Lovely. Most likely Trump and his Administration are being blackmailed by a foreign country to cover up the Epstein Files. www.reuters.com/world/us/for...

Writing my yearly games roundup as I go tho and the old skies section is going well so far

We need reparations for ICE victims. Anything short of that is setting the stage for a massive wealth grab from people of color that will re-entrench racial disparities for generations.

A tax barrister sued me personally for £8m for libel after we linked him to a tax avoidance scheme. Today the High Court struck out the claim, granted summary judgment, and ruled it was a SLAPP. The judgment is highly critical.

21/ Its day eleven. Hormuz is Closed. Fuel is trapped in Persian Gulf. Asian Countries now rationing fuel. – Vietnam told people to WORK FROM HOME because they're running out of fuel – Bangladesh started fuel RATIONING -limits on how much you can pump per vehicle –Asia-wide petrol prices surging

Scoop: The Pentagon barred press photographers from briefings on the ongoing U.S.-Israeli military conflict with Iran after they published photos of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that his staff deemed "unflattering."

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Who could possibly have foreseen that war on Iran would (a) make Iran retaliate by closing the strait of Hormuz, which (b) could disrupt world oil markets, enriching Russia and penalizing most everyone else? Who, indeed, except EVERYONE WHO HAS EVER THOUGHT FOR ONE MINUTE about the situation.

Look how pleased we were post-chat! You can find the podcast on all of the podcast apps, just search 'The Games Press'.

Last month @mackeza.bsky.social swung through town on her book tour for 'Super Nintendo: How One Japanese Company Helped the World Have Fun' and we had a chat all about it in front of a live audience. If you weren't there, fear not, it was also recorded for this month's episode of The Games Press!

3.40pm thought: why don't fantasy adventurers ever get bitten by bugs?

20 percent of all oil and gas goes though the strait of Hormuz

So please, if you can, I’d love to have this thread list pro-Trans everything. Creators, craftspeople, writers, artists, activists…if you or someone you know deserves some celebrating, bring it the fuck on, okay? Post links if you can. Buy stuff if you can. They hate when people stand up.

Je prépare des trucs.

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I want to introduce you all to something myself and @jacksonwryan.com have been working on. A PRINT MAGAZINE about video games and video game culture. We know things have been bad for games writing recently. We're asking, "do you want to Continue?" www.kickstarter.com/projects/con...

This is from 1975.

hmm

DOGE reminder from a year ago.

Hey Google, define "kakistocracy"

There's a reason why I have CRTs and a plasma TV for old games and movies. Genuinely, they look SO MUCH BETTER on old display tech, it's not even funny. The only thing I've used which comes close is OLED.

The Cruelty Is The Point

Newly released DOJ documents show Epstein arranged at least six meetings between Peter Thiel and former Israeli PM Ehud Barak. Those introductions led to Palantir's partnership with Israel's Ministry of Defense, which now supplies AI targeting tools for military operations.

EYES AND TEETH LOSE FUNCTION LONG BEFORE EXPECTED LIFE CYCLE

Nope, max of ten years. Go to hell(mouth)

Isn't AI brilliant? Part 247.

Again, my 'extremist' position is that bad things are bad, NO MATTER WHO DOES THEM.

Three different Trans friends, all creatives, productive, well-loved people with years in our communities told me they feel they have no choice but to leave the USA for their safety. They have to start again because of bigot scum, the worst people in our country. 2/

ECCC was fun and I had a wonderful time. But there was a storm cloud. When I complained about Trump with my white straight cis friends, we were all sincere and concerned. But I talked with many Trans friends, and it’s so much worse. They are in fear for their lives. 1/

[1,781 hours of fallout 4 later]: you're....you're telling me i could've changed the horrendous green pipboy light colour to literally anything of my choosing at any given moment

it's a lovely morning in seyda neen, and you are a horrible goose

A new Wall Street Journal investigation finds DHS is increasingly turning its wrath on U.S. citizens, punishing them for simply filming or observing officers. Belle Cushing is one of the reporters behind the investigation. She spoke with MPR News guest host Emily Reese about it.

this was about Super Mario Bros

I straight up do not like horror movies but we watched the new Frankenstein last night and I thought it was excellent: no clever new conceit or modern allegorical spin, just great film-making and a full-throated telling or the original story www.rogerebert.com/reviews/fran...

Rowling literally got UK child labour laws loosened just to make her shit movies, by the way. This sounds like a direct consequence of that.

This is so heartbreaking, and also I am going to make my PSA again. Babies can be vaccinated against measles as young as six months, it’s just not standard. It’s usually only recommended for international travel in the US. But guess what? We’re the plague pit now.

Again, my 'extremist' position is that bad things are bad, NO MATTER WHO DOES THEM.

Roses are red Green cornettos are mint

Nope, max of ten years. Go to hell(mouth)

I would be very curious to see (anonymized) data on how much these "addicts" were actually tuggin' it. My guess based on trainwreck-gazing their forums is there's a minority where this is an actual compulsive behavior and a majority being taught to fear their own sexuality for political purposes.

This is an important story. So is the likely sourcing (to Marc Caputo, VERY well sourced in the WH) and Barak Ravid (who was closely covering Russian negotiations when Ukraine made the offer). Trump is about to lift sanctions on Russia to get out of strategic morass he caused.

very excited for this to be out in the world: i wrote about repressed queerness in Elio, child surveillance in Inside Out 2, the post-Lasseter crisis, and the figure of the child in Pixar for The Baffler thebaffler.com/latest/probl...

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