Hannah Dawson

Black Panther - a film about black identity packaged in a good superhero movie at the height of Marvel's draw; it was really impactful to me to realize how much the movie's themes meant to the audience around me.

DBZ Broly: Oh my god French anime nerds are LOUD

My two favorite cinema experiences were Black Panther (I think at the Wood Green Cineworld?) and, of all things, Dragon Ball Z Broly at that weird chain cinema just up the road from Forbidden Planet in central London. In both instances, the audience were the best part, for different reasons.

A cinema which I understand why they built, but not its continued operation, other than to avoid paying off the lease early.

If the cinema is deserted: yes, quietly, make sure you don't piss someone off
If the cinema is even 10% full - no, but if you honestly laugh or are in tears, that's OK, feelings are valid
If it's packed: the audience is literally half the fun, try and vibe it out

Peak cinema is when everyone cheers

No, but also do not do what the guy at my viewing of One Battle After Another at the Wood Green Vue did (with 6 people watching it) and blow his lid loudly at the people behind him for talking.

Then again that cinema is nuts on a good day soooo

I responded to what I assume was the skeet asking for advice on this and, reading the article, I'm glad to hear the lady got her phone back 🫡

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Canva (who own the software formerly called PagePlus) have now rolled out a unified app that covers photo, vector and design editing in one. Free, supported by a subscription tool that hawks the usual cloud services.

Massive unlock for local parties, esp. the LDs. www.affinity.studio/download

The difference between a good politician and a great one is that the good politician picks a platform that wins them an election, and the great one wins on the platform they actually believe in.

The real reason I gave up on politics (other than it being a horrendous career for the neurodivergent) is that when I spend an hour getting home on a bus on the A1010 and watching as we linger,
stuck behind a row of empty Audis, I end up considering violent revolution.

The correct question to answer is if this is a tuition fees/Truss rubicon or not, the point where the patient is moved from the hospital to the hospice, and that is complete mug's game to guess

There's more to the axis than spend/cut though. Labour talked big about pro-growth actions in its last budget but then with NI rises punished employers investing in staff. Abandoning the tax pledged now compounds the 2024 mistakes and, whilst inevitable and the right call, will be punishing.

AWS casually firing its entire games division. Would assume Twitch is gunned down at some point too.

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It's spooky and set at Halloween, Irish, and the protagonist has a nose that looks like he walked into a wall as a baby and never structurally recovered

It's also absolutely ace

There are more jobs in marketing than there are as an engineer (a programmer of any kind), an artist, or a designer.

Nobody's making these fucking games, and if they are, they're not making them here.

The UK games industry in one skeet:

It's increasingly clear there is something very badly wrong in the UK games industry; an industry that once was a world-leader and now appears to be incapable of shipping any sort of quality in studios larger than ten people.

Wes Streeting

Whiplash from "a columnist I've followed for years said a nice thing about my skeet" to "oh god my mentions"

Uhhhh read this guy's newsletter and pick up the FT sometimes, it's like a normal newspaper but all the celebrity gossip is about company mergers

OK, Labour's problem starts with not recognizing the party mood and allowing one of the worst possible choices from the SGC to get onto the ballot in 2015, but without Brexit you don't get May's 2017 gamble which artificially extended his shelf-life by two years.

When a political party ends up realizing it's done something so cataclysmic that "invent time travel" becomes step 1 of the recovery strategy, that is very bad. But the real cost is if that situation drags out for years. The LDs made bad pledges in 2009. The Tories and Labour had Brexit.

To me the important view is that for every Macron, you have ten Swinsons and Sunaks. If chaos means you run out of Mays, Cables, Swinneys, you end up with novices and firebrands in charge, and suddenly the smarter party staff are working for charities, and the assumption of competency fails.

Thanks for the compliment. It can be a bit fan-fiction-y to guess at stuff like this, but it can come up with interesting stuff. But e.g. Johnson _was_ inevitably going to make a PM run. Corbyn was going to implode. Covid was going to happen. That SNP scandal. Farron's religion. All somewhat fixed.

In short: obliterated in Scotland by the SNP, oblitated in Wales by Reform with some Plaid pickups, a lot of Green noise and thunder in London that probably results in lots of Lab 40 Grn 35 losses, LDs eat every nice town in southern England, massive Farage majority.

This handy map demonstrates how Labour loses the next election and to who, in what seat, based on Labour deciding that they'll be saved by tactical voting. (It also demonstrates why the Greens have decided to Camden-ize)

Anyone on Labour's right thinking "tactical voting will keep Reform out" and "this means we can hold seats due to tactical voting!" need to consider unhooking themselves off the hopium gas line. The LDs had the same mantra about localism and their reward was 8 seats in 2015.

You CAN do end-to-end video game development on Ubuntu at the moment, but if you're not taking a use-Blender-for-literally-everything approach, God help you

The actual actual answer is SteamOS if Valve were not glacially slow at everything

Was asked my take on best Linux distro for VRChatters at the weekend, and the answer is Ubuntu 24.04, as that is the one Unity officially states their Editor supports.

The actual answer is Bazzite atm

(The sim, if it's dead, is not gonna be much help. If you want to be a trooper, grab one with a few free gigs of data on it, which should allow it to get onto 4G wifi and ergo ping to Google's servers, without exposing a weird phone to your own local network.)

Otherwise, if someone's lost the phone and reported it stolen, the phone's IMEI (serial number, think car parts) is public knowledge, grabbable from the vic's Google account, and the police _should_ have gotten it in the report. In a sane country they can ergo get the item back to its owner.