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Hugo Gordon @hugogordon.bsky.social · 5h

At one stage you can build a house out of the flesh. The game does not remotely seem to realise how horrifying this is. Cronenberg and Donkey Kong, together at last.

Hugo Gordon @hugogordon.bsky.social · 6h

Holy shit

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Hugo Gordon @hugogordon.bsky.social · 7h

Every week with this team, a new wonder to experience

Ray Webster @inspiraytional.bsky.social · 8h

-10 passing yards in total for the game. The worst total for any team in the last 27 years, and worst in Jets franchise history (which is saying something)!

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Hugo Gordon @hugogordon.bsky.social · 7h

This team finds new ways every week to dig through the bottom of the barrel

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Hugo Gordon @hugogordon.bsky.social · 11h

British Airways is a budget airline masquerading as an upmarket one, it's wild how bad their digital infrastructure is

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Hugo Gordon @hugogordon.bsky.social · 11h

I am thanking every deity that I can think of that I decided against paying £200 for the privilege of subjecting myself to this in person.

Hugo Gordon @hugogordon.bsky.social · 11h

Watching the Jets play football

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Hugo Gordon @hugogordon.bsky.social · 11h

Watching the Jets play football

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Hugo Gordon @hugogordon.bsky.social · 11h

There's a weirdly horrifying level in the new Donkey Kong where everything is made out of meat(?!?), like a particularly ghoulish segment of a Doom game.

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 16h

This is it. I didn’t find it at all difficult to leave Twitter in the end: it stopped being fun and became boring and depressing. Whenever I opened it I’d see things that were obnoxious or upsetting. It was a relief not to do that.

Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 18h

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

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Hugo Gordon @hugogordon.bsky.social · 17h

youtu.be/mrOWredvW78?...

Relatedly have had this unbelievably huge track on repeat for the last few days

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 18h

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

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Jack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social · 4d

I do have some respect for Pete Davidson just going "they offered me a shitload of cash and I took it" rather than pious drivel about "changing attitudes".

Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 4d

ha ha ha

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I have been criticised for being part of the Riyadh comedy festival. This is why I did it | Omid Djalili

The headlines focus on money, but the gigs were great and I think there are different ways to achieve progress. Art, especially comedy, can be part of that, says stand-up comedian, Omid Djalili.

www.theguardian.com

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Hugo Gordon @hugogordon.bsky.social · 20h

a woman is sitting in a crowd of people and saying `` you can t sit with us ! ''

ALT: a woman is sitting in a crowd of people and saying `` you can t sit with us ! ''

media.tenor.com

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Hugo Gordon @hugogordon.bsky.social · 20h

Ffs, exact same

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Hugo Gordon @hugogordon.bsky.social · 20h

Every time I watch it I'm astonished at how good it still is

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Hugo Gordon @hugogordon.bsky.social · 21h

And so the Yankees' season has come to an end, having correlated remarkably perfectly with this chart

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James @gortoshay1.bsky.social · 1d

We’re back in business and moving up that table! #LEIvSHA