Gledster
@gledster.bsky.social
England. He/Him.
Just trying to make it through this life in a country that's descended into madness.
Food bank volunteer. Computer game player.
Just trying to make it through this life in a country that's descended into madness.
Food bank volunteer. Computer game player.
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Pay attention to whose flirtations with Nazism and Hitler worship are to be endlessly indulged and forgiven, and whose liking a Facebook comment five years ago are regarded as utterly disqualifying. Does that give us any information about how things work?
Looks like everybody's favourite Tory said a load of bad stuff at private school too.
December 6, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Pay attention to whose flirtations with Nazism and Hitler worship are to be endlessly indulged and forgiven, and whose liking a Facebook comment five years ago are regarded as utterly disqualifying. Does that give us any information about how things work?
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I'm doing a raffle to raise money to buy books for two ace schools
Tickets are just £2 each!
You can win all these SIGNED books + £50 to spend.
More importantly, every ticket you buy will help buy books for the schools.
TWO POUNDS.
Info here.
biggreenbookshop.com/big-green-ex...
Please share
Tickets are just £2 each!
You can win all these SIGNED books + £50 to spend.
More importantly, every ticket you buy will help buy books for the schools.
TWO POUNDS.
Info here.
biggreenbookshop.com/big-green-ex...
Please share
December 5, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I'm doing a raffle to raise money to buy books for two ace schools
Tickets are just £2 each!
You can win all these SIGNED books + £50 to spend.
More importantly, every ticket you buy will help buy books for the schools.
TWO POUNDS.
Info here.
biggreenbookshop.com/big-green-ex...
Please share
Tickets are just £2 each!
You can win all these SIGNED books + £50 to spend.
More importantly, every ticket you buy will help buy books for the schools.
TWO POUNDS.
Info here.
biggreenbookshop.com/big-green-ex...
Please share
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If you need to understand what's happening, this farce is a perfect place to begin.
A broken, unhappy man is being given a fake award he doesn't deserve by a corrupt group looking to bribe him and earn favors. It's meaningless, everything he wants, and it won't matter to him within an hour.
A broken, unhappy man is being given a fake award he doesn't deserve by a corrupt group looking to bribe him and earn favors. It's meaningless, everything he wants, and it won't matter to him within an hour.
December 5, 2025 at 7:10 PM
If you need to understand what's happening, this farce is a perfect place to begin.
A broken, unhappy man is being given a fake award he doesn't deserve by a corrupt group looking to bribe him and earn favors. It's meaningless, everything he wants, and it won't matter to him within an hour.
A broken, unhappy man is being given a fake award he doesn't deserve by a corrupt group looking to bribe him and earn favors. It's meaningless, everything he wants, and it won't matter to him within an hour.
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We released this track last year to raise money for Refuge UK. Domestic violence cases always rise at this time of year so if anyone wants to buy a bit of Sabbath-meets-Stevie Nicks filth to help this great charity, today is a good day to do it.
kamien.bandcamp.com/track/p-i-g
kamien.bandcamp.com/track/p-i-g
December 5, 2025 at 11:13 AM
We released this track last year to raise money for Refuge UK. Domestic violence cases always rise at this time of year so if anyone wants to buy a bit of Sabbath-meets-Stevie Nicks filth to help this great charity, today is a good day to do it.
kamien.bandcamp.com/track/p-i-g
kamien.bandcamp.com/track/p-i-g
As someone who works in the cinema industry I do not like this one bit.
Netflix is famously anti-cinema.
They don't see the benefits of the cinema release then home release model.
Now they'll run Warners too...
*Sigh*
Netflix is famously anti-cinema.
They don't see the benefits of the cinema release then home release model.
Now they'll run Warners too...
*Sigh*
A blockbuster deal
The former mail-order-dvd company is now in exclusive talks to buy the former movie studio.
variety.com/2025/biz/new...
The former mail-order-dvd company is now in exclusive talks to buy the former movie studio.
variety.com/2025/biz/new...
Netflix Enters Exclusive Deal Talks to Acquire Warner Bros. Discovery
Netflix has entered exclusive talks to buy the studio and HBO Max service from Warner Bros. Discovery, winning a bidding war against Paramount and Comcast.
variety.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:38 PM
As someone who works in the cinema industry I do not like this one bit.
Netflix is famously anti-cinema.
They don't see the benefits of the cinema release then home release model.
Now they'll run Warners too...
*Sigh*
Netflix is famously anti-cinema.
They don't see the benefits of the cinema release then home release model.
Now they'll run Warners too...
*Sigh*
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NEW | It’s time for a festive ‘treat’…
The 25 Worst Columns of 2025, Part One: Advent Calendars, Monarchist Fan Fiction, and Dead Twitter
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-25-wor...
The 25 Worst Columns of 2025, Part One: Advent Calendars, Monarchist Fan Fiction, and Dead Twitter
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-25-wor...
