Martin Lynagh
@martinlynagh.bsky.social
Game Maker, Lecturer in Game Production at Abertay University (Professional Projects Module Lead). Glasgow. Former Molecule. This is not a place of honour.
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The EU GAME-ER project at Abertay University is looking for local expertise to help verify its map of Dundee's game development community
Dundee’s Games Cluster in the Spotlight as GAME-ER Research Project Seeks Local Expertise
Everyone knows Dundee is the beating heart of Scotland's games ecosystem, but how many studios are based in the city? Researchers from Abertay University are calling upon the collective knowledge of the Dundee games community to help verify a comprehensive map of the city's renowned games cluster. The request comes as part of GAME-ER, a major European research project dedicated to understanding the dynamics of local and regional video game ecosystems.
scottishgames.net
September 19, 2025 at 10:34 AM
The EU GAME-ER project at Abertay University is looking for local expertise to help verify its map of Dundee's game development community
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These guys are simply not smart.
September 4, 2025 at 4:25 PM
These guys are simply not smart.
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Question to Zach Polanski at the leadership announcement:
"Q: How can you take on Nigel Farage when your policy on immigration is so different?"
Everything wrong with British politics and media summed up so succinctly in a single absolutely unhinged question.
"Q: How can you take on Nigel Farage when your policy on immigration is so different?"
Everything wrong with British politics and media summed up so succinctly in a single absolutely unhinged question.
September 2, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Question to Zach Polanski at the leadership announcement:
"Q: How can you take on Nigel Farage when your policy on immigration is so different?"
Everything wrong with British politics and media summed up so succinctly in a single absolutely unhinged question.
"Q: How can you take on Nigel Farage when your policy on immigration is so different?"
Everything wrong with British politics and media summed up so succinctly in a single absolutely unhinged question.
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It’s hard to look around—at Blair pitching a luxury resort to be built on the Gaza killing fields or Keir Starmer responding to anti-Asian hate by affirming his affinity for the perpetrators—and not conclude that the elite’s real problem with Corbyn was that he wasn’t sufficiently Islamophobic.
September 2, 2025 at 6:27 AM
It’s hard to look around—at Blair pitching a luxury resort to be built on the Gaza killing fields or Keir Starmer responding to anti-Asian hate by affirming his affinity for the perpetrators—and not conclude that the elite’s real problem with Corbyn was that he wasn’t sufficiently Islamophobic.
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I think George Osborne openly musing to the air that the security services probably wouldn’t have tolerated Labour winning in 2017, because of our relationship with America, is quite helpful and I’d like to hear more.
September 2, 2025 at 6:51 AM
I think George Osborne openly musing to the air that the security services probably wouldn’t have tolerated Labour winning in 2017, because of our relationship with America, is quite helpful and I’d like to hear more.
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Sensationally, it appears the grown ups have been put back in charge of the grown ups who were previously put back in charge
September 2, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Sensationally, it appears the grown ups have been put back in charge of the grown ups who were previously put back in charge
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I missed this when it happened and anyone who has ever used an analog synth is going to embarrass themselves laughing at this. Thank u Greg www.tumblr.com/decanting-ce...
August 26, 2025 at 9:34 AM
I missed this when it happened and anyone who has ever used an analog synth is going to embarrass themselves laughing at this. Thank u Greg www.tumblr.com/decanting-ce...
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the last two news stories i saw, one after another, were israel bombing nasser hospital in gaza and then this one. genuinely ashamed of the UK right now
BREAKING: Award-winning Scottish screenwriter Paul Laverty has been arrested after wearing a T-shirt reading 'Genocide in Palestine, time to take action'
Police arrested the I, Daniel Blake writer in Edinburgh this morning
Police arrested the I, Daniel Blake writer in Edinburgh this morning
August 25, 2025 at 1:46 PM
the last two news stories i saw, one after another, were israel bombing nasser hospital in gaza and then this one. genuinely ashamed of the UK right now
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Compare the amount of coverage of a thousand or so fascist "protestors" has received with the tens and hundreds of thousands of left wing protestors over the years (austerity, Gaza, Iraq, BLM etc)
Some are painted as "legitimate concerns", others as noise or naive demands
Ask yourself why
Some are painted as "legitimate concerns", others as noise or naive demands
Ask yourself why
August 24, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Compare the amount of coverage of a thousand or so fascist "protestors" has received with the tens and hundreds of thousands of left wing protestors over the years (austerity, Gaza, Iraq, BLM etc)
Some are painted as "legitimate concerns", others as noise or naive demands
Ask yourself why
Some are painted as "legitimate concerns", others as noise or naive demands
Ask yourself why
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(returning to work after a week of vacation and i don't remember how to do emails anymore): greetings, to my colleagues in officemongering
August 18, 2025 at 1:15 PM
(returning to work after a week of vacation and i don't remember how to do emails anymore): greetings, to my colleagues in officemongering
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Still one of the best most important books of this century. Just saw fantastic in its clarity of analysis, and virtually unassailable in the breadth of its evidence from history and anthropology.
