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Labour’s rebuttal to the Green party this week sums up the double standard that dogs our politics | Frances Ryan Why is it that the politics of hope offered up by the left is dismissed as naive, while the policies of the centre and right are portrayed as all that is possible? asks Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

“Here’s the bias of politics: leftwing policies are portrayed as unrealistic and childish, while the centre and right’s ideas are framed as sensible and all that’s possible.”

My column on a system that welcomes Reform and dismisses the Greens as fantasy. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

YouTube video by People Make Games The Rockstar Workers Fired Before They Could Finish GTA 6

I went to meet the 'Rockstar 31', the developers who were suddenly fired from their work on GTA 6 for what the studio has described as gross misconduct.

That's not what the workers call it though. They have another couple of words they prefer to use: union busting.

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Have you played Withering Rooms? I tried the demo recently and, oh boy, I think you'll dig the aesthetic!

Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …

So disappointed in Swery for that. AI is a no go for me.

79% of homes sold in Dublin this year were bought by landlords, 75% by large landlords. About 1 in 5 TDs are landlords.

This is disgusting dog whistling. The problem has never been people seeking asylum. The problem is people seeking to endlessly profit from folks just looking for a home.

"What if your robot was just a guy?"

Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein is, as expected, a masterpiece of gothic excess. But above all else it is a hugely sympathetic portrait that understands Mary Shelley's creature. The film asks for understanding to all those cast aside, neglected. It is a film not of absolution, but hope.

National renewal isn't just moving money around. It's about completely rewiring the state and the economy.

Is the Prime minister subtweeting me?

Tax wealth. Not work.

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Lost in the Garden is my favourite debut horror novel since Tell Me I'm Worthless. A psychedelic 70's folk horror flick unfolding in dream-like prose. Highly recommended.

On Violence | Gretchen Felker-Martin Get more from Gretchen Felker-Martin on Patreon

For those who missed it, here's my obituary for Charlie Kirk, a man who made the world worse every day he drew breath.

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Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.

If you only read one piece today about how wrong Ezra Klein is when he claims Kirk did politics the right way, make it this piece by Ta-Nehisi Coates where he asks: “If you would look away from the words of Charlie Kirk, from what else would you look away?”
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BREAKING: Award-winning Scottish screenwriter Paul Laverty has been arrested after wearing a T-shirt reading 'Genocide in Palestine, time to take action'

Police arrested the I, Daniel Blake writer in Edinburgh this morning

The Switch 2's killer app is finally out, the Gamecube's Chibi Robo.

Save Arena Essex- Tell Google to search elsewhere!   Wedged between the Mar Dyke Valley and Lakeside Retail Park, the former Arena Essex Raceway is not your usual wildlife haven. Where once stock cars and speedway bikes lined up to cross the fini...

Google plans to bulldoze a wildlife haven in Essex – home to rare species – for a data centre. Sign the petition now to help save it before it’s gone forever 🐝🦋 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

If anybody is in the fence about Duolingo becoming absolutely AI slop I just, with no prompting had this sentence: "That dog passed away four hundred years ago."

Good for memorising Kanji though. Maybe my phone is haunted.

The annoying crowd behind us actually shut up (for the most part) when that one character first appeared.

I was not expecting the ending to be as funny as it was.

Starmer's Labour are not just as bad as the Tories, they are worse. Vile bigots.

Fair play, this bot really nailed the unique passive aggressive tone you can expect from MPs when having to actually speak with constituents.

Kinda want to become a puppet guy.

I have started to develop the uncanny ability to predict what is a Simon Jenkins article before I click on it. A man obsessed with being wrong.

We must expose the government’s complicity in genocide.

Same. I want so bad for it to be good. I am not blown away by what we've seen but cautiously optimistic all the same.

doodle of donkey kong and lil pauline from banzanza

they are v cute 🦧🎤✨

What video game ignited your passion for gaming? (GIFs only)

The first time a game world felt like a real, living place with all the warmth and threat that entails. Every new room was a new discovery, everything felt do player directed and natural.

Superman isn't perfect, who cares? It has heart, feels lived in without feeling like an advertisement for other media properties and is exactly the film it wants to be while feeling relevant and necessary for the moment. Maybe it's maudlin, but the scene between Clarke and his father is moving.