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Christian, dad, programmer, cook, reader, listener, watcher, player. (he/him)

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Trans Theft Horso : A MAZE. / Berlin 2026 - 15th International Games and Playful Media - May 13-16th 2026 An absurd western fantasy adventure game in full colour! Non-binary protagonist Adric BelfontΓ© is compelled to go West, with a criminal-minded skunk as a hat. A fun, colourful nightmare through the wi...

My pal @benjamilian.bsky.social's peculiar game got nominated for another award! Not my personal good news, but I am glad for them.
2026.amaze-berlin.de/nominees/tra...

13.03.2026 13:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Octonions make you cry eight times as hard as regular onions.

13.03.2026 12:08 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The original's a better film by far, but Bowie.

11.03.2026 16:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I was very amused some years ago now, seeing a shoe in the shoe shop called "Antilles" and it had a wedge heel. I bet someone was pleased getting away with that.

11.03.2026 16:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Lucky escape for Arsenal if it did.

11.03.2026 13:46 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm a software expert of sorts, and this doesn't sound like something I'd want to do just before a weekend, never mind a war.

11.03.2026 00:31 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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This 18-year-old Afghan girl nearly escaped the Taliban – then we took her visa away She resisted a forced marriage and studied in secret, winning scholarships to leave Kabul and attend a British university. But now the home secretary’s ban on study visas has removed her one chance of...

This 18-year-old Afghan girl had offers from York and Reading – thanks to Shabana Mahmood, she will now never escape the Taliban | The Independent www.independent.co.uk/news/people/...

08.03.2026 22:59 πŸ‘ 154 πŸ” 137 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 13

Weren't the Lords Temporal actually the KLF in disguise?

09.03.2026 16:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I assumed "finding out" was distributed between the other categories.

09.03.2026 11:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thief 2 rather than the first?

06.03.2026 16:12 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Did you practice your gazing also?

06.03.2026 15:09 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Quadrat deployed. Now what are we counting today?

06.03.2026 14:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
BELAZU

BELAZU

05.03.2026 23:11 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Peter Greenaway's From Hell

05.03.2026 16:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Devastating use of the 'blue man sitting in a desolate wasteland of red' visual there. Kudos.

05.03.2026 14:33 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

My daughter starts with "Interrupting Cow", then repeats the joke with different interrupting things until we beg for mercy.

05.03.2026 14:29 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

If you have diplodocus in your bloodstream, you're not going to be worrying about gonorrhea.

05.03.2026 12:11 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A six panel comic of a man and a woman where their word balloons are actually other panels (there are no words) indicating future actions and explaining why they did what they did.

A six panel comic of a man and a woman where their word balloons are actually other panels (there are no words) indicating future actions and explaining why they did what they did.

a three panel comic about SΓΈren Kierkegaard in which the text of the man reads backwards and the dog forwards "Life can only be understood backwards" and the dog "but it must be lived forwards"

a three panel comic about SΓΈren Kierkegaard in which the text of the man reads backwards and the dog forwards "Life can only be understood backwards" and the dog "but it must be lived forwards"

It's that time in my Making comics intro course when I talk image-text relations, which gives me an excuse to share 2 favorite comics that do bewildering things that can only be done in comics! Ibn Al-Rabin's seminal Le Verbe ProphΓ©tique alongside the always brilliant @tomgauld.bsky.social. So good!

05.03.2026 07:23 πŸ‘ 326 πŸ” 104 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 4

Ours now has a post office and a toys-r-us crammed in. Which means it's somewhere I actively avoid if I have a small person in tow, or I'll never get out again.

03.03.2026 16:41 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Good call! I need to re-listen to Susan's War anyway, it was terrific.

02.03.2026 16:31 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We're a few books behind but E is currently doing Egypt at school and very enthusiastic about it - it wouldn't be bad to skip ahead, right?

02.03.2026 11:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I grew up reading old issues of Punch.
It's just a coincidence that my dad is a retired dentist, they weren't from his waiting room.

02.03.2026 11:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The dissonance between the name and the actual colour of the computer bothers me, though.

27.02.2026 17:05 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Commander Susan Ivanova of Babylon 5.

Commander Susan Ivanova of Babylon 5.

"Who am I? I am Susan Ivanova, Commander, daughter of Andrei and Sophie Ivanov. I am the right hand of vengeance, and the boot that is going to kick your sorry ass all the way back to Earth, sweetheart. I'm death incarnate and the last living thing that you are ever going to see. God sent me."

27.02.2026 10:44 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Did you see Flow? That had an excellent capybara.

27.02.2026 10:32 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

And I've just solved the metapuzzle!
Rewarding myself with a cookie.

26.02.2026 17:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"Be reasonable about this," he says. "Meet me in the middle."
"OK," you say. You take a step forward.
He takes a step back.
"Be reasonable about this," he says. "Meet me in the middle."

26.02.2026 06:03 πŸ‘ 1459 πŸ” 554 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Next week: Tom Homan heads into the woods to show the bears how it's done.

26.02.2026 09:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

God bless the Prince Charles.

26.02.2026 09:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Same. I think #1 and #10 were my favourites.

26.02.2026 09:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0