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The letters AB CON, large and in white, on a blue background. A chess pawn is inside the A, two dice inside the B, and an outline map of Africa inside the O. Faded in the background are people playing board games.

Four pictures of people sitting around tables playing board games.

Africa’s longest-running board game convention, Nigeria's AB Con, is hoping to double its attendance this year after exceeding its goal in its latest, ongoing Kickstarter:

boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...

The KS is still live if you're able to help @nibcard.bsky.social and the team with backing!

YouTube video by Larry & Paul UK Media Shifts Tone on Gaza - #BrokenNews

The algo obviously HATES us talking about this.

So would you do us a favour and share?

UK Media Shifts Tone on Gaza - #BrokenNews
youtu.be/WmFD42E5_W4

Please don't plug keyboards or other devices into random USB ports, ok?

Everyone is celebrating him for his (obviously wonderful) songs but I am also celebrating him for releasing all his works into the public domain and insisting he retained no copyrights over any of it.

This has been absolutely destroying me the last few days.

New series of MasterChef is pretty short

Save 80% on She Could Fly: Documentary Escape Game on Steam Tiger Orchid is a streamer who has found herself trapped in the new release 'She Could Fly: Documentary Escape Game'. Play along with Tiger as she enters a flat covered in comic book art. Who lives he...

We have a mega-two week sale on our game on STEAM. 99p or $1.00 - what that's cheaper than chips? Only takes 90-mins and has a lovely soundtrack... store.steampowered.com/app/2679650/...

The UK did have one standout product that was considered globally valuable- universities- and unilaterally decided to stop providing the product because it was more important to be xenophobic than successful

1 [Title panel] Celebrity Race Across The World 2 [Voiceover] Meanwhile in Italy, Yvette and Ed have to cross a river. [Show YVETTE COOPER and ED BALLS standing on a riverbank. At Yvette’s feet is a canoe. Ed is reading a guidebook.] 3 ED BALLS: Yvette - are you sure crossing the Rubicon is a good idea? YVETTE COOPER: It’s the only way, Ed. 4 ED BALLS: Only it says in the guidebook ‘The Rubicon is noted for the on-the-nose political annotations which can be seen in its currents’… 5 ED BALLS [squinting up from his guidebook to look at the river]: Oh yeah, look - 6 [We see an elevated view of the river, where the words BANNING NONVIOLENT PROTEST are written in the waves]. 7 YVETTE COOPER: Cor, that’s amazing! 8 ED BALLS: And I can’t help noticing the canoe you’ve found has ‘THE FOLLY OF POWER’ written on it [Show their canoe by Yvette’s feet, with THE FOLLY OF POWER written on the side]. 9 ED BALLS: And can you see that *sign* on the other side… 10 [Show the land on the other sign of the river which has a sign stuck in the ground reading]: AN ACTUAL AUTHORITARIAN DYSTOPIA, DON’T BE MENTAL 11 YVETTE COOPER: Sorry Ed - remind me what you do again…? ED BALLS: An awful podcast with George Osborne. YVETTE COOPER: And I’m…? 12 ED BALLS: Home Secretary. YVETTE COOPER: Get in the on-the-nose canoe, Ed. [ends]

Good morning, a heads-up that BBC Radio 4 Extra recently started repeating the brilliant spoof radio shows On The Hour and Radio Active, you can catch up on the first two episodes via BBC Sounds

That Coldplay gig round video screen except instead of that married CEO and the lass he is banging, it’s everyone’s least favourite US president with his arm round Jeffrey Epstein

WeTransfer TOS says they can use all your uploaded content for genAI

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

Flat Batteries Monte Carlo · Flat Batteries · Song · 2025

New Monte Carlo ‘Flat Batteries’ album out on Thursday open.spotify.com/track/0osVjM...

This is the real and only link to our ko-fi page!

The Fantastic Four but it's the worst Prime Ministers in history: Johnson, Truss, Cameron, Sunak and the Maybot.

The 4 panel Drake meme. The top left panel shows Drake turning his face away from the glowing green eyes of Medusa in the top right panel. The bottom left panel shows a smiling Drake, with his eyes wide open and a smile on his face, who's now been turned to stone because he looked into the glowing green eyes of Medusa in the bottom right panel.

"Release the Kraken!"

'Clash of the Titans' was released in the UK on this day in 1981.

