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Gareth @gareth.entertainium.co · 17h

Incredibly good value bundle this one for some really fantastic games.

Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 22h

Humble Games Bundle: Cosmic Mysteries & Noir Realities ($10 for all) buff.ly/Yyw3mri #ad

Gareth @gareth.entertainium.co · 19h

Lol. Lmao even. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Macron reappoints Sébastien Lecornu as French prime minister

Lecornu, who resigned as PM on Monday, is tasked with urgently delivering a budget to parliament

www.theguardian.com

Gareth @gareth.entertainium.co · 1d

Also, this would involve having to somehow rotate the Lincoln Memorial, which is currently aligned to the Washington Monument and the Capitol Building. 🙄But yes it's very Welthauptstadt Germania.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

it's giving Germania

"On Trump’s desk in the Oval Office today was a plan for a triumphal arch on the other side of the river from the Lincoln Memorial"

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Gareth @gareth.entertainium.co · 1d

I hope something can be salvaged here (the founding conference will be the deciding factor, when the policy platform actually gets ironed out), but the momentum is very much with the Greens at the moment.

Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 1d

We’re not here to beg for crumbs off the table — we’re coming for the lot.

The billionaires already have three parties working for them.

It’s about time the rest of us had one.

Join yourparty.uk today.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

👨‍🍳💋

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Gareth @gareth.entertainium.co · 1d

It's not as bad as Kissinger winning the Nobel Peace Prize but it's certainly close (especially if this is used as a pretext to launch an American invasion of Venezuela).

Shawn's Socialist Slipstreaming（宇祥）- he/him/他/dia @shawnybantzy.bsky.social · 1d

Apparently our newest Nobel Peace Prize winner wrote to fucking Netanyahu for help in overthrowing the government of her own country dawg

The population of Venezuela needs international protection against the widespread and systematic attack to which the Venezuelan regime subjects it. This is demonstrated by the report dated May 29, 2018, submitted by the Organisation of American States to the International Criminal Court. This has served as the basis for nine states, including Argentina, to file complaints against the regime before that international body. We deeply appreciate this effort, which is decisive for the outcome of the Venezuelan tragedy.

I am convinced that the international community, in accordance with the responsibility to protect doctrine, is called upon to provide Venezuelans with the necessary support to bring about the regime change that is urgently needed to restore national and international security. Therefore, I have recently sent letters to several of the world’s leading figures to promote before the United Nations Security Council the adoption of effective protection measures for Venezuela by fostering regime change, a step that necessarily entails strengthening international security. Today I want to ask Israel and Argentina to contribute their expertise and influence to advance a sound and urgent decision-making process in the Security Council.

Such measures are imperative in the face of a hemispheric security hotspot like the one currently posed by the regime oppressing Venezuela. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the International Organisation for Migration have certified that the current refugee crisis of people fleeing Venezuela is the largest in the history of the Americas. Argentina is an example of this crisis, having welcomed hundreds of thousands of our compatriots—a gesture for which Venezuelans will always be grateful. However, we must be aware that without a change of regime in our country, hemispheric and global security will be at risk.

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 1d

I was riding down the road one day
Someone hit a possum
I was riding down the road one day
Someone hit a possum
The road was his end
His end was the road
So they say

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Gareth @gareth.entertainium.co · 1d

It looks like @zackpolanski.bsky.social's appearance on Question Time was extremely successful, thereby guaranteeing this is the last time you will ever see him on the programme.

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 2d

Woahhhhhh.

A poll that shows the Greens surging to 15% - and just 2 points behind the Labour party.

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Gareth @gareth.entertainium.co · 2d

At least the expert board only let them raise prices by 21% of what the water companies were asking for. But even so the privatized water industry in the UK is a complete scam.

Gareth @gareth.entertainium.co · 2d

An actual legalized con. What are we doing. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Millions in England face higher water bills after regulator backs more price rises

Competition watchdog agrees to requests from Anglian, Northumbrian, South East, Southern and Wessex to increase charges

www.theguardian.com

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

Apart from helping Comey's selective prosecution defense, this also means the president of the United States uses direct messages on Truth Social to communicate with cabinet officials.

I didn't know that, but we can be sure intelligence agencies all over the planet already did.

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Gareth @gareth.entertainium.co · 2d

Any prospect of a ceasefire in Gaza is good but it is patently obvious that any Trump-arranged ceasefire will just be used as cover by Israel for a permanent occupation and annexation.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 2d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Gareth @gareth.entertainium.co · 2d

Absolutely. The Division 1 and 2, plus Far Cry 5 are the most obviously examples.

Gareth @gareth.entertainium.co · 2d

The most Ubisoft thing I've read in a while. This is the studio that made 2 post-apocalyptic Division games which are somehow completely devoid of politics (note: They are clearly not devoid of politics).

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 2d

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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kate conger @kateconger.com · 2d

Jonathan Rinderknecht, a white man, was charged with starting the Palisades Fire. But on X, the company's news summary tab shows a photo of a black man.

Screenshot depicting posts on X, one showing the suspect accused of starting the Palisades Fire, a white man. The X news tab reports on the suspect's arrest, but shows a photo of a black man instead.

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Gareth @gareth.entertainium.co · 2d

Oh boy, you think? I personally think the price of tulips will never go down! www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Bank of England warns of growing risk that AI bubble could burst

Possibility of ‘sharp market correction has increased’, says Bank’s financial policy committee

www.theguardian.com

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 3d

microsoft product (begging, pleading): save this document to my documents?

me: save to desktop

microsoft (twitching, shaking) this jpeg. save to pictures?

me: save to desktop

microsoft (weeping, throwing up): this email attachment... downloads?

me: desktop

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Gareth @gareth.entertainium.co · 3d

It feels genuinely unthinkable that we have let this happen. Not only let happen, our government has actively facilitated it. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 3d

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Col. Boozy Badger @boozybadger.lawyersandliquor.com · 4d

Dunno man, seems a little misleading to write an article about Trump describing activity in Portland and Chicago as “insurrection” with a 33 year old photo of a burning donut shop taken in the 1992 LA Riots (sans caption explaining that) as the header on all your posts about it.

The picture from
The article with a picture of an armed men standing in front of a burning donut shop. You must click through to read the caption “
Two National guardsmen stand guard outside a burning donut shop in Los Angeles on April 30, 1992.
The National Guard was called in to aid police during the second day of rioting in the city.”

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Gareth @gareth.entertainium.co · 4d

What can we say but gun control works (other reasons too obviously but such stringent gun legislation clearly has a major impact).

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 4d

It's so incredible how low homicide rates are in Europe. The UK, with a population of 70 million people, had fewer than 600 murders in 2023.
www.connexionfrance.com/news/double-...

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 4d

Whenever anarchism — or any idea more radical than the status quo — gets dismissed as unserious, it's worth remembering the current system runs on things like "we put all the money on a scam machine that tells rich dipshits they're god."

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 5d

"The hundreds of billions of dollars companies are investing in AI now account for an astonishing 40 per cent share of US GDP growth this year... In a way, then, America has become one big bet on AI."

America is now one big bet on AI

It’s seen as the magic fix for every threat to the US economy

www.ft.com

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