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Daniel Rourke @therourke.net · 23/09/2026

The 9 videogames that made me... #My9Games my9games.net/en/share/5b5...

Daniel Rourke @therourke.net · 20/09/2026

Choosing a single 'origin' videogame is crazy hard. But my heart leans to Lemmings (1991). Still endlessly playable. Super Mario World and The Secret of Monkey Island also have to get a special mention...

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Daniel Rourke @therourke.net · 19/09/2026

Big Walk is peak gaming joy

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Daniel Rourke @therourke.net · 13/06/2026

I refuse to take part in "Western Civilisation" anymore

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Daniel Rourke @therourke.net · 07/05/2026

#Apocalypse Early Warning System, by @kcimc.bsky.social : "In the event of an imminent nuclear apocalypse, we suspect that many people who have access to private jets will immediately take to the skies and escape city centers. This site tracks this indicator in real-time." ews.kylemcdonald.net

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Daniel Rourke @therourke.net · 29/03/2026

The article makes the claim, taken from London police numbers

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Daniel Rourke @therourke.net · 05/03/2026

Happy Threads day, to all who celebrate it 😭

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Daniel Rourke @therourke.net · 24/02/2026

The reason iMAX was invented? My body is ready… #Akira blog.alltheanime.com/akira-theatr...

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Daniel Rourke @therourke.net · 16/02/2026

This is it. I finally found it. The article I am the least likely to ever read. Thanks Guardian

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Daniel Rourke @therourke.net · 26/01/2026

My google feed algorithm is cursed/haunted

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Daniel Rourke @therourke.net · 03/01/2026

My 2026 Bluesky feed is starting to get spicy

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Daniel Rourke @therourke.net · 16/12/2025

This DVD box set just gave me a heart palpatation Mandela Effect moment

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Daniel Rourke @therourke.net · 10/12/2025

This bot is having a totally normal one in my DMS

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Daniel Rourke @therourke.net · 09/12/2025

You will be visited by three spirits

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Daniel Rourke @therourke.net · 03/12/2025

My 12 months (2025+) of music #Wrapped! (no Sp0tify in my life) This is how last.fm tracked my plays through #Roon > #Tidal. What have you been listening to?

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Daniel Rourke @therourke.net · 10/11/2025

My earworm riddled brain kept mixing up #Bjork's refrain from her collaboration with #Rosalia - #Berghain - with the theme from British TV show #Casualty. So I used an Al to make this. I am so so sorry.

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Daniel Rourke @therourke.net · 17/10/2025

I’m 43, but otherwise this entirely checks out

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Daniel Rourke @therourke.net · 09/10/2025

Peg sends her hairiest love

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Daniel Rourke @therourke.net · 09/10/2025

Anything Luddites related

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Daniel Rourke @therourke.net · 25/09/2025

One of my long-standing hot takes is that David Miliband's eventual decision to NOT challenge the leadership of Gordon Brown in 2008 was one of the biggest, least talked about, UK political mistakes this century. It's time for something bold archive.ph/9ylaW

Andy Burnham: MPs want me to challenge Starmer

David Miliband refuses to rule out leadership challenge to Gordon Brown

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Daniel Rourke @therourke.net · 24/09/2025

Share your favourite black and white movie

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Daniel Rourke @therourke.net · 14/09/2025

So, ‘Weapons’ is superb. I didn’t expect to love it as much as I did. Can we please try and explain where Amy Madigan has been since Uncle Buck!!? Amazing performance.

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Daniel Rourke @therourke.net · 20/08/2025

Came here to say that too :)

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Daniel Rourke @therourke.net · 13/08/2025

We at Goldsmiths, in the @mediacomgold.bsky.social department, are looking for a talented Technical Tutor for Digital Media and Animation - please share or apply here! Come and work with us and our amazing students jobs.gold.ac.uk/vacancy/tech...

Technical Tutor job application at Goldsmiths Uni

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Daniel Rourke @therourke.net · 05/08/2025

It's almost like her style rubs against me. I can't fall into her rhythm or something. Like this section feels stultifying, to me. The sentences make me stumble. There is supposed to be dread evoked here, but I feel a million miles distant from the events unfolding, at a cold, unfeeling distance.

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Daniel Rourke @therourke.net · 29/05/2025

I've recently started adding to my vintage sci-fi paperbacks, again. New middle-aged hoarding pastime unlocked.

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Daniel Rourke @therourke.net · 12/05/2025

I am so ready for LegoGPT www.theregister.com/2025/05/12/l...

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Daniel Rourke @therourke.net · 10/05/2025

I have been reading/listening to a lot of sci-fi and spec-fi recently. Latest additions are sending me 🍌

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Daniel Rourke @therourke.net · 07/03/2025

I wrote this at a very different time in the Elon Musk, attention\edgelord storyarc; when Gen AI's ascension was not yet certain. & yet I think it still points to the chaos of our moment, marked by these two phenomena aksioma.org/daniel-rourk... hattip @aksiomaorg.bsky.social & @iocose.bsky.social

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Daniel Rourke @therourke.net · 06/03/2025

What are some good UK/Europe based podcasts I should be listening to? I'm interested in tech stuff, the media, politics... anything that focuses cultural discourse through a contemporary lens. I tend to find myself listening to US centric podcasts (see pic), & think it's time to get more local.

Copy of my recent podcast listening history

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Daniel Rourke @therourke.net · 23/02/2025

Let's just say my Amazon search history reflects my current interests of critical concern

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Daniel Rourke @therourke.net · 29/01/2025

This is the headline I've been waiting for

David Lynch and the theatre of the absurd

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Daniel Rourke @therourke.net · 28/01/2025

Was this meant to make me cry? Because this has made me cry.

A notifications from Threads, telling me that I am now following Prince

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Daniel Rourke @therourke.net · 22/01/2025

This oligarchy (Sam Altman not pictured) fully understand and appreciate the value of attention. We have become enslaved by it. The means of communication, who controls it, and what uses it (and our attention) is put to, should be central to how we respond to this oligarchic, fascist takeover.