The 'You wouldn't steal a car' meme. It reads 'you wouldn't do a mean chant about a military currently engaging in what the UN & Amnesty International have called a Genocide'

I honestly think that if Jason Donovan rereleased his 1989 song "too many broken hearts in the world" but the replaced the words 'broken hearts' with 'fucking cunts' he's got a worldwide hit on his hands.

legalising assisted dying when you're simultaneously slashing disability benefits is simply coercing people into suicide and could legally be considered manslaughter

Family coercion is one risk, the much bigger risk, in a society that often fails to comprehend the reality of sick & disabled lives, is systemic coercion. There’s a lot of talk of ‘choice in death’ but many of us don’t have choice over how we live 3/3

I’m worried this will make my support much more expensive and I may be pressured to move to residential care - loosing my home as a result. This is the context in which #AssistedDying is being discussed. 2/3

I’ve been vocal about the impact the cuts to my Access To Work support have had on my job. I haven’t explained publicly my biggest fear - I’ve lost 45hrs of support a week and if this isn’t reinstated I’ll have to go back to #SocialCare & #NHS to cover these lost hours 1/3

cartoon for the guardian by Stephen Collins - script as follows: [Scene is a darkened LOFT. Amongst the boxes and junk are FOUR KNACKERED OLD FANS - three tower fans and one circular, with cracked grey plastic and buttons missing. One fan, TOWER FAN 1, is a bit taller than the others, and is addressing them] 1 TOWER FAN 1: Right lads, get ready. 2 TOWER FAN 1: This is our time. 3 TOWER FAN 1: The time when we remember who we are, and why we’re here. 4 TOWER FAN 1: We are the four crap fans in a British person’s loft, and we are here to make absolutely no difference whatsoever. 5 TOWER FAN 1: I know what you’re thinking, lads: 6 TOWER FAN 1: Surely this will be the year they finally replace us? 7 TOWER FAN 1: Our plastic’s gone all brown... I haven’t oscillated since 2018... 8 TOWER FAN 1: Dave here sounds like a spitfire and blows like a sad cat’s sigh… TOWER FAN 2: Cheers mate 9 TOWER FAN 1: But no. These people are British, and every year, they forget the sun exists. By the time they remember, new fans will cost *four million pounds* on Amazon. 10 TOWER FAN 1: So we’ll be back down there... shovelling thick air across the moaning faces of a species that cannot comprehend the concept of air conditioning, or even just closing the curtains when it’s hot out... 11 TOWER FAN 1: ...while they incessantly bang on about normally hot countries which this country is now temporarily a bit hotter than. 12 [The loft hatch opens and a person comes up the ladder] PERSON: APPARENTLY IT’S HOTTER THAN GREECE, LISA

british fan chat

The only thing preventing Jess from working is Keir Starmer.

Please watch the videos in this thread. It's unbelievable that a Labour government is forcing disabled people out of work #LabourIsn'tWorking

A row of gashapon machines

Gashapon (or Gachapon) are vending machines found all over Japan that dispense capsules containing miniature toys and other items. There are thousands of different kinds. Here’s a thread of the best ones I saw on my recent trip. 🧵

Black and white cartoon, with title ‘The artists whose work was used when you made a picture using AI, and how much they were paid’. There are six figures, each being creative in some way (painting, drawing, with a phone, at a screen). Underneath the six figures the following captions: ‘Nothing, zero, nil, nought, not a sausage, nowt’.

New drawing: ‘The artists whose work was used when you made a picture using AI, and how much they were paid’. One of ten drawings about AI from Diagram Club #042: open.substack.com/pub/diagramc...

YouTube video by Bagpuss Location, Location, Location, Location, Location, Location

📺 New video! 'Location, Location, Location' is 25 years old, and Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer have helped – or hindered – hundreds of hapless homebuyers. Can they keep their frustrations at bay with three more fussy couples looking for somewhere to live?

‘Godfather’ of AI Yoshua Bengio says latest models lie to users Turing Award winner warns recent models display dangerous characteristics as he launches LawZero non-profit for safer AI

Sigh. LLMs don't lie, because they don't know anything. What all LLMs do, including the latest models, is produce statistically plausible outputs that sometimes resemble the truth and sometimes resemble falsehoods. That's all the tech *can* do www.ft.com/content/2b3c...

No, sadly not this year. Hopefully we'll be back next time