Byron Atkinson-Jones @xiotex.bsky.social · 28/09/2026What’s the message here? You usually charge to upgrade on top of the monthly cost? “Congratulations! You're eligible for a free upgrade Upgrade to the Amazon Music Unlimited Family Plan at no additional cost for 2 months when you switch from your current subscription.” 120
Reposted by Byron Atkinson-JonesThalamus Physical @thalamusdigital.bsky.social · 17/09/2026We've just dropped four banging albums on our brand-new bandcamp page. Go get 'em! thalamus.link/bandcamp #cecconoid #sidlifecrisis #deathraymanta #retrurntoblacktooth #h0ffman #virgill #weebl #ohstevie 02313
Reposted by Byron Atkinson-JonesPete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 16/09/2026In the movie version of this, after Piddington runs out of food water and money as a result of leaving the UK, the residents apply for asylum and end up housed in a military base, with HILARIOUS consequences. www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comPiddington in Oxfordshire votes to leave UK over asylum plansPiddington residents voted over proposals to house up to 1,256 male asylum seekers nearby 1663526839
Byron Atkinson-Jones @xiotex.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I’m signed into YouTube and for some bizarre reason it’s ’promoting’ my own videos to me, published in the channel I’m currently signed into… 🤷🏼 010
Reposted by Byron Atkinson-JonesPeter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Just a reminder, Professor James Orr, Reform UK head of policy, teaches 'ethics' to undergraduates at Cambridge University youtu.be/aXut3s90rUI 20836021427
Byron Atkinson-Jones @xiotex.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Tidied up the office over the weekend and put all my unopened sketchbooks and empty pads into one place. Now realising I’ll probably be in the grave long before most of these will even have the shrink wrap removed! 030
Byron Atkinson-Jones @xiotex.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Becoming increasingly convinced that whoever is currently directing NHS policy has an agenda aimed at facilitating collapse. Local GPs are now outsourced but to hubs that don’t have access to our records. This means follow through on treatment has a lot of roadblocks and is pointless. 140
Byron Atkinson-Jones @xiotex.bsky.social · 23/08/2026It’s been a weird weekend. Had a medical test on Thursday that required sedation. Turns out the sedation causes amnesia, which is fine as I don’t remember the procedure. What I didn’t know is it stays in your body for up to 48 hours and gets released in waves. 250
Reposted by Byron Atkinson-JonesMassimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 17/08/2026The most beautiful bread in the world: the Uzbek bread [📹 foodporn] Original post 3387
Byron Atkinson-Jones @xiotex.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Taking out the rubbish out tonight and there’s an enormous spider right at face height dangling from a web in front of the door. Only saw it last moment because the light glinted off it. Had I walked into it I would have needed decades of therapy. 😱 130
Byron Atkinson-Jones @xiotex.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Two days after my birthday this year I have two endoscopic examinations on the same day. Not exactly the birthday present I imagined. I really hope it’s two different cameras and they get the order correct🤪 110
Byron Atkinson-Jones @xiotex.bsky.social · 16/08/2026While on holiday in DisneyWorld Florida we book a last minute lunch in Japan pavilion of Epcot. It’s one where the food is cooked in front of you and you’re seated next to random people on a table that fits about 12. They seat me next to this person and we start chatting. 140
Byron Atkinson-Jones @xiotex.bsky.social · 16/08/2026I don’t know what happened but LinkedIn has taken to advertising lots of different jobs at PlayStation, where I currently work. Some of them look pretty good and tempting too 😳 340
Byron Atkinson-Jones @xiotex.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Really enjoying the current season of Strange New Worlds. Watched the latest episode on the flight back from Florida and couldn’t help laughing out loud at the Spock scenes 😂 010
Byron Atkinson-Jones @xiotex.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Just had another government alert, that’s three today. Would have thought one was enough. 200
Byron Atkinson-Jones @xiotex.bsky.social · 07/08/2026There are two headlines on the BBC news website currently that are AI related. The first is how the top three AI models went rogue and hacked other companies. The second is how AI designed and manufactured a brand new biological virus. This is fine, nothing could possibly go wrong. 041
Byron Atkinson-Jones @xiotex.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Currently in Florida where every day has started off really hot, then there’s a thunderstorm for an hour then it’s hot again, but humid due to the rain. It’s like nature is oven roasting us, followed by basting for flavour and then finishing cooking us by steam. 010
Byron Atkinson-Jones @xiotex.bsky.social · 05/08/2026This is going to happen to all of us in tech. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukHow AI is changing jobs in the Philippines' outsourcing industryAI is reshaping the Philippines' outsourcing industry, raising questions over the future of the industry. 010
Byron Atkinson-Jones @xiotex.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Amazing how vastly different the warnings at the beginning of a showing in the Cinema is between UK and US. In the UK it’s don’t let your kid play under the seats. In the US it’s what to do if a gunman starts shooting people during the film. 110
Byron Atkinson-Jones @xiotex.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Just waited 20 mins on a queue for customer services, going down from 5 people before me to finally getting through, and what was waiting at the end? “Leave a message after the tone” 🤷🏼 240
