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Bluesky Map Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!

bluesky-map.theo.io

I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

A Blurred screenshot of The NerdyQueer.com website. Text Reads COME AND VISIT OUR NEW HOME Take 20% off with code WELCOMEHOME valid until feb 17th at nerdyqueer.com

A screenshot of the new NerdyQueer.com

HUGE NEWS!

We've left etsy!! Come and visit our BRAND NEW HOME at Nerdyqueer.com!

And you can get TWENTY PERCENT off your orders to celebrate our new, big start with code WELCOMEHOME
Valid until Feb 17th!

Shipping worldwide (except the US, soz, tarriffs are hard to navigate on our own)

Saw Adobe Animate was going down, so I figured I'd help anyone still using it with this immortal handy dandy graph

The Legislation Upon winning a general election, a Reform government under Prime Minister Nigel Farage will: 1) Leave the ECHR 2.) Repeal the Human Rights Act and replace it with a British Bill of Rights. 3.) Pass The Illegal Migration (Mass Deportation) Bill: This Bill will: Create a legal duty to remove illegal migrants for the Home Secretary The Bill opens with a blunt obligation for the Home Secretary: "The Secretary of State shall ensure the removal from the United Kingdom of each person who does not have extant leave to remain and is not an Irish citizen or otherwise protected by regulations made under this Act." The following parts of the legislation are introduced on an emergency basis, with an in-built sunset clause after 5 years: Disapply the 1951 Refugee Convention, the UN Convention Against Torture, the Council of Europe Anti-Trafficking Convention (ECAT) Derogation is justified under the Vienna Convention doctrine of state of necessity: Britain faces a national emergency in which uncontrolled illegal migration undermines public order. These treaties will otherwise be used by activist judges to frustrate deportations, even after the repeals of the HRA and ECHR. Create Detention Power Without Hardial Singh Constraints This means illegal migrants can be detained until they are deported. Activist lawyers routinely use Hardial Singh to secure their client's bail, after which the client absconds. If you came to the UK illegally, you are ineligible for asylum. End of story All asylum claims will become inadmissible if made by a person within the Act's scope. If you came to the country illegally, you are ineligible for asylum in the UK. This strips the Home Office, the immigration tribunals and the higher courts of jurisdiction to even consider claims. A claim that cannot be considered cannot suspend removal and therefore, cannot delay a flight. Re-entering after deportation and destroying ID becomes a serious criminal offence Re-entry after deportation will be…

The Operational Plan We will create an enforcement unit called UK Deportation Command, including an Illegal Migrant Identification Centre - harnessing cutting edge data fusion A Reform government will create a cutting edge enforcement data centre to relentlessly identify and detain all illegal migrants in the UK. Using powers granted by the new legislation, it will automatically share data between the Home Office, NHS, HMRC, DVLA, banks and the police. It will power bulk warrants, including mandatory biometric capture during any police encounter. Each power addresses a failure mode observed over the past decade - for example, banks and GP surgeries unaware of a customer's status, or overstayers slipping through because a warrant covered only a single property. Secure Immigration Removal Centres (SIRC) will be built rapidly to detain up to 24,000 Detention capacity for up to 24,000 will be created within 18 months. The Home Office will build Secure Immigration Removal Centres. This will be modular accommodation built in remote parts of the country. Conditions are basic but not punitive: prefabricated two-person rooms, canteen catering, on-site medical suites. Robust perimeters and internal movement controls prevent escapes. This enables detention-on-arrest: no more bail. This capacity would allow for up to 24,000 illegal migrants to be deported per month. Initial Voluntary Return Window A six-month Assisted Voluntary Return window precedes large-scale raids. Illegal migrants will be offered a financial incentive to self-deport. An app will be launched to facilitate this. The Deportation Flights The Home Office will scale up charters to 5 flights per day. To guard against last-minute aircraft unserviceability, the RAF will keep one Voyager aircraft on six-hour 'hot-spare' readiness. If a commercial charter breaks down, detainees can still be flown out that night, preserving operational integrity. The legal reset will mean activist lawyers will no longer be able preven…

The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions.

It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.

Watching it all from the outside, it's absolutely wild this is the hill folks wanna die on >.<

✨ Hi I'm Josie - I make music for games!

I'm looking for work this spring and I'd love 2 combine forces with a team that wants to make something weird, wild, and full of heart.

Is that you? Let's talk!!

🙋🏻‍♀️ josiebrech@gmail.com
💻 josiebrechner.com

Screenshot: Israel has violated the US-brokered ceasefire nearly 1,200 times since it came into effect in October, killing more than 400 Palestinians and blocking critical humanitarian aid from entering the enclave.

