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Alistair Hutton
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Finally, your one stop shop for rugby, computer game development and number crunching analysis of Scottish politics chat

Also #pico8 #postcarts
The people who have to write the one sentence summary of TV shows for streaming services either produce art or absurdity
November 8, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Jury acquits D.C. 'sandwich guy' charged with chucking a sub at a federal agent
Sean Dunn faced single misdemeanor offense after federal grand jurors refused to indict him on the felony charge sought by prosecutors.
www.nbcnews.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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lol
November 6, 2025 at 4:47 AM
What I like about discussing Rugby online is you can quote the full law at someone and they'll say "I don't think that's true"
November 1, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Oh apparently you can't crawl on the ground now
November 1, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Oh. So you can just crawl along the ground with the ball now.
November 1, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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U wot m8
Massive change for next year's Holyrood election: there'll be no overnight count. Votes to be counted on the Friday instead.
October 29, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Absolutely freaky.
A nice shift in perceived colour between central and peripheral vision. The fixated disc looks purple while the others look blue.

The effect presumably comes from the absence of S-cones in the fovea.

From Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt:
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.115...
October 13, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but
October 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Walking boy #pico8
October 9, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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You can't joke about anything anymore. Because you signed a multi figure contract with the Saudi government that said they wouldn't pay you if you did.
September 27, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Cross aubergine. To be fair I did just attack it with a knife.
September 21, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Losing a try to a completely made up penalty offence is also not conducive to winning a game
September 14, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Can't win a game of rugby without a lineout.
September 14, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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The eye exam is the perfect game design. That big E is a great tutorial that teaches you the basic mechanic. But it doesn't baby you and quickly gets hard as they introduce the small and blurry enemies.
September 7, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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"If the housing market was really going to collapse in 2 years, do you think the seven largest banks would be all in on lending and packaging the loans into CDOs?"

Axios writer, 2006
September 3, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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I know everyone wants to repost that weird tweet about Frankenstein but keep in mind it was written by Dracula
September 3, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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I looked at the actual survey summary and lol. seems like there might be another article to write here
September 2, 2025 at 5:13 PM
I'm not normally one to complain about Connections publicly and indeed I got today's perfectly but Purple is absolute total bullshit and the idea that the Blue words were Blue level difficulty is a nonsense #connections
August 23, 2025 at 10:54 AM
GOTO 10; REM With a Twist

#pico8 #postcart

Code in follow up tweet
August 15, 2025 at 9:01 AM
This quote completely aligns with my thoughts. "Language" is a hack/attack against humans ability to reason. The ELIZA effect is incredibly powerful.
July 28, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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July 25, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Never understood why Madcap Mosaic didn't become like a Balatro sized hit.
July 21, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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This thread is incredible.
Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin (@jasonlk)
.@Replit goes rogue during a code freeze and shutdown and deletes our entire database
xcancel.com
July 20, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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July 20, 2025 at 6:35 AM