The Chair Company is off to a really interesting start. Kinda hooked now.

I've had very little energy to do anything for actually over a year now, so I'm gonna push myself with something simple and small to begin with. A new movie each December day followed by a wee post of my thoughts on my letterboxd. Ensure I engage with it.

Finished Final Fantasy Tactics last week and it feels like it's quite a timelessly relevant story, which is pretty sad. Probably one of the most well rounded and focused entries in that series. Kind of adored it tbh.

you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

An excellent article from the BBC on the situation at Build A Rocket Boy. IWGB Game Workers stand shoulder to shoulder with Ben, Isaac, and Marg, who have demonstrated enormous courage in speaking out against corporate mismanagement. This is what solidarity looks like. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I was looking at Reform's policy again the other day. They're proposing a £60k salary for people on ILR keeping their visa. Which means pretty much every nurse on ILR would be a risk. It's insane.

Petro objected to the US bombing a Columbian fishing vessel that had the emergency beacon on because they were broken down, that we subsequently bombed. One Columbian fisherman survived the attack. This is the official US response to Petro's comments.

We should be asking this c o n s t a n t l y.

People who are governed exclusively by laws without consideration of ethics or morals honestly baffle me You just do things cause the government tells you to? Without question? Even if it's against yours and everyone else's best interests? Lmao, why?

Our founder, Scott, would like to discuss the recent situation that happened on RetroAchievements as well as the measures we will be taking going forward to ensure a healthy, welcoming community for all enjoyers of retro games and achievements. retroachievements.org/forums/topic...

Opening Bluesky for a quick wee browse before work and cool, first thing I see is a big disappointment.

Letterboxd is heading towards the bin too, huh?

Fun to revisit my Silent Hill f preview post-launch to see how much I nailed engaging with its mechanics and themes early on. Just an antidote to the vibe I see from some that preview coverage is pointless and just marketing.

It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends

This is grim & dangerous over reach. This is a government that have lost the moral argument & are still selling arms to Israel. Now further cracking down on dissent. Absolutely the opposite of what they should be doing - so of course this is what the Labour Government choose.

FOURTEENTH MSF WORKER IN 2 YEARS

"Protests Are Highly Effective, Met Police Confirm"

Too many cool things when I'm on a budget, so I've managed to dwindle down my short list to... 81 comics so far. God, this is hard.

It's that time: ShortBox Comics Fair is here! Over 140+ all-new, original comics created by artists from around the world, gathered exclusively in one place -for October only! And it's all online, with all digital comics: no shipping, no waiting, no travelling. www.shortboxcomicsfair.com

It's fascinating and revealing how many centrists think refusing to compromise on human rights to gain the support of bigots represents a "political purity test," yet also think that a bigot saying "I won't join you unless you accommodate my bigotry" does NOT represent a "political purity test."

Increasingly, I feel as if these self-proclaimed coalition builders talking about "winning the middle" aren't talking about the people they hope to win over. Rather, they're talking about themselves, and defining what it will take to keep them in the tent. Not opposed to purity tests; issuing them.

ah yes. it's all the fault of 'the left' even tho the left haven't been in power at any point over the course of my life( im 41 ). the left have never been in power during my life. not once.

here, made the screenshot for you since it would probably be unseemly and navel gazing to include replies to you as an exhibit in the internet museum you curate.

Unoriginal take but it still bothers me that people were easily moved enough to unsubscribe from Disney+ over Kimmel, effectively boycotting over his mistreatment, but will be pro-Palestine and still not even bother attempting to boycott anyone on the BDS list.

Glasgow is anti-racist. Let's keep it that way Come in numbers. See you there. @sutrscotland.bsky.social

Valnet hires green writers for pennies. They wanted me at CBR for like $50k as “full time freelance.” I doubt they ensure their writers are fully briefed on embargoes or the legal ramifications of breaking them.

Shot, chaser Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men

starmer being too spineless to condemn people literally calling for his assassination is bleakly funny

Instead of a public retraction, the Wall Street Journal quietly adjusted its headline. Neither Emma Tucker, the editor-in-chief, nor the two reporters who wrote the original piece responded to my requests for comment. www.advocate.com/news/wall-st...

Nepalese protesters overcame the inherent flaw in horizontal, decentralized activism— that after you gain attention and footing, there's no person or small group of leaders to claim power and pursue demands— by nominating a leader on Discord. That person is now headed to becoming prime minister.

One of the weirdly grossest takes I've seen on Charlie Kirk on my socials, from someone who was a mutual, was putting Kirk on the same level as "the beautiful Ukranian girl" who was murdered recently. In order to elevate him to a position of sympathy, they had to equate his death to Iryna Zarutska.

Maybe it's a hot take but the guy who got shot to death and stood on a platform of denying rights, dismissing US gun violence, dismissed the value of empathy, and thinks that deaths by gun are valid sacrifices for the second amendment probably doesn't deserve any sympathy over being shot tbh

Charlie Kirk really was an evil racist cunt. He said the occasional death was a price worth paying for having the 2nd amendment. Pretty sure his family won't agree.

The new Onimusha using Mifune's face still weirds me out and I don't know how to feel about it

Didn't realise the third Knives Out film was gonna get an early screening at GFT. Might give it a wee shot if there ends up any available tickets.

Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing

Tonight, I had a sink-pisser question me on the comfort of using a urinal. NQ64 gets some odd folk.

I am horrified. If you use US material, download all old reports you use. The record will be erased. Even that might not save you: every report sourced from the US will now have to be suspected of politicised manipulation and will in the future the same credibility as Iran’s human rights reports

Watched a couple of episodes from the new King of the Hill. There's some changes to get used to (Dale's voice is gonna take a while especially), but it feels pretty authentic to the old show. Nice to see the heart's still there.

people keep sharing clips from the ice cube war of the worlds movie and I'm fucking dying

Haley MacLean won't be attending the MinnMax community meetup this Saturday because US Customs wouldn't let her into the country from Canada because she might appear in a video... Yes, we're also furious at the US government. Send some love to @haleyfax.bsky.social!

"stick to menswear"

It's taken me forever to watch Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood despite being a fan of the source material but damn am I having such a good time with it.

It says a lot about where we're going that the BBC is now running stories in which they ask lifeboat crews whether they will apologise for using their boats to save lives

Imagine being the most powerful man in the UK and sitting quietly and occasionally laughing along while the President VISITING YOUR COUNTRY goes on a stream of consciousness about the dangers of foreigners and what a piece of shit your London mayor is? Don't have to imagine it, it's what he did.

Good morning!