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Adam B

@xarrion.bsky.social
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Humanist, system developer, geek, Internet patron, list-maker. Juggler of a hundred projects, conqueror of none (yet). Also an artisan Guildmaster at Empire LARP. He/him. Also present but dormant at @xarrion@hachyderm.io

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Henry Rothwell @henryrothwell.bsky.social · 10h
An incredible website. Amongst other delights are the world's lighthouses with their cycles in real time just for @regretteruane.bsky.social mapped.earth/lighthouses/...
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Lighthouses of England & Wales | mapped.earth
Every charted lighthouse of England & Wales on a night relief map, each one sweeping or flashing at its real rhythm and lighting the coast it guards. Hover a light for its character.
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Banjon @beardybanjo.bsky.social · 22h
I grew up* in back when ADHD was considered a completely fake diagnosis invented by Americans and big pharma and/or stigmatised to the point that a diagnosis was seen as little better than a ticket to a young offenders institution. I wonder why so many people my age got diagnosed in their 30s & 40s
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Adam B @xarrion.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The replies in this thread are excellent
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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This gets said constantly, but it worth reiterating: Games Workshop being bigger than fishing is important to shout about because you wouldn't know it from government talking points, which are rarely about anything creative or artistic. Growth won't involve fish or steel, it will involve goblins.
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ari velazquez 🌯 @ari.velazquez.fyi · 01/10/2026
steam: this game you've had installed for two years but never played has an update. we'll download it next week me: no you'll download it right now motherfucker. and i will sit here and watch it download. steam: so you're gonna play it? me: fuck you
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Sorry, I saw your message, but I also saw nineteen other phone alerts that same minute. My brain evolved to evade predators. I will not improve.
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Adam B @xarrion.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Definitely missing a few that I played to death, and I could probably add another nine from mid-late 90's onwards, but these nine all played in ways that made me think differently about games and the different elements that made them fun. my9games.net
A grid containing the covers of nine games. Seabase Delta, Chaos: Battle of Wizards, Dizzy, Tetris, Zelda: Link's Awakening, Transport Tycoon Deluxe, X-wing vs Tie Fighter, Omega and X-Com: UFO Defense
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Nick Reynolds (he/him) @ncmreynolds.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Hi there folks, while I'm reluctant to spam BSky I'm getting a bit desperate. @uklta.bsky.social is running its next #LARP Cyberpunk: A Life on the Edge next weekend and we've been hit by some crew dropouts that are close to making it non-viable.
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Cyberpunk: A Life on the Edge
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.
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Draculosity Jones: Ghost Skeleton @brainmage.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Greggdging
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Adam B @xarrion.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
RIP Dolly Parton. This is one of the simplest and clearest statements about her legacy I've seen vm.tiktok.com/ZN8NCpjD2/
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Pearlmania500 on TikTok
On the day she died, Dolly Parton sent us a reminder that she wasn’t a billionaire.
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CocoEagle @cocoeagle.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I cannot express this any better.... the frustration is real
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 15/08/2026
A blueish box of a person with the words “Just be nice yeah? For starters like.” next to them.
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Look, put simply, people should not be comfortable saying that in public and the way to fix society runs directly through making them afraid to say it again.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Doctors say that childhood vaccines save thousands of lives. A guy who shits himself in public and struggles to pass basic cognitive tests say they cause autism. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.
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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 30/07/2026
In response to the unprecedented number of game developers laid off this year, we have created a bundle on itch to benefit a Game Industry Hardship Fund, managed by @videogameworkers.bsky.social. More than 100 games for 10+ bucks! Please share widely and donate generously! itch.io/b/3802/game-...
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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
French deer sure jump high
A "beware of deer" sign with an added sign that reads "↑ 1300m ↑"
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 12/07/2026
i know you’re looking for it. here she is, girls. here she is, world
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Today is a good day to remember that authoritarianism is not inevitable, overthrowing fascists is possible, and good things can still happen. www.pbs.org/newshour/wor...
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Tens of thousands march in the first Budapest Pride since Viktor Orbán was voted out
Saturday's Pride march came a little more than a year after Orbán's nationalist-populist government passed legislation and a constitutional amendment to outlaw the event, drawing criticism from human ...
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Stuart Houghton @stuarthoughton.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Pass this on. You never know who might need it and it could make a huge difference if someone is struggling for whatever reason
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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Me: Okay, there's been a thunderstorm, the heatwave should be over now. (New health bar appears) (The sun is now named 'Sol, Starflame of Regret') (Objectively the greatest piece of classical music ever recorded starts playing).
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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
are any of our government going to wake the fuck up any time soon, this is proper dumbass stuff, just walking right into a pit of vipers for the fuck of it
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
i assume banning kids from social media will be accompanied by a huge investment in teen-friendly communtiy spaces (like youth clubs) and social activities? No? Huh.
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Adam B @xarrion.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Fresh off the back of people being able to argue their way into Instagram accounts by just being insistent to the chatbot, imagine how many people are just going to convince ChatGPT to buy stuff on someone else's card.
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Andy Vitek @avitek.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Fukuyama: We have reached the end of history. History: It's 2026, and an official branch of the Ukrainian armed forces is tweeting about how drone striking Andrew Tate while he's clout farming with the Russian military would be fun, but is sadly a war crime. Get bent old man.
Ukrainian USF tweet: "Ok, fellas, we see all your tags and we get it.

