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Marc Laming all singing, all dancing comics guy. @marclaming.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Since it's now out in the wild here's my cover for mass market edition of Dan dare: First Contact (written by @alexdecampi.bsky.social ). How great are @michaelrbwoods.bsky.social's colours!

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John Ayliff (Space Goblin Games) @spacegoblingames.com · 27/09/2026

Love how stiff Dan looks. Like he's wishing he was back in the 1950s version where no one hugged anyone

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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John Ayliff (Space Goblin Games) @spacegoblingames.com · 24/09/2026

This looks very relevant to my interests! * Space comics * Autistic coded robots

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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026

Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.

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https://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d

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John Ayliff (Space Goblin Games) @spacegoblingames.com · 22/09/2026

What must it have felt like to wear this hat, surrounded by bronze age sun cultists. You'd be wizard-priest-king of the world. There would not be a single doorway you could fit through.

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John Ayliff (Space Goblin Games) @spacegoblingames.com · 20/09/2026

Could be that when you say "to Enterprise" the vowels run together awkwardly, and the "the" separates the words, whereas "to Voyager" and "to Discovery" don't need that?

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John Ayliff (Space Goblin Games) @spacegoblingames.com · 20/09/2026

Elite on the Commodore 64. I could never even get very far (I sucked at space combat, also docking), but I loved the space trader fantasy so much that I kept coming back.

Screenshot of the Comnodore 64 version of Elite (1985). A wireframe spaceship spins above a prompt that asks "Load New Commander (Y/N)?"

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Yemeni Anthropomorphic Stele (3rd–1st Century BCE)

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John Ayliff (Space Goblin Games) @spacegoblingames.com · 19/09/2026

The reasons they were Muppets or in a black and white movie were disappointing, but the reason they had a soap opera episode was great and could have explained any number of genre pastiches.

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John Ayliff (Space Goblin Games) @spacegoblingames.com · 19/09/2026

I'm enjoying this season of Strange New Worlds, but... if you're going to do half a season of genre pastiche episodes, why not tie them together with a single explanation? Different genre each week, and the season arc is figuring out why you're in a different genre each week. #StarTrekSNW

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John Ayliff (Space Goblin Games) @spacegoblingames.com · 18/09/2026

Maybe this is part of why it made such a great movie - the book already works like a movie does.

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John Ayliff (Space Goblin Games) @spacegoblingames.com · 18/09/2026

It also means it's using physical descriptions actions and objects to convey mood and pacing. There's one bit where it spends like a page describing Sam Spade rolling a cigarette in exacting detail, conveying a thoughtful and focused mood without ever getting in his head.

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John Ayliff (Space Goblin Games) @spacegoblingames.com · 18/09/2026

Combine that with a story about people who are constantly trying to deceive one another, and it becomes a puzzle just to work out moment to moment what they characters are thinking and what they're trying to accomplish. We don't even really know the protagonist's goal until the very end.

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John Ayliff (Space Goblin Games) @spacegoblingames.com · 18/09/2026

The Maltese Falcon (the novel, which entered the public domain this year) is written in a really interesting way. It's in the third person and it's all external. We're told what characters say and do, but never what they're thinking or feeling. standardebooks.org/ebooks/dashi...

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The Maltese Falcon, by Dashiell Hammett - Free ebook download

Free epub ebook download of the Standard Ebooks edition of The Maltese Falcon: A detective becomes embroiled in a series of murders and intrigues, all seemingly related to a mysterious figurine.

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Gordon Little @gord.games · 18/09/2026

My eldest girl's 16th birthday is very soon and since we recently played most of the @remedygames.com games this summer together (Alan Wake, Control, Alan Wake 2), she wanted an Alan Wake themed cake. Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you... Alan Cake. (Please tell @samlakewrites.bsky.social)

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John Ayliff (Space Goblin Games) @spacegoblingames.com · 17/09/2026

I am intrigued by some of the details, though. Who was "Li Ling" going to be? How would those tattooed Atlantines have looked on screen?

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John Ayliff (Space Goblin Games) @spacegoblingames.com · 17/09/2026

I love the idea of a live-action Dan Dare TV show but this looks like it would have been way too ambitious for the technology of the time...so perhaps getting some some sci-fi artists to do cool concept art and then cancelling the project was the best outcome.

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John Ayliff (Space Goblin Games) @spacegoblingames.com · 17/09/2026

You know what, I think 20yo me would overall be pretty impressed with present me, and thinking about that has made me feel pretty good about my life today.

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John Ayliff (Space Goblin Games) @spacegoblingames.com · 17/09/2026

If AI companies actually thought their product might destroy humanity they'd be covering it up and funding disinformation like fossil fuel companies do

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John Ayliff (Space Goblin Games) @spacegoblingames.com · 16/09/2026

A commonly misunderstood phrase. The "living well" is a writhing eldritch flesh pit into which you hurl your enemies.

