectly good tech that could last decades but for shitty plastic fabrics dissolving or rubberised coatings that turn gooey.

Photo of a gaming headset where the orange headset cushions have decayed and frayed and are not going to last any longer.

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Seamus Byrne @seamusbyrne.me · 26/09/2026

Can someone show the NFL people who complained about the size of the MCG today’s highlights so they see what a sport that uses the whole field looks like?

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Seamus Byrne @seamusbyrne.me · 26/09/2026

Gritting my teeth and listening to the Ezra Klein interview with Jensen Huang. It is really wild how bad Huang’s position is. So much hand waving, so much doubling down that cognitive surrender is the right path into the future for humanity. The billionaire class is so detached from the real world.

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Iris/アイリス 🏳️‍⚧️ @irisdescentbird.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

funniest rom hack reasoning of all time

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ADM+S Centre @admscentre.org.au · 25/09/2026

Today, we celebrate International Research Administrators’ Day and our extraordinary professional team, whose commitment and dedication make the remarkable achievements of ADM+S researchers possible. #ResearchAdministratorsDay

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Seamus Byrne @seamusbyrne.me · 24/09/2026

The actual headline on the story reads: “OpenAI hacked Medicare portal, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says”. This social headline is so milquetoast it conveys no reason why it’s even newsworthy.

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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If ultimately there's no criminal responsibility for this incident here then FOI just became a lot easier if we ask AI agents to go find those documents for us. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Albanese says OpenAI hacked Medicare and told Australia months later via email to generic inbox

Prime minister says he told Sam Altman he was disappointed it had taken OpenAI ‘way too long’ to disclose breach

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Seamus Byrne @seamusbyrne.me · 24/09/2026

Left-Right scrolling in a web app in a browser when you hit the edge and the browser uses the gesture to Back/Forward.

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Seamus Byrne @seamusbyrne.me · 24/09/2026

I guess it'll be a third radio spot in a row where I am once again calling for AI accountability as the only path to AI safety. No human gets a free pass for accidentally breaking the law. No company executive should get one for breaking laws at scale.

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 16/09/2026

Production 101 of the video courses exists because too many times indie studios know how to build a game, but not how to ship a commercial game. Production is a large part of what publishers evaluate, and the skill you need to ship. Available now for teams & freelancers both: courses.ramiismail.com

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Seamus Byrne @seamusbyrne.me · 17/09/2026

Algorithmic platforms are now full of 10-post Threads or clip-based videos that start off seemingly insightful, but by the third post or the 30 second mark you realise they're written by AI. It's a strong reason to be here where you can escape the lowest common denominator of attention economics.

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Seamus Byrne @seamusbyrne.me · 16/09/2026

Ludwig Season 2 is on now in the UK but it is unavailable to watch anywhere here in Australia. I feel like we've gone back in time with more and more delays in global TV show distribution.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 15/09/2026

How much money has NVIDIA made on its gaming products, vs products for AI data centres? Please enjoy this little animation that lays it out for you: ourworldindata.org/grapher/nvid...

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Seamus Byrne @seamusbyrne.me · 15/09/2026

They didn't even try to make this chart do any real work. Might as well have written some numbers in a table.

Chart screenshot. While the read out of data points makes sense, the visual chart shows grey bars and pink bars to represent 2024 and 2026, respectively, but all of the grey bars and pink bars are identical in length no matter their listed values:

Amount Due
Monthly prices of US ad-free streaming plans have escalated in the past two years

Service / 2024 / 2026
Netflix Standard, $15.49, $19.99, +29%
Disney+ Premium, $13.99, $18.99, +36%
Hulu Premium, $17.99, $18.99, +6%
Peacock Premium, $13.99, $19.99, +43%
Paramount+ Premium, $12.99, $13.99, +8%
HBO Max Standard, $16.99, $18.49, +9%
Apple TV, $9.99, $14.99, +50%

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Seamus Byrne @seamusbyrne.me · 15/09/2026

So the same people who say Indigenous Australians can’t blame the settler colony for their troubles are also adamant they can blame new immigrants for theirs? Got it.

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Seamus Byrne @seamusbyrne.me · 12/09/2026

I hardly touch Kojima games but holy shit if Playstation wanted to open the door to Xbox winning some hearts, minds and console sales, this is the perfect way to help them do it.

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Seamus Byrne @seamusbyrne.me · 11/09/2026

Film reviewers don’t thank film companies for access to review their films. Would love to see more games reviewers stop saying thanks to games companies for access too.

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Dave Lloyd 🚈 MIGW @dave.powerhoof.com · 11/09/2026

I collabbed with ReBoxy to get a classic PC Big Box physical edition of The Drifter made! As a collector of old DOS game big boxes this is the coolest :D Contains a CD-ROM, manual I helped write, a poster, digital codes, the lot! You can get your hands on it here- store.reboxy.net/p/the-drifter

Box and contents shot- including front/back of box, CD-ROM, manual, and poster.

