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OK now that I've read the white paper recommendations I'd say closing the care system to overseas recruitment is the single most substantive system change. That can only plausibly work if salaries go up significantly.

submitted 7 days ago • 60 comments

you know who else came from chicago and was on "a mission from god"

submitted 11 days ago • 690 comments

I am not optimistic about what the people who built The Metaverse based on their understanding of "work" are going to build based on their understanding of "friendship."

submitted 17 days ago • 11 comments

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

submitted 24 days ago • 614 comments

This is the first overtly political xkcd I can recall seeing in…ever, now I come to think about it.

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

First huge surprise of the year from #GTW with Sensible Soccer for the #NES recovered! A near-complete conversion seemingly unknown until now. Missing for 32 years, you can finally play it. Go be a goal-scoring superstar hero! ⚽ www.gamesthatwerent.com/2025/03/sens...

submitted 61 days ago • 5 comments

FREE INDIE GAME EXPOSURE KLAXXON! I love that I get to show off indie games to the 1000s families who visit our huge Family Gaming Zone at ComicCon London & PAX East Boston. Please share for indies. Tell us about your (or other people's) game we might include! www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9ZG...

submitted 39 days ago • 11 comments

No trans people were consulted on this decision that only affects trans people. In fact trans people were actively barred from consulting on this decision that only affects trans people. But transphobic bigots? Oh they got consulted for days. Fucking grim. I'm absolutely fuming.

submitted 33 days ago • 4 comments

Can we stop saying “ICE deports”? We should say “Without due process, teen incarcerated for the rest of his life in an El Salvadoran prison” Because ICE just sentenced this kid to death, they didn’t take him out of the country and release him. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 33 days ago • 8 comments

important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:

submitted 34 days ago • 331 comments

Metro 2033 Redux is currently Free for Xbox & PC/Steam/GOG user (for the next 48 hrs) in celebration of #Metro15 ends April 16 5PM CET | 9AM PT

submitted 35 days ago • 2 comments

This is what corruption looks like.

submitted 49 days ago • 2816 comments

Dictator shit

submitted 63 days ago • 4070 comments

Thames Water wants to be spared billions of pounds of costs and fines over the next 5 years. TW ripped off customers, dumped sewage in rivers, neglected investment, borrowed money to pay dividends. Laws must apply. No public bailout. Let it go bankrupt. Nationalise for nominal sum.

submitted 64 days ago • 50 comments

New White House pool reporter Jessica Reed Kraus admits to having a “skeptical and jaded perspective” about child sex trafficking victims

submitted 75 days ago • 41 comments

Dems look like they're bidding on fascism at a silent auction

submitted 75 days ago • 699 comments

Omg. In a shocking moment, Nancy Bolan, a fired USAID worker and tonight’s guest of Rep. Ritchie Torres — reveals that Donald Trump has pulled the U.S. from the global polio eradication initiative — which threatens its spread to the U.S. Every single American should see this.

submitted 75 days ago • 228 comments

The Daily Mail has for a long time been protecting a senior journalist who it knows to be a sexual predator. We are helping his victims get justice by suing the Daily Mail - and him. goodlaw.social/24jb

submitted 90 days ago • 32 comments

the sham legacy of Richard Feynman youtu.be/TwKpj2ISQAc

submitted 172 days ago • 107 comments

The first 1:00 of my audition for Captain Gabriel Lorca about… 7 years ago??? I think you’ll see why they hired the right guy when they went with Jason. In fact, when my representatives told me who they hired, my response was, “Fair enough”. @startrek.bsky.social #startrek

submitted 172 days ago • 144 comments

During a private speech, Trump told Speaker Mike Johnson he is going to let a lot of migrants into the country: “We’re going to bring back the strongest borders in the world, and we’re going to let a lot of people come in. Mike, we’re going to let a lot of people come in…” MAGA won’t like this.

submitted 180 days ago • 79 comments

I have a comic in EC's Cruel Universe #4 about an election that gives rise to authoritarianism and tears the country apart. It's, uh, out today.

submitted 194 days ago • 2 comments

I started a Twitter account for London Centric and it doesn’t follow anyone and this is the content it was served by default last week. It’s a long way from when you’d get NBA players and Stephen Fry stuck in a lift.

submitted 202 days ago • 40 comments

Yes I am heading to a Halloween party dressed as Wilmot’s Warehouse, complete with my own Wilmot.

submitted 205 days ago • 4 comments

This is fucking disgusting: Character_ai is using my murdered niece as the face of a video game AI without her dad's permission. He is very upset right now. I can't imagine what he's going through. Please help us stop this sort of terrible practice. character.ai/character/Dv...

submitted 229 days ago • 114 comments

This piece from Dr Sarah Wilford explores why so many of the recent #rioters were middle-aged & how #radicalisation works for this age group: tinyurl.com/acm5dtmy

submitted 236 days ago • 2 comments

Do you guys like my 6 ft long stuffed squid

submitted 330 days ago • 27 comments