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Luke
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Making accessible audio navigation tools for video games!
Weird and wonderful PhD Researcher with ADHD. Nerdfighter. Proud West Midlander lost in Bristol. Mon the Biff. St Helens RFC and McLaren 🔴⚪🟠

Neighbour to all ♥️

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Made a fleeting visit to the Access Bristol Accessibility Accelerator on Saturday! Sorry to those I missed, I unexpectedly had to be absent, however managed to catch some fantastic talks, demos and people.

Super inspiring stuff seeing folks unite over inclusive accessible design!

#AccessBristol
Luke takes a silly selfie of half of his face. Overlayed is a poster for the Access Bristol Accessibility Accelerator Event. Details found at accessbristol.org A device that simulates using a White Cane for navigation in VR environments. It is plugged into a laptop showing a Unity Game Engine scene. Presentation Slide showing an isometric video game. Text reads "Build Core Systems into Game Engines to Provide Accessibility. For Example, All Route Finding in our engine provides a spatial audio source for players to follow for navigation."
November 10, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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Had a lovely time bringing out my first ever music gear today to jam for our wonderful 3rd years testing out broadcast gear!

These two are both around 14 years old at this point and very much kickstarted my audio career. I seem to have swapped them for 7 strings and blast beats these days, mind...
Luke's first acoustic guitar covered in LOTS of stickers, and also a homemade hand painted cajón drum with an unfinished self portrait on the front.
November 6, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Movember session 2!

12.08km hike to and around Blaise estate and Blaise Castle!

15.1km for Movember so far

Link here!

movember.com/m/13779640?m...

#Bristol
#BlaiseCastle
#Movember
Luke and Meg take a selfie in an autumnal forest Blaise castle, a gothic castle with 3 turrets against a cloudy blue sky. A mystical, foresty collection of tall pointy trees and vivid yellowy green leaves against a sunny blue sky Ominous tree roots bobbling along the forest floor like bony fingers
November 2, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Today's #Movember proof of sweat. A slow 3km today which, for a computer scientist with a desk job and a dodgy hip that worsens in the cold, is not too shabby. Onwards!
Luke and his girlfriend Meg take a selfie while out on a run Luke's running stats: 3.02km in 26:26 time, average pace 8:45 a kilometre, burned 203 calories.
November 1, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Hey friends!

I'm gonna be running and walking 60km (with a moustache) for Movember!

You can donate, but it's more for mental health awareness for me.

Check in on each other. The world is fucked up at the moment, so tell your fellow humans you love them ♥️

movember.com/m/13779640?m...

#Movember
Luke taking a selfie giving bombastic side eye and showing off his moustache. Luke taking a selfie throwing two fingers to the camera and showing his moustache. Luke out on a run pulling a silly cool guy pose where he has one leg in the air, and two sets of two fingers up to the camera.
November 1, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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We picked up @tinybookshopgame.com yesterday and honestly the vibes are perfection. Megs is FULLY lost in it.

#TinyBookshop
November 1, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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We've had 4 trick-or-treaters so far and I've had to INSIST they take more than 1 sweet. Literally going to be throwing sweets into the street at this point.
October 31, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Apparently it's Halloween!
Luke stood outside dressed as a low budget scarecrow. He has rosy circles and stitches painted on his face. He wears pumpkin patterned dungarees and a beige plaid shirt. He is ordained with bags of sweets and a red capped mushroom
October 31, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Today's office brought to you by 'Lu Le Petit' cookies and the album Blue Garden by Delta Sleep
Luke holding a delicious chocolate chip cookie up against a laptop screen. overlayed text reads 'posh cookie and writing in the office kind of day today. How is your day going?'
October 21, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Normalise being proud of yourself for delivering your first kickass handwritten lecture and getting a lil sweet treat afterwards as a reward.
October 14, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Necking a red bull at 4:30 to finish a presentation that features the works of Beyoncè, Dimmu Borgir, Dave Brubek and Press to Meco (among others) is the kind of academic cramming I don't mind.
October 13, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

"We'll user test afterwards"
filmci.bsky.social Fil McIntyre @filmci.bsky.social · Oct 12
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

Sign Language interpreting gloves.
martinnutbeem.bsky.social Martin Nutbeem @martinnutbeem.bsky.social · Oct 12
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

"I've bought this resource..."
October 12, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Taking names for our new Bristol skellyboi...
A shiny skeleton sat in a camping chair with a Tarquins gin cup. It's wearing a bucket hat and waving.
October 12, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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It arrived.

