Mark Jones
@justanothermark.bsky.social
Reading, walking, gaming, film watching, music-making type person. they/them
https://justanothermark.co.uk
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LLM writing grates on me, I hate it. but for a lot of people, it's better at outputting a particular academic/workplace-appropriate style than they are. we don't just need to push back on AI, we need to push back on the ideas about what's desirable in text
January 23, 2026 at 3:54 PM
LLM writing grates on me, I hate it. but for a lot of people, it's better at outputting a particular academic/workplace-appropriate style than they are. we don't just need to push back on AI, we need to push back on the ideas about what's desirable in text
This sums up a bunch of my feelings towards the announcement of LiS: Reunion. The LiS games have never been about completely happy endings. They're messy people dealing with even messier situations and nobody fully gets "what they deserve" in them.
A fresh one from me! I wrote about fandom, what characters "deserve," lesbians and our desire to Return To The Past.
What does it mean to wind back the clock and why does that seem to be *the* thing many folks want from art now?
aftermath.site/life-is-stra...
What does it mean to wind back the clock and why does that seem to be *the* thing many folks want from art now?
aftermath.site/life-is-stra...
A Game Doesn't Need To Be ‘By And For Fans’
Life Is Strange: Reunion could be a story that grapples with old choices and mistakes, or it could be one that tells fans and characters they "deserve" stories that make everything OK
aftermath.site
January 23, 2026 at 10:19 AM
This sums up a bunch of my feelings towards the announcement of LiS: Reunion. The LiS games have never been about completely happy endings. They're messy people dealing with even messier situations and nobody fully gets "what they deserve" in them.
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Yesterday we talked about how cervical screening is a really important tool in helping us to eliminate cervical cancer. Today we'd like to share a few tips about how to make your cervical screening experience as comfortable for you as possible...
This week is #CervicalCancerPreventionWeek. This cancer is highly preventable in the present day, because we know a lot about its cause: this horrid little dude, human papillomavirus (HPV). With what we know about HPV and its link to cervical cancer, eliminating the disease is possible...
January 21, 2026 at 11:21 AM
Yesterday we talked about how cervical screening is a really important tool in helping us to eliminate cervical cancer. Today we'd like to share a few tips about how to make your cervical screening experience as comfortable for you as possible...
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January 20, 2026 at 10:55 AM
Follow my channel for more political insight. Hire my consultant firm for similar political strategic communication advice and stay tuned for my Think Tank where ideas like this can be refined and contextualized for your own organizational needs.,
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Everybody thinks 'https://' stands for 'hypertext transfer protocol secure' but it actually stands for 'head to this place, sucka' followed by a colon and two laser sounds
January 13, 2026 at 8:17 PM
Everybody thinks 'https://' stands for 'hypertext transfer protocol secure' but it actually stands for 'head to this place, sucka' followed by a colon and two laser sounds
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participants from Benin's Vodun Day Festival, celebrated every January 10th.
January 13, 2026 at 12:48 AM
participants from Benin's Vodun Day Festival, celebrated every January 10th.
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Just days into 2026, the killing of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has sparked protests around the US.
If you’re planning to protest, here’s how to safeguard your digital security.
If you’re planning to protest, here’s how to safeguard your digital security.
How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance
Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest.
www.wired.com
January 8, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Just days into 2026, the killing of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has sparked protests around the US.
If you’re planning to protest, here’s how to safeguard your digital security.
If you’re planning to protest, here’s how to safeguard your digital security.
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"international law must be followed" is european for "thoughts and prayers"
January 3, 2026 at 2:08 PM
"international law must be followed" is european for "thoughts and prayers"
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For trans people who see this and feel their heart rate rise: it's good. Click through. It's positive, short and direct.
The BMA has published an updated policy position on the rights of transgender and non-binary people in healthcare settings.
www.bma.org.uk/advice-and-s...
www.bma.org.uk/advice-and-s...
Policy position on the rights of transgender and non-binary people in healthcare settings
Our policy position is centred around the need to advocate for equitable access to healthcare, create safe and inclusive workplaces for trans and non-binary people working in healthcare settings, and ...
www.bma.org.uk
December 19, 2025 at 9:20 AM
For trans people who see this and feel their heart rate rise: it's good. Click through. It's positive, short and direct.
