“This policy is a fucking disgrace and will do harm to the people it affects, our economy, our services, and it’s morally reprehensible” is the correct response not “haha your numbers are wrong and it may not even be legal”

One really hard thing when you're a head of department is hiring people from outside the UK. You tell them, "congrats, you've got the job", and you wait to tell them, "by the way, the university doesn't cover the cost of your visa, or the cost of your NHS surcharge"

I'll have more to say on Reform's proposals to scrap ILR at some point but for now I'll just note this - anyone telling you this is a popular idea doesn't know the polling. Overwhelming majority of public back giving people who work and pay taxes most or all rights after 5 years or less

It would be good if the only political pushback against Nigel Farage's plans to mass deport hundreds of thousands of our neighbours, friends, family and colleagues didn't just come from a handful of backbench MPs and one regional mayor

Some very obvious cases that Farage and Yusuf need to be hammered on: 1. 78 year old pensioner on ILR for last 30 years who obviously cannot get work visa 2. 35 year old born in UK to non-nationals, never got UK citizenship because of cost, loses job and has to move to country they've never lived in

Hello, it me This painting contains my family in their chinese zodiac form 🐉 I'm an Ox, though I'll let you decide which of the three is me ;)

we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there

So google maps updated some satellite footage, here’s one single Ukrainian village. One out of thousands

Reform are now coming after people with permanent residency. It'll be citizens next. No one is safe from authoritarian governments.

This guy looks like he was just told theyre out of his favorite sandwich

IMPORTANT PSA: If you find kittens all alone, keep tbis helpful flowchart in mind. And also: —neonatal kitten need to be on a heat source & kept warm at all times, they cannot regulate their body temperature and you can kill them by feeding a cold kitten. —NEVER feed a bottle baby kitten COW’S MILK!

probably the realest thing ive ever seen posted on that website

oh bravo @privateeyenews.bsky.social 🏆

Last night: laptop works fine This morning: laptop refused to turn on for 20 mins, when it did, had "Power surge on the USB port" notification over and over again, and won't charge

Burger 🍔 #art

I feel real bad for everyone who's been struggling to care for a delusional family member, watching whatever progress they've made get annihilated by ChatGPT in an afternoon.

another case of people reading a headline and either not reading or misreading an article. the actual reporting does not say anything like "all trans people are being classified as terrorists" i understand why people are scared. i also feel like reading comprehension is at an all time low

the hysteria has gone off the rails so far that the average american thinks 1 in 5 people are transgender. pure absolute insanity that is driving the current lavender scare

just a small portion of what people spend on giant corporations like Disney would change the average indie author/artist/musician/etc.'s life this is why I ask you all to spend money supporting those of us who create outside the system and work to give voice to the things corporate America won't

Have you seen Dan Olson's excellent video on flat earthers? If you haven't you should! youtu.be/JTfhYyTuT44?...

Heritage Foundation has released an absolutely insane policy proposal to label all trans people as domestic terrorists. It uses completely made up instances of terrorism and made up statistics but facts don't matter to them. They want us all eradicated.

So, a university president fired a professor because they taught a course that discussed there being more than two genders, and now the university president is being fired for not having fired the professor quickly enough, is where we're at. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...

Ok I just discovered something wild! This setting was ON by default on my Windows 11 PC and for a while now I've been noticing a "bug" in my game where sometimes a sound would play too quietly. I debugged my sound engine all the volumes were as expected. Switched this off, and it's fine now!!

The FBI is preparing to label transgender people as “violent extremists” in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/fbi-readie...

We’re witnessing vintage Corbyn with this new party stuff. A man in pure flow state. Simply unplayable at this level.

buying a banana is like, you have to somehow look at it and see into its past and then predict its future. Its serious business

I wrote an article for Wireframe Magazine (RIP) a few years ago about the snake AI for my game Partition Sector. This video shows a Python (no pun intended) recreation of that AI. The snake tries to find a path which will keep it from dead-ending, while also eating walls to get longer #gamedev

Disney learned nothing from Andor.

I had a book idea about free speech in 2015 but it fell apart when I looked into the case studies of left-wing "overreach" and realised it was basically a moral panic based on exaggerations, distortions, outlier cases and online dust-ups. There were egregious examples but no widespread crisis.

Hey so a little teaser, I'm launching a kickstarter for a new compilation at the end of the month and I do hope you'll support it because I'm not sure I'll be allowed to do this again if present trends continue. Hoping to get this one in under the wire.

Trans rights are human rights, but the bad news is people also hate human rights.

Mind the gap

I’m planning my Fall / Halloween shop update for Monday October 6! #ceramics

:^)

My most centrist dad take is that most governing politicians deserve sympathy because almost every policy that's actually any good for the country is unpopular, and almost every popular policy is probably bad. Johnson's Brexit approach was far worse than Chequers IMHO but 20ppts more popular 1/

Rep. Ronny Jackson calls to forcefully mass institutionalize trans people and calls them a cancer. www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/r...

All of you

This is the same guy.

I had assumed this was 'not for me' based on a surface read. Once I was an hour in, I found it impossible to put down. High water mark for Video Game storytelling.

What I see when I look in the mirror

I had a very special guest trying out Reality Drift at the Portsmouth Games Fest!

Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party

Unfortunately the Tories not completely collapsing in quite important to avoiding a Reform government. And a wave of high profile defections is how they collapse.

The discourse is all around deradicalising young men and the crisis among young men. The discourse would be much better targeted if it was about deradicalising boomers (and increasingly Gen Xers).

I'm genuinely grateful for the solidarity, irrespective of how rare this is from a politician. But fascism can't be reduced to displaced economic concerns. It doesn't stand up analytically, it won't help politically or strategically, and I really wish the left (of which I'm part) wouldn't do this.

Do you think unbending Clippy until he was a long piece of metal would be painful for him. Or do you think it would cause him to feel a great sense of relief

It's deeply dispiriting to have to fight this shit all over again. But we're starting from a stronger position than previous generations. And they won in the end.

There's been a shift towards support to the far right here and it's horrible to see. But this remains a vastly less racist/homophobic/anti-semitic country than it has been in the past. Which makes it all the odder that our politicians today seem more scared to make the argument.

Not going to pretend today wasn't depressing but the far right has been stronger in the UK before. Mosley packed out Earls Court and was backed by several large newspapers. Enoch Powell had the support of 74% of the population. Musk has a net popularity rating of -52%

reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle