It's driving me nuts, as a person who actually watches films with my eyes, to hear characters talk soooo much about what they're doing and where they're going and why. Like, shut up!!

RIP a legend.

I FINALLY FOUND IT. Been looking for this stupid video for fucking EVER but GOOGLE SUCKS SO MUCH SHIT NOW

Kyiv Post spreading nonsense and blocking replies. Meanwhile, the truth is different, as I reported last night. Pls read it.

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How dare the victim to fight off the murderer. I never do it, but here’s an exemption: BREAKING NEWS: Putin never wanted to settle. Not then, not now. Phew. That felt weird.

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There’s a great interview with Nick Park about Wallace And Gromit in last month’s Empire, and this bit in particular stood out. It sums up what artists have been trying to say about AI. The mistakes and the learning aren’t things to be bypassed, but a vital part of the process 🤟

It’s beyond outrageous that Apple Pay, PayPal, Venmo, and Google Pay all process payments for this explicitly nazi take on Magic cards. Their website blurs the *extreme* racial slurs but everything is advertised freely on Twitter. I won’t even repost the worst cards, they are vile tribalorder.com

Pope Francis, who died in April 2025, left money in his will to purchase ambulances for Ukraine. This was revealed by Sister Lucía Caram.

When people push brave witnesses to confirm that what they report on is reality, it becomes disgusting on some other level.

Romania’s Defense Ministry blew up a Ukrainian Sea Baby naval drone that it said was “threatening navigation in the Black Sea.” Ukraine used it in operations against Russian vessels. Yet, Romania did not shoot down Russian drones that violated its airspace, but waited for them to return to Ukraine.

Even without covid, it's a baby. One of my daughters nearly died because someone came around our house with a cold and it got onto her heart. You have to be really careful with babies this is basic stuff.

This is, possibly, the worst advice on how to get a level design job I’ve ever seen. It doesn’t so much read as something written by someone who’s never worked in dev, more like someone whose parents were killed in a freak level design accident, and they vowed never to place a trigger volume again

I made the mistake of opening LinkedIn and saw a games recruiter blaming candidates for not getting jobs right now. Their giant screed included these gems. One of the most uninformed and absurd posts I’ve ever seen masquerading as intelligent.

I'm reminded of a funny tweet I saw on Twitter a few years ago, about Star Trek episode titles.

Nvidia is spending $1.3 billion to rent its own chips back from CoreWeave, a company in which it owns a $4 billion stake. There are, AFAICT, only two explanations for this arrangement: (1) It's accounting fraud. (2) It's accounting non-fraud, because we don't prosecute financial crimes anymore.

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right, it's done. I've turned off all paid tiers on our website (bar the $10,000 a month Immortal one) & every feature, review & interview on there is now free to read (at least until I kill the site) that's over 150 articles covering everything from Warhammer to Wanderhome, Paranoia to Pendragon

The only Die Hard discourse worth your time is “Die Hard is Alien from the Xenomorph’s point of view”.

[a raven arrives carrying a tapestry of a penis] [a second raven arrives bearing a message] ha ha sorry was messing with my loom didn't mean to send that [a third raven arrives] unless...?

⚡️ Court orders detention of Zelensky's fugitive associate in Ukraine's biggest corruption case. Businessman Timur Mindich, a former business partner of President Volodymyr Zelensky, fled Ukraine before the court considered the motion.

They've done a Paddington musical and it's supposed to be very good but the bear looks like it's on drugs

I did work on God of War: Ragnarok, which I also did not write for or compose on, but instead constructed the boat, sled and walking stories start/resume system that no one mentions because it’s so unbuggy and works so well that it works like everyone expects it should. It was a nightmare to make

I just learned the Bugs Bunny No meme doesn't even come from him saying no. It's a frame rotated 90 degrees from him taking a drink from a bottle. I needed to share this.

As reported by Boomberg, NATO is preparing to confront Russia with significantly less US assistance, as Washington withdraws troops from Europe and focuses on Asia.

Hey can you tell I'm sick of this bullshit? Cause I am. Don't ever try to get me on your AI grift. I will eviscerate you in ways you and your ChatGPT-ass brainrot could not comprehend.

At the center of Trump’s “plan to end the war” is $300B in frozen Russian assets that Russia wants to give US oligarchs for “investment projects”. Any reconstruction of Ukraine would be “US-led”. Witkoff, Kushner and Russians plan to revitalize Russia’s $2T economy through joint Russia-US ventures.

⚡️ Polish president cancels meeting with Orban after Hungarian leader's trip to Moscow. Nawrocki and Orban were set to meet after the upcoming Visegrad Group summit in Hungary.

R.I.P. Tom Stoppard, playwright most famous for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Born Tomas Straussler in Czechoslovakia he fled his home during the Nazi occupation and found refuge in Britain at the age of eight. He later discovered all four of his grandparents had died in the Holocaust.

Just sent out my free weekend update. Though the reporting this week made it crystal clear that the Trump administration is with Putin, that was not a bad thing for Ukraine. Accepting the truth is the first step to recovery-and the truth cannot now be denied. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

⚡️ Ukraine, Norway to jointly produce drones starting in 2026. While Ukraine will share its experience and innovations, Norway will provide a "strong production base" and "cooperation with leading Norwegian institutions," Defense Minister Denys Shmyhal said.

Adult content is not permitted on Instagram and accounts identified as belonging to SWers are shadow banned or removed for infinitely tamer SFW posts than this but one* can creatively advertise coffee enemas + products for a few specific companies, some of which are MLMs. *It’s 99% cis white women

⚡️Update: Turkey issues statement following Ukrainian strikes on Russian shadow fleet tankers. "We are maintaining our contacts with the relevant parties to prevent the spread and further escalation of the war across the Black Sea," the Turkish Foreign Ministry said.

part of the reason i am genuinely irritated with the gAI/AGI cult is because there is real societal benefits in using ML techniques in medical care + weather analysis, and instead people get annoyed with anything that gets lumped in with the plagiarism machine

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“The communications could help prove what’s known as “willful” infringement, which triggers significantly higher damages of $150,000 per work.“

About a dozen parents and children here at Vancouver city hall this morning for a change-in protest in response to the city looking at removing change tables and hygiene stations. Today, council votes on the 2026 budget that would see a zero percent property tax increase.

⚡️Ukraine reportedly strikes Afipsky Oil Refinery in Russia's Krasnodar Krai. Ukraine's military reportedly struck one of southern Russia's largest oil refineries overnight on Nov. 29, Russian Telegram media channels reported.

I think I became convinced that most of the United States is an anti-human hellscape when I worked in refugee resettlement. Seeing that Afghan family who went from rural Kandahar to the Red Roof Inn off the interstate. The look on their faces when I dropped them off. Dark fucking shit.

The additional context is that Valve is still killing a beloved games studio, still tried to weasel out of making a press statement, still didn't allow a second review, and still did not communicate with the developer beyond vague references to their terms. www.eurogamer.net/valve-respon...

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⚡️BREAKING: Zelensky's chief of staff Yermak resigns amid major corruption scandal. Andriy Yermak, head of the President's Office, submitted his resignation following searches by the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) at his premises earlier on Nov. 28, President Volodymyr Zelensky announced.

Bloomberg UK: Negotiations for UK to join EU’s flagship defense fund SAFE have failed, per people familiar with the matter, a major blow to European security. Despite talks between officials this week, the two sides remained far apart on the financial contribution Britain would make to participate

Whether you like/follow VM, it’s very simple to see that the Bluesky sex prevention apparatus is wildly miscalibrated and cannot serve its purpose in this way.

A *huge* vaccine victory. I've been writing on this for years; Australia has seen remarkable progress in cervical cancer prevention with the HPV vaccine. I love seeing science triumph like this.