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@5of6.bsky.social Hope you're doing well, mate.

Nothing like the ending to The Excavation of Hob's Barrow to start the day with swing in your step and a song in your heart.

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We are excited to announce that the Iceland DLC for Euro Truck Simulator 2 will be released on November 10! 😍 Dramatic coastlines, black sand beaches, powerful waterfalls, and charming cities await you! 🇮🇸🏞️ Watch the official video trailer here 👇 blog.scssoft.com/2026/10/icel...

New synthesizer showing up today, mates. It's a bit of a beast--the Korg Multi/Poly. So many twiddlies.

There's no solution for self-hatred is there? Once you've been in therapy, taken medication, exercised, lost weight, spent time out in the sun and all that, your options run out. Nobody wants to tell you "Yeah, you're fucked" but that's how it is, and how it will forever be.

store.steampowered.comSave 50% on The Signal From Tölva on SteamThe Signal From Tölva is an open-world first-person shooter set on a distant, haunted, future world. Unlock savage weapons and recruit robots to fight alongside you as rival factions struggle to disco...

Somebody at Riot Games-KD/A seems to be a The Prodigy fan.

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Jim Rossignol

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If you want your robots with a more sort of @ianmcque.bsky.social art concept vibe, there's also:

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Jim Rossignol

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Sir, You Are Being Hunted is missing out on the Halloween sale for some baffling Steam reason, so pick up the greatest survival game ever made or even imagined for FIFTY PERCENT OFF this weekend! Do it now! Go! Please! I love you! store.steampowered.com/app/242880/S...

store.steampowered.comSave 50% on Sir, You Are Being Hunted on SteamSir, You Are Being Hunted is a freedom sandbox stealth experience, where each playthrough is unique, thanks to our British Countryside Generator. Escape from these robot-infested islands with violence...

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Steve Tillotson

@banalpig.bsky.social

Etymology is my passion

New Chase Bliss guitar arrived. Regrettably Bad Mood is an absolute stonker. Lost way too much time to Relay mode, the beat repeater/delay combo that simply plays back the input signal a predetermined amount of times--that's all it does! But it's amazing!

I mean I love sound-on-sound looping, Frippertronics and all that, and this is a clever way of adding a little order to that in a pedal that is otherwise all about being messy and spontaneous. Building up to a full loop then disassembling it block by block, or letting it play in perpetuity. Lovely.

We've fallen down the League of Legends Worlds Championship Finale opening ceremonies hole. No interest in the game but Jesus, the pageantry. Virtual bands, dragons flying around the arena, full orchestras, incredible special effects--stuff I've never seen anywhere else.

Are other esports league finals like this? It's hard to imagine a bigger gaming event.

The apparent rise in beginner hobbyists positioning themselves as experts by recycling the same beginner's tips they've already seen on the Internet is something that should--somehow--be studied.

YouTube account = authority.

@franticplanet.bsky.social

We had a birthday bash for my eldest and that many tween girls is frankly too many tween girls.

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Stuart Millard

Now available for all, Saturday Morning Archaeology answers the question 'What if Get Fresh went goth?' as we go on the run from Barry Mafia with the cheerily morbid chaos of ITV's Ghost Train. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPkp...

youtube.comSaturday Morning Archaeology: Ghost TrainYouTube video by Stuart Millard

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Welcome back to Brackenreach! 🎃 This Halloween, we #ReturnToBrackenreach in our World of Trucks event! Venture beyond the veil of our world into a mystical realm steeped in legend. Deliver spooky cargo and earn Halloween rewards! 👻🚛 See more 👇 blog.scssoft.com/2026/10/retu...

Welp, it's my birthday again. It keeps happening.

As LEGO Store freebies go, this one's pretty nice.

As an addendum to my posts about the school system/teaching my son to read, his literacy test scores came back this week placing him in the top 1% in the country--as high a score as is possible. His take-home folder reveals this week his class is trying to learn the word "but".

My weight is bouncing again and none of my clothes fit. I am the king of weightloss and also of weightgain.

According to my Fitbit, and also the few pictures taken of me during that time, I lost a load of weight mid-pandemic and I don't even remember. Like, I remember walking a lot, and my meds fucking with my head, but I don't remember losing weight at all.

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No it bloody isn't. 😡

"Bury me with my money."

