These people have already shown total, uncompromising commitment to crashing the plane over and over. Why would they now choose to stop? Particularly Labour, who have until now only been rewarded beyond their wildest dreams for strapping in and pointing the nose of the plane at the mountainside.

The whole Brexit debacle was one huge case study in: If the government completely fucks everyone out of sheer incompetence, will they confess and beg the passengers’ forgiveness? Or will the flight crew lock the cabin door and fly the plane into the ground, so they can keep command of the wreckage.

Great that we've now set up the job market in such a way that it's impossible to get hired for any position without prior experience, the notion of transferable skills no longer exists, and that admin is somehow highly-skilled labour. This can only be a boon to the long-term future of society.

Our upcoming game HORSES was preemptively banned from Steam, with no path to appeal. The game will still launch next week on December 2nd and will be available on EGS, GOG, Humble, and Itch for $4.99. Here is a detailed FAQ covering what happened: horses.wtf/BannedFromSt...

Lol, all the kids in Stranger Things look so done with this shit. I haven't seen an actor so disinterested in their job since Whitney Moore in Birdemic 2

Free idea: four bodybuilders start a Black Sabbath tribute band called Jacked Sabbath

Why the fuck is there a 'Most Anticipated Game' category for the Game of the Year Awards? What an utterly worthless do-nothing accolade

"American girls have to sell sex to the nominee for attorney general of the United States to get braces" sounds like Soviet propaganda

In hindsight, that "cutscenes are gaming's failure state" article from 2008 or so really fucked up a lot of games back in the day

No one ever tell this man about wrestling star ratings @davidbix.bsky.social

on the topic of dick cheney, one thing i’ve always said is that you shouldn’t kill a million people

The fall in violent crime is too big to be explained by any single cause, but I've always thought that immigration from cultures where drinking eight pints and getting into a fight isn't seen as a normal way to spend your Saturday night must be a non-trivial part of it.

The original Dawn of the Dead is quite charming 50 years later - everyone clearly pulls their punches and every zombie who gets shot makes sure to fall down very carefully so they don't hurt themselves

The Rose Field is like a latter Iain Banks novel - hundreds of pages of aimlessness to set up an abrupt and underwhelming conclusion. Disappointing.

Rewatching Taboo (2017) and it's very refreshing to watch a drama in which no one tells a single joke.

Scream (1996) - "Our friend was murdered! Who would do something so awful?" Scream (2022) - "Someone tried to murder our friend! Lol, one of us probably did it!" The fucking state of writing these days. This planet deserves the abyss.

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1/2 A must-read report from MERICS on how China is navigating its low birth rate—with early input from CMP's @daliaparete.bsky.social merics.org/en/report/wh...

one of the worst insults i've ever seen on twitter was an egirl threatening to have sex with a rival's father and "give him a child he'll actually love"

Like, a lot of online discourse feels like fan fiction about real people, both public figures and not. Posters exchanging head canons about their goals, motivations, and inner lives.

No, I'm sure it's fine long-term that 80% of everything I see on job websites is either obviously a scam or looks like a scam, that there are no entry level jobs for any industry or field, or that people are expected to fund their own training with jobs they can't get without training

These people couldn’t have been more clear that they think not liking them is radicalisation; being angry with them for things they’ve done and said is extremism; asking them unwelcome questions is bullying and harassment, and raising your voice at them is criminal assault.

Yes, it does! Racism isn't just something you think, it's something you do! And no one who isn't a racist would support a racist policy! Words mean things!

Counterpoint: no, he won't.

Nailing complaints about your fandom to the door of their headquarters is 100% what a fanfic author would do if tumblr didn't exist

Being done by a country whose economy is almost 18 times the size of South Korea's, no less.

She went back in and asked what happened to her ice cream. The staff there had no idea. Then, a deep voice boomed from a corner of the shop. “I believe you stuck it in your handbag,” Redford said, with a hint of amusement. Sure enough, there it was.

One day, my mom’s friend went to an ice cream shop in California to get a cone. After she paid and got her cone, she went to leave and bumped into someone behind her. That someone was Robert Redford. Flustered, she left. When she got to her car, she realized she didn’t have her cone.

guy i was on a date with mentioned he "only uses chatGPT for a few things" and i felt myself drying out like the guy at the end of the last crusade

My Spanish is better than I realised

One of my favorite genre of posts on Twitter right now is people who think grok can help them find the killer

Three years ago some people were paying £50,000 for a picture of a cartoon monkey

"Bluesky is boring." Social media *should* be boring. Being algorithm and dopamine poisoned is bad, actually. When your feed dries up for the day, that's your cue to go do something else until new stuff shows up later.

This gets progressively funnier with every use of the term "floppy".

hell yeah

i clicked thinking i was about to read about the ethical perils of surrogacy and instead spent 30 horrified minutes learning why silicon valley needs to die

If there was a single use case for AI that might possibly get me interested, it'd be one that figures out what language every cast member was originally speaking in The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly and creates a dub that properly reflects what it must have been like on set

Thinking 'bout the eternal recurrence again

I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset. In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia. In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)

So my head cannon is that when he joined the family Don Callis asked "What's your name" and Hecicero responded "Yo soy Hecicero" so Callis thinks that's his full name and why he's announcing him that way. #AEW 🤼

I mean, it isn't like putting up an England flag when there isn't an international football tournament on hasn't been a well-known sign of advertising racism for literally decades.

The attention to detail here is fucking insane if you've ever ridden a Chinese metro

Wait, why do I have *two* copies of the The Epic of Gilgamesh? That are both different Penguin Classics editions? #booksky

Been re-reading the Lyraverse lately, and after moving on to La Belle Sauvage you can see that it is yet another example of how much more slow paced and uneventful modern fiction is, in any medium. About 250 pages in and so much more happens in the same span in any HDM book compared to LBS. #booksky

Man, I'd forgotten how terrible the boss fights in FFXII are.

when they close it all up, I do believe this will go down as the funniest video on the internet

As he himself said not long ago, there are people who didn't do half as much as he did who didn't live nearly as long. From hippie to rock 'n' roll wildman to beloved genre grandpa, there are few people who lived life as much as Ozzy Osbourne did. Rest in peace, fella.

The word "communist" has truly lost all meaning if people seriously think the goddamn Kuomintang (who are shit for different reasons) are pro-communist.

The weekend is upon us once again, celebrate by giving my new novel, The Art of Kindness, a try! Like fantasy? Like Westerns? Like it when something fucked up happens? #booksky #writingcommunity Amazon: tinyurl.com/2uy577yv Kobo: tinyurl.com/yx58x9te Itch: miles-turner.itch.io/the-art-of-k...