Debt: The First 5,000 Years | David Graeber
"This is it, this is the nightmare debt trap and most people in the world are falling into it."
"This is it, this is the nightmare debt trap and most people in the world are falling into it."
August 15, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Still one of the best most important books of this century. Just saw fantastic in its clarity of analysis, and virtually unassailable in the breadth of its evidence from history and anthropology.
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Labour MP: legitimate concerns
Village idiots verbally abusing an influx of "illegal immigrants" at a campsite in Newbridge, Wales
They were a group of Scouts from Scotland
Anti-immigrant rhetoric has consequences
Statement from Scouts Cymru
"We are aware of a racially aggravated incident targeting under-18s"
They were a group of Scouts from Scotland
Anti-immigrant rhetoric has consequences
Statement from Scouts Cymru
"We are aware of a racially aggravated incident targeting under-18s"
August 12, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Labour MP: legitimate concerns
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as someone who likes to see the best in people the number of fuckers falling for the computer saying "while i'm just a chatbot... i think you're really special! ;)" is testing me
August 12, 2025 at 9:26 AM
as someone who likes to see the best in people the number of fuckers falling for the computer saying "while i'm just a chatbot... i think you're really special! ;)" is testing me
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The 'Play For Good' exhibition from Abertays Games Lab is a major part of the RSE's 2025 Curious festival in September 2025.
Abertay’s ‘Play For Good’ To Showcase the Power of Games at RSE Curious Festival
The transformative power of video games to address real-world challenges will be on full display this September, as Abertay University's Applied Games Lab presents its Play for Good exhibition as part of the prestigious Royal Society of Edinburgh's Curious festival of knowledge. This is a significant and welcome inclusion, demonstrating the growing recognition of games as a powerful tool for social and cultural impact.
scottishgames.net
August 12, 2025 at 10:10 AM
The 'Play For Good' exhibition from Abertays Games Lab is a major part of the RSE's 2025 Curious festival in September 2025.
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#GIGF25 is in full swing! With talks and games a plenty. Thanks to everyone who showed us support <3
#festival #indiegames #convention #scotland #glasgow
#festival #indiegames #convention #scotland #glasgow
August 9, 2025 at 1:43 PM
#GIGF25 is in full swing! With talks and games a plenty. Thanks to everyone who showed us support <3
#festival #indiegames #convention #scotland #glasgow
#festival #indiegames #convention #scotland #glasgow
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400 counter protestors vs 15 fascists in Bristol
And yet it is the latter who are painted as expressing the "legitimate grievances" of "the people" by the mainstream media and politicians
This leads to emboldening and mainstreaming and it is a top down effect
And yet it is the latter who are painted as expressing the "legitimate grievances" of "the people" by the mainstream media and politicians
This leads to emboldening and mainstreaming and it is a top down effect
August 9, 2025 at 11:21 AM
400 counter protestors vs 15 fascists in Bristol
And yet it is the latter who are painted as expressing the "legitimate grievances" of "the people" by the mainstream media and politicians
This leads to emboldening and mainstreaming and it is a top down effect
And yet it is the latter who are painted as expressing the "legitimate grievances" of "the people" by the mainstream media and politicians
This leads to emboldening and mainstreaming and it is a top down effect
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I have done almost zero promo/sharing of the work I've done this year, so let's correct that with a thread of stuff I've written, worked on, helped with, etc.
I started the year with a post about European gaming emissions & what we can do about them.
gtg.benabraham.net/european-gam...
I started the year with a post about European gaming emissions & what we can do about them.
gtg.benabraham.net/european-gam...
European Gaming Emissions, and how we address them
I was asked earlier this week by Joost Raessens (Utrecht University Professor, and coordinator of STRATEGIES: Sustainable Transition for Europe’s Game Industries a major Horizon-funded research projec...
gtg.benabraham.net
November 11, 2024 at 2:52 AM
I have done almost zero promo/sharing of the work I've done this year, so let's correct that with a thread of stuff I've written, worked on, helped with, etc.
I started the year with a post about European gaming emissions & what we can do about them.
gtg.benabraham.net/european-gam...
I started the year with a post about European gaming emissions & what we can do about them.
gtg.benabraham.net/european-gam...
