Having assessed, I’d say this is the book you want for the nuts and bolts of How It Came To This: the ugly details. I’d say however that to really appreciate the all-channels vainglorious, reckless, self-indulgent idiocy - the staggering pomposity - then the positive, supportive write-ups are better

Back when they were introduced, the argument was 'graduates earn 100k more over their lifetime sp should pay up', so...

Interesting way of admitting that graduates earn shit nowadays. Or is this to cover the astronomical rises in Chancellor's pay?

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++ THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: The surest way to win a battle is to attack before the enemy knows they are fighting. The surest way to lose is to not realise who your enemy is. ++

By the old Holy Terran dates (UTC) it is 'Thursday'

So now I'm unbending enough to consider a 60s UK CoC game.

An era of opening up, culture clash, drugs, alternative cults etc.

Had a talk woth the OH about this. She wants a straight-up Call of Cthulhu game; I'm not fond for various reasons, but also she wants to make an AP of it and I'd rather give the air to a lesser known game.

Content doesn't bother me - we're bending reality and having weird imagery regardless.

This isn't mine, and I can't definitively find the original source. But I love this little bit of wisdom:

"If you're a fifteen-minute walk from a coffee shop, but the server there has to drive an hour to get to work, you don't live in a walkable city. You live in a theme park."

Those who are fine with genocide really aren't going to care about anything less than that.

I hope the American people can find the strength to throw off their oppressors and bring democracy to their nation.

Microsoft is telling Windows 11 users to uninstall KB5074109 Microsoft is urging Windows 11 users to uninstall update KB5074109 after widespread bug reports, including performance drops and broken features.

I spent the better part of a day dealing with this, and luckily I was able to resurrect my machine without a full reset.

Microslop is a mess. In the last five years I have seen more critical fuckups like this than I saw in three decades of IT.

YouTube video by Creative Magpie You know NOTHING about Feudalism

So, @creativemagpie.bsky.social has created a video on feudalism,

If you haven't checked it out already, follow this link, and you'll see I've done you the favour of posting a link to MY video on feudalism in the comments.

Click THAT link and enjoy

youtu.be/0-w8QgOPqJg?...

Why indeed? Well, aside from anything else: the hacks certainly knew Keir was the candidate of the wreckers, because they knew who had been wrecking all along. And they were silent about it because *they wanted the wreckers to succeed and win*.

100%. I honestly believe political leaders ask too little of people. The thinking is you need an extraordinarily low bar - so ask people for money or to sign something. People want to be part of something and they're eager to do real meaningful work in defense of their community and their rights.

ruthlessly exploit. We now know that McSweeney played a central, undisclosed role in seeding the 'antisemitism crisis' narrative for years. We now know that he was secretly involved in 'engi-neerling! the EHRC's investigation into Corbyn's Labour Party. We now know that he then guided Starmer to the leadership of the party and installed loyalists throughout the party bureaucracy. We now know that the Starmer Project then withdrew Corbyn's legally sound defence against the BHRC's critical findings and replaced it with an admission of guilt for offences Corbyn's leadership team did not in fact commit. We now know that McSweeney personally attended the meeting that decided to suspend Corbyn for arguably describing precisely what McSweeney had been doing for years in the shadows. We now know that the party suspended Corbyn using the very clause in Labour's rule book that invalidated the EHRC's findings and proved that Corbyn's office was not guilty of 'political interference' as defined by the EHRC. We now know that McSweeney, Starmer, and their associates met to suspend Corbyn less than an hour after Starmer promised the country that precisely this sort of thing would never happen again. Perhaps we now know never stood a chance. that Corbyn, and the popular

A helpful brief summary here, and I would add - the national press played along with every single bit of this bleak, idiotic heist. I can’t think of anything nearly like it happening in any democratic nation on Earth.

"Time and again, the Torah repeats how we must treat the stranger: You shall not oppress a stranger, for you know the feelings of the stranger, having yourselves been strangers in the land of Egypt. (Exodus 23:9) When a stranger resides with you in your land, you shall not wrong him. The stranger who resides with you shall be to you as one of your citizens; you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. (Leviticus 19:33-34). Our tradition is quite clear: We are called upon to protect the stranger, the refugee, the immigrant. There are specific instructions about citizenship rights and land ownership and guidelines for the treatment of widows and orphans.

You shall not oppress a stranger, for you know the feelings of the stranger, having yourselves been strangers in the land of Egypt.

As my colleague, Rabbi Shai Held, puts it: 'The Torah could have responded quite differently to the experience of oppression in Egypt. It could have said, since you were tyrannized and exploited and no one did anything to help you, you don't owe anything to anyone; how dare anyone ask anything of you? But it chooses the opposite path: Since you were exploited and oppressed, you must never be among the exploiters and degraders. You must remember what it feels like to be a stranger. Empathy must animate and intensify your commitment to the dignity and wellbeing of the weak and vulnerable. And God holds you accountable to this obligation.' (Rabbi Shai Held, Turning Memory into Empathy)."

The superficiality of UK & US state actions to purportedly ‘defend’ Jews, while deliberately obfuscating the substantive content of Jewish teachings, our moral and obligations to others, and replace it with 20th c. Christian-influenced ultranationalism, means they launder their own hateful doctrine

If you haven't played heavily modded #Morrowind, you have no idea what you're missing out on. It's still the best TES game in terms of worldbuilding, story, roleplaying, and immersion. Now it simply looks gorgeous and alien as well: perhaps as much so as to a young mind when it first came out.

