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Sy Brand @tartanllama.xyz · 22/09/2026

On my way to NDC Techtown ✈️

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Sarah Cole @irny.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Hi folks! Three quick things about Trick or Retreat: 1) I've just released a very small number of 'Residential Weekend' tickets, for ppl who can only make it Fri–Sun. 2) I've just set up a newsletter for ppl who want to hear about tickets for next time. 3) We're still looking for sponsors! ...

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Sarah Cole @irny.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Would YOU like to support a friendly, not-for-profit tabletop gaming event? Now in its 5th year, Trick or Retreat is open to sponsorship! ToR is a relaxed residential retreat for making friends, crafting, and a whole lot of tabletop gaming. Find out more at support.trickorretreat.uk

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Sponsorship - Trick or Retreat

Hello, friend! Would you like to sponsor Trick or Retreat 2026? Now in its fifth year, Trick or Retreat is a relaxed event where folks enjoy crafts, go for little walks, and play tabletop games. A lot...

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Sy Brand @tartanllama.xyz · 29/08/2026

New way to tell someone they used your deadname just dropped

This name isn't mine. It's the one I give to death - to fool it.

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Sy Brand @tartanllama.xyz · 12/07/2026

Carving a tanuki statue, turning a big dial taht says "balls" on it and constantly looking back at the audience for approval like a contestant on the price is right

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Sy Brand @tartanllama.xyz · 08/07/2026

TeamLabs in Kyoto is very cool

Abstract black and orange projections on a wall

Huge cyan blocks floating against blackness

Me holding a camera, reflected in a mirror

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Sy Brand @tartanllama.xyz · 25/06/2026

This is now a Chantal Akerman memes account

Hackerman from Kung Fury, but letters have been taken out to make it say "Akerman" and a picture of Chantal Akerman has been poorly photoshopped on top

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Sy Brand @tartanllama.xyz · 22/06/2026

Starmer get fucked lmaoooo

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Sy Brand @tartanllama.xyz · 19/06/2026

Pretty impressed with this level of weaponised neurodivergence

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Sy Brand @tartanllama.xyz · 19/06/2026

Apparently kiddo's school group chat is mostly discussing who has a crush on whom, but he just keeps posting historical figure lineages Whenever anyone tells him to stop, he says "I will never stop" and then details how he thinks he is related to various European royal lines

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Sy Brand @tartanllama.xyz · 14/06/2026

This came to me in a vision

Off work late? hungry for artistic stimulation? try 30 to 40 Chantal Akerman films. You will certainly not regret watching 30 to 40 Chantal Akerman films

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Sy Brand @tartanllama.xyz · 22/05/2026

Yes! I have a couple now, they're so cool

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A.L. Goldfuss @ghoulpus.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Oh hey, I'm Certified Weird 😎 Big thanks to @tenebrouspress.bsky.social for the lovely award certificate. Pre-orders for BRAVE NEW WEIRD vol 4 are open now!! store.tenebrouspress.com/products/bra...

My contributor copy of BRAVE NEW WEIRD volume 4 and my Brave New Weird Award certificate for "Drosera regina."

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Sy Brand @tartanllama.xyz · 11/05/2026

I wrote an article on the antifascist neo-documentaries of Toshio Matsumoto I'll be introducing a screening of Funeral Parade of Roses tomorrow night at the Filmhouse in Edinburgh! letterboxd.com/filmhouseedi...

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Lavender Lens - Toshio Matsumoto and the Politics of Seeing 🌹💜

A story on Letterboxd.

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Sy Brand @tartanllama.xyz · 11/05/2026

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Lavender Lens - Toshio Matsumoto and the Politics of Seeing 🌹💜

A story on Letterboxd.

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Sy Brand @tartanllama.xyz · 27/04/2026

Might start matching my earrings to my shirts

Slim white person with glasses, an iridescent insect wing earring, and a butterfly shirt

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Sy Brand @tartanllama.xyz · 26/04/2026

Would highly recommend this book to anyone interested in the interaction between leftism and avant-garde filmmaking It dives really deep into the films of Toshio Matsumoto in particular. He had a really fascinating idea of how documentary can and should function as an antifascist political tool

The book Antifascism and the avant-garde: radical documentary in the 1960s, by Julia Alekseyeva

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Ky @ky.fyi · 24/04/2026

I wrote about why I quit my job, and how weird and tiring tech feels these days.

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Do I belong in tech anymore?

On quitting, the spread of AI, and the loss of an ideal.

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Sy Brand @tartanllama.xyz · 24/04/2026

First ascension 10 win on Slay the Spire 2!

