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RIP to the man behind the funniest bit of all time: the invention of the null pointer
Monologue: Oh, ski jumping. That feels… unstable. Like a clicker game with one shot. High risk, high reward. I like that. #GameDev #Steam
Prehistoric cup and ring carvings at Whitehill Farm, near Faifley in West Dunbartonshire. 📸 My own. #RockArt #Prehistory #Archaeology #WestDunbartonshire
This is so exhausting.
It’s no different:
* don’t attack mosques when a Muslim country does something shitty
* dont attack Orthodox churches to protest Russia
* dont attack churches every time another white Christian does something heinous.
The rhetorical exceptions ppl make for Jews are evil.
The Pizza Jam has started with 287 people joined!
(The themes for this one are all Yu-gi-Oh card names)
Complete lack of detail on one very crucial point: what was the AI? And no implementation details.
AI powered NPCs have been around for *decades* in different forms.
Chatting with a stone age priestess, and she starts giving it all that 'As a friendly reminder, please ensure interactions adhere to the guidelines provided. Let me know how you would like to proceed'
Are you an organizer or head of a games dev community, based in the UK?
(Can be design, audio, composers, artists, games course leaders, entire studios, whatever!)
If so, DM/reply to this post.
I'm organizing a cool event in the warmer months with an emphasis on bringing folks together
Plz RT!
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I mean, I've yet to see strong evidence that it was genocide opposers not voting that lost Kamala the election. A lot of words for sure. Evidence is a bit thinner.
But at election time it's the job of the party/candidate to win the votes. Not the voters job.
fun fact: the department of homeland security added restrictions last year to its nonprofit security grants program that help synagogues and other jewish institutions hire security that effectively makes it so that liberal jewish organizations can't qualify
Curious about the "highly educated, female voters" who work at Palantir... and wonder why they don't go work elsewhere, for a CEO who isn't completely losing touch with reality.
For possibly the first time ever, I actually removed a LinkedIn connection.
If someone is actually happy about going on GBNews and talking to Tom Harwood, I'm not sure why I need them in my professional network.
I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Mar 12th 2026 (Hard), in less than 11 minutes
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And not sure when/if we'll be seeing this on the BBC...
bsky.app/profile/slai...
This is a $1billion facility, a key part of the NATO / US ballistic defence system. (A lot of AI gen stories claiming this was destroyed - but it does appear damaged)
@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social
E.g: Oil tankers at Iraq hit and damaged reported on bsky last night before I went to bed. Not on BBC news till this morning.
OK, it's very uneven but bsky definately now delivering on providing global (and sometimes local-ish) news updates anywhere between 2 to 24 hours before I see it on BBC. (And of course a lot of the news that doesn't make it to the BBC)
Still not where Twitter was at its heyday though.
Shoutout to Gamer Social Club for covering the GIGF, look forward to catching up with you guys at the festival!
At least one place in England that accepts Scottish bank notes then...
The demo for Beware of the Cartographer! is incredibly charming. You use different cartography tools to map out a landscape in a puzzley way. Also, look at that artwork! I recommend playing the demo!
We should support students who come here in good faith to learn and contribute, not shut the door on them because their home countries fall into conflict. Full clip: https://youtu.be/BJY5qUnbwVE #RefugeesWelcome #InternationalStudents
![LET'S NOT PLAY FRISBEE WITH THAT POET ANYMORE.
[This is a comic strip, with a poem laid over it. On each panel a new line of the poem is written. The scene is a park, in the summer. A man in a trenchcoat - implicitly Philip Larkin - stands folorn, motionless, looking at people throwing a frisbee. It becomes apparent as the comic progresses that they are trying to play frisbee with him. He stand stock still for the whole comic, watching the frisbee as, panel by panel it soars closer and closer to him].
After contemplating the approaching frisbee for two silent panels, Philip begins his thoughts:
Unloosed, unheralded,
You soar toward me
Across the dying afternoon.
bright disc of childhood,
Long since thrown wide
Of Youth's green imaginings,
Your slow declining arc
Figures a sky-written truth:
We will all succumb, and soon
To earth's hard oblivion.
[The frisbee hits Philip on the head with a resounding DONK. He falls backwards, to the ground.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreibpyscry7bddmufqnk7wsfuxsflv4fkn4brwvkzxqurjkz7z67yoi)
LET'S NOT PLAY FRISBEE WITH THAT POET ANYMORE. [This is a comic strip, with a poem laid over it. On each panel a new line of the poem is written. The scene is a park, in the summer. A man in a trenchcoat - implicitly Philip Larkin - stands folorn, motionless, looking at people throwing a frisbee. It becomes apparent as the comic progresses that they are trying to play frisbee with him. He stand stock still for the whole comic, watching the frisbee as, panel by panel it soars closer and closer to him]. After contemplating the approaching frisbee for two silent panels, Philip begins his thoughts: Unloosed, unheralded, You soar toward me Across the dying afternoon. bright disc of childhood, Long since thrown wide Of Youth's green imaginings, Your slow declining arc Figures a sky-written truth: We will all succumb, and soon To earth's hard oblivion. [The frisbee hits Philip on the head with a resounding DONK. He falls backwards, to the ground. [Ends]
Let's Not Play Frisbee With That Poet Anymore
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🦩 Stealth Crossword - By Computer James (Ireland)
In hindsight, constructing all the historic buildings in Glasgow out of balsa wood and phosphorus was a mistake.
In this case, it seems like a genuine accident -a faulty electronic vape started a fire in a vape shop.
Lithium battery fire that couldn't be extinguished 😞
According to DOGE flunky, a documentary about the experiences of Jewish women's slave labor during the Holocaust is "inherently discriminatory." Come ON.
But, hey, I'm not a political historian, it's maybe just the surface appearances...
