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Ste Pickford @stepickford.bsky.social · 10m

Incredibly weathered takeaway sign on Dale Road, Buxton. One for @deswalsh.bsky.social ‘s environment art reference.

A sign saying ‘Lucky Takaway Parking for staff and customers only’, where the vinyl or whatever substance makes up the lettering has curled and raised due to rain and frost damage so much that it has almost created a new font.

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Carleton Handley @carletonhandley.bsky.social · 8h

In 2002/3, while at Zed Two, I coded two complete Pocket PC games that were never released. One of these was and official conversion of Tetris. Here's @stepickford.bsky.social's hand-drawn design for the layout and how it looked in the game.

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Ste Pickford @stepickford.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

These are clearly neutralising boluses and preserving boluses from Elden Ring.

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Ste Pickford @stepickford.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Not drawn anything (outside of work) for ages. Especially not something on actual paper with an actual physical pen! Feels good to get something finished.

A pen and ink drawing of me and my youngest sat on a stone at Castlerigg Stone Circle, with a dramatic Cumbrian background and sky.

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Andrii Frolov @artandriifrolov.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"Unsteady Evening" - my oil painting

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Ste Pickford @stepickford.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Not drawn anything (outside of work) for ages. Especially not something on actual paper with an actual physical pen! Feels good to get something finished.

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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Did a Triffid write this?

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Ste Pickford @stepickford.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Anything above Twin Peaks The Return? Madness.

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Ste Pickford @stepickford.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Anything above Twin Peaks The Return? Madness.

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Ste Pickford @stepickford.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I totally thought this post was about Electronic Arts, the unpleasant corporate video game publisher that started life with a focus on creative game developers.

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Gosunkugi @gosunkugi.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

> You find yourself in a hexagonal shaped room, standing in a puddle of piss. The wooden walls are stained with piss. Everything smells of piss. A disgruntled German waits impatiently. > What now?

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Ste Pickford @stepickford.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The men’s toilets in this Munich beer garden look like a lift to a boss in Dark Souls. I walk through this door and I’m not coming back.

An octagon of copper urinals with the sort of stains that a video game environment artist would expect a BAFTA for.

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Thalamus Physical @thalamusdigital.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

We've just dropped four banging albums on our brand-new bandcamp page. Go get 'em! thalamus.link/bandcamp #cecconoid #sidlifecrisis #deathraymanta #retrurntoblacktooth #h0ffman #virgill #weebl #ohstevie

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Craig Grannell @craiggrannell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Issue *2500* of @2000ad.bsky.social just arrived. That’s a good innings in anyone’s book. Can’t be too many comics that have made it to such a number. (I recall in the UK, only half a dozen or so managed this and only two of those are still going: The Beano and Commando.)

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Katie 🍤✨️ @ktcreating.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Do I know anyone in my network who specialises in Zbrush/3D sculpting (UK based)? Requesting for a one off workshop teaching students 3D sculpting tools and techniques in London (paid). Please DM me if you're interested!

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Ste Pickford @stepickford.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Great thread. My only slight disagreement is that personally I think Chronocops is the best 5 page comic ever created.

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Warren Pilkington @zawtowers.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Manchester is BLUE. That is all. To Blue Moon: "Ten men You couldn't beat ten men You couldn't beat ten men You couldn't beat ten men.'

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Chloe Cumming @chloecumming.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Colourful Test Card Party

The girl and the clown from Test Card F from the bbc. With bright colours, squiggles, loops, yellow, patterns

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Ste Pickford @stepickford.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

As someone who worked at a British dev studio in the north of England who made superhero games for Acclaim, this post is spot on.

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inkle @inkle.co · 11/09/2026

🎙️ Call for voice actors! 🎭 We're looking for two lead voices for our next game. - One male and one female, vocal age 40 to 60 - Cornish / Welsh / South-West England accent If that's you, please send an acting sample to info@inklestudios.com, marked “casting call”. (Paid, ofc) <3 RTs!

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Patrick Stewart's Witty 'Acting' Moment

ALT: Patrick Stewart's Witty 'Acting' Moment

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Ste Pickford @stepickford.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

As someone who worked at a British dev studio in the north of England who made superhero games for Acclaim, this post is spot on.

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Keith Stuart @keefstuart.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

If you enjoyed the brilliant folk horror game The Excavation of Hob's Barrow, I’m *begging* you to watch Penda’s Fen, a fascinating and disorientating TV play from the 70s - and this is the perfect way to discover it!

