this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

@beefanddairy.bsky.social Literally subscribing in the hopes it’ll convince Ben to make more Kenny Baritone content asap This tweet is practically guaranteed to get no likes because it’s impossible to recommend this podcast, but if you’re reading this and wondering, my god is it worth the listen

Replace the goals and drop the footballers: how to fix Football

It’s that time of year again where I get a notification from my dead dad asking me to help out with something. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: whatever your problems are up there big man, I sincerely doubt I can assist

These headlines read like two @benpartridge.bsky.social Eli Roberts podcasts run back-to-back

My partner sent me this updating me on how my rabbit Lola (not pictured) is getting on, along with a video of Brakes as he recovers from his surgery. Idk if I’ve just had pets for too long but my instinct was Brakes was updating me on Lola and calling me “squishy”, I assume his new pet name for me

The best part about this is the topline I went with is truly something stuck in my past because I hadn’t yet realised I was glutenintolerant lol If any of the big pizza chains want to develop the tech to make an actually nice gluten free pizza I can guarantee I’ll be there with a film crew

legacy, what is a legacy, it’s planting seeds in a garden you never get to see www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Somebody to Love is *objectively* a significantly better song and if you have any opinions about this I would be very grateful if you told my pal Rich them

QUEEN WORLD CUP #QueenWorldCup I Want To Break Free, a standard, slightly hum-drum tune where they dressed up for the video. Or: BICYCLE RACE, one of the greatest songs ever. Vote #IamBoring for I Want To Break Free, or #YEAH for Bicycle Race. That simple. Appease your circus-master.

The result we demanded

You’re my best friend is objectively a better song, and I would implore you to demand my friend Rich respects this fact

Facebook coming at me with my dad asking me for help from beyond the grave lol Whatever your problems are up there big man, I seriously doubt I’m gonna be able to help

Seriously <3

I am absolutely devastated about danya. He was my favourite streamer. I don’t know how to feel. This is just an awful, awful day. US chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky dies aged 29 www.bbc.com/news/article...

Big fan of @twgerken.bsky.social answering the actually important questions in the BBC’s article on the Xbox ROG Ally, like how it runs Sonic Adventure 2 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

QUEEN WORLD CUP #QueenWorldCup On the one hand, as @twgerken.bsky.social points out, the video for I'm Going Slightly Mad really goes for it, with Mercury, months left to live, gets a banana wig: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Od6h...

QUEEN WORLD CUP #QueenWorldCup Ironically, kick off is late for an all-early Queen encounter. Our first Freddie songs! Our first song off A Night At The Opera. Get pomped, it's... Love Of My Life vs Seven Seas Of Rhye Vote #LOML or #SSOR by 9pm!

Me: finally parks and rec is on a streaming service in the UK!!! The streaming service:

Lola and Brakes exploring/scent marking their new house… they’ve already decided who gets the upstairs bunk lol

Man talk about something to bring you back down to earth after today’s wonder win www.bbc.com/news/article...

With apologies to my neighbours

Not being able to turn on the TV for screen time reasons has led to the need for alternative arrangements

DAY ONE PURCHASE PERSONA 4 REMAKE LETS GO youtu.be/Tcrb4s9ecd4?...

Thing is I’m a Steve McManaman purist, I liked him before his Digimon phase

The irony

Are you fed up with AI-generated action-figure starter packs? Plenty of illustrators are, and have taken up their pens. @twgerken.bsky.social asked me to drop in and work with the Tech desk by verifying some details. Then I got chatting to some creative types… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I just found the Nintendo magazine from 2005 that inspired me to go into journalism. 20 years later I’m on the BBC previewing Nintendo’s latest console the Switch 2. I literally had the cliche school teacher telling me it was a pipe dream back then because I’m disabled. Pipe dream this, Miss.

Will they repeal the ban if he gives it back?

So, I got hands-on with the Switch 2 two months before it comes out. And if I'm being honest... I really like it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

You know that thing where you mention something in the first line and then you have to say it again but can't use the real word because it reads weird? We can all agree Pokémon are collectable creatures, right? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

What a day to buy your first ever home, huh............ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A few weeks old now, but this is an excellent piece by @sanyaburgess.bsky.social - finding gambling companies running ads in mobile games for children inews.co.uk/news/mobile-...

Me and my wife got each other identical cards for our 15 year anniversary. And somehow we both completely failed to notice they’re actually leaving cards not love cards lol! (Waddle I do without you —-> What’ll I do without you) What are the chances lol

Lola’s hugging Mr Brakes with her ear, what else do you even need in life

Yes, if you follow me you get to see a lot of bunny photos. But I will also from time to time point at the journalism I'm doing. It may seem a silly story about yet more Reddit Drama - but today's story has got big ramifications even for you posting here on BlueSky. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Fun fact, I’m pretty sure that this is the first ever BBC article about Dynasty Warriors! My gratitude to Tomohiko Sho for the interview, and to Koei Tecmo for both arranging it and a translator :) Why Dynasty Warriors makers scrapped sequel to reinvent series www.bbc.com/news/article...

Just two days until phase 1 of the bonding is complete and their run doubles in size! Should I film it when they explore the new space? 🐇 🐇うさぎ<3

Me, this morning: I’m just gonna have a chill day I’ve got so many emails to go through Me, this afternoon: je m’appelle le BBC

If you don’t know, rabbits aren’t like other pets when it comes to making friends. You can’t just add one into another’s space. You have to “bond” them slowly over time, gradually introducing them to each other in a small space until they can be left alone safely. But the results are so worth it

This photo is one of the better gags I got past editors… My interview with Sega president Shuji Utsumi: Sega considering Netflix-like game subscription service www.bbc.com/news/article... And once you’ve read that, here’s a thread with my thoughts and a few things that didn’t make the article

You know it’s a cool research method when the BBC asks to replicate it. I used social media ad repositories to find that 93% of ads failed to disclose loot box presence: doi.org/10.1016/j.cl.... @twgerken.bsky.social of BBC News found 90.9% of games failed to comply: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article....

You know those ads on Facebook most people ignore? I spent hours watching them so you don’t have to. And I discovered that more than 90% of the top 45 highest grossing games that include loot boxes aren’t mentioning them in their ads - breaking the advertising regulator’s rules.

I’m not saying I’m a big ol nerd but at the video game arcade my wife and friends took me to this weekend I did a full 360 spin on the ddr machine and didn’t miss a step

Follow my pal Al, he’s a top guy

What a great article from @genepark.bsky.social - hard to believe that there was a time people were criticising Metaphor ReFantazio for being “just a fantasy Persona”. It’s so so so so so much more than that. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

A 15-year-old who died of leukaemia in 2006, dubbed "the patron saint of the internet" by some, will now officially become the first-ever millennial saint when he is canonised in April. I've really enjoyed covering this story for the past few months! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

People never tell you before you get bunnies that they’re almost too cute to be real

BBC Japan translated my article!!! Arigatou gozaimasu!! I want to work in BBC Tokyo one day so badly… can you tell where in Japan my profile and banner pics were taken?? www.bbc.com/japanese/art...