"one day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this"

He just nicked this idea from Iain M Banks, that’s exactly how it works in the Culture novels. If only he’d nick the part where everyone in the Culture is a gay anarcho-communist who understands art

"babies are born worshipping unknown gods" is one of the most incredible dwarf fortress bugs i have heard of. its poetry.

One of the incidents he’s referring to is that viral video of the girl in Dundee, and I’m losing it imagining Musk standing in Lochee high street and saying “this is basically the shire”

Pirate Rockstar games

We need to get past the idea of these people being "radicalised" on X. The British ruling class has been racist for centuries. For a while that was suppressed by hard won anti-racist social norms. But after years of chipping away with e.g. talk of "legitimate concerns" those norms are now collapsing

And a general! I always assumed she was supposed to be at least forty.

Knowing how old General Beatrix is in FF9 has made me turn to dust

Before he broke the twitter api, I was going to make an account that reposted everyone who called Elon musk “sir” in his replies. That account would’ve done numbers!

The cure to male loneliness:

if you tell me that protesting the government’s complicity in a genocide is unbritish then i’m afraid what i’m hearing is that britishness is bad

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One of the most creative things you'll play. Handmade stop-motion action adventure based in Scottish mythology.

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What is a reactionary centrist, and does the UK have them? A term favoured by US progressives can help us understand Britain’s drift to the right

"In 2012, 60 trans-related articles were published by Britain’s media. By 2022, it was more than 7,500, according to figures from Trans Media Watch. The media is not responding to public rage against vulnerable minorities; it is helping to create it." www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/709...

Image site Imgur pulls out of UK as data watchdog threatens fine A popular image hosting website has stopped its services in the UK after regulators threatened a fine.

And now imgur is gone! The internet is quickly becoming unusable in the UK without a VPN. www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2115...

Anyway, any and all EA workers should join your local game workers union immediately.

@gameworkers.co.uk for you UK based folk.

Lady behind me at The Thing screening last night to her partner "why are they shooting at the dog?" and her partner says very firmly "have you never seen a film before? You watch it and information is revealed" -a tweet by Matt The Outlaw 🤠 @CursedGloryHole

Just saw this great post again and it reminded me of my old beef against "spoilers don't matter, a good film isn't spoilable": The timing with which information is revealed is important in every movie! It's as much a part of the art as dialogue or lighting,it matters at least as much as aspect ratio

EARTH MUST DIE

Featuring a load of my favourite comedians - too many even to fit on the trailer! Joel Fry! Martha Howe-Douglas! @alexhorne.bsky.social! Tamsin Grieg! @5teviem.bsky.social @mrholness.bsky.social! @misterabk.bsky.social! @rosieisaholt.bsky.social! MORE

Please RETWEET and WISHLIST

I miss “stealth mountain” from twitter circa 2013. It would correct people who said “sneak peak” instead of “sneak peek”.

This is like that tax that was going to affect hot takeaway food, where suddenly every politician needed to be seen holding a sausage roll

Artwork by @pigsbliss on twitter its a very unusual art piece of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully from the tv show the X files xfiles it features both agents standing at someone's doorway she is holding her fbi badge and he has his hands in his pockets their eyes are unusually placed its amazing art

getting a train to scotland YouTube video by Bobby’s Home Video

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To be clear I totally agree, I’m just bemoaning having to have the conversation again and again with people who think that Scotland intentionally has a vibes-based criminal verdict (or that it’s a good thing for a legal system to have!)

It’s very frustrating because in the original system, “not proven” was always intended as an acquittal, “not guilty” is the unorthodox third verdict, and it meant the opposite of what people think “not proven” means

I'm still mad about The OA.

the summer hit radio stations slept on

Super disappointing. At least 30 seconds delay between each person at the bus stop.

I’m standing at the bus stop in town, this is going to be awesome

UKers - just under ten minutes until the emergency test makes all our phones "vibrate and make a loud siren-like sound". Brace yourselves!

I was going to make a joke about how all the stretch goals from the Hollow Knight kickstarter have now been fulfilled, but they haven't! They never released a Wii U version!