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Alexa Muir Patey
@amjmuir.bsky.social
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Senior Product Manager by day, games/film/TV/book addict by night. Can often be found nerding out about Japan, art, history, or science and communicating in meme/gif format.
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amjmuir.bsky.social
Can’t wait for them to start using Starship Troopers gifs.
drewharwell.com Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 1d
DOJ's newest recruitment ad features Judge Dredd, the comic satire about the dangers of lawless policing and authoritarian power
dhsgov Deliver justice to criminal illegal aliens. Become a deportation judge. Save your country.
December 5, 2025 at 1:03 PM
amjmuir.bsky.social
This is fascinating and terrifying in equal measure. I’m often so frustrated that I can’t find a game guide or information on something in a written format but I guess if younger people can’t actually read well then it’s inevitable… Bring back phonics!
November 29, 2025 at 3:41 PM
amjmuir.bsky.social
Instantly followed when I saw they did a piece about Simon the Sorcerer II!
gamesblackhole.bsky.social Games From The Black Hole @gamesblackhole.bsky.social · 29d
If you love the Games From The Black Hole blog, please can you share and let people know why.

It's time to get this account a following comparable to X so I can move on! When this account gets to 1000 followers I will not only stop posting on X, I will nuke it from orbit and delete it forever.
November 7, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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in-otter-news.bsky.social
October 21, 2025 at 2:26 PM
amjmuir.bsky.social
Timeline cleanse!
emilyoram.bsky.social Emily ✨🎄 @emilyoram.bsky.social · Oct 24
Some absolutely top notch orange cattery here
October 24, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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nikk.ca
absolute workhorse of a reaction image from over 100 years ago
elegant woman blasting a suitor in the face with the NO gun
October 20, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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heebiebeebies.bsky.social
I cannot recommend you enough to install the Wikipedia app on your devices and use it like you would any search engine. Nowadays they even have tabs so you can open many articles at once.

And, if you can, please donate to the foundation. It has survived the internet enshittification that way.
emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · Oct 17
wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”
www.404media.co
October 17, 2025 at 2:41 PM
amjmuir.bsky.social
Really interesting and some good book recommendations in this. I’ve always been fascinated by ancient cultures that appear to have thought differently about gendered roles. The ultimate proof that 99% of it is made up anyway so can be changed at any time if we wanted to…
October 5, 2025 at 12:14 PM
amjmuir.bsky.social
“The people of this country have had enough of experts” - Micheal Gove, pre-EU referendum. Nearly 10 years on, Britain is a shit tip and the right wing somehow escape all blame while the left (or middle right, technically) are held to impossible standards and vilified daily. Good luck America!
rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · Aug 29
RFK Jr: We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy, it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism.
August 30, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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jamiesmart.bsky.social
Just make it exist first, you can make it good later.
August 9, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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tomgauld.bsky.social
My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com
Panels one and two: Two white mice make their way through a maze. Panel three: Having completed the maze, the two mice are rewarded with some fruit. Two scientists watch them. One says: “Poor little things: all that thought and effort just to earn themselves a little treat.” The second scientist looks at a clock and says: “Coffee time!” Panels four and five: The two scientists make their way through a maze of corridors to a door marked “Canteen” Panel six: The scientists look at the food on offer. One says: “Ooh, Donuts!”
August 11, 2025 at 9:42 AM
amjmuir.bsky.social
This guy wrote The Last Days of Jack Sparks and I still haven’t recovered. Highly recommend it as a scary read and to donate as much as you can to this good cause.
August 5, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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paulcornell.bsky.social
My old friend @jasonarnopp.bsky.social needs to go private to sort his head and neck cancer. It’s urgent. He’s a good guy. Take a look and do what you can. www.gofundme.com/f/help-jason...
Donate to Help Jason get through cancer, organized by Jason Arnopp
Hello you, I really didn’t want to set up this appeal. Quite honestly, after 35 years… Jason Arnopp needs your support for Help Jason get through cancer
www.gofundme.com
August 4, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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meredithmeredith.bsky.social
Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...
What’s a technology that you think is overhyped? I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry. Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto. It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.
February 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
amjmuir.bsky.social
Urgh, regretting my life choices thinking it would be a simple job to wipe an old mac so it can be sold on…
a man with glasses is looking at a computer screen that says make gifs at gifsoup.com on it
ALT: a man with glasses is looking at a computer screen that says make gifs at gifsoup.com on it
media.tenor.com
July 15, 2025 at 8:26 PM
amjmuir.bsky.social
Did an AI write that headline? 🤔
nkalamb.bsky.social Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · Jul 14
paradox, you say
Research reveals a paradox: the more people understand AI, the more hesitant they may become to embrace it.
July 14, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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michaelspicer.bsky.social
homes under the horror
July 2, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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jordanpfot.bsky.social
You NEED to go watch Ian McKellen deliver the spoken word section of Invisible Light in the Scissor Sisters set at Glastonbury NOW (at about 23:19 or so)
June 28, 2025 at 10:47 PM
amjmuir.bsky.social
The arts continue to be a great way to resist intolerance, prejudice and outright fascism 🎺🎷🪉
June 16, 2025 at 11:40 AM
amjmuir.bsky.social
As a counter to *gestures at everything* I really enjoyed playing games in a Japanese arcade today. I beat Gunblade NY (1995) despite having never played it before. I felt like Schwarzenegger!
Arcade machine of Gunblade NY, a game from 1995 and a lot of fun!
June 15, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
“No Kings Day”: A compilation
June 15, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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moxiest.art
leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening

historians: that thing is definitely happening

star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it

news outlets: these protesters are out of control
June 11, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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chuckwendig.bsky.social
Given how NEWS!!! the news is being, this feels time to deploy

a bird

photo by me
This soft little sweetum is a warbling video, an ash-brown little bird with a white front who has a pop of spectacular eye makeup on, just a hint of glam, or perhaps a mask of a secret vigilante. The bird is perched on a long branch with some dry berries or something ahead of it and a few green leaves appearing. It is a little bit hidden. Playing coy. But still assuring that you will see its fantastic eye makeup. Photo by me, Chuck Wendig
June 13, 2025 at 1:31 AM