I feel like a madman pointing this out but the plausible, real world explanation for the marked uptick in work visas after 2019 is quite simply that in the previous year, the UK blew up its entire labour market by getting rid of FOM, on which it was intrinsically and inherently dependent.

Note how we’ve moved from concerns about people arriving irregularly in small boats to wrecking the lives of people who are by definition here entirely lawfully

I recommended this to someone and he was like “it was okay”. And at that point I have nothing else, you just don’t like movies. Fury Road is the best player I have on my bench

Going about your day hungover with the quiet dignity of a supporting character in a movie that's quite clearly mortally wounded but wants to carry on regardless.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” It costs a lot less to house people.

I almost can’t believe tech companies are still running headfirst into this same problem.

Tbf, nothing will ever beat the GW website front page at that time. "The Queen is dead: PREPARE FOR SKIRMISH COMBAT!"

This is what baffled me when I watched Kill Tony a couple of weeks ago. It was dudes just saying 'you're fat' and 'you're gay' at each other for like an hour. Not even jokes! Just loud sentences! This is what America wanted? This was the trade?

What do you think Jimmy Fallon sees when he looks in the mirror?

I’ve started going down to the little warm room where the dogs sleep and chilling out with them on their bed every night for like half an hour because I want them to think of me as part of their pack

It's contrary to basically all historical genocides. There are still Armenians, Circassians, Jews, Roma, Poles, Tutsis, Native American, Hereros, Aboriginal Australians, etc, but they all still suffered genocide nonetheless.

GOD I hate takes like this. You really think trauma is a universal human condition? The same as just "bad things happening in the world?" That's the no value in clinical terminology for people who need help, support and treatment beyond what every other literal human on earth needs? Idiotic.

And here's my assistant, Little Parker Booowles!

Very good suggestions for this, still soliciting more

Re. RPS freelance, I now have a budget for irregular (maybe 6-12 pieces a year) 2000-3000 wordish, more granular and specific reporting and investigative criticism that broaches a new topic or addresses a gap in knowledge regarding something familiar.

Queen

If chicken farmer said eggs are the future and we all need to get into eggs and eggs will boost the economy, nobody would give it a moment’s contemplation

dating apps should just make men list their top 5 podcasts

What books would you have in your video game research library? Thinking You Died, Blood Sweat And Pixels, etc

The transcript in here of their exchange is really worth reading to the last sentence.

RIP to a man so hot the obits are obligated to talk about how hot he was

Robert Redford playing a gentle incarnation of death, coming for a frightened old woman in The Twilight Zone episode "Nothing in the Dark" (1962). An extraordinary performance then, terribly bittersweet today

when I was at university debating was a club activity* and if you won a debate it just proved you were better at debating, it didn't say anything about the relative correctness of the points being debated *FOR NEEEERDS

Oh this? Yeah, found it myself, carried it all the way from the old bridge, pretty sweet. You chilling or nah?

What is a scroad? A scroad is a member of a far-right online hate group. They split off from the groinks in 2017 after the Glunt War, which took place on fapchan. One of their members is a U.S. senator

This is how blatantly the #BBC and other news favours Reform. This is appalling and unbalanced and needs addressing NOW. www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/how...

Yes, yes you are. Stop cosplaying "legitimate concerns". When you join a far right rally, organised by well known far right leader Tommy Robinson, with a host of speakers who outright say they are far right, you are a racist. No ifs, buts or maybes. There are no excuses for being there.

I was stung 24 hours ago and it still hurts, how do wasps not rule the planet

Me too, fwiw, obviously my experience is UK-based (also anyone who has questions about querying novels, which is a surprisingly similar grind)

We're shortstaffed on RPS and need some rad PC-minded freelancers for urgent review work. Specifically: - Borderlands 4 (yes I know it's out already) - Dying Light: The Beast - Silent Hill f Standard rate is £200 GBP per review, make yourselves known at [email protected]

Videogamer (post Orry, pre Webb) broke review embargo for Horizon Zero Dawn because our boss insisted on uploading all our video to a third party sharing software. The scheduling broke all the time, and a San Francisco newspaper got the video, posted it, and refused to take it down when I asked.

Fond memories of a Squeenix embargo that was worded so stingily it technically prevented anyone signing it from talking about the game before *or after* the embargo date, forever.

embargo break aside why would somewhere hire you to write a review if you're writing that review on reddit first

oh my god. I mean I know things are bad but I didn't know it was 'an embargo is just a deadline :)' bad

hard to overstate how much Kruger is a genuine freak

I think we should all remember to refer to second generation immigrant Danny Kruger as second generation immigrant Danny Kruger.

oh my god Danny Kruger is my bloody MP

The neurodivergent community talks a lot about cutlery but I feel we have not adequately discussed crockery. Some mugs are Good and some are Not Friendly.

Well, he's withdrawing himself from the Presidential Election Race in the same sense I'm withdrawing myself from winning the Booker Prize.

No, I'm sorry, this is Midtown Funk. You'll need to take a cab.

Pictured: a handsome and athletic INGRATE who tonight spent 20 minutes running away from me and in the process disturbed a ground wasp nest, resulting in me getting stung half a dozen times while he was UNTOUCHED

shoutout to tumblr user kleinergeist for this post which is going straight into my powerpoint for Grendel day in my monster class this week

I love drama videos for hobbies/subcultures I am not a part of. If you make a half hour vlog about like, 'the biggest liar in actual play' or 'this guy RUINED Cartography-Con 2025' rest assured I am sitting in the front row and I am ENGAGED and I will HATE THAT PERSON along with you by the end

Hope this NYT article is a really flowery 15,000 word description of a guy calling the FBI to say his son did it. "By Friday, according to 14 investigators familiar with the case, the FBI were at an impasse. That's when everything changed. -- In 1876, John Logie Baird came upon a dazzling idea-

Broadly happy with how I’m progressing with dry brushing. This is three shades of grey on black primer. I want to get a true white to do a final layer of highlights These lil guys are so fun :] #nerdlings #miniatures

Jason Kingsley has fiction on the way! I dunno if this will be good but I DO know that when I asked a bunch of game ppl what they’d do if they met their clone, he said “probably practise sparring with myself from horseback, as getting qualified melee partners who can ride well is always difficult.”

Can someone please check on our sweet baby Kash