The question we’re all asking - could Richard Keys be right?

oh it's going to be a Recession recession

Some of my favourite games from the last few years on here (and a bunch I probably should have played) thinkygames.com/news/steam-d...

Every time I’ve seen Jenrick’s name crop up in some mess or another I’ve always mentally categorised him as “mouthy backbencher” (or “did he defect?”). But no, still in the shadow cabinet somehow. (Until now)

Idly wondering whether or not it’s worth going through several hours of blog post/prestige TV to develop an inexplicable “Mare of Gas Town” bit

of all the things going around today i do keep coming back to this one, in the sense of: how must one live their life such that everyone involved in an official my little pony comic agrees there's adequate gas in a joke at your expense that's not even a silly pun but just about how you're an asshole

Petite bière ?

Trudged through the rain to watch two hours of soporific football. Trudged home again. Made a mug of sleepy tea to warm up and get ready for bed. And then watched that episode of the Traitors and was WIRED

Here’s a fun top five: things that are consensus among historians but are essentially unknown by the public. Richard I, a bad king of England. Roman Empire, fell in 1453. Paul, more important than Jesus. Witch burning, a modern phenomenon not a medieval one. Britain last invaded in 1688. Yours?

Starmer's tweet couldn't be clearer but a bit awkward when one of the main government comms platforms literally does this as a feature now

the whole "empires last around 250 years" thing is debunked nonsense but it'll be very tragically funny if the United States of America falls in 2026 and lasts for exactly 250 years

See you next time

Some stuff from the year. Not bad?

Joachim Trier now two for two on pointing a camera at Renate Reinsve's beautiful face and thinking "wow it's hard to be an aging Scandinavian male artist"

not sure this makes sense but it tickled my brain, yall should read it

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

The magical healing power of the six-day bender

‘tis the season

Dull half, but this at least a very funny handball

Have you been wishing masonry layouts would just hurry up and arrive in CSS?? Well, happy holidays! webkit.org/blog/17660/i...

Why We're Boycotting Xbox: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybj1...

George Osborne: he’s done it again

Do I have to have played the other 39,999 Total Warhammers, etc, etc

expedition 33 is going to win every single category at the geoff keighley game awards, but dont let that fool you, its not actually that bad

Just really sucks that so many of us are barely getting by (if that), and the people who stole from us are rewarded with billions. It's hard to put into words how demoralising that is.

[12hrs into my ice interrogation] agent: in 2021 you posted “they should call him matt hardcock am i right fellas” can you explain that? me: do you know who matt hancock is? a:… [43mins later] a: he had his own app? for parkour? me: no the parkour was a separate issue

Remarkable that Keown’s pronunciation of “Madueke” started bad and then somehow got worse

Mini thread on the ET decision in Peggie Top line: It says exactly what we have been saying for months. The decision of the Supreme Court was not to turn the Equality Act 2010 into a nationwide bathroom ban - regardless of how anti-trans organisations have sought to misrepresent the law. 🧵👇

Stina Blackstenius: you just can’t afford to give her that fifth chance

“Then we will dance”

Trust changes look great. Allowing any dependency to download and run insecure versions of Node, outside the bounds of your existing Node version manager… less so

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I don't use the word lightly, but this is really just evil isn't it. "Your identity makes us uncomfortable so be gone from public spaces." Fuck off.

Happy Kieran Tierney, Happy me. Happy Scotland ! 🥹❤️

During this cloudflare outage, let me supply you with this wisdom of the ages: “single point of failure” can be sung to the tune of “all the single ladies”

Six weeks since the PM said Britain faced a choice between decency or division and our bad, obviously, for not understanding that he was in fact Team Division

Any politician who is taking seriously that the next election might be lost to a far-right populist party, should be doing all they can to strengthen protections for vulnerable people. If this is lost, it will go down in history as a moment where everything collapsed.

We have chaos and Ed Miliband, they're just not evenly distributed.

basically believe that this mostly depends on when you got Properly Online - before a certain cut-off your normal internet experience was high agency/high effort, but it eventually became low agency/low effort, and it's impossible to create a social media experience that caters to both groups

Heroic run there. The best worst performance on the show. #thetraitors

i hope this election cycle empowers everyone the next time a centrist liberal says to drop pro-trans and pro-immigrant rhetoric to enthusiastically tell them to shut the fuck up

Objectively there isn’t much difference between match commentary and studio chat playing over the top of a game, but I’m surprised by how wrong the change feels

A lot of “a lot of that going around” going around

How does this timid quote tally with what Keir Starmer said in his speech - and in his interviews - just a fortnight ago?

Introducing the React Foundation

cmon man I can’t face mastodon again

We first started making EARTH MUST DIE as a reflection of living under a moronic Conservative government that was pandering further and further right. I was worried when the Labour party got in that the creeping sense of horror wouldn't hit as hard by the time we announced, but actually no it's fine

You can imagine the meeting - 'we want a name, but there has to be zero scrutiny on Webb'. 'What about Joe Cole?' 'Less scrutiny' 'Peter Crouch?' 'Less scrutiny' 'Rylan?' 'Less scrutiny' 'Cookie monster?' 'OK, marginally more scrutiny than that' 'Michael Owen?' 'Perfect'