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thinking about sega's 2009 holiday card around this time, as one does
your chosen family can just be two queens, a monkey child and a very fast, spiky blue mammal, long as you've got the love for each other, thats all that matters
your chosen family can just be two queens, a monkey child and a very fast, spiky blue mammal, long as you've got the love for each other, thats all that matters
December 24, 2024 at 3:16 AM
thinking about sega's 2009 holiday card around this time, as one does
your chosen family can just be two queens, a monkey child and a very fast, spiky blue mammal, long as you've got the love for each other, thats all that matters
your chosen family can just be two queens, a monkey child and a very fast, spiky blue mammal, long as you've got the love for each other, thats all that matters
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The concept of the BBC is a wonderful, beautiful, precious thing. Evil people know this as well as I do. Since Hutton, they've done their absolute utmost to destroy it, and, like with the NHS, they're winning.
Heartbreaking.
All the support to Robin but I hate SO much that it's come to this.
Heartbreaking.
All the support to Robin but I hate SO much that it's come to this.
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
December 13, 2025 at 8:46 AM
The concept of the BBC is a wonderful, beautiful, precious thing. Evil people know this as well as I do. Since Hutton, they've done their absolute utmost to destroy it, and, like with the NHS, they're winning.
Heartbreaking.
All the support to Robin but I hate SO much that it's come to this.
Heartbreaking.
All the support to Robin but I hate SO much that it's come to this.
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WORLD PREMIERE 🤭😏
#TheGameAwards
Here is the first teaser trailer for Encryptid - An FMV horror game about using real-world footage recorded with the Gameboy Camera to identify, locate and battle iconic cryptids
Releasing in 2026 and available to wishlist on Steam very soon!
#TheGameAwards
Here is the first teaser trailer for Encryptid - An FMV horror game about using real-world footage recorded with the Gameboy Camera to identify, locate and battle iconic cryptids
Releasing in 2026 and available to wishlist on Steam very soon!
December 11, 2025 at 11:56 PM
WORLD PREMIERE 🤭😏
#TheGameAwards
Here is the first teaser trailer for Encryptid - An FMV horror game about using real-world footage recorded with the Gameboy Camera to identify, locate and battle iconic cryptids
Releasing in 2026 and available to wishlist on Steam very soon!
#TheGameAwards
Here is the first teaser trailer for Encryptid - An FMV horror game about using real-world footage recorded with the Gameboy Camera to identify, locate and battle iconic cryptids
Releasing in 2026 and available to wishlist on Steam very soon!
At the league social, we had to make a team mascot out of clay. I had to leave my team for 5 minutes to sort a tech issue. When I got back I found that they'd decided the mascot was me "lying provocatively". Sadly I didn't get a photo before there was an incident so here's an artist's impression...
December 11, 2025 at 2:23 PM
At the league social, we had to make a team mascot out of clay. I had to leave my team for 5 minutes to sort a tech issue. When I got back I found that they'd decided the mascot was me "lying provocatively". Sadly I didn't get a photo before there was an incident so here's an artist's impression...
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If I read the book that I buy then it doesn’t count as spending money.
December 7, 2025 at 11:14 PM
If I read the book that I buy then it doesn’t count as spending money.
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The people of Blaenau Ffestiniog have a clear message for Zip World: jobs aren’t enough.
If the company wants to operate in the area, it has to contribute to the community. If it chooses to leave, there are plenty of locals willing to pick up the slack.
graceblakeley.substack.com/p/locals-bui...
If the company wants to operate in the area, it has to contribute to the community. If it chooses to leave, there are plenty of locals willing to pick up the slack.
graceblakeley.substack.com/p/locals-bui...
Locals built the landscape. Now, they want a stake in its future.
In the slate valleys of north Wales, a group of community organisers, councillors and researchers are taking on one of the region’s most powerful companies – and taking back control of their place.
graceblakeley.substack.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:19 PM
The people of Blaenau Ffestiniog have a clear message for Zip World: jobs aren’t enough.
If the company wants to operate in the area, it has to contribute to the community. If it chooses to leave, there are plenty of locals willing to pick up the slack.
graceblakeley.substack.com/p/locals-bui...
