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Gareth @gareth.entertainium.co · 11h

Absolutely. The Division 1 and 2, plus Far Cry 5 are the most obviously examples.

Gareth @gareth.entertainium.co · 12h

The most Ubisoft thing I've read in a while. This is the studio that made 2 post-apocalyptic Division games which are somehow completely devoid of politics (note: They are clearly not devoid of politics).

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 14h

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

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19h

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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kate conger @kateconger.com · 16h

Jonathan Rinderknecht, a white man, was charged with starting the Palisades Fire. But on X, the company's news summary tab shows a photo of a black man.

Screenshot depicting posts on X, one showing the suspect accused of starting the Palisades Fire, a white man. The X news tab reports on the suspect's arrest, but shows a photo of a black man instead.

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Gareth @gareth.entertainium.co · 15h

Oh boy, you think? I personally think the price of tulips will never go down! www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Bank of England warns of growing risk that AI bubble could burst

Possibility of ‘sharp market correction has increased’, says Bank’s financial policy committee

www.theguardian.com

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 19h

microsoft product (begging, pleading): save this document to my documents?

me: save to desktop

microsoft (twitching, shaking) this jpeg. save to pictures?

me: save to desktop

microsoft (weeping, throwing up): this email attachment... downloads?

me: desktop

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Gareth @gareth.entertainium.co · 18h

It feels genuinely unthinkable that we have let this happen. Not only let happen, our government has actively facilitated it. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 20h

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Col. Boozy Badger @boozybadger.lawyersandliquor.com · 2d

Dunno man, seems a little misleading to write an article about Trump describing activity in Portland and Chicago as “insurrection” with a 33 year old photo of a burning donut shop taken in the 1992 LA Riots (sans caption explaining that) as the header on all your posts about it.

The picture from
The article with a picture of an armed men standing in front of a burning donut shop. You must click through to read the caption “
Two National guardsmen stand guard outside a burning donut shop in Los Angeles on April 30, 1992.
The National Guard was called in to aid police during the second day of rioting in the city.”

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Gareth @gareth.entertainium.co · 1d

What can we say but gun control works (other reasons too obviously but such stringent gun legislation clearly has a major impact).

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 1d

It's so incredible how low homicide rates are in Europe. The UK, with a population of 70 million people, had fewer than 600 murders in 2023.
www.connexionfrance.com/news/double-...

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 2d

Whenever anarchism — or any idea more radical than the status quo — gets dismissed as unserious, it's worth remembering the current system runs on things like "we put all the money on a scam machine that tells rich dipshits they're god."

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 2d

"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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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

How many videos have you seen of protesters being brutalized? Pretending this imagery still changes the math the way you wish it would is an insult to the people whose bodies you would treat as props. Ghandi's era was more complex than many of you make out. This is not the 60s either. Things change.

Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 2d

We’re in a moment now where it would be worth people taking three hours to watch Gandhi, particularly the scene of the salt march. There is value to making the brutality of your opponent so plain as day that no one can argue with it. The clarity of that brought down an empire

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 1d

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 2d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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Gareth @gareth.entertainium.co · 1d

This is great news; hopefully to become permanent!

Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 1d

Park & Ride bus journeys will be free when Oxford’s congestion charge comes into effect on 29 October. Holders of P&R parking tickets will be entitled to catch any Stagecoach or Oxford Bus Co service from the sites, not just the P&R-branded ones. news.oxfordshire.gov.uk/free-park-an...

Free park and ride bus travel with temporary congestion charge

Oxfordshire County Council is providing free park and ride bus journeys in Oxford for an initial period of three months from 29 October, when the city’s temporary congestion charge scheme starts. The ...

news.oxfordshire.gov.uk

Gareth @gareth.entertainium.co · 2d

Why would Polly care? She's already successfully had Labour transformed into the Tory Party. Why do we need another one? 🙄

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3d

Again, if you think the creation of the Department of Defense in 1947 had anything to do with “woke” politics you should not be allowed to operate a car much less the entire American military.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump: "We won World War 1. We won World War 2. We won everything in between. We won everything before. And all of the sudden they decide to change the name. They went woke then too, you know. Woke is a long term. Word."

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 2d

The Greens requested an interview on the Laura Kuenssberg Show with Zack Polanski when he was elected leader, but were denied, with a promise to interview him during Green conference instead.

This was then scrapped citing the Manchester synagogue attack. Polanski is both Jewish and from Manchester

BBC Laura Kuenssberg Show Accused of Anti-Green Bias After Cancelling Zack Polanski Interview

The new Green Party leader was the only major party leader not to have been granted a conference interview on the flagship BBC show

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 2d

A work of art

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 3d

We have agreed that attempting to maintain a habitable planet is not in shareholders' interests.

Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 3d

Global banking climate alliance folds four years after launch

- ‘Net zero’ financial sector group votes to cease operations after losing members under political pressure

#climatechange
Story by @kenzabryan.ft.com
HT @carbonbrief.org
www.ft.com/content/841f...

Global banking climate alliance folds four years after launch

‘Net zero’ financial sector group votes to cease operations after losing members under political pressure

www.ft.com

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3d

I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian.

Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.

Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?

Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk

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Gareth @gareth.entertainium.co · 3d

I've watched Japanese historical horror Onibaba (1964). letterboxd.com/gbrading/fil...

A ★★★★ review of Onibaba (1964)

Onibaba is a film infused with atmosphere, a remarkably quiet film for large parts with very little dialogue, just the endless rustling and blowing of the Japanese silver grass. It has elements of hor...

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Gareth @gareth.entertainium.co · 4d

I've watched King and Country (1964), in many ways the British version of Paths of Glory (1957). letterboxd.com/gbrading/fil...

A ★★★★ review of King and Country (1964)

In some respects, King and Country is essentially the British version of Paths of Glory (1957), as both films follow identical plots, and both are 88 minutes long. In Paths of Glory, three French sold...

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Gareth @gareth.entertainium.co · 4d

This is Marlborough High Street in the present day, from the same angle as the 1910 picture above. Why did we do this?!

Marlborough High Street in the present day, with cars dominating the picture.

Gareth @gareth.entertainium.co · 4d

One of my more small-c conservative views is that we need to ban cars completely from most town centres in the UK. Nearby me, both Wantage and Marlborough have beautiful historic centres which are absolutely ruined by having car parks slap in the centre of them.

Wantage Market Square at the turn of the 20th Century. This space is now dominated by cars.

Marlborough High Street in 1910. This space is now dominated by cars.

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Gareth @gareth.entertainium.co · 4d

This is absolutely grotesque. Two people being killed (one by police) in a terrorist attack doesn't invalidate that his government is consciously arming a country committing mass murder. x.com/Keir_Starmer...

Keir Starmer on X: "I urge anyone thinking about protesting this weekend to recognise and respect the grief of British Jews. This is a moment of mourning. It is not a time to stoke tension and cause further pain. It is a time to stand together. We are a country that welcomes all people, no matter" / X

I urge anyone thinking about protesting this weekend to recognise and respect the grief of British Jews. This is a moment of mourning. It is not a time to stoke tension and cause further pain. It is a time to stand together. We are a country that welcomes all people, no matter

x.com

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