just fired up S4 of invincible and the recap is a fantastic example of "this tells me nothing about the important bits of info the writers should be hitting me over the head with", and then the spending the first half hour going "but what's that...who's this...why is that like....did he...."

People living abroad should get to vote because government policies still effect them. Nothing made this clearer than all those who could not vote in the Brexit referendum but had their citizenship rights irrevocably changed by the results of it.

everyone at the anti-censorship rally gets real quiet when my speech starts to focus heavily on that scene where Squidward gets doused in gasoline and set on fire that they cut from a SpongeBob episode

"If you live abroad, you shouldn't be able to vote" okay, but an increasing number of people live abroad precisely *because* ukgov won't let them live here with their non british family in the first place. this isn't fair imo

miniboyd's school had a phase of giving the kids (the wizard books) for group reading sessions, but it was pretty easy to do a "pssst hey kid wanna read this hobbit thing", and now weekends are a mashup of me telling miniboyd that viggo mortensen broke his toe on the helmet and heroquest sessions

i demand the wife guy movie

the only potter experience i'm having today is imagining dobby in his glue trap

Here we go again Again Abolish the Home Office

every day, someone in the home office complaints team hopes i don't get out of bed. today is not that day

RIP sam altman's apes. not even multiple slurp juices on a single ape will save them

lol, and if i may say, lmao

fond memories of being a teen when my uncle turned up with a RE disc and gave me a load of *severe* warnings as if it was a proper video nasty or a snuff film, and after a few hours I was like I'm being eaten by a big frog

now all those times a mob threatened to beat up kiryu doesn't seem so unrealistic. also i would rather climb in a washing machine than pick a fight with the reacher guy

after today's layoffs, that tally of 12 people every couple of months has now shrunk even further. mind boggling, but at least time sweeney or whoever can buy another yacht

“clown event still possible” put that in your pocket, I can already tell you that this is the key phrase of 2026

oh no, a mysterious wire is suddenly hanging down from the roof. i don't like mysterious wires

not sure about my greatest, or if this counts as a boss fight but the funniest was (fallout 4 spoilers ahead): entering the institute for the first time, taking a load of jet and psycho, and then shooting the old man who greeted me with kellog's gun so hard his head exploded

it's funny how *we* all have to man up but not the slowly growing examples of "oopsie, we forgot to disclose" and "hehe we just weren't gonna bother, hehe"

This is wild: a company is secretly scanning the internet for Zoom meeting links and turning them into AI-generated podcasts for $$$. Some meeting participants only found out after we told them. Included meeting on protecting kids from ICE, was supposed to be private www.404media.co/this-company...

i now have a second, follow-up meeting with my MP because the home office randomly decided to not pay up a refund they said they'd give me. i will pursue these losers to the ends of the earth for my £9.50. ukvi may as well just save themselves the trouble and raid that piggy bank

accidentally turned off replies for followers only and within about an hour, i had two separate people talking about "Frogage" and "Fartage" under a post about the home office. if you do this in my replies, i'm going to assume you're not actually taking it seriously and just want to say silly words

it feels odd to me that using a laptop instead of a phone is (i guess?) presented as a win, when I'm over here on a big desktop doing everything without a care in the world as god intended

Heads-up that these scammers are back with a new name, get blocking lads!

wealthy people with ancestry dating back further than grandparents(!) should not get a free pass to another wealthy nation as if we're dealing with premier league transfer windows. what level of privilege is this when british citizens can't even live with their spouses or children?

making my way through the fallout 4 anniversary edition mods, and ha wow. a modder whose work i've never been a fan of, who is *incredibly rude* to people who ask for help on nexus, even getting a credit in (bethesda game) for something, is involved in one of the most broken mods i've ever seen

Every picture of ICE agents in airports is just this again

he'll forever be known as MattGPT

adobe's continued tradition of having all the cherry-picked advertising images for firefly look absolutely dogshit is so funny

bad news, dragon quest is dead. it died. someone set all of the slimes on fire and they melted and died. ichiban kasuga is smashing up his dragon quest heroes diorama with a baseball bat

i'm probably a bit more hardcore than most on this, but: if someone comes here on a visa where work is not a condition of entry, or renewal, or settlement for the visa holder, then saying "actually that's not true anymore and it's retrospective haha" should put everyone who came up with it in prison

frieren ends this week. somehow they made series 2's ten episodes at *least* as good as series 1's twenty eight. incredible visuals, astonishing music, and possibly the best stab at "what happens after the main quest is done with?" that you'll ever see. hugely recommended, 11 out of 10 stuff

anyone who says "it needs to be more difficult" would be on the floor crying and begging for mercy on a single 5 year route with one entry visa, one renewal 30 months later, and an ILR application at 5 years

the replies on this are an incredible mix of "they should get a taste of their own medicine!", "at least they're not in america", "well others have it worse". you don't have to make every single thing about donald goddamn trump, and the actual response to this is simply "that sucks, fix it"

my favourite fallout 4 bug on this playthrough is settlement happiness starting to go down when i finally assign people jobs

this is the kind of baffling "are you *sure*?" take that's up there with those "myspace was one of the good ones" posts you see every so often

‘No, I meant do you have anything more you want to say about your job application?’

saw an advert for figma promoting their AI tool, "make me an app for remixing audio tracks". did some digging and every single variant of this online from people who spent hours making one looks like garbage, and is more barebones than the most chronically free music VST you could imagine

I'm losing it at this delivery robot getting absolutely smoked by the Brightline train in Florida 🤖🚅

This is just shriekingly embarrassing for a former academic. If you want to contact Northstar about having a book published, it literally says "Request a Quote". And they failed to notice the ChatGPT embedded in the references.

experienced the joy of "teen on bike flies around narrow pavement corner at about 900mph and nearly wipes us both out". like he was deeply apologetic but come on, use a little brain power

welcome to the stage Shabana "Don't Threaten Us With A Good Time" Mahmood

this is going to ruin the tour stereogum.com/2493134/73-y...

I wouldn't teleport to waffle house, but I would teleport to pancake house

anytime I see a story like this I'm reminded of when my infant school banned us from taking out graphic novels, or collections of asterix and obelix, because they're "not real books and not real art"

go ahead and destroy the financial district, blobby. make the people happy

realised on my RE3 remake replay that if you just stand and aim at a zombie it'll eventually...dodge out of the way of your sight? the mad dead lad just fully starts ducking and diving. i prefer this to RE2, but there's a *lot* in this that feels increasingly like a cheap shot