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A lot of people seem to take it as a fact that the private sector has secret efficiency magic the public sector doesn't have. It doesn't. It pays workers less and charges more for the same service. That's like 99% of private sector "efficiency." And everyone's worse off, except shareholders.

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John Ayliff (Space Goblin Games) @spacegoblingames.com · 16/09/2026

BREAKING: The alien soprano from The Fifth Element will no longer be opening for Ed Sheeran

The opera singer from The Fifth Element, a blue alien with tentacles coming out of the sides of her head, sings her aria in front of a window looking out onto a blue planet.

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John Ayliff (Space Goblin Games) @spacegoblingames.com · 14/09/2026

I'm not sure what from the original Flash Gordon strips is canon in the new one, but I'm amused by the idea that Ming trying to abduct and forcibly marry Flash's girlfriend wasn't personal, but whatever's about to go down in Tropica *is*.

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John Ayliff (Space Goblin Games) @spacegoblingames.com · 12/09/2026

When these kids reach the age where they want to rebel against their parents' aesthetic, they're going to go *crazy rainbows*

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 09/09/2026

After years of company stalling, Blizzard workers win mega-contract that applies to all unionized teams aftermath.site/blizzard-union...

the famous orc statue outside blizzard's HQ in irvine, california

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John Ayliff (Space Goblin Games) @spacegoblingames.com · 09/09/2026

Which fictional characters would have given themselves AI psychosis? I'm imagining a modern Crime and Punishment that starts with Raskolnikov deep in unhinged conversations with a chatbot that's egging him on to do the murder.

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John Ayliff (Space Goblin Games) @spacegoblingames.com · 07/09/2026

It's the little ! above the guy's head that elevates this to genius

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John Ayliff (Space Goblin Games) @spacegoblingames.com · 07/09/2026

Name your favourite Shakespeare adaptation

Poster for Forbidden Planet (1956), with a sinister dome-headed robot carrying an unconscious blonde lady

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izzy kestrel @iznaut.com · 06/09/2026

fuck ai and fuck you if you use it

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John Ayliff (Space Goblin Games) @spacegoblingames.com · 04/09/2026

Every story about the UN is like "The UN has approved the 'Tiny Symbolic Step Towards A Better World' resolution. The only country to vote against it was the USA."

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

That's odd. I've been under the impression these are wholly unrelated systems. Wouldn't it be weird if we all just found out they were the same single thing just under different brand names at different storefronts. All 3 at once huh. Hmmm

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

CANADIANS: RUIN THE FUCK OUT OF THIS ANTI-AI PETITION. this is an OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT PETITION and it needs you to verify an email and that's it. do this right now please. thaaaaanks.

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

"Witness my Act and Deed", 1882 - Frank Paton, British (1855 - 1909)

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5uki5en5or @5uki5en5or.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

babylon 5 is incredible

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John Ayliff (Space Goblin Games) @spacegoblingames.com · 02/09/2026

Verdict on Battlestar Galactica (1978) after watching all of it: This is a great show overall despite a few truly terrible individual episodes. An uneven classic, definitely worth rewatching. There are also more elements of the remake already here than I remembered.

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Swedens Softest Kitty @chizita.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

You would repost a frog

a picture of a frog

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Please be vocal about not using AI. We have to normalize it. No "I'm not going to say that because it should be assumed. I'm not going to give them this". We don't have time for that shit ideological shit right now. NOW is the time to capitalize on waning favorability. Ppl want human made

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bgk @bgk.peartree.games · 01/09/2026

Any Canadian visual artists available to work on a Steam capsule set? Budget: $500, Genre: 2D Puzzle, Visuals: Abstract/Stained Glass. Send me an email with some of your work! bgk at peartree dot games

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John Ayliff (Space Goblin Games) @spacegoblingames.com · 01/09/2026

Grok, write a vulgar roast of the three spirits who visited me on Christmas Eve. No, Grok, wittier and more vulgar. Make them stop making me feel bad.

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Can’t think of a better example of late stage capitalism than turning the incredibly popular “Here Is Why Rich People Are Miserly Bastards Whose Only Road To Redemption Is Giving Away Their Wealth” story into “But What If The Rich People Are Just Misunderstood?” story

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izzy kestrel @iznaut.com · 30/08/2026

hey girl are u AI bc you’re drinking a lot of water and also no one likes you very much

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Dan Schkade @danschkade.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

This is more than ten years of weekly comic strip worldbuilding condensed into one page. I use this map all the time, but it's easy to forget what a feat of story management this one drawing is. Insane, nonsensical lore kneels before the power of cartooning.

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John Ayliff (Space Goblin Games) @spacegoblingames.com · 28/08/2026

Maybe if "proper" English had a distinct second person plural pronoun, regional dialects wouldn't have to come up with their own.

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