We should be making a “separate but equal” “third space“ for Wes Streeting where he is not allowed to make policy for human beings

The NHS websites have had to update pages saying paracetamol is safe for pregnant people because fucking idiots are running their mouths without being questioned or shut up.

Basically the only painkiller pregnant folk can take is paracetamol, as everything else carries significant risks. But this chundering fuck is equating to a medicine removed from the market 60+ years ago to scare the fuck out of people because his paymasters say so. It's fuckin MMR vaccines again

@jeffgerstmann.com jeff can I get a review of these

"Selling Out Is Bad" is a valuable concept and despite all the baggage and bullshit and elitism it could contain it's actually really good to reinforce the ideal that having integrity when it matters, especially when it hurts, is what good/cool people do. Should be adapted instead of jettisoned.

Told IBM I am not particularly impressed with using IF for ‘AI benchmarking’ as AIs do not think or problem solve, or enjoy anything www.ibm.com/think/news/t...

For a very long time my proudest fact was that I was the voice of Peanut in this masterpiece

Absolute masterpiece of a game. Everything it does, it is the best possible version of itself. One of my only 10/10 reviews, because I think it is the ONLY twin stick shooter I can comfortably recommend to literally anyone

lol it’s very funny to me that I’ve got like 50 cases of folks thanking me for recommending Dishoom breakfast naan. because it’s so good. why would you not have that if you came to edinburgh. breakfast of kings

i dont believe in 'arrays'. i will simply track 163 distinct boolean variables

squad rolling up to the B2B function like

Every day is a Festival of Gaming in my own goddamn house. I got the Festival of Gaming at home bro

Strong scares you say

Silent Hill f is haunting, captivating, and probably my favorite game of 2025 🖤 www.gamespot.com/reviews/sile...

Oh look, it's me! I'm here on ILR. So are many friends. The legal process has cost me £14 000 so far over the last 3 years, including paying a £5000 NHS surcharge before I even set foot in the country. Migrants means all of us - asylum seekers, students, ex-pats, EU, and people on high level visas

Also understand that when a critic doesnt seem to enjoy something that is not a judgement on you enjoying it

What the fuck is a Disney adult

the frat house next door to us is doing some indoor amateur wrestling at 1am in some very stompy gym shoes. Or its british lads hit each other with chair @radiatoryang.bsky.social edition www.instagram.com/p/CB8ZhD1Dqr...

A robin menaced me this weekend

I’m going to go back to boxing this week and im scared ive forgotten how to wrap my hands properly it’s been so long :( the up side is im convinced if I do it right my carpal tunnel will be cured

It’s my birthday next weekend and my plans are to eat myself into a coma so if you’ve got any requests get em in this week before I cannot speak or type

My favorite new horror series is called The Studio starring Seth Rogen

videogames will break your heart

started thinking about Grid. who among us could forget the futuristic brutalist hallways of Grid www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCnh...

management are also often subject to The Shareholders who cannot imagine a world more creative than the ‘current successes’. remember that before BG3 and disco came out, selecting unvoiced branching dialogue options was considered ‘old fashioned’ and ‘not what the kids want these days’. then whoops

To win over and excite an audience, you must offer them a slightly watered down version of that which they already have and like. (A view I’ve only ever seen expressed by political pundits and videogame publishers)

You can now buy two amazingly polished VR puzzle games together for a discount price! Imagine that.

honestly I've begun to fucking hate the term "creating content" bitch you're not creating anything. you're filming strangers without their knowledge

something that I’ve been thinking about since DICE is that a lot of highly skilled devs are subject to management labelling them as ‘difficult’ and sidelining them simply because they point out and want to solve a problem, mismanagement which I think has contributed to a lot of failed projects

idk why but these days it’s almost a small pleasure to discover a product is for sale on Amazon and then (usually, though not always) pay extra specifically to another business to send it to me instead

People who aggressively dismissed broader economic and systemic concerns from the left and became morbidly obsessed with trans people and pronouns for years: Over the years the left has focused too much on their pronouns and not enough on the economy and our pressing systemic problems

behind the glitz and glamor of hollywood as an IDEA is something primal: the desire to create and express and connect. i do not believe this is something that will ever be toppled as long as humans exist, and while i understand the authoritarian strategy, i think it is a fumble. art and story wins

[this is a subpost] there is a credible, democratically run left wing party in the UK. you can join it here: join.greenparty.org.uk

Re. RPS freelance, I now have a budget for irregular (maybe 6-12 pieces a year) 2000-3000 wordish, more granular and specific reporting and investigative criticism that broaches a new topic or addresses a gap in knowledge regarding something familiar.

We have a launch date, folks. Blake Manor opens its doors on October 27th! #indiegames

If you’re rich and not a coward, this is what you’d refer to as a “market opportunity” to dominate a media ecosystem that’s about to be covered in grotesque government slop. To be a pop of color in a sea of beige will be easier than ever. People will flock to it. You gotta be a little brave, though.

i just know we're all going to have to sit through a three minute clip of joe rogan saying "i can't believe censorship is happening"

“People are always telling you exactly what they're up to.”

all I do all day is brief the glitterati who come to Edinburgh of the deep working class Scots roots of the literature they read in English and attempt to radicalise them AMA

who up in edinburgh

it was always coming to exactly this www.404media.co/michigan-por...

Very saddened to hear of Robert Redford's passing. He seemed a man who walked his talk as best he could, and his work both in front of and behind the camera brought much joy. Some favorites, in no order:

Fantastic work here by @transsolidarity.bsky.social, highlighting the ridiculous burden the EHRC’s new Code of Practice would place on UK business, forcing them into trans-exclusionary practices that are “incompatible with modern business values”. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Been around games journalism long enough that watching everyone crowing over someone else making a fuck-up is just wearying and a little sad.

Not surprised The Studio cleaned up. how painfully close it is to a drama about making videogames, the pain the pain

New from 404 Media: airlines are selling *5 billion* ticketing records to the government for warrantless searching, per new docs we obtained. ARC is a data broker owned by United, American, Delta, etc. Then sells peoples' travel info to ICE, Secret Service, FBI etc www.404media.co/airlines-sel...

Alexei Sayle go on taskmaster

I was listening to an old Casey Kasem American Top 40 (I find this soothing these days) from 1985 where he told the story of Wendy Carlos, who scored The Shining and Tron, and her journey to becoming trans. Casey got all the pronouns right and it was presented as a slice of life, feel good story

Finally got around actually to properly start playing this and oh my days the feel of this game is absolutely impeccable. @caraellison.bsky.social