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Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 14h

💥💥SURPRISE!💥💥

You can play Earth Must Die *right now*

We just launched a huge demo for the game on Steam -- an entire hour long slice of it. See how @danthat.bsky.social's latest is shaping up!

store.steampowered.com/app/4057540/...

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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 20h

An image of three cool tories under the header "Meet the Young Tories deaming of a bright blue future" but I've replaced their portraits with images of Eddie, Spudgun and Dave Hedgehog from Bottom

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Roger has eaten 6 mince pies 🥧 @plankton1975.bsky.social · 13h

I’m so irritable now I had to resist asking a bunch of bus queue jumpers if they understood how queues work.

Roger has eaten 6 mince pies 🥧 @plankton1975.bsky.social · 13h

Things may get better once my new NHS voluntary role starts properly and I have something actually current on my CV, but it’s still disheartening.

Roger has eaten 6 mince pies 🥧 @plankton1975.bsky.social · 13h

❤️ that sucks

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Roger has eaten 6 mince pies 🥧 @plankton1975.bsky.social · 13h

Another ‘thanks but no thanks’ email from a job application.

Sigh…

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Roger has eaten 6 mince pies 🥧 @plankton1975.bsky.social · 13h

I’m still recovering from my hangover, so definitely lol

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Roger has eaten 6 mince pies 🥧 @plankton1975.bsky.social · 13h

Gonna stuff my face with fast food, then head home.

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Roger has eaten 6 mince pies 🥧 @plankton1975.bsky.social · 15h

Haha ❤️ it’s not the first I’ve posted, but it’s the first headshot I think.

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Roger has eaten 6 mince pies 🥧 @plankton1975.bsky.social · 16h

BEHOLD MY GRUMPY OLD FACE

A picture taken outside of a grumpy middle-aged head with a short grey white beard and wearing a stupid Indiana Jones hat

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Roger has eaten 6 mince pies 🥧 @plankton1975.bsky.social · 1d

Drinking Guinness while trying to re-learn how to play Snowrunner wasn’t a sensible idea, but it was fun 😅

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 1d

Lords Heseltine & Kinnock seem more alive to these self-evident truths than most members of the Commons. Similarly, I find thinkers with direct lived experience of far right dictatorship, Greeks of a certain age for example, crystal clear about what’s happening now.

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 2d

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 1d

Right wing parties "People coming here must integrate"

Also right wing parties "

A headline saying the Tories want to curb students taking degrees such as English

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Roger has eaten 6 mince pies 🥧 @plankton1975.bsky.social · 1d

Weren’t the Nazis defeated in the 1940s by cross-party cooperation? I had no idea it was the Tories alone wot won it #ToryConference @mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk

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Roger has eaten 6 mince pies 🥧 @plankton1975.bsky.social · 2d

Really enjoyed this… Amiga Power was great but it was clearly responsible for the Amiga’s death, and it had absolutely nothing to do with the PC or the PlayStation AT ALL. Ahem.

Kim Justice @kimjustice.bsky.social · 12d

NEW VID: A look at the feud between Amiga Power and Team 17 showing there's more to it than just review scores - other mags and companies were involved too! We're going into AP2 and Usenet, digging through flamewars and rivalries...there's a
LOT here. Enjoy and please share :) youtu.be/Km_25sQR0NM

AMIGA POWER vs. Team 17 (And More): The Whole Story | Kim Justice

YouTube video by Kim Justice

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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 7d

I can answer this!

EARTH MUST DIE is about a dumbass authoritarian dictator, and the whole game is deeply, unashamedly anti-fascist in nature.

The GOOD news is, if you're a fascist, most of the jokes will go over your head and you can just look at the pretty colours? 👍

Steam forum post for EARTH MUST DIE. The question is raised "Is this game political? or will I be able to enjoy it and escape from this dire reality for a moment?"

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Roger has eaten 6 mince pies 🥧 @plankton1975.bsky.social · 2d

I think I’ve caught a cold, either that or my body thinks the flu jab was the real thing.

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 3d

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 3d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Roger has eaten 6 mince pies 🥧 @plankton1975.bsky.social · 3d

I just drop them in bed and all over myself. I’m classy, me.

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Roger has eaten 6 mince pies 🥧 @plankton1975.bsky.social · 3d

Been a while since I’ve heard Abigail call @lbc.co.uk

Still full of righteous anger I see, and she’s still right.

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 3d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Roger has eaten 6 mince pies 🥧 @plankton1975.bsky.social · 3d

This happened a few minutes up the road from me. I feel ashamed for the state of our country, the people putting up the flags know exactly what they’re doing @benkentish.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Doncaster chippy owner 'scared for his children' after vandalism

Poseidon's Fish Bar had the word

www.bbc.co.uk

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Roger has eaten 6 mince pies 🥧 @plankton1975.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve had push notifications for other streamers I don’t follow while actively in another stream of a streamer I do follow multiple times. It’s really bloody irritating.

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 3d

OK me being me I had to look this up and here is what Donald Trump is referring to:

The book is called "The America We Deserve", written in 2000 by Dave Shiflett, while Trump was campaigning for president in that year's election on the Reform Party's ticket.

He did not warn us about Bin Laden.

Front cover of book which is 3/5 a photo of Donald Trump.
then the words below: TRUMP (HUGE letters)
THE AMERICA WE DESERVE (1/4 size of the TRUMP0
WITH DAVE SHIFLETT (tiny font) - he actually wrote it.

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Instead of one looming crisis hanging over us, we face a bewildering series of smaller crises, flash points, standoffs, and hot spots. We're not playing the chess game to end all chess games anymore. We're playing tournament chess -one master against many rivals. One day we're all assured that Iraq is under control, the UN inspectors have done their work, everything's fine, not to worry. The next day the bombing begins. One day we're told that a shadowy figure with no fixed address named Osama bin Laden is public enemy number one, and U.S. jetfighters lay waste to his camp in Afghanistan. He escapes back under some rock, and a few news cycles later it's on to a new enemy and new crisis.

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Roger has eaten 6 mince pies 🥧 @plankton1975.bsky.social · 3d

BREAKING - Conservatives promising everybody in the UK one billion pounds a year and a unicorn if elected #ToryConference

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