From Al Jazeera

YouTube video by People Make Games Rockstar vs. Union: We Went to Court and Saw the Evidence

We traveled back up to Edinburgh to be there as Rockstar Games and its fired union members took their case to court:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnui...

Hey! No dissing the muppets!

Rogue States that commit international acts of terror deserve their flags burned and their statehood dissolved. Balkanisation, I'm afraid, is the best option. Death to America. This is a reasonable position; continued trade and diplomatic relations is not.

It's a neat trick to say "get beyond the argument" when implicitly you mean "by accepting my position"

If you’re traveling this holiday season, please wear a mask.

Flu and Covid are both surging. No one wants to be sick for the holidays.

A well fitted respirator like an N95 protects you and those around you.

Give yourself (and others!) the gift of good health this year!

People Make Games's latest video is an amazing entry point if you're unaware of BDS's call for a xbox boycott.

While i know the actions proposed by BDS and NGFG are easier for some that follow me than it is for others, please do what you can

bdsmovement.net/news/sign-pl...

YouTube video by People Make Games The Xbox Boycott (Still) Matters

Why We're Boycotting Xbox:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybj1...

YouTube video by The Leftist Cooks Borders

Borders
A video essay by The Leftist Cooks

Where are the front pages about this?

bsky.app/profile/open...

ROCKSTAR UPDATE:

Keir Starmer was just asked about the Rockstar firings in Parliament today where he described the situation as "deeply concerning" and promised it would be looked into by government ministers.

Not that a Starmer promise is worth much, mind.

A graphic which uses the colours of the Palestinian flag: white, black, red and green. Text at the top reads “No games for genocide”, and text at the bottom reads “Boycott Xbox, Sign the pledge”, with the website nogamesforgenocide.com below. In the middle of the graphic is an icon of a fist punching upwards, splitting a missile in half. One half of the broken missile has the Xbox logo on it, and the other half has the Microsoft logo on it.

SIGN OUR BOYCOTT XBOX PLEDGE: We are asking gamers, game workers, streamers & journalists to join us in boycotting & divesting from Xbox, to force Microsoft to end its complicity in the genocide of Palestinians.

We’ve provided concrete actions everyone can take. Sign here: nogamesforgenocide.com

YouTube video by Stephanie Sterling Execucult Of The Techno God

NEW VIDEO: Big business is a death cult worshipping a many-faced Techno God. In an industry full of takers who want to eradicate the makers, so-called AI promises a nonsensical fantasy where games are made for free and sold to a world of laid off former workers. It is unhinged.

youtu.be/xcB_kqpYNhc

Game developers were here first. Not executives.

Game developers make games. Not executives.

Game developers have skills & knowledge important to the business. Not executives.

Game developers deserve to keep their jobs. Not executives.

Executives are replaceable. Not game developers.

"All these workers have ever tried to do is discuss their pay and conditions to improve them, so they can make a game loved by millions."

An article with the headline "[US people] are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing the economy".

"People are poor and that's not enriching the rich"

On a personal note: I'm likely not re-joining the games industry unless i find some cute ethical indie to work for. It's been a long, stressful 5 years of being consistently belittled and punished by boot-licking "veterans" for vocally trying to improve working conditions

I'm not surprised by this news given how it was when I was there, but this is particularly blatant and cruel. I hope all those effected are holding up okay and that they and the IWGB teach rockstar a lesson

This is the most ruthless act of union busting in the history of the UK games industry. Yesterday, @rockstargames.com unfairly fired over 30 employees for union activity.

We won't back down, and we're not scared - we will fight for every member to be reinstated.

Thumbnail for chicken run is communist featuring the BFI logo and text reading "now part of British film history"

Big announcement!!! My video on how Chicken Run is communist is now part of Britain's media history

Over the summer the British Film Institute (BFI) got in touch cause they wanted to archive this video as a historically significant piece of media (lol) and it's now been archived

Just tested positive for covid again. Please mask up if you can, there seems to be a lot going around atm

also I can't believe I have to say this but cover your mouth when you cough! Every time I go out, multiple people will just cough right at me without even thinking, it's disgusting!

🙌The first recognised union for game devs in the UK! 🙌

Workers at ZAUM now have a say on their pay and conditions at work with the support of the @iwgbunion.bsky.social

Work in games in the UK? Join our union today: iwgb.org.uk/en/join/game...

Not something I've done before but open to it!