Well hot damn. Progress. A temp manuscript catalog is back.

"Alex Kleytman, an 87-year-old Ukrainian Holocaust survivor, was celebrating Hanukkah with his wife of 57 years, Larisa Kleytman, also a Holocaust survivor, when the attack began. He was killed while shielding Larisa from the bullets with his own body." www.timesofisrael.com/chabad-rabbi...

i fucking hate keir starmer.

Time and again, we are presented with the same tableau: A twat who writes for a newspaper looks at a neonazi and thinks "of course I don't condone the Nazis, but well maybe they have a point". Promoting a Holocaust denier in the wake of an antisemitic terrorist attack is disgusting behaviour.

Despite what some adults seem to think, teenagers are fully human.

when a poor person uses food stamps for a steak or homeless person spends $5 on a beer, it’s seen as proof that all poor people are so bad with money that they shouldn’t be given any, ever, for any reason. $77 billion out the window, and zuck’s legacy as a safe government contract bet is secure.

the robot trying to steal my job isn’t even good at it! it consumes like 1000 gallons of water to make a 6 minute podcast that’s aggressively wrong more than half time! i can make a much longer podcast using way less water. i don’t even shower on days that i’m writing.

im working up the energy to get out of bed and take hearts out of the kiln

Some people might say I am too cynical about the United Kingdom in this book. Those people don't live here.

Fuck YouTube. I would rather my videos stay removed than edit them to cut out the word gambling. For years, my work was about how loot boxes were gambling, and I used the word because companies didn’t want the word used. I’d sooner lose every video than destroy the point of them. Fuck. YouTube.

New observation.... East Anglia has more than its fair share of "...ham".

For example, JUST NOW, I discovered that there's a surprisingly fine line separating areas in the UK where they do and don't have place names ending in "...bury".

Wish we'd known about this tool from @conradgodfrey.com when we made our last episode of Map Men. Instantly visualise where place names are across Britain. Excellent stuff! (See if you can make it show where the Danelaw is.) conradgodfrey.com/grep_britain/

You can’t “fix” X, The Everything App by going back and posting there because the owner has this thumb on the scale of the algorithm to promote the worst ideas and people. It’s not a viable solution, you have to let it go.

I really wish I could convey to people who've never had to deal with it how skin-crawlingly invasive being described like this is.

11% of Britons say they feel 'very negatively' about trans people which just highlights how much this is a top-down hate project with around 95% of the media hating trans people and a high percentage of MPs.

It’s absurd that the Lords obsess over banning VPNs in the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill, while protecting trans kids from harassment and harm gets zero attention.

This came to me in a dream

The games industry brings in 300 billion dollars a year. The guy who made DOOM gets his projects canceled, the guy who made Katamari Damacy is broke, everyone in your feed is begging for a job and there are 50 new games coming out on Steam every day all going towards buying Gabe Newell's next yacht

There is a Lords amendment that requires all phones to have unremovable spyware pre-installed, supposedly to combat CSAM. It is unsurprising that one of its sponsors is the weirdo Hilary Cass.

he was so real for this

Remember there is always hope sisters and brothers

It’s an old ancillary video, not even a Jimquisition episode, and it’s ancient, so its restriction is completely immaterial to me. However, to even intimate that I, of all people, would be promoting gambling mechanics is almost offensive. Perfect demonstration of how shit their moderation bot is.

YouTube restricted an old video about loot boxes being restricted by gambling laws under the “sale of regulated goods policy.” Yes YouTube, my vids famously “depict or promote” gambling. Those years of anti-loot box videos were secretly pro-loot box the entire time, you ridiculous dumbfuck site 😂.

Update: YouTube straight up removed another video about loot boxes. They’re just hitting anything that mentions gambling regardless of context. What a ridiculous platform.

I tried to do something that a lot of makers do: a one-day build. I did not complete it in one day, but I got there eventually. And thats what matters :D

In honour of Rob Reiner, have David Moore's thread on the best sword fight in movie history and exactly how nerdy it is.

Petrostate media refusing to ever mention fossil fuels as a cause of heating trends: we can call it hotdogging

It is absurdly warm in Oslo right now, nearly 9C and it's nearly Christmas. Absolutely robotic spectacle of media outlets either completely failing to mention climate, and the few that do won't mention fossil fuels or Norway's role in expanding supply of them

Every year the industry puffs itself up for The Game Awards, but many of the best games release in December to far less fanfare. aftermath.site/a-lot-of-great...

Terrifying that Wes Streeting continues to try and pressurise hospitals into giving patient data to Palantir. Take action here: goodlawproject.org/campaign/sto...

gta poast

It is telling to read this in the Guardian while the editorial choices have been geared at fuelling Reform and Farage for ages I mean, "why is populism all the rage", I wonder...

As @nesrinemalik.bsky.social states, we know what to do, we choose not to: "He draws his power not from the sheer force of his arguments and personality, but increasingly just how recklessly the immigration issue has been handled by the political establishment" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

There’s been so much distressing and awful news this weekend. It feels unrelenting. It can steal your spoons and cause flares. Never forget it’s ok to take a break. It’s ok to unplug. It’s ok to rest. www.disabledginger.com/p/spoon-savi...

ma'am. your game 2 good. your power dolls 2 thicc. they'll dismantle you

UK officials still think they can champion international legal principles over Russia/Ukraine while completely undermining them over Israel/Palestine.

Thursday, October 31st. The city streets are crowded for the holiday. Even with the rain. Hidden in the chaos is the element, waiting to strike like snakes. And I'm there too. Watching.

'agenda-free' ha

"We, the techbro community, are delighted to announce our new device that allows you to ejaculate immediately. Where messy sex and blowjobs used to take minutes or even hours to complete, our new tech will allow you to reach climax in *nanoseconds*, allowing you more time to do work and chores."

THE ITERATION IS THE GOOD BIIIIIIIT

Australia's opposition leader is already blaming the mass murder in Bondi on university campus anti-genocide protests. Blaming exactly the wrong causes for political reasons will lay the groundwork for even more gun violence slipping through, in Australia.

donald duck casting zettaflare on terranorts nutsack

the faux-AI evangelists see the artistic process as a race to get to a finished product, instead of something valuable in itself. the process is where you develop those skills you don't have yet, it cannot be skipped, it is where the art happens

What would degrowth imply for petrochemicals? A multilateral treaty enforcing a cap on global production, yes - as forcefully argued by many brilliant voices - but that is not all. In a new paper, I reflect on what remains in place also after a seemingly ambitious policy. doi.org/10.1177/0963...

A baby. She chomp.

Australian here 👋 Stop saying the tragedy in Sydney demonstrates that strict gun laws don’t work. There were ZERO mass shootings in Australia in the two decades after strict gun laws were passed in 1996. We have so much we need to do, but strict gun laws remain a critical part of the solution.

We also need to give more time and space to those “smaller” categories rather than rambling them off like it’s a grocery shopping list.