Tufty McTavish
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Tufty McTavish
@tuftymctavish.com
· Dec 15
🧵 A chance comment in a post has led me down a rabbit warren of Interactive Fiction memories, floppy diskettes, and apps on modern devices.
So this is going to be an ongoing thread about text adventure games, such as these “Lost Treasures of Infocom”.
🎮 #VideoGames 🕹️ #TextAdventures ⌨️ #Infocom 🗺️
So this is going to be an ongoing thread about text adventure games, such as these “Lost Treasures of Infocom”.
🎮 #VideoGames 🕹️ #TextAdventures ⌨️ #Infocom 🗺️
🔊 The bonus one from the “Podmasters Podamatic Universe” (an older reference!) about how the Labour Party is in “a whole, massive, raging, torrential bin fire of shit right now,” says @rafaelbehr.bsky.social
Ends on a more +ve note, “maybe things can only get better.”
🇬🇧 #UKPolitics 🗳️ #Podcasts 📻
Ends on a more +ve note, “maybe things can only get better.”
🇬🇧 #UKPolitics 🗳️ #Podcasts 📻
🔥🔥🔥It's emergencycast time!🔥🔥🔥
@rafaelbehr.bsky.social and @zoegrunewald.bsky.social discuss McSweeney's departure and what it means for Starmer and 'Starmerism' in this special bonus edition ➡️ linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnow...
@rafaelbehr.bsky.social and @zoegrunewald.bsky.social discuss McSweeney's departure and what it means for Starmer and 'Starmerism' in this special bonus edition ➡️ linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnow...
February 10, 2026 at 9:24 AM
🔊 The bonus one from the “Podmasters Podamatic Universe” (an older reference!) about how the Labour Party is in “a whole, massive, raging, torrential bin fire of shit right now,” says @rafaelbehr.bsky.social
Ends on a more +ve note, “maybe things can only get better.”
🇬🇧 #UKPolitics 🗳️ #Podcasts 📻
Ends on a more +ve note, “maybe things can only get better.”
🇬🇧 #UKPolitics 🗳️ #Podcasts 📻
😤 Nag screens… “***, &^%$ off!” Every time they recur!
February 10, 2026 at 9:18 AM
😤 Nag screens… “***, &^%$ off!” Every time they recur!
🗞️ Can’t think why this came to mind 🤔
ID photos of 70,000 users may have been leaked, Discord says
The platform says hackers targeted a firm that helped to verify the ages of its users.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 9, 2026 at 9:36 PM
🗞️ Can’t think why this came to mind 🤔
📺 An annoying ‘feature’ of 🍎📺 app occurs frequently when I reach the end of an episode.
As soon as credits begin to roll I routinely hit ⬅️ to return to main menu so that I can continue.
If I don’t wait for the <Continue> option to appear it will ⏮️ me to beginning. So I have to ⏩️ through it all 🤦♂️
As soon as credits begin to roll I routinely hit ⬅️ to return to main menu so that I can continue.
If I don’t wait for the <Continue> option to appear it will ⏮️ me to beginning. So I have to ⏩️ through it all 🤦♂️
February 9, 2026 at 9:33 PM
📺 An annoying ‘feature’ of 🍎📺 app occurs frequently when I reach the end of an episode.
As soon as credits begin to roll I routinely hit ⬅️ to return to main menu so that I can continue.
If I don’t wait for the <Continue> option to appear it will ⏮️ me to beginning. So I have to ⏩️ through it all 🤦♂️
As soon as credits begin to roll I routinely hit ⬅️ to return to main menu so that I can continue.
