Tufty McTavish
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Tufty McTavish
@tuftymctavish.com
· Dec 15
🧵 A chance comment in a post has led me down a rabbit warren of Interactive Fiction memories, floppy diskettes, and apps on modern devices.
So this is going to be an ongoing thread about text adventure games, such as these “Lost Treasures of Infocom”.
🎮 #VideoGames 🕹️ #TextAdventures ⌨️ #Infocom 🗺️
So this is going to be an ongoing thread about text adventure games, such as these “Lost Treasures of Infocom”.
🎮 #VideoGames 🕹️ #TextAdventures ⌨️ #Infocom 🗺️
📺 Banger of a “Blake’s 7” Series B episode 6 in “Trial”! A+B plot lines both had v. interesting events.
Avon: “It just occurred to me that as the description of a highly sophisticated technological achievement, ‘Avon’s gadget works’ seems to lack a certain style.”
😆
📺 #TVShows 🚀 #Blakes7 7️⃣
Avon: “It just occurred to me that as the description of a highly sophisticated technological achievement, ‘Avon’s gadget works’ seems to lack a certain style.”
😆
📺 #TVShows 🚀 #Blakes7 7️⃣
November 27, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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In 10 days, you'll be able to experience Planet of Lana on your phone!
The perfect occasion for us to show you the different ways you'll be able to live this adventure and help Lana on her quest!
You can still pre-order the game right here!
🍎 bit.ly/PoL-PreOrdiOS
🤖 bit.ly/PoL-PreRegAndroid
The perfect occasion for us to show you the different ways you'll be able to live this adventure and help Lana on her quest!
You can still pre-order the game right here!
🍎 bit.ly/PoL-PreOrdiOS
🤖 bit.ly/PoL-PreRegAndroid
November 27, 2025 at 2:00 PM
In 10 days, you'll be able to experience Planet of Lana on your phone!
The perfect occasion for us to show you the different ways you'll be able to live this adventure and help Lana on her quest!
You can still pre-order the game right here!
🍎 bit.ly/PoL-PreOrdiOS
🤖 bit.ly/PoL-PreRegAndroid
The perfect occasion for us to show you the different ways you'll be able to live this adventure and help Lana on her quest!
You can still pre-order the game right here!
🍎 bit.ly/PoL-PreOrdiOS
🤖 bit.ly/PoL-PreRegAndroid
📺 Sometimes I’m watching a baking video and I see something so strikingly obvious that my jaw drops.
Today I’m watching Cupcake Jemma make some Marshmallow using a sugar thermometer.
I have this same thermometer!
What hadn’t dawned on me was that I could just move the collar clip to fit my pans 🤦♂️
Today I’m watching Cupcake Jemma make some Marshmallow using a sugar thermometer.
I have this same thermometer!
What hadn’t dawned on me was that I could just move the collar clip to fit my pans 🤦♂️
November 27, 2025 at 7:23 PM
📺 Sometimes I’m watching a baking video and I see something so strikingly obvious that my jaw drops.
Today I’m watching Cupcake Jemma make some Marshmallow using a sugar thermometer.
I have this same thermometer!
What hadn’t dawned on me was that I could just move the collar clip to fit my pans 🤦♂️
Today I’m watching Cupcake Jemma make some Marshmallow using a sugar thermometer.
I have this same thermometer!
What hadn’t dawned on me was that I could just move the collar clip to fit my pans 🤦♂️
📺 Watching Outlaw Bookseller on #BookTube ding the usual nominees in top 10 SF book lists! 😆
He’s not wrong about viewers seeing the same books mentioned over and over, and instead pushes the viewer to read wider and alternative options.
Also Duology vs Diptych 👨🏫 😳
🚀 #SciFiBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋
He’s not wrong about viewers seeing the same books mentioned over and over, and instead pushes the viewer to read wider and alternative options.
