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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
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The people who have to write the one sentence summary of TV shows for streaming services either produce art or absurdity
Description of The Wire from NOW TV The Wire - A Baltimore police detail brings criminals to justice using wiretaps and other innovative tactics.
November 8, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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A list of the top.weighted companies in the Dow Jones. Goldman Sachs Microsoft Home Depot Visa Sherwin-Williams Caterpillar
October 22, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Walking boy #pico8
October 9, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Never forget. Only slightly less believable than the other MRP that said Labour would take Dumfriesshire AND Berwickshire but the SNP would take DCT.
September 27, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Cross aubergine. To be fair I did just attack it with a knife.
Slice of aubergine with a frowny face
September 21, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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September 5, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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GOTO 10; REM With a Twist

#pico8 #postcart

Code in follow up tweet
August 15, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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I'd delete my account personally.
1 point 8 thousand replies to 30 likes. All time ratio.
July 6, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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It still exists sometimes right under your nose
Just a normal dog sleeping in a normal way.
June 2, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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But that doesn't explain the difference between voters perception of the national economy and their local state economy. It the most classic near/far results I've ever seen with MASSIVE deltas
There's this one from the WSJ but there were other even starker splits s.wsj.net/public/resou...
Pollnig of swing states. Respondetsn rating their state economy at net -2 to +31 whilst rating the national economy -35 to -16
May 28, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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Genuinely gob smacked
May 7, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Crow
Crow
May 2, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Oops, forgot to texture my feet this morning.
#computergraphicsjoke
Picture of my feet wearing socks with a black and white chequered pattern that looks like the default texture in 3d modelling programs.
April 18, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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"No Dogs"
April 9, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Their previous stock market tweet also did numbers without searing
March 11, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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My single favourite piece of polling of the last 2 years
Polling showing Net result for people thinking "their local state" economy had gotten better with margins of 18 to 30 points Same people thinking the national economy had got better was -30 points. Dat swing.
March 10, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Using Aseprite to create Desert Chrome gradients is very easy and very satisfying. Now to just select the perfect type face to apply it to.

#aseprite
Pixel art gradient Desert Chrome Effect.
March 10, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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I can totally understand where Cannon Fodder came from. The urge to say "forget this sportsball game I am making, lets add some guns" is pretty overwhelming. #love2d
March 2, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Jonathan looked at the sample under the microscope, looked up at Sebastian and then looked down at the sample again.

"This is bad"
"It is very bad" agreed Sebastian
"Can it be contained?"
"If we have sufficient anti-glopring serum"
"It is very glorpy, do you think we have enough?"
#pico8 #postcart
February 4, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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That's better. #pico8
January 27, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Was this the effect I was looking for? No. Does it look cool? Yes. #pico8 #HappyLittleAccidents
January 27, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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They say you can send a signal down a wet piece of string. I'm not so sure

#pico8 #postcart

ps={}
for i=0,127 do
ps[i]={x=64,y=i}
end
::_::
cls()
ps[0].x=64+sin(t()/8)*32+cos(t()/5)*32
for i=127,1,-1do
s=ps[i-1]
e=ps[i]
line(s.x,s.y,e.x,e.y,7)
e.x+=(s.x-e.x)*0.1
end
flip()
goto _
January 26, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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Periodically I ask ChatGPT this question "When was the last time England beat Scotland at Rugby" to gauge how it is doing as a general purpose information retrieval tool.

Through the years it has never, ever got this question correct. I'm impressed by how it keeps being wrong.
I asked When did England alst beat Scotland at rugby And the response was The last time England beat Scotland in rugby was on February 4, 2023, during the opening match of the Six Nations Championship. England won 23–29 at Murrayfield in Edinburgh. It was a pretty tight game, with England coming back in the second half to snatch the win. Scotland had been in the lead for a lot of the match! Do you follow the Six Nations, or was it just this game you had in mind?
January 24, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Mmmmmmmm
Onions close to perfection
December 25, 2024 at 1:05 PM
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Tick follows tock follows tick follows tock
Onions on their way to caramelisation
December 25, 2024 at 11:44 AM