Weak USD has inversely given GBP a great year (since 20th Jan) reversing the decline it had been on since September 2024. It still hasn't recovered back to pre-Brexit levels yet, but maybe soon. x.com/SonnyBunch/s...

It took many decades longer than it should and it's purely symbolic, but good. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

I find the Twitter vs. Bluesky thing very boring but as it's come up again I will share my one opinion: not-far-right people who have remained on Twitter and are critical of bluesky are obviously trying to assuage their own guilt about using a far right platform

Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X

entire press has gotten bullied into treating charlie kirk as if he was one of the most important americans alive and not a modestly popular podcaster

A genuinely great remake, and it highlights that the original System Shock isn't really an immersive sim. SS2 is for sure, but the first? Survival Horror. Set it to max difficulty (aside from Mission - drop one notch to remove a VERY tight time limit) and tell me it isn't Resident Evil In Space.

I think "Your Party" is DOA but this is the only option which could viably save it.

"But now we shall both surely drown", said Sultana. "lol" said Corbyn, "Imao".

I went to the West Bank, occupied Palestine. I found a people who are suffering a hideous injustice - but who have resilience and determination. New video 👇👇 youtu.be/2jHuCiB8s9A

I see Reform are approaching 20 points ahead. 😒 With First Past the Post, this guarantees them a roaring majority similar to that Labour has now.

This Week's Onion Magazine:

This happened under Biden. I need y’all to stop pretending like this is just a Team Red issue.

From ‘The Onion’ Editorial Board: In Defense Of Mass Censorship https://theonion.com/in-defense-of-mass-censorship-1848673776/

welcome to the tonight show! i’m your host joe rogan (applause) president trump went golfing this week looking more healthy than ever (laughter) trump says he set a new course record (more laughter, rogan starts sweating) please… (sniper red dot appears on his forehead)

We are so far past the point of no return.

Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From

Important to keep remembering and repeating that Kimmel didn't mock Charlie Kirk or celebrate his death in the monologue. He mocked the president's lack of feeling and criticized the regime.

Awful and dangerous to hear the Mayor echo the transphobic bigotry coming from the Trump administration. It's completely at odds with the values of our city and another reason why his single, disgraced term in office cannot end soon enough.

This is the biggest attack on free speech since the McCarthy era but it also has significantly less popular consensus behind it than the second Red Scare. It's being done on behalf of a minority faction led by the most unpopular president in modern history. Organizing against this can win.

Well "Your Party" completely tanked even before it began, great job guys, real professional. Having a split before the party even formed. 🙄

I mean, good? I have never cared at all about the real world stuff outside the Animus. It was just a crutch to get people to accept a historical setting.

as someone whose been through several visa / green card / citizenship processes in this country, there are so many questions that are designed to get you to commit perjury for a quick exile, that I am not at all surprised. the fascist are in charge, and the law bends in their direction. whose next.

Shame on Downing Street for going along with this. So much for being committed to a free press

This is the most "written by ChatGPT" nonsense I've seen ever. x.com/SpencerHakim...

Queen

Thoughts on the new skate: 1. Wild that they made a skate game where *this* feels substantially better than the actual skating 2. Can't believe they got the real Flansito in this one

Check out my review of the very weird Concierge, for @official.entertainium.co!

Built in the 13th century. So that mosque stood for 800 years with every sort of person from every place and every religion in the world passing through Gaza century after century, only for it to be blown up by some shithead loser sitting behind a computer that we probably paid for.

there is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men

Surely it has to be zone D? Sardinia and the boot of Italy is in there, all of India, most of China and Japan, almost all of Oceania.

folks, I want to remind you that a ton of federal workers are about to get their last pay check at the end of this month and this stuff is going to get much worse

The Labour Party is irredeemable. Not only do these people not deserve to win; they deserve to lose and to be dismantled by the rejection by the electorate that they wrought through their own conscious choices and actions, root and branch.

New Tyler Robinson posts leaked to me tell a very different story than you've heard before: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...

His brand of it is particularly garish but all authoritarianism is basically government by spoiled child. No capacity for or interest in any principles. People who are nice to me get treats, people who are mean to me get abuse. I get what I want or I cry and thrash. Embarrassing

Absolute screen legend. So many films in his incredible career. RIP to Robert Redford. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

The UK government is not only complicit in genocide, it is complicit in genocide denial.

Privatization in a nutshell; a gigantic transfer of public funds to private investors. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

How do we fix this mess?

WHAT THE HELL

I've watched Point Blank (1967), an almost arthouse crime film. letterboxd.com/gbrading/fil...

I went back and looked because I swear Ovenden was mentioned in the leaked Labour report from 2020, but he somehow as not. But considering the date at which these emails were exchanged (May 2017), it was right when Labour HQ were in open warfare against Corbyn and those who backed him.

Surely a sign of a healthy democracy that both of prime ministers who won roaring majorities at the last 2 general elections have been embroiled by scandals of their own making and forced to resign before the end of their term (because no way Starmer is making it to 2029 at this rate).

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

It really has become exceptionally nasty, exceptionally quickly. Even more so than we've previously seen. The right have gone completely off the deep end in their vilification of trans people, making them out to be violent criminals masterminding mass shootings. It's repulsively abhorrent.

David Lynch's Hollywood estate is for sale, if you've got a spare $15 million laying around, including the house which featured prominently in Lost Highway (1997). www.zillow.com/homedetails/...?

Still absolutely nothing to say about far right thugs rioting and attacking the police while a US tech billionaire calls for a violent insurrection on our streets

Although I watched it early in August, I finally got around to reviewing Barbie (2023). boxd.it/aFK59t

What's your secret to being online all the time without contracting computer madness? For me it's being pure of heart