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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

THIS IS HUGE! Researchers have developed a nasal COVID-19 vaccine that BLOCKS transmission of the virus. This suggests vaccines delivered directly to the nose or mouth could play a CRITICAL role in containing the spread of respiratory infections. Phase I clinical trials HAVE BEEN APPROVED! 🧪🧵⬇️

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James Arthur @teamonkey.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

It may also make them liable for the ad content shown in various countries. Or - even more cynically - they’re working on an ad platform themselves.

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dillo saint dillo @dillo.media · 09/02/2025

oh u like warhammer? name all 40k of them

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Stand by for a DATABLAST! Peeps who remember watching Bad Influence back in the 90s may also recall the Datablast at the end of each episode. If you had a fancy frame advance VCR, you could record it and then page through frame-by-frame a bonus magazine! Or read very, very fast! 😅 #VideoBytes

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Gal Haimovich ☣ 🧪🔬🎗 @grnfluoresceblg.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

🧪 Check out this very interesting thread of @altmetric.com mentions of papers on twitter vs bluesky. Some outlier peaks of antivax on twitter. #פידמדע יכול לעניין גם אתכםן

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James Arthur @teamonkey.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

There is a set of detective side missions in AC Unity that were inspired by that game (though very watered down). We sort of snuck them in and managed to hide them until it was too late to take them out.

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James Arthur @teamonkey.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Similar to The Witness, Lorelai really answered the question of what if we did Resident Evil where all the zombies were MENSA puzzles

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Draculosity Jones: Ghost Skeleton @brainmage.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Just realised that "Gene Hackman" is the exact name that Hideo Kojima would give a biochemist

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Most of the world’s brightest minds are hard at work developing new ways for you to get depression from a computer

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James Arthur @teamonkey.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Yeah. I had an Atari ST but even that had a blitter and stuff. You hacked the shit out of everything you could to get every bit of performance you can. “ Now you get keyboards with a controller than can comfortably emulate an entire Atari.

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James Arthur @teamonkey.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

It’s kinda weird how there was so little processing capacity between the early CPUs and their auxiliary chips, like the keyboard controller and disk drive controller

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Retro Computers @retrocomps.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

The BBC Micro was a multi-core computer. They just didn't tell anyone! A test mode accidentally triggered in 2020 revealed the existance of this second core, with its own instruction set and ROM, the ability to bypass the firmware, and may have revealed some 50-year-old corporate espionage...

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Reverse engineering a forgotten 1970s Intel dual core beast: 8271, a new ISA

Scary Beast Security

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Happy "Microsoft trying to force CoPilot subs" day in the UK for all who celebrate. (They just pinged me my renewal notice with it carefully worded to sound like a compulsory general price increase). 1) Go to your account page 2) Hit cancel 3) Change sub back.

screenshot showing choice of plans between Microsoft 365 and "lower cost without AI" option.

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James Arthur @teamonkey.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

And the train there will be crap too ohhohoho

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James Arthur @teamonkey.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Late to the party but finally reading Matthew Ball’s state of the industry and man alive, there are some eye-opening slides in there. www.matthewball.co/all/stateofv...

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PRESENTATION: The State of Video Gaming in 2025 — MatthewBall.co

A 220-page presentation on the past, present and potential future of the video game industry.

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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 04/02/2025

Bullseye! Researchers using Hubble found a massive galaxy rippling with nine star-filled rings after an “arrow,” the blue dwarf galaxy to its center-left, plunged through its core 50 million years ago. A thin trail of gas still links the pair: bit.ly/4hcX52n 🔭 🧪

A large galaxy is at center, and a significantly smaller galaxy is to its left. The large galaxy, nicknamed the Bullseye, is mostly face-on, but the top appears slightly tilted away. It has several rings. Its circular core is bright white at the very center, but light yellow overall. Going outward, there are gaps between the rings. The core is surrounded by two slightly lighter yellow rings, which also appear to be overlapping. The next ring is slightly more transparent and yellow. The two or three rings that are farther out are bluer, sometimes with blue clumps. The widest ring is also blue, but also the most transparent. At 9 o’clock is a small dwarf galaxy. It is about the same size as the yellow core of the Bullseye. The dwarf galaxy is blue, with many dots. It looks like the edge of the Bullseye might touch the dwarf galaxy. Both galaxies are set on the black background of space, which is dotted with a range of galaxies in different shapes, colors, and sizes.

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James Arthur @teamonkey.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

I used to think this episode was a bit too weird but here we are in 2025

Chang from Community, dressed as Napoleon, leading a group of children equipped with tasers and wearing black shirts

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James Arthur @teamonkey.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Maybe this will be the year of Linux on the desktop?

