Tash
@tashalou.bsky.social
Cool aunt, eternal Peace Cleric
💼 UK Higher Education
🩵 Reading (especially SFF), games (video, board, TTRPGs), studying languages (🇫🇷🇩🇪🇪🇸🇷🇺🇯🇵), animals, cooking, attempting to knit, gung-ho DIY
📍East Midlands, UK
💼 UK Higher Education
🩵 Reading (especially SFF), games (video, board, TTRPGs), studying languages (🇫🇷🇩🇪🇪🇸🇷🇺🇯🇵), animals, cooking, attempting to knit, gung-ho DIY
📍East Midlands, UK
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I suppose this is the point when I should say again that:
the amount of money the videogames industry brings into the UK economy every year is *more than double* the value of the fishing and steel industries *combined*
what this country is really good at is producing culture
the amount of money the videogames industry brings into the UK economy every year is *more than double* the value of the fishing and steel industries *combined*
what this country is really good at is producing culture
yes. yes yes.
the UK is (not just the originator but) the setting for some of the most popular culture in the world. there is a whole genre of videogames that are set in an imagined Britain. 'soft' power is real economic and even political power.
the UK is (not just the originator but) the setting for some of the most popular culture in the world. there is a whole genre of videogames that are set in an imagined Britain. 'soft' power is real economic and even political power.
Agree. One thing that I really liked about @jpspencer.bsky.social’s Labour Together report is it included culture in “growth spending”. So much policy about regional development in the UK basically regards culture, tourism, etc. as distractions from the real work of building trains to nowhere.
August 17, 2025 at 7:18 AM
I suppose this is the point when I should say again that:
the amount of money the videogames industry brings into the UK economy every year is *more than double* the value of the fishing and steel industries *combined*
what this country is really good at is producing culture
the amount of money the videogames industry brings into the UK economy every year is *more than double* the value of the fishing and steel industries *combined*
what this country is really good at is producing culture
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well. at least there's new worms
Chinese submersible has discovered thousands of worms and molluscs nearly 10 kilometres (six miles) below sea level in the Mariana Trench, the deepest colony of creatures ever observed
u.afp.com/Sg9Z
u.afp.com/Sg9Z
July 31, 2025 at 4:59 AM
well. at least there's new worms
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The two greatest evils known to mankind, A.I. and the person directly in front of you in line at the post office, have finally teamed up. We’re done.
Woman in line in front of me at the post office is not happy about the cost of shipping. She just whipped out her phone, asked ChatGPT how much it thinks the shipping should cost, and is trying to get the mailman to honor that price.
July 22, 2025 at 2:36 AM
The two greatest evils known to mankind, A.I. and the person directly in front of you in line at the post office, have finally teamed up. We’re done.
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Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? You make me want to stay inside and not talk to anybody
July 13, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? You make me want to stay inside and not talk to anybody
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The new Murderbot short story is up at Reactor Magazine: reactormag.com/rapport-mart... Edited by Lee Harris, art by Jaime Jones.
Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy - Reactor
Perihelion and its crew embark on a dangerous new mission at a corporate-controlled station in the throes of a hostile takeover… Novelette | 7,540 words They were still three hours out when Perihelion...
reactormag.com
July 11, 2025 at 2:31 AM
The new Murderbot short story is up at Reactor Magazine: reactormag.com/rapport-mart... Edited by Lee Harris, art by Jaime Jones.
Super interesting article on the role of women in DS and DS2, especially since I had to stop playing DS when I found out I was pregnant 🥲
In Death Stranding 2 gender essentialism is load-bearing. Men are one way, women are another way, and these roles are immutable, writes Maddy Myers.
www.endlessmode.com/video-games/...
www.endlessmode.com/video-games/...
July 8, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Super interesting article on the role of women in DS and DS2, especially since I had to stop playing DS when I found out I was pregnant 🥲
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guys we HAVE to get rid of DEI. it’s about FAIRNESS
June 2, 2025 at 10:56 AM
guys we HAVE to get rid of DEI. it’s about FAIRNESS
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Not once have we had a government which is willing to openly state the benefits of immigration to our society and our economy, the way that diversity has made us a wealthier and culturally richer country. Not once. And yet we're constantly told that we've been living in an experiment of no borders.
May 12, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Not once have we had a government which is willing to openly state the benefits of immigration to our society and our economy, the way that diversity has made us a wealthier and culturally richer country. Not once. And yet we're constantly told that we've been living in an experiment of no borders.
