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Alice Bell

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oooh you may like @annieknk.bsky.social's Truly, Tradly, Deeply series, touches on some similar things - the tradwife lifestyle being sold to women as that kind of princess treatment

04.03.2026 12:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Sadly, Wuthering Heights Discourse Is That Deep
YouTube video by Princess Weekes Sadly, Wuthering Heights Discourse Is That Deep

Princess Weekes did a Wuthering Heights video a week ago! And I missed it! She's always a must watch (the phrase 'girliepopification of anti-intellectualism' is going to stick with me after this one) www.youtube.com/watch?v=9734...

04.03.2026 11:44 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

oh my god I didn't know this, I was genuinely going to buy some Corners because of their big art attack ad but NO LONGER

04.03.2026 09:48 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

it feels like cyberpunk and the London gangster genre are an obvious fit, I dunno why there hasn't been more cockney cyberpunk stuff

we could call it "cockneypunk," you could have razorbirds and netgeezers

04.03.2026 08:53 β€” πŸ‘ 145    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 24    πŸ“Œ 10

This is off the table stuff. We were meant to have moved in from this. This should finish the party unless it's seen to radically address it. And Labour should stop using Reforms popularity as a justification for its right wing policies. Of course none of this will happen

04.03.2026 06:35 β€” πŸ‘ 100    πŸ” 21    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0
A close up of a 20 sided die I’m holding ib my fingers, it’s clear with purple numbers on each triangular face, but has dark swirly inclusions and the centre is like a tiny snow globe full of blue and purple shimmers

A close up of a 20 sided die I’m holding ib my fingers, it’s clear with purple numbers on each triangular face, but has dark swirly inclusions and the centre is like a tiny snow globe full of blue and purple shimmers

This is a cheat because I ordered this a long time ago so not really a 2k6 buy BUT - handmade Gale from Baldur’s Gate 3 d20 with a sparkly liquid core by The Twilight Grove in Australia www.thetwilightgrove.com

03.03.2026 22:58 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Thrifty Business on Steam Run your very own thrift shop in this laid-back management sim! Sort through boxes to find hidden treasures and arrange nostalgic displays of clothes, antiques, toys & more. Befriend the regulars,...

Thrifty Business! Lost hours to this - very chilled out managment sim about runnin ga second hand shop, with the unpacking element of Unpacking. store.steampowered.com/app/3693650/...

03.03.2026 22:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Titanium Court on Steam A surreal strategy game for clowns and criminals.

Titanium Court! Your maximalist theatre director was like 'we're doing a modern fourth-wall-breaking take on A Midsummer Night's Dream, and also it's a strategy game now.' store.steampowered.com/app/2364580/...

03.03.2026 21:18 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Dosa Divas Demo on Steam Battle an evil fast food empire in this spicy narrative turn-based RPG. Two sisters and their upgradable spirit-mech cook delicious meals, fight corpos, build up your reputation with local communities...

Dosa Divas! Turn-based combat meets delicious food meets faaaaaamily meets very beautiful art that I love. Plus an extremely good robot, you know i love a good robot - store.steampowered.com/app/4316300/...

03.03.2026 20:00 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Greg: What’s next?

Alex: Well, sometimes we like to set a task for just one of our contestants. Or, in this case, twelve different tasks.

Hercules: Oh for f -

Greg: Roll VT!

03.03.2026 18:42 β€” πŸ‘ 79    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 3

She's like an old samurai whose great battles are behind her but every once in a while she kills a man with piece of paper just to prove a point

02.03.2026 23:44 β€” πŸ‘ 4955    πŸ” 845    πŸ’¬ 46    πŸ“Œ 12

I expect benefits are also gonna rise faster than inflation because of all the abuse and intimidation claimants face

03.03.2026 11:45 β€” πŸ‘ 42    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Also we recorded it on my birthday so I am drinking throughout, for whatever that's worth

03.03.2026 15:25 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Total Playtime: The Trials of Anubis Dead reckoning

Really great supporters episode of Total Playtime last week some absolutely vintage use of voice changers by Nate, and @brendyc.bsky.social hubris/backstabbing www.jank.cool/total-playti...

03.03.2026 15:24 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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aspen in the moment craft related drama videos business inquiries: madeinthemoment.shop@gmail.com

They haven't posted in a bit but this was my favourite craft drama channel www.youtube.com/@aspeninthem...

03.03.2026 14:15 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

fuck, I’m sorry, I can’t compete with this

03.03.2026 13:29 β€” πŸ‘ 17249    πŸ” 3954    πŸ’¬ 52    πŸ“Œ 806

[trent reznor disliked that]

03.03.2026 14:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Jenny Nicholson Vampire Diaries over here.

03.03.2026 13:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

See and NOW we're having a conversation

03.03.2026 13:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

'I enjoy meaningful conversations'. Oh weird, I like empty meaningless ones.

03.03.2026 13:56 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Like yeah I too love nutrients and holidays but let’s cut the shit and just tell me your most watched YouTube video

03.03.2026 13:47 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 0

Trying Bumble BFF to meet new friends here and it was okay in Ireland but I stg everyone in the UK just loves Sunday lunches and travel??

03.03.2026 13:46 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

Looking FAB, happy birthday!

03.03.2026 13:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

is it good when country look like poisonous frog

03.03.2026 10:53 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

electorates only do this when they are VERY distressed

03.03.2026 10:54 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

when I die I want to be cremated and mixed into the concrete for repairs to the national theatre building

03.03.2026 10:53 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Well, this is it. It wouldn't have too much ornamentation because that's hard to clean, so he wouldn't like that, and it would be built out of materials that would last a long time in our climate, rather than nice bath stone or whatever.

03.03.2026 10:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Also, repeating my firmly held belief that if you like Victorian redbrick design too much it is because you aren't strong enough to appreciate brutalism, which is LOVELY.

03.03.2026 10:42 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Graham sent it to me and we both got really mad about this transparently fascist dog whistle video getting praise just because he was sort of aping the first half of William Morris's quote. Oh, why aren't bike racks beautiful any more? Because the bike racks we use today WORK and DON'T TAKE UP SPACE

03.03.2026 10:41 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Remember that YouTube essay people loved a while back by a "historian" called Sheehan Quirke that was just going on about Victorian design just because they stuck ivy leaves on everything like 'WHY IS EVERYTHING UGLY NOW?'. Because we design for practicality now! We don't build death pyramids!

03.03.2026 10:39 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 4