If the company wants to operate in the area, it has to contribute to the community. If it chooses to leave, there are plenty of locals willing to pick up the slack.
graceblakeley.substack.com/p/locals-bui...
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"I spoke to one 80-year-old woman who has been in our organisation for decades, who said it was one of the greatest experiences of her life, and the only place in her 80 years where she’s been treated as a woman with respect.”
What does this do for women's rights?
What does this do for women's rights?
December 3, 2025 at 11:25 AM
"I spoke to one 80-year-old woman who has been in our organisation for decades, who said it was one of the greatest experiences of her life, and the only place in her 80 years where she’s been treated as a woman with respect.”
What does this do for women's rights?
What does this do for women's rights?
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I find it very strange how a legal decision which relates solely to gender recognition certificates – something under 18s definitively cannot have – is being used to justify changes to longstanding policies on including trans kids.
December 2, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I find it very strange how a legal decision which relates solely to gender recognition certificates – something under 18s definitively cannot have – is being used to justify changes to longstanding policies on including trans kids.
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Not gonna lie lads, it’s fucking bleak over here.
Trans people can’t fight this on their own, cis women need to start leaving and boycotting these organisations that exclude trans women.
I go where my trans partner goes, if she can’t go I don’t go. We all have to do this.
Trans people can’t fight this on their own, cis women need to start leaving and boycotting these organisations that exclude trans women.
I go where my trans partner goes, if she can’t go I don’t go. We all have to do this.
December 3, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Not gonna lie lads, it’s fucking bleak over here.
Trans people can’t fight this on their own, cis women need to start leaving and boycotting these organisations that exclude trans women.
I go where my trans partner goes, if she can’t go I don’t go. We all have to do this.
Trans people can’t fight this on their own, cis women need to start leaving and boycotting these organisations that exclude trans women.
I go where my trans partner goes, if she can’t go I don’t go. We all have to do this.
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holy fuck this is ridiculous, how can we claim games are art if art is this scary to our two primary distribution channels?
Yesterday, the Epic Games Store decided at the last minute not to distribute the game, after having previously approved a release build. HORSES is otherwise now available on GOG, Itch, and Humble for $4.99. www.horses.wtf
December 2, 2025 at 5:39 PM
holy fuck this is ridiculous, how can we claim games are art if art is this scary to our two primary distribution channels?
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"babies are born worshipping unknown gods" is one of the most incredible dwarf fortress bugs i have heard of. its poetry.
November 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
"babies are born worshipping unknown gods" is one of the most incredible dwarf fortress bugs i have heard of. its poetry.
Wait. There's a new Julia Ducournau film that's out now and the first I'm hearing of it is looking through cinema listings? I need a better way of finding out about these things
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-C1G...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-C1G...
ALPHA Trailer (2025) Julia Ducournau
YouTube video by ONE Media
www.youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Wait. There's a new Julia Ducournau film that's out now and the first I'm hearing of it is looking through cinema listings? I need a better way of finding out about these things
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-C1G...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-C1G...
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Like the Guardian, people view the BBC as left wing and, as a result, their combined anti trans campaigning has done more damage to trans people than the entire right wing media machine, because they legitimised the right wing's lies.
November 11, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Like the Guardian, people view the BBC as left wing and, as a result, their combined anti trans campaigning has done more damage to trans people than the entire right wing media machine, because they legitimised the right wing's lies.
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Zine and small press makers of Manchester (UK) and beyond! I'm going to be running a session of speed friending on November 15th just for you. Come meet folks in a low pressure environment and bring some zines along to trade if you have them www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/zine-maker... #diyzines
November 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Zine and small press makers of Manchester (UK) and beyond! I'm going to be running a session of speed friending on November 15th just for you. Come meet folks in a low pressure environment and bring some zines along to trade if you have them www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/zine-maker... #diyzines
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i know i wittgenstein post too much but i would love to see his reaction to the wholesale capitulation of critical thinking facilities to machines whose entire model of the world begins and ends in language, a medium he regarded as intrinsically impoverished
June 15, 2025 at 1:10 PM
i know i wittgenstein post too much but i would love to see his reaction to the wholesale capitulation of critical thinking facilities to machines whose entire model of the world begins and ends in language, a medium he regarded as intrinsically impoverished