Alice Bell
@abeewords.bsky.social
📖 GRAVE EXPECTATIONS & DISPLEASURE ISLAND out now! THE GRAPPLES OF WRATH out Jan 2026
◦ good books ◦ murder ◦ swearing ◦
#BWithTheT
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◦ good books ◦ murder ◦ swearing ◦
#BWithTheT
Rep Stevie Finegan at Zeno
@totalplaytime.com
https://alicebellauthor.com/
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Alice Bell
@abeewords.bsky.social
· Jun 17
💙📚 COMING JAN 2026: THE GRAPPLES OF WRATH! The owner of a pro-wrestling gym died, and his ghost is convinced he was moidered. Can Weirdo medium Claire and her dead best friend solve it? What is kayfabe? Do personal issues really draw money? Pre-order to find out: www.waterstones.com/book/the-gra...
Matt Gaetz is a real classic of the “In a just world, the name would mean as much to me as Nordic runes” genre. Instead he’s internationally known and like a comic book villain from one of those issues where they ran out of ideas that week and Batman is fighting some dude just called “The Pervert”
November 14, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Matt Gaetz is a real classic of the “In a just world, the name would mean as much to me as Nordic runes” genre. Instead he’s internationally known and like a comic book villain from one of those issues where they ran out of ideas that week and Batman is fighting some dude just called “The Pervert”
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I bought some nice bed linen in a Black Friday sale and have learned it is an investment that's really worth making if you can
November 13, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I bought some nice bed linen in a Black Friday sale and have learned it is an investment that's really worth making if you can
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I increasingly think that the right’s rhetorical use of “rape” as an ultimate wrong that can be attributed to, say, racial others is not a hypocritical contradiction of their embrace of rape in practice, but in fact core to it: they degrade victims further by appropriating & mocking their suffering.
i think this is true to some extent but it's easy to underestimate the extent to which society does not really care about women or children despite many ostentatious declarations to the contrary
Yes there's a lot of denial, but I've seen it: when it snaps, it snaps hard.
"Powerful men covered up child sex abuse" isn't outlandish when you've seen that happen in church, boy scouts, school athletics, and every other social pillar of your conservative middle-class life in the past few decades.
"Powerful men covered up child sex abuse" isn't outlandish when you've seen that happen in church, boy scouts, school athletics, and every other social pillar of your conservative middle-class life in the past few decades.
November 12, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I increasingly think that the right’s rhetorical use of “rape” as an ultimate wrong that can be attributed to, say, racial others is not a hypocritical contradiction of their embrace of rape in practice, but in fact core to it: they degrade victims further by appropriating & mocking their suffering.
I think basically every CEO could be replaced with an early 2000s chatbot and have never seen any evidence to the contrary
“It’s important to assume every game company is now using AI.” Nexon CEO comments on role of human creativity as AI tools become the norm
automaton-media.com/en/news/its-...
automaton-media.com/en/news/its-...
“It’s important to assume every game company is now using AI.” Nexon CEO comments on role of human creativity as AI tools become the norm - AUTOMATON WEST
In an interview following the launch of ARC Raiders, the CEO of Embark Studios' parent company Nexon shares his views on AI.
automaton-media.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:29 AM
I think basically every CEO could be replaced with an early 2000s chatbot and have never seen any evidence to the contrary
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So many talented and wonderful people were let down by Future Class.
Younès in particular will always have my support, respect and love for standing by their principals and organising others to do the same.
Younès in particular will always have my support, respect and love for standing by their principals and organising others to do the same.
Just want you to know that when I asked Geoff why he gave the silent treatment to an open letter written by his own "future of games" program (& co-signed by 3000+ industry peers), he replied:
"Because that's my show and nobody gets to tell me how I should use my platform". 💀💀💀
"Because that's my show and nobody gets to tell me how I should use my platform". 💀💀💀
“Don’t gather some of the most brilliant activists in the industry, treat us like crap, and then expect us to do nothing about it.” After the Game Awards cancelled its Future Class programme, @alyssamerc.bsky.social talked to its former honorees
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
November 11, 2025 at 7:10 PM
So many talented and wonderful people were let down by Future Class.
Younès in particular will always have my support, respect and love for standing by their principals and organising others to do the same.
Younès in particular will always have my support, respect and love for standing by their principals and organising others to do the same.
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Reminder: If you use generative AI for *any of your writing tasks* you are a Slopper not a writer and should be ashamed of yourself. The end.
November 11, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Reminder: If you use generative AI for *any of your writing tasks* you are a Slopper not a writer and should be ashamed of yourself. The end.
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I went to meet the 'Rockstar 31', the developers who were suddenly fired from their work on GTA 6 for what the studio has described as gross misconduct.
That's not what the workers call it though. They have another couple of words they prefer to use: union busting.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nO...
That's not what the workers call it though. They have another couple of words they prefer to use: union busting.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nO...
The Rockstar Workers Fired Before They Could Finish GTA 6
YouTube video by People Make Games
www.youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I went to meet the 'Rockstar 31', the developers who were suddenly fired from their work on GTA 6 for what the studio has described as gross misconduct.
That's not what the workers call it though. They have another couple of words they prefer to use: union busting.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nO...
That's not what the workers call it though. They have another couple of words they prefer to use: union busting.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nO...
