Another Starmer point: his u-turns could be spun into something like "he listens and isn't afraid to look stupid by changing course" but unfortunately, it's usually blatantly fucking obvious how bad the first approach is so instead he constantly looks like an idiot kite following the wind

Starmer needs to completely recalibrate what he wants to achieve. I think there's a chance he can turn it around (ha, u-turn pun) but to do so, he needs to start actually listening to the people who want to vote Labour instead of wasting his time on the people who will never want to vote Labour.

Eh fuck it, I'll shoot my shot. If you need someone to helm voiceover for your project, I pretty much do it all: casting actors, directing recording sessions, helping navigate agencies/unions/etc, you name it. 100% "damn this voice acting's awesome" rate 😊

It's incredible how shortsighted the political elite has become in the UK. Keir Starmer would discard two aces and two kings because he's trying to get four 2s. I had better political sense as a 13 year old reading Star Wars books. Somebody please secretly record a cabinet meeting and post it.

Prohibition is famous for working long term... /s

SAME

This is one of the things in enjoying about running CosmereRPG, plaaning around the fixed points of the world changing is so fun

I've worked at maybe 3 companies that would have made the kinds of accommodations I have contractually at my current job. 3 seems like a lot until I point out that I'm 35 and I had already worked for 10 different companies by the time I was 21. An outlier 3 years is the longest I've spent in a role

It is not politically literate to focus on a demographic notable for not researching effectively before voting by compromising on values pertaining an individual's right to exist with dignity. That strategy ignores the fundamental problems of trying to appeal everyone irregardless of morality.

Which is why it's so funny to me that I acquired Mortal Kombat on PC from a church jumble sale when I was ~12ish. It was on THREE floppy disks, it was enormous.

Every friendly migrant who is willing to help others needs to be deported because that's the only way that the Right's rhetoric can possibly become true. Only a few million more to go, I guess :/

As an American, I can't even imagine how much this could elp creative folks 🥲 Even if you aren't able to get such funding yourself, just knowing that your country values what you do...

I have this problem but without any time or energy to work on the video games that I already know how to make because the video game industry pays peanuts compared to B2B startups and I do also want to own this house I live in. I'm not even talking about the job security problems...

We've had a number of problems with under- or misinformed voters not understanding what they are voting for. Allowing younger people to vote while at the same time removing options for them to get and share opinions with their peers feels extremely likely to result in more problems and not fewer.

discord can't collapse into irrelevance because an empty server where i dump screenshots, notes, and pictures is somehow, in 2026, the best way of getting shit off my phone and onto the computer

If it's the one I'm thinking of, I had that

I find it difficult to trust a study released by a company benefiting from the study, especially when the study makes no mention (that I could find) of the fact that it's is normal policy for humans to intervene remotely. It's not safe to allow the remote control or influence of vehicles.

Expect the fae to start getting actively involved because of these violations of guest friend traditions

It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this

I'm sure that the rate of memory cards failing would be exactly the same as in other uses

One of my biggest problems with Starmer is that I have no idea what he actually wants. This is a problem Labour has had for a long time; their inability to select a leader with an agenda that matches public wishes who can explain why that agenda exists instead of pandering to niche demographics.

I once tweeted at Discord, telling them I didn't like their 😊 emote, and could they change it please. 100s of people RTed me, and 24 hours later, they altered it If I could get them to change an emote with a single tweet, we can get them to stop this face recognition bullshit with an influx of msgs

Does seem like Starmer has squandered on of the best opportunities the left has had in the UK in a generation. Pretty much literally as well, my teenage daughter was not born when the Tories took power again.

It feels like an incredible take to suggest that the party you're an MP for can't have effective leadership without an unelected staffer connected to an international ring of celebrity/wealthy pedophiles deciding Labour's strategy and tactics.

A year ago people were talking about how universal free childcare was one of those wild-eyed impossibilities that made Mamdani a hopeless candidate and he got it done inside a month in office

Everything I do requires me to mortgage my future quality of life. Keeping that present in my mind is exhausting all on its own and almost impossible when the neurodivergent hyperfocus/hyperfixation kicks in.

Abolish ICE, prosecute and imprison its leaders, impeach and remove the President from office. This is the only sane reaction to a group of armed men kidnapping and gunning down our neighbors in the street.

when someone I've known for decades mentioned how brave I was to have done some things early in my career I clarified I sincerely couldn't tell I wasn't supposed to and didn't pick up on the risk I was taking each day people in my generation are still figuring it out www.youtube.com/watch?v=liUa...

True fans are excited as fuck when someone new gets into their fandom

yup

Do I know any South Asian game writers/narrative designers looking for a full-time contract?

Friends, when the history of this sordid period of America is written — assuming it’s not written by historians trying to curry favor with a future fascist regime — I hope the leaders of American business are condemned to the hellfire they deserve for helping destroy American democracy.

Considering how much Labour effort gets put into trying to "win" right wing issues to win the next election, they should do better on optics issues that are blatantly lurking around the corner. FPTP again making it impossible to vote for change without risking disaster. STV PR needed very badly

But the leopard can't eat MY face!

The Republicans put a pedophile in the presidency but sure, it's the Dems who are letting rapists and criminals run wild. (obviously the Dems as an org need to ditch their corporate "influences" but Republicans continue to write down their crimes and pointing at someone else as the culprit)

This shit hits like a sledgehammer right now. It's not even remotely an exaggeration.

And who was the Kingmaker that put Cameron in a position to let the far-right out of their corner of theft Tories? I can't seem to remember for some reason...

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ICE are Gestapo. ICE are kidnappers. ICE are cowards.

The correct answer to this is "Yes, and everyone else too."

"I thought [fascism] a term best avoided" Yeah, that's one of the things that helps the fascists take the dominant position and that seems pretty obvious from history, especially recently.

Labour have a very different kind of incompetence than the Tories. It is nice that the UK government is no longer breaking laws all over but it would also be nice if at least two people in Number 10 were able to forecast political decisions with as much success as a dead molerat

Abolish the Republican Party.

I'm slightly tipsy so I'm just gonna say if any of you fucks out there with disposable income are staying in hotels or still ordering door dash at this particular moment in time you better be tipping with $50 bills

The fascists are showing their commitment to achieving their goals through violence, just like they always end up doing eventually. When you don't attack Nazis back, they can only see weakness. The fascists can't understand how people having the empathy to restrain themself is the key to society.

I have been offline for most of today and just found out about Minneapolis. I am going to begin cutting people who support this out of my life. You should, too.

If the UK media now do not apply equal harsh measures to Nigel Farage than they did to Angela Raynor, then they are complicit in a) a Mysoginist narrative where men are forgiven and women 'should have known better' and b) are actively saying they are okay with Farage in charge.

It's almost like certain countries immediately recognised the potential for exploiting social media for the purpose of influencing insecure and vulnerable people while slowly removing social norms from primarily anonymous spaces

It is impossible for a UK political party to do anything successful without also making the dumbest and biggest mistake possible for the current moment. It shows a truly terrible lack of political understanding to suggest leaving NATO when the US is in the middle of trying to because of a pedophile

This absolutely baller moment from Willow. The whole series was something I never knew I needed but I am so happy we got it. Until the mouse buried it