#Pizzamas
#PizzaJohn
#DFTBA
#Nerdfighteria
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Luke poses with his hands in his pockets. He wears a Pizzamas t-shirt. The graphic shows a muscular red being with its arms crossed. It's head is a Pizza John's face in a loveheart. Next to it, it's son stands peering out from behind. Text on the shrit reads "Don't ever talk to me or my son or his pizza ever again".
October 11, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Potentially the most cursed art I make for #Nerdfarters on Day 9 - Pizza John Plush Keychain

My Photoshop skills are for sale. I wholeheartedly recommend you find someone else, though.

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#DFTBA
#PizzaJohn
#Pizzamas
Luke's face and torso Photoshopped onto a Pizza John Plush Keychain. It's cursed.
October 11, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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And for day 7 of this year’s #NerdfArters October Art Challenge: my pizzamas shirt! Get yours while you still can! 🥸
coltanscolors.dftba.social Coltan Compton @coltanscolors.dftba.social · Sep 29
I designed this year’s Cloud John Pizzamas shirt! You can snag it along with other phenomenal pizza-themed products at pizzamas.com FOR THE NEXT TWO WEEKS ONLY. HAPPY #PIZZAMAS 🍕🍕🍕
Cloud John Pizzamas shirt. Pizza John’s mustachioed visage takes the form of a swirling pink cloud along with the “PIZZA” text beneath. Photo of model wearing Cloud John shirt taken by Saturday Night Photo.
October 8, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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#Nerdfarters day 8 - Dance Party

I'm gonna be a little self serving on this one as I'm ill! Here's a song I made last year that's got good dance energy!

It's called Aquarium Boy

YouTube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaxM...

Spotify:
open.spotify.com/track/2dExgA...

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Cosmic - Aquarium Boy (Official Lyric Video)
YouTube video by Cosmic
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October 8, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Pizzamas 10/7/25 - Views Shirt

@nerdfarters.bsky.social #NerdfArters #Pizzamas #Nerdfighters #Nerdfighteria
2025, JL. Pizzamas 10/7/25 - Views Shirt. Image is of a smiling (chibi) cartoon John wearing his cloud shirt. Like buttons with pink hearts surround him.
October 8, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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#Nerdfarters Day 7: Views Shirt.

Here are my shirts. Here I am wearing them for views.
A grid of 9 photos of Luke wearing different shirts. Shirt pattern descriptions: 1) Patchwork triangles 2) Vibrant celestial bodies 3) Small checkered 4) Solid blue 5) Small blue and orange flowers 6) Leafy Tropical 7) Tarot Cards 8) Hawaiian 9) Koi Carp and Suns
October 8, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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Pizzamas Day 6 - Leaning Tower of Pizzamas

…Yeah, I dunno. I just went with it.

@nerdfarters.bsky.social #Pizzamas #NerdfArters #Nerdfighters #Nerdfighteria
2025, JL. Pizzamas Day 6 - Leaning Tower of Pizzamas. Image is of a dark, leaning tower with a glowing pizza at the top where Sauron’s eye would be. Text says, “One Pizza to Rule Them All.”
October 7, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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I feel like my low budget, speed coding approach to #Nerdfarters this year might be making me better at prototyping, is producing some seriously cursed art.
A stretched picture of John Greens face with the words 'Happy Hank Stupid' next to it.
October 7, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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#Nerdfarters Day 4 and 5 in one!!!

Leaning tower of Pizzamas Jenga meets a bunch of things you'd find alongside the road in nerdfighteria immortalised as web art? Heck yeah I got u. Live on my website!

citesandsounds.com/nerdfarters/...

#P5JS
#DFTBA
#HankAndJohn
#Jenga
#Nerdfighteria
October 7, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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After one of the worst years possible, it's really nice to be able to say:

Mum 1 - Cancer 0
October 7, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Today I taught about variables in Python using the Pokémon Ditto as an metaphor and it went down a storm. Never felt so cool in my life.
October 7, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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Never thought I'd say this, but thanks to the very first version of a #accessibility mod from the creator of the one for Disco Elysium, I started playing #FinalFantasy VI's pixel remaster last night!
It's very rough, but I beat the first boss, on my first attempt! #A11Y
October 7, 2025 at 10:13 AM