The 25 Worst Columns of 2025, Part One: Advent Calendars, Monarchist Fan Fiction, and Dead Twitter
Let's celebrate the most wonderful time of the year with a bonfire of bad takes...
brokenbottleboy.substack.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:47 PM
NEW | It’s time for a festive ‘treat’…
The 25 Worst Columns of 2025, Part One: Advent Calendars, Monarchist Fan Fiction, and Dead Twitter
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-25-wor...
The 25 Worst Columns of 2025, Part One: Advent Calendars, Monarchist Fan Fiction, and Dead Twitter
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-25-wor...
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I wouldn't call it a distraction, but rather a problem: in the United Kingdom, three of the major political parties are racist, bigoted, and far-right, and are all vying to capture the same set of racist, bigoted, and far-right freaks. And mainstream media, like the BBC, attempt to appeal to them
I can't help but feel as though all this heat over whether Nigel Farage was a racist bigot fifty years ago is a distraction from the same discussion the press and political class continue to dodge: That the party he leads, right now, is a, racist, bigoted, far-right political party.
December 5, 2025 at 10:25 AM
I wouldn't call it a distraction, but rather a problem: in the United Kingdom, three of the major political parties are racist, bigoted, and far-right, and are all vying to capture the same set of racist, bigoted, and far-right freaks. And mainstream media, like the BBC, attempt to appeal to them
deadline.com/2025/12/netf...
I believe Ken is referencing Netflix buying Warner Bros Discovery.
Remember folks, Warner Bros Discovery is already a giant merged company.
Netflix Warner Bros Discovery is just late stage capitalism madness.
I believe Ken is referencing Netflix buying Warner Bros Discovery.
Remember folks, Warner Bros Discovery is already a giant merged company.
Netflix Warner Bros Discovery is just late stage capitalism madness.
December 5, 2025 at 7:04 AM
deadline.com/2025/12/netf...
I believe Ken is referencing Netflix buying Warner Bros Discovery.
Remember folks, Warner Bros Discovery is already a giant merged company.
Netflix Warner Bros Discovery is just late stage capitalism madness.
I believe Ken is referencing Netflix buying Warner Bros Discovery.
Remember folks, Warner Bros Discovery is already a giant merged company.
Netflix Warner Bros Discovery is just late stage capitalism madness.
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Note how these awful people are getting exactly the exclusions of children that they demanded and *that still isn’t enough for them*: they demand everyone be delighted about it and kiss their arses for being brilliant.
December 4, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Note how these awful people are getting exactly the exclusions of children that they demanded and *that still isn’t enough for them*: they demand everyone be delighted about it and kiss their arses for being brilliant.
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Are you a normal person who would like to buy or build a personal computer to do something actually useful or enjoyable? Haha fuck you.
Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead. It’s already getting hard to build an affordable PC, and the exit of the longstanding provider of consumer memory is going to make that even more challenging www.theverge.com/news/837594/...
Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead
Another blow to PC gaming.
www.theverge.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Are you a normal person who would like to buy or build a personal computer to do something actually useful or enjoyable? Haha fuck you.
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So many marginalised groups getting hammered by the world's worst perverts who know the system is collapsing but don't care because they can siphon off profits until they're dead, because everyone is distracted with alienation, poverty and bigotry.
December 3, 2025 at 10:52 AM
So many marginalised groups getting hammered by the world's worst perverts who know the system is collapsing but don't care because they can siphon off profits until they're dead, because everyone is distracted with alienation, poverty and bigotry.
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We're watching the wholesale burning of every scrap of dignity afforded to trans people in the UK, their rights, their medical services, their employment, their place within society, their bodily functions.
It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.
It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.
December 3, 2025 at 11:54 AM
We're watching the wholesale burning of every scrap of dignity afforded to trans people in the UK, their rights, their medical services, their employment, their place within society, their bodily functions.
It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.
It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.
Every institution just folding without a fight.
We all know why, they can't match Rowling's cash and the judiciary are against them, but someone should try and fight.
Such a bleak future.
We all know why, they can't match Rowling's cash and the judiciary are against them, but someone should try and fight.
Such a bleak future.
Women’s Institute will no longer accept trans women as members from April
Women’s Institute will no longer accept trans women as members from April
Exclusive: CEO says decision taken with ‘utmost regret and sadness’ after supreme court ruling on definition of a woman
The Women’s Institute will no longer accept transgender women as members from April following the UK supreme court ruling on the legal definition of a woman, the Guardian can reveal.
Melissa Green, the chief executive of the National Federation of Women’s Institutes, said the organisation had taken the decision with the “utmost regret and sadness”, adding it had “no choice” but to exclude trans women from its membership. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Every institution just folding without a fight.
We all know why, they can't match Rowling's cash and the judiciary are against them, but someone should try and fight.
Such a bleak future.
We all know why, they can't match Rowling's cash and the judiciary are against them, but someone should try and fight.
Such a bleak future.