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Sarah Dempster @dempster2000.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The first rule of Norman Collier club is ou alk ut orm er club.

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Ty Dunitz @glitchritual.com · 02/09/2026

This is it, I can't put it off any more. Commissions are 🔥OPEN.🔥 Read the fine print, and let's make some art. Shares appreciated.🍻

The fine print for my commissions. I will not be retyping it here, sorry.

Kaalia of the Vast— a previous commission.

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I Have No Expertise, and I Must Weigh In

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Ste Pickford @stepickford.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

“Wrapped in plastic.”

Screenshot of Elden Ring, when you find Irina’s corpse, with the caption “She’s dead”.

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George Outhwaite @georgeouthwaite.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

edge of a cornfield digital painting

of poppies and other plants infront of rugeley power station

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Alisdair Wood @alisdairwood.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

With the new release of Hammer’s classic Dracula this week, what better time to pick up issue 1 of @claretzine.bsky.social. With features on all of the Hammer Dracula films. claretzine.com/shop

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Ste Pickford @stepickford.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Playing Elden Ring on the sofa while watching Man United losing on the telly. Very occasionally the future isn’t too bad.

Elden Ring Tarnished Edition playing on my Switch 2 in the foreground, with a blurry vision of Ipswich going 0-1 up against Man U on the telly in the background.

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Francesco Francavilla @ffrancavilla.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Thinking of that cosmic force that was Maestro JACK KIRBY on what would’ve been his 109th birthday. Thank you for showing us the way, King! @jackkirbymuseum.bsky.social

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

It's only possible to start worrying about continuity once you have writing so that you can compare multiple versions. Legends of gods and monsters date from well, well before writing. Gods and monsters come from the subconscious of the human race. Writing was invented to manage bureaucracies.

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Ste Pickford @stepickford.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Watching the GTA thing and the guy is getting non stop head shots on all the enemies. It looks so smooth and slick. It will be a very different story when I’m flailing about, missing every shot and failing every mission while crying, and having to listen to the interminable driving dialogue again.

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Alan Henderson (Penned Guin) @pennedguin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

S1174 - Three Panels

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Ste Pickford @stepickford.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

One for the Twin Peaks The Return fans.

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EGVroom @egvroom.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

ICYMI I just released WOLF last week. A 3D First Person Shooter for the Game Boy Color! RT to spread the word please. @itch.io -> thalamusdigital.itch.io/wolf-game-bo... #gameBoy #indieDev #retroGaming

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Jack Feerick @jackfeerick.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

What Dolly taught us is that it is in fact possible to be wealthy beyond your wildest dreams of avarice but still be a fundamentally good person with a strong moral compass, and the only reason more rich people aren't like that is because they don't want to be.

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Ste Pickford @stepickford.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I saw some amazing 4 colour NES pixel art at the Ai Weiwei exhibition in Manchester yesterday. They didn’t say what game it was from though. I’m guessing something by Konami.

A massive wall of bombs, bombs, bombs, in black, white and two shades of grey. All made of little LEGO pieces.

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Ste Pickford @stepickford.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I saw some amazing 4 colour NES pixel art at the Ai Weiwei exhibition in Manchester yesterday. They didn’t say what game it was from though. I’m guessing something by Konami.

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Ste Pickford @stepickford.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

So riding a bike adds extra time to my life, but I have to spend all that extra time riding a bike?

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Ste Pickford @stepickford.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

There are so many qualifications on this plaque marking Little John’s Grave, I’m starting to doubt whether Robin Hood even existed.

An information plaque marking ‘the grave of Little John’ in a churchyard in Hathersage, with text filled with qualifications like ‘it is said’ and ‘legend has it’ and ‘reputed to’ etc.

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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

No rich guys have got in touch yet, fyi. If you're a rich guy, you can be first in the list if you're quick 👍

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Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

We *can* all do something (not spark wildfires, for example). But asking individual citizens to solve systemic problems is peak neo-liberalism. Not watering our gardens isn’t going to fix pipes or build reservoirs. Government needs to do more than ban barbecues and send scary alerts. NOW.

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Pete Marshall @paint-pot-pete.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The UK Government will keep granting new oil & gas licenses and won't legislate to restrict the bad practices of utility companies (including water waste). But no sure; it's a family having a BBQ that are the real monsters here 🙄

Today's "severe alert" from the UK government putting the blame for the wildfires on people having BBQs rather than successive government's supporting fossil fuel interests

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