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John Power Jr. @johnpower.bsky.social · 2h

When I think about the incoming AI powered asteroid about to hit the world’s economy I often think about graphs like this that show how the last time the US wrecked everything they ended up becoming richer than everyone else

Which I suspect isn’t exactly an incentive to responsible fiscal behaviour

A graph of GDP showing how after the 2008 financial crisis, caused by America, it was the US that bounced back faster and did better than everyone else

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John Power Jr. @johnpower.bsky.social · 2d

funny thing about those Young Tory photos & indeed the modern right is you see them & go "ha, they're not beating the allegations" & then you open up a paper or tuen on the TV and they're being paid to not only not beat the allegations but explain in great detail how in fact they're much much worse

Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 2d

Oh, and it turns out the guy with the umbrella is definitely a new breed of activist

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John Power Jr. @johnpower.bsky.social · 2d

Adventures in Time & Racism

Dr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭 @ajaanmark.bsky.social · 2d

Are they hoping to start a Young Tory cosplay trend on TikTok
www.thetimes.com/article/8c9a...

Meet the young Tories dreaming of a bright blue future

The Conservatives know they have a problem with Gen Z voters. At the party conference, The Times met a new breed of activists who are embracing the challenge

www.thetimes.com

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John Power Jr. @johnpower.bsky.social · 2d

one thing I can say for certain after 7 issues of Wyrd Science is that I’m somehow more annoyed now at how music journalists treat music PRs than I was when I was one

Because trust me, trying to get stuff done in a sector where the idea of doing PR appears to be incomprehensibly alien is no fun

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 3d

Right, now I have some time (and a copy myself!) it's time to share some internal pics from the new issue, my thoughts on the relevant features & perhaps persuade a few more of you to buy a copy (because it's swell)

shop.wyrd.science

So today let's start with @malcolmcraig.bsky.social's one, as...

a photo of the latest issue of Wyrd Science, open to a spread on a feature about Cold War RPGs, one the left hand side is a full page picture of an atom bomb test, on the right the headline Playing Games in the Shadow of the Bomb

a photo of the latest issue of Wyrd Science, open to a spread on a feature about Cold War RPGs, it shows a still from the film Red Dawn with Russian soldiers posing in front of a McDonalds, the subhead for this section reads The Paranoid Style in American Gaming

a photo of the latest issue of Wyrd Science, open to a spread on a feature about Cold War RPGs, one side is taken up with the cover art for Greg Costikyan's Price of Freedom

a photo of the latest issue of Wyrd Science, open to a spread on a feature about Cold War RPGs

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John Power Jr. @johnpower.bsky.social · 3d

genuinely remarkable how much of my life is spent doing ridiculously time consuming, secret service level investigative work just to find a name and contact details for nerd industry companies' PR/marketing people, people whose jobs you might, foolishly, assume require them to be broadly contactable

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John Power Jr. @johnpower.bsky.social · 4d

Email me if you want, happy to have a crack

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John Power Jr. @johnpower.bsky.social · 4d

Any lip readers out there?

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John Power Jr. @johnpower.bsky.social · 4d

Wow, I don’t actually think I’ve seen Jenrick do a speech for quite a while, and oh god he is bad. Any political journalists who big up his career need to be fucking stuffed in a locker

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John Power Jr. @johnpower.bsky.social · 4d

I assume when Badenoch says the Conservative conference is ‘buzzing’ she means in the way a several months dead body is

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John Power Jr. @johnpower.bsky.social · 4d

Ah yes, “back of the goal”, something football fans say all of the time

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John Power Jr. @johnpower.bsky.social · 4d

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John Power Jr. @johnpower.bsky.social · 4d

Funny as just reading this you can already hear in your head the wounded indignation and outrage from the sloppers

Robin Williams’ daughter Zelda hits out at AI-generated videos of her dead father: ‘stop doing this to him’

Film-maker tells the public to stop sending her videos, saying: ‘You’re not making art, you’re making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings’

www.theguardian.com

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John Power Jr. @johnpower.bsky.social · 4d

Quick question. Is it illegal for American news stations now to go to a place, other than a Midwest diner ofc, and report on what is happening themselves, or is it law that everything must instead be filtered through studio based opinion?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Stephen Miller claims that in Portland "ICE officers have to street battles against antifa, hand to hand combat every night, to come and go from their building"

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John Power Jr. @johnpower.bsky.social · 4d

So seriously what I really need in the very near future is someone to write a very clear & concise piece explaining how ordinary folk who may be interested in retiring before they’re 90 get to ride this one out

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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John Power Jr. @johnpower.bsky.social · 4d

Although this could run it close…

ScouseLakes @scouselakes.bsky.social · 4d

Oh dear, this is a freebie being given out at the Tory conference.

A chocolate bar in a blue wrapper, with text: “When Labour negotiates, Britian loses” signed Kemi Badenoch.

(Yes, it does say Britian and not Britain)

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John Power Jr. @johnpower.bsky.social · 4d

Badenoch trying and failing to act like a normal person to win over her MPs whilst also visibly recoiling in disgust as they eat moist bread in front of her is a great little vignette to remember her tenure by

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 5d

A work of art

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Gemma Samways @gemsam.bsky.social · 4d

This was a joy to write

The Quietus @thequietus.com · 5d

Poised to release their first Soulwax album in seven years, Stephen and David Dewaele talk Gemma Samways through their tenure at the forefront of the rock dance crossover.

The Strange World Of… #Soulwax

buff.ly/5vhBjAE

Soulwax, portrait by Nadine Fraczkowski. The duo pictured in a night time street.

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John Power Jr. @johnpower.bsky.social · 4d

Putting my money where my mouth is I have both read this interview, bought a load of magazines today and feel ok. So there you are

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John Power Jr. @johnpower.bsky.social · 5d

You don’t quite get to find out my school grades when I was 8 but that’s about the only thing I didn’t barf forth here. Anyway have a read, buy a magazine, feel good man.

Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 5d

New (and old) on Old Men: We talked to @johnpower.bsky.social, the man behind @wyrdscience.bsky.social, about the latest issue. (We also reposted a much longer interview about how he came to hold this particular chalice, and the games that made him into the Magazine Wizard he is today.) #ttrpg

What Powers The Man Behind Wyrd Science? - Old Men Running The World

There is some superb coverage of tabletop in the nowadays, and some of our favourite stuff comes from Mr John Power Jr. If you have encountered Wyrd Science

oldmenrunningtheworld.com

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John Power Jr. @johnpower.bsky.social · 5d

More magazines in WH Smith’s focused on the rockabilly scene than tabletop games smh

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competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 6d

wizard frog is insane

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John Power Jr. @johnpower.bsky.social · 5d

Just turned my back for ten seconds and this doofus ate my bloody sandwich

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 6d

Found someone doing Warhammer/Necromunda themed model trains, and I think it’s very important you see this

www.instagram.com/macey4271?ig...

A still from a video set showing a Necromunda themed model railway setup

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John Power Jr. @johnpower.bsky.social · 6d

Wild story, the bit where the reporter visits a Nigerian gang who are on laptops blackmailing western kids one minute then off sacrificing doves in juju rituals the next is straight out a cyberpunk novel

'I have your nudes and everything to ruin your life' - the cyber scammers targeting teenagers

The BBC challenges the scammers targeting teenagers like Evan Boettler, who took his own life just 90 minutes after being contacted.

www.bbc.co.uk

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