Listening to this as my audiobook at the moment. Good lord. One of those books that makes you want to improve as a writer, that evokes something between jealousy and awe. It's delicious, it's insidious, it's erotic, it's repulsive. It makes me drool. Can't stop reading.

People physically recoil touching Trump like he's a FromSoft swamp

Slightly gratifying to hear everyone boo these pair of turbofascists

YO PAELLA MAN

Lovely day running the bar for Bristol's coolest trans healthcare charity

You call it ethical non-monogamy, I call it

If you're looking for new ways to get into VGM, I highly recommend the Tasty Bits channel. Rudy, a former French journalist based in Tokyo, gives a voice to those we don't usually hear in the media. nowplaying.cool/tasty-bits-g...

youtu.be/f3yGa4_3KDg?... I spend my day job being told AI is normal, inevitable, that resistance to it is futile Then I watch this in my downtime and I simply refuse to believe ANYTHING can replace this The context of Josh playing this track alone is TBs of data, let alone the execution

Denshattack! is the Hot Mulligan of games

I'm so glad I get to read Alice on this

You deserve better literature than Dungeon Crawler Carl. www.jank.cool/you-deserve-...

The dog has taken to coming into the room and wagging at me whenever I'm practicing harsh vocals

I've low-key had very little attachment to life since I was about 12. I'd be great 'early days' fodder

GotY stuff

Happy International Non-Binary People's Day!

8 years since I got my laurel. My favourite ink. Adore how they've changed as my body has, and sit better now than when they were fresh. By Kola Hari, www.instagram.com/kolahari - one of the best I've sat with

Many such cases. I grew up thinking I had a normal life. I did NOT have a normal life.

I respect France's commitment to not working on a holiday.

This feels a bit like beating the first form of a boss; Mbappe is just gonna get faster and meaner and get a second health bar now

People tell me I used to look like Matt Smith...

This is honestly one of the best books I've ever read. I can't put it down and it makes me feel so joyous about who I am, the communities I've been a part of, and those small parts of the world carved out for both hedonism and tenderness

Oasis is the most embarrassing cultural thing to ever happen to England

If Norway's premier player really is ill and England gets the win, I really hope the red tops run with: England's green and pleasant Haaland

BBQ tonight. Think we did pretty damn well.

Launching a new website about video games today. Meet @respec.net. A sibling to @rpgsite.net, a spiritual successor to VG247, & a brother from another mother to other 100% independent UK media brands like @videogameschronicle.com and @trueachievements.com. www.respec.net/feature/87-w...

You just know this is going to be absolutely fantastic and plug a hole that's been needing filled for a long time in games media My energy, my heart, my respect for Respec

Rolling around in the cold dew at 6am must feel so damn good

This is what going online felt like when your PC lived in a special wooden corner unit and you had to use dial-up

I know I'm a good dog owner because Fro gets the nice fan on him during heat waves, whilst I lie naked and damp slowly turning into a pile of goo in the stale air on my side of the room

Forever baffled that people see a 3/5 as 'hating' on something??

Re: Farage and Clacton, I heard a guy in my local pub say without a hint of irony that we're "now 100% in the banter timeline" This clearly isn't true because I'd just paid £6.10 for a pint outside of London

Emma D'Arcy single-handedly kicking down the door for badass enby rep in popular media

Might start putting rocks in my milkshakes

Crying laughing at this image. Beyond parody. Like something from Brass Eye, but funnier. Pissy little ham man. You deserve everything you get and more. Play fascist games, get fascist prizes.

Grassroots fighting game events will gain access to a $1m support fund later this year: here's why some will turn it down www.eurogamer.net/evo-locals-a...

There's a part in the book "Careless People" where the author beats Zuck at Settlers of Catan, and he is absolutely wrecked by it. Someone pulls her aside to explain everyone else has been letting him win for years. I think about this a lot re: why tech bros think everyone will love AI chatbots.

Last night, I had the football on one laptop, GDQ on the other, and an embargoed game on the TV. I am a parody of myself.

The year is 2031. David Beckham has sold his likeness to the AI singularity and now appears in every advert. He declares support for Reform and the Greens in the same campaign. All of his children have disowned him, yet they can't escape him. Beckham is everywhere, Beckham is eternal.

Blessings to the person who referred to Haaland as “Norwegian megafauna”.

Little Froto dump because I'm sad about how much he's aging

"We need to make personal control over your media cool again. If you go home with someone and they don't have a Plex server, don't fuck them" —John Waters, probably

Moving to be a 20 minute cycle from my yoga studio rather than a 30 minute walk is having some very unexpected effects (The effects are I'm cycling more and that is actually a greater calorie burn and cardio load than the needlessly intense practice I choose to engage in)

I have such an expertly curated algorithm that I'm seeing posts from Mexican street food restaurants in the US and this is how they're advertising the game tomorrow night. "Good vibes"

dick's nice and all but clean your room you nasty bitch!

Nothing better than a good pint and a good book in the sun

Feels like this week needed a palette cleanser

Miserable day in the games industry, England losing within the first 10 mins of a World Cup, pollen so high it could choke a horse. What a Wednesday.