Also hello 👋 I am still alive. Maybe I'll start posting here again properly at some point...

Ryan's Half Marathon for Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) Help Ryan Ayton raise money to support Medecins Sans Frontieres / Doctors Without Borders (MSF)

In just under 3 weeks I'm running my first ever half-marathon, in aid of MSF! If you feel like chucking in a few quid in support I would hugely appreciate it ☺️

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Until you've built a level and had 10 million people play it without getting lost or frustrated, you can shut the fuck up about yellow paint.

Had a wonderful weekend catching up with some old friends and playing board games I've not played in years. Good times ☺️

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A nice obvious theme today but overall I found this one really tough for some reason

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Pick the bones clean, operator (868-HACK PLAN.B) YouTube video by Alan Malloy

i've been posting a lot, trying to do this self-promotion thing right
i'll be much quieter very soon

there might be some people wanting to still back my thing at the last minute? here's your reminder :)

and, someone playing high level HACK: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMKu...

thx all <3, night

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And here's today's ❄️

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Forgot to post this yesterday 🍲

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@hammers's finished Cross|word Watercolors

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Nice. A classic theme. I got a bit bogged down in the bottom right section.

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Annoyingly if I'd have done the downs first I'd have had loads of plonks and probably would have finished a lot quicker

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Catching up on Eurovision news:

The stage looks cool. The font is fine.

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Couple of American brands in this one which messed me up a bit. So not the easiest solve for me

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My account will probably be fairly quiet for the next couple of weeks. Wife and I have both finished work for the year and have entered full vegetation mode.

Which perversely means I barely look at my phone because I'm far too busy sleeping, eating or playing video games

I just preached at a bear so hard in Qud that it found god and started carrying my shit for me

It's now wearing battle armor

It’s The Shard photographed from below at night. It stands among other skyscrapers. Some of its windows are lit up, others are blacked out. The spires at the top are lot lit up in bright neon red. This is supposed to look festive but instead it basically looks like the Eye of Sauron. It’s giving evil villain lair vibes. It does not help that the red light is reflected in the clouds above, giving the sky an evil looking eerie red glow. Doctor Doom would reject this place as being too on the nose. Magneto would tell them to tone it down a bit. It’s evil in building form.

Very much appreciating Salman Anwar’s photo of The Shard in the UK, which he points out they’ve tried to make festive and instead made look menacingly evil.

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Ok back to normality with this one. A very very smooth fill compared to yesterday!

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I love this song so much. It goes so hard.

I discovered Bambie when I saw them play Download fest the year before they did Eurovision and this was one of my most played songs that year because of that set

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Hahaha almost 20 mins? I have no idea how I would have ever solved that if it wasn't for Puzzmo's hint system.

A clever theme but wow that was a difficult crossword 😅

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A picture of a Nyckelharpa, an instrument that looks like a large violin with keys

I've been informed it's a nyckelharpa. A Swedish keyed fiddle

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I know a lot less about Taylor Swift than I do Chappell Roan but I managed

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Gåte performing live on stage. Some phone are being held up in the foreground recording them

Gåte performing live on stage. The members are all playing various stringed instruments

Gåte performing live on stage. Gunnhild is stood on an amp center stage with the band surrounding her

Gåte on stage, the members are in a line ready to take a bow

Ahhh they were so good! Even better than I thought they'd be!

Whole band gave it absolutely everything. And they ended with an incredible moment where Gunnhild, the lead singer, sang completely unamplified. Haunting and beautiful. Highly recommend!

I loved today's puzzle! Amazing work ♥️

Soooo,

what makes BlueSky impressive is composable moderation. As in, you can trivially subscribe to a moderation channel that behaves more like you want.

Assuming the built-in mod team'll go as hard as you want was never gonna work out, but since we can do the above, we can just work around them.

Next year 🤞

A picture of the band Gåte. 5 people are stood in a line in a misty wood. The member on the right is holding an unusual looking traditional Norwegian instrument.

Gig night tonight! Norwegian folk-rock band, Gåte. Have listened to some of their stuff but not super familiar with em so looking forward to being surprised!

Right? I'd never heard anything of theirs before and immediately became a huge fan.

Also thanks for the recs! That Sugar Pit album is excellent. Can't believe I'd let that one slip by

Someone thought 'guess the eyes' would be good for the festive coffee room💀

Mushroom is the UK's most liked pizza topping Generally speaking, which of the following toppings do you like on a pizza? Select as many as you like 42% Sweetcorn 60% Peppers 49% Bacon 56% Pepperoni 26% Spinach 33% Olives 42% Pineapple 51% Tomato (as a topping) 61% Ham 65% Mushrooms Other items not depicted include; onions (62%), chicken (56%), beef (36%), chillies (31%), jalapeños (30%), pork (25%), tuna (22%), anchovies (18%), 2% of people say they only like Margherita pizzas

Who wants to see the worst pie chart of the year #dataviz

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Always gonna enjoy a puzzle that's built off a Chappell Roan reference

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Catly is AI garbage, there are better cat games made by (cat-loving) humans.

Alt text: Little Kitty Big City (black cat running amok on a city street), Spirit City Lofi Sessions (drinking tea with magic cat), Cat Quest III (magical cat adventuring party), and Nine Sols (mysterious cat cyberninja).