Also Duology vs Diptych 👨🏫 😳
🚀 #SciFiBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋
Top 10 Science Fiction Novels 'Booktube Clickbait Bland Out' Edition #sciencefictionbooks
YouTube video by Outlaw Bookseller
youtu.be
November 27, 2025 at 5:58 PM
📺 Watching Outlaw Bookseller on #BookTube ding the usual nominees in top 10 SF book lists! 😆
He’s not wrong about viewers seeing the same books mentioned over and over, and instead pushes the viewer to read wider and alternative options.
Also Duology vs Diptych 👨🏫 😳
🚀 #SciFiBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋
He’s not wrong about viewers seeing the same books mentioned over and over, and instead pushes the viewer to read wider and alternative options.
Also Duology vs Diptych 👨🏫 😳
🚀 #SciFiBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋
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If you’re having dinner with family today, A or B?
November 27, 2025 at 1:09 PM
If you’re having dinner with family today, A or B?
📺 Cripes, the crew went off on a risky plan in episode 5 of “Blake’s 7” Series B - “Pressure Point”!
Blake promised he’d find the way back at the very beginning, and we got to see this finally happen. But not without incident.
Once again, I don’t recall this episode!
📺 #TVShows 🚀 #Blakes7 7️⃣
Blake promised he’d find the way back at the very beginning, and we got to see this finally happen. But not without incident.
Once again, I don’t recall this episode!
📺 #TVShows 🚀 #Blakes7 7️⃣
November 26, 2025 at 10:24 PM
🤔 Is this why @thebrokenbinding.bsky.social don’t respond to queries over here… they’re just on Twitter? Note the format of the mentions below.
I have yet to get any kind of response from them either here or via their contact form, in a week of trying.
🫤
I have yet to get any kind of response from them either here or via their contact form, in a week of trying.
🫤
November 26, 2025 at 4:04 PM
🤔 Is this why @thebrokenbinding.bsky.social don’t respond to queries over here… they’re just on Twitter? Note the format of the mentions below.
I have yet to get any kind of response from them either here or via their contact form, in a week of trying.
🫤
I have yet to get any kind of response from them either here or via their contact form, in a week of trying.
🫤
📘 Started reading the third and final tome in @mikeshackle.bsky.social’s ”The Last War” trilogy - “Until the Last”.
And it is a very thick brick of a book! 😳😮🫣
I have ~2w before a #BookTube live show, so I cannot leave this chonker until December as I had planned 😰
📚⚔️ #FantasyBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋
And it is a very thick brick of a book! 😳😮🫣
I have ~2w before a #BookTube live show, so I cannot leave this chonker until December as I had planned 😰
📚⚔️ #FantasyBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋
November 26, 2025 at 1:01 PM
📘 Started reading the third and final tome in @mikeshackle.bsky.social’s ”The Last War” trilogy - “Until the Last”.
And it is a very thick brick of a book! 😳😮🫣
I have ~2w before a #BookTube live show, so I cannot leave this chonker until December as I had planned 😰
📚⚔️ #FantasyBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋
And it is a very thick brick of a book! 😳😮🫣
I have ~2w before a #BookTube live show, so I cannot leave this chonker until December as I had planned 😰
📚⚔️ #FantasyBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋
👹 “ancient, monster-infested underground ruins”!!! 🤗 There’s that sweet, sweet hook to reel me in on! 🎣
Hey, @tomlloydwrites.bsky.social, I was looking these up and see mention of “The Man With One Name” as a book 0.5. Where could/should I read that first?
📚⚔️ #FantasyBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋
Hey, @tomlloydwrites.bsky.social, I was looking these up and see mention of “The Man With One Name” as a book 0.5. Where could/should I read that first?
📚⚔️ #FantasyBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋
November 26, 2025 at 10:58 AM
👹 “ancient, monster-infested underground ruins”!!! 🤗 There’s that sweet, sweet hook to reel me in on! 🎣
Hey, @tomlloydwrites.bsky.social, I was looking these up and see mention of “The Man With One Name” as a book 0.5. Where could/should I read that first?
