Gah, so close: playdwg.com

Big thanks to @lotusloveslotus.bsky.social for the Dave’s Word Game shout-out in VGBees’ GOTY coverage. It appeared briefly, incidentally, in the letters section at the end… which marketing has assured me is legally indistinguishable from “Game of the Year.” bsky.app/profile/vgbe...

Putting aside Israel’s intent to forcibly displace Palestinians there: Somaliland is part of a UN state. Recognising it would violate Article 2(4), which prohibits threats to the territorial integrity of other states. Absolutely shameful that Labour politicians are backing this illegal outcome.

How it started: How it’s going:

As UNRWA is replaced by U.S mercenaries who gun down starving Palestinians, it’s important to remember that Labour supported defunding the organisation.

Netanyahu flew to the US over Greece, Italy and France, three ICC members who failed to act upon his arrest warrant. Europe just showed how disposable international law is when allies are involved. Shameful.

As senior Labour MPs call on Starmer to strip Alaa Abd el-Fattah of his British citizenship, it’s hard to stomach that the same figures host pro-Israel lobbyists who deny that Palestine even exists.

Blue skies this Christmas. If you want snow head to www.playdwg.com

Short of the genre's inventors nobody did more for first person shooting than Vince Zampella. RIP an absolute titan.

Fun #DWG board today. I struggled to use my one-long-diagonal-word strategy so had to use a smattering of smaller diagonals to stop the board refilling too early. #DWG8

The instrumentalisation of the Bondi Beach shooting possibilityspace.substack.com/p/bondi-beach

Leeds trams have been delayed until at least the late 2030s. The government did this “after an independent review, commissioned by the combined authority (WYCA)” Their press release doesn’t even say who the reviewer was. Classic accountability sink. possibilityspace.substack.com/p/what-accou...

The level of Islamophobia in this country is terrifying. Labour just criminalised an Arabic word and launched a dogwhistle probe into “links between ethnicity and child rape,” while His Majesty’s Opposition claims recognising Islamophobia would “make tackling tough issues harder.”

Check out my result in today's DWG! #DWG3 www.playdwg.com

@atul1.bsky.social Hey, you seem to play a whole lot of word games. If it’s not too presumptuous, I’d love for you to try my new one (out yesterday). www.playdwg.com

there is no limit to my contempt for this lickspittle cunt

there’s truly nothing like launch day 🥰 👉 playdwg.com

Check out my result in today's DWG! #DWG1

Retreat is not the answer. Ethnonationalism is not the answer. Israel is not the answer. We build safety through solidarity: an anti-racism based on mutual self-interest and collective liberation. We defeat antisemitism, together.

reading this as the game's producer

Dave’s Word Game works offline, so you can play it wherever you want! #DWG #Wordle #OfflineGames #scrabble

I half-read this when my baby woke me in the night, went back to sleep, then woke up briefly thinking that Lenny Henry was a Bond villain.

The new HEALTH album absolutely rips, their best since DEATH MAGIC (2015). open.spotify.com/album/6EGb8a...

To mark #TheGameAwards I wrote about my game of the year. possibilityspace.substack.com/p/cronos

Diagonals!

my son’s tractor ted phase ft. @skatestory.com

"I would have voted for Mamdani [because] I want everyone to make aliyah. I’m a long-time consistent supporter of antisemitism [because] I’m in favor of all the Jews coming here." - Ben Caspit The aim of such speech is to incite violence by making people feel unsafe.

This is the last #wishlistwednesday you can pre-save Dave's Word Game at www.playdwg.com because it's OUT ON MONDAY!!!

This week Labour pledged to investigate ethnic disposition to child rape. Shocking racism for sure, but the clues were there. In 2023, Forde KC said Labour ignored his finding that anti-Black racism & Islamophobia weren’t taken seriously by the party. Labour’s response? They threatened to sue him.

🚨 "we must identify and address links between ethnicity and child rape" This Labour Home Office minister looks and sounds like a fascist.

Labour's stock argument when pitching unpopular policies: The only way to avoid getting what you really don’t want is to support something else that you also don’t want.

Check out my result in today's DWG! #DWG

32.7% of London voted this loon for mayor 🫠

We've been building it all year… and it launches in just 7 days! Pre-save Dave's Word Game Now: www.playdwg.com

It happened again

Check out my result in today's DWG! #DWG

I wondered why we’d suddenly got so many hits on our App Store page - seems we’ve been added to the Coming Soon list 👀 If you haven’t preordered yet, it’s free and helps us with getting the algorithm to be nice to us! www.playdwg.com

Selfishly, as the father of Jews: I really wish these Zionist freaks would stop conflating “genocide enablers” with Judaism. So unhelpful, so cynical, so dangerous. My kids have nothing to do with your genocidal political project.

I just signed this petition: Tell Ms. Rachel - We've Got Your Back! . Sign here: jfrej.org/msrachel

to be clear: you only get one, so enjoy it

Labour, who once pledged to abolish the House of Lords, now find it's a useful accountability sink.

Since the 90s the gambling industry began rebranding as “gaming” and “iGaming” to soften its image. As a video game developer who makes entertainment software not poverty traps, the impact of this conflation boils my piss.

Whenever I tweet now a bunch of gormless bigots show up to lose an argument with a robot that’s programmed to take their side:

My own attempt was not quite so lovely

Left this out of my latest piece, but the parallels between what Thatcher said in 1979 and what Shabana Mahmood is saying today are striking.

This is sort of equivalent to Steam wishlisting. It really helps us out, improving our store placement and making the algorithm smile on us. Please have a look! 🙇‍♀️

🧩 Dave’s Word Game is a new daily word puzzle that fits into that #Wordle space in your routine. 🐻👋 It’s from @bearwaves.com, the indie studio I’m part of. 🙏 It’s out Dec 15, pre-save it on iOS or Android at playdwg.com

"Notice how she doesn’t frame racism as inherently wrong; rather, as a proclivity of the natives that surfaces when we give too many rights to too many immigrants. Racism is natural. Refugees are the aberration." New podcast episode from me: open.spotify.com/episode/4RSk...

💾 You can pre-save the game I’ve been making now. 👇This really helps with the algorithm. Push the button!