real good seeing this get into people’s hands. I love this luscious game and it’s wonderful seeing it all grown up with silver edges and Silvia’s art and ten years more of Grant’s game design development
Medical transition for trans kids is now banned for new referrals on the NHS. Trans kids in the UK can still go private or DIY (for now).
This means the new clinics that replaced GIDS are close to useless at best, conversion therapy at worst. 1/5
to be fair to her, I haven’t really given the military honours thing a fair go
sometimes your human therapist is a mediator between you and ChatGPT, which is Not Ideal
shout out to the therapist who gave me a list of activities that might help me feel fulfilled despite the new limitations of my physical disabilities, which included a selection of things I am now physically incapable of, as well as ideas like “receiving military or civic honours”
Because of a combo of health reasons, my former career and our explicit anti-fascist publications, I don't feel able to travel to the US until the regime changes. Currently missing GAMA, which for me is probably a more crucial event even than Gen Con.
there’s just so much *business*, every scene has decorations and signage and clipboards and nine extraneous extras and a clown vomiting into a trash can
I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to
This 'correction' from @lewisgoodall.com regarding accusations from Reform and the Conservatives that the Greens engaged in sectarianism, deserves to be widely read.
#c4news
sex matters trustee charlotte cadden
gorton and denton by-election result: she gets 706 votes, 1.9% of the total
underappreciated but very funny gorton and denton sideplot: the conservatives nominating literal sex matters (uk terf group) trustee charlotte cadden, only for her to get the worst result for the conservatives in by-election history and lose her deposit
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there’s always loads of jokes after by-elections where people are like “this by-election proves everything i already thought”
problem is this one actually definitely does for me, total vindication for my personal views, i am floating on a cloud of “told you so”, I’m insufferable
Nationally, Labour is losing twice as many voters to Greens and Lib Dems as they are to Reform. (John Curtice on BBC)
Clear water running in a shallow gutter
stupid little walk (flow)
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It seems all Kansas-issued trans drivers' licenses are invalid, effective tomorrow
It is now illegal for trans people to drive a car until they surrender their license at a DMV (that most will need to drive to) and have it reissued with the wrong gender marker
This was never about woman's sports
you can’t see it but I promise it’s there
stupid little walk (buzzard)
left: moody black; right: dayglo green
there are now only two kinds of banana in the UK
To be fair he can be distracted by eg a plate of Hobnobs or a magpie or an interesting 28mm sprue ideally with a range of things you could use for heads that are not actually heads. But *stopped*? never
In order: yes, no and absolutely fucking not, many have tried and all have failed
Absurd discourse. You can't reliably tell the class signifiers of a living room until you've also seen the kitchen.
Fun fact. The tariffs have changed twice since this was posted.
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INDEPENDENT Playgrounds would become 'crack dens' if Greens were in power, policing minister says
I’m sorry, I know it’s a minor point, but crack dens are traditionally indoor establishments. What the scaremongering Labour minister is describing here is a crack paddock.
still sad I won’t be at GAMA expo or Gen Con this year; still certain it’s the right decision www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
steely eyed missile man
spending the evening learning about sections 122 and 301 of the 1974 Trade Act I guess
The question of our time is how do you artistically rebel — and win — against a totally flat cultural landscape? And before my readers, who I assume are all approximately 36 years old and very tired, say, “so what, who cares?” This does matter. I mean, just look around right now lol. You know things are bad when even OpenAI President Greg Brockman is posting stuff, like “Taste is a new core skill.” If people had taste, your company wouldn’t exist, Greg. But if everything is just attention now, and attention is completely commodified by algorithmic tech platforms, how can you push back against that? Well, I am slowly coming around to a theory on the new cool: You have to essentially pre-deplatform yourself. Culture right now is determined not by human teams of editors and producers picking and choosing what youth culture gets the spotlight, but, instead, by the unthinking algorithms that power YouTube and TikTok. Which means the only things that have the level of scarcity and danger required to be seen as cool by young people will, slowly, but surely, be whatever is unacceptable on those platforms.
A post so smart I'm almost afraid to share it.
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Well this is going to be very much my sort of thing
