Tufty McTavish
@tuftymctavish.com
Gamer 🎮 Grower 👨🌾 Reader 📚 Rock Star 🎸 🥁 🎹
🏍️ Being techie (though tired of modern day nonsense), I appreciate a YT episode that strips/repairs retro computers. But having been a motorcycle track day regular with a dedicated track bike, I also like watching a YT channel that strips a sports bike with experts talking on what breaks/fixes. 🤓
PROJECT DUCATI 748S | WILL IT START?
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📺 Just this minute discovered that “The Walking Dead: Dead City” is back on my tellybox this Friday with a new S3 😯 And I’ve not quite managed to finish off #FearTheWalkingDead S8 👇 to complete my TWD viewing project 😱 I guess I had better get a boot on! 📺 #TVSky 🧟♂️ #TheWalkingDead 🚶♂️
Tufty McTavish@tuftymctavish.com · 5mo ago🤺 I’m so very close to completing this project of watching all of ”The Walking Dead”. Just one more season of #FearTheWalkingDead, S8, which the poster art claims is the final season. Let’s go… 📺 #TVSky 🧟♂️ #TheWalkingDead 🚶♂️
I’m just a person on my fucking knees begging the government to use its absolutely massive majority to do something extremely fucking popular: save our democracy.
🌧️ As it’s mizzling today I’m having a rare indoors day. ✅ Fitted screen protector to the Switch2. ✅ Dug into the mess behind the AV rack to find spare HDMI and RJ45 cables (I think they were once used for a BoxeeBox 🤔) and power socket. ✅ Docked my Switch2 for the first time. 🎮 #VideoGames 🕹️
WOW. That was very much like the Mad Max Fury Road style of pacing I’ve heard #HOPE movie described as. It’s almost like a Ghibli live action film with guns. Don’t ask. Just trust.
It's a long shot but Bluesky is as good a place as any for this: does anyone have a ticket they can't use for the Zeteo launch at the Barbican tmrw? I will buy it off you if so (I have one, I just want to take my kid).
Earlier this week the lovely folks at @evercade.co.uk invited us to hang out in London for the day, where we got to try the new Nexus handheld One highlight was learning that games editor Nick is taller than every Evercade cartridge ever released #debugontour
Look at these very cool pin badges and holo bookmarks we've just received for There is No Antimemetics Division! As you know I really enjoyed the twisty ideas in our #SFF Book of the Month, so do pop in to chat to us about it 💙📚🪐
Bookish Scifi & Fantasy@bookishsff.bsky.social · 2w agoVery excited to share that There Is No Antimemetics Division by @qntm.org is Waterstones' #SFF Book of the Month for September! I really enjoyed this one: how do you fight a threat that can erase all your memories of it even existing? A fantastic, clever, twisty tale - definitely recommend! 🪐📚💙
Oxford people...what's good to do in Oxford, on a Saturday, later in the evening? Any fun late-opening pubs / club nights to know about? Bearing in mind I'll probably be asleep at 10... but what if I'm not?
Ffs. Well, it’s up to us to make sure that their grubby ‘investment’ is a phenomenal waste of money. Reform is a shitshow of crooks and idiots who have no idea how to behave, let alone govern. The majority of us who loathe them must unite to keep them out of power forever.
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 2d agoHarborne has given Reform £36 million to match Delo's £36 million. The Telegraph describes it as a "show of force" from Reform's donors. The two men's £72 million is greater than all of the spending by all political parties on the 2024 GE www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
🔊 The one with the PC hardware history and the computer clubs. I can just about remember my father taking me along to some when I were a wee lad. 🎮 #VideoGames 🕹️ #RetroGaming #RetroComputing ⌨️ #Podcasts 📻
This Week in Retro@thisweekinretro.bsky.social · 2d agoA wild week for retro Kickstarters, and a unique phone booth memorial opens its folding door. But first: Tron references, the big four-oh for the Amstrad PC1512 PC clone, a time capsule of Atari newsletters from Aug 1987, and Nelumbo's classic Lotus racing action. youtu.be/8lyKDPCZmEQ
📖 Currently reading “From Pixels to Prose” in which we learn how 1/16th Werewolf @nadiaoxford.bsky.social wrote micro game reviews through Grade 6, contracted terminal RPG wasting disease, and drafted a badass Shadow Dragon… 📚🎮 #VideoGames 🕹️ #NonFictionBooks 💡📚💙 #BookSky 🦋 #HammockTime 😎
💭 Often, while lying in the hammock, usually reading my book, I’ll have a thought for a Q suitable to an AMA prompt. Of course, by the time I’m back indoors and ready to note it down, it has entirely evaporated 🫤
🎧 The one with the “big fat chunky bottoms”, and vibe building of LEGO™️ because while a model kit is fine, someone is “not going to follow instructions.” 😅 Reckon I’m probably more a LEGO™️ kit type than a tub type, at least nowadays 🤔 🎮 #VideoGames 🕹️ #Podcasts 📻
Axe of the Blood God - An RPG Podcast@bloodgodpod.bsky.social · 6d agoNintendo Direct + Zelda Direct predictions! Check out these hot takes before they immediately get soggy. Seeing this after the Zelda Direct 9/8 7am pt? Let know what we got wrong (don’t say spirit tracks) youtube.com/shorts/ie5Up... 🎧 : pod.link/969659784/ep... 💸: www.patreon.com/bloodgodpod/...
💭 It’s so odd to hear the rumble of lawnmowers out in the neighbourhood, something that hasn’t been required in the past few months.
There’s a new AGV Pista GP this weekend, the R3, and as someone who talks about concussion a lot it might be the biggest safety improvement since the airbag. Has a new system that lab tests says reduces concussion BY 600%!!!
I've had better weeks, but had some kind reach-outs - thank you. I'd love for @dbspringboard.bsky.social to get 500 sign-ups by the year's end - if you'd like to help with that, the link is below. darylbaxter.com/springboard/...
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This is completely on Andy Burnham Last week Labour could have stopped this. Now we have a single person giving more money than the entire general election spending limit for a political party www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
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It’s not too late to stop this madness - the government has said the uk mega donors are a problem. The lords can bring in a cap on UK donors to stop any attempt to buy the next election. Share this and ask your MP to join us protecting British democracy.
If you see this, could you please reskeet it? I want to test something.
Want a doodle? New commissions start at $5! I'll draw your pet, character, or whatever you'd like in the Rainbow of Crazy Comics style 💜 Every dollar will help the (still growing) expenses for my first #art market table set-up Details: ko-fi.com/rainbowofcrazy 🌈 #artshop #artistsupport #cuteart
The second-oldest officially licensed game featured in Aliens: The Video Games (with a new interview), 1984's Alien is a close (but deliberately not quite) retelling of the 1979 movie, as a top-down strategy game. Expect to die - or at least 'win' incompetently. Aliens: The Video Games is out now.
🌸 I’ve been examining the Zinnia patch trying to figure out where the seeds are located. I think I found them! As the petals dry out they more easily pull out from the flower head, and there on the end is the seed. No idea of original variety name 🤷♂️ 👨🌾 #Gardening #Flowers #GrowYourOwn 🌱
Tufty McTavish@tuftymctavish.com · last mo.🌸 The Zinnia display is pumping out colour into the McTavish Manor Gardens. Then I spotted that my Hummingbird Moth was back, hovering over the blooms and dipping into the nectar. 👨🌾 #Gardening #Flowers #GrowYourOwn 🌱
