working from home

Not sure who the constituency is for this on BlueSky but I needed to get it off my chest

3/3 Little to no editing of the regular contributors so you get six columns all talking about *the same thing*

2/3 Articles written by people within the game, but the name is at *the end* of the article and no context is ever given for who they are

Three things that annoy me about Forty 20, that it if I were editor or publisher, I would change immediately.

1/3 Unreadable coverlines

Why not simply give the prime minister role to the most popular, principled, and productive member of the cabinet?

When you use AI to do your writing, you are telling your audience: “I deserve your attention, but you do not deserve my effort.”

Amazing the amount of time some self-described Christians spend talking about something made up by early church leaders as if it were actually in the Bible.

Probably why the same people think a handful of spicy Hadiths are massive gotchas. Theological illiteracy all the way down.

This is brilliant. Required reading for anyone wanting a primer on what’s at stake in the English local elections this year.

I’m more optimistic than he is. I mean… you have to be, don’t you?

I’m reading Bartov’s new book at the moment. I’m not normally one for polemic and I don’t agree with all his conclusions, but he’s worth listening to and it’s worth being challenged.

(I’m obviously dodging the issue of how I would vote in England)

… could not in good conscience vote Green in England seeing as they’re determined to reboot the left wing antisemitism crisis and actively oppose clean energy infrastructure.

Following both English and Scottish politics quite closely is a real headfuck: I’m an English Labour Party member but couldn’t in good conscious vote Scottish Labour over their active transphobia. I’d be enthusiastically voting Green in Scotland, but…

Wild how the only US administration prepared to entertain Netanyahu’s dream of an Iran war was the first openly antisemitic one since Nixon.

This reminds me of working for a now-defunct metal magazine. The publisher barrelled up to me and said, "We need an app."

I decided the best way of avoiding this being my problem was to feign ignorance, so I went, "What's an app?"

She replied: "I have no idea, but [competitor] has one."

a 19th century advert fro Quaker Oats that has been appallingly defaced so it now advertises Wyrd Science

it's true!

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Space Gits: Here Come The Bastards The designer of GASLANDS brings you a bunch more crazy crap for SPACE GITS, the dexterity miniatures game of drunk-ass space orcs.

Last opportunity to get in on @planetsmashergames.bsky.social latest Space Gits kickstarter.

#nerdlings #miniatures #gaming

See you all later!

Please feed me softball questions about the power of magazines and why nostalgia doesn't have to be rose-tinted.

#ttrpgs

I wasn’t the target audience for it but discovered that I can’t tell Fall Out Boy and Panic! At the Disco apart and whichever band I assume is responsible for x song at any given time isn’t.

there's a giant MICHAEL film poster in wood green and there are constant michael jackson musical posters i keep seeing on the tube, and i feel like there's a been a real concerted effort to brain wipe how bad he was as a person, but it feels especially weird during the time of the epstein files etc

For the avoidance of doubt, following the publication of the explicitly transphobic Scottish Labour manifesto this morning, I will not be campaigning for any Scottish Labour candidates in the upcoming election, and I will not be voting Scottish Labour either.

#NoVotesLabourInMay #TransRightsNow

The big story here is that there’s somewhere in Northumberland called Anick, as well as Alnwick (pronounced Anick).

A very stocky Exmoor Horn ram.

Happy 8th anniversary to the tweet that changed us forever. Look at this absolute unit.

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The word blurb was coined in 1906 by American humorist Gelett Burgess (1866–1951).[2] The October 1906 first edition of his short book Are You a Bromide? was presented in a limited edition to an annual trade association dinner. The custom at such events was to have a dust jacket promoting the work and with, as Burgess' publisher B. W. Huebsch described it, "the picture of a damsel—languishing, heroic, or coquettish—anyhow, a damsel on the jacket of every novel". In this case, the jacket proclaimed "YES, this is a 'BLURB'!" and the picture was of a (fictitious) young woman "Miss Belinda Blurb" shown calling out, described as "in the act of blurbing." The name and term stuck for any publisher's contents on a book's back cover, even after the picture was dropped and only the text remained.

The original Belinda Blurb

It brings me great pleasure to inform you the word "blurb" is named after a made-up woman named Belinda Blurb whose job is to tell everyone how great a book is

[reading a book in first person] i dont remember doing any of this

The Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies is running a free course on the Holodomor and asked me to share it to help reach people who might be interested
www.coursera.org/learn/holodo...

Europe is the shield against imperialism. The US is gone.