One of my favourite singer/songwriters has launched a kickstart for her new album today: www.kickstarter.com/projects/emi... Emily's music is wonderful, heartfelt, wholesome and catchy! Please check out the Kickstarter and support an independent artist.

If a rich guy has an opinion, he gets an op-ed in a major newspaper explaining why we must keep him rich. If someone with actual value to society - a nurse or a delivery driver - has an opinion, we never get to hear it.

Weinstein & Cosby. Did any other men actually suffer any real lasting consequences for their behavior?

We REALLY don't need games to look any better than they do, so y'all can ease off that bullshit. Instead of fidelity or hyper realism maybe be more creative?🤷 This 2-3 hundred million dollar bullshit to make games look like fuckin movies is unsustainable.

Terminator 2 on the original Gameboy. The game was excrutiatingly hard and left me frustrsted more often than not.

Labour is collectively punishing all NHS users in an attempt to turn the public against the doctors. It's absolutely grotesque, yet merely the latest thing on a very long list of things for which the party must never, ever be forgiven.

In honor of (hopefully) today's launch of NASA's Artemis II mission, the first crewed mission to orbit the Moon in more than 50 years, here is a to-scale graphic of exactly how far away the Moon actually is. (Click image to expand.) You could fit about 30 Earths between the Earth and the Moon!

One of my favourite singer/songwriters has launched a kickstart for her new album today: www.kickstarter.com/projects/emi... Emily's music is wonderful, heartfelt, wholesome and catchy! Please check out the Kickstarter and support an independent artist.

Hello friends and also enemies, Behind the Bastards has been nominated for a Webby! This is the first award I've ever been nominated for, so if you'd like to vote for my show I'd appreciate it: vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting...

One month left to apply: People voting in the upcoming local elections in May can apply for a Voter Authority Certificate, a free form of ID that can be used to vote at a polling station. The Electoral Commission is calling for people to get hold of one if they don't have other photo ID

play my new game ✨🌸💕 i’m still celebrating that it’s out 🎉🌼

The 0.1 %'s lifestyle is what fcks the climate

2026 America in a nutshell...

The video game market is insane. As @loadingreadyrun.com pointed out in the latest Checkpoint (youtu.be/Uds6jGp3qbs?...) it seems games developers are screwed no matter what they do or how successful they are. :(

I enjoyed both Weirs "scientist saves the day" books (Martian and Hail Mary) but it's fascinating that he writes sci-fi, openly stating "I have no point to make". Sci-Fi is THE genre to use to make points. Want to write about a planet ravaged by climate change? How about AI gone rogue?

My favorite part of this article is when Andy Weir completely misses the point of Star Trek despite being a self-described long-time Star Trek fan.

It's telling that point number 1 here is "people feel..." Gee, I wonder if people's feelings have been at all affected by nearly every poltical talking head screaming "IMMIGRATION IS BAD" at them for YEARS. Policy should be based on evidence and facts, not people's easily manipulated feelings.

We’re hastening the death of everything for the benefit of a technology that is swamping the world with shit.

Multiple sclerosis, learning disabilities, bipolar, Parkinson’s, ME and long Covid may not mee5 criteria under these devastating changes This government hates disabled people far more than the Conservatives did And people still trust them with assisted dying

I think we need to celebrate the death of Sora a bit more. This is a technology that, just MONTHS AGO, we were being told was going to literally destroy Hollywood and Disney was going to give them a BILLION DOLLARS and NONE OF THAT EVEN REMOTELY HAPPENED

It's insane the press can just admit this now. Back at the time these very same papers were calling out people who said this, saying they were cranks and conspiracy theorists.

If the system consistently produces grinding poverty for an enormous number of people and unimaginable wealth for a tiny number of favoured golden people with connections to government, then what is the purpose of the system? What was it designed to do.

it's so awesome that we now know for an absolute fact that the trans panic has been entirely manufactured by pedophile billionaires as part of a genocidal project but all of this stuff just proceeds anyway

Seeing "trans kids given deadline to segregate themselves" and "trans women banned from yet another part of society" headlines *every single day* while everyone you know and every organization stays breathtakingly silent takes such a damn toll on your heart.

You're only allowed two flavours of politics in Britain: 1) Piecemeal, patronising declinism under Party X 2) Brutal, accelerated declinism under Party Y No more, no less.

This is the government’s latest anti-extremism adviser. Do you notice how his definition of “extremism” does not include fascists but it does absolutely include feminists, transgender people and Scottish nationalists? Does that seem normal and reasonable, to you.

