If you can spare a few minutes to respond to this Home Office consultation on indefinite leave to remain, please do so. The proposed changes are inhumane and beyond unfair. ukhomeoffice.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

the consultation questions are horribly loaded in favour of trick question style answers, there's a few handy guides out there (though even with these, i suspect ukgov will just go "eh whatever" and push it all though) manchestercommunitycentral.org/sites/defaul...

which doesn’t include you shower of bastards in the top 1%, you absolute gammon. To borrow a Hong Kong proverb: I hope you fall over in the street

the fact that the entire rotten scheme is prefaced with lies from top to bottom is infuriating

This is a survey where you MUST read the questions. The majority of them are framing it as an inevitability, rather than a consultation.

Whats the public mood? Well, it’s not good bitch

Strongly endorse this call. Please do this today! Also, be careful when filling it in, as the survey is framed in a heavily biased way, and much of it is poorly designed. But if completed with care, this can really make a contribution to pushing back on the government's hostile agenda.

If I get any more angry today I am going to have a medical episode so instead I am going to put enya on and make a cup of tea does anyone want one and how do you like it

The other wild thing about this new settlement ‘consultation’ the government is doing is that this new move to massively administrate and intrude in people’s lives indicate it will cost billions and make us poorer via less money for hospitals, schools, infrastructure

I filled it out earlier today and it was really notable, and depressing, how much unnecessarily dehumanising language was used throughout. The entire system is stacked against immigrants.

First post from me for a while on my occasional Substack, about Labour's earned settlement proposals and the damage they will do. open.substack.com/pub/wewanted...

All of the ‘information‘ and framing of this govt survey is just Reform lies repeated with a Labour hat on. Please take the time to fill out this form and object strongly to all of the proposals to extend Indefinite Leave To Remain. It will especially impact families and children.

"They don’t just delay settlement, they delay recovery. They delay stability. They delay family life. They delay healing. They delay dignity." A brilliant explanation of everything that's wrong with the horrifying 'earned settlement plans': righttoremain.org.uk/if-you-are-l... "

🚨 Just THREE days left to tell the Government what you think of making refugees wait 20 years for safety 🚨 We cannot let these appalling plans go unchallenged. Follow this guide from Praxis to make sure your voice is heard. www.praxis.org.uk/consultation

I was at an event hosted and attended by back bench Labour MPs on the gov. Earned Settlement proposals. We heard from a doctor, lawyer, carer and engineer who face waiting decades for the opportunity to settle in this country because they don't 'contribute' enough. Core British values?

UK leftists! Please please please fill out the UK govt survey on Earned Settlement *today* and rail as hard as you can against any changes to this system. We cannot let them spend billions on more surveillance and fascist bureaucracy of our communities ukhomeoffice.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Why the "earned settlement" proposals will harm not help integration and social cohesion (and, I'd add, the economy). This by @colinyeo.bsky.social should be read by every Labour MP... wewantedworkers.substack.com/p/labours-ea...

it is so pathetic getting mad at people because they’re different from you and they live in a country with you. it is such weak, pathetic behaviour

at least we still have tom morello and he is still extremely angry

local legends say that the more orange Claudia winklemans face is the closer we are to fascism

girl, same

main argument has always been: Charlie Brooker was the cartoonist for PC Zone and made Nathan Barley, a show that made fun of gamer neo-Nazis before it was cool, and Black Mirror, and me and many ex-journo friends make money from countless other media post “game journalism”. eg, I have a TV BAFTA 🤔

I wrote and incredibly long text to ‘investors’ on LinkedIn and then deleted it

I got over it, and I’m proud of my work, but my heart is scarred by all the folks—like me— who are told we’re good enough to crunch and make BAFTA-winning, DICE-winning games, but not anything else. It sucks! So good on ya, Larian

Not to be Too Spicy On Main, but I was reminded of the time a publisher wanted me to write a tie-in comic for a game, only for someone at my own studio to mock the comics I’d done up til then (My Little Pony + Godzilla), so the publisher withdrew the offer Game writers are treated this way a lot.

Honestly, it was extremely heartwarming to see Larian champion their writers and creatives in the wake of the HBO adaptation news yesterday. There are few studios that would do the same

glad that Mandelson has been removed but it remains to ask: why aren’t we absolutely excoriating Farage for being in these files? This is what our next PM could be? A Bannon/Thiel stooge?

Over in the EU they're doing sensible policy - eg stopping the infinite scrolling which promotes compulsive behaviour - rather than facile populist measures like banning stuff.

I was a little puzzled about what was happening on my fashion instagram until I suddenly realised that people have started dressing like the groove is in the heart video and suddenly everything made sense - its the 90s but its the 60s now. again

good post on @adamatomic.bsky.social's KOLYDR, which I too cannot stop playing www.jank.cool/i-cant-stop-...

i wanna fill my imsim with places like this

LET'S GO

For work this week I listened to all of Shodan’s VO from 1 & 2 and had a great time so sometimes working in games is somewhat like what you’d be doing if you were a student with fast internet in the 2000s

I have to prevent myself from posting like 6 provocative/angry/anti-corpo posts maybe every day on here and one still sneaks through but you should all know I’m so proud of the posts I write out and delete and how very incisive they are. And then I post a stupid gif

most predictions people make reflect their own interests in one way or another. even ones i've made. the future is very much unwritten. but especially: being in any sort of institutional position in a time of extreme upheaval makes it very likely for one to be uniquely bad at reading the moment

Gotta show the back pain too

Feel like pure shit, just want her back

a lot of videogames are really trying to exclude women with huge racks from representation now. it used to be that huge bazongas in games were just for men to ogle, but tbh as long as they are realistic and get something interesting to do us folks with the massive thrupnys would feel truly included

Jane campion made a whole tv show about all this

I love the construction of narrative more now than when I was a pure writer, ive got really close to the mechanical parts and become somewhat of a little mechanic who lives in the basement trying to get the car to work, and honestly sometimes I forget I ever wrote one word for a living

I don't say this enough: narrative design is just so neat. Coolest job. Nothing else like it. Happy to immerse myself in tangling and untangling story logic, constraints, team dynamics and player experience. The conditions lately are tough, but the work is still the best.

Thursday

it’s interesting how quickly people go from sexually liberated to slut shaming on here 🌝

i don't think i realised how much i was missing this style of writing. something which is both very serious and thoughtful, engaging with the complexities of the subject and the contingent nature of any actual gaming experience... and also absolutely trying to fit a joke into any spare corner.

new blog post about: makin' it easier to integrate elaborate (or not) contextual character animation stuff into gameplay in @sleightofhand.game. Like all the best shit, this is not so much technically impressive as workflowily excellent. www.joewintergreen.com/contextual-a...

My doodle of Vetinari and Vimes from Men at Arms. Been trying to do these in between my real work and reading through the books chronologically www.patreon.com/posts/discwo...

oh I ‘deserve’ this??? by whose measure. is it capitalism speaking. is capitalism in the room now talking about who does and does not deserve to be treated well

the concept of ‘deserving’ things has ruined the world. when people say stuff like ‘well deserved‘ or ‘you deserve a break’ etc it makes it seem like you passed a purity test or some rancid productivity test when every human at baseline should never have to beg for basic respect or kindness