If I don’t wait for the <Continue> option to appear it will ⏮️ me to beginning. So I have to ⏩️ through it all 🤦♂️
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February 9, 2026 at 3:04 PM
🚀 I’m surfing the solar waves in the vicinity of the writers! 🤗
February 9, 2026 at 6:54 PM
🚀 I’m surfing the solar waves in the vicinity of the writers! 🤗
🥘 Made some lemony chickpeas with halloumi and freshly picked Pak-Choi from the garden. Drizzled with spiced seeded honey, using some of last season‘s 🌶️ for an extra zing, this is super tasty 😋
In fact it’s hard not to demolish the whole pan 🤢 Also, jarred chickpea are amazing 🤗
👨🍳 #FoodSky #Food 🍽️
In fact it’s hard not to demolish the whole pan 🤢 Also, jarred chickpea are amazing 🤗
👨🍳 #FoodSky #Food 🍽️
February 9, 2026 at 5:53 PM
🥘 Made some lemony chickpeas with halloumi and freshly picked Pak-Choi from the garden. Drizzled with spiced seeded honey, using some of last season‘s 🌶️ for an extra zing, this is super tasty 😋
In fact it’s hard not to demolish the whole pan 🤢 Also, jarred chickpea are amazing 🤗
👨🍳 #FoodSky #Food 🍽️
In fact it’s hard not to demolish the whole pan 🤢 Also, jarred chickpea are amazing 🤗
👨🍳 #FoodSky #Food 🍽️
🔍 I’d actually been checking to see when the next #MasterChef season was back on my 📺 when a banner mentioning #TheWalkingDead appeared in the app. So I went off on a side quest to check FtWD.
Anyway, #MasterChefTheProfessionals is back this week?! 😳
With Tebbutt in place of Wallace of course.
Anyway, #MasterChefTheProfessionals is back this week?! 😳
With Tebbutt in place of Wallace of course.
February 9, 2026 at 3:47 PM
🔍 I’d actually been checking to see when the next #MasterChef season was back on my 📺 when a banner mentioning #TheWalkingDead appeared in the app. So I went off on a side quest to check FtWD.
Anyway, #MasterChefTheProfessionals is back this week?! 😳
With Tebbutt in place of Wallace of course.
Anyway, #MasterChefTheProfessionals is back this week?! 😳
With Tebbutt in place of Wallace of course.
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So, politics isn’t for you? Maybe it should be.
Fascism doesn’t arrive overnight. It creeps in through apathy, silence, and the idea that “this stuff doesn’t affect me.” Graphic novels have always been a frontline medium; cheap, urgent, emotional, and impossible to ignore.
Fascism doesn’t arrive overnight. It creeps in through apathy, silence, and the idea that “this stuff doesn’t affect me.” Graphic novels have always been a frontline medium; cheap, urgent, emotional, and impossible to ignore.
February 9, 2026 at 3:17 PM
So, politics isn’t for you? Maybe it should be.
Fascism doesn’t arrive overnight. It creeps in through apathy, silence, and the idea that “this stuff doesn’t affect me.” Graphic novels have always been a frontline medium; cheap, urgent, emotional, and impossible to ignore.
Fascism doesn’t arrive overnight. It creeps in through apathy, silence, and the idea that “this stuff doesn’t affect me.” Graphic novels have always been a frontline medium; cheap, urgent, emotional, and impossible to ignore.
🌶️ An IRL friend to whom I send annual 🌶️ Chilli Care Packages 📦 told me today that “I haven't had to buy any in about 3 years now. Ever since that first batch.” And she supplies her Mum too.
☺️ That’s a massive success. Sorry for the lost sales, Tesco! 😆
👨🌾 #Gardening #VegetableGrowing #GrowYourOwn 🌱
☺️ That’s a massive success. Sorry for the lost sales, Tesco! 😆
👨🌾 #Gardening #VegetableGrowing #GrowYourOwn 🌱
🌶️ The Chilli pods are starting to ripen in bulk now 🤗
My plan is to send out a few 🌶️ Chilli Care Packages 📦 to some folks, containing an assorted mix of whatever is ripe and ready.
