Photo of the South of Scotland regional ballot paper for the Scottish election on 7th May 2026. Added text identifies the "INDEPENDENT GREEN VOICE" as "NOT the Green Party" and "SCOTTISH GREEN PARTY" as "The actual Green Party".

Anyone who received their postal ballot today in the South of Scotland region, please be aware that "Independent Green Voice", which appears second on the list on the peach regional ballot paper, is NOT the Scottish Green Party. This is in fact a deliberate vote spoiling attempt by right-wingers.

NOW: B52 bombers are literally in the air on their way to Iran and hundreds of thousands of Iranians are in the streets waving flags and surrounding bridges & power plants.

Difficult to imagine this has any precedent in modern warfare.

(🎥 Al Jazeera)

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"This isn’t just Borquaye’s opinion: according to the World Health Organization, it is registered as an impulse control disorder rather than an addiction, while the American Psychiatric Association has no formal diagnosis."

If Reform had won, Labour's statement would be that this result is a stark reminder we need to listen and learn from voters who rightly feel betrayed by modern politics.

But the Greens won by a comfortable margin, so it's: these voters are stupid and also sinister and, ugh, Muslims

every PhD viva

Hmm vaguely, tho I do recall a kensai well. I was mostly a Film thread poster lol

Aha i was a regular on there for a good few years, wonder if i would recognise your username from the Pit

My pleasure ☺️They sound like their owner (minus, perhaps, the self-seriousness)!

just finished Birding by @regretteruane.bsky.social. What a beautiful ode to the rickety uncertainties of self + the weird liminal shitholes of the UK. So funny too.

P.S. Carwash is the funniest cat name i’ve ever heard

And the reason is simple: Solutions for the cost of living crisis require fundamentally altering both the architecture of capitalism internal to Britain *and* relations to external, global capital flows, while immigration is nebulous and can be performatively addressed through spectacular violence.

somewhat related.. I started reading Birding last week and I am loving the seamless blend of the morose and the funny-as-fuck! It’s always been obvious, but you are such a fab writer ❤️

I just realised John Boyne is the same moron who inserted the Legend of Zelda lore into his novel by accident because of lazy googling lol

IG post from writer Padraig Kenny dismantling claims that ai could ever translate books as well as a human

Post from the great Padraig Kenny over on IG

There’s dozens of us! Saw her a few weeks ago at Prima too, mesmerising

Anohni is such a gift #glastonbury

I actually love being a weirdo.
Fucking weirdo he is.

No way i was just reading about this in @flantz.bsky.social fantastic book The Beauty of Games 👀 🐍

Stuff like this would have been immensely useful as an English undergrad. Honest, reflective writing on an otherwise amorphous, ill-defined but essential component of literary study. Especially the role of aesthetics - the most remarkable close readings are such because of their artistry

✧ Baths - Gut

✧ out now
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Idk how I’m only seeing this now but I can’t believe you’re coming to Glasgow! So stoked, see u there!

(And I suspect much of the game laughs in the face of the very idea of ‘flavour text’ to begin with – language is perhaps the core around which the rest of the game tries to flavour?)

Every subsequent screenshot I chance upon from Caves of Qud makes it harder to resist picking up. What other game combines such laconic prose (“forelegs stiff in vigil”) and bizarre comedy (guard dogs burning effigies) in the same box of flavour text?

The B-roll footage of her reading a “Welsh Phrasebook” was good patter tbf, got a chuckle from me

Great interview! Excited to read The Great When over the holidays

I also have You Like Music in my top 5! Oddly slept on, it's such a banger from start to end.

Ahhh this has made my week! Finally, more Baths 🙌 ✨

Visited the crypt of the Habsburg dynasty today in Vienna and, as you can see, their tombs are metal af.

It bookmarks the post haha i only found this out today

I think the adage ‘I hate writing, but I love having written’ sums it up nicely. I really don’t think good writing can come without hardship, struggle etc.

Slice & Dice on Steam Tactical dice-rolling roguelike combat. Take control of 5 heroes, each with their own unique dice. Fight your way through 20 levels of monsters and try to take on the final boss. If you lose a single ...

I’m not sure how ‘hidden’ Slice & Dice is now, at least in roguelike circles, but it certainly hasn’t broken into the mainstream.

Anyway, it’s one of the most inventive & deep roguelike dice-builders out there, developed over the span of 7 years.

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