Look, here are some Palestinians in need of help. That’s the deal and I’m sick of explaining things. Nobody can possibly read every individual story and somehow find the most deserving one. Donate if you can or share it you can’t. gofund.me/53b6d6ce5 gofund.me/ba14d755e gofund.me/536166902

I'm struggling to resist the urge to have a haunted, tragic hero mouse NPC in my Mausritter campaign who carries a massive sword (maybe a chef's knife or a metal file) and is called Tummy.

WHO statement on autism-related issues The World Health Organization (WHO) emphasizes that there is currently no conclusive scientific evidence confirming a possible link between #autism and use of acetaminophen (also known as paracetamol) during pregnancy Full statement bit.ly/47YsgwI

Every time I watch ALIEN I am transfixed thinking to myself "there's no way they've left themselves enough room to get the third horizontal line in that E without it looking like a squashed-in mess!" but no, every single time there it is, and it's beautiful. Most tense part of the movie tbh.

If I cant get permission for an eco-friendly heat pump, google can absolutely go fuck themselves over this. If you want to build datacenters here, you better build a fucking wind farm next to it. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

This is genuinely what a Labour government thinks terrorism looks like in the UK right now and I'm losing my god damn mind

Welp, the wave of stupid finally hit me. I can't even access the Steam store pages for some games which I own, like Fear & Hunger 2, because I need to verify my age. The only way to verify is by having a credit card. I do not have one - I have a debit card, which is common in the UK. I am 42.

I view silksong as a strong argument for UBI, these guys had enough money from hollow Knight to live comfortably the rest of their lives but they were passionate and still felt drawn to create something incredible.

Guess I should finish Hollow Knight sometime.

Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere

Landlord is selling our house with no warning and we have to be out by the end of the month. Making the best of a stressful situation - Shares and reposts appreciated!

Rise again. Finish the fight. CULTIC: Chapter Two launches September 18th! Check out the link in the Replies to Wishlist and read more about the launch!

The saddest little kickflip

NEWS! Israel reinforces its reputation as "the good guys in all this" by striking hospital full of sick and vulnerable people

Ben Brown: "The IDF have said... they do not intentionally target people who are not involved in the conflict" Well done to professor Nick Maynard for calling out the BBC here.

they want americans to think slavery was good

if ice age exists in the Alien: Earth universe then so does the video game Aliens Vs Predator 2 by Monolith Productions, the multiplayer demo of which should have prepared the characters for the events of Alien Earth. ridiculous plot hole

Silksong was developed the way it was because the developer didn't have to worry about money. The only way you get more games developed like Silksong is if Universal Basic Income becomes a thing.

What the actual fuck? www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-clos... NO NO NO. Fuck our government if they do this. We should have our military defending gaza against these fascist scumbags, not HELPING them. Insane.

When platforms are forced to block “anything that might harm kids,” the result is overreach. A real rights-respecting solution to keeping people safe online is one that's built on user control, privacy, and smart design, not censorship. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

I hope this isn't taken out of context. If it isn't, the hypocrisy is staggering.

yeah they want a magical box that will scan the fucking UK population for people who - and this is key - *haven't done anything*. And declare them acceptable targets for the police. pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/03/u...

Some people on here really, really need to internalize "You may be in the pursuit of right, but what you did was wrong, and being told you were wrong does not make someone your enemy, nor does it mean they oppose your cause. You were in the wrong in the pursuit of right and you deserve criticism."

I really dislike how science has started calling almost any fancy computational technique AI. 🧪 The framing of this entire article makes it sound like a benevolent AI independently made these drugs. That is *pure fantasy*. Instead: a team of scientists made a machine learning model for a study.

All this talk of the Online Safety Act and "protecting children" in the UK, meanwhile

One the best, iterating and drawing from a well designed standard. Better than most modern interfaces by several orders of magnitude.

itch.io has been nothing but supportive of LGBTQ+ work since the beginning. it pains me to see the community turn on them like this and so gleefully spread misinformation about them without even giving them a shred of benefit of the doubt. journalists too...