I’ve already frozen a large tub 🧊, made a 🫙 of Achar, eaten many 😋
👨🌾 #Gardening #VegetableGrowing #GrowYourOwn 🌶️🌱
My plan is to send out a few 🌶️ Chilli Care Packages 📦 to some folks, containing an assorted mix of whatever is ripe and ready.
I’ve already frozen a large tub 🧊, made a 🫙 of Achar, eaten many 😋
👨🌾 #Gardening #VegetableGrowing #GrowYourOwn 🌶️🌱
February 9, 2026 at 3:37 PM
🌶️ An IRL friend to whom I send annual 🌶️ Chilli Care Packages 📦 told me today that “I haven't had to buy any in about 3 years now. Ever since that first batch.” And she supplies her Mum too.
☺️ That’s a massive success. Sorry for the lost sales, Tesco! 😆
👨🌾 #Gardening #VegetableGrowing #GrowYourOwn 🌱
☺️ That’s a massive success. Sorry for the lost sales, Tesco! 😆
👨🌾 #Gardening #VegetableGrowing #GrowYourOwn 🌱
🌶️ One Chilli plant in particular is already producing truly spectacular leaves 😍
This variety is called “Testarossa Orange”. I got a third late germination which has similar cotyledons. I really only need two of these - one plus a spare.
👨🌾 #Gardening #VegetableGrowing #GrowYourOwn 🌶️🌱
This variety is called “Testarossa Orange”. I got a third late germination which has similar cotyledons. I really only need two of these - one plus a spare.
👨🌾 #Gardening #VegetableGrowing #GrowYourOwn 🌶️🌱
February 9, 2026 at 3:26 PM
🌶️ One Chilli plant in particular is already producing truly spectacular leaves 😍
This variety is called “Testarossa Orange”. I got a third late germination which has similar cotyledons. I really only need two of these - one plus a spare.
👨🌾 #Gardening #VegetableGrowing #GrowYourOwn 🌶️🌱
This variety is called “Testarossa Orange”. I got a third late germination which has similar cotyledons. I really only need two of these - one plus a spare.
👨🌾 #Gardening #VegetableGrowing #GrowYourOwn 🌶️🌱
🔍 Well, bottoms. I just discovered that “Fear the Walking Dead” is back on Sky Max.
I’d recorded S1-5 back in the day, but by the time I got to it S6-8 were no longer available for download via Sky. So I’d discounted it as unfinished.
But today I found…
📺 #TVSky 🧟♂️ #TheWalkingDead 🚶♂️
I’d recorded S1-5 back in the day, but by the time I got to it S6-8 were no longer available for download via Sky. So I’d discounted it as unfinished.
But today I found…
📺 #TVSky 🧟♂️ #TheWalkingDead 🚶♂️
February 9, 2026 at 3:12 PM
🔍 Well, bottoms. I just discovered that “Fear the Walking Dead” is back on Sky Max.
I’d recorded S1-5 back in the day, but by the time I got to it S6-8 were no longer available for download via Sky. So I’d discounted it as unfinished.
But today I found…
📺 #TVSky 🧟♂️ #TheWalkingDead 🚶♂️
I’d recorded S1-5 back in the day, but by the time I got to it S6-8 were no longer available for download via Sky. So I’d discounted it as unfinished.
