Damon L. Wakes

Author of Ten Little Astronauts, Face of Glass and literally hundreds of works of flash fiction: I've been writing a story a day for the whole of July every year since 2012. I also make videogames.

Website:: https://damonwakes.wordpress.com/
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Games:: https://damonwakes.itch.io/

Last Notes

2026-06-27 15:24:57 GMT

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Did they seriously put "PLAY HAS NO LIMITS" right under the announcement that you can no longer play your purchased movies due to the limits of a licensing arrangement?

2026-06-05 11:03:48 GMT

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I thought you might like to know that the original Icy Tower was a bit of an inspiration for this recent jam game of mine (though it's rather different in terms of gameplay). It ended up placing #1 for Fun in the GameDev.tv jam! https://damonwakes.itch.io/grapple-tower

2026-04-06 12:37:08 GMT

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https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/116/357/783/881/425/674/original/135a6ca061a3dd21.jpg

2026-03-09 18:59:10 GMT

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I don't understand why the factory would even have to do anything differently. You could simply turn the entire building - or the entire town - around 180 degrees.

2026-01-09 18:29:15 GMT

I was happy with Startpage before, but I've since found it doing the exact same clownshow "You searched for X, so here are results matching Y" thing as every other search engine I know of.
Can anybody point me towards something that can actually be persuaded to search for the literal exact words - and only the literal exact words - that I typed in the fucking box?
#Startpage #SearchEngine #search
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2026-01-06 12:39:11 GMT

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I took the time to kludge this together so I might as well use it.
https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/115/848/187/051/380/404/original/c4984b6c7d71f2de.png

2025-12-09 18:45:15 GMT

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I once invited Joanne Harris to give a talk at (but not organised by) a local university. She very kindly accepted, but only after being assured that she would not be paid by the university. Having given a talk there myself, I understand her position 100%.

2025-11-19 16:25:12 GMT

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When all you have is a stick, everything looks like a plate.

2025-10-23 14:06:55 GMT

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I just switched to LibreWolf rather than have to wrestle with regular Firefox.

2025-04-13 10:10:02 GMT

Woke up and immediately stepped on this. (Fortunately lying on its side, I think.) How's everybody else's day going?
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2025-03-18 21:41:08 GMT

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This did immediately make me think of that time Ben Shapiro was like "People whose houses are flooding due to climate change should just sell them" and hbomberguy responded with "To who, Ben? Fucking Aquaman???" https://m.youtube.com/clip/Ugkxln9pXGtoskoVr3RE1o8IelZ75s05Wz4K?cbrd=1

2025-03-09 20:12:32 GMT

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Is this concerning as well as just annoying? The way Mozilla's been going, I don't entirely trust the update.

2025-02-21 12:31:12 GMT

Play this. Play it now.
#game #videogames #ethics #scorpion #frog
https://computerjames.itch.io/scorpheus

2024-11-02 00:56:31 GMT

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The less iffy option sounds more likely to me - he does specifically mention the caption being the bottleneck in terms of time, and preemptively uploading photos seems like a massive waste of resources for Instagram unless they can reasonably anticipate an intent to post them - but wow is that still not great.

2024-08-12 00:51:10 GMT

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It's a lovely morning in the Late Miocene, and you are a ginormous goose.

2024-07-05 13:40:44 GMT

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News for @npub1d62…rhjw, perhaps?