Paul [Atreides] Wood

IT DIDN'T GET JINXED My new retro purchase is this arcade cabinet which formerly stood in an Arbroath pub. The 1942 arcade PCB was included. I spent a good part of yesterday making space and shuffling things around for it.

My Top 25 Spooky #C64 Games No 5 The Castles of Doctor Creep A gothic castle packed with traps, monsters, teleporters and deadly contraptions. The Castles of Doctor Creep is clever, creepy and wonderfully designed. Even better with two players, it’s one of the C64’s best spooky puzzle/platformers.

This is the dream.

Please read this whole thread. FIV is a manageable virus! Most cats who have it can live a normal, healthy lifespan with proper basic care. www.adoptapet.com/blog/adoptio...

I think some of my followers will appreciate this. For the candle, obvs.

Instead of screaming about ‘woke’ could we try having a sensible discussion about whether or not the dead should be on display in museums? Scotland has removed some mummies from display and the culture warriors have gone nuts. Whatever happened to intelligent debate? In @heraldscotland.bsky.social

GHOSTS 'N GOBLINS CAPCOM/MICRONICS 1986 NES

Quarter of all kids in the UK being in poverty should be a statistic that gets your government the guillotine

Sci-Fi Writer: “In my book I invented the loser nexus as a cautionary tale.” Every tech exec for some reason: “At long last…”

Why does seeing KKK members being shot upset certain people so much?

hang on, so Bleecker Street was sold to a Pierre Omidyar-backed group that also happens to back Tosca Musk's Passionflix... and now "MUSK" is disappearing from theaters?

Just considering how much of a hilariously bad idea it is to try ignoring Musk when he's pumping nearly half a billion dollars into US midterm elections on behalf of the Bastards Party, trying to push the entire American political system rightwards as a result. Disasterous brainworm behaviour.

Look, I know all the reasons we got here, but we really need to start seriously thinking about what we do in a world where The Markets punish whole countries for voting for decency, compassion, and fairness. We must stop pretending the capitalist machine is an objective, value neutral force.

“Why is bluesky so incredibly dull” because you haven’t carefully curated a feed of the most unhinged people on the internet, like i have

Jet Pac Willy Artist: HappyToast https://b3ta.com/board/11432492 From the 'Game Mashups' challenge https://b3ta.com/challenge/gamemashups/popular/ #GameMashups

Absolutely not.

Simon Heffer not keen

🎉 Welcome to the Public Domain, EDWARD STEICHEN’S FASHION FOR VOGUE (1930) 📸🖼️ Model Marion Morehouse wears a dress by Madeleine Vionnet in this photograph by Steichen, one of the most influential fashion & modernist photographers of his era. More ⤵️ archive.org/details/vogu... #PublicDomain

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What’s that you say? Liz has a new book out which even the Telegraph is saying is even more unhinged than the last one? Wonderful, I’ll post this then.