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Tamara Jade
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Proprietress - Tamaaya's Cafe - a website about things - tamaaya.net

Washed up video game journalist and mobile phone repairer.

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Tamara Jade @tamaaya.net · Oct 18
Hello yes hi. You might remember me from other social media networks Stormo or some variant thereof.

Anyway I’m a girl now so that’s cool.

I’m currently unemployed, looking for work either writing or in customer service (but I really want to move away from that).

We can be friends if you like.
tamaaya.net
Munnel train!
Sign indicating travel through the new Metro tunnel.
November 30, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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wooliewoolz.bsky.social
November 29, 2025 at 4:43 AM
tamaaya.net
Happy Munnel opening day to those who celebrate.
November 29, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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robdelaney.bsky.social
Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...
Bong Joon Ho took a characteristically radical approach when questioned on his thoughts around the rise of Al technology at the jury press conference of the Marrakech Film Festival on Saturday. The Korean director, who is president of the jury, gave two responses, one measured, the other deeply personal. "My official answer is, Al is good because it's the very beginning of the human race finally seriously thinking about what only humans can do. But my personal answer is, I'm going to organize a military squad, and their mission is to destroy AI," he said.
November 29, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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alexwinter.com
👑
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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chadbourn.bsky.social
Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.
November 28, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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littlekuriboh.bsky.social
The only thing less human than these AI dub performances is the decision to sign off on them

A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
November 28, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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kohler.bsky.social
Now I heard there was a tiny box
Engraved with names like Minecraft Notch
And Brian Fargo and FourZeroTwo, yeah
But though it promised games for free
And mobile ports on your TV
It's a cold and it's a broken Founders' Ouya
November 26, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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itstessinadress.bsky.social
Spring cleaning the studio and I've got 5 of these bad boys left I'll part with. ✨ MISTER SPARKLE! ✨ As owned by your favourite Simpsons podcasters and writers (including Bill Oakley himself), 100% screen accurate text as read in-show in the authentic Japanese, and holds up to 48 dishwasher tablets!
Photo of a Mister Sparkle brand box of dishwashing detergent from the Simpsons only it is real packaging in real life. Box is pink and purple with text in Japanese and has a cartoon face in it that appears to be a combination of a fish and a lightbulb resembling Homer Simpson Photo of the back of a Mister Sparkle brand box of dishwashing detergent from the Simpsons only it is real packaging in real life. Box is pink and purple with text in Japanese and has a directions for use printed on the back Photo of a pair of Mister Sparkle brand boxes of dishwashing detergent from the Simpsons only it is real packaging in real life. Box is pink and purple with text in Japanese and the front has a cartoon face in it that appears to be a combination of a fish and a lightbulb resembling Homer Simpson, the back has directions for use Photo of a wall of Mister Sparkle brand boxes of dishwashing detergent from the Simpsons only it is real packaging in real life. Box is pink and purple with text in Japanese and has a cartoon face in it that appears to be a combination of a fish and a lightbulb resembling Homer Simpson
September 8, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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wrenegade.bsky.social
Japan is the only place in the world where I can see my game physically in a store. It makes me happy every time. Thanks @sdxgames.bsky.social ❤️
A Japanese copy of Unpacking for the Nintendo Switch on a shelf at Bic Camera next to a sold out copy of Untitled Goose Game (Australia represent!)
November 29, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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celechii.itch.io
last week i remembered that macOS lets you set your own icons and that *I* have the power to delegitimize the professionalism of the software that runs on my machine, so here's a thread of the 16 new icons i've made so far

