Graham Spence

@andrewcrawshaw @Ga_Ma_Yo @LeedsGamesToast Appreciate your great efforts, Andrew!

By my rough calculations; before the end of this year I'll have hosted my 100th gamedev community/networking event. (I've run a mixture of @Ga_Ma_Yo and @LeedsGamesToast evening / brunch events over the last 12 years). All were free to attend. Not bad, eh?

#MapMonday On this day in 1996, the Stone of Scone, used in coronations of monarchs, was returned to Scotland after 700 years in Westminster Abbey. On the topic of 'scones' (yes, tenuous!)... here's a map of scone pronounciation. What do our followers use? bit.ly/3JDOEyn

Asked an AI chat bot to help with an issue I'm having with pigeons. Might have to ask other AIs as this one wasn't helpful at all.

Come on, at last, give us a blast!

@steishere Pixelgrams

@wetgenes @shi Congratulations!

Woohoo 16 years of marriage to @shi :) Here is a wedding day picture in front of a fountain beside a very busy road in sunny Croyden 16 years ago today.

I'm so out of touch with music I've only just made the connection between Kraftwerk's Computer Love and Coldplay's Talk. But I guess that's to be expected from someone who still likes Pachelbel's Canon in D Major. 😳

@robcooke11 @Durotrigesdig @DuroDigDiaries This is definitely a scene from Louis Sachar's book Holes

#day24 As digging draws to a close at #durotriges22 Hannah supervises one of the first years on their technique. He's not looking too happy! 😬 @Durotrigesdig @DuroDigDiaries

Come on, who's already had a cheese platter today?

@steishere Greece was my daughters favourite!

First bit of data loss in a while, due to a power cut last night. I'd left my computer on standby, but after the power came back, the Blender file I'd been working on was corrupt. Luckily the .blend1 file was OK and only an hour of work was lost.

For #HillfortsWednesday here is a stunning artist's impression of Castle-an-Dinas hillfort in #Penwith in the Iron Age. This and other historical reconstructions by Phoebe Herring can be found at penwithlandscape.com/trails-and-anc… #heritage #hillforts #Cornwall #NationalLotteryHeritageFund

Decided to buy a new graphics card and other bits and bobs to give my aging PC a boost... and.... Nope, still not buying cards for that money 😒 Even cards a few years old are going for £££

@RaygunGoth I'm banned from buying and eating shortbread at Christmas

@wetgenes Yep, I remember running into that one. I'm trying to avoid going back to that land for a while because there's bound to be some other changes.

Revisiting Android land and discovering I need to use Gradle now causing this reaction... "Oh for fuck's sake another fucking build system what the flying fuck was wrong with the last fucking one?" Which isn't quite the same as the user stories on gradle.org

Good game. Off to eat a pork pie while doing a handstand then steal a bike.

@thestarboretum I was thinking about this a few days ago - a malicious caller only has to pretend to dial the wrong number to a friend and have a small conversation about being sure they had the right number. Your short responses are all that's needed.

Bonsai #Bonsai #Bonsaijapan #Bonsaitree

They've gone (the housemartins, swifts and swallows). It's 100% crows from now until next May. 🥴

Most important thing happening around here is that the house martins and/or swifts have returned for the summer!