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Seamus Byrne @seamusbyrne.me · 10/09/2026

We copped the worst parking fine in existence. A ranger pulled into our tiny culdesac at 7.30am to ping my wife's car because it was parked the wrong way around. She'd put it that way because it was icy winter and it meant her screen caught some sun so it defrosts without a fuss. $340.

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Seamus Byrne @seamusbyrne.me · 09/09/2026

Great day at a UNSW Critical Cultures event discussing Gen AI. Very good chats on how we are often not in the room while technologists implement AI with a heart full of hype and hope. Every boss should have a critic in the room asking everyone “why?”

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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Remakes of old videogames should be like film adaptations of novels and not like "We fixed it with the better technology"

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N.S. Dolkart sans nap @nsdolkart.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

1) OpenAI is stealing research and passing it off as its own. Tom Lehrer’s caricature of Lobachevsky would be proud. 2) imagine the pain of being *some other Stephen Miller* these days, on top of having your work stolen. Poor guy can’t catch a break.

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Seamus Byrne @seamusbyrne.me · 07/09/2026

You’d never have guessed who was actually just off camera.

Nathan Fielder laughing looking past the camera, with a concrete wall behind him.
He’s wearing a white shirt and black tie. It is from his famed meme about having friends off camera.

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Leena 🌵 @leena.reuben.games · 06/09/2026

Please just pirate my book if it means you’ll get across how important it is to never *ever* present gamergate as a debate with two sides. It was outsourced domestic violence. There was the hate campaign and its targets, it wasn’t just some ideological clash. annas-archive.gd/md5/f22b77e9...

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Seamus Byrne @seamusbyrne.me · 05/09/2026

Social media became selfish media and few seemed to notice. Not, *you* of course. You noticed. You’re so smart.

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Seamus Byrne @seamusbyrne.me · 03/09/2026

This feels up there with Old Spice Guy doing quick react videos on Twitter back in the day...

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Seamus Byrne @seamusbyrne.me · 03/09/2026

When you're feeling a bit lost in how you're going to bring the research together and then you have a meeting with your supervisor and suddenly you realise you're doing just fine.

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Seamus Byrne @seamusbyrne.me · 30/08/2026

How it started. How it’s going. A glorious Sydney day for a long run. Got a participation medal and everything! Thanks to all who threw money into my ACRF fundraiser. Over $1,200 because people love science and hate cancer.

Dawn at North Sydney Oval with a crowd of runners waiting for the start. Large trees as the dawn light filters through.

Me, smiling and point at the Opera House sails behind me. Thousands of people are on the steps. Pretty sure they’re all here for me. Gorgeous sunny day. Pure blue sky.

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Seamus Byrne @seamusbyrne.me · 29/08/2026

In 12 hours I’ll be almost an hour in and thinking “why did I do this again??” Help me feel better about the silly life choice by sharing a few dollars or sharing my pro-science, anti-cancer sentiments.

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Seamus Byrne @seamusbyrne.me · 22/08/2026

The reskeets will continue until the race is run.

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Seamus Byrne @seamusbyrne.me · 27/08/2026

As a friend said in the group chat, Tim has "finally escaped to the one place that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism..." Go watch those incredible FMVs from Command & Conquer.

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Seamus Byrne @seamusbyrne.me · 27/08/2026

My quick read on the Meta settlement is that the Attorneys General have abdicated their responsibility to holding the company to account, right? Feels pretty weak when Meta went to trial and then started to see how bad it was going to look.

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Double Fine @doublefine.com · 27/08/2026

To honor Tim Curry's memory, we are making Brütal Legend FREE on Itch.io, for 666 minutes: itch.io/s/199277/the...

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Brütal Legend | The Tainted Coil shall rule forever! by Double Fine Productions

A sale by Double Fine Productions, 100% off Brütal Legend

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Seamus Byrne @seamusbyrne.me · 25/08/2026

Drinking an extra cup of ambition this morning. Vale Dolly. There will never be another.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 25/08/2026

So much for 'three hours of free power a day' in Australia. "I reviewed multiple pricing schedules on the government’s Energy Made Easy website and it’s now clear that Solar Sharer pricing has the highest cost for a household of all pricing schedules on offer reneweconomy.com.au/solar-sharer...

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Why Solar Sharer has become the solar shocker, with the costliest of retail offers

It could have been a very smart, exciting and world-first energy policy initiative. But now we can see the results, it’s clear that Solar Sharer has gone terribly wrong.

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Seamus Byrne @seamusbyrne.me · 23/08/2026

When the venue's official wi-fi has a typo in the actual hotspot name... yeah, I'm not joining that...

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Seamus Byrne @seamusbyrne.me · 22/08/2026

AI homework slop is so similar to AI work slop made by people who just don't read much themselves. They press the magic button and get something that feels valid. But it is structurally nearly identical to 1,000 other magic button outputs. People who read, or mark homework, spot it instantly.

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