Post and photo of a sign. Post John Lyon @johnlyon.bsky.... Think of all the tips lost. Photo: DUE TO UNFORESEEN CIRCUMCISIONS THE DINING ROOM WILL BE CLOSED THIS EVENING!! SORRY FOR THE INCONVENIENCE! OPEN FOR TAKEOUT AND DELIVERY ONLY!! Context: Circumcisions in the sign is a typo which can be assumed to have been I tende circumstances. Circumsitions is the removal of the forskin of the penis. John Lyon’s referencing to “tips” is a play on words meing both gratuity for services rendered such as to the waitstaff of a restaurant and to the tip of the penis.

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Bilbo looking at his phone top on bottom is ChatGPT After all, why not? Why shouldn't I keep it? You're absolutely right — you found it, it's been with you a long while, and it's only natural to feel fond of something that's served you so well, especially when someone like Gandalf suddenly seems to want it for himself.

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++ THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: It is through the Destruction of our Enemies, that we Earn our Salvation ++

By the old Holy Terran dates (UTC) it is 'Wednesday'

A collage wallpaper of illustrations and a render of protag Konoko posed with her pistol

A wallpaper of Konoko armed with a belt fed machine gun looking yummily more muscular and rugged in a ripped and torn bodysuit

Happy 25th birthday to Bungie's Oni 🔥

We're wedged right in between it rolling out in Europe and North America on PC, Mac and PS2. So, after sharing some last week, I'll get some more Oni love in with some cool wallpapers on a magazine CDROM from the time.

So this is the full Wheaton thread and I have to say how disappointing but not surprising it is that Star Trek actors keep coming out as libs, not lefties.

I am certain this justification was used by centrists and the Labour Right in the UK as well.

Dat's der bunny.

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I forget who, but some high-up Dem literally said 'for every one of them [the left] we lose, we will gain two moderate Republican voters.'

Yeah, remind me how well that worked.

Well, I mean the first half happened...

I mean 'they' do try to reach out, buy only so they can waggle a stentorian finger in our faces and not listen.

Which is annoying as shit.

lil just address the elephant next to the pony, okay? It's not Palestine, it's not trans rights. That's what some number of people decided, and screamed at me about, but never said that. I define the pony as the bad faith demand a candidate pass an ever changing purity test, or else. 87 ฿ 45 23 ••. Wil Wheaton • @wilwheaton.net We reach out to these people over and over again, try to meet them where they're at, show what's at stake, and ask for their help to stop it. But it's never enough, so they support, passively or directly, someone who will do great harm, while they blame us for not delivering the perfect candidate.

*The Chapo Trap House guys* were saying the Biden admin had unexpectedly good policies, right up until the genocide began. That tells me it was probably the genocide that was the issue, lads.

Graph of EU quarterly gas imports by source, from Q1 2021 to Q4 2025 Imports from Russia decrease over time by about three quarters, imports from the US increase about fivefold total imports decrease slightly, but not hugely Source: Bruegel based on ENTSOG, GIE and Bloomberg https://www.bruegel.org/dataset/european-natural-gas-imports

Wind and solar overtook fossil fuels in EU power generation in 2025 Share of electricity generation annually, percentage combined wind and solar grows from 10% in 2015 to 30% in 2025, fossil fuels drop from a bit above 40% in 2015 to 29% in 2025 Guardian graphicSource: Ember. Note: Other clean includes bioenergy and other renewables. Fossil includes coal, gas and other fossil https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/22/wind-and-solar-overtook-fossil-fuels-in-power-generation-for-eu-in-2025-report

Monthly passenger battery EV and standard petrol car registrations in the EU from January to December 2025. Source: ACEA. Sales of petrol cars and battery electric cars converge over the years since 2022, and electric overtakes petrol at the end of 2025 https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-evs-just-outsold-petrol-cars-in-eu-for-first-time-ever/

Installed battery storage in the EU, from 2016 to 2025 Between 0 and 1 GWh in 2016 grows to 27.3 GWh in 2025, a 45% increase on 2024 Source: solar power europe https://www.solarpowereurope.org/press-releases/new-report-eu-installs-27-1-g-wh-of-new-batteries-in-2025-as-utility-scale-storage-drives-record-growth

graph time 📊 one bad, three good

The EU has mainly just replaced Russian gas, instead of burning less – hugely dependent on the US

But there's hope! In the EU, in 2025:
☀️ wind & solar produced more power than fossil fuels
🚗 more electric cars were sold than petrol
🔋 battery storage broke records

I feel like there's a joke to be made here about DnD and colonisation, but I can't quite figure it.

Touch of a Harry Enfield character there - "I am considerably more fashier than yaaaau!"

Warhammer takedowns, EB Games closures & Ubisoft embarrassment: all the news from January 22-27

aftermath.site/warhammer-take...

The Guardian•@theguardian.com • 11m Labour risks election wipeout unless it improves Britain's high streets, study finds

The public are IMO entitled to ask why they were assured the incoming Johnson government would fix stuff like this and why - when that didn’t happen, as it was *very obviously* never going to happen - everyone who told them it would simply moved on to fluffing up the next pack of bullshit artists.