📚⚔️ #FantasyBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋
Hey, @tomlloydwrites.bsky.social, I was looking these up and see mention of “The Man With One Name” as a book 0.5. Where could/should I read that first?
📚⚔️ #FantasyBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋
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Books aren't expensive.
Writers are at the bottom of a large column of people making money off books.
We get screwed the most.
By the publishing industry and the fucking pirates.
You like books? Buy them, or go to the library.
Or there won't be any writers to make the art.
Writers are at the bottom of a large column of people making money off books.
We get screwed the most.
By the publishing industry and the fucking pirates.
You like books? Buy them, or go to the library.
Or there won't be any writers to make the art.
November 25, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Books aren't expensive.
Writers are at the bottom of a large column of people making money off books.
We get screwed the most.
By the publishing industry and the fucking pirates.
You like books? Buy them, or go to the library.
Or there won't be any writers to make the art.
Writers are at the bottom of a large column of people making money off books.
We get screwed the most.
By the publishing industry and the fucking pirates.
You like books? Buy them, or go to the library.
Or there won't be any writers to make the art.
📺 Ooo, I really liked episode 4 of “Blake’s 7” Series B - “Horizon”!
Lots of stuff going on, a single main plot line involving entire crew, and juicy shots of the Liberator.
Avon: “I’m not stupid. I’m not expendable. And I’m not going.” 😆
Again, zero recollection.
📺 #TVShows 🚀 #Blakes7 7️⃣
Lots of stuff going on, a single main plot line involving entire crew, and juicy shots of the Liberator.
Avon: “I’m not stupid. I’m not expendable. And I’m not going.” 😆
Again, zero recollection.
📺 #TVShows 🚀 #Blakes7 7️⃣
November 25, 2025 at 10:18 PM
🔖 Finishing one book - Eric Brown’s “Helix” - means I need to handover the bookmark to my next pick.
Unfortunately time constraints mean I need to head off-TBR, as there’s an upcoming fixed deadline for a super-chonky tome I’d planned for December! 😳
📚⚔️ #FantasyBooks 🚀 #SciFiBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋
Unfortunately time constraints mean I need to head off-TBR, as there’s an upcoming fixed deadline for a super-chonky tome I’d planned for December! 😳
📚⚔️ #FantasyBooks 🚀 #SciFiBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋
November 25, 2025 at 9:18 PM
🔖 Finishing one book - Eric Brown’s “Helix” - means I need to handover the bookmark to my next pick.
Unfortunately time constraints mean I need to head off-TBR, as there’s an upcoming fixed deadline for a super-chonky tome I’d planned for December! 😳
📚⚔️ #FantasyBooks 🚀 #SciFiBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋
Unfortunately time constraints mean I need to head off-TBR, as there’s an upcoming fixed deadline for a super-chonky tome I’d planned for December! 😳
📚⚔️ #FantasyBooks 🚀 #SciFiBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋
🏅 The one with all of the 2025 SciFi books that the GR Choice Awards snubbed.
A look at those nominated and other items of note that didn’t get any love, by @litscialliance.bsky.social.
🚀 #SciFiBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋 #BookTube 📺
A look at those nominated and other items of note that didn’t get any love, by @litscialliance.bsky.social.
🚀 #SciFiBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋 #BookTube 📺
35 Sci-fi Releases from 2025 || Goodreads Sci-fi Snubs
YouTube video by Literature Science Alliance
youtu.be
November 25, 2025 at 7:08 PM
🏅 The one with all of the 2025 SciFi books that the GR Choice Awards snubbed.
A look at those nominated and other items of note that didn’t get any love, by @litscialliance.bsky.social.
🚀 #SciFiBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋 #BookTube 📺
A look at those nominated and other items of note that didn’t get any love, by @litscialliance.bsky.social.
🚀 #SciFiBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋 #BookTube 📺
🔊 The one with @nndroid.bsky.social’s pocket full of £50 notes 💷 “Don’t do it!” 😂
”They abuse you for the same reason your dog licks its bollocks, right, because they can. Nothing stops them.”