Daniel Bellingradt@dbellingradt.bsky.social

Wrong answers only. My bet: thanks for all the fish.

youtu.beSEAN WOLCOTT / RECORDS & FRIENDS at SORTone / ALL VINYL SET / #009YouTube video by B.N.A

My new musical obsession Sean Wolcott has in the past put out a couple gorgeous DJ sets. Some of his own stuff, plus soundtracks with funk guitars, sweeping strings, quivering Mellotron vibes etc. Perfect uneasy listening for spooky season. youtu.be/OK42pikv98k?...

Getting haptic upgrades for my truck sim pedals for my birthday. And they said I wasn't cool.

This guy is done.

Night driving in ATS while listening to an old Art Bell Ghost to Ghost is pretty damned cool.

Trying to get a clear view of Mount Rushmore from the car park without actually going in was an oddly authentic experience. The kids kept chanting "Heads heads heads!" As I circled past toll gates, peeking through trees. (American Truck Simulator)

The DLC hasn't hit Eastern USA or any of the states I've visited. It's still cool to see the ATS versions of Devil's Tower, the Hollywood sign or Sequoia National Park, to be cruising and randomly run into them, like they're part of the country's history and not simply dropped there by a developer.

Impressed by how a game I've had for ten years, that's worked for ten years across two gaming high-end PCs, has received a massive free technical upgrade and now no longer works.

seanwolcott.bandcamp.comCrystal Eyes Stalk at Midnight, by Sean Wolcott12 track album

You know when you discover a new musical artist and you're like "This is going to cost me a LOT of money"? seanwolcott.bandcamp.com/album/crysta...

With Rose Tinted Spectrum slowly glomping through the CITV archives there's only so much time to put out withering retrospectives on the period children's TV he hasn't reached yet. I'd never do it, but the prospect of drunkenly ripping into Kapatoo, Alfonso Bonzo and Watt On Earth has its appeal.

If the new Road Trip Atlas in American Truck Simulator could be expanded or modded to include write-ups about practically everything you see from the road I'd be very grateful.

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@walkaboutminigolf.bsky.social

The Road Trip: Ford DLC for American Truck Simulator is now released and available on Steam! 😍 Drive and customize iconic Ford cars, complete deliveries, build your courier reputation, and explore the world with the Atlas feature! 🚗💨 Get it now 👇 store.steampowered.com/app/3793200/...

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Walkabout Mini Golf

Respond to a distress beacon on Planet Xylodon, a world lush with some of the most beautiful (and strange) plant life ever seen by humankind. Escape from Planet Xylodon comes to Walkabout Mini Golf on Thursday, October 8th!

One of the great things about American Truck Simulator is seeing signs for something weird, following those signs *to* something weird, then looking up the weird thing and discovering it is in fact, a real weird thing in the weird real world.

Like this thing. (Stock photo from South Dakota)

I do like this game. (American Truck Simulator, of course)

In the Summer of 2025 I was so disillusioned with my Kindergartner son's inability to recognise and recite the alphabet in its entirety that I took it upon myself to--with the assistance of a few inexpensive books--teach him to read. Today, he's reading The Boxcar Children.

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I don't expect teachers to be able to replicate one-on-one tuition in the classroom, but I have zero training, spent perhaps fifteen minutes a day on tuition, using textbooks and young-readers that are widely available and which were, crucially, aimed at teaching entire classrooms.

My kids often come home talking about the YouTube videos or movies they watched at school. Their education has been largely gamified and automated using tablets and Chromebooks. There's something very wrong here.

At school, three weeks or so into first grade, the class is covering '--ck' words and teaching pupils to recognise the word 'friend'. The software replacing teacher-pupil interactions is having children match words: "Can you find the word 'out' among 'otu' 'tou' and 'out'?"

I'm proud of him for learning to read, but at the same time it's hard not to think of this level of automated education as either underestimating swathes of young students or a deliberate effort to under-educate.

Finally getting around to my Father's Day present.

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The South Dakota DLC for American Truck Simulator is now released and available on Steam! 🇺🇸 🤩 Haul cargo through the beautiful landscapes of the Badlands and Black Hills, see the iconic Mount Rushmore, explore cities, and more! 🏞️ Get it now 👇 store.steampowered.com/app/3749870/...

23 Sept

Meta sent me a guide about what to do if your Threads posts "aren't working" and is this just how things are? Is this how everyone sees the world? If you're not "growing your brand" are you a failure? I just want to type shit and get it out of my system. I don't care about likes or follows.