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Douglas Wilson
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🎮 Mutazione, Saltsea Chronicles, Sportsfriends, JS Joust

🎓 Senior Lecturer (in Games)

🎭 Clown+Theater w/ @melmcglensey.bsky.social

🎙️ Co-host @ https://eggplant.show/

🌏 Naarm/Melbourne (by way of NJ/NY)

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doougle.net
*Looks outside* oh look it’s “summer” out in “Victoria” 🥶
December 26, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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doougle.net
Special holiday shoutout to 102.7 FM Triple R Naarm/Melb. So many of our music recs these days come from random tunes we hear on RRR. (And yes I am an annual subscriber). Fuck Big Tech, independent radio is more vital than ever 💕
December 25, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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leena.reuben.games
Atrocious. There should be consequences for these constant attempts at capture.

If you don’t like that a man said people made him feel uneasy there then talk to your people about how they’re expected to treat people, don’t tell the paper to pull the piece where he talks about it.
This opinion piece by Cumberland councillor Ahmed Ouf was originally published in the Sydney Morning Herald on Wednesday, December 24. [highlight in blue]It was deleted from the Herald's website following complaints from the Australian Jewish Association [close highlight]. Opinions expressed are those of the author alone.
December 26, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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simonrosenberg.bsky.social
Charity represents the failure of public policy.

So one of the worst examples of political hypocrisy is politicians getting photo ops performing meal services for people who they have kept living in #poverty. #inequality #homelessness #auspol
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Albanese serves hot meals with a side of hope for Christmas lunch
Armed with gloves, apron and tongs, politicians from across the aisle gathered to serve festive fare at the Rev Bill Crews Foundation in Sydney
www.theguardian.com
December 25, 2025 at 12:05 PM
doougle.net
Special holiday shoutout to 102.7 FM Triple R Naarm/Melb. So many of our music recs these days come from random tunes we hear on RRR. (And yes I am an annual subscriber). Fuck Big Tech, independent radio is more vital than ever 💕
December 25, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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lauraehall.bsky.social
Since it's a season when a lot of people are spending time with friends and family: what are your favorite made-up games and traditions to play during the holidays? DIY scavenger hunts, almonds baked into cakes for win a prize, Scrabble tournaments that get way too heated... please share em all!
December 25, 2025 at 12:00 AM
doougle.net
Small holiday miracle:

@smestorp.bsky.social just updated the 2012 Kompendium blog post with a working download link (via itch):
mightyvision.blogspot.com/2012/06/komp...

Compendium of 9 (???) 1v1 local multiplayer games. One of Michael's best releases imo!

Glitch Tank is an all-timer.
Kompendium
This is an album of nine 2-player local-multiplayer games: Exuberant Struggle , March Eternal , Ora et Labora , Twilight Beacon , Capricio...
mightyvision.blogspot.com
December 25, 2025 at 1:21 AM
doougle.net
Merry Xmas from the AEDT timezone! 🌏
Photo of a black cat in a Christmas neck tie. TV and Christmas stockings blurry in the background. Photo of brown dog in a red dress on a couch, looking at the camera.
December 25, 2025 at 1:14 AM
doougle.net
It's that one day of the year where we break out this record of old fashioned Australian Xmas Carols:
www.discogs.com/master/79825...

Best record cover of all time!
Record cover, "15 Australian Christmas Carols". Lots of small circular colorful illustrations of Australian images, such as Southern Cross, koala, flowers, etc.
December 25, 2025 at 1:02 AM
doougle.net
new haunted ambience Xmas tune from Romance:
youmustrememberthis.bandcamp.com/track/all-i-...
All I Want For Christmas Is You, by Romance
track by Romance
youmustrememberthis.bandcamp.com
December 24, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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raiganburns.bsky.social
ATTENTION BSKY: in celebration of Cinco Paus Day's Eve, please message me if you'd like a free copy of the best game ever made. :)

smestorp.itch.io/cinco-paus

Also TSLOG are doing an amazing series of podcasts on Michael's games:
eggplant.show