🌍 #PoliticsAndAllThat 🗳️ #Podcasts 📻
”They abuse you for the same reason your dog licks its bollocks, right, because they can. Nothing stops them.”
🌍 #PoliticsAndAllThat 🗳️ #Podcasts 📻
“Enshittification” is the word of the moment. It’s the reason Google is all ads and Amazon serves you crappy overpriced products. Cory Doctorow, who coined the term, joins @nndroid.bsky.social and @rafaelbehr.bsky.social to discuss how we can combat it ➡️ linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnowpod
November 25, 2025 at 7:04 PM
🔊 The one with @nndroid.bsky.social’s pocket full of £50 notes 💷 “Don’t do it!” 😂
”They abuse you for the same reason your dog licks its bollocks, right, because they can. Nothing stops them.”
🌍 #PoliticsAndAllThat 🗳️ #Podcasts 📻
”They abuse you for the same reason your dog licks its bollocks, right, because they can. Nothing stops them.”
🌍 #PoliticsAndAllThat 🗳️ #Podcasts 📻
📗 Hey, @solarisbooks.bsky.social, you republished Eric Brown’s “Helix” in 2023. Are you planning on reprinting book two, “Helix Wars”?
Just finished 📕, want to continue, 📗 appears widely OOP.
Should I wait for one matching 2023 edition or buy 2nd hand?
LMK!
🚀 #SciFiBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋
Just finished 📕, want to continue, 📗 appears widely OOP.
Should I wait for one matching 2023 edition or buy 2nd hand?
LMK!
🚀 #SciFiBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋
November 25, 2025 at 6:11 PM
📗 Hey, @solarisbooks.bsky.social, you republished Eric Brown’s “Helix” in 2023. Are you planning on reprinting book two, “Helix Wars”?
Just finished 📕, want to continue, 📗 appears widely OOP.
Should I wait for one matching 2023 edition or buy 2nd hand?
LMK!
🚀 #SciFiBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋
Just finished 📕, want to continue, 📗 appears widely OOP.
Should I wait for one matching 2023 edition or buy 2nd hand?
LMK!
🚀 #SciFiBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋
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11 days apart. Brutal.
November 25, 2025 at 11:27 AM
11 days apart. Brutal.
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It's ridiculous how @masterreplicas.bsky.social 's secret goal is to make me poor. 😅
"Turn your desk into the bridge of a starship with this extra large desk mat, that's designed to sit under your keyboard and mouse."
"Turn your desk into the bridge of a starship with this extra large desk mat, that's designed to sit under your keyboard and mouse."
November 24, 2025 at 8:15 PM
It's ridiculous how @masterreplicas.bsky.social 's secret goal is to make me poor. 😅
"Turn your desk into the bridge of a starship with this extra large desk mat, that's designed to sit under your keyboard and mouse."
"Turn your desk into the bridge of a starship with this extra large desk mat, that's designed to sit under your keyboard and mouse."
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November 24, 2025 at 7:38 PM
theriffrepeater.com/rocksmith-ad...
Rocksmith+ adds full Metallica "Reload" album and a new 2025 single from Sabaton, Crossing the Rubicon. Plus 60% off a year subscription and an upcoming free weekend for fans of Sabaton
Rocksmith+ adds full Metallica "Reload" album and a new 2025 single from Sabaton, Crossing the Rubicon. Plus 60% off a year subscription and an upcoming free weekend for fans of Sabaton
📚💬 I just got to wondering what the long running series - in terms of number of books - that I’m actively working on might be.
I’m 13 books into Craig Alanson’s “Expeditionary Force” series, and I was today years old when I discovered there’s a 19th book coming.
🚀 #SciFiBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋
I’m 13 books into Craig Alanson’s “Expeditionary Force” series, and I was today years old when I discovered there’s a 19th book coming.
