evan robins

Much ado about Hades 2 When it comes to this videogame, my talent is the destruction of art.

I Gave Myself a Massive Carpal Tunnel Flare-up and All I Wrote was This Review of #Hades2
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It's very curious that in all my time as a journalist the Conservative politicians touting themselves free speech warriors have always been the hardest to get to agree to an interview.

World's first AI minister will eliminate corruption, says Albania's PM Named Diella, the new minister will help Albania "leapfrog" bigger, more advanced countries, says Edi Rama.

Sometimes you read a headline and it feels like you already have access to next week's @trashfuture.bsky.social

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Of course you don't self-identify as a NIMBY! It's a descriptive label, and a generally derisive one at that.

Like a lot of labels, you don't necessarily assign it to yourself. Rather, it's assigned to you by people who are interpreting your rhetoric, actions, and politics.

The problem with the term "NIMBY" gaining a foothold in the popular consciousness is the fact that people think they can excuse themselves of NIMBY rhetoric by saying "I'm not a NIMBY...BUT—" which is just not how these kinds of labels work.

Funniest part of this delegation was that Muir purposely neglected to include Town Ward in his fear mongering because we already have dense high rises here and are demonstrably doing just fine.

Watching ptbo’s public planning meeting to relive some trauma LOLOL

Best part of the process so far has been opening Microsoft Edge exactly once for the sole purpose of downloading Vivaldi.

Just an endless series of permission boxes to consent to data vampirism to un-check in the nightmare which is the Windows 11 menu.

Everything about this operating system looks sinister in a sort of technofascistic marriage of the Emoji movie and a Skinner Box.

Setting up a new computer and am increasingly convinced that every part of this process is designed to turn you into the Joker.

"The Domain of True Leadership" is my favourite Cleric subclass in D&D

Currently reading "Distrust That Particular Flavour"; wonder what William Gibson thinks of Hatsune Miku.

Semantic drift is frustrating cause people today say they're hyperfixating when they really mean they just like something.

Like believe me sister I would not be explaining the entire history of X-Men comics to my coworker in line at the deli if I actually possessed the ability to not do so.

Watched Human Traffic with the @arthurnews.bsky.social crew and spent the whole time being really annoying soypointing at random Cardiff locations on the tv like "Been there!"

Good film or wtv

watching the cabinet announcements, and a reporter interrupted herself to say “oh jean Chrétien just arrived”…he has a huge crowd of reporters following him around…it’s like watching domesticated animals presuming their natural predator will be their friend

I was covering the rally tonight and noted the same thing.

For reference, the city did not do this during the November budget protests (which I also covered).

There were significantly fewer protesters today. The only major difference was what they were protesting and the colour of their skin.

La musée canadienne du canot supporte le wokisme

This is about Doctor Who, btw.

It's really interesting whenever a television series tries to do metacommentary about its own fanbase because 9/10 times it comes off as a tacit revelation that the people writing the show do not fundamentally understand WHY their fans like the show they are writing.

Broke this story today.

Huge thanks to the students who came to us with this information, and really glad I was able to get it to press!

I'm at Peterborough City Hall this afternoon covering the General Committee/City Council double-header after GC got cancelled last week on account of ice storm.

If I post from here it'll be on @arthurnews.bsky.social

Otherwise @joellekovach.bsky.social's got you covered!

I'm sorry but if your controller has back paddles or you claw that is a lesbian controller configuration.

Musk: Hassan is a fraud “Sell-out” would be more accurate. Objectively, he is promoting a terrible game just for the money. The AC Twitter account Is that what the guy playing your Path of Exile 2 account told you?

An unrelated shot from a samurai movie

If I was the richest guy on earth and an Ubisoft brand account ethered me this hard I know what I would have to do.

I'm told I need to pin some sort of intro post so here you go:

I write.

I've written at @arthurnews.bsky.social for four years.

I've almost won some awards. I've won some others.

Read my stuff: www.trentarthur.ca/author/evan-robins

My contract ends in one month.

Cool people please hire me.

Or Jim Watson. I'm not a picky woman.

A lot of people wrongly assume that the greatest distinction a journalist could get would be winning an Pulitzer or being whacked by the CIA, when for me personally it'd be being on @nogodsnomayors.com if they ever do an episode about Jeff Leal.

If only there were a text by Chomsky and Herman that was widely taught in university that discussed this very thing!

Hot take but if your argument against paywalls is that they aren't "conducive to innovative methods of revenue development" you're basically admitting that the profit motive is tainting your so-called "news."

If you're "open access" to make money and not out of principle, you're not open access.