I’m in this!

lego stonewall riot set, complete with the brick marsha p johnson threw, which is made of smaller lego bricks

The fact they could dig up the exact issue of this magazine so I could have a read is some kind of miracle. Can’t wait.

28/6/26. 23. @robbotron.bsky.social - The Dark Room @ Frog & Bucket, Manc. Another lovely time seeing a few Fuckloaves/Darrens before y’know, our untimely deaths an’ all by everyone’s fave Aussie lunatic, Robbo! Even Kevin-chan & Soggy Bob came out of hiding too! 😂🤘🏻🍍

@robbotron.bsky.social finally awoke to find myself in a dark room this evening and what an absolute pleasure/therapy session/smackdown it turned out to be! Your vibe is unmatched and I take my hat off to you (especially if it ends up with a tenner in it)!

Mention the soullessness of AI promotion, summon a bot pretending to be human.

do not ask for whom the pussy pops; it pops for thee

Imagine hiring a developer to make a game as fun as Sonic Mania and then never letting them make a sequel. 🤦🏻‍♂️

When someone gets online and starts loudly promoting generative AI for creative work or plain human chat, here’s what they’re saying: 1. They have shares in AI 2. They’re unhappy with their creative career and no other shortcut they’ve ever taken has worked 3. They aren’t real 4. LONELY!!!

Back when I was doing audiobooks the company I worked for was the drizzling shits - last-minute deadlines, took forever to pay, no support on how to pronounce words in say, Farsi… Just finished listening to an actor’s audiobook, he’s narrated it with some famous mates of his, but…

Britain is more than halfway towards reaching Net Zero. Most people don't realise this, not least as the fossil-fuel fanatics want us to think achieving it is impossible. Via YouGov

Can’t make it a show in Liverpool tonight because a pipe in my flat is leaking. Plumber arrives, it’s the communal cold water for the building. Council must fix it. The bucket I’ve put under it fills up every ten minutes. The council puts this down as an emergency and sends nobody.

Michelle Pfeiffer didn't get so good with the whip her Catwoman could knock the heads off all those mannequins - IN ONE TAKE - so you could tell us AI is "inevitable"

It’s boiling hot in the UK at night. If you can, I recommend opening a window and watching Takeshi Kitano’s “Sonatine”. Slow-moving, playful, dreamlike, funny and violent. Will you go on an emotional journey? Who cares? Also it’s clearly very warm and everyone has a nice shirt.

I left the Church years ago. I can’t go back. I do not demand that the Church change for me. But when the Holy Father says stuff like this I feel so connected to the depths of my faith, to the part of the Church that I did not and cannot leave, and I am so happy to feel that way

My strongest decaying millennial opinion is the Netflix release of Neon Genesis Evangelion should have forked out for the rights to the covers of “Fly Me To The Moon” that go over the end credits in all prior versions of the series. It’s a nice let-up if the episode’s depressing and it’s on brand.

Nice gig tonight

They’re calling it the quote on British politics that ended the need for all other quotes

Yesterday: visit friend’s book launch, appear at comedy fundraiser for job training for migrants and refugees. Today: 12 hour round trip because a crowd in Ulverston requires 20 mins of reasonably-priced entertainment. It’s a silly life.

"I also struggle with the persistent focus on privacy as the purported barrier to solving these issues, when we have most of the Epstein list walking around without consequences."

Just had a sneeze cut out halfway through because it hurt my haemorrhoids, which feels like a scientific breakthrough of some kind

You find yourself in a dark room. Survival is unlikely. Entertainment is guaranteed. 🔦 @robbotron.bsky.social 's “The Dark Room” returns to #PAXWest 2026 this summer! Don’t miss the madness ➡️ PAXwest26.com/Badges

What I most admire about the looksmaxxing weirdos is the bit where they smash themselves in the face with hammers. I just love a trend that’s going to sort itself out pretty quickly.

Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Doctor says, 'Treatment is simple. Voidspace Live @voidspacezine.bsky.social is on this weekend. Go and see hilarious new show from @robbotron.bsky.social You Are Pagliacci: Sad Clown Simulator.'

Nationalise Deep Space Nine

I tend to default to typing "KILL JESTER" when I get bored of a text adventure. I must have typed it into a dozen different games. Only one responded correctly ... (also honorable mention for "FIND LIGHTSWITCH" from watching too much @robbotron.bsky.social )

Hot tip: the leather shop at the foot of The Empire State Building is the only place selling leather biker vests I’ve ever seen where they’re not exclusively for gays, goths and old nerds who look like wizards. Stop steward very pleasant but mystified if you want the thing to be tight

Yes. Using a computer now feels like this at all times.

The man, the myth, the legendary @robbotron.bsky.social signed my jacket, and my lads tote bag, at the UK Games Expo, today... I didn't get any videos of the event, but had a fantastic day... 😎

Fantastic start to #UKGE with my friends and I surviving the Aztec themed Escape Room and then an absolutely epic session in The Dark Room, by @robbotron.bsky.social before collapsing into my hotel room.

Look, sometimes you just gotta ask @robbotron.bsky.social "How do you make a tissue dance?" cos a child has messaged our podcast for answers and John Robertson is a wise sage to turn to. LISTEN YE! omny.fm/shows/radio-...

Well now I can't unseen it @robbotron.bsky.social

If you want to know the state of the creative economy I saw a man begging for change at Kings Cross today wearing a t-shirt that said “Keep podcasting”.

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Another 5* review for @robbotron.bsky.social

As good an opportunity as any to post Orson Welles talking about his role in this movie

I left twitter when a woman posted her phd and thousands of men told her to have white babies. that was before they started making porn of any woman who posted a picture of herself

THE DARK ROOM rolls into MCM Comic-Con London this Saturday! 5:30pm Capitol Stage Meet ‘n Greet Sunday 12pm Always a pleasure to be there, plus I’ve already been paid!

Finally got tickets to see @robbotron.bsky.social June 28th in Manchester. I'm very much looking forward to experiencing The Dark Room live!

half of all tech news lately is some variation of "the computer company has discontinued their well known product, the computer"

MOLTO BENNE DARREN

The following writing needs doing: Rebuild of The Dark Room for marathon live show May 29th The Gaming Special (work-in-progress stand-up show about gaming) May 30th Both at UKGE You Are Pagliacci (work-in-progress interactive game/show about a suicidal clown) June 6+7 @ Voidspace London

The legend @mrweebl.bsky.social’s Badger, Badger is in the BFI National Archive and all is right with the world

I did The Dark Room for the lovely Unknown Worlds folks @subnautica.bsky.social during lockdown and they were fantastic to play with. Here’s to the already massive Subnautica 2!

Look at this AI stealing the decent, honest job of a dominatrix

Fucking capitalism, there’s an ad in my hominem attacks

It’ll be nice to see the general population come around to hating Wes Streeting as much as everyone in the NHS does. I would like to ask him where he gets his human skin suit from though, it’s a good fit even though he looks uncomfortable wearing it.

Is Windows 11 a shit millennial dad? Because it would rather search the internet than itself

Something that stung at end of being on Infinite Monkey Cage were frequent backstage invites for various anti trans activists - including to our small party for 201st episode - people who wrote vicious things about me & then lies about me after resignation. It was really rotten. www.robinince.com