Happy solstice! Enjoy your fair summer country, all ye enlightened. As for me, here at hope's apogee, I will again count the days until the comforting dark. #SummerSolstice

This is a real longshot, but do any of you happen to be collectors of ZX Spectrum games and have a copy of the game Journey's End? Because it's supposedly one of the games Games Workshop published in the 80s but I cannot find images of a GW version anywhere. Only the Mastertronic release.

Somehow this brings home to me how we in Northern Europe are never all that far from the daylight at this time of the year.

No matter how smart you think you are, you’re only one really exhausted bad day away from clicking a bad link. Anyone who thinks they’re too smart to have this happen to them is just proving how little critical thinking they possess.

I hope you have a nice night. I also hope your wine carafe is always full, your tea is always hot, and you can always find space on your crowded bookshelves for one more treasure.

Now this is a story all about how My trip got flipped — turned upside down, And I’d like to take a minute, just sit right there, To tell you how I found a plinth of the king, ye mighty: despair!

Call up Guillermo del Toro and whisper "At the Mountains of Muppets".

Party Knight. ⚜️

You think you look cool in your new bandana until your east Belfast mum looks you up and down and says you look like the Plymouth Brethren.

the dress code at the gay bdsm bar is very funny to me because firstly im sorry but my sadism does not come with an outfit, i am a pervert not a superhero

My thesis “Archaeological Game Design: Video Game Archaeology as Interpretive Play and Play Preservation” is now online and open access! You can access the official version here, however this has some figures redacted: qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle...

Other people have already answered this and OP is now aware this is a ClickFix style attack to trick the unwitting into installing malware, but it’s sad to see that people attacked her for not being aware of that before. Tech knowledge isn’t magic, there was a time when we all had to learn.

The promised thunderstorms have not arrived and I am sad 😞 Just need it to rain, please ☔🙏 If I must tolerate all this sunlight could I please have a just a little reprieve?

A plea: if we genuinely wanted to see what's still on the Twitter hate-site, we wouldn't have stopped using it. Respectfully, enough with the screenshots.

Thomas House of Dublin exhibiting the pro-human solidarity that all of us should demonstrate.

Does the cryptography community have a backup plan for if Alice and Bob ever break up?

Pretending that education is just job training and that it should be stripped of all non-utilitarian elements is one of the worst ideas in the history of ideas. Acting like it's some kind of axiom we should be using to orient ourselves at the moment is disastrously wrong-headed.

We had no bananas to hand, so went with the tried and tested finger-for-scale approach.

I feel so ill 😣 Which was entirely expected 3 days post-surgery! But since the advised time off here is 2 weeks (compared to 6-8 in UK) my brain is tricking me into feeling I should be further into recovery already to 'get it done on time'. I know it's silly but I can't shake the feeling 🙃

If you are near-ish to Kent and like citizen science and like EELS, please enjoy this free online training session that will allow you to participate in volunteer eel-monitoring fieldwork throughout the summer!

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Accurate.

one of my favourite things about having made this thing is that now my friends send me stuff they overhear outside quite often and i love it

8. You know what we could do? Fund some amazing third spaces and stop punishing trans kids for existing. Feed kids who don’t get decent meals at home. Start creating a world for kids to grow into rather than a future they know they’ll struggle to fix. Controversial, I know.

This is nonsense FUD to stoke shareholder value, honestly what are we even doing listening to this? Europeans are already wary of US AI and there's an entire EU project to protect sovereignty rn, why would we suddenly be in danger of 'surrender' to China? Wildly irresponsible word choice.

I've said this before, but there's a reason so much of the UK moral panic and ensuing legislative pushes about young people online has been driven by the Tatler, Times, and Telegraph class. These are people for whom objectifying their children into infantalised possessions, for life, is normal.

Cervical cancer deaths fall to zero in young women given vaccine. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Good morning We introduced a new dahlia to the collection last year Ben huston, and what a marvellous dahlia he is! Absolutely stunning A hot week ahead so stock up on rehydration tablets! Have a great day 🌱🌸

we need to go back

One of them totally destroyed an online community I was in ten or so years ago. Knew exactly how far to go to avoid mods being forced to intervene. Community would have fizzled anyway but they hastened it 200%. Feel bad for the mods in hindsight. Impossible situation.

Yeah I've left Discord servers over people like this, or even people who break rules but they're a mod and the server owner is their friend. It's part of why one of my Twitch rules is "If you're being a weird asshole in ways that aren't covered by the rules I'll ban you."

Yeah, you have to take action on the line-walkers.

this one weird trick will make the rest of your moderation 1000% easier actually

As someone who used to run MMOs: yep.

Do I know anyone looking to sell a ticket for EMF Camp?

- It's ultimately a policy based on the paranoia of concerned parents rather than evidence. The victims will be the less privileged kids, and those who don't have concerned parents, for whom SM acts as a lifeline, but are absent from the whole discussion - www.techdirt.com/202... 2/3

Or don't, and ban China's too? 😅

Keir Starmer’s under-16 social media ban can only work if everyone proves who they are, so it’s a natural move for a government selling surveillance as safety By tech policy expert and digital rights advocate @heatherburnstech.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/under-16-s...

All uses of AI are costing someone… this sucks as the Game UI database is such a valuable resource.

1 day post-surgery, and they have to get another doctor to talk to me because I don't remember the one who came last night to give me all the details. Mortifying 😅

In 1908 the Lancet called for an 18+ age limit on reading in bed for U.K. children.

Yes. AI will make you face tech debt, poison your market by turning fans against you, give your IP questionable copyright and ultimately cost more money as tokens soar. Listen kids, learn your craft. Millions of us did, for decades, quickly, and with amazing results. And we loved doing it.

Sybil Andrews, The Storm, 1935 www.artic.edu/artworks/102...

Daily bunny no.3350 is done with note-taking

stop being smaller, an anti-specialist manifesto for #manifestojam2026 messy as hell and under the wire but wanted to put something down that's been on my mind roxaloxa.itch.io/stop-being-s... clumsywords.blog/stop-being-s...

Totally distracted now thinking about how febrile the meeting must have been at which it was decided *the* thing that would save Starmer's reputation was turning off social media for 17 and 18 year olds at 2030 every night and what on earth were the ideas that got rejected?