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Ruze @arakaego.bsky.social · 16h

Like I said, he’s very good. The Question Time clips are very enjoyable, I can’t lie.

Ruze @arakaego.bsky.social · 6d

There are not many people more cynical than I am, but I have to admit Zack Polanski is surprisingly good. Very clear communicator and quite uncompromising in his positions which is refreshing to see in mainstream media. He will do well the more media cover he manages to get.

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king lola 👑 @lolaodelola.bsky.social · 1d

I got to talk to the @inclusivedesign24.bsky.social audience about why accessibility testing on the web is so hard. Buckle in for this one, we go through the accessibility tree & specs to various APIs before we get to screen readers.

It's a good one!
www.youtube.com/live/idSl4JD...

Lola Odelola / The Gaps we Inherit #id 2025

YouTube video by Inclusive Design 24 #id24

www.youtube.com

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Ruze @arakaego.bsky.social · 2d

Would’ve been the first AC game I’d have bought in well over a decade. A shame.

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

Ruze @arakaego.bsky.social · 2d

The one thing I really like about OBAA is the music. It’s the only quality of the film I can enjoy and thankfully I can enjoy it completely detached from movie itself.

Ruze @arakaego.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks man, will give this a listen

Ruze @arakaego.bsky.social · 3d

It’s so childish and unserious.

Ruze @arakaego.bsky.social · 3d

If the film was just what it was I’d be fine with it. It’s the insistence that the film is a masterpiece that I cannot stand.

Ruze @arakaego.bsky.social · 3d

Is there a group chat for people who don’t like One Battle After Another? I want in.

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Ruze @arakaego.bsky.social · 3d

Living for any reviews of One Battle After Another that are actually critical.

Ruze @arakaego.bsky.social · 5d

And he responds with: Black people voted for Trump though.

Ffs this guy is genuinely insufferable.

Ruze @arakaego.bsky.social · 5d

Summary of a segment:

Ezra Klein: What does the line mean to you?

Coates: Well if someone refuses my humanity that’s a line.

Ezra: What do you do if most of America is beyond that line?

Coates: Welcome to Black America

Lmfao

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Ruze @arakaego.bsky.social · 5d

This discussion with Coates actually mirrors the discussion Coates had with Ash Sarkar. The elephant in the room is that mainstream politics is not the space for actual radical politics and the central line has moved so far to the right that winning means placating racists.

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Ruze @arakaego.bsky.social · 5d

I’ve never listened to Ezra Klein but my goodness he’s kinda pathetic.

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Ruze @arakaego.bsky.social · 5d

I actually don’t think there’s a coalition to be had. The “Your Party” is a non starter and leftist individuals in Labour are still committed to hanging on to the party. What really needs to happen is for the people who want a left vote to seriously mobilise behind the Greens.

Ruze @arakaego.bsky.social · 6d

Absolutely. It’s an easy vote for me. I’m not familiar with the leftist movements in the rest of Europe but he reminds me of what Mamdani is doing in New York.

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Ruze @arakaego.bsky.social · 6d

There are not many people more cynical than I am, but I have to admit Zack Polanski is surprisingly good. Very clear communicator and quite uncompromising in his positions which is refreshing to see in mainstream media. He will do well the more media cover he manages to get.

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Ruze @arakaego.bsky.social · 7d

In fact I would go as far as to say the hyperbolic reception to the film is a clear cultural indicator of just how cooked we all actually are.

Ruze @arakaego.bsky.social · 7d

Like even if you’re not Black and so aren’t bothered much by the hyper sexualisation of Black women and blunt impact of flat racist caricatures, I don’t understand how you can watch that film and think it speaks in anyway profoundly to the current moment we are in.

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Ruze @arakaego.bsky.social · 7d

The almost universal positive reception of One Battle After Another is deeply disturbing, ngl.

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Ruze @arakaego.bsky.social · 10d

Those “worse-than-imagined” thought exercises seem to imply that voting the other way would be the better choice. But by doing that what you’re admitting is that it’s just the more palatable and less garish version of the same thing.

Ruze @arakaego.bsky.social · 10d

In the UK and the US let it be the far right despotic systems that take hold. Everybody has more to lose than the next person until we all realise the fight is in front of us and we should probably get on with fighting it.

Ruze @arakaego.bsky.social · 10d

These revelations are pretty useless because these neoliberal two party systems present a non-choice.

Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social · 11d

My thesis is that no matter how doomer you were in Nov. 2024, we're probably past your worst-case scenario for the first 9 months of this administration.

It's very strange for me to realize I wasn't pessimistic enough.

www.thebulwark.com/p/we-are-in-...

We Are in the Worst-Case Scenario

The November 2024 version of you would be shocked at what the September 2025 version accepts as reality.

www.thebulwark.com

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Ruze @arakaego.bsky.social · 10d

Damn i didn’t even know. They’re relentless.

Ruze @arakaego.bsky.social · 10d

Yep, they did it with the World Cup too

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Ruze @arakaego.bsky.social · 10d

Lol you’re not wrong. Basically a huge host of comedians took the bag to perform in Saudi and they’re getting criticised for it. Now I’m not even that bothered by it, this is capitalism lol, but it’s just there a bunch there that think they’re comedic artists and it’s all looking funny in the light.

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