Ascension 10 win summary for Ironclad in 34:21 with a pretty disgusting vulnerable deck and 28 relics

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Sy Brand @tartanllama.xyz · 23/04/2026

I'm generally distrustful when I hear some technology is "disrupting power structures", because it's often just disrupting the apparatus of power rather than the power itself, giving it a sharper, more dangerous apparatus.

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Izzy Muerte @izzys.casa · 22/04/2026

@tartanllama.xyz Unsure if you're aware that you've been granted a new name by No Starch, Crafian Stoica.

Screenshot of a listing for Sy's book "Building a Debugger". It gives a brief synopsis of "Most developers use debuggers. Crafian Stoica shows you how to build one from scratch"

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Sy Brand @tartanllama.xyz · 22/04/2026

😂 that is bizarre, I kinda love it

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Sy Brand @tartanllama.xyz · 15/04/2026

This was my first time watching Fallen Angels and it has immediately become my favourite Wong Kar Wai film

Black and white shot of two people sitting together, looking lonely. There's some kind of strong diffusion filter over it, making the light soft and glowy

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Sy Brand @tartanllama.xyz · 15/04/2026

“You rub elbows with a lot of people every day. Some strangers might become your friends or even confidants. So I never turn my back on a chance to rub elbows. Sometimes I rub till I bleed.“ As someone who often comes across too intense in new relationships, this hit me like a Swiss Alp to the face

Shot from Fallen Angels. Very wide angle close up shot of a woman sitting in a cafe, smoking a cigarette, looking off into the distance

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Euan @euan.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Scottish Labour manifesto is out, don’t vote for them

• Delivering single-sex spaces on the basis of biological sex, in NHS wards, schools, sport and everyday life by upholding the Equality Act and delivering clear instructions to public services on how to comply with their legal obligations to women and to trans people.
• Keeping women's prisons for women, instructing the Scottish Prison Service to remove all biologically male prisoners from women's prisons within days of the election.
• Recommit the NHS to delivering single sex wards on the basis of biological sex, and ensuring patients can request same sex provision wherever possible.

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Sy Brand @tartanllama.xyz · 07/04/2026

Best death scene I've seen in a minute From Long Arm of the Law

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Sy Brand @tartanllama.xyz · 06/04/2026

11yo: I found this old song you might like Me: okay 11yo: *plays Linkin Park* Me: *shrivels to a husk, my body returning to dust*

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Sy Brand @tartanllama.xyz · 23/03/2026

Blood Beat is so bizarre. A Christmas slasher where the killer is an orgasm-induced Samurai killer (or is it orgasm-inducing? I can't quite tell)

A dark red abstract painting behind a christmas tree

A samurai ready to strike with a blue aura

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Sy Brand @tartanllama.xyz · 23/03/2026

This was an insta-back for me: it looks vibrant, vital, with a team that will do justice to the content. If "anti-capitalist-colonialist deckbuilder with gorgeous art" appeals to you as much as it does me, there's still half a day left to back

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Jayce @jayceb.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Shunji Iwai’s A Bride for Rip Van Winkle (2016) is all cruelties carved from Chopin’s sunlit air, sociopathic manipulations and a freelancer’s scheming in Chigi Kanbe’s rose water twilight. Dusk cast in blueberry glass. A beautiful piano concert somehow both jet-fucking-black and life-affirming.

Two beta fish, one blue and one red, in two different wine glasses

A panicking young woman on the phone in the early morning

Two women in wedding dresses snuggled together in early morning

A woman putting her hand in a poisonous shellfish tank

A Bride for Rip Van Winkle (2016), Shunji Iwai

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GOTO Conferences @gotocon.com · 18/03/2026

Ever set a breakpoint and wondered how it actually works? 🔍 In “How Debuggers Work,” @tartanllama.xyz explains how debuggers step through code, inspect memory, and interact with running programs. Watch the talk on GOTO's YouTube Channel or click below: youtu.be/-czq9nJQops?...

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How Debuggers Work • Sy Brand • GOTO 2025

YouTube video by GOTO Conferences

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Sy Brand @tartanllama.xyz · 05/03/2026

Won my second run with a a Perfected Strike + exhaust-driven deck, killing the act 3 boss in two turns. The combos are so satisfying

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Sy Brand @tartanllama.xyz · 05/03/2026

Slay the Spire 2 is so good AHHHHHHH

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Sy Brand @tartanllama.xyz · 23/02/2026

Correct amount of paneer

Everest Paneer 450KG for only 3.80GBP (they clearly got the units wrong)

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Sy Brand @tartanllama.xyz · 18/02/2026

Hundreds of Beavers is just so good

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