People talk about this stuff in terms of how much it'll suck for gaming and I hate to inform you how many MRI machines, X-Rays, all sorts of other vital machinery are just a Windows IoT Edition PC in a beige plastic box with a big magnet/accelerator/whatever attached.

WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives for 2026 sold out

Best game from the IGF by far. Still have the build installed on my phone, you will take it from my cold dead hands, in your bizarre elfin football match-3 fever dreams.

would you like something to ban before you ban social media for teenagers? ban short-form video targetted at the under-5s. some pretty convincing stuff here. www.linkedin.com/posts/sam-wa...

14 years ago we accidentally hired a genius to write the script for 80 Days. Now she’s narrative director on a deck-builder about billionaire busting. Check out All Will Rise:

yes. the things that would make social media safer for children are almost all just the things that would make social media non-harmful/much less harmful for *all of us*. if you do it by age verification then nothing will stop a child in a difficult home accessing stuff via parents' accounts

there u go, bless

I'm going to repeal gravityyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!

he's going to just declare pluto a planet again and some millennials will find it harder to resist the nostalgia appeal of that one despite there being sound reasons for why it got reclassified

LOL at the r/patientgamers mods policy on Hogwarts Legacy.

‘Tödlein’, Death as an archer. Made from pear wood. Dated to before 1519; artist: Hans Leinberger www.khm.at/kunstwerke/t...

what we can know from life is that if you say to people "would you like to have some ice-cream, or a bagful of shit" a non-zero number of people will vote for the bagful of shit because they think it's funny. it is vitally important not to give them the opportunity to empty shit on the rest of us.

Hadn't realised the answer to the qn 'where did Epstein get his money from' was as simple as 'most he stole from Les Wexner, though was later also showered in money by Leon Black' www.ft.com/content/72c0...

And more times than Jesus is mentioned in the Bible.

For reference, his name comes up more often in the Epstein Files than Harry Potter's name does in the Harry Potter novels.

Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century. He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

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Palestinian Uncles doing freestyle poetry battles coming with some of the hardest lines I’ve heard in a long time.

Every now and then I think about Lee Evans basically saying he has enough money at 50 and withdrawing entirely from public life so robustly that we've pretty much never seen him ever again.

They've disabled quotes but Beethoven, Toulouse-Lautrec, Van Gogh, Frida Kahlo, Goya, Matisse, Cyprián Majerník, Dorothy Stanton Wise

I am once again asking for your vote: itch.io/jam/bigmode-... #

Does anyone know of books about abolishing the police that are focused on the UK police instead of the US police?

(Is it weird that I have separate Trello boards for my work and personal life?)

patient : doctor i am depressed . doctor : solution is simple , watch the muppet show special with sabrina carpenter patient : ohh good idea !! i actually perform as a clown named pagliacci so im big into comedy

JUSTIFIED “FUCK ICE” CHANTS #AEWDynamite

What do you mean it found it easier to focus and read a book before there was the option of watching a ten minute explainer on the book made by a hot person

Thesis: current ADHD symptom/diagnosis prevalence is less about predispositions and more about the growth of the attention economy.

Check this sh*t out

What are your favorite audio-based (no vision required) games?

It's very easy to say that Epstein latched on to 4chan and ignited the far-right populism wave, but, at least according to the emails of his we have, he was much more interested in cashing in on any kind of political chaos he could. www.garbageday.email/p/here-s-how...

this is the story of basically every Jewish person you know or have ever heard of. it's been fleeing genocide since the Romans sacked Jerusalem in 70CE.

yes also, my kingdom for ONE (1) portrayal ever of Moses where his wife is Black. which she definitely was, she was Sudanese/Ethiopian, it is literally in the Torah along with people doing racist gossip about her and then the Lord God Almighty giving them LEPROSY for being racist (Numbers 12, 1-10)

the guys who invented racism thought Christopher Columbus' level of racism was criminal

this weekend i visited a beloved local cafe/record store and they had a bathroom labeled "Gay Bathroom". when we complimented the sign the barista said sometimes shitty people ask if there's a different bathroom they can use, so they have a second one in the other room labeled "Super Gay Bathroom"

Here now this is teaching children entirely the wrong thing about mimics!

OMG. Ikea just made the Luggage for Kids: www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/grej... @rhi.bsky.social !!!!

Quick shout-out to the ace @magsthepirate.bsky.social as a quietly incredible support for a ronery freelancer over the past year.

This piece is… scary: www.forbes.com/sites/amirhu...

Woah, Witcher Reigns! store.steampowered.com/app/1651600/...

Probably the biggest problem with being a game critic is you never hear what other people think of you

(For some reason, this reminds of the opening paragraph of Anthony Burgess' Earthly Powers, which is excellent, filthy worldbuilding: "It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me.")

Re-upping this article in the Guardian Oz, about my research into the extreme harm being caused by Wes Streeting's puberty-blocker ban. UK mainstream media has collectively ignored my research (as I expected) but not the Guardian Australia. Needless the UK and US Guardian's didn't share it.

WHO CRITICIZES THE CRITICS, MAN. WHO oh, everyone? even when it's completely unwarranted? oh, okay. cool. problem solved

I get it, to an extent -- I was usually one of two or three women in the whole office, so of course your coworkers are going to be mostly male. But it's SO insular. UK games journalism goes through junior female writers like fire through a forest, so there's only senior men left.

Tom Homan looks like a guy whose sole thing is getting impotently angry at two of the Marx brothers torturing him at his lemonade stand

Breaking news: Composer Philip Glass withdrew his highly anticipated Symphony No. 15 from its scheduled Kennedy Center performance, saying “the values of the Kennedy Center today are in direct conflict with the message of the Symphony.”

NEW: House Democratic Leaders Jeffries, Clark and Aguilar say in a joint statement, "Kristi Noem should be fired immediately, or we will commence impeachment proceedings in the House of Representatives." "We can do this the easy way or the hard way."