Alberto Muti

It's been on my mind for the last couple years, and not just because Denis Villeneuve is a heck of a director.

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If you're up for (Very light) rhythm/platforming element, Gris and Sayonara Wild Hearts are jewels.

Pentiment has a lot in common with Disco Elysium and it's a triumph of storytelling and graphical art.

Sea of stars is a lovely JRPG.

Come see us next week at the BWC Working Group! I'll be there talking about options for BWC Compliance Verification, while my colleagues will be talking about their outstanding work on supporting legal implementation of the BWC.

Nah, a garlic clove on the rim. You can ask for it pickled, but the bartender will judge your masculinity.

Letter of the day (in the Times)

Also, I cannot stress enough how *little* public support the bridge idea has. It was a Berlusconi scam, inherited by his successors.

He's exceptional. The best is when - very often - he replies to offensive messages by sending himself up much more than his would be attackers.

I loved this game so much that I'm on my second playthrough. Which is crazy given the time demand.

Having read Black Company (the first trilogy) *after* playing the game, the game nails the gritty, human, desperate dark fantasy tone and the military aspects significantly better than even the book does.

It's rare to see my hobbies break containment and end up on my timeline for this account - but this thread was a delight, and Band of Blades is a memorable, memorable game.

This was an excellent workshop!

I sure hope you're right; I'm just becoming a cynic.

I think if push really comes to shove, we'll see a special regime for Americans, because they're Americans.

Meanwhile, the political and normative costs accumulate: erosion of IL, weakening of nonproliferation norms, and the creeping normalisation of preventive force. At some point, we’ll need to ask whether all this performative force is masking a deeper strategic vacuum.

Not to be petty, but I find it especially delicious that the source of this graph is Albright's ISIS, who were the standard-bearers of attacking the JCPOA for being "insufficient".

This meme is patently wrong: it ignores that time in 2011 when guided weapons and air power made ground operations obsolete in Libya.

If the Khamenei regime does ever fall you end up with the question of who gets there hands on 400 kilograms of 60% enriched uranium whose location in Iran is currently unclear

Screenshot of a whatsapp chat. A participant writes: "Domino's pizza restaurants in the vicinity of the Pentagon experiencing a surge in demand. Doesn't sound good", adding a sad face. My reply: "Yeah, you'd hope US defence people had better taste in pizza." This comment has two laughing face emoji reacts, which is probably overly generous.

When reason fails, I can at least count on being an Italian stereotype.

*stares at the guitar collection*

Perhaps, they should also ask themselves "if i were to be held to this column for the rest of my life, how would I feel?"

The most basic coating of existentialism does wonders for those of us not religiously inclined.

Where I take issue is not you having an opinion at odds with mine. Is actively seeking out people who are clearly expressing, at minimum, hurt and worry, and deliberately telling them to stop complaining because they're wrong.

I love all the language in your profile that seems to point to you being open, international, tolerant.

And then, all you do is tell us (sweetly, passive-aggressively), to shut the fuck up, we don't know what's going on and what's good for us.

You could try listening, instead.

So why did they use this language? If the problem was social cohesion, why not SAY social cohesion?

Either it's a comms mistake where they accidentally implied something VERY different, and they should distance themselves from that;

Or it's a dog whistle, which is too bleak to consider.

And someone who believes the Reform narrative would 100% read that sentence as "being made stranger in my own land because it's now occupied by foreigners who want to replace me". That is absolutely out of Powell's speech.

Again, this is a core audience for Labour (somehow)

So...

(cont'd)

We now have an explanation: "island of strangers" means "lack of social cohesion", nothing to do with Powell. This is now The Truth; insisting on the matter is gauche and misguided.

BUT

Labour MUST have known how a Reform voter - an audience they think about a lot - would hear it.

(cont'd)

Starmer's anti-immigrant speech today wasn't just a moral and political embarrassment. It was also an intellectual embarrassment.

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After reading more news, I should also apologise for my role in inflicting "incalculable damage" to this country.

This gov't does not seem to have any interest in "highly educated" knowledge economy jobs. The message is that (apart from finance and AI), we're not real people and it's not real jobs - the important stuff is elsewhere.

See the attitude on universities or UK Media failing.