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I'm at the #ScottishGameDevelopersAssociation #GamesTalksLive in #Edinburgh tonight, #Dundee tomorrow & #Glasgow Thursday please do say hi! sgda.co.uk/gtl for more details. #Games #GamesDev #Scotland #SGDA #Scottish

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Travelling this Halloween? How to scare people around the world: UK: Boo! FI: pöö! FR: bouh! DE: buh! ES: uhh! JP: kekeke! CZ: baf! MX: ¡Buu! NL: boe! IT: bù! TH: buu! CN: tài! NO: Bø! GD: Buth! GA: Bú!

Listening to a report about Google chopping down a quarter of a million trees in Finland to build a data centre while washing out yoghurt pots for the recycling

Reminder this is tomorrow and a cracking line up! @zuzipope.bsky.social spook-ing to @benedictanning.bsky.social , @bingewriting.bsky.social and @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social !

In one day, two politicians - Bolsonaro in Brazil and Vucic in Serbia - with ties to Trump have lost surprise elections thanks to high turnout. The rise of the international far-right is not inevitable.

Shout out to @argonautbooks.bsky.social who have a buy one get one half price offer in all @blpublishing.bsky.social Tales of the Weird books. Perfect for a Halloween gift!

Local Wiki will show you all the interesting things within a 30 minute walk from you. www.neil-scott.com/localwiki By @neilscott.substack.com

@pictcon.bsky.social is now half way to breaking even for 2027. Do you live in Scotland or near enough that a one day science fiction and fantasy convention (with an optional dinner the night before, for early arrivals) appeals? Just £30/£20!- we just need to sell 26 more tickets to be on target!

Here's Sir David Attenborough on why this huge, heart-shaped piece of the UK in Northumberland is so important. A chance like this to save massive space for nature won't come again. £11,000 donated yesterday, £1.37m still to go by the end of the month - the time is now! 💚 #conservation #ukwildlife

All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies. And when they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you; digger, listener, runner, Prince with the swift warning. Be cunning, and full of tricks, and your people will never be destroyed

The Adam Ant comic strip in early 80s issues of TV Tops was a darn sight more fun than you might imagine. With art by Maureen & Gordon Gray, this page sees The Legion Of Adam Ants (*) gather to fight the fiendish Evil. * They’re not called that in the strip. But by crikey they should be.

Every gothic horror:

Can confirm that this is a real trailer of the Mass Effect game that BioWare was developing up until its closure yesterday www.reddit.com/r/masseffect...

I've made 6 open-source @godotengine.org projects perfect for as a base for your first or next game. Completely human-made and easy to understand code & comments. All visuals and sounds included, CC0! kenney.nl/starter-kits

Part of my literal job is to fly out to physical game studios to rescue and recover historical materials that might be endangered and put them in a permanent archive. @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social is a 501(c)3 publicly funded to do that, my DMs are open, and I'm free for the next couple weeks...

Video games has decided to discontinue its once leading product, the video game

Something that I find deeply frustrating is this constant push by foreign press trying to present the French protests against not funding schools and austerity, as a foreign plot. Especially this idea that people cannot legitimately be protesting because they feel compelled to. It is antidemocratic.

I'm very excited to be speaking about Abolish Westminster at @lighthousebks.bsky.social radical book fair, alongside @qmanivannan.bsky.social and @jena.ng on 8 November, at the Roxy in Edinburgh. Join us!: lighthousebookshop.com/events/what-...

Hey Scottish voice actors! If you're interested in auditioning for this, DM me for the deets!

Last chance to Join the #Rebellion! Nov 7th, #Leith #Scotland Our #StarWars themed #megagame is almost sold out but you could get one of the last few tickets! Please signal boost we'd love to sell out! Latest update and link to tickets on the website abs.ventures/a-squadron-o... #Games #Resistance

Bela Lugosi, Lucille Lund and Boris Karloff in a publicity still for THE BLACK CAT (1934) Lugosi was BOTD in 1882

eBay users! Don't ignore today's email, even though it looks like a boring standard update to the User Privacy Notice. They want to use your data to train AI models. If you click the link over the words "the right to object", it takes you to a page with a toggle button letting you opt out.

EDINBURGHers - if you’ve ever enjoyed a show/ gig/ the pub at Summerhall, there’s a simple online consultation open UNTIL FRI where you can tell the developers if, SAY, you have concerns about how massive a chunk is proposed to be demolished & turned into student flats summerhallconsultation.co.uk

"There is a loophole as big as a barn door that hundreds of STL owners are exploiting, and residents are paying the price. Ministers need to wake up and smell the coffee and act urgently to close it." #edinburgh edinburgh.greens.scot/news/shockin...

Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First https://theonion.com/protestors-criticized-for-looting-businesses-without-fo-1843735351/

Life is unpredictable but if there’s one thing that we’ve learnt it’s that as soon as we send a new issue off to the printers we spot something we’d loved to have featured in it… Anyway, just saw this… www.nemastudios.com/collections/...

Miss @ianhamilton.bsky.social's game accessibility news update? Don't worry, he put everything in a handy reference doc! tinyurl.com/gaconfoct26

I pay for several different worker owned journalism sites and I love it so much. If you like reading about games and the games industry, consider checking out: @verticalslice.news @mothership.blog @aftermath.site

All 18 known surviving editions of Harris’s List of #CoventGardenLadies are now available in the #HarrissListDigitalArchive (IIIF and full-text), with over 2,600 entries, an interactive map, network analysis, and visualizations: harrisslist.prisms.digital #c18th #HarrissList #DigitalHumanities

This is your semi-regular reminder that you live in a cyberpunk dystopia. youtube.com/shorts/KW-Jl...

Tomorrow I'll be at #StirlingCastle running a @chaosium.bsky.social #CallOfCthulhu #RPG scenario Blasphemers in the Borderlands I've written with #HistoryandGamesLab Edinburgh University alongside a host of other cool #games! tinyurl.com/4ux6b793 info & tix to an amazing live play! #TTRPG #Scotland

Spoonquill, an online residency for writers with chronic illness, is open for applications! Designed with rest in mind, it includes sessions with amazing SFF writers and pros. If you count spoons and write speculative fiction, now is the time to apply. spoonquill.com

This is properly weird - Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh seems to attract such things! blog.historicenvironment.scot/2026/10/the-...

The night shift just got worse. Grease Trap '99 is a short, PS1-inspired horror game set in a Scottish fish and chip shop in 1999. Fully voice-acted in Scottish Gaelic. Coming to Steam on October 21! Wishlist: s.team/a/4509200 #IndieHorror #GreaseTrap99

Rockstar tribunal update: If you're wondering what Rockstar considered offensive with regards to union Discord chatter, company exec Rob Spampinato is currently claiming they were upset at being compared to a fictional communist cat called 'Meow Zedong' in relation to HR policy changes.

The October Country, by Ray Bradbury #bookwormsat

Millions of pounds of public money going into enabling opaque off-shore ownership of data centre... www.theferret.scot/scotland-dat...

Dungeon and Bad Decisions Intro Episode: Roleplay 1/2 #DnD #DnMD #DungeonAndBadDecisions

prefer analogue CDs, the sound is much warmer