space tiles @tiledsink.bsky.social · 04/10/2026There's a Sparks album called "Gratuitous Sax and Senseless Violins". (Good title but not one of their best albums. But the PSB-esque single "When Do I Get to Sing 'My Way'" has its moments.) 140
Reposted by space tilesAGF 🎧 poemproducer @poemproducer.bsky.social · 09/05/2025editorial 2021 @bandcamp.com daily.bandcamp.com/lists/agf-po...daily.bandcamp.comAGF/poemproducer’s Electronic Feminist HistoriesWith her “poetry editions,” Antye Greie-Ripatti builds connections between women's words across time and space. 094
Reposted by space tilesIan Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome 14780791990
space tiles @tiledsink.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Baby, I can't breathe, can't c-can't calm my shivering arms I haven't had a pee since yeshterday Could it be sepsis now I feel like I might die my skin has gone all mottled and kinda grey 010
Reposted by space tilesErlend Grefsrud @erlendgrefsrud.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Something I think a lot about is how Aaron Swartz ended up dead after downloading some PDFs from JSTOR while his YC stablemate Sam Altman (who Swartz described as "a sociopath" who "could do anything") downloaded the entire fucking internet and is celebrated as a captain of industry 064
Reposted by space tilesDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 11/09/2026"When a bridge collapses, you don’t analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who built this bridge to be so flimsy? There are permits you have to acquire [& supposed] tests. When you ask about the bridge collapsing itself, you’ve lost the thread" 6758328
space tiles @tiledsink.bsky.social · 15/09/2026brb, adding this to my Losing My Edge "i was therrrre" list 010
Reposted by space tilesJess Morrissette @decafjedi.com · 15/09/2026Simulator Week continues at the Video Game Soda machine project with Pigeon Simulator! How could you accurately simulate the lived experience of a pigeon secretly battling paranormal threats without snack and soda machines?!vgsmproject.comPigeon SimulatorPigeon Simulator lets you live out the fantasy of being a pigeon who's also a secret agent battling paranormal threats. I don't think this vending machine is haunted or anything, but I do wonder why you'd call it a Foodie machine when there are clearly two rows of canned drinks! Simulator 1105
Reposted by space tilesRobert Dallas Gray @robertdallasgray.com · 08/09/2026I think this has probably moved beyond marketing fluff at this point into a deliberate preparation of the ground for committing more crimes 1156
space tiles @tiledsink.bsky.social · 01/09/2026tonight! soon! excited! www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-3R...youtube.comMajor TomYouTube video by The Space Lady - Topic 010
space tiles @tiledsink.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Draft chaos breaking stuff soundtrack: Melt Banana - Free The Bee Cardiacs - To Go Off And Things Stereolab - Heavy Denim Yona-Kit - Skeleton King Lightning Bolt - Dracula Mountain ...man these are all at least 23 years old. What happened? Guess I got old. Oh well, I hear it beats the alternative 000
space tiles @tiledsink.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Flo's "Ultimate DJ" theme on NTS today is "what would your soundtrack be if you were a video game character whose job is to break stuff and cause chaos". Not going to phone in, but it would be nice to hear Melt Banana - "Free The Bee" on breakfast-time radio, right? www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_Z1...youtube.comMELT-BANANA - Free the Bee - Official Music Video (2001)YouTube video by MELT-BANANA CHANNEL 100
Reposted by space tilesambershee @ambershee.bsky.social · 29/08/2026This is where we left off - we're on our way to the beach! (apparently)... we're playing Duskfade! Grab a cuppa, get cosy, and let's go adventuring? www.twitch.tv/ambershee 012
space tiles @tiledsink.bsky.social · 29/08/2026thank you Twitch for front-paging the stream I did not know I needed, a Ukrainian in a spacesuit wordlessly tapping the jack of a guitar lead through a billion FX pedals to create one glorious noisy groove 000
Reposted by space tiles_lemon @andylemon.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Some more nice news for a change, here's Cliff Stoll talking @ Defcon - Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 years later! www.youtube.com/watch?v=6560... #hacking #defcon #historyyoutube.comDefCon 34 - Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 years later - Cliff StollYouTube video by DEFCONConference 031