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Don't miss HORSES preview and interview with director Andrea Lucco Borlera in this month's Edge Magazine (Issue #417)!
November 11, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Don't miss HORSES preview and interview with director Andrea Lucco Borlera in this month's Edge Magazine (Issue #417)!
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“Don’t gather some of the most brilliant activists in the industry, treat us like crap, and then expect us to do nothing about it.” After the Game Awards cancelled its Future Class programme, @alyssamerc.bsky.social talked to its former honorees
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
“We were effectively props”: young stars of game development feel let down by the ‘gaming Oscars’
Announced in 2020 by the Game Awards as an inclusive programme for the industry’s next generation, the Future Class initiative has now been discontinued. Inductees describe clashes with organisers and...
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
“Don’t gather some of the most brilliant activists in the industry, treat us like crap, and then expect us to do nothing about it.” After the Game Awards cancelled its Future Class programme, @alyssamerc.bsky.social talked to its former honorees
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
Very sad to see certified legend Michael D. Higgins go. Respectfully request he starts an unproblematic beehiiv newsletter about dogs and poetry
November 11, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Very sad to see certified legend Michael D. Higgins go. Respectfully request he starts an unproblematic beehiiv newsletter about dogs and poetry
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A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule
November 10, 2025 at 11:53 PM
A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule
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obviously you only sell almost $6 billion in stock when you're certain a company is going to get even more valuable
Japanese giant SoftBank said Tuesday it has sold its entire stake in tech giant Nvidia for $5.83 billion.
Click here to read more: https://cnb.cx/49LCIs8
Click here to read more: https://cnb.cx/49LCIs8
November 11, 2025 at 7:56 AM
obviously you only sell almost $6 billion in stock when you're certain a company is going to get even more valuable
It’s even funnier if you read the list
November 11, 2025 at 7:38 AM
It’s even funnier if you read the list
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Joining many people applauding this review (and Rick Lane, the reviewer) for arguing a difficult point very well.
For Arc Raiders to ride the wave of human sociability all the way to the bank, while also being so contemptuous of the thing that makes us social animals in its own workflow demonstrates a lack of artistic integrity that I find impossible to ignore.
Our review: https://bit.ly/49bVn01
Our review: https://bit.ly/49bVn01
November 10, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Joining many people applauding this review (and Rick Lane, the reviewer) for arguing a difficult point very well.
Performative reading isn't white men reading in public, it's people saying they routinely read 300 books a year
November 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Performative reading isn't white men reading in public, it's people saying they routinely read 300 books a year
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When Rosie Duffield is in on it I think we can safely say the anti-phone campaign in Brianna's name is actively at odds with tackling transphobia
November 10, 2025 at 2:25 PM
When Rosie Duffield is in on it I think we can safely say the anti-phone campaign in Brianna's name is actively at odds with tackling transphobia
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LONDON/BRIGHTON folks! In TWO WEEKS I'm hosting Can You Solve the Murder? Live at Waterstones Piccaddilly (Mon 24) and Brighton (Tues 25). It's a NEW ✨festive edition✨ of the interactive game, so come along and see if you'd make a good detective… 🎄🔍
November 10, 2025 at 11:37 AM
LONDON/BRIGHTON folks! In TWO WEEKS I'm hosting Can You Solve the Murder? Live at Waterstones Piccaddilly (Mon 24) and Brighton (Tues 25). It's a NEW ✨festive edition✨ of the interactive game, so come along and see if you'd make a good detective… 🎄🔍
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"You, like Nigel Farage, are simply lying about what the ONS says."
I somewhat lost my patience with Reform Councillor Bill Piper here.. (from about 1h 27 min in)
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
I somewhat lost my patience with Reform Councillor Bill Piper here.. (from about 1h 27 min in)
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Stephen Nolan - 08/11/2025 - BBC Sounds
The day's main news stories, topical debate and interviews.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 7:41 AM
"You, like Nigel Farage, are simply lying about what the ONS says."
I somewhat lost my patience with Reform Councillor Bill Piper here.. (from about 1h 27 min in)
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
I somewhat lost my patience with Reform Councillor Bill Piper here.. (from about 1h 27 min in)
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Progressive thought has been totally expunged from the British political mainstream, and *still* the argument is that there’s an unacceptable institutional bias to the left within the news media.
It is *utterly* mad. Very clear for all to see what’s happening here.
It is *utterly* mad. Very clear for all to see what’s happening here.
November 10, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Progressive thought has been totally expunged from the British political mainstream, and *still* the argument is that there’s an unacceptable institutional bias to the left within the news media.
It is *utterly* mad. Very clear for all to see what’s happening here.
It is *utterly* mad. Very clear for all to see what’s happening here.
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Was in the foyer of my local leisure centre at 11am today and the 2 minute silence was interrupted by a guy in full body armour with a sword asking when the two minute silence would be because there was no clock in the Bushido practice room and none of them were wearing watches.
November 9, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Was in the foyer of my local leisure centre at 11am today and the 2 minute silence was interrupted by a guy in full body armour with a sword asking when the two minute silence would be because there was no clock in the Bushido practice room and none of them were wearing watches.
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lol she got his ass and he knows it
November 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
lol she got his ass and he knows it