Seán MacGabhann

Since genAI has completely fucked the market for home computers, I guarantee there'll be an article complaining that people are playing older and less resource-intensive games and how this is killing the AAA gaming industry

Button press meme. Transphobic British Press unable to decide which button. One is labelled "neurodivergent kids aren't really neurodivergent" the other is labelled "trans kids are actually just neurodivergent"

Here we go

The thing I can't get over with Fartage is that he is a thundering racist, but the entire English media has been engaged in a twenty-year conspiracy to pretend that he isn't.

Brighton ban Guardian from stadium over reporting on Tony Bloom Reporters and photographers have been banned by the Premier League club, as a Guardian spokesperson said the reporting was in the public interest

The "allegations" concerning Bloom are common knowledge within the football and gambling worlds and have been for years. Pathetic, profoundly misjudged reaction from BHAFC, who should ready themselves for this to blow in their faces.
www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Exclusive: Farage reported to police over ‘election fraud’ Former campaign team member’s claim of overspending in Clacton is rejected by Reform UK

'A spokesman for the party said: “These inaccurate claims come from a disgruntled former councillor. The party was disgusted by his inappropriate sexual behaviour with women, and he was expelled several months ago."'

Charming people all round, it seems.

www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/989c0d4...

Again. Worth a read (this is a follow up to last week’s post)

“Now that I’m over my own disorder, and I seem to be earning a decent wedge from Murdoch inc, let me tell you plebs what you are all doing wrong, you weak weak people”

Brighton bans Guardian from stadium over reporting on Tony Bloom Reporters and photographers have been banned by the Premier League club, as a Guardian spokesperson said the reporting was in the public interest

Oh dear @officialbha.bsky.social

Oh dear oh dear

Boycott-worthy. And I mean the club not the paper

Never go full Trump

www.theguardian.com/football/202...

None whatsoever

Another cheap-ass Stephen King adaptation hits the screen

'We're taking hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty... then we're deporting half of them next week'... bsky.app/profile/dani...

I should note that I am a hardline “rejoiner”. I wear the label with gusto. But I mean it in proper sense

Defeat both the weird exceptionalism of British people who think we can JUST reverse gear AND the weird anti-eu extremists

Get get cross-party consensus and then start long rejoin process

This is absolutely on the button. What’s more, there is absolutely no way to begin the journey back into the EU until the pro-Brexit right in the UK is irrevocably defeated. As things stand, this is not even the priority for a lot of those in the UK who do want to return to the EU.

Caching up on “the news”

People see to be WAY more surprised about Sky Stallone than I thought possible

Did people really think he was a thoughtful, liberal kinda guy?

Shamina Begum must be held accountable for her actions when she was 15. Whereas I should not, because I was a mere child.

Look, you need to be pragmatic about stuff like this.

Is it cowardly? Of course. Is the policy itself morally reprehensible? Sure. Is it a laughably blatant all-in adoption of what the far right wants? Yeah. But is it working for Labour? Absolutely not.

it does feel like an intense societal problem that the founder of palantir, the biggest survellience company, thinks like this

Kremlin hails Trump’s national security strategy as aligned with Russia’s vision Moscow welcomes White House document critical of the EU as talks to end the Ukraine war enter a key phase The Kremlin has heaped praise on Donald Trump’s latest national security strategy, calling it an encouraging change of policy that largely aligns with Russian thinking. The remarks follow the publication of a White House document on Friday that criticises the EU and says Europe is at risk of “civilisational erasure”, while making clear the US is keen to establish better relations with Russia. Continue reading...

Kremlin hails Trump’s national security strategy as aligned with Russia’s vision

March 29, 2023.

I love this recurring bit where journos try to ask Starmer what motivates him and his answer is always something lofty that bears no relation to his policies

there are moments in Bowie's last months where he seems to be staging these wildly symbolic endpoints, as if to thwart future biopics. "I did this, you don't need to."

DB taking a bow with Michael C. Hall, Cristin Milioti et al

Bowie heading home

Enda Walsh: at the end of the show, Bowie “went around to everyone in the theater… he wanted to celebrate the stage managers & the doormen — he thanked everyone.” When Bowie left through the front door, out to his car on East 4th St., “I knew that was going to be the last time I would see him.”

I think when Starmer is ousted and looks back he won’t recognise what he did in power as being him

People say its McSweeney or whoever else - but I’m beginning to view all these slogans and campaigns as the result of his belief in AI

Every single band listed this week was like hanging out with my friend group in Swindon in 1986/7. Fuzzbox got a pass for change in direction but Eldritch was loathed for the floodland direction

Ten years ago today, David Bowie & Iman attended the Lazarus premiere at The New York Theatre Workshop in New York City.

David took to the stage at the end of the performance for his final bow.

This was to be his last public appearance.

#BowieForever ❤️

Keir Starmer: ‘The Greens are anti-Nato and think it’s all right to sell drugs. That’s nuts’ | The Observer

An excellent piece from @rachelsylvester.bsky.social

Starmer comes across as deeply odd. A huge sense of detachment between him and the reality of this Labour government.

His quote on the threat of Reform is delusional coming from this deeply racist government.

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Nigel Farage has cash in the bag. It’s his teenage self he has to beat The Reform UK leader is celebrating a record £9m donation and another Tory defection. But will racism allegations from his school days scare off unsure voters?

I think this article is pretty repugnant in and of itself - but that it should be so prominent in a major newspaper speaks volumes as to why uk is so banjaxed

Inability to come out and call a racist a racist

www.thetimes.com/article/816f...

You’d never guess Elon Musk just got a fine for deceiving people on X

With his party riding high in the polls, toasting a game-changing £9m donation and welcoming its first Tory defector in the Lords, Nigel Farage seems to be sitting pretty. But creeping allegations of racist schoolboy behaviour — and his belligerent response to them — could harm his chances of winning over wavering voters, writes Josh Glancy (Cartoon of shocked? angry? frightened? people under the money bags holding placards saying ‘BIGOT’, ‘RACIST’ and ‘NAZI NIGEL’)

Crick believes that there is a clear line to be drawn between Farage the sixth-former and Farage the politician. "So much of his character is the same as you can see at Dulwich," he says. "The boy who's desperate for attention, who loves debating, who loves division. The English nationalism, the interest - almost obsession - with immigration, the admiration for Enoch Powell, the free-market Thatcherism; all of that began at Dulwich." Much of the public has already made up its mind on Farage. In as much as this story cuts through to the wider elector-ate, some will think it deeply unfair to judge Farage on his adolescence; while others will see it as fair game and reflective of the man he later became. But there will be many who are still undecided on Farage and, for this last camp, his belligerent response to the allegations will be a test. He has the polling support. He has the Tory defections. He has the money now too. But does he have the ability to woo and keep voters who once found him unsavoury? Farage is unlikely to change tack now. "He's got to be true to him-self," says the senior Reform source. "There is precious little point in apologising to people like Ed Davey." Additional Reporting: Harry Yorke

On why Farage doesn’t apologise for his schoolboy racism:
“if he apologised, he would be turning to his own support base and saying, ‘You’re all guilty too.’ ”
Exactly.
He is racist. So are his voters. He can’t be pissing them off by saying sorry.
#NeverPM

www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Another good point