Reposted by space tiles🤡 houseof1000cowsarejustfoods 🤡 @cowsarejustfood.bsky.social · 22/08/2026good evening from '91 dunedin youtu.be/U9NdaIzvZvQ?...youtu.beX Way Vision (Drag City, 1992)YouTube video by David Larsen 2114
Reposted by space tilesambershee @ambershee.bsky.social · 22/08/2026We've made our way through the mountain to the inside of this giant geode... where almost certainly nothing untoward is about to happen. Have you been sleeping on this game? It's Duskfade! Grab a cuppa, get cosy, and come hang out? www.twitch.tv/ambershee 021
Reposted by space tilesAlice Lilly @aliceolilly.bsky.social · 12/08/2026‘Gather as many colanders as possible and observe an incredibly rare natural phenomenon’ sounds like a Taskmaster task 26011
Reposted by space tilesSchrodinger's Cat Burglar 😺 OUT NOW @abandonedsheep.com · 02/08/2026Very happy to be able to share with you all that Schrodinger's Cat Burglar is in the Cat Awareness Feline Sale in a little under a week! Thanks to the @devcatsgames.bsky.social for organizing the sale :) #indiegames #catsofbluesky 0269
Reposted by space tilesambershee @ambershee.bsky.social · 02/08/2026What's that? THREE new indie games to check out? Lego to build? What a Sunday morning! Grab a cuppa, get cosy, and let's try and wake up a bit? www.twitch.tv/ambershee 042
Reposted by space tilesd1omedes.bsky.social @d1omedes.bsky.social · 20/07/2026I wonder if they realised that was already her job 0171
space tiles @tiledsink.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Demos! Graphics! Music! Livecoding! A tutorial session and a glitched-out movie night! If you're onsite at #emfcamp (I am not, alas) go and look as these people have a gosh-darned demoscene planetarium dome. How cool is that? 021
Reposted by space tilesPlashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Congratulations to the government on saving 2700 jobs by nationalising British Steel. Now, about the 18,000 university jobs lost in the last 18 months, with more coming… 15996386
Reposted by space tilesfield-fx.party @field-fx.party · 14/07/2026If you're joining us IRL at #emfcamp then know we have a village next to Workshop 2 that you are very welcome at! www.emfcamp.org/villages/202...emfcamp.orgVillage: Field-FX 021
Reposted by space tilesTime Extension @timeextension.com · 07/07/2026Germany's Largest Video Game Preservation Effort To Close, Leaving Its Digital Archive In Peril. timeextension.comGermany's Largest Video Game Preservation Effort To Close, Leaving Its Digital Archive In PerilThe decision to close came due to a "lack of necessary public support" 14624
Reposted by space tilesRichard 塚正ー緑 @rhtebooks.bsky.social · 18/11/202580s: Japan is the future 90s, 00s: Japan in dying country typified by stagnant incomes, xenophobia and toxic, sexless nerd culture Now: oh, that WAS the future 3398123
Reposted by space tilesNessa ✨ @nessathewriter.bsky.social · 07/07/2026does anyone wanna fund my indie game? it’s called Keep All Of My Colleagues Gainfully Employed. it’s an ARG where you keep all of my colleagues gainfully employed. we’re workshopping the name 191339270
Reposted by space tilesDonald Campbell @dncampbell.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Really important investigation showing that the Govt's and Palantir's claims fall apart when they're subjected to scrutiny. And NHSE knows the numbers don't add up: "Over the course of four days of calls and emails, NHS England did not respond to any of the questions we sent them about the data". 058
space tiles @tiledsink.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Something something Raging Meade Horn (go on, give it a go, it's fun) 000
Reposted by space tilesRobert Dallas Gray @robertdallasgray.com · 24/06/2026the fact of our mainstream politicians and media simply allowing this stuff, sometimes even defending, even valorising it, makes me feel we are all living in hell 172
space tiles @tiledsink.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Hope Common Ground (including the good folks at Curio and Flow Records) can be back with us soon but drinks and books sounds like an excellent combo (err, as long as one is not applied directly to the other. That's a less good combo in my experience) 010
Reposted by space tilesKevin Smith @kevinjgsmith.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Climate emergency cancels Reform's "cancel the climate emergency" meeting - council members were due to vote on Thurs on a Reform motion to rescind the climate emergency. 10349183
