GhostLad
@ghostlad.bsky.social
I play games and turn coffee into code.
I also oppose it on several grounds (practicality, enforcement, the lifeline stuff you mentioned), but also more fundamentally we should allow young people to "scale up" their trust and civic involvement. A ban will be akin to "Day N-1: you cannot be trusted with facebook. Day N: You may now vote".
January 19, 2026 at 3:15 PM
I also oppose it on several grounds (practicality, enforcement, the lifeline stuff you mentioned), but also more fundamentally we should allow young people to "scale up" their trust and civic involvement. A ban will be akin to "Day N-1: you cannot be trusted with facebook. Day N: You may now vote".
Sorry, that did come off as condescending twaddle, didn't it. I meant to add a perspective for others who may read your post why, in some cases, people may still recommend a thing despite calls for boycotts.
January 17, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Sorry, that did come off as condescending twaddle, didn't it. I meant to add a perspective for others who may read your post why, in some cases, people may still recommend a thing despite calls for boycotts.
This is not, I think, cope and "I just want to keep playing things regardless". I've never seen a game boycott materially affect sales if the game itself was even halfway decent. The activism is better spent informing people of the issue and use the buzz that way than to call for toothless boycotts.
January 17, 2026 at 6:21 PM
This is not, I think, cope and "I just want to keep playing things regardless". I've never seen a game boycott materially affect sales if the game itself was even halfway decent. The activism is better spent informing people of the issue and use the buzz that way than to call for toothless boycotts.
I say this as a person who's played computer games for decades, follows the game news and is very sympathetic to some of the causes that get people to call for boycotts of them. I may have missed it, but I've never seen a boycott work when the game was solid. Whatever the cause, they never do.
January 17, 2026 at 6:21 PM
I say this as a person who's played computer games for decades, follows the game news and is very sympathetic to some of the causes that get people to call for boycotts of them. I may have missed it, but I've never seen a boycott work when the game was solid. Whatever the cause, they never do.
Also, I already have an app for HMRC. Just more evidence they never started from "so what problem that people are having are we trying to solved here?"
January 17, 2026 at 10:44 AM
Also, I already have an app for HMRC. Just more evidence they never started from "so what problem that people are having are we trying to solved here?"
It is essentially the plan in No 10 for what stories they would like to release to the news. Imagine a spreadsheet with "Subsidy for dog owners: Interview Sky Monday". "Ban all Cats: Oped by PM The Mail Tuesday." etc etc. There's probably a bit more to it ofc.
January 17, 2026 at 10:12 AM
It is essentially the plan in No 10 for what stories they would like to release to the news. Imagine a spreadsheet with "Subsidy for dog owners: Interview Sky Monday". "Ban all Cats: Oped by PM The Mail Tuesday." etc etc. There's probably a bit more to it ofc.
I had been banging my head futilely against a wall on an IT thing at work that would not, well... work. With the help of colleague I finally found the blocker. Been really nice to be able to progress, and a bit of vindication in that the colleague was also perplexed... wasn't just me being a dummy 😁
January 16, 2026 at 9:25 AM
I had been banging my head futilely against a wall on an IT thing at work that would not, well... work. With the help of colleague I finally found the blocker. Been really nice to be able to progress, and a bit of vindication in that the colleague was also perplexed... wasn't just me being a dummy 😁
Ah shame. I'm going to delete then. Don't want to bring you into disrepute as a purveyor of false history. :D
January 13, 2026 at 12:25 PM
Ah shame. I'm going to delete then. Don't want to bring you into disrepute as a purveyor of false history. :D
Reminds me of the golden oldie of the Little Englander that thought the solution to The Scottish Problem was to rebuild Hadrians Wall and let us rot behind it. Which, sure if you want, but we should probably ask the folks on the south side of the border first. :D
January 9, 2026 at 2:40 PM
Reminds me of the golden oldie of the Little Englander that thought the solution to The Scottish Problem was to rebuild Hadrians Wall and let us rot behind it. Which, sure if you want, but we should probably ask the folks on the south side of the border first. :D
There's an old danish joke that the reason Denmark never had a revolution is because it was raining that day.
January 8, 2026 at 10:14 AM
There's an old danish joke that the reason Denmark never had a revolution is because it was raining that day.
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You’ll be shocked to hear the “10.8 million families get their news from X” stat is…not correct!
www.thenewworld.co.uk/rats-in-a-sa...
www.thenewworld.co.uk/rats-in-a-sa...
January 7, 2026 at 7:32 AM
You’ll be shocked to hear the “10.8 million families get their news from X” stat is…not correct!
www.thenewworld.co.uk/rats-in-a-sa...
www.thenewworld.co.uk/rats-in-a-sa...
Though involuntary in this case, which is unusual I'll grant.
January 7, 2026 at 12:03 AM
Though involuntary in this case, which is unusual I'll grant.
I believe this is what they call "headcanon" :D
January 7, 2026 at 12:02 AM
I believe this is what they call "headcanon" :D
Nah, that's much to expensive and Serkis I reckon still likes the traditional approaches. They'll stick a prosthetic on his head if they need to hide his age, but I think a lot can be done just with a bit of creative makeup.
January 6, 2026 at 10:12 PM
Nah, that's much to expensive and Serkis I reckon still likes the traditional approaches. They'll stick a prosthetic on his head if they need to hide his age, but I think a lot can be done just with a bit of creative makeup.
Was Frodo not canonically 60-ish when he left for Mordor in LOTR? It jars with the movies sure since Elija was... what 19?, but hardly insurmountable in terms of suspension of disbelief.
January 6, 2026 at 9:56 PM
Was Frodo not canonically 60-ish when he left for Mordor in LOTR? It jars with the movies sure since Elija was... what 19?, but hardly insurmountable in terms of suspension of disbelief.
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If there is an argument then this is the argument. But lol I can’t find where this obviously false stat is coming from. And if the government does believe more than half the families in the UK are using it as their primary news source then woah maybe time to up the scrutiny of it!
January 5, 2026 at 8:00 PM
If there is an argument then this is the argument. But lol I can’t find where this obviously false stat is coming from. And if the government does believe more than half the families in the UK are using it as their primary news source then woah maybe time to up the scrutiny of it!
True of a number of Scottish castle ruins as well. Once the owners move out/are killed, that's just a big pile of prime building material. Urquhart Castle is one such example, where after the Jacobites were defeated, the the castle was abandoned and the locals pillaged many of the stones.
January 5, 2026 at 10:22 PM
True of a number of Scottish castle ruins as well. Once the owners move out/are killed, that's just a big pile of prime building material. Urquhart Castle is one such example, where after the Jacobites were defeated, the the castle was abandoned and the locals pillaged many of the stones.
2026 does have the difference in the devolved elections and local ones in England. The last round of "he's toast" did not have quite such a defining moment, where you can clearly point to a bad thing for him (assuming Labour gets wrecked at the elections like the polls suggest).
December 30, 2025 at 10:54 PM
2026 does have the difference in the devolved elections and local ones in England. The last round of "he's toast" did not have quite such a defining moment, where you can clearly point to a bad thing for him (assuming Labour gets wrecked at the elections like the polls suggest).
Thank you for your service 🫡
December 24, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Thank you for your service 🫡