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Whenever came up with the phrase “a way with words” must have had…really really good talking ideas
May 7, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Whenever came up with the phrase “a way with words” must have had…really really good talking ideas
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happy may day here is a painting I did a long time ago
May 1, 2025 at 1:50 PM
happy may day here is a painting I did a long time ago
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if you are a cis person it costs you nothing to just say today that you see & hear your trans sisters & brothers & others over in the UK today -- and around the world, too, knowing that rulings like today's ripple out in ugly ways.
April 16, 2025 at 12:18 PM
if you are a cis person it costs you nothing to just say today that you see & hear your trans sisters & brothers & others over in the UK today -- and around the world, too, knowing that rulings like today's ripple out in ugly ways.
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gonna start writing lies and fake passwords on sticky notes and pasting them all over the house for my husband to decipher
April 15, 2025 at 6:21 PM
gonna start writing lies and fake passwords on sticky notes and pasting them all over the house for my husband to decipher
Dreaming about Blue Prince. Really hope my subconscious is better at solving puzzles than me
April 15, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Dreaming about Blue Prince. Really hope my subconscious is better at solving puzzles than me
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I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.
April 9, 2025 at 1:03 PM
I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.
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299 characters is a fool's decision. Twitter expanding from 140 is the point at which everyone went insane. If anything Bluesky should go for 100 characters
April 1, 2025 at 2:52 PM
299 characters is a fool's decision. Twitter expanding from 140 is the point at which everyone went insane. If anything Bluesky should go for 100 characters
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If only we had a Labour government to start doing something about this appalling situation.
3.
So-called "absolute poverty," which really always ought to be falling, is instead markedly up this time
This translates into rampant hunger -- across the whole population 3.4% lived in homes that had had recourse to a foodbank last year, which has surged to 4.2% this time
So-called "absolute poverty," which really always ought to be falling, is instead markedly up this time
This translates into rampant hunger -- across the whole population 3.4% lived in homes that had had recourse to a foodbank last year, which has surged to 4.2% this time
March 27, 2025 at 10:27 AM
If only we had a Labour government to start doing something about this appalling situation.
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can Labour please, please just tot up the number of voters with a) more than ten million quid and b) less than ten million quid, and do the fucking maths on what the country would prefer.
Labour MP Dawn Butler calls on the Government to impose a wealth tax of 2% on assets over 10 million, rather than cutting benefits.
"That's a better way to bring money in to help fill the black hole that we found ourselves in," she says.
"That's a better way to bring money in to help fill the black hole that we found ourselves in," she says.
March 18, 2025 at 2:05 PM
can Labour please, please just tot up the number of voters with a) more than ten million quid and b) less than ten million quid, and do the fucking maths on what the country would prefer.
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roomba accidentally saw outside
March 14, 2025 at 3:04 PM
roomba accidentally saw outside
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one great mystery of our age is how the only way to motivate rich people to work is to give them loads of money for no reason but the only way to motivate poor people to work is to take away loads of their money for no reason
March 11, 2025 at 9:15 AM
one great mystery of our age is how the only way to motivate rich people to work is to give them loads of money for no reason but the only way to motivate poor people to work is to take away loads of their money for no reason
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put god first. then, go back and get the grain. leave the grain and take god back with you. leave god and get the fox. put the fox with the grain and then go back and get god. then
March 8, 2025 at 7:54 PM
put god first. then, go back and get the grain. leave the grain and take god back with you. leave god and get the fox. put the fox with the grain and then go back and get god. then
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Look, the TOCs don't CARE about reliability. There's no point trying to "shame" them. Just nationalise it and then DO IT PROPERLY, you twats.
Worst train companies to be named and shamed
Millions of passengers will be able to see cancellation and delay data in train stations
www.bbc.co.uk
March 6, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Look, the TOCs don't CARE about reliability. There's no point trying to "shame" them. Just nationalise it and then DO IT PROPERLY, you twats.
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Amazing that “personal liberties” is never code for trans rights, a right to be free from pollution, or a right to join a union.
Jeff Bezos, in continuing his trend of turning WaPo into his personal plaything, has announced that its opinion section will now exclusively focus on promoting "personal liberties and free markets." 🙃
February 26, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Amazing that “personal liberties” is never code for trans rights, a right to be free from pollution, or a right to join a union.