Gav Thorpe

hang in there bud

"but it's everywhere now so we just have to accept it's the new reality" motherfucker we can just stop putting it everywhere! we did it with asbestos and CFCs and lead-based paint or petrol and make-up with arsenic in it! if everyone is using something and it's bad, we can choose to stop!

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This is going around again and it is not true. Like every site on the internet, Bluesky uses machine learning to do a first-pass approximation of image classification to detect and label content. They have repeatedly confirmed outside services do not use Bluesky user data to train their models.

GO PLAY OUR GAMEEEEE

There’s a email form on my contact page 🙂

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Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

I don't talk about skirmish games on the Yarkshire Gamer #Podcast it's not because I hate them, it's because I'm s^*t at them, here's the last attempt, 1 box of plastics & a tank effort 🤷
#wargames #tabletopgaming #hobby #history

This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

Old gaming sales charts are fascinating. I wonder what the rights to Horace and the Spiders costs now.

Wait, wait, wait, does that mean that if you give people money, they will be able to create more serenely, earn more, and therefore pay more taxes and need less aids? And therefore make a profit?

Oh well, who would have thought!...

PS: Rather than hoarding money like ultra-rich parasites

Thank YOU to everyone who has helped make our first week a success 🙏

Good news up to a very specific point. "The tax authority still has data blind spots, however. This year HMRC was criticised by a parliamentary committee for not knowing how much tax billionaires paid."

if you needed another reason to stop using spotify:

This would single-handedly transform the lives of everyone I know in such profound ways it is difficult to fully articulate, but it would also let us actually make more and different and crazy things

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

What Americans Die from?

And what the media reports on...

Our World in Data ourworldindata.org/does-the-new...

I almost became a part-time cleric but we switched system.

"IT ABSOLUTELY WILL STOP!!!"

I want to beat this into the head of every person out there encouraging us to just silo ourselves off into smaller communities.

If that worked for us we would have done it already. We *do* do that. It's called a goddamn Discord server.

But we still got marketing to do.

Hey chums , don’t forget that tomorrow is a special day for a free speech warrior & surprise masturbator to join hands at Riyadh comedy festival (& Jack Whitehall will be there for some splashback) - & they’ll still be on your TV all the time because these values are more acceptable than socialism

"hand-to-hand combat with antifa every night"

I find coloured art standees nicer than grey plastic for board games, but know I’m not the target demographic.

Kickstarter's Project We Love badge. It is circular with the words in an outer rim and a throbbing heart in the centre.

Excellent news! Our Kickstarter campaign has been selected as a Project We Love by the Kickstarter team.
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KITCHENWARE COMPANY BOSS: So, did you come up with a name for that revolving food tray, Susan?

SUSAN: No, couldn't be arsed.

zeldawilliams 20m From Create Mode •• Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want. To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough, , just so other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it. Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

We’re always putting the boot into some evil spellslinger in our campaign with @markalatham.bsky.social One of the bastards we had to kill twice and he’s still annoying us from inside a magic gem. Undead wizards have become a speciality, always stocking up on holy water now.

Goblin-like? Does that make it a Froudian slip?