Kieran Mc 🚟

Kieran Mc 🚟

@kjmci.me

Australian digital product strategist in London. Lover of tech, craft beer, urbanism, and Cities: Skylines - I help run @cslmodd.ing. He/him, 🏳️‍🌈

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Spotify may be evil, but at least their app fucking worked. I swear Apple Music will just refuse to play the next, or any, song if you even look at it the wrong way

I asked Apple Music (on the web) to shuffle songs from my entire library. So far it's shuffling, but only from songs that begin with "A". I think it's selecting its sample based on the list of tracks currently cached in my browser rather than, say, the giant database of my music on their servers?

lol, it's even bad at shuffling *at all*, playing a second or two of the next alphabetical song before remembering it's not supposed to do that

In retrospect, anyone else noticed that you don't get "black tube snot" any more and reckon it was more likely the shite you were breathing above ground instead?

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I’ve made more art for #CitiesSkylines II - a group of ten large-format sculptures from thr City of London’s Sculptures in the City programme and beyond. Those colourful sheets actually move as though catching a light breeze! Available on PDX Mods: mods.paradoxplaza.com/mods/164914/...

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Let's briefly take a moment to observe what running a dataslopfactory biz does to a mofo (*before* shedding $3B value in 40 minutes)

benjamin@benjamino.bsky.social

West Footscray residents slashing NextDC's value by 40% is a beautiful thing

Bird people being Very Mad about a swift eating worms or whatever in a Richard Osman book has been made even more sad when I looked it up and saw that the book in question is a work of fiction

Sometimes when I see a film or TV show set in London I play a fun game of "you can't get there from here" when they inevitably duck down to the tube for a bit, but that is the extent of my concern despite it being something I know a lot about because I know none of it is real. Because it's fiction.

I love that this is just Dark Saarinen likely inspired by the opening of Dulles five years prior

Duille@duille.com

Design for film set 'You only live twice'. Ken Adam. 1967.

Watch out for hop-ons…

Pater Practicus@paterpracticus.bsky.social

I have decided to go into production with the 1/144 scale airliner steps I designed for my Comet 4 model. So, having tidied up the supports for a more reliable print, they are now available ready-printed from Pater's Shed: patersshed.com/products/res...

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The Prince Charles Cinema Secures its Future The Prince Charles Cinema is thrilled to announce that we have signed a new 25-year lease with no break clause, ensuring our projectors will keep rolling for years to come. #YouSavedthePCC

Off to the Big Office in Chelsea today to get my laptop swapped which means I’ll be free for a long lunch. Any good pubs for a meal around Saatchi Gallery?

LOZ IS RAD AND YOU SHOULD BUY HER QUEER GEAR IF YOU LIKE GAMES. GO, NOW!

LozPlaysTCGs@lozplaystcgs.bsky.social

Hey so, I launched a new business! It’s a queer-owned, AU-based, TTRPG and TCG online store doing game pieces, accessories and merch. If that sounds like your bag, please throw us a follow and check out the store at tutorsandtabletops.com! bsky.app/profile/tuto...

I’m thinking of doing a thing where I make a variety of “spiced meat in pastry” dishes - think burek, empanadas, Jamaican patties, etc. Any I should 100% do?

The Sizz is the Biz even if you’re not living in Australia. Give the clown your money (plus the AUD is down so it’s even cheaper!)

decryption@decryption.bsky.social

ahh the slow decline of sizzle subscribers when i do 0 promotion of it - time to get in the clown suit, jump around like an idiot and hope people give me money thesizzle.com.au - australia's best technology newsletter, all the other ones are shit

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ahh the slow decline of sizzle subscribers when i do 0 promotion of it - time to get in the clown suit, jump around like an idiot and hope people give me money thesizzle.com.au - australia's best technology newsletter, all the other ones are shit

Was lucky enough to attend a pre-release GDC presentation with the Titanfall 2 producers who effectively said “we hired the best level designers, told them to build something incredible, then we wrote a story around it” imo there’s no way modern games would give so much freedom over to individuals

Chris Person@papapishu.bsky.social

Playing Titanfall 2 again and it just fills you with sadness, that specific strain of narrative first person shooter that Half-life wrought basically does not exist any more in that same way. We barely get a confusing single player campaign stapled to a multiplayer game any more.

There is no way that a game developed in the 2020s would produce Effect and Cause, and Into the Abyss in the same campaign without such freedom. I still go back and play TiF2 now and again, just to feel something.

I thought I’d try iOS 27’s alleged ability to search for email based on intent and natural language, not just keywords. It did not find my booking confirmation for next Sunday.

Labour MPs will do anything, including subjecting their staff to abuse and racism, rather than leave X the Everything App

I am watching that horrible Netflix Wonka-meets-Squid Games reality show and it's so bad but I can't look away

New iOS / WatchOS 27 Apple Wallet feature? My Amex is the default card but my Monzo was charged. Assume it got a “card not supported” response from the reader and it cycled to the next available one?

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“The company’s profits had been inflated by a practice of helping outside companies finance purchases of its equipment” - this is about Lucent in the Dotcom boom, remind you of anyone in 2026?

You could tell this came from Threads without the explicit mention because they used "F-bomb" instead of just saying fuck

Mark Wallace@wallaceme.bsky.social

Ok don’t let’s get carried away but I found something genuinely good on Threads.

6 News Australia@6newsau.bsky.social

Victorian Premier Ben Carroll says his government can achieve a Brisbane Lions-style comeback at the state election "The Liberals and One Nation think they've got this election in the bag...but we've got a message for them: it's Wharfie Time and Victorians want a positive plan"

Listening to a particularly obnoxious, drunk American trying to make the case that despite all of the actual bad things Trump has done… has the pub bore considered the hypothetical bad things Kamala could have done? These two have been locked in discussion for an hour, I just wish they were quieter