space tiles @tiledsink.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Was just thinking how there are grants to move to heat pumps but the grants dry up if you start looking at heat pumps which also do cooling, even though the pumps could transfer heat in either direction, and meanwhile more and more people are buying portable AC faced with rising temperatures 020
space tiles @tiledsink.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Still seeing people heading to exams as I head to work every morning and feeling very sorry for them (I thought it was bad enough exam season being hayfever season and sitting under the sports hall roof clattering in the wind, but 3 hours stressing & dehydrating in an AC-less 40°C hall? Oof) 020
space tiles @tiledsink.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Petition to rename the area something feline & cosmic in honour of the space cat mural on the corner of Catherine St and Percy St imo 120
space tiles @tiledsink.bsky.social · 21/06/2026Charity stream! Join amber and help the kitties! Playing the awesome-looking Schrodinger's Cat Burglar @abandonedsheep.com which I really must play for myself sometime soon...abandonedsheep.comAbandoned Sheep 051
Reposted by space tilesRobert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 12/06/2026The Oxford Union offers a horrible illustration of what happens to political institutions when the only currency they recognise is attention and outrage. 4494
space tiles @tiledsink.bsky.social · 01/06/2026What an end of an era for the Oxford music scene. Thanks for everything over the decades, Ronan and all at Nightshift mag. 010
space tiles @tiledsink.bsky.social · 01/06/2026(Much love from tilebreaker/platesmasher/lazyserf/ls/#|/exploding_head_movie and Christ knows what other stupid names I've used on local music messageboards over the years. Never a real scener, just terminally online. Guess it's too late to record a demo for the Tracks page, eh...) 110
space tiles @tiledsink.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Oxford's had some pretty great bands (and successful bands) and been on the touring map for out-of-town bands way out of proportion for its size, thanks in large part to the scene that Nightshift did so much to foster. (Oh, but thanks for the demo dumper laughs too. Have a good retirement, Ronan.) 100
space tiles @tiledsink.bsky.social · 01/06/2026What an end of an era. I feel bereft already. Haven't been to many gigs lately & somehow felt that whenever I had the energy to get back into it Nightshift would always be there to guide me. RIP. So many great bands (local and otherwise) discovered through those inky pages. Thank you for all that. 100
space tiles @tiledsink.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Sorry to hear! Hope you get a decent payout and find something good soon. 010
Reposted by space tilesRob Cruickshank @robcruickshank.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Good news! Some recent research shows that we are good to go, kitten-sized-ants-wise www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comOxygen supply through the tracheolar–muscle system does not constrain insect gigantism - NatureNew evidence suggests that diffusive oxygen transport through the tracheolar–muscle system is not the limiting factor on insect body size. 171
Reposted by space tilesSchrodinger's Cat Burglar 😺 OUT NOW @abandonedsheep.com · 15/05/2026Give 👏 the 👏 people 👏 what 👏 they 👏 want 611524
Reposted by space tilesCraig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 14/05/2026I am so goddamn tired of living in a world is run by crass assholes who don't appreciate anything that doesn't directly give them money or power. bsky.app/profile/robe... 412425
space tiles @tiledsink.bsky.social · 15/05/2026I love rheumatology's online surveys asking me to rate types of pain I don't have in some joint someone said looked a bit puffy 10 years ago, with nowhere to list the pain I have every day except maybe have a little rant in a free text notes box which will never be read. A miracle cure, apparently! 111
Reposted by space tilesVincent O'Connell @vincentoconnell.co.uk · 13/05/2026The last time I was turned down for Arts Council funding, they sent me a model application for a project to demonstrate what they were ideally looking for. The model application was by me a year earlier. And was also turned down. 1026176