NEW | Hmm… I wonder what inspired this young person to write such a vehement anti-NHS column… THE TELEGRAPH SCHOOL FOR JUNIOR CONTRARIANS Listen carefully and you'll hear a new set of controversialist columnists starting to hatch. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-telegr...

Why is it ok for 29% of children to grow up in poverty? It’s a political choice. Oligarchs, the middle class and peasants. It’s what we’ve become.

The entire western world freak out about trans people over the past decade or so is telling and heartbreaking. The amount of money and effort to crush a group of people who are a minority within a minority. Such an outlandish amount of work to punish such a statistically small number of people.

"It's not fair of environmentalists to point out that in addition to being finite resources that are actively destroying the planet, fossil fuels also leave us at the mercy of fragile supply and logistics chains significantly controlled by autocrats in geopolitically chaotic parts of the world."

Personally, I think this might be the most significant Foreign Office failure and scandal in decades. Starmer's Government actively put a friendly relationship with the UAE ahead of preventing a genocide and buried their own analysis to do it.

Obviously by "we" these talking heads mean you and me. They've made sure they'll be fine, but the rest of us, we have had it too good for too long.

Multiple game studios have recently closed because their titles couldn't compete with established live-service games like Fortnite. Meanwhile, you can also literally work on Fortnite and get laid off and Tim Sweeney remains a billionaire. Something has to change. The time is now. uvw-cwa.org

Your know those fun alternative history docs showing if the Nazis won. Or maybe if apartheid wasn’t overturned. Welcome to to the live action version called the uk in 2026. Just to keep a mad wizard lady and a group of angry old women who hate their own womanhood happy.

As a cis woman it is hard to find the words to articulate how I feel about my safety being used as a pretence for this egregious bullying of children

Hmmm... Seems to me, of the two groups in this photo (and ones like it), one group has been vindicated by current events.

fun reminder: the reason why they make these fucking pointless "live action" remakes is because since it's "live action", the animation is considered "vfx" and not character animation, so they can pay these non-unionized satellite studios fuck-all and make a cool few million for essentially nothing

NEW | On a predictable preemptive shoeing… THE BBC’S NEW DIRECTOR GENERAL IS ALREADY UNDER FIRE AND HE HASN’T EVEN BEEN OFFICIALLY APPOINTED Former Google exec Matt Brittin has riled up The Times and Daily Telegraph before he's even done anything. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-bbcs-n...

I first emailed our lease agent on January 12th, 2022. We moved into Moonbase Mk. VI on June 22nd, 2023. That space was 526 days of my life. Very happy with how it all came together. Here’s a window into just a fraction of the amount of work it took everyone. youtu.be/YRbpmQjR85s

guys I'm starting to think the guys heisting half a billion dollars at a time from the market through blatantly-rigged insider trading manipulations over and over again might not have our best interests at heart

Inspired by Casey's wishlist deep dive yesterday, here's an alternative sales thread! A lil' spotlight of a bunch of VERY interesting and obscure games that I've had an eye on but not tried. Relatedly: Check out my Steam curator page, my list of freeware games & my tip jars. All links on this page:

1. BIG OOOF. 2. It is incredible how, theoretically, the appeal of these live action remakes is “the story you love, but now it looks ~real!~” but every image from this movie is the most artificially-lit, completely fuckin indoors, air conditioned, soundstage lookin-ass phony shit imaginable.

This is my life now 100jumps.org

this is what happens when you let this much wealth and power concentrate in the hands of so few people nobody wants any of this but them and they’re the only ones who get a vote

the media is now telling people to work from home to save on gasoline, immediately after their years-long crusade to tell us why returning to office is best for everyone. this isn't a gotcha, it's an example of how contradicting demands allow the ruling class to blame us no matter what we do

A school leadership team has misused safeguarding procedures against a librarian for stocking 'controversial' books - which, by the way, are not controversial at all. This makes me feel sick to my stomach.

Unavowed is 70% off during the Steam Spring Sale! Embark on a party-based, multi-branching urban fantasy game about magic and monsters in New York. It was also an IGF nominee and was called "one of the best adventure games ever made" by PC Gamer. store.steampowered.com/app/336140/U...

Yes, look, nothing is real. Very little in British politics has ever been real, it’s always been this core of utterly self-interested swine and an outer ring of courtiers who are heavily invested in all of this drivel being real, telling themselves and each other fun stories. But it is not real.