But.
Being a shitty person doesn't make someone a legitimate military target under international law. Climbing on a tank for internet clout isn't enough to become a combatant.

Do something that actually qualifies — then we can talk. Until then, we'll keep our drones for real military targets 😉"
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Jackson O'Lantern-Brien @sprobeforebros.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
GREG DAVIES: seems like a kind of a shit task. Everyone just seems like they're going home normally. ALEX HORNE: well before you say that let's have a look at how Odysseus did. cut to panel of AJAX, MENELAUS, AGAMEMNON, and DIOMEDES who are all staring at ODYSSEUS with his head in his hands
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Undi "Doctor Fraiser C.R.E.A.M." Galaga @herzogbae.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Odysseus: Do I need to give sacrifice to Poseidon before we set sail? Alex: All the information is in the task.
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Just Jim will do. @justjim.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Truth, Justice, Freedom, Reasonably Priced Love, and a Hard Boiled Egg. #Glorious25th #RiseUp #GNUTerryPratchett
A short sword stabbed into a tussock of grass and with sprigs of lilac around the cross-guard.

Above the sword are the words, "Truth, Justice, Freedom,"

Below, "Reasonably Priced Love, and a Hard Boiled Egg!"
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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Surely they've suffered enough?
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Dr. Fim @fim.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Not me, laughing at this for 10 minutes straight.
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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Every Reform councillor who was elected this week is going to go into their first day of work thinking that 80% of their borough's budget goes on giving immigrants pronouns and they're all going to find that every single department is underfunded and slightly reducing the budget will kill people
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Adam B @xarrion.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
This afternoon I've been trying to salvage a failed resin project, and make a magic potion phys-rep, so I'm now both sticky from resin and all sparkly from mica powder, but have made progress, so I'll take it. 😀
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Adam B @xarrion.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
A decent amount of my Tiktok feed is like this, and it's one of those things that's pure whimsy and almost impossible to describe coherently when people ask what I use Tiktok for. 😆
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Making a free cycling game @dfeldman.org · 30/04/2026
One day we’re going to be like “remember how we let the stupidest people alive run everything for ten years? That was wild” as we sit on the veranda sipping red wine and watching the nuclear megaspiders fight
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Simon Pegg @simonpegg.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
He's only just found out about it because the house was in Clacton.
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Old Fashioned Boologna Salad @bolognasalad.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Ideal relationship dynamic
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Adam B @xarrion.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
With a vanishingly small amount of time to go until Empire, it's time to get some last minute projects done. Last week I fixed my mage staff's wiring, which is a year or so overdue. This week I've designed & printed pegs to hold my filing shelves together and another Ephisis box.
A flat-pack wooden filing rack, held in place by a series of 3D-printed press-in pegs to replace the screws the unit came with (which would have been a pain to screw and unscrew in a LARP field). A scattering of small brown 'wood-effect' pegs next to a large 7" cubed box, both 3D printed in the same 'wood effect' PLA. The box has a logo indented in the side, which will soon be coloured in gold.
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Daniel Benneworth-Gray @danielgray.com · 11/03/2026
ooh decisions decisions
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Tom Phillips @tom-phillips.com · 03/04/2026
It's honestly kind of mind-blowing that this is the first time in over fifty years that anybody has been able to take a picture like this. Images of the earth are completely familiar to us, but a human hasn't pointed a camera at the whole planet for half a century.
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David Allsopp @doublehelix.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Opinion: Here's why it would be a mistake to do anything that inconveniences rich assholes. By some rich asshole.
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Andraste Sideyr @andraste.fuckbgp.com · 12/02/2026
forgot the most important of the genre
fuck the moon
@fuckthem00n

fly me to the moon
let me kick it's fucking ass
let me show it what i learned
in my moon jujitsu class
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Sanjeev Kohli @govindajeggy.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
I wouldn't say Jet Set Willie was completely ZX, but he was certainly on the ZX Spectrum
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Ben Wright - Queex @queex.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
"See what's new!"
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Dex @glitchscout.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Selling my ticket for one very good seat at the Critical Role London live show at a discount ✨ secure.ticketmaster.co.uk/rs/350062F5D...
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Ygrene @ygrene.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Not even the Nazis expressly announced they were committing war crimes. Indeed, at Nuremberg war crimes were denied. But here, openly, the US Secretary for Defense is explicitly admitting to committing war crimes.
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Bruce Little @brucedlittle.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Is it really a war? Play along with Andrew Heaton's new game show.
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Just fascinating to see Blair, a man whose reputation was ruined by the Iraq war, advocate joining a war that is exponentially stupider and more chaotic. How is it possible to learn nothing from the worst mistake of your life?
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Alistair Barrie @alistairbarrie.com · 06/03/2026
Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:
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