Child of Prog
@devindoyle.bsky.social
Writer for games and TV. Star Wars: Eclipse, Divinity: Original Sin 2, Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden. Red Planet Prize winner. Metalhead. Bassist. Social Democrat. Irish-Australian-British (but mostly Irish). Résident en France. Age: unverified.
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🎯MapTap Daily Geography Game
Play MapTap - the daily geography game! Find 5 world locations on a 3D globe with historical stories. Free browser-based daily game for geography lovers.
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I wrote another Exceptional Story for Fallen London! I had a wonderful time writing this and I’m so excited for people to play through the Foundling’s tale.
Failbetter Games | Wishlist Mandrake on Steam!@failbettergames.com · 13h agoSwaddled still in a zee-stained cloth, the Foundling looks up at you with wide, luminous eyes, their shrieks quieted by your presence. You are burdened with a monumental task: the saving of a life. November's Exceptional Story in Fallen London is The Foundling, by @hazelmonforton.com
ICE is not about immigration. Think about the difference between an arrest and a kidnapping. ICE is about normalizing a paramilitary force on our streets.
WHERE EAGLES DARE (1969). I still think this is one of the greatest action-adventure films ever made. Strange that it's not more iconic. I'd love to see the original 70mm print.
Broadsword Calling Danny Boy Richard Burton
Alt: "Broadsword calling Danny Boy." Richard Burton as Major John Smith in the WW2 espionage adventure WHERE EAGLES DARE (1969), using a German radio to contact his base of operations in England.
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I put this together with unleaded petrol and the MAGA boomers on the Good Liars videos and can't help but wonder if there's a connection.
Tyler King@tyleraking.com · yesterdayAn earlier study by many of the same researchers put the number at 1/4. The study also estimated 1/4 former NFL players had dementia during lifetime. “More than 20 mil men alive today in the US have played football.” If these numbers are even close to accurate, that’s a massive public health danger.
The national French library, crucial for thousands of researchers' daily work: "we are currently dealing with a massive intensification of content scraping from Gallica [online resource portal] by AI robots, negatively impacting the service for our human users." This has been going on for a while.
BnF - Bibliothèque nationale de France@labnf.bsky.social · 2d agoBonjour, nous faisons face actuellement à une intensification massive du moissonnage des contenus de Gallica par des robots IA, qui dégrade le service à nos utilisateurs humains. Nous travaillons à mettre en place les mesures correctives dans les meilleurs délais.
What Kamala Harris proposes in not impeaching Trump is this the same reason why letting Jefferson Davis and the rest of the Confederate soldiers and leaders off the hook was a bad idea.. We've been paying for it ever since😡
People keep asking me how I could afford to have kids as an artist. https://www.patreon.com/AliceFraser
The lessons from Brazil and Serbia? Don't concede one inch of ground to the far right. Don't appease. Don't triangulate. Don't grovel. Don't say they have "legitimate concerns". Mobilise your base, and fight them with all the democratic means at your disposal.
Have noticed a good few very obviously AI generated dating app bios, the giveaway is a wordy description that groups everything in threes followed by trying to build a data centre in your house
That's VW and Audi off the list for when I can afford to replace the car. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
Audi boss under fire in Germany for Trump rally appearance
Gernot Döllner criticised for in-person announcement of major investment in US days before midterm elections
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Much as I love Alfredson's TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY, the first BBC radio adaptation from 1988, written by Rene Basilico, hits Smiley's emotional stakes way harder. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
John le Carré - Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy - 1. The Return - BBC Sounds
Back from overseas, George Smiley discovers all is not well inside the 'Circus'.
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Some ground rules that have helped us: - Go outside your bubble, try new social media channels - Don’t underestimate the power of WhatsApp (although less so in the U.S.) - Post on the Instagram grid, not just stories - Watch every Instagram video until the end before sharing - IGNORE THEM
After the first round elections, Congressman André Janones created a WhatsApp channel titled “Lula’s Army.” It ballooned to 10 million people following his commands on how to behave online to counteract Meta’s far-right-favouring algorithms. The right knows how to use socials. We must learn, too.
I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.
Brilliant info here. "The act allows private parking operators to pursue the registered keeper of a vehicle for charges. There is no such keeper liability on statutory land, so if the keeper declines to confirm who was driving, the parking operator is powerless." www.theguardian.com/money/2026/o...
Stung with a parking fine for an 18-second airport stop to tackle a wasp
No matter what the cause, airports are ruthless in issuing PCNs if a car stops in a red zone. But there is a get-out clause
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I listen to Dad's Army on R4X whenever it's up. Not sure why I like it so much, I don't feel that connected to it. Maybe it's because it was on telly at a time in my childhood when I was relatively happy, I dunno. Today's ep is really fucking racist though.
Smoking rates. Cancer survivability. Gay rights. Women's rights. Children's rights. Car safety. Interconnectedness worldwide. And much, much more. Because people fought. The fight goes on.
Michael Druker 🇨🇦@mdruker.app · 6d agoSocial media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?
I kept Facebook because deleting it would cut contact with a lot of friends. Also I use the memories to save and delete my old photos. Sometimes they hurt.
over TEN MILLION people in a single whatsapp channel!! our leader, andré janones, would give us "missions" like: the president is making a post at 7pm, everyone go like and comment. in 30 minutes, everyone google "flávio bolsonaro [something he did and tried to hide]" etc. we beat the algorythm lol
French police sees children walking mere meters away, casually throws teargas right at the children. If you wanna understand why so many people hate the police x.com/tartarle/sta...
A comprehensive Isabel Hayes rejection of a far-right Aontú/Jim O'Callaghan attack on a Dublin Rape Crisis Centre (DRCC) campaign advocating the teaching of consent to small children. O'Callaghan is the Dublin government's Minister for Justice - he should be fired. Small children - boycott Aontú!
Una Mullally@unamullally.bsky.social · 7d agoThis, from the hugely experienced Irish courts reporter, Isabel Hayes, on the Minister for Justice’s performative outrage over an ad about children and consent, is worth reading.
It will take a while for voters to recalibrate after Sinn Féin's lurch to the right. There's a great opportunity here for the @social-democrats.bsky.social to hoover up the voters they are abandoning to chase the approval of the worst people on the internet.
Damian Stack@damianstack.bsky.social · 5d agoThe left in Ireland can only muster 20% of the vote. Grim.
It is my strong belief that women are no better and no worse than men, and Jews are no better and no worse than non-Jewish people. The problem is always power.
'As a court reporter, I cover child sexual abuse cases on a daily basis. I can categorically state that children who are given the tools to exercise autonomy over their own bodies from a young age are much better equipped to recognise abuse and report it before it escalates.' - Isabel Hayes
Donncha O’Connell@donnchalaw.bsky.social · 6d agoIsabel Hayes: Why Jim O’Callaghan is dangerously wrong about the important message at heart of consent advert. www.independent.ie/comment/opin...
