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Matt Thrower @mattthr.bsky.social · 8h

Blue Lights is absolutely the best thing on the BBC bar nothing. Three seasons in and it's still so good, building moments of relentless tension out of nothing, top acting, edgy setting.

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Rebellion Unplugged 🎲 @rebellionunplugged.bsky.social · 10h

IT'S HERE!!🚗💨

Well... our prototypes at least. We couldn’t be more excited! Our engines are revving, our dice are ready, and we can’t wait to share what’s under the hood.

Who want's to see what's inside?!

@Gamefound begins October 28th 👉 https://reb.to/fullthrottlefollow

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Matt Thrower @mattthr.bsky.social · 10h

This is an interesting thread but to buy the premise one must actively ignore the minor issue of which films are engaging to watch and which are not.

Andy Claaaaaarrrghhhhk, Nerdling Herder @andycruns.bsky.social · 11h

Welcome to tonight’s episode of Andy Thinks About Something Too Much (note: needs a better title)

In this episode we’re going to talk about the Alien franchise and why only the first four movies work.

And yes, I do mean four.

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Matt Thrower @mattthr.bsky.social · 12h

As a general rule I reckon branded food is a waste of time but there are two exceptions: Bonne maman Jam and Heinz Burger Sauce
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Matt Thrower @mattthr.bsky.social · 14h

Now that just makes you sound like a foreigner ;)

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Matt Thrower @mattthr.bsky.social · 14h

It seems clearly ideological rather than political to me. The Labour chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, who directs political strategy seems to have a real hard-on for "traditional working class values", i.e. bigotry.

Thankful I live in a Con/Lib marginal, so I don't have to care who I vote for

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Matt Thrower @mattthr.bsky.social · 14h

One of the chief problems with this government is quietly hiding all of the meagre actual achievements, and crowing loudly about all the absolutely ridiculous, ineffectual and/or vindictive shit they want to do.

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Matt Thrower @mattthr.bsky.social · 14h

Yis, for we alle moten ben conversant with the tunge of Chaucer that we mowe functionen in moderne Britaigne.

András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 16h

Well this will certainly do it www.gov.uk/government/n...

Migrants will be required to pass A Level standard of English

Migrants will be required to pass tough new English language requirements under a law introduced in Parliament today.

www.gov.uk

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Matt Thrower @mattthr.bsky.social · 14h

Little Wizards

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Isa / EvilCleverDog @evilcleverdog.bsky.social · Aug 23

Using ChatGPT

Edith @edithcharles.bsky.social · Aug 23

What's something that isn't considered embarrassing but you think it should be?

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Matt Thrower @mattthr.bsky.social · 15h

Mustard is the one thing, the singular thing, that America has got right in terms of food. But you don't need French's, any old supermarket brand will do.

The real game-changer for burgers, IMO, is Heinz Burger Sauce. And Heinz *is* better than own brand in that instance.

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Matt Thrower @mattthr.bsky.social · 16h

Without downloading new pics, where I am mentally about now

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Osprey Games ➡️ Essen SPIEL 3.M600 @ospreygames.bsky.social · 16h

📢📢 NEW BOARD GAMES IN 2026...

Threaded 🧵 a crafty worker placement game: https://bit.ly/4nOJ9iz

Rattlesnake 🤠 a riotous wild west shootout: https://bit.ly/3J8NKwH

Find out more on @boardgamegeek.com or our website blog. Get an exclusive preview at SPIEL Essen Stand 3.M600!

The cover art of the board game Threaded: A Game of Needles and Points, designed by Ellie Dix and illustrated by Maria Surducan, depicting a bargello pattern in blue, pink, yellow and green thread, above a selection of needlecraft tools.

The cover art of the board game Rattle Snake, designed by Michael Hardacre and illustrated by Roland MacDonald, depicting a woman in a cowboy outfit leaping backwards through the air and firing a revolver in each hand.

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Matt Thrower @mattthr.bsky.social · 20h

While this is literally true there are an awful lot of Warhammer-adjacent folk songs to popularise, such as:

700 Elves
The 12 Witches
Long Lankin
The Laily Worm
Tam Lin
Bold Sir Rylas

And many others

the wicker mang @mangmangmang.bsky.social · Aug 14

People are always rightly pointing out that Warhammer contributes more to the British economy than the fishing industry, but the problem is that there just aren't very many folk songs about Warhammer

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Matt Thrower @mattthr.bsky.social · 1d

Almost all poetry written before and after the 20th century is terrible.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Torqolbo! @torq.bsky.social · 1d

The 'That's Bait' meme from Mad Max Fury Road, featuring Tom Hardy pointing upwards and warning others of a trap. Here, though, it says 'That's A Gail Simone Post'

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Matt Thrower @mattthr.bsky.social · 1d

That's not all it means, NYT

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Matt Thrower @mattthr.bsky.social · 1d

Me too mate. Me too.

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Matt Thrower @mattthr.bsky.social · 1d

Told the story before of how my scalpel wouldn't cut a length of card, so I did it again, pressing harder, at which point I discovered the blade was upside-down and I had, in fact, been forcing it deeper and deeper into the ball of my thumb.

Dasha @dashasierra.com · May 19

What's the stupidest way you've hurt yourself?

Oh I'm so glad you asked! I knocked myself out with a frozen bag of omelettes.

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Matt Thrower @mattthr.bsky.social · 1d

All the best, Tim.

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Matt Thrower @mattthr.bsky.social · 1d

Did you manage to get into the presale? I signed up for Cardiff but got no email...

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Matt Thrower @mattthr.bsky.social · 1d

Paradroid was so good back in the day. I managed to clear the ship once, only to find it just started over!

As a game concept, I'm pretty sure there's mileage in a potential modernisation.

Julian "Jaz" Rignall @jazrignall.bsky.social · 1d

40 years ago, Paradroid was on ZZAP!'s cover. We rated this amazing game 97%. Other top reviews: Little Computer People Discovery Kit (97%), Epyx' epic multisports sim Winter Games (94%), Wizard's Lair (89%), Hacker (87%), and Infocom's stellar Starcross text adventure (94%).

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Saimi Hanma ⚔️ @saimihanma.bsky.social · 5d

Windows 10 support ends on October 14 and there's a link floating around with instructions to enroll for an additional year of security updates, but I'm not linking to that chatgpt article so here's what you do.

Settings
Update & Security
Windows Update
Initiate Enrollment

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Matt Thrower @mattthr.bsky.social · 1d

Don't think I've ever heard the roots of false consciousness described so succinctly

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

People treat it like there’s some kind of competition for who’s been victimized the most and not a collaboration to make sure we’re all victimized as little as possible

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Matt Thrower @mattthr.bsky.social · 2d

a man with long hair and a beard says " don 't tempt me frodo "

ALT: a man with long hair and a beard says " don 't tempt me frodo "

media.tenor.com

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