Finally cancelled my Spotify premium. One of those admin tasks I kept “meaning to do”. Transferred my playlists to a new service. I’m done giving my money to company that is fine having their platform flooded with unethical AI slop, and spending their profits on other, even more unethical things

I made no plans today so I’m enjoying my Sunday with a nice dose of choice paralysis ✨

Cracking, Gromit! #twowordreview #twowordreviews

“And away, boss” 😭💜 www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

ICYMI: An update on Oxventure 💜🎲

I made a couple of impulse purchases from @liquoricelino.bsky.social after stumbling across their Etsy and I fear it may be the best decision I’ve ever made.

Read this and watch the latest Dan Olsen video if you think that the Team Beast business model is anything to look up to. Also even if you don’t. They are both quite vindicating, if infuriating.

I just typoed “Five Nights at Freddy’s” as “Fife Nights at Freddy’s” and lemme tell you that’d be a very different game in a very different restaurant.

I played some of the upcoming Yoshi game and now I want Nintendo to make this year all about the best Dino baby. 🦖💜

Every once in a while I just suddenly remember how good Half-Life: Alyx is and I feel all warm and cosy inside.

Musical Magicians #twowordreviews #twowordreview #showstopper #improv

Cannot express how good How to Get to Heaven from Belfast is, or how much its millennial soundtrack absolutely slaps. Hilarious, scary, and gorgeous too!

Welfare helps people participate in society. It also moves money around the economy, keeping it healthy. They call it a “cost”. AI cuts jobs, makes useless un-copyrightable content, raises the energy bills of anyone living near them, and makes no money. They call it an “investment”. 🙃

With regards to how well Bluesky is working today: We can tell. 🙃

Pokémon Pokopia is great, especially when you’re NOT feeling great. But yeah, a delayed and unique review style video due to my chronic disease knocking me on my arse for a bit.

If I can enjoy Onward, boys should be able to enjoy Turning Red. Men’s stories are not the default in life, and fiction is one way to help us empathise with those who are different to us. (Also, one of my red flags I’ve had for years is when dudes put Brave at the bottom of their Pixar tier lists.)

My kidneys have been absolute bitches the past couple of weeks, fine for a few days then bleh for the next few days after, so cheers to the Oxbox crew for looking after Oxtra while I’ve been in and out of work and not well enough to be on camera. (Feeling better now, planning to cinema soon).

He’s not werf it, Dave!

I watched Enola Holmes the other night. Gave it 3 stars with “cute!” as part of my review. That means it’s worth a watch. Similarly 7/10 isn’t bad, game fans.

To quote my dad: “nice to see some good news out of America for once…!” Good luck Artemis II! Safe space flight! 💜🚀

This Trans Day of Visibility, as someone who was once the only cis woman in a hospital bay, surrounded by trans women *IN 2012*, when I was at my weakest and most vulnerable, I just wanna say to trans folk: I’m sorry you’re dealing with all this scaremongering regarding sharing spaces with women 💜🏳️‍⚧️

Very good video about a very stupid podcast. If you know someone who genuinely listens to Diary of a CEO, do share this. They’re listening to survivorship-biased hedgehogs. youtu.be/CbDQs_TcyN4?...

If you like video games, you should hate genAI. As @jimtrinca.bsky.social said: there’s nae ram ❌🐏

Poriffruff

*taps Drew Gooden video explaining how and why “cost cutting” redundancies never used to happen this often* youtu.be/W8Z3MfNpJpE?...

Wow turns out tech bros don’t know what people actually want. Gen AI next plz!

Can I just say how proud I am of the gaming community for their reaction to NVIDIA’s DLSS 5 completely changing Grace from Resi 9 to some weird idealised gen AI model? Grace is already a very pretty character model that fits certain beauty standards, and yet that still wasn’t good enough for AI.

My favourite thing about Louis Theroux’s Manosphere documentary is the dudes struggling to say “Theroux” showing how they’ve done zero research on him, and then them inevitably freaking out when they finally google him.

I tried Highguard before it disappeared, and - spoilers - didn’t have a *great* time with it…

OUTSTANDING, Mary!!!! #twowordreview #twowordreviews

Did you know that an unfolded tampon box looks a bit like a facehugger? Happy International Women’s Day.

Please make sure to go follow and support these amazing people Chris is shouting out. Genuinely such a gorgeous bunch of talented people who truly love video games. People who make games media that much better for both peers and consumers just by being in it.

Went again…! #twowordreview #twowordreviews

Still bullying my old co-host @lukewestaway.bsky.social via Pokémon 💚😠🐥 #browt #gen10

If you’re a posh businessman on a busy train taking up ✨four entire seats✨, I’m gonna dump my bags in the seat across from you to make you jump out of your skin and publicly shame you into realising that other people exist on public transport and that maybe they want to sit down too. (Also coz lol)

I JUST KEPT FINDING MORE LARAS

Rewatched this again last night after my trip to the People’s History Museum. It’s still just so so good.

I’ve seen TWO dogs on the Underground already today. Hell yeah.

Spent my Monday at the People’s History Museum in Manchester. What a glorious collection of activism. Forever grateful to people who have fought for our rights through history, and forever powered by hope & rage.

Looking forward to the Scots lads curling against Canada tonight 🥌👈👀

Popped into Sale Library to see the Cosgrove Hall film archive, when a book cover caught my eye from across the room! Oh hi, @laurakbuzz.bsky.social!

Board of Peace opens with threat

My brain whenever I stop thinking for 2 seconds: I just wanna kiss my fish 🎶🎸🤠💋🐟

I was going mildly insane so we’re changing things so I hopefully don’t do that anymore.

Cheers to folks who came to see us in Birmingham on Sunday. The comedy nerd in me was very excited to have been on the same stage as these three..! There were so many talented people on the walls!

Cute Pokémon life sim: aw nice! Cute Pokémon life sim where the Pokémon left behind after an apparent apocalypse are dealing with a grief so deep and so dark that they literally become the human they lost: my god, I’m in.

Hot dang the best Tomb Raider game is less than a quid on Steam right now

This is also me when people don’t celebrate my friends enough #olympics #icedancing

The more I watch the ice dancing, the more I realise just how many of the dancers are North Americans who have decided to get citizenship elsewhere so they can compete at more events or with particular partners.