Child of Prog
@devindoyle.bsky.social
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Writer for games and TV. Star Wars: Eclipse, Divinity: Original Sin 2, Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden. Red Planet Prize winner. Metalhead. Bassist. Social Democrat. Irish-Australian-British (but mostly Irish). Résident en France. Age: unverified.
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He does better when he gets into the storytelling, but at that stage no-one cares.
Please please please someone train these dinosaurs to talk like actual humans.
Hands up who made it to the end of this sentence. Now keep your hand up if it didn't disappoint you.

Amazing that in a Party with brilliant communicators like AOC and Mamdani, you also get... this.
Based on the information available... on balance, yeah, probably. It's not ideal, but ideological purity is a cancer on the Left and I'd rather we concentrated on being effective. This seems like a move towards being effective.
Mate, they have a website. If you want to know what they stand for, look it up.
This is phenomenal political communication.

People vote as much on vibes as on policies. What New Yorker wouldn't want their mayor to be this cool?
An important message to the people of New York City.

More information at zohranfornyc.com/birthday
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"Polanski slammed” reports the Daily Express. The person doing that “slamming” is, err, Daily Express journalist Carole Malone.

And the reason? Because I want us to follow a science led public health approach to regulate drug use.
Polanski slammed over bid to legalise drugs
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Irish filmmaker Leo Regan spent a year taking photos of a group of Nazi skinhead thugs in 1980s London, then found them all again ten years later and made a documentary about their lives. It is pretty astonishing viewing.
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100% White (2000)
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Can someone from Kerry confirm this birra slang?

Varee – to get a notion to do something out of character
Te-spock – to carry out said ‘varee’

And if it's real, how's it pronounced?
CEFR is also confusing, as A level is beginner, B level intermediate, and C level advanced. I know quite a few people who've lost jobs because they've assumed their mother-tongue English is A1, when in fact it's C2.
I was wondering about the "A level" bit. Most people take it as equivalent to the A-level English test you do leaving school, but if it's CEFR, A level (A1 and A2) is pretty basic.

Piss-poor govt. communication, though.

www.coe.int/en/web/commo...
The CEFR Levels - Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) - www.coe.int
Levels descriptions of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR)
www.coe.int
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So, people are going to have to pass A level english to live here are they? I hope they study what I did at A level, Translations by Brian Friel, about the colonial evil of the English forcing people to adopt the English language
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On Friday I’m going to have a premium newsletter with a generous (2600 word) free intro about the nasty demands of Sam Altman and OpenAI. They need $161 billion in the next six months - it’s the only way for them to complete any of the plans they have agreed to. A truly nonsensical time.
This is the death of culture. It's fucking disgusting. A mockery of what it means to be part of the human race. It's also really fucking dangerous.
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This looks like the shit I see every day as an online content moderator btw

More of your kids talk like this than you know
EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
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Irish football folk still talking about rescuing qualification when this team doesn't deserve to be within sniffing distance of a playoff, let alone at the finals.

Mind you that Armenian goalkeeper was dead good.
Now that I've seen it as "unobtainable", I can't see it as anything else.
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Hemingway was great but because of his rugged individualism he was elevated by the elite over many of his peers who were also great but were writing, essentially, about American socialism.

(This may or may not be unhinged.)
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
Had a brilliant one of these but it's so funny and disturbing I can't bring myself to post it. Fucking chickenshit.
Inverse Muppet premise: take a movie and replace one character with a Muppet. Everyone else stays human.
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Surely it's got to be Midnight Cowboy with Rizzo the rat playing Dustin Hoffman's character
Inverse Muppet premise: take a movie and replace one character with a Muppet. Everyone else stays human.
MARCO RUBIO: If you just spread 'em a little wider I can get my tongue a whole inch up there.

TRUMP: Only one?

RUBIO (muffled): Maybe 2.
Is he saying that in order to get your paycheck, you have to accept a king?