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Here's how we released 200+ games #gamedev #gamedevelopment #indiegamedev #gamedesign
p.s. it's my birthday in 2 weeks if you'd like to do something for the soon to be birthday boy nothing would make me happier than sharing this video on what I've been doing with my life so I can help more people ♥️
p.s. it's my birthday in 2 weeks if you'd like to do something for the soon to be birthday boy nothing would make me happier than sharing this video on what I've been doing with my life so I can help more people ♥️
December 3, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Here's how we released 200+ games #gamedev #gamedevelopment #indiegamedev #gamedesign
p.s. it's my birthday in 2 weeks if you'd like to do something for the soon to be birthday boy nothing would make me happier than sharing this video on what I've been doing with my life so I can help more people ♥️
p.s. it's my birthday in 2 weeks if you'd like to do something for the soon to be birthday boy nothing would make me happier than sharing this video on what I've been doing with my life so I can help more people ♥️
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For non-Brits: nobody can afford to get sued by revved-up wingnuts and crackpots armed with JK Rowling’s money, and nobody wants to be the next organisation protested by the far right and monstered into the heart of the earth by the world’s most poisonous media outlets. So they are folding.
December 2, 2025 at 8:09 PM
For non-Brits: nobody can afford to get sued by revved-up wingnuts and crackpots armed with JK Rowling’s money, and nobody wants to be the next organisation protested by the far right and monstered into the heart of the earth by the world’s most poisonous media outlets. So they are folding.
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Devastated by this decision, which goes against the very essence of Girlguiding as an inclusive space for all girls. As a guiding parent I was so impressed with their stance before now. The ‘risk of harassment’ comes from the GC movement, not from trans members of the guiding community. Solidarity
December 2, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Devastated by this decision, which goes against the very essence of Girlguiding as an inclusive space for all girls. As a guiding parent I was so impressed with their stance before now. The ‘risk of harassment’ comes from the GC movement, not from trans members of the guiding community. Solidarity
Just read a news story covering Netflix's removal of the ability to cast shows from your phone to a TV on the same wifi network.
It's such greedy, petty nonsense like this that makes daily living just infinitely more frustrating than it should be. So many minor niggles every day.
It's such greedy, petty nonsense like this that makes daily living just infinitely more frustrating than it should be. So many minor niggles every day.
December 2, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Just read a news story covering Netflix's removal of the ability to cast shows from your phone to a TV on the same wifi network.
It's such greedy, petty nonsense like this that makes daily living just infinitely more frustrating than it should be. So many minor niggles every day.
It's such greedy, petty nonsense like this that makes daily living just infinitely more frustrating than it should be. So many minor niggles every day.
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i’m setting you free. i’m releasing you from the discourse
December 2, 2025 at 1:39 AM
i’m setting you free. i’m releasing you from the discourse
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Nothing will change in the UK until the press is dealt with
Nothing will change in the UK until the press is dealt with
Nothing will change in the UK until the press is dealt with
Nothing will change in the UK until the press is dealt with
Nothing will change in the UK until the press is dealt with
Nothing will change in the UK until the press is dealt with
Nothing will change in the UK until the press is dealt with
Nothing will change in the UK until the press is dealt with
Nothing will change in the UK until the press is dealt with
December 1, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Nothing will change in the UK until the press is dealt with
Nothing will change in the UK until the press is dealt with
Nothing will change in the UK until the press is dealt with
Nothing will change in the UK until the press is dealt with
Nothing will change in the UK until the press is dealt with
Nothing will change in the UK until the press is dealt with
Nothing will change in the UK until the press is dealt with
Nothing will change in the UK until the press is dealt with
Nothing will change in the UK until the press is dealt with
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The British government and forces left their local translators and interpreters to be killed by the Taliban so they couldn't give evidence in any war-crimes trials
December 1, 2025 at 6:25 AM
The British government and forces left their local translators and interpreters to be killed by the Taliban so they couldn't give evidence in any war-crimes trials
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This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started
November 30, 2025 at 9:57 AM
This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started
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Depressing but point well made
November 28, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Depressing but point well made
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The next few weeks is going to just be Mail, Telegraph, and I Paper journalists scratching around, looking for every edge case in Britain to declare this policy unfair. It might even rival the private school fees whiners for column inches
November 27, 2025 at 7:45 AM
The next few weeks is going to just be Mail, Telegraph, and I Paper journalists scratching around, looking for every edge case in Britain to declare this policy unfair. It might even rival the private school fees whiners for column inches
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NEW | Wading through coverage of the Budget…
THE BUDGET, THE BRITISH PRESS, AND THE LONG SHADOW OF BENEFITS STREET
Why a TV show from 2014 is still easy shorthand for creating division.
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-budget...
THE BUDGET, THE BRITISH PRESS, AND THE LONG SHADOW OF BENEFITS STREET
Why a TV show from 2014 is still easy shorthand for creating division.
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-budget...
The budget, the British press, and the long shadow of Benefits Street
Why a TV show from 2014 is still easy shorthand for creating division.
brokenbottleboy.substack.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:22 AM
NEW | Wading through coverage of the Budget…
THE BUDGET, THE BRITISH PRESS, AND THE LONG SHADOW OF BENEFITS STREET
Why a TV show from 2014 is still easy shorthand for creating division.
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-budget...
THE BUDGET, THE BRITISH PRESS, AND THE LONG SHADOW OF BENEFITS STREET
Why a TV show from 2014 is still easy shorthand for creating division.
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-budget...
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