Congratulations @hookland.bsky.social !

Message to everyone sweltering today: This is exactly what Greens have been warning you about for forty years. They were right. The "sensible" people were wrong. Understand that, before it really is too late.

Your reminder, if you needed it, that The Guardian is in a "strategic partnership" with OpenAI.

Here's what the landlord lobby don't want you to know: If rents went down by 20%, renters would save £2400 a year. The government would save £2 billion a year. And landlords would still make 4.5 times as much profit as the average business.

What if the AI productivity boost has been vastly oversold? "...for each dollar that companies spend on AI coding tools, 44 cents goes towards fixing AI-generated bugs, 27 cents goes towards rewriting the code, and 11 cents is lost to other inefficiencies" www.hardresetmedia.com/p/are-we-bet...

I am calling for an immediate ban on all Amanda Palmer performance art until we can figure out what the Hell is going on.

the bread is $13.50 and all the circuses are subscription based

only Amanda Palmer could make a lame version of K Foundation Burn a Million Quid

Two year anniversary of when I first posted this comic

one of the coolest parts of seven-part pact has been what people have been calling "wizard madness", which is that there's something about the game that really makes people want to make their own art based on it. i think this is maybe the highest honor any game ive ever made could have

Wonder Man is just astonishingly good. Can’t believe it was allowed to exist.

The Conservative Party literally had to sit Kemi down and educate her over weeks on the basics of economics and government policy while she was leader

What is it about Britain that makes us so internationally remarkable for this kind of respectable, utterly brazen and yet humdrum corruption and shit gangster behaviour? Well, I would start at “our elite class mostly go to the same schools and universities together”, and work outwards from there.

Another Bonnie Tyler centric comic. Myself and @julesscheele.bsky.social did a piece about the Thought Bubble Dancefloor a few years ago, and the oral history of those joys, and various magical moments. Here's the Total Eclipse of the Heart climax to the whole thing.

New video! Last month I was invited to Spain's Guadalindie game convention to do a talk of my choice. I ended up giving an angry polemic about how the culture of games is failing designers left and right, because there is no games industry. There's just "play" www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4Xm...

As promised to link to my first actual Hookland book. It is only small, but covers a lot of the ghost soil. If enough of you buy it and like it there will be a Volume Two. www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1068598123 It will also be available in an actual bookshop soon.

late to the party but I’ve been powering through “She-Ra and the Princesses of Power” and it’s consumed my entire braaain, I LOOOOVE toxic yuri catgirl Star Wars 🧠⚡️😻

Yeah hi doc, what can you give me for restless leg syndrome but in my brain?

Note to self

"Every critical ecosystem across our planet is on a pathway to collapse with an irreversible loss of function, and this poses huge threats to our national security. This looming crisis demands urgent action" - Chris Hinchliff MP

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Despite all the noise today I'd really like you to read this, as I think it's crucial. The government's in the process of p*ssing up to £264 billion into the ground, at the behest of the fossil fuel industry. Yes, £264 *billion*. It's utterly mad, and has to stop. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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A scientist, a philosopher, and a poet walk into a bar. They all drink heavily to try to forget the state that society is in.

It has been criminally underreported but Kelsey Pfendler has just rowed solo across the Pacific Ocean from the US coast to Hawaii in record time. A 2,400-mile unsupported journey in 43 days, 17 hours, and 55 minutes. Notably beating the Men’s record by 9 whole days.

slightly surprised by how underwritten the Wanggongchang explosion of 1626, when a swathe of Beijing was annihilated in a gunpowder arsenal explosion, is in both English and Chinese.

Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking across a microscope slide. 🫧🐻🧪

What chapters of space marines are these?

Unironically, America needs a Honey Huan:

Be honest: if you were the head of a government, the urge to shoot someone with your Erdogan revolver, just for the story, would be overwhelming, wouldn’t it?

JOURNEY INTER-CITY (1972)

Right. Okay. This requires some backstory. In 1984, a small, low budget film studio in North Carolina produced a parody of Star Wars, called Hyperspace. It was released in the U.K. as ‘Gremloids’. The main character, shown here, was Lord Buckethead.

this game is fucking mindblowing, folks. a must-buy.

I CAST FIREBALLS

Trump: "Would you go to Moscow?" Zelensky: "It's difficult. There are a lot of Ukrainian drones there. It would be dangerous."

The time spent on an issue of Pricks divided by the sales of each issue works out at about 78p per hour. To pay myself minimum wage I would need to charge around £56 per issue. The only answer is to keep going and hope people discover it. Hope you enjoyed this great advert! Frasergeesin.com

Yesss, give players power then have some underdog NPC heroes show up who everybody likes more

Meta Glasses are like, a Cybertruck for your face.

absolutely insane story, and yeah, just looking at this chart... with the exception of maybe two people, this entire class was cheating like motherfuckers

Nigel should stand down and let Goodwin fight Binface. That's the only way I can see this getting any funnier.

A new episode of the hit game show IS THAT GOOD? coming to your favourite podcast feeds in only a couple hours

Boy I just love finding out about what's new in Microsoft Edge

A good day to remind you all that you can spend £5.50 on a 28mm @countbinface.bsky.social model from Troublemaker Games, £3 of which goes to NHS supporting charities Now who is selling some frog faced fiends and a scale model pier for them to fight over? www.troublemakergames.co.uk/product-page...

But arts and drama aren’t MANLY jobs like British Steel and Jaguar Land Rover. They can’t do a photoshoot in a hard hat at RADA

As it was with, say, both Johnson and Starmer: watch how the bullshit completely inverts overnight, somehow without anyone ever having been wrong about anything, at any point.