More and more people reporting today that Stripe - the payment processor that Itch said were putting the most pressure on them - now have staff actively confirming that yes, they are censoring LGBT content, adult or otherwise. That this is official company policy. This seems kinda significant.

In the UK, the water shortage is so bad that the government is urging citizens to help save water by deleting old emails. It really helps lighten the load on water hungry datacenters, you see. 🔗 www.404media.co/uk-asks-peop...

Good on Arkane.

Can't say I'm surprised. When the Tories were scraping the barrel after over a decade of incompetence and corruption I wondered how any other government could do worse. A sharp lurch towards authoritarianism later (amongst other things) and here we are.

Just want to draw attention to this awesome piece of artwork from Mausritter by @losing.games A little mouse faces a snake. Prey stares down the predator, afraid but unwavering. the size difference, the amused confidence on the snake, the stance of the mouse, the defiance, the gear. Just great.

They gotta figure out how to spin this peaceful protest to make it look bad! "Oh there's nasty stuff there, you just can't see it!" Weaselly crap from the Telegraph, promoted to the top of the MSN round up. For some reason. Possibly for A Reason.

There needs to be a lot less of dogpiling on people using sites like this to vent. I can't imagine what it feels like to have what was probably an offhand comment paraded globally and treated as a core personal value to be eviscerated for.

Photo of the Day: Just Following Orders. An 89 year old woman is arrested in London for opposing the genocide in Gaza & supporting Palestine Action. According to the UK Government, this is the face of terrorism in 2025. Credit to the photographer, Chris Ratcliffe, for AFP.

Gonna get the guest toilet tiled like this.

Israel has just decided to expand its unrivaled terror to a full and complete illegal invasion of Gaza; it has voted to ruthlessly complete its ongoing US-, Canada-, and EU-backed genocide of the Palestinian people.

Anyone who belongs to any minority group needs to be aware that what is being done to trans people can and will be done to them. In a decade we have been stripped of our rights to exist in public spaces by a press campaign and a well funded lobby.

I've been researching the idea of Unconditional Universal Basic Income since 2013. Here's a collection of findings I've compiled from various UBI experiments and studies of cash transfer programs around the world. This will be a VERY LONG and ongoing thread focused entirely on empirical evidence. 🧵

Upsetting stuff here, fair warning. This is just it. They aren't numbers. This is real suffering. The numbers show the scale of the barbarity, something I had thought unimaginable in current times. How has it has been allowed to continue? Do we not have global systems to prevent slaughter?

- block website access and strip people of anonymity through ID verification systems - claim anyone against this wants to endanger children or commit crimes How is this different from how any authoritarian government would justify mass surveillance and censorship? It's always "for your own good".

Wild I can't use DMs on this site now because the UK is a stupid fucking country and I have to share my ID to have the privilege of using a basic online communication feature.

So... Bad news for... Watership Down Plague Dogs Animals of Farthing Wood Redwall Tarka the Otter Ring of Bright Water etc. Oh and can't play World of Warcraft anymore as lots of quests about killing animals in that and digging into demon fel pig shit there.

These tributes are beyond heart-breaking. Huge credit to the Washington Post for beginning this memorial to the children of the 21st century’s holocaust. Israel will never come back from this. Nor those who sponsored their genocide.

ah yeah the familiar whiplash of seeing a legacy media org cover something you're an actual expert in and realizing "oh if this is how badly they're fucking up this, how badly are they fucking up every other topic?"

Nanny state bullshit. Compliance for many sites is not feasible, even without taking into account privacy and security concerns, so they just block. Time for a VPN, I suppose.

Welcome, but why hasn't this been said following every single statement & claim from Israel over the past 21 months. It's been the case for all that time.

Hell, it's been a while.