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tykonaut.bsky.social @tykonaut.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Fucking hell. The left doesn't need to meme this, it's a fucking joke from moment one as is.

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tykonaut.bsky.social @tykonaut.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The petulant stroppings of a toddler, but one who could end the world.

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tykonaut.bsky.social @tykonaut.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I didn't have to be a farmer to play Chuckie Egg in the 80s, nor an astronaut to play Asteroids and Moon Lander. I wasn't a rally driver when I got obsessed with Sega Rally. It's escapism, and the idea some people don't grasp that terrifies me. How do these people manage to function day to day?

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tykonaut.bsky.social @tykonaut.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

There was a guy arguing that somebody shouldn't play because "it's a game for big muscled alpha men". Nope, it's definitely a video game for anyone who meets the age requirement. The CHARACTERS, yes, are that. That's how games work. You play a character, but don't have to BE them.

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tykonaut.bsky.social @tykonaut.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I've been watching the meltdowns over E-Day, utterly puzzled. For some reason people seem to think that it having a code of conduct is "woke". An issue that Penny Arcade lampooned about 20 years ago with Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory. Is "GLHF" woke too? Is playing to have fun so alien a concept?

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tykonaut.bsky.social @tykonaut.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

When Juliet wakes up to see Romeo dead, or in Macbeth as he's washing his hands of Duncan's blood. Or, for comedy: when Macduff's son is murdered.

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tykonaut.bsky.social @tykonaut.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

So that's a terrible idea. Just search up "hairless chimpanzee" and look at all that muscle. The chimpanzee is to us what cassowaries are to chickens: no domestication, no softening, wired to survive by any means necessary. It knows how to incapacitate, to maim.

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tykonaut.bsky.social @tykonaut.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Scrooge HAS logic and a good argument. The whole second stave with the Ghost of Christmas Past sets that up. He WAS poor. He suffered. His life got better. He had it all. But his fear of poverty overcame his humanity and he lost it all. IT'S IN THE STORY AS WRITTEN. And, importantly, as TAUGHT!

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tykonaut.bsky.social @tykonaut.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

It absolutely is a local thing. VPN tested.

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tykonaut.bsky.social @tykonaut.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I vote fluorescent orange like a Ford RS.

A neon orange 2018 Ford Focus RS in a very white photo studio.

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tykonaut.bsky.social @tykonaut.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I own 2 pairs - one for concerts, one for sleeping. They are genuinely good.

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tykonaut.bsky.social @tykonaut.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

UK people, Caffe Nero is a chain that are actually good both as a company and at coffee. Avoid Costa, it's Coca-Cola's chain and ethically as bad as the rest of the company.

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tykonaut.bsky.social @tykonaut.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I run a school club for it. This year I'll have my first ever second year players!

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tykonaut.bsky.social @tykonaut.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Ironically, the company he bought up to steal it had it working great and it looked very promising. Elon just turns stuff to shit.

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tykonaut.bsky.social @tykonaut.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I really really want the forgotten gems of the 90s bought up by companies who might actually *make games of them*. A new Syndicate that's an actual tactical management game not a Cyberpunk knockoff, Black and White, hell even the Strike games. And surely SOMEONE wants Command and Conquer?

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Johnny Normality (Spooky Mode) @probgobl.in · 21/08/2026

"A bunch of people would rather post on Race War Now Dot Swastika rather than Bluesky because you keep making fun of their imaginary computer friend" is a RESOUNDING endorsement for the concept of hostility.

Part of a thread from some bluecheck:
Multiple people I know have told me that they love the idea of Bluesky, and want it to succeed, but have abandoned it for X because the use agentic tools in their work and find them incredibly useful, and feel that any mention of their usage here leads to hate and ridicule.

I wouldn't bring this up if it was just one person, but it was multiple people since the beginning of August who mentioned in passing something to the effect of either "I'd spend more time on Bluesky if people weren't so anti-AI" *or* "As much as I hate to be there all the useful AI talk is on X."

I'm not saying it's anyone's responsibility to praise AI usage. I agree with much of the criticism of the tool. But for many, many people, it is a useful tech (I have talked about the ways I find it extraordinarily useful, only to have people here mock me, insisting my lived experience is a lie).

I am just noting that for all the people here who say that people should get off X and spend more time here, the reason I keep hearing from people in various circles who would *like* to do that, but don't, is the vociferous belief of many here that there are no possible positive uses of AI.

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tykonaut.bsky.social @tykonaut.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

As a backer of said book, anyone help?

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tykonaut.bsky.social @tykonaut.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

FLASH! AH AH! Ahshiticantseeathing!

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tykonaut.bsky.social @tykonaut.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I've been around since it was all CPC464s and Spectrums and there have always been "woke" political games. I mean, Llamasoft were never exactly "subtle", I used to love the old Spy vs Spy game, FFS there was a Viz game! 80s UK gaming was full of parody comedy stuff.

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tykonaut.bsky.social @tykonaut.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

That is, genuinely, my son's username in Overwatch.

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tykonaut.bsky.social @tykonaut.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Unhappy with being only the 6th biggest reporter on driving an academic to suicide, Grauniad now turns its eye to scientific denialism and one sided hit pieces that will kill more people. You used to be a newspaper staffed by journalists. What happened to that?

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tykonaut.bsky.social @tykonaut.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The secret ending - just do as you're told - is honestly one of my favourite video game moments. Especially if it's the final ending you earn, as you realise "wow, there really is no good ending".

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tykonaut.bsky.social @tykonaut.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I nearly growled in the doctor's waiting room. I need to try this.

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tykonaut.bsky.social @tykonaut.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

"You're only supposed to throw the bloody lords off!"

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tykonaut.bsky.social @tykonaut.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Keep telling yourself they're after you, fella. Maybe once everyone else is gone and you're all that's left, like the good little party player you want to be, they'll let you lick the boot instead of stamp on your face.

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tykonaut.bsky.social @tykonaut.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

You really are incapable of not being a Twitter user, huh. No wonder nobody listens to or follows you. Sad really.

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tykonaut.bsky.social @tykonaut.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

You don't debate. You can't, because it's beyond you and not how social media works. You piss in the wind all call it thought.

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tykonaut.bsky.social @tykonaut.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

And how did you come to these conclusions, exactly? Through what the press told you? Or did you, oh mighty thinker, do your own researcher? You're a self obsessed crank. Get off the soapbox. Real problems are out there, problems causing actual danger. This was a distraction. You fell for it.

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tykonaut.bsky.social @tykonaut.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Not as lost as people who quote themselves.

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tykonaut.bsky.social @tykonaut.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The argument, simply, is: a bunch of racists in right wing rags made a non issue huge to force him out, and their obsessive pursuit hounded him to his death. You're banging on about truth and don't see any. You're deluded.

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tykonaut.bsky.social @tykonaut.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Oh, and then there's this. bsky.app/profile/kohn...

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tykonaut.bsky.social @tykonaut.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

So the mirror's just over there, man, if you want a look.

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tykonaut.bsky.social @tykonaut.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I know quite a few Adam Buxton episodes are recorded while he walks the dog.

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tykonaut.bsky.social @tykonaut.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

As a British observer I hope that pendulum swings so hard it's yeeted into the sunset in the hopes other governments see sense.

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tykonaut.bsky.social @tykonaut.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

1. Absolute maidenless behaviour. 2. Occupy was ANTI RICH PEOPLE. 3. Just an expensive way to say "I am a friendless sociopath who is desperately alone"

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tykonaut.bsky.social @tykonaut.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

As a Dropout fan, that opener gave me whiplash and visions of Sam Reich giggling as Brennan Lee Mulligan loses his mind at today's aviation twist.

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tykonaut.bsky.social @tykonaut.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

So what you're saying is, seek medical help if you're hallucinating a myriad of other authors who fit this categorisation? Did they recommend an effective medication or just generally malign the condition?

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tykonaut.bsky.social @tykonaut.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

A singular AA battery, both of dubious age and charge.

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f*male b*tch 🇵🇸 @ahhmandah.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

vote, you little shits. vote because - your landlord will vote - your boss will vote - every nasty little greedy bitcoin bro who thinks women should be assigned to men for sex will vote - anti abortionists will vote - evangelist christians will vote - your racist uncle will vote FUCKING VOTE

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tykonaut.bsky.social @tykonaut.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I mean, gotta be Player of Games for me. But also doubt *anywhere* internationally would put them on the curriculum.

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tykonaut.bsky.social @tykonaut.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I'd like to take this opportunity to say I would genuinely shed blood for an updated version of SCB, that of your enemies or my own.

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tykonaut.bsky.social @tykonaut.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

You can press volume up and power to get to the power menu, but why isn't *that* Assistant? It's such bizarre decision making.

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tykonaut.bsky.social @tykonaut.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Gemini did this to me on a Nest Mini - asked it to time 10 minutes, told me "sure, I can tell you ten minutes has passed" and started beeping!

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tykonaut.bsky.social @tykonaut.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

They've tried many times to talk about it. People would rather talk Farage vs Binface and an imaginary mass migrant threat. The world's on fire and nobody in the media wants to discuss it.

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tykonaut.bsky.social @tykonaut.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Worth looking into an extension called UDM-14 too, which if I'm remembering right basically runs Google search banning AI both from summarising and being in results.

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