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iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 6h

there’s a weird bio that reads like it was written for a junk site also. Very very odd.

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iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 6h

iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 7h

this reads as though Nick Clegg asked ChatGPT how much he's worth and then just published it on his personal website

Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 7h

The boasting post is frankly something to behold. www.nickclegg.org.uk/2025/01/02/w...

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iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 6h

is this actually his website, I am starting to wonder if it's someone pretending to be him

iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 6h

er don't you mean Sir Nicholas William Peter Clegg

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iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 7h

nice

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iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 7h

astonishing honestly

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iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 7h

in many ways the abject failure of the metaverse as a concept let alone a product is the fault of Nick Clegg, because he can't come up with a single compelling use case for it. In fact the closest he comes is allowing that it may make it possible to physically menace Nick Clegg over the internet

We can exchange glances and private asides with the person next to us, get someone’s attention with a gesture, even read each other’s body language — rudimentary as it is when we are blemish free avatars. I can be in my home in northern California talking to a colleague an ocean away in his garage in Milton Keynes, England, and yet it feels like he’s sat three feet to my left. If he gesticulates too wildly while disagreeing with me, I get a genuine urge to lean away.

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iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 7h

I was very amused to read this absolutely terrible post from almost exactly three years ago about how the Metaverse was about to change everthing, and you know, as I sit here in my VR headset and look out at all of you, in assless cartoon ghost form, it's hard to disagree

Making the metaverse: What it is, how it will be built, and why it matters - Nick Clegg

When Facebook rebranded as Meta last October, it brought into the mainstream a concept that has been exciting the bright minds of Silicon Valley for years: the metaverse. Mark Zuckerberg’s unveiling o...

www.nickclegg.org.uk

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iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 7h

this reads as though Nick Clegg asked ChatGPT how much he's worth and then just published it on his personal website

Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 7h

The boasting post is frankly something to behold. www.nickclegg.org.uk/2025/01/02/w...

Nick Clegg’s Salary & Net Worth: A 2025 Perspective - Nick Clegg

Nick Clegg’s Career Evolution Nick Clegg, once a household name in UK politics as Deputy Prime Minister during the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government, has successfully transitioned int...

www.nickclegg.org.uk

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iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 8h

my mum, who is not by any means a schmaltz fiend, adored it, which I found puzzling; I should probably read it

iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 8h

I think I played 1 or 2, didn't feel like I needed any more of that

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iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 8h

I think in the last AC I played I cheffed up the Pope but that’s fine

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iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 8h

I haven’t played an AC game for a decade or more but if they released AC: Shank the Klan I would probably buy two copies

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 10h

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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iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 8h

can’t argue with that!

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iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 8h

Crowd work is basically a display of skill I think, it’s supposed to impressive that the comic can come up with jokes on the fly

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iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 8h

If you got booked for this and then did fifteen minutes of extended fart noises, fair enough, you don’t get cancelled

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iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 12h

*long fart noise*

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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iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 15h

I’ve been turning this post round and round in my head for a couple of days now and I still can’t even

if you're writing a sentence that sounds like eugenics but you go "oh that's fine to say because it's not a real person" (whatever that means) you may want to consider what made you okay with saying that

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iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 1d

mysterious no-comment resignation by Charlie Redmayne...

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iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 1d

Had that yesterday yeah

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iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 1d

no, having caught up on this, this is the sort of thing that happens when you have a very very small publishing business and you don’t have other people in the room with relevant experience to say ‘maybe this is not the way to go about things’

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iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 1d

it is absolutely sneaky fuckery!!

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iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 1d

overheard some people in the bookshop the other day pass on a copy of The Princess Bride because they’d prefer to read the unabridged version and I wonder how many sales they miss out on this way

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iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 2d

Checks out

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iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 2d

privileged to witness an intimate musical performance tonight at the Soho Theatre by legendary horror writer Garth Marenghi. Remarkable to discover that his talent with a guitar rivals, nay exceeds that of him with a typewriter

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