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James Arthur @teamonkey.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

I saw one advertised on Reddit that stated “we spent all our budget on the game not marketing” and I’m pretty sure that’s the opposite of what happened

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James Arthur @teamonkey.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

It’s the same as it was with Brexit: people are poor and tired, underinvested in and lacking in representation, and then a bunch of people with vested interests come along and dump a vast about of propaganda blaming the EU. Then everyone scratches heads about why people voted Leave.

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James Arthur @teamonkey.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Ah, that sounds more of an effort

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James Arthur @teamonkey.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

If it’s the controllers then the sticks are pretty cheap and easy to diy replace

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James Arthur @teamonkey.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

The other day I saw someone arguing that the Left want to cling on to the old institutions and it was like having an out-of-body experience

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ClientEarth @clientearth.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

🧡A huge moment for human rights🧡 The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled for the first time that country's governments failng to properly address environmental pollution is a violation of the human right to life. www.clientearth.org/latest/press... (1/4)

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Zara 🏳️‍🌈 @zaravarin.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

FYI for everyone curious to know what sort of stuff has come of the group sessions with the Copyright Office folks have been doing for the last few years (me included!!): this 😌 Glad to see this step toward more good news!

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James Arthur @teamonkey.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Do you intend to publish that list as a FAQ?

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James Arthur @teamonkey.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Can you imagine how fast funding would be pulled if they achieve AGI and it starts taking about Georgism

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James Arthur @teamonkey.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

We are only days away from a Temu Grok

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James Arthur @teamonkey.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

I’m still online far too much but trying to replace online with playing games, plus having hobbies that aren’t online

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Dan Johnson, 💀Socialist💀 @coil.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Before playtesting: "level design should follow narrative" After playtesting:

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Brendan Ford @brendanford.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Horrendous day. I have no idea what's going to happen yet, but if any of my game-dev peers have open roles (listed or upcoming), please do share them. There's so much incredible talent across Leamington and Reflections #ubisoft

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Tara Haelle @tarahaelle.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Here’s the researcher who studied rats driving cars. Long after they were very familiar with the cars and how they worked, the rats would use the cars even when they’re weren’t necessary to get to a treat. theconversation.com/im-a-neurosc...

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I’m a neuroscientist who taught rats to drive − their joy suggests how anticipating fun can enrich human life

Equipped with a rodent version of a Cybertruck, these driving rats reveal that positive experiences may sculpt the brain just as powerfully as stressful ones

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

In 2014 Dutch scientists left a hamster wheel outside, to see if wild animals would use it like their domesticated counterparts. The answer: hell yes! 734 visits from wild mice - plus rats, shrews, slugs ("running" being subjective here) & even frogs and snails. The apparent reason: fun. Just fun.

Chart showing instances of wild animals using a hamster wheel left out in the wild, with visits dominated by wild mice, followed by slugs, rats, shrews and a few frogs and snails.

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Chris Groves @chrisgrovese18.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

'Critter Café X Lofi Girl - 'Chill Beats for Serving Treats' 🍰 Here it is! Our official collaboration with the wonderful Lofi Girl. The perfect chill vibes partnership. Been a total delight bringing this to life. Full vid below ☕ www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGlW... #crittercafe #gamedev #cozygames

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James Arthur @teamonkey.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

With Blyton it was perhaps more about looking down on the poors. The main characters were all loaded or, if embarrassingly impoverished, fortunately rescued by a benevolent tycoon. Unless they were a bad sort, of course.

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James Arthur @teamonkey.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Also not fiction, but I’m in the process of renewing a passport and *that fucking list* of people who are allowed vouch for your identity…

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James Arthur @teamonkey.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Kingsman? Lots of stuff from early-mid-1900s in popular culture, of course. Lord Peter Wimsey, the BFG, anything from Enid Blyton.

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Share if you’re Gen X and you grew up: - Licking lead paint off the walls - Drinking leaded gasoline straight from the pump - Chewing on a big bar of lead whenever you were bored And you turned out fine!!!!

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James Arthur @teamonkey.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Making the end of the campaign easier also makes it flow better, as players aren’t dying and restarting as often. It gives it a more energetic pacing and helps the main story end with a bang. Again, you don’t want the last moments to drag as that’s what people will remember.

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James Arthur @teamonkey.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

A couple of reasons why I think this worked. After a long campaign players kind of get fatigued, they’ve started to see all there is to see and on some level they just want to get it over with and finish the story. You don’t want to make the end feel cheap but outstaying your welcome is also bad.

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James Arthur @teamonkey.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

A game I once worked on was getting poor test scores towards the end of the main campaign. The wisdom from above was that the game should be progressively harder so the last few levels were the toughest. I made the last 90 minutes easier and the test scores shot up 🤷

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