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Man Gave Himself 19th Century Psychiatric Illness After Consulting With ChatGPT
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Guy Gives Himself 19th Century Psychiatric Illness After Consulting With ChatGPT
"For 3 months, he had replaced sodium chloride with sodium bromide obtained from the internet after consultation with ChatGPT."
www.404media.co
August 8, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Man Gave Himself 19th Century Psychiatric Illness After Consulting With ChatGPT
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this will open the floodgates
August 2, 2025 at 7:08 PM
this will open the floodgates
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It wouldn’t have been possible to turn aid delivery into daily machine gun massacres of civilians without all kinds of important people agreeing to pretend they were terrified that the UN aid programme was a terrorist enterprise. Specific people, whose statements are publicly available.
BBC News: Do you think you were a witness to war crimes?
American veteran who worked at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid distribution center: Without question I witnessed war crimes.
American veteran who worked at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid distribution center: Without question I witnessed war crimes.
July 28, 2025 at 10:18 AM
It wouldn’t have been possible to turn aid delivery into daily machine gun massacres of civilians without all kinds of important people agreeing to pretend they were terrified that the UN aid programme was a terrorist enterprise. Specific people, whose statements are publicly available.
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Agent Squidge is a silly, cooperative, physics based stealth game by @brainleakstudios.bsky.social! Go rogue or duo as the best of the worst that infiltrates a very evil corporation.
Do wobbly, sneaky puzzle co-op games interest you? Come to #GIGF25 and play Agent Squidge yourself! :3
Do wobbly, sneaky puzzle co-op games interest you? Come to #GIGF25 and play Agent Squidge yourself! :3
July 25, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Agent Squidge is a silly, cooperative, physics based stealth game by @brainleakstudios.bsky.social! Go rogue or duo as the best of the worst that infiltrates a very evil corporation.
Do wobbly, sneaky puzzle co-op games interest you? Come to #GIGF25 and play Agent Squidge yourself! :3
Do wobbly, sneaky puzzle co-op games interest you? Come to #GIGF25 and play Agent Squidge yourself! :3
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Try to imagine any other context where a news presenter describes credible reports that soldiers have been shooting huge numbers of teenagers and children *for sport*, for fun, and a politician gives this reaction.
Adil Ray recounts the testimony of a doctor who explains IDF soldiers play a game where each day they decide to shoot Palestinian boys in a different part of their body
Flint: "Israel is a functioning democracy. It is understandable when you have Hamas in control.." #GMB
Flint: "Israel is a functioning democracy. It is understandable when you have Hamas in control.." #GMB
July 25, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Try to imagine any other context where a news presenter describes credible reports that soldiers have been shooting huge numbers of teenagers and children *for sport*, for fun, and a politician gives this reaction.
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I imagine the public can see very clearly how this stuff doesn’t match up terribly well with what they’ve had screamed at them for two years: that the people opposing this are extremist “hate marchers”.
This morning a British dr who has just returned from Gaza explained how IDF soldiers play a game when they shoot Palestinian kids - one day they'll shoot them in the head, the next day in the chest, & so on
Adil ray asks govt minister Peter Kyle, should we be training IDF soldiers in the UK?
Adil ray asks govt minister Peter Kyle, should we be training IDF soldiers in the UK?
July 25, 2025 at 9:08 AM
I imagine the public can see very clearly how this stuff doesn’t match up terribly well with what they’ve had screamed at them for two years: that the people opposing this are extremist “hate marchers”.
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The Honours Project, an autobiographical walking simulator by Scott Cambell, provides dark and sometimes comical dialogue about being a student in game development.
Do dream-like, relatable narrative games interest you? Come to #GIGF25 and play The Honours Project yourself! :3
Do dream-like, relatable narrative games interest you? Come to #GIGF25 and play The Honours Project yourself! :3
July 25, 2025 at 9:33 AM
The Honours Project, an autobiographical walking simulator by Scott Cambell, provides dark and sometimes comical dialogue about being a student in game development.
Do dream-like, relatable narrative games interest you? Come to #GIGF25 and play The Honours Project yourself! :3
Do dream-like, relatable narrative games interest you? Come to #GIGF25 and play The Honours Project yourself! :3
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A feature of the british politcial-media class is they exist in an eternal state of now. None of them gamed out "one day everybody in gaza will be starving." It is just a thing that has happened, now, like an earthquake
July 24, 2025 at 9:44 AM
A feature of the british politcial-media class is they exist in an eternal state of now. None of them gamed out "one day everybody in gaza will be starving." It is just a thing that has happened, now, like an earthquake