Took the kids to Continue Arcade and at £48 for a family of four it is pricey but it’s a random assortment of old arcade machines and home consoles. Going from table football, to Point Blank to a four player racing game was an awesome journey well spent www.continuearcades.com/swansea

Side note to political parties. STOP OFFERING REFERENDUMS! The general election is a referendum, you put your policies out there and if the public think it’s important enough they will vote for it. Make it an election pledge or keep it to yourself.

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Trying to find a tech solution for my daughter’s room and two thoughts came into my head; 1) Why don’t we discuss negative/reverse Venn diagrams? 2) is this Labour’s and to an extent the Tories’ current predicament? 1/

What is the point in a consultation when you’ve already made the decision and making the changes before the consultation ends?

And experiencing them age 17, 47 or 77 is also bad! The arrogance of "Definitely keep it away from the kids, but lets not think about what it does to adults" is very funny to see on the* "adults who have had their brains cooked by social media site" *one of the

really enjoy that the bloke who won two golds on the luge is someone who was a national level taekwondo fighter until he got injured and then a government figure stepped out the shadows and said "let me tell you about project going down a hill really fast"

Regardless of where you stand on trans rights, this is the correct statement. Hiding behind and divesting authority to the Supreme Court, especially when you are the leader of the UK, is moral cowardice and an easy excuse to wash your hands of difficult battles.

*Fun* fact. The guy that developed ABA for autistics, Ivar Lovaas also coauthored the medical paper that established Conversion Therapy. Hilary Cass is a specialist in ASD yet we’ve yet to see any review into the efficacy and ethical aspects of ASD interventions.

My favourite type of gaming article is when the writer brings enough to f themselves to humanise it without detracting from it by making it about them. Perfect article www.jank.cool/swansea-from...

Always a bit suspicious when 'the most pressing public heath issue' crosses over with 'removing the autonomy of young people'. 'Ban screens for youths' is such catnip because it sound big and weighty but doesn't actually cost anything. Develop spaces and activities for youth does, though

So much of Bluesky can be explained by it having one population whose primary mode of interaction is jokes and another population who have taken a vow against ever getting a joke.

feels cruel for Bluesky to have a Popular With Friends tab, if any of us were popular with friends we wouldn't be on Bluesky

Last time I checked it wasn’t Under 18’s refusing measles vaccines because of what they read on social media

also, maybe it's just me, but I'd probably put the catastrophic decline of vaccine uptake nearer the top of the list of "most urgent public health issues" because you know, I don't think kids should die of measles in the 21st century.

You can have a submarine or a library. No we won't raise the taxes, don't be silly

At 9:18, 3rd period of the Finland-Switzerland women's ice hockey QF game, the ice crew came to clean the ice during a pause What follows is the funniest use of the slo-mo alternate angle tech I've seen them use during these Olympics of one of the crew members falling

And like that a thousand @briangaar.bsky.social’s screamed out and were silenced

And once you understand why misogynists would say only men need be heard on women's rights you also understand why the BBC has decided only cis people need be heard on trans rights: their inherent inferiority means they are not worth listening to.

The fact he says English-Scotts-Irish instead of just British (&Irish) means he deliberately erasing us Welsh. And honestly thank fuck for that, don’t want to be part of this shit brained narrative.

Planning a holiday to Japan for next year and starting to think it might require a few return trips.

Little anecdote from my time in the public sector as to why I I’m not all in on AI. HMPO and DVLA agreed a system whereby DVLA could use HMPO’s passport photos and signatures for o allow the public to renew their driving licence photos online. Then HMPO updated the passport and removed the signature

The biggest political divide on here is not between left and liberal but between "politics is real and involves real outcomes for real people" and "no it doesn't fuck you"

Think Sky Spirts might have an England bias

Fighting age man flees his homeland to seek asylum on overcrowded island.

What’s that coming over the hill. Is it a monster. Is it a monSTER. No, it’s in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.

Mr Trump sounding like he’s got access to The Hidden Library of Tzeentch

The one time we can all get behind participation medals in sports.

Doing a weird bit of nostalgia with my daughter just before she turns 13, watching the movies I wanted to watch with my dad at that age that he wouldn’t let me.

Everytime I try to be a good lil woke lefty progressive I get reminded I’m disabled and I fall under the exclusion sections of the T&C’s. After all these years I’m no longer shocked, just disappointed when intersectionality ignores accessibility.

Favourite Oasis song? Has to be the one sung by Maria Muldaur

This feels the correct take. Regardless of intent Palestinian Action are criminals and engaged in criminal activity. We have existing laws to cover that criminality and they should have been tried under those and never should have been classed as a terrorist organisation.

Hopefully we’ve made it clear that John Wagner is one of the most important writers in the history of comics

I swear this is the plot for 99 Red Baloons

Northern Powerhouse Rail is the latest ‘England and Wales’ project that doesn’t have a single inch of track in Wales. Wales is losing billions in rail funding and Labour is failing to plug the gap. Wales needs full control over our rail network to end this injustice.

Reminded me of this gem youtube.com/shorts/O9phU...

Reform's bullying tactics will not work in Wales. Only Plaid Cymru can beat Reform.

This fucking court won’t let ANYTHING self-identify

Trying to work this one out @transport-wales.bsky.social If i catch the train from Baglan to Cardiff tomorrow it’s £14.70 for the return. If I catch the exact same train from Swansea (20 mins further away) it’s £12.80. Where’s the logic in that?

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You met me at a very Chinese time in my life.

I have met these people online and offline. They’re quite sad.

It's an honour to be recognised for my part in driving forward change, and I'm committed to continuing to make the case. After all, this is not men or women, it is men 'and' women. 3/3

Just going to front up and point out that it honestly doesn’t matter what you think about WFH productivity. Whether you are in the office or at home you have targets and quality standards. If they slip and you become “unproductive” you get sacked. Facts don’t care about your opinions.

She spawns She-Spawn on the Spawn page. I like the Spawn she spawns on the She-Spawn page.

Straight out of the Trump handbook. Reform UK is threatening to defund a Welsh university simply because a debating society turned them down. Are they serious? https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/reform-uk-threatens-defund-welsh-33394278

I just went and reread this, and it is just as true about Sarah Pochin and Bangor as it was about Rod Liddle and Durham. "Freedom of speech" does not and has never meant freedom to be listened to uncrtically by any audience you demand. I look forward to Pochin approaching me to give my cats talk

Something compelled me to make this

In an alarming development, it appears the UK Government covered up a massive spike in trans youth suicides after restrictions. Then covered it up again when caught. Now, after fighting for years, the data is public: trans suicide increased 5x in the country. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Man who doesn't turn up to do his job, tells a room full of retired people that working from home is bad.