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This is really it. And it isn’t limited to mainstreaming racism. Until very recently antivax views were truly fringe, and if you held those beliefs you were a pariah. But now, you have media outlets mainstreaming absolutely ludicrous anti-science opinions because the HHS Secretary espouses them.

submitted 17 hours ago • 3 comments

Shower thought: just realised how much His Dark Materials has the same structure as a classic JRPG. First level: you and your cute animal companion sneak into a study! A childhood friend joins your party. Final level: you, your love interest and a motley crew kill God.

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

Fascinating. Our search engines now don’t tell us what’s true, they tell us what we fear is true. That always used to be the key to running a newspaper; engagement and rage sell. But basic search is algorithmically eating itself, and soon the internet will be as much use as asking a mad relative.

submitted 17 hours ago • 5 comments

i do not think the mainstream press is equipped or capable of covering ideological white nationalists and eugenicists as such, or even capable of noting that this is what they are. it is related to the wide belief that racism is simply a matter of manners.

submitted 17 hours ago • 213 comments

Soooo a big old chunk of narrative design consultancy work just fell through and I find myself freshly Very Available for #GamesWriting and #NarrativeDesign gigs. Can I help with your IP creation/worldbuilding/scriptwriting/VO or mocap writing and directing? (Yes. The answer is yes.)

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

There are MANY things wrong about the claim that healthy people can't die from infectious disease (they totally can) but a glaring issue everyone is ignoring: every person who has had COVID (even once) has a weaker immune system now & will have a harder time fighting off a cold, let alone measles.

submitted 17 hours ago • 9 comments

Just like Gamegate was not actually about ethics in games journalism, and the anti-trans movement was not actually about the sanctity of women's sports, the crackdown on universities and student protests is not actually about reining in antisemitism.

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

We’re going to end up re-inventing town criers, aren’t we?

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

Dammit.

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

i have argued before that MAGA is recapitulating antebellum pro-slavery ideas about citizenship and bodily autonomy. one thing i am also thinking about, when it comes to the rendition of people to a foreign gulag, is the way it is reminiscent of the kidnapping of free blacks for sale into slavery

submitted 20 hours ago • 199 comments

Again: Britain (not just this government but all of the recent ones) has a problem with knowledge work. Fishing, steel are manly proper jobs with a Victorian sense of place and history. Creative industries & HE are treated as secondary; derided or ignored.

submitted 1 day ago • 25 comments

This. An emergency recall of parliament on a weekend for British Steel. Nothing at all for UK HE which employs far more people, has already shed 10,000 academic jobs, with several institutions on the brink of collapse. A reminder: we train all the doctors, teachers, engineers, nurses, lawyers &c &c

submitted 1 day ago • 21 comments

I'll be live in 45 minutes (2.45 BST) on twitch.tv/mayamada for the launch of #DoILookLikeAGamer campaign launch, to chat about Diversity in Games, Code Coven, and my path into games. Join along!!

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

they finally did it. they invented a machine that can't run doom.

submitted 2 days ago • 53 comments

Somehow, the future is both going to be a dystopian techno sci-fi hellscape AND we're gonna have coal and measles and robber barons and a permanent underclass. Philip K. Dickens

submitted 3 days ago • 146 comments

In further "I swear, my generation didn't actively try to pull the ladder up behind us, there are just way fewer opportunities available these days" news, I splurged some thoughts which got in here. #FPS #GameDev #Wolfenstein www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/ne...

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Thinking back to when I naively thought there'd be an actual creative value to AI as a sort of cliché-avoidance stereotype-mapping LIDAR. "Here's what a hack in a hurry would write, now do better"

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

I know this is woke DEI, but could we have a national economic policy that's something other than the minute-by-minute whims of a deranged and malevolent old man?

submitted 3 days ago • 55 comments

Just to be clear, this post earlier is now a crime 👇

submitted 3 days ago • 151 comments

in case you're wondering, "what's the harm in claiming an extinct species has been brought back from the dead" when it most certainly has not, our interior secretary is already using it to justify taking animals off the endangered species list

submitted 4 days ago • 19 comments

“De-extinction” is to biodiversity loss what “Mars colonization” is to climate change—wishful thinking that is at its core impossible but nevertheless sucks up attention and resources from actual solutions to these crises (which, ultimately, might be the whole point)

submitted 4 days ago • 15 comments

“McDonalds workers in Denmark make more than Honda workers in Alabama” is such a key point. It’s the institutions, stupid.

submitted 4 days ago • 207 comments

Thinking about what previous responses to previous bouts of chaos have been and found this, in Sebastian Smee’s Paris In Ruins: The Siege, the Commune and the Birth of Impressionism. So, you know, if you’re not feeling equal to the historical moment you are in goooood company.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

In the midst of job hunting, freelancing, and wedding planning I've opened up some time to provide games micro-marketing support for a fee for folks. Think: ✅ Store page review (Steam or otherwise) ✅ Copywriting ✅ Small & manageable action points ✅ Burning questions answered Follow & DM me!

