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Steve Hammond✒️ 📚🔭📹 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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SF Writer/Duffer • Ex-DMA Design (Writer for Hired Guns/ Co-Writer for Grand Theft Auto & Body Harvest) • Hobby Moviemaker and Coder (Directed Britain's 1st Star Trek Fan Film) • 90s Has Been / Burnt Out Husk

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Joined November 14, 2017

Location:

Aberdeenshire, Scotland

Website:

https://www.stevehammond.org

Free Scottish UFO Casebook:

https://www.stevehammond.org/_downloads/ScottishUFOCasebook-Free.pdf

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Steve Hammond✒️ 📚🔭📹 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @snap2grid@mastodon.social · May 23, 2026

RE: @slashdot@mastodon.cloud

I'm on a local UFO (FB) group and it's amazing how little traction the first batch got. Obvious distraction is obvious.

Steve Hammond✒️ 📚🔭📹 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @snap2grid@mastodon.social · May 22, 2026

Create software. Create art. Create writing. Create understanding. Create beauty. Create joy.

Don't become just another stage in the slop pipeline.

Steve Hammond✒️ 📚🔭📹 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @snap2grid@mastodon.social · May 22, 2026

Everywhere I look...

There's a meshtastic app that someone's now using AI to develop. There's someone I know personally working on another app and now using AI. On a retro games group someone uses AI to make a musical tribute to the chiptune makers back in the day.

A *tribute*???

I grew up with friends who learnt coding the hard way. At the time the *only* way: swap tricks, read magazines and books, figure how others did it, figure it out ourselves.

We *learnt*.

Steve Hammond✒️ 📚🔭📹 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @snap2grid@mastodon.social · May 20, 2026

Tim Berners-Lee's Pods over #meshtastic. That'll take our agency back, right? Just give it a decade or so.

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Steve Hammond✒️ 📚🔭📹 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @snap2grid@mastodon.social · May 20, 2026

Oh yes, big thing about Google enshittifying the web even further. The main link cited is techcrunch which says "something has gone wrong" because I have an ad blocker.

Well, yes. Quite.

Just not in the way you mean.

Steve Hammond✒️ 📚🔭📹 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @snap2grid@mastodon.social · May 19, 2026

@gamesthatwerent@mastodon.world Great seeing you at Zzap Live! even if it was only for 30 seconds. Blame Mike for keeping me signing :) I'll be back next year and am at Kickstart 3 in August if you want to pick up where we left off.

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Games That Weren't (@gamesthatwerent@mastodon.world) - Mastodon

Steve Hammond✒️ 📚🔭📹 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @snap2grid@mastodon.social · May 15, 2026

Arrived at #ZzapLive after a whole load of travelling.

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Steve Hammond✒️ 📚🔭📹 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @snap2grid@mastodon.social · May 12, 2026

Well, today's going to be fun. Electric company has a planned power outage for five hours, to deal with trees versus power lines.

No telly for me! (Hope the mobile masts¹ are on an independent circuit.)

Ideal test for #meshtastic if I didn't have the only node in a dozen mile radius 🙄

¹Cellphone towers.

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Steve Hammond✒️ 📚🔭📹 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @snap2grid@mastodon.social · May 12, 2026

Replying to @sundogplanets@mastodon.social

@sundogplanets@mastodon.social I think the founders needs to be followed around for the rest of their lives by astronomers with pocket mirrors, carrying out practical demonstrations. Although not so much, I guess, that we get the scenario in Arthur C Clarke's story “A Slight Case of Sunstroke”...

Steve Hammond✒️ 📚🔭📹 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @snap2grid@mastodon.social · May 06, 2026

Replying to @cstross@wandering.shop

@cstross If Google is doing this to offload CPU to the hapless users, perhaps some enterprising individual can come with a poisoned version of the file. Your computer, your rules?

Steve Hammond✒️ 📚🔭📹 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @snap2grid@mastodon.social · Apr 14, 2026

Replying to @snap2grid@mastodon.social

@gregeganSF Also a noun, as in “Ya wee clype!”

Steve Hammond✒️ 📚🔭📹 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @snap2grid@mastodon.social · Apr 14, 2026

Replying to @gregeganSF@mathstodon.xyz

@gregeganSF Can confirm. Source: am Scottish.

Steve Hammond✒️ 📚🔭📹 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @snap2grid@mastodon.social · Apr 14, 2026

Replying to @cstross@wandering.shop

@cstross@wandering.shop Dammit. I read _Miracle Visitors_ in the early 90s and it was one of the few novels which started shaping my thinking.

Steve Hammond✒️ 📚🔭📹 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @snap2grid@mastodon.social · Apr 07, 2026

Replying to @quazarsamcoupe@mastodonapp.uk

@quazarsamcoupe@mastodonapp.uk Well, I'm all out of ideas! Was out of there by mid 92 so probably just missed crossing paths.

Steve Hammond✒️ 📚🔭📹 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @snap2grid@mastodon.social · Apr 07, 2026

Replying to @quazarsamcoupe@mastodonapp.uk

@quazarsamcoupe@mastodonapp.uk Sounds like the Rockwell AIM65. We had these at Abertay Uni (back when it was Dundee Institute of Technology). ASCII keyboard, though so maybe not.

Steve Hammond✒️ 📚🔭📹 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @snap2grid@mastodon.social · Apr 02, 2026

RE: @inthehands@hachyderm.io

“It's okay, I'm just using it for training.”

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Paul Cantrell: "An AI corporation crying big tears over having it…" - Hachyderm.io

Steve Hammond✒️ 📚🔭📹 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @snap2grid@mastodon.social · Mar 21, 2026

Replying to @snap2grid@mastodon.social

Thanks everyone for keeping me entertained!

Steve Hammond✒️ 📚🔭📹 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @snap2grid@mastodon.social · Mar 20, 2026

Replying to @jwz@mastodon.social

@jwz@mastodon.social The current episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.

Steve Hammond✒️ 📚🔭📹 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @snap2grid@mastodon.social · Mar 20, 2026

Replying to @snap2grid@mastodon.social

Looks at spike in replies. That'll teach me to have an afternoon nap.

Steve Hammond✒️ 📚🔭📹 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @snap2grid@mastodon.social · Mar 20, 2026

Just found out (according to Peter Theil) that critics of AI are "legionnaires of the antichrist"¹

Hello fellow legionnaires!

¹Thank John Oliver (again).

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Steve Hammond✒️ 📚🔭📹 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @snap2grid@mastodon.social · Dec 24, 2025

Replying to @DrWhoZee@troet.cafe

@DrWhoZee@troet.cafe @WeeGem@mastodon.scot @cstross@wandering.shop Of course the really funny thing about that is, astronomically speaking, the North Star is slightly off of actual North.

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Paul Cantrell: "An AI corporation crying big tears over having it…" - Hachyderm.io

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