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John Edwards @euclidianboxes.bsky.social · 4h

"I don't hear her talking about women's rights, I just hear her talking about trans people." absolutely spot on about Rowling.

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 5h

Carole Malone, "Youu can't say what women's rights are because you're not a woman"

Zack Polanski, "You're not trans are you. We can all say you're not that thing so you can't have an opinion" 🔥

"You can still have an opinion from listening to people"

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Simon Brew @simonbrew.bsky.social · 9h

I've had a few quiet notes of support from people at other publishing companies about this. But there's also a fear of calling Google out, for fear of the power it has. I get it, but it's pretty lonely out here.

Film Stories @filmstories.bsky.social · 3d

Google's search results are, sadly, damaging lots of websites. What does #Google actually want? And is it what a human being would want?
filmstories.co.uk/features/oka...

Okay then, Google: tell us what to do | The future of entertainment websites

Google's search results are, sadly, damaging lots of websites. What does Google actually want? And is it what a human being would want?

filmstories.co.uk

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Matinee Mode @matineemode.bsky.social · 20h

Take a few minutes to appreciate Drew Struzan creating the original artwork for THE PHANTOM MENACE. Truly a master at work.

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John Edwards @euclidianboxes.bsky.social · 1d

the sun is setting behind a building with a few arches

Alt: the sun is setting behind a building with a few arches, the main character from Journey is sliding down a sand dune

media.tenor.com

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John Edwards @euclidianboxes.bsky.social · 1d

The budget for Doctor Who has really gone downhill.

A bin with a broom sticking out of its front opening

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 2d

Tens of thousands of people killed. An entire state reduced to rubble and he acts like it's the Apprentice final.

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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 3d

THE LONDON ECONOMIC

"We should all be angry that we had 14 years of Tory austerity. They shut our libraries, they shut our community centres. And then to say integration is a problem - how do you expect people to integrate if you've taken away their services?"

-ZACK POLANSKI, GREEN PARTY LEADER

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John Edwards @euclidianboxes.bsky.social · 3d

To paraphrase Brutha in Pratchett's Small Gods "The toilet moves"

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meghna jayanth @meghna.bsky.social · 3d

what a refreshing change to see a politician stand firmly on trans rights, refuse to concede the right-wing framing of trans people as "a problem", and rightly call out ridicule and bigotry in the guise of "common sense"

Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 3d

Solidarity with all trans and intersex people having their existence debated every time a tv host hasn't done their prep and can't think of any more questions

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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 3d

The Steam reviews for the EARTH MUST DIE Demo have certainly taken an unusual turn. We get an altogether better class of reviews here at Size Five Games

store.steampowered.com/app/4057540/...

Steam review: This game doesn’t merely ooze with charm — it secretes it, thick and slow, from pores that shouldn’t exist. Each surface trembles as if beneath it, something vast and unseen squirms and breathes. The charm is alive here, a sentient fluid that remembers older, wetter worlds. It seeps between pixels, whispering through the code in languages not meant for lungs.

It pulses beneath the menus like veins beneath translucent flesh, its rhythm too steady to be human. Sometimes the charm glistens with a light that isn’t reflection, a phosphorescent shimmer like the soft wink of something watching from the dark. When you play, it reaches back — not maliciously, but hungrily — tasting you through the buttons and wires.

And when you close it, you’ll feel it still. In your fingertips. In your teeth. In the soft, wet corners of your dreams.

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 4d

Me: listening to someone playing their music on speaker on the train

it’s spooky and it’s kooky 🎃 @yesmissmurphy.bsky.social · 4d

God I hope he dies soon

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John Edwards @euclidianboxes.bsky.social · 4d

If you're not already listening to it, No Such Thing As A Fish, the QI podcast would fit that.

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No More Robots @nomorerobots.io · 5d

Here's how we handle manchildren on the Steam forums at No More Robots:

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 5d

Zack absolutely coming for them

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John Edwards @euclidianboxes.bsky.social · 5d

Zia Yusuf "You all love immigration but I'm going to tell you you're wrong because I need you to be upset about it"

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John Edwards @euclidianboxes.bsky.social · 5d

The audience member saying he's sick of hearing about it, me too.

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John Edwards @euclidianboxes.bsky.social · 5d

Imagine what this poll would look like if Zack got the same attention Nigel does.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 6d

Latest poll puts Greens just two points behind Labour. When I said we weren't here to be disappointed in Labour but to replace them, I meant it.

Join us and let's make hope normal again.

join.greenparty.org.uk

Poll from find out now showing greens on 15 and labour and Tories on 17. Reform on 32.

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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 6d

WAIT WHAT'S THIS?

💿There is a demo live for EARTH MUST DIE!

🕹️This gives you (most of) the tutorial section for the game! Have fun, and if you haven't wishlisted the full game yet DO THAT NOW PLEASE it really really helps us out.

Enjoy!

store.steampowered.com/app/4057540/...

Earth Must Die Demo on Steam

These moronic Terranoids think they can just roll in here and take over my beautiful Tyrythian kingdom? The kingdom that I built from the ground up with my bare hands, and only sort of inherited from ...

store.steampowered.com

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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 6d

An image of three cool tories under the header "Meet the Young Tories deaming of a bright blue future" but I've replaced their portraits with images of Eddie, Spudgun and Dave Hedgehog from Bottom

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John Edwards @euclidianboxes.bsky.social · 6d

Might actually be worth watching Question Time for once.

Cllr Nick Hartley - Green Party @nickhartleygreen.bsky.social · 6d

The first time I’ve been looking forward to watch Question Time in quite a while!

Go on @zackpolanski.bsky.social!

#bbcqt

John Edwards @euclidianboxes.bsky.social · 6d

Nick already being delightful helping Celia. #Traitors

John Edwards @euclidianboxes.bsky.social · 6d

I really enjoyed the game, I hope the film's good.

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 7d

feels like yet again time to mention that the *videogames* industry (that's a creative industry, which people do creative degrees in) brings in more than twice the amount to the British economy as the fishing and steel industries *combined*

Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 7d

I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?

It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 7d

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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John Edwards @euclidianboxes.bsky.social · 7d

In related news bsky.app/profile/cats...

Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 8d

"The Mysterious Cities of Gold" french/japanese series (1982) for free on Youtube (worldwide / French+English dubs).
>> www.youtube.com/@MCO_Officie...

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 8d

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 8d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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