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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 2h

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Johnny Cullen @johnnycullen.bsky.social · 2h

Maybe it's just me, but I'm getting very Sims vibes from this.

This is still absolutely cool though.

Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 2h

just spotted that cyberpunk does doom-style sprites for distant cars and characters... amazing

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Johnny Cullen @johnnycullen.bsky.social · 13h

Or?

There’s an or???

Let me expand your thinking to that question with another one word: both.

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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 14h

I am fascinated by how ubi has welded the aesthetics of politics in its games and marketing for decades, but always been profoundly cowardly about engaging with them. Political aspartame.

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 17h

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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Johnny Cullen @johnnycullen.bsky.social · 13h

THE. ACTUAL. FUCK!?

Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 19h

You cannot be fucking serious

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

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Johnny Cullen @johnnycullen.bsky.social · 18h

GAMES INDUSTRY'S NO. 1 SAOIRSE RONAN FAN LOGGING ON TO SAY THIS QUARTET OF FILMS NOW HAS MY INTEREST.

(Also, hoping Mendes gives Saoirse and Paul Mescal better material to work with together than Garth Davis did for Foe)

NESbot Etc @nesbotetc.bsky.social · 19h

Saoirse Ronan to play Linda McCartney in ‘The Beatles — A Four-Film Cinematic Event’
www.resetera.com/threads/13...

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Johnny Cullen @johnnycullen.bsky.social · 19h

Think IG shadowbanned me because of the amount of g-slide stuff/Tory slander I posted on my stories today. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Johnny Cullen @johnnycullen.bsky.social · 23h

The latest audio ear worm to enter my head (or rather re-enter)?

I’m Just Ken.

…I blame @dreamfeel.bsky.social.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Corey Brotherson - ready for my close up--NOOO TOO CLOSE! @coreybrotherson.bsky.social · 1d

Hey kids!

Remember when the pandemic struck and eventually the (Tory) government told everyone to stay at home, and the arts and entertainment industries were one of the few things keeping everyone from pulling our own eyes out of our skulls from abject fear and boredom?

Remember that?

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 1d

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Ian McQue @ianmcque.bsky.social · 1d

This. So much fucking THIS

Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 1d

feels like yet again time to mention that the *videogames* industry (that's a creative industry, which people do creative degrees in) brings in more than twice the amount to the British economy as the fishing and steel industries *combined*

Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 1d

I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?

It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 1d

“Why haven’t the protests against successive governments’ complicity in genocide stopped”, a mystery that is apparently beyond our finest political minds to fathom

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WhiteRoseAFA @whiteroseafa.bsky.social · 1d

These costumes really ruin the optics of the propaganda videos the far right wants to make, which is what they're there for.

ICE will eventually target them and brutalize them to try to run them off, so they can get useful propaganda video. I hope they're prepared for that.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 1d

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Sharon O'Dea @sharonodea.com · 1d

This stuff is so tiresome. In a world where hard skills like coding are getting replaced faster than they can be taught, it’s the soft skills that arts degrees teach you that remain valuable.

Me for the i Paper when Sunak tried this very same nonsense last year: inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...

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Johnny Cullen @johnnycullen.bsky.social · 1d

Bear this in mind when you go to see Tron: Ares this weekend, eh?

K8 Häxan 🦇 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 1d

Truly amazing that this is a massive open secret that continues to be ignored.
airmail.news/issues/2025-...

Jared Leto's #MeToo Moment

Rumors of the actor's inappropriate behavior with younger women have swirled for decades. Now, nine people have come forward with their stories.

airmail.news

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Johnny Cullen @johnnycullen.bsky.social · 1d

Look, in an ideal world, we’d be seeing an AOC presidency in 2028 or something akin to it.

But in a heartbeat, albeit as an outsider, I would still take Pritzker massively over Newsom any day of the week.

Johnny Cullen @johnnycullen.bsky.social · 1d

Pritzker is a billionaire, yes. And yes yes, no billionaires should exist, eat the rich, etc etc etc.

But at least he is actually put that money where his mouth is by fighting back against the Turnip, but is also pro-trans too. windycitytimes.com/2025/03/25/p...

Pritzker vows to defend trans rights against Trump’s ‘authoritarianism’ at Los Angeles HRC dinner - Windy City Times

Gov. JB Pritzker emphasized the urgent need to defend transgender rights and fight authoritarianism while delivering a passionate speech March 24 at the Human Right Campaign’s Los Angeles Dinner. Prit...

windycitytimes.com

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Johnny Cullen @johnnycullen.bsky.social · 1d

Newsom can be the ra-ra cheerleader in terms of fighting back Trump, but it’s all fucking noise to me considering he is so clearly anti-trans.

He should not be the candidate in 2028.

NESbot Etc @nesbotetc.bsky.social · 1d

Newsom vetoed a gender education bill, along with decling to sign other trans protections
www.resetera.com/threads/13...

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Sarah Kurchak @fodderfigure.bsky.social · 1d

Let’s do the fucking news!

Head of perfect curve Siobhan Sharpe poses mid-thought in the BBC offices

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Johnny Cullen @johnnycullen.bsky.social · 1d

Sayonara Wild Hearts… 2.

(Please? :<)

Simogo @simogo.com · 1d

SIMOGO 15TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL
October 28, 2025
Please join us for a celebration full of news and surprises. See you!

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

My statement on the two year anniversary of October 7, 2023.

“Two years ago today, Hamas carried out a horrific war crime, killing more than 1,100 Israelis and kidnapping 250 more. I mourn these lives and pray for the safe return of every hostage still held and for every family whose lives were torn apart by these atrocities.

In the aftermath of that day, Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Israeli government launched a genocidal war: adeath toll that now far exceeds 67,000; with the Israeli military bombing homes, hospitals, and schools into rubble. Every day in Gaza has become a place where grief itself has run out of language. I mourn these lives and pray for the families that have been shattered. Our government has been complicit through it all.

This must end. The occupation and apartheid must end. Peace must be pursued through diplomacy, not war crimes, and our government must act to end these atrocities and hold those responsible to account.

These last two years have demonstrated the very worst of humanity. We must answer it by modeling the very best: a relentless pursuit of our higher ideals and an unwavering commitment to universal human rights.”

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Johnny Cullen @johnnycullen.bsky.social · 1d

TikTok algorithm is throwing up Irish creators posting their Chinese orders and I like it but it’s also making me hungry.

HELP.

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Johnny Cullen @johnnycullen.bsky.social · 1d

If there is a point where you have thought to yourself you have listened to I’m Just Ken too much:

1) - However much you think you have listened to it, it’s still not enough
2) - You officially tire of life if you get sick of I’m Just Ken (not you, just broadly!)

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Johnny Cullen @johnnycullen.bsky.social · 1d

It’s giving Logan too in the episode of Season 4 when he’s giving the speech in the middle of the newsroom.

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Johnny Cullen @johnnycullen.bsky.social · 1d

Fucking hell, that is a great haul on Red Faction II and Splinter Cell alone.

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