i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')
comparison between apple's finder icon and mine. apple's is the split blue and white smiley face, mine is two blue and white anime girls making out comparison between discord's icon and mine. mine is like a screaming cat on a blue/purple slimy background comparison between celsys's clip studio paint icon and mine. mine is similar but rotated with some comic styling and pink and blue highlights comparison between mozilla's firefox icon and mine. mine is similar but looks closer to the old firefox icon and brings back the little arm and gives the fox a cute little smiley face
November 29, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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nightshade.technology
ordered food here. the server did 7 frame-perfect turnarounds in a row and launched themselves through the door speeding past my table at 700km/h but the plate was perfect. 5 star service, would eat here again
TAS restaurant
April 28, 2025 at 2:46 PM
tamaaya.net
In a Clash mood today.
The Clash - London Calling
November 29, 2025 at 1:05 AM
tamaaya.net
Well the first batch of Stranger Things episodes is pretty solid (I fucking love Stranger Things and I don't care who knows it).
November 28, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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shakeenz.bsky.social
Reminder to add TOKYO GODFATHERS to your Christmas movie watchlist this season! Grateful to have given (English, dubbed) voice to the trans anime icon, our beloved Hana, in this Satoshi Kon holiday classic from @gkids.com! Watch it for free on Tubi or rent it on AppleTV!
November 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
tamaaya.net
I Think We're Alone Now is the new Running Up That Hill.
November 28, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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aplante.com
i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
screenshot of a tumblr post from user “wildmansters” The thing that really boils my potatoes about Al in general is that I have been a creative professional for over a decade now and the devil has ALWAYS been in the details. Big and small, I've had single-person businesses rip me to shreds over how their colors turned out on newsprint, and have worked with huge companies with THICK brand guidelines with every detail of their brand identity laid out and enforced with an iron fist. But I guess all of that stuff doesn't matter anymore? Who gives a fuck if this Al generated baby has six fingers, that mom-and-pop shop is still going to use it. That rug from Temu says Happy Thanksgivirg? Oh well haha it's just a silly funny thing now (nevermind that you never would have given a B-grade item from a craft show the same consideration). I don't actually care that the Al Coca-cola ad has a truck that changes size every scene, but I can't help but think about how, if it had been some poor underpaid artist, they would have been laughed out of the building. I don't really know how to put it in a succint way but it just feels all the more obvious how much more grace and flexibility has always been possible but never offered.
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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riannejar.bsky.social
Rheumatoid Arthritis begins years before its symptoms [via Allen Inst.] 🧪🥼🦴🤕⚕️🩺

"people at risk for RA [have] dramatic immune system changes long before they feel symptoms. [In] this early phase, their bodies fight an autoimmune battle invisibly."

alleninstitute.org/news/new-stu...

#RA #prevention
New study reveals rheumatoid arthritis begins long before symptoms, opening door to prevention
The seven-year study reveals early-warning signs that could help doctors catch the disease before it starts, potentially saving patients years of pain and disability.
alleninstitute.org
November 27, 2025 at 5:39 PM
tamaaya.net
Ooh the newest ETS2 expansion came out.
November 28, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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3mbg.bsky.social
I wonder why wargaming has an image problem. Could it be some of the wargamers?

Anyway, here is how to advertise your board game convention in the worst way possible.
Ai generated Hitler and Mao play an AI generated board game on a distorted vesion of earth, both staring into the middle distance. AI Hitler can't even get his fucking swastika on straight, probably because AI limits it. The words on the picture are advertising some bullshit wargaming convention in the UK, but the contact details have been blanked out, because I come here to bury this con, not to advertise it.
November 27, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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sharkabytes.bsky.social
"We want you, Soldier Girls, Soldier Girls
Pierce the impenetrable sky with light.
We want you, Soldier Girls, Soldier Girls
Pierce the city of rubble with hope." 🎶

The sapphic energy of DMA Design/Psygnosis' Hired Guns. (1993, Amiga version)
Adele, a Judge Hersey alike with a short black bob and holding a pistol. She's a security expert and has jewel thief energy Cheule, an armoured gal with the aura of a gym rat, short bangs, and a confident grin Jenillee, battlefield medic, a nerdy looking gal with large glasses and serious aura Katrina, former UPBI agent, with a very 90s looking short wave fringe hair style and wearing a high collar suit
November 27, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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keysunderneath.bsky.social
Hi kids!
November 27, 2025 at 8:47 AM
tamaaya.net
So Nintendo just bought Bandai Namco Studios Singapore. This is the studio that was making Metroid Prime 4 before it was rebooted with Retro Studios.
News Release : Nov. 27, 2025
Press release of Nintendo Co., Ltd.
www.nintendo.co.jp
November 27, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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stupidhoroscope.bsky.social
Buddy you can just listen to songs other people have made. You don't need to keep lying to yourself that you're involved in creating music in any way.
November 27, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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pollytics.bsky.social
I see Barnyard is having his 9th mid-life crisis.
November 27, 2025 at 5:26 AM