besides the obvious near-term concrete win here (congratulations Blue Prince, new winner of GOTY) I appreciate this also hopefully makes ultra clear to newer teams that even if their work was as well received as Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, AI'll make it ineligible or get an asterisk in awards shows

Banger.

Sick as a dog, feeling terrible, but somehow my hair looks really nice.

Nearly half of the journalists killed this year were murdered in Gaza by Israel. Since the beginning of its genocide, Israel has killed more than 270 Palestinian journalists and media workers. Read the Reporters Without Borders report: rsf.org/en/2025-dead...

also as our readers have pointed out for this discord claude bot; it is not yet christmas eve :')

Hell world aside, she offers solid advice at the end that extends to online info consumption more generally, like: • slow down • don’t passively consume content • take a closer look at the source • look for context • look for credible reporting

unlike my old laptop, i have only hostility towards my phone. when it's slow, i get mad... like a manager having to deal with a high employee

EXPEDITION 33 !!!!!!

🛣️ 1/ Claims that foreigners are taking billions from the Road Accident Fund don’t add up. The widely repeated R18billion figure has no evidence — not from the fund itself or any other source. africacheck.info/raf_foreigners

It's incredibly tempting to share posts that fit our worldview, but aggregator accounts that don't cite their sources are incredibly bad for the information environment. At best they steal stories from outlets that actually did the work, and at worst they make stuff up or get stuff wrong.

Spotify sucks so much man. This is a blatant impersonation of a band that very publicly removed all their music from the platform.

Whoops.

The moment her vocals kicked in I said "holy shit" out loud, then bought her new album on Bandcamp. Thank you @keeganleech.co.za - what a find!

Art.

We have GOT to start putting serifs back on the lowercase L. Maybe we can make a special ligature for Weird Al that puts a serif in his name. Because I can't keep getting confused like this.

Cloudflare is telling me I need to take a break, make a cup of tea, touch grass... 😌

Russia was banned from Eurovision after its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Israel, which has won the contest four times since its debut in 1973, has competed for the past two years despite disputes over its participation.

When I say Spotify is Surveillance, I don’t just mean it’s creepy that they are tracking what music you listen to and using that data to serve ads. I mean your Spotify data is deeply intimate and can be used to glean information about you like your daily habits, your moods, and more.

This cover, of Phobe Bridgers in Phoebe Waller-Bridge's dress from Fleabag is an all-timer.

When news breaks or curiosity strikes, people around the world turn to a free volunteer-run encyclopedia to make sense of what’s happening. In a chaotic online landscape, Wikipedia remains a trusted first stop destination for millions worldwide.

Everyone can (and should) read @readlux.bsky.social online. I've yet to encounter a dull article. But I'm also here to inform you all that if you pay for a subscription you get to see some of the most fantastic magazine layouts that you can find anywhere.

🔎 AmaFacts ayaVUMA is live on Vuma FM 103FM! Catch Africa Check’s Philile Ntombela every Monday at 20h30 as she breaks down the week’s biggest misleading claims: africacheck.info/amafacts_171...

Everyone can (and should) read @readlux.bsky.social online. I've yet to encounter a dull article. But I'm also here to inform you all that if you pay for a subscription you get to see some of the most fantastic magazine layouts that you can find anywhere.

Today is #WorldAIDSDay With Lenacapavir or LEN, a new drug WHO recommends to protect people at risk of #HIV instead of taking daily pills, people can now get injections every 6 months. At the time where funding for HIV is limited, this new drug could mean fewer new infections & more lives saved.

BREAKING: Post ICP gag order, Open Secrets reveals UAE armoured vehicles may be SA-designed and built — even as the UAE backs factions in Sudan’s genocide 🚨 READ HERE: https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025-11-27-fake-it-till-you-make-it-how-an-sa-arms-company-built-uae-armoured-vehicles/

Okay, but does Part 3 also have bamboo?

Top 20 baybeeee! 🥳 Not enough to win the lottery, but probably enough to have a couple of really magical days.

Man Who Thought Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’ Was Over In For Thrill Of His Fucking Life https://theonion.com/man-who-thought-fleetwood-macs-the-chain-was-over-in-for-thrill-of-his-fucking-life/

A little surprising to learn just how much Meta makes from scams/fraudulent advertising (as much as $16bn in 2024!) but this article sure explains A LOT about the company's behaviour.

You will never guess what this is in reference to.

Happy Birthday, Alexander Siddig.

LLMs destroy context. You used to be able to tell a crank website from a good source partly by its style. But now we have a tool that puts careful research, incoherent garbage, and intentional shitposting through a kind of grammatical instagram filter, presenting them all with the same credibility

This rules, this is the way to name a kid. Stop all the bullshit with baby name gurus and just pick the two movies you went to last, pick two characters in those movies. Boom you’ve got a kid named Zora Galactus, you were never gonna pick a name that good Hollywood did it for you.

Ah, nuts, the silicon chip inside my head got switched to "overload". I hate it when that happens.

Cloudflare is telling me I need to take a break, make a cup of tea, touch grass... 😌

its a good magazine please give them some dollars haha im totally not biased by being a contributor haha what are you talking about (jokes aside! Ive been reading cw since i was like fifteen, and it has consistently delivered. its a good place to throw a coffee's worth of dollars at per month :3)

Really excellent work by @garbageday.email covering the latest Epstein emails, the apparent extent of his influence over global politics, and how the Clinton blowjob memes have served to "flood the zone with shit". www.garbageday.email/p/epstein-he...

This is such nonsense for so many reason, but among them: Sally Rooney's latest novel is centred on two brothers! They are PoV characters, and Rooney details their inner lives with the same skill and brilliance as any of her women. There's also male PoV characters in her two previous novels!

My favourite year for oppressed literary masculinity was 2023 when the number of women on the Booker shortlist was smaller than the number of men named Paul

There is a character in the 1929 novel The Well of Loneliness who is exactly like this, and was apparently based on Noël Coward.

I made a joke in my main Discord server about DOOM E1M1 being in a major key and @abigbagofkeys.sickonedude.com actually made it. Jesus fucking Christ listen to this hahahaha

Not the same because he's doing it out of spite, but the only Tom Hanks role my dad will acknowledge voluntarily is Woody from Toy Story.

This @groundup.org.za editorial does a fine job of articulating just how outrageous the gag order against @opensecrets.org.za is. We don't know who gagged them, on what grounds, in which court, or by which judge's ruling. groundup.org.za/article/anon...

Already? The year goes by so fast!

50 years ago today Horses is the debut studio album by American proto-punk / punkrock musician Patti Smith, which was released on this day in 1975. #punk #punks #protopunk #garagerock #womenofpunk #pattismith #horses #history #punkrockhistory #otd

The problem is, I'm going to bookmark this (even though it's not sprout season here in the southern hemisphere) and forget about it in six months time. So what I'm saying is, can someone remind me to make this when May rolls around?