But today I found…
📺 #TVSky 🧟♂️ #TheWalkingDead 🚶♂️
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A cheerful thought for a Sunday night: We're already 29% of the way through February; by the end of the month the UK will have an hour and forty minutes more daylight each day than it did at the start. Spring is coming x
(Photo PoliticalPics)
(Photo PoliticalPics)
February 8, 2026 at 11:29 PM
A cheerful thought for a Sunday night: We're already 29% of the way through February; by the end of the month the UK will have an hour and forty minutes more daylight each day than it did at the start. Spring is coming x
(Photo PoliticalPics)
(Photo PoliticalPics)
🔊 Almost, but not quite, caught up with last week’s fresh new #Podcasts before the flood of new ones arrive this week 🫣
Whenever I get fully caught up on that set, I start work on the several that I’ve fallen weeks or months behind on. I’ve let them build up while keeping up-to-date on others 😬
Whenever I get fully caught up on that set, I start work on the several that I’ve fallen weeks or months behind on. I’ve let them build up while keeping up-to-date on others 😬
February 9, 2026 at 8:56 AM
🔊 Almost, but not quite, caught up with last week’s fresh new #Podcasts before the flood of new ones arrive this week 🫣
Whenever I get fully caught up on that set, I start work on the several that I’ve fallen weeks or months behind on. I’ve let them build up while keeping up-to-date on others 😬
Whenever I get fully caught up on that set, I start work on the several that I’ve fallen weeks or months behind on. I’ve let them build up while keeping up-to-date on others 😬
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This object is a legitimate masterpiece of design
February 8, 2026 at 7:32 PM
This object is a legitimate masterpiece of design
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My dad 3D printed me this awesome new model of Seventeen from The Re-Emergence, based on my more recent Blender model (see 2nd pic), after my original one broke.
There's a bigger one, too, but this one fits the shelf better.
💙📚🪐 #SFF
There's a bigger one, too, but this one fits the shelf better.
💙📚🪐 #SFF
February 8, 2026 at 10:48 PM
My dad 3D printed me this awesome new model of Seventeen from The Re-Emergence, based on my more recent Blender model (see 2nd pic), after my original one broke.
There's a bigger one, too, but this one fits the shelf better.
💙📚🪐 #SFF
There's a bigger one, too, but this one fits the shelf better.
💙📚🪐 #SFF
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SHE’S FINISHED! My 5-foot-long Enterprise D oil painting is complete after nearly 100 hours of work!
I remember being 13 years old or so and trying to draw her and it was so hard, and all I wanted was to be able to do something like this. Truly a dream come true. 🥰🖖
I remember being 13 years old or so and trying to draw her and it was so hard, and all I wanted was to be able to do something like this. Truly a dream come true. 🥰🖖
February 7, 2026 at 11:37 PM
SHE’S FINISHED! My 5-foot-long Enterprise D oil painting is complete after nearly 100 hours of work!
I remember being 13 years old or so and trying to draw her and it was so hard, and all I wanted was to be able to do something like this. Truly a dream come true. 🥰🖖
I remember being 13 years old or so and trying to draw her and it was so hard, and all I wanted was to be able to do something like this. Truly a dream come true. 🥰🖖
📆 End of the reading week update sees my reading pace in February collapse even below most of January! 😱
Mostly I’m just getting a few pages in 🛌 before 🥱 says 💡 out and then 😴💤
Still working on “The Mask of Mirrors”:
📕 🔲🔲🔲🔲🔳⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ 49% 🏁
📚⚔️ #FantasyBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋
Mostly I’m just getting a few pages in 🛌 before 🥱 says 💡 out and then 😴💤
Still working on “The Mask of Mirrors”:
📕 🔲🔲🔲🔲🔳⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ 49% 🏁
📚⚔️ #FantasyBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋
February 8, 2026 at 8:10 PM
📆 End of the reading week update sees my reading pace in February collapse even below most of January! 😱
Mostly I’m just getting a few pages in 🛌 before 🥱 says 💡 out and then 😴💤
Still working on “The Mask of Mirrors”:
📕 🔲🔲🔲🔲🔳⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ 49% 🏁
📚⚔️ #FantasyBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋
Mostly I’m just getting a few pages in 🛌 before 🥱 says 💡 out and then 😴💤
Still working on “The Mask of Mirrors”:
📕 🔲🔲🔲🔲🔳⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ 49% 🏁
📚⚔️ #FantasyBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋
☎️ I am one of those laggards not on digital voice 😑
ICYMI: Openreach turns up the heat to force laggards off legacy copper lines
Openreach turns up the heat to force laggards off legacy copper lines
Half a million businesses face successive price hikes ahead of PTSN shutdown
Openreach is warning British businesses that the old phone network shuts down in less than a year - with half a million commercial lines still unmigrated.…
dlvr.it
February 8, 2026 at 3:51 PM
☎️ I am one of those laggards not on digital voice 😑
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🍰 I’m making a Lemon Cake with a streusel topping today.
Prepared the batter in a round tin, smeared the top with some Lemon Curd that I had made from scratch in advance, and then topped that with the streusel rubble.
Into the oven it goes… 🤞🥹🤞
👨🍳 #AmBaking 😋 #FoodSky #Food 🍽️
Prepared the batter in a round tin, smeared the top with some Lemon Curd that I had made from scratch in advance, and then topped that with the streusel rubble.
Into the oven it goes… 🤞🥹🤞
👨🍳 #AmBaking 😋 #FoodSky #Food 🍽️
February 8, 2026 at 11:38 AM
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P.S. Tickets to the IRL ceremony are free! Go straight to debugawards.com and click the “Free Tickets” button
Indie Game Awards 2026 | Debug
Celebrate independent games at Debug's Indie Game Awards. Discover standout titles recognised for innovation, storytelling, and lasting impact
debugawards.com
February 8, 2026 at 4:22 AM
P.S. Tickets to the IRL ceremony are free! Go straight to debugawards.com and click the “Free Tickets” button
📖 My current book has long chapters, so I usually put it down for the night when I reach a mid-chapter break with a little art squiggle to separate segments.
So I’m not having too many cliff-hangers. Last night though, a big one… followed by dream sequence 😖
📚⚔️ #FantasyBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋
So I’m not having too many cliff-hangers. Last night though, a big one… followed by dream sequence 😖
📚⚔️ #FantasyBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋
February 8, 2026 at 9:35 AM
📖 My current book has long chapters, so I usually put it down for the night when I reach a mid-chapter break with a little art squiggle to separate segments.
So I’m not having too many cliff-hangers. Last night though, a big one… followed by dream sequence 😖
📚⚔️ #FantasyBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋
So I’m not having too many cliff-hangers. Last night though, a big one… followed by dream sequence 😖
📚⚔️ #FantasyBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋
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Films that sound rubbish if you're British.
November 1, 2023 at 8:12 PM
Films that sound rubbish if you're British.
🔊 The one about what happens to a retro collection when we reach the end of our orbits around the ☀️
I’ve wondered recently about this re. book collections and charity shop/collection hauls 🤔
Lots of cool sounding games chatted about here.
🎮 #VideoGames 🕹️ #RetroGaming #RetroComputing ⌨️ #Podcasts 📻
I’ve wondered recently about this re. book collections and charity shop/collection hauls 🤔
Lots of cool sounding games chatted about here.
🎮 #VideoGames 🕹️ #RetroGaming #RetroComputing ⌨️ #Podcasts 📻
A vast Atari archive has a new home and we hear from Atari chroniclers about the news. Game design pioneer Mike Singleton gets a day in the sun via Midwinter remake, and the history of Counter-Strike player-vs-player mayhem gets a fresh look. Episode 254 available now!
youtu.be/x0BrGNSIulI
youtu.be/x0BrGNSIulI
February 8, 2026 at 9:26 AM
🔊 The one about what happens to a retro collection when we reach the end of our orbits around the ☀️
I’ve wondered recently about this re. book collections and charity shop/collection hauls 🤔
Lots of cool sounding games chatted about here.
🎮 #VideoGames 🕹️ #RetroGaming #RetroComputing ⌨️ #Podcasts 📻
I’ve wondered recently about this re. book collections and charity shop/collection hauls 🤔
Lots of cool sounding games chatted about here.
🎮 #VideoGames 🕹️ #RetroGaming #RetroComputing ⌨️ #Podcasts 📻