The whole modern right wing project is basically finding excuses for morally reprehensible behaviour. Don't even try to make it make sense otherwise.

Just made this. I’m a widely respected intellectual, you know

A few years ago I could have told you all ten off the top of my head with total confidence. Nowadays I have almost no idea except that Twilight Struggle is one of them.

florence pew: thread

This. This. This.

At a gig and the support band are so bad that I walked out to get a beer, but I am in awe of their absolute and total commitment to their terrible music

At a gig and the support band are so bad that I walked out to get a beer, but I am in awe of their absolute and total commitment to their terrible music

I bet they fucking love this wheeze because it means we're all going to be working longer before we can afford to be "economically inactive". Bastards.

Things are so fucked up that there's a lot of nostalgia around for the bad old days. A possible explanation is that political leadership then was, broadly, neither of these things.

For some reason my brain saw WAD and immediately interpreted it as "Weapons of Ass Destruction"

Not representative, but it's an extraordinary testament to the health of the UK economy that the top maths trade value this month is £60 - it's normally almost twice that, with values ranging all the way down.

Absolutely no to the Guardian's top Ashes cricketers. Warne was a stupendous talent, but he can't top Bradman, and possibly ought to be below Botham

Well that all worked out swimmingly then. Ditch Starmer and his top team. I'm not sure this can wait until he ballses up the council elections next year. The damage is real and it is now. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

The mistake was in pledging not to raise taxes in the first place. Looking at the situation and imagining there was a way to press a magic growth button that the Tories hadn't already found was pure cowardice.

My most woke opinion is probably that all men are sexist, all white people are racist and all straight people are homophobic. No matter how well-meaning and well-educated you are, you can't entirely escape being bought up amidst systemic bigotry.

Googly eyes make everything better

Increasingly of the opinion that the best way to watch TV is to wait until shows are cancelled before starting any of the seasons. I have zero recollection of what the hell was going on in S01, and I'm absolutely not re-watching it to find out.

the first photogenic billionaire in history

Weekly newsletter is out! It's a preview of Knizia's new Hobbit game, There & Back Again. Only $1 to get access to this and MY ENTIRE BACK CATALOGUE which feels like a bargain to me. Although it would, since I wrote it. But might you venture a buck & find out? www.patreon.com/posts/this-w...

Dear god. So much for "quiet competence". How much longer can this joker last? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

The new ones in Darkwater are absolutely magnificent. Sadly, I also find them almost unpaintable. So! Much! Detail! That all blends in together in gross, slimy, wobbly bits.

Gonna QS this to say, as someone who doesn't really care much for solo games, The Lost Expedition is one of my absolute favourites to play alone. To the point where I picked up the expansion and all the promos.

On the frequent days I feel I could use a few more quid in the bank, it's not difficult at all to figure out ways I could manage it. But every single one of them involves crapping on my fellow human beings somehow, so I don't do it. Wealth is almost always theft. And don't forget it.

everyone say happy birthday to @peersylvester.bsky.social. he is one of the nicest people I know and also an excellent designer of many great games hint hint, hint hint

What a cracking sculpt.

The thing that really strikes me about this is the shamelessness. Anyone who actually cared about poetry, or about the recipient, would take few second's effort requied to source the quote. But rich and famous people? That's beneath them. It's for the recipient to bother.

Oh god no, it's the Christmas release schedules

There is one comment on this object on it's BGG entry which is, given the numerals are in a made-up language, absolutely perfect

Was just putting out an empty packing box and discovered I'd been graciously given what is possibly the world's least useful promo.

This is the only merch Wet Leg have on their online store and it's absolutely the worst, most overpriced band t-shirt I have ever seen in my entire life

BoardGameGeek thread title of the day

Remember: if AI did even half of what it promises, tech firms wouldn't need to shove it down our throats, unasked for, at every opportunity. It's snake oil. Resist.

I had somehow entirely missed that this was a thing and I am suddenly absolutely delighted that I've held off on getting a PS5 thus far.

If you want this, Labour, we need more working from home, more union power, better pay, *much* more anti-discrimination law & rigorously enforced, more support for disabled & vulnerable people in work, greater protection against firing & redundancy. Will you deliver any of that? Thought not

Also: Sister Ray.

Organiser of the work Christmas party has unwisely created a collaborative playlist, blissfully unaware of that I know all of the very many classic folk and morris tunes suited to the season

Well, that's a fascinating piece of information in this rather disturbing thread on corporate murder.

This has nothing to do with sci-fi and everything to do with boiling frogs. Put in a little funding, see what comes out. A little more. A little more. And suddenly you've put in billions and you have to market snake oil like the second coming of Jesus or you and everyone else are fucked.

I built myself a very helpful tool using the BGG API that summarised useful information on what games were worth trading. It's now been closed off bc I have to register with BGG to use it. Thanks BGG, great work for your user community there!

i spoke to LOADS of people about this very recently, and the only people using it regularly were the dipshits in charge

None of this was ever about Online Safety, not about protecting kids. It was all about control and surveilance. And if you think that sounds a bit too "tin foil hat conspiracy theory", well, you might want to rethink your perspective.

I've started doing a weekly newsletter and now I'm even -adding images- but not many people seem to care. What else could I do to persuade to part with $1 to get previews of what's on my table alongside personal commentary and writerly flourish? A better haircut? www.patreon.com/c/mattthr

I'm 2 followers off 1.5K. I'd have more of that if I didn't block all the suspiciously lady-only-following accounts, but it would be nice to reach the next milestone. So if you're interested in TTRPGs, sketching, memes and snark, I'm yer woman. Here's a Godzilla meme to tempt you in.

The most terrifying thing about this, if true, is that I can only imagine that Kier Starmer is -insufficiently rightwing and authoritarian- for Wes.

there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all

That thing where you've got a Big Task to complete, but you're not feeling it and you can't find a way into it, but you can't settle to do anything else because the Big Task is looming over you? That.

Can we have an entire album of this collaboration, please? youtu.be/Xgp7wlBfASA

15+ years old, but still VERY relevent — and if we had acted 15 years ago, the “better world” we’d be creating would be a LOT better & easier to reach. There are real consequences we’re just starting to see to not heeding this cartoon a lot sooner. Even worse if we don’t heed it now. #ClimateCrisis

Filled with both awe and rage.