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

A great way to fight back against AI taking away work from creatives is to buy art by actual humans. (Reply to this post with your own art/website etc. But only if you’re an organic life-form). www.worldofmoose.com

submitted 16 days ago • 171 comments

The Goldberg Variation

submitted 18 days ago • 14 comments

Beautiful everyday Ladybird things. Round-tipped school scissors Artist: Harry Wingfield (yes, it’s a painting) ‘Third Picture Book’, 1971

submitted 18 days ago • 15 comments

I wonder what’s happening on the old social medias, maybe time to dip a toe back in and no no noooo nope McNo

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

The Oval Office footage has broken a bit more of I didn't realise I still had. Taking a break from the firehose of AngrySads to look after myself and my co-humans. Hugs to all, hang on in there, it's not a sprint or a marathon, it's a relay, run the lap you can etc.

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

Wes Streeting was just on the radio saying that President Trump has reconfirmed his commitment to NATO article 5. If you believe that you will really believe anything.

submitted 44 days ago • 4 comments

A reminder to the British press: Donald Trump just says stuff. Reporting what he says as though it’s fact will inevitably make you look like an idiot. There’s not going to be a US/UK trade deal imminently and Trump really doesn’t care about the UK, even if he likes being flattered.

submitted 44 days ago • 56 comments

🚨SCOOP: Elon Musk's DOGE has just imposed a $1 limit on firefighting officials' credit cards, blocking them from buying emergency firefighting supplies & travel to wildfires. Trump has fired 3,400 forest service employees ahead of wildfire season.

submitted 44 days ago • 53 comments

Next year, the EU will require cars to have buttons & dials -- not just touchscreens -- to get a top safety rating. This is a great move. Drivers can fiddle with knobs & buttons without taking their eyes off the road, but they can't do that with touchscreens. (Even better: Tesla will hate this)

submitted 44 days ago • 596 comments

low info Americans genuinely do not believe you when you tell them e.g. major government policy shifts are determined by which Presidential administration Supreme Court Justices die during. Why would they? It's not what the Constitution says and its an idiotic way for it to work.

submitted 44 days ago • 10 comments

Make sure to check for Scouts who have not reached their goal yet. I try to order from those who are furthest behind.

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

what we are seeing now is a failure resulting from literally decades of failure to fix or modernize the system but instead propping it up and patching it - partially because the US has been so absurdly wealthy that it was able to wave away problems others had to solve

submitted 44 days ago • 5 comments

Definitely don’t believe what you are seeing happen in front of your face.

submitted 44 days ago • 187 comments

It's not about saving money or preventing fraud. It's about profits for the plutocrats. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/musks-frau...

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

what in the absolute

submitted 44 days ago • 14 comments

In 2023, @timmarchman.bsky.social and I went through and posted a huge batch of Epstein documents, as did many other journalists. But the lady who thinks kids are really using litter boxes at school because they "identify as cats" will definitely find something new www.vice.com/en/article/h...

submitted 44 days ago • 9 comments

This is a genuine betrayal of humanity at large. The war against HIV and TB -- diseases that have claimed countless lives -- have been hard fought. We've managed to get both on the ropes. And now the death cultists mean to see them come roaring back

submitted 44 days ago • 5 comments

Jessica Reed Kraus/houseinhabit said that she was one of 15 “independent journalists” given the “Epstein files” by Trump today. In 2022, when Kraus was publishing conspiracies about Amber Heard, she posted lies and threats about me on her IG story to over 1 million followers.

submitted 44 days ago • 13 comments

"DOGE has no formal authority, it's just that Trump and agency heads have never once said no to their demands" is quite a three card monte they've got going on. No one has agency apparently, the government is just immaculately self disassembling.

submitted 44 days ago • 5 comments