Reposted by Byron Atkinson-JonesThalamus Physical @thalamusdigital.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Fancy some hot laser fish action? We've just dropped the OG version of Death Ray Manta on itch, along with the game soundtrack! Grab 'em now and save 10%! thalamusdigital.itch.io/death-ray-ma... thalamusdigital.itch.io/death-ray-ma... #DRM #Fish #Tiffin #Lasers #OhStevie 11711
Byron Atkinson-Jones @xiotex.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Hired Jamie for one of my games in the past and he was great. Highly recommend him! 130
Byron Atkinson-Jones @xiotex.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Every day this week somebody famous/infamous has dropped dead. What’s going on? Is it the rapture but slower than expected? 110
Byron Atkinson-Jones @xiotex.bsky.social · 09/07/2026I’m opening an office in the artic circle. My directors don’t know this yet but I’m more of an ask for forgiveness person than permission. 050
Byron Atkinson-Jones @xiotex.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Did you know foxes can climb trees, I didn’t. I wondered why the cubs in our back garden took it in turns to stare up at the tree… 020
Byron Atkinson-Jones @xiotex.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Portable air con units are rarer than RAM now… 020
Byron Atkinson-Jones @xiotex.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Been a really crap few days. Got out of the doctors today where they told me they are testing me for cancer. Head to Nandos where Susan is smashed over the head with a bottle a crazy woman using to attack another family with. She’s fine (she says) - but this in top of what happened in Friday… 🤷🏼 220
Reposted by Byron Atkinson-JonesDugan @tikipodltd.bsky.social · 26/06/2026STEAM SALE Yuss, northern hemisphere folks - its Steam Summer Sale time. 70% OFF all our titles. Go grab some arcade fun today! (or gift a friend even) store.steampowered.com/search/?publ... BONUS - Our PSN sales are still active toooo (till 2nd July) 022
Byron Atkinson-Jones @xiotex.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Dammit. The scenes of this evening keep playing in my head when I try to sleep. I imagine myself reacting faster, realising what’s happening and jumping in to save them. Reality is I would probably be in hospital with them. 230
Reposted by Byron Atkinson-JonesIan McQue @ianmcque.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Toblerone-inspired spaceship design challenge. Or maybe a toast rack now I come to think of it 1462864
Byron Atkinson-Jones @xiotex.bsky.social · 27/06/2026A thunderstorm - does this mean cooler weather at last? 000
Byron Atkinson-Jones @xiotex.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Not a pleasant night. Went to Brighton because it was 22 there and 34 here. Had a nice cooling time until we sat down on a bench on the way back to the car. 2 metres from me a gang of 4-5 kids start the try to kill two men. Beating them badly and kicking their heads. 761
Byron Atkinson-Jones @xiotex.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Okay, who’s got a spare seat on the private jet to the artic region they’ve booked for today? 000
Reposted by Byron Atkinson-JonesLocomalito @locomalito.com · 25/06/2026Today marks the 6th anniversary of #SolarGladiators, a tiny MSX-styled game I made during the 2020 lockdown. I couldn't even sleep, so once again, I took the nights to my advantage and turned my anxiety into fuel for game development. Get it at locomalito.com There's an upcoming update! 14817
Byron Atkinson-Jones @xiotex.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Looking at the thermometer in my home office was just as bad a move as looking up how sausages are made. I wish I didn’t know. 250
Reposted by Byron Atkinson-JonesEric Orchard @inkybat.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Gylpen and Pig Bat 211918
Byron Atkinson-Jones @xiotex.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Epic thunderstorm at 4am with lots of rain. Today the Sun will attempt to boil all the ground water into vapour. The end result? Humidity off the charts. Today is going to be hell. 130
Byron Atkinson-Jones @xiotex.bsky.social · 20/06/2026The horrific crash, can’t get it out of my head. Mainly because because a few months ago I was chatting to someone who claimed to be a driver on that type of train and he claimed they were terrible, not fully compatible with our lines, which is why we had a lot of signal faults on them. 010
Byron Atkinson-Jones @xiotex.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Disclosure day was great. What an ending though🤣 000
Byron Atkinson-Jones @xiotex.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Heh, for some reason I get marketing emails from Xtool UK and XTool US. Look at the difference… 🤪 @xtool-official.bsky.social 100
Byron Atkinson-Jones @xiotex.bsky.social · 10/06/2026So they really were making it up as they went along 🤦 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukDoctor Who: BBC cancels planned Christmas specialThe BBC said the decision was made "after careful consideration" and had "not been taken lightly". 000
Reposted by Byron Atkinson-JonesDugan @tikipodltd.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Sorry not posted any art/dev in aaaages! Been working on a Neo Geo project on/off for Nalua, making the environment tiles :D Check out their Steam page here (they are selling the game on NG carts too) store.steampowered.com/app/4738450/... (Game not finished yet, so art shown may not be final)store.steampowered.comNecro Pop on SteamNecro Pop is an all-new action genre platformer we lovingly refer to as Arcadevania. On your adventure, you will discover new abilities, upgrades, secrets. You can free your ghostly friends using mult... 182
Reposted by Byron Atkinson-JonesAlex Kanaris-Sotiriou @kanaratron.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Six months on from finishing radiotherapy, my dad just got all clear for prostate cancer. Thank fuck for the NHS. 333292