From 2008-2018 the video games industry existed for financial interests to incubate what they wanted to become the new economy. Gambling on everything, addiction by design, mediated social spaces, even massive GPU production. They don't need games anymore so they left games behind, wounded.

if this has to be a news story it should be that a qualified and competent doctor has been run out of a struggling NHS simply because she is transgender

it's 2026. PC Gamer is doing journalism while actual news outlets post more transphobia. a sandwich costs $16 or five easy payments of $5 with SandoLoan

mines sends me notifications for a very large shared inbox so I never open it bsky.app/profile/pala...

i don't know if embarrassing is the word so much as 'dangerous'. 'embarrassing' is how id describe the use of ai generated cover art on a news article.

if the Supreme Court agrees with the High Court that the proscription of Palestine Action is unlawful, I wonder if the government will maintain its line that it can’t change what the Supreme Court decides the law is

I do not want prison for these people, is all I'll say

NEW VIDEO! Super timely bumper video on my favourite games of 2025. Only one of the games in the thumbnail makes the main list. A lot of talk of living a good life. I sincerely hope you enjoy hearing my thoughts. If you do, sharing it with others would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Over 1,000 Ubisoft workers around the world have walked off the job. In response to a return-to-office mandate, layoffs, and the cancellation of several games, workers launched a three-day strike. The workers walked out in response to five French unions issuing the strike call.

Feeling very grumpy about the void here so l've channeled that into a list of weird or weird-ish or weird-adjacent or theoretically-weird collections by Black authors (some of which I’ve read and too many of which I have not)

I didn't expect the Jeffrey Epstein story to contain assistant editor workflow gore but lmao

the best app for learning languages and other stuff through flashcards is Anki. it's free because one guy has made it for 19 years. completely open source

didn't hear anything about the Radiohead reference in the Bad Bunny show, weird

if I speak, I am in trouble

IF THIS WORKED, SHE WOULDN'T NEED TO SELL THE TECHNIQUES TO YOU

Who would've thought a simple set dresser would've gone on to become one of David Lynch's most iconic characters

Gray Day 2025 marks 45 years of Lanark. Alasdair Gray’s novel, published by @canongate.co.uk, fuses visual art and text: self-designed covers, allegorical panels, Glasgow landscapes, and an eccentric 3-1-2-4 structure—learn more about the familiar faces he used for the book cover 👇🏽

Picture 1: Two plain clothes police officers during a search of Peter Mandelson's home Picture 2: Police search Nicola Sturgeon and Peter Murrell's home

I think His Haunting is the best horror story I've ever read. I'm not well read enough to judge. but jesus CHRIST. genuinely deeply unsettling

Papyrus Containing The Spell To Preserve Its Possessor From Attacks From He Who Is In The Water

If this story is accurate, then all those stories about Keir Starmer meticulously selecting only the highest-quality candidates in 2024 were horseshit and, in reality, we are now governed by a crop of MPs personally selected by the financially compromised ‘best pal’ of a child sex trafficker.

I need a Trailer Park Boys rewatch asap. a perfect show

[upbeat zohran voice] I'm here at the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, Germany, where 80 years ago some important progressive work started [smash cut] but hasn't ended. So here's what we're doing:

one of these stories has provoked some sort of traumatic response where I got to the end and 'well the guy only lost two fingers, that's not so bad'

at this rate we're gonna learn epstein met with capcom a week before they announced gems in street fighter x tekken

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

calling it now, but I feel there are human actors behind this. every time AI is suddenly better there are actually humans

hard to believe this is real www.ft.com/content/d0b7...

STP Issue #13 is out now! A bumper issue of weird fiction, wretched vibes, queer cyberpunk, vengeful aliens, an unhinged horsegirl, and loads more. The sick cover art is by Ana Luna and design is by J.R. Bolt.

reading this. it's giving me a lot to think about in terms of ambiguity in writing.

Glad the latest newsletter seems to have connected with a fair few people. You can also sign up to get future ones in your inbox in the event that Bluesky is the next social media site to collapse.

Calling transphobia a 'gateway drug' to the far right undersells it. It's pure accelerant. Grimly fascinating to guess what crankery becomes any famous transphobe's secondary obsession, cos they all have one: 15 minute cities are fascism! Grok noncing is cool! ICE are good! We should kill all dogs!

The Problem with Early Warnings, by Charles Rafferty

Reminding you that Britain was trying to deport people to Rwanda throughout the last year's of the previous administration and set up a floating prison for refugees that lasted 2 years. This American Exceptionalism is weird and when people buy into it our history of our racism is erased.

I read that "Why Gen Z doesn't like Harry Potter" article and trying to imagine someone writing 70 years ago a "Reasons Gen X are ignoring Biggles" article for the Times

thought this was really good

breathtaking stuff from Richard Osman in the LRB. "all the Thursday Murder Club books are actually the dreams of a parasitic worm in a giant living city that is actually an even bigger parasitic worm draining the brainpower of an elderly pastry chef. the new book will tell the smaller worm's story"

@vsthejanitor.bsky.social Doyle and Davis. what are we thinking

I'm sure this post won't annoy anyone in Northern Ireland

I wrote a short essay for @lukeoneil47.bsky.social's Welcome To Hell World about Minneapolis' opposition to ICE. www.welcometohellworld.com/there-is-no-...

not only does this show 0% of reform voters switching to labour, it shows 8% of labour voters to reform. it also shows an 11% churn lost to greens. they're hemorrhaging progressive voters faster than they can replace them with right wingers (which is: not at all)

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

you ever see someone you could happily punch until you broke both wrists? imagine the pain you'd wake up in every morning, only to remember how it happened. imagine the bliss

I read submissions for a magazine and my biggest ask of writers is PLEASE STOP GIVING ME YOUR ADDRESS

rather than hating americans (easy, I understand) we could maybe figure out what we're doing when we have Reform ICE here in the UK

Also remember that at Scottish Labour's spring conference last year one of his big speech moments, as the real thing was throwing thousands of people out of their jobs and progressing aid cuts that will be the death of millions, was a Scottish DOGE. That did at least completely silence the audience