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Craig Bamford

@spacetalk

I write about space, in several places. Used to write about other stuff? But now pretty much it's space. I also talk about gaming here, though. Also politics, sadly and mostly unwillingly, but I do try to damp it down a bit

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I know I keep saying it but "natural and hybrid immunity" was never gonna stop with covid

And hell that shit didn't even keep the Dems or Tories in power, they got their asses kicked anyway, because it's hard to explain "covid caused an inflation spike" when you're busily round-holing the rona

11.03.2026 09:58 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Also holy shit I'm actually MORE offended by that Superman take

Fucker, he's ALWAYS Clark, that's the whole damn point, even when he's flying around punching demigods it is Ma Kent's boy that's always doing the punching

He's just some dude, the point is how all that power still didn't corrupt him

11.03.2026 09:28 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It's so very weird, like you have that reply guy saying "you can't read the assembly that C++ puts out" when the entire point of compilers is making the code MORE efficient, not less

And you'd never hear a musician bragging about not being able to play the guitar anymore, we'd all laugh at him

11.03.2026 08:28 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

"Sloppelganger" is magnificent, holy shit

11.03.2026 06:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is that thing when every single smoker tells you to not start smoking but also doesn't quit

Or a bit like League players screaming NEVER TOUCH LEAGUE to their loved ones right before they go back to the ranked grind

11.03.2026 06:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

You laugh but then the album comes out and it's transcendent

11.03.2026 06:03 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Marx screeching with foaming hatred at some baffled Laotian bodega owner, who just wants to know if he'd like extra pepper on the cheese 'n egg

11.03.2026 03:11 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hell the Genshin guys put money into a fusion reactor

Cooler than anything Tim Sweeney ever did

11.03.2026 02:07 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Fucking Palantir, incredible

11.03.2026 01:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Genuinely: the only thing that is going to stop LLM-maddened execs is the prospect of jail time

11.03.2026 01:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Notably the entire thing with drones is that they're easy as shit to make, you can do it practically anywhere

11.03.2026 01:43 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Stay mad. The only reason Bernie got that far in '16 was because Obama cleared the deck for Clinton. Bernie was an issue candidate who nearly won because Clinton was that bad of a choice.

Now you're crying about "Bernie coups" because you can't handle how Clinton was a disaster.

11.03.2026 01:34 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Haha, no you didn't. You were clearly all-in for Cuomo. Anybody who cries about "Bernie coups" isn't gonna be a Mamdani guy.

A "coup". Christ, that's funny.

11.03.2026 01:28 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

What kind of a threat is that? If you're going to block, then block. You're a reply guy of no consequence. Nobody on earth is ever going to care if you mute them.

11.03.2026 01:27 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Calling it a "coup" because you dislike leftists? Hoo yeah, you DEFINITELY supported Cuomo.

11.03.2026 01:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

A "coup". Come on.

11.03.2026 01:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Bud, I'm not even sure you're real, you come across like an LLM that's been prompted to produce the most unlikeable and hard-headed Dem it can manage.

"Bernie did a coup". Jesus.

11.03.2026 01:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

That's pathetic, bud. Come on.

11.03.2026 01:18 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Like, how the fuck does anybody accuse Bernie of "a superdelegate coup"

Even if it weren't the reverse of the usual narrative re: 2016, taking cheap shots at the single most popular progressive pol in America just shows you have all the political sense of a weevil

Just stop

11.03.2026 01:08 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

It's cute that you're pretending those were real primaries, but nobody believes you.

You aren't helping. You really need to understand that. Everything you do and say makes things worse. You're the kind of person that makes voters loathe your party.

You probably backed Cuomo.

11.03.2026 01:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

TBH I think Ebert knew damn well that the performances in that movie were brilliant, once you consider what the movie was trying to do and to be

But it's hard to convey that

So he had to pretend that Fraser and Weisz didn't crush it in every single frame

11.03.2026 00:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh wait right they added that to Steam

In the current climate, though, I'd still probably get it elsewhere, Steam doesn't exactly have the best track record on VNs

11.03.2026 00:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Notably this sale is also happening on the Nintendo eShop and AFAIK on PSN, in case you don't want to play Rain Code on a potato PC (or want to play chaos;head at all)

11.03.2026 00:34 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Yes, they did. Much like Cuomo did, and for much the same reason: they were cynically selected candidates of party insiders that couldn't win a real competitive primary. That's why Obama beat Clinton in '08, and why Obama had to clear the deck for her in '16.

AOC could win. Clinton couldn't.

11.03.2026 00:13 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Stay mad, still true. They weren't saying fuck you to Obama, now were they?

I said "pick candidates that don't inspire violent revulsion", Dems did that with Obama, and then he crushed twice

Hell, Obama would have destroyed Trump if you didn't have term limits. His residual goodwill got Biden in.

10.03.2026 23:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

...just want it to be about the actual work, instead of the critic

Feels like 99.9% of the "being a narcissistic nerd" stuff happens because the critic is making a bid for clout among some social circle or mailing list or group chat or whatever

The piece reflects that cloying plea for acceptance

10.03.2026 23:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

...huh.

There's like a thousand better ways to turn the screw so I have no idea what this is all about

10.03.2026 22:25 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A yellow spaceship starts to land near a figure in a red cloak and a handful of orange monkey-like aliens.

A yellow spaceship starts to land near a figure in a red cloak and a handful of orange monkey-like aliens.

JosΓ© Luis GarcΓ­a-LΓ³pez

10.03.2026 18:56 πŸ‘ 145 πŸ” 32 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Canada will β€˜never participate’ in Iran offensive, Carney says Prime Minister Mark Carney told MPs in the House of Commons Tuesday that Canada is not involved in the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran and β€œwill never participate in it.”

Trump is likely reacting to this thing

Incredibly funny that Carney started off supporting the initial strike and has been absolutely FLEEING from the Iran thing ever since

He's in kind of a weird position too, we're oil exporters but it's actually a huge hassle getting it to China and India

10.03.2026 22:18 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

...you literally border Canada, you moron, how the fuck do you think an attempted annexation would go for you

10.03.2026 22:12 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0