PLEASE REPOST! OR RE-SKEET! WHATEVER IT'S CALLED!! :)
Cinco Paus by Michael Brough
Available for Windows, macOS
smestorp.itch.io
December 24, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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antlervel.vet
Merry Christmas
All I Want For Christmas Is You (Wii Shop)
YouTube video by kuribo98
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December 24, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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jeffsparrow1.bsky.social
The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory explicitly names the Israeli President as responsible for inciting genocide — and yet Albanese is inviting him here. Shameful and scandalous!
December 24, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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edmondtran.bsky.social
As someone only vaguely aware of this issue I found this pretty informative! Maybe you will too!
December 23, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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brkeogh.bsky.social
So the NSW gov's response to the Bondi mass shooting seems to be banning mass protests that have no connection to the shooting, and to reduce the maximum number of guns an individual can own to a number higher than the number of guns that were present per shooter. Cool www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
Sydney and NSW 'changed forever' as tougher gun, protest laws passed
Premier Chris Minns says some of the tougher laws on guns and protests in the wake of the Bondi Beach attack will go into effect immediately after the NSW parliament passed a package of changes in the...
www.abc.net.au
December 24, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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simonrosenberg.bsky.social
This article mentions two things we rarely see in mainstream media:

- a significant number of Australian Jews oppose Israel's apartheid & genocide.

- if the nation is looking for enhanced social cohesion after the Bondi massacre, alliances between Jews, Palestinians & Muslims are a great example.
December 24, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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chrisgardiner.bsky.social
Essentially, I think that LLM-generated dialogue only makes sense if you believe that the product of writing is words.

But the product of writing isn't words, any more than the product of justice is prisoners, or the product of love is weddings. The product of writing is meaning.
December 23, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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leena.reuben.games
don’t make fun of us for sounding funny or saying “oh naurrr”, make fun of us for our attempted genocide against the oldest continually living culture on the planet.

we should be a pariah state.

this is a dark, backwards country, and no amount of joke-washing and funny cork hats can hide it.
December 24, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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papapishu.bsky.social
For @aftermath.site, I wrote about the crucible of beating the Manbreaker in Baby Steps, a brutal challenge that the game actively tells you not to do. I am happy that I did it. aftermath.site/baby-steps-m...
Baby Steps' Manbreaker Did Not Break Me - Aftermath
Baby Steps' Manbreaker is an optional yet brutal challenge that is as much a test of your humility as it is your skill.
aftermath.site
October 8, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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mikebithell.bsky.social
The confusion and conflation of ‘generative ai that is built on stolen artwork’ and ‘machine learning, character behaviour modelling and proc gen’ is intentional on the part of the grifters peddling the former. They benefit from murkiness of classification, because the latter predates their bollocks
December 23, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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joshuaerlich.bsky.social
i say this with nothing but love for all of you to whom this applies, but the moral rot in elite journalism is because journalism is a trade and it should be done by tradespeople and instead it's been professionalized in a way that makes it cozy to capital instead
December 22, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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louisevans.bsky.social
I think the thing that makes me nuts is that the horrifying expose of CECOT is the pitch for CECOT. they're the same picture.
December 23, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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brkeogh.bsky.social
Precisely what I meant by talking about Labour's terrible leadership. Immediately caving to the right and those booing instead of clearly articulating and trying to get the public on board with what actually needs to be done to fight antisemitism and all racism.
bsky.app/profile/dave...
davemilbo.bsky.social David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 3d
I find it sooooooooooo weird people are upset "Albo" was booed, and not that his government is eroding our democratic rights to appease the extremist genocidaires that booed him.

Big picture. Focus on our democracy and rights, not the pride/image of an individual politician.
December 23, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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brkeogh.bsky.social
Decades of producing party leaders in a vat connected to a focus group has ensured the Labour party is both ideologically and rhetorically completely unequipped to deal with actually being in government when a national crisis occurs.
December 22, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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ketanjoshi.co
In Andrew Bolt's infamous 2018 "tidal wave of immigrants column", he specifically singled out Jewish communities as 'part of the problem'

The idea that the far-right, anti-immigration parties and xenophobe media are going to protect the Aus Jewish community is absurd

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December 22, 2025 at 10:45 PM