🚀 #SciFiBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋
November 24, 2025 at 5:55 PM
📚💬 I just got to wondering what the long running series - in terms of number of books - that I’m actively working on might be.
I’m 13 books into Craig Alanson’s “Expeditionary Force” series, and I was today years old when I discovered there’s a 19th book coming.
🚀 #SciFiBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋
I’m 13 books into Craig Alanson’s “Expeditionary Force” series, and I was today years old when I discovered there’s a 19th book coming.
🚀 #SciFiBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋
🔊 The one with the flute-whipping 😂 where @rafaelbehr.bsky.social suggests Starmer breaks out his flute. “That sounded like a really terrible, terrible euphemism. Please keep your flute to yourself. Do not whop out your flute in the House of Commons…” 🫵😘
🇬🇧 #UKPolitics 🗳️ #Podcasts 📻
🇬🇧 #UKPolitics 🗳️ #Podcasts 📻
🚨Start Your Week🚨
It’s a big week for Starmer and Reeves as the Budget looms. How’s it going to go down? @rafaelbehr.bsky.social and @jacobjarvis.bsky.social discuss this and other news to look out for this week.
Spotify 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/5LIz...
Apple 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...
It’s a big week for Starmer and Reeves as the Budget looms. How’s it going to go down? @rafaelbehr.bsky.social and @jacobjarvis.bsky.social discuss this and other news to look out for this week.
Spotify 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/5LIz...
Apple 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...
November 24, 2025 at 12:45 PM
🔊 The one with the flute-whipping 😂 where @rafaelbehr.bsky.social suggests Starmer breaks out his flute. “That sounded like a really terrible, terrible euphemism. Please keep your flute to yourself. Do not whop out your flute in the House of Commons…” 🫵😘
🇬🇧 #UKPolitics 🗳️ #Podcasts 📻
🇬🇧 #UKPolitics 🗳️ #Podcasts 📻
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Just passed a small kid having a meltdown on the pavement and shouting, "I want to stay in my house" repeatedly, and I think we can all relate to that on a cold November morning.
November 24, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Just passed a small kid having a meltdown on the pavement and shouting, "I want to stay in my house" repeatedly, and I think we can all relate to that on a cold November morning.
📺 Just watched episode 3 from “Blake’s 7” Series B “Weapon” and that was all-round rather bizarre 😳
Clones, a self-proclaimed genius, folks that were ‘marked for death’, and quite a lot of flirting between Servalan and Carnell.
And, of course, yet again zero recollection!
📺 #TVShows 🚀 #Blakes7 7️⃣
Clones, a self-proclaimed genius, folks that were ‘marked for death’, and quite a lot of flirting between Servalan and Carnell.
And, of course, yet again zero recollection!
📺 #TVShows 🚀 #Blakes7 7️⃣
November 23, 2025 at 10:01 PM
📆 End of the weekend so let’s do a weekly reading update! 😊
My reading pace crashed this week as I’ve been busy with other deadlines and jobs. However, I’m mainly reading Eric Brown’s “Helix” while the other active 📚 I pick up intermittently.
📚⚔️ #FantasyBooks 🚀 #SciFiBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋
My reading pace crashed this week as I’ve been busy with other deadlines and jobs. However, I’m mainly reading Eric Brown’s “Helix” while the other active 📚 I pick up intermittently.
📚⚔️ #FantasyBooks 🚀 #SciFiBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋
November 23, 2025 at 8:35 PM
📆 End of the weekend so let’s do a weekly reading update! 😊
My reading pace crashed this week as I’ve been busy with other deadlines and jobs. However, I’m mainly reading Eric Brown’s “Helix” while the other active 📚 I pick up intermittently.
📚⚔️ #FantasyBooks 🚀 #SciFiBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋
My reading pace crashed this week as I’ve been busy with other deadlines and jobs. However, I’m mainly reading Eric Brown’s “Helix” while the other active 📚 I pick up intermittently.
📚⚔️ #FantasyBooks 🚀 #SciFiBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