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Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.
October 1, 2026 at 3:10 AM
Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.
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A lot of the "Iron Dome but somewhere else" stuff feels like when the Nazis made a lot of propaganda about the Luftwaffe, everyone went "shit we need a massive air force" and in the process completely misunderstood what the purpose of the Luftwaffe was
Just feels like maybe as an island nation, with every viable flight path towards us travelling over thousands of kms of allies, our missile/drone defence needs might be somewhat different to Israel.
October 6, 2026 at 9:33 AM
A lot of the "Iron Dome but somewhere else" stuff feels like when the Nazis made a lot of propaganda about the Luftwaffe, everyone went "shit we need a massive air force" and in the process completely misunderstood what the purpose of the Luftwaffe was
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Esvalt earlier: “Some scientists argue civilization-threatening bioweapons are a fantasy. I wish they were correct, and that I've wasted years building defences.”
October 6, 2026 at 9:23 AM
Esvalt earlier: “Some scientists argue civilization-threatening bioweapons are a fantasy. I wish they were correct, and that I've wasted years building defences.”
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MIT Media Lab’s Kevin Esvalt: “Russia's five-hospital quarantine, FSB involvement, and…hazmat use in response to the death of a single researcher at a weapons-lineage Irkutsk lab are inconsistent with a lab-acquired plague infection, which would have been treated with prophylactic antibiotics.
October 6, 2026 at 9:23 AM
MIT Media Lab’s Kevin Esvalt: “Russia's five-hospital quarantine, FSB involvement, and…hazmat use in response to the death of a single researcher at a weapons-lineage Irkutsk lab are inconsistent with a lab-acquired plague infection, which would have been treated with prophylactic antibiotics.
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As ever, and for the last time in connection with lying shit Jeffrey Archer, we remember Monica Coghlan, whose life he destroyed.
October 6, 2026 at 6:37 AM
As ever, and for the last time in connection with lying shit Jeffrey Archer, we remember Monica Coghlan, whose life he destroyed.
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Le Carré, consistently: he was short and fat and looked like a frog
Casting directors: now the key thing about George Smiley is that he would absolutely get it
Casting directors: now the key thing about George Smiley is that he would absolutely get it
October 6, 2026 at 9:21 AM
Le Carré, consistently: he was short and fat and looked like a frog
Casting directors: now the key thing about George Smiley is that he would absolutely get it
Casting directors: now the key thing about George Smiley is that he would absolutely get it
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Taking solace in the new George Smiley casting with the idea that maybe one day I, a similarly tubby and unprepossessing character, might one day be played by the handsome and urbane Matthew Macfadyen.
October 6, 2026 at 9:20 AM
Taking solace in the new George Smiley casting with the idea that maybe one day I, a similarly tubby and unprepossessing character, might one day be played by the handsome and urbane Matthew Macfadyen.
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No tech CEO or NYT bestselling novelist will ever match the creativity of a humble French postman who decided on a whim to spend thirty-three years building a surreal, majestic palace with the bricks and mortar of his dreams. www.tumblr.com/mostlysignss...
October 6, 2026 at 9:37 AM
No tech CEO or NYT bestselling novelist will ever match the creativity of a humble French postman who decided on a whim to spend thirty-three years building a surreal, majestic palace with the bricks and mortar of his dreams. www.tumblr.com/mostlysignss...
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At Your Door (1990) www.tumblr.com/vintagerpg/8...
October 6, 2026 at 9:37 AM
At Your Door (1990) www.tumblr.com/vintagerpg/8...
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GW’s success is also fascinating because it’s both a high street business and a multinational one, though not in the way you’d expect, because it’s vertically integrated with local manufacturing. The lead belt around Nottingham is arguably the only modern British manufacturing success story.
This gets said constantly, but it worth reiterating: Games Workshop being bigger than fishing is important to shout about because you wouldn't know it from government talking points, which are rarely about anything creative or artistic. Growth won't involve fish or steel, it will involve goblins.
October 6, 2026 at 8:12 AM
GW’s success is also fascinating because it’s both a high street business and a multinational one, though not in the way you’d expect, because it’s vertically integrated with local manufacturing. The lead belt around Nottingham is arguably the only modern British manufacturing success story.
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560 (!!!) FTE cuts approved & closure of music and languages courses. absolutely horrific proposals coming out of Nottingham.
measuring ‘interest’ in languages in n of students on UG degrees is so disingenuous—language modules can be combined with anything!
www.nottinghampost.com/news/notting...
measuring ‘interest’ in languages in n of students on UG degrees is so disingenuous—language modules can be combined with anything!
www.nottinghampost.com/news/notting...
Uni to axe hundreds of jobs and scrap courses to cut costs
The university said the changes are 'among the most significant' in its 145-year history
www.nottinghampost.com
October 6, 2026 at 7:28 AM
560 (!!!) FTE cuts approved & closure of music and languages courses. absolutely horrific proposals coming out of Nottingham.
measuring ‘interest’ in languages in n of students on UG degrees is so disingenuous—language modules can be combined with anything!
www.nottinghampost.com/news/notting...
measuring ‘interest’ in languages in n of students on UG degrees is so disingenuous—language modules can be combined with anything!
www.nottinghampost.com/news/notting...
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Warhammer in its many guises is at its best when it's Weird Little Guys.
October 6, 2026 at 10:09 AM
Warhammer in its many guises is at its best when it's Weird Little Guys.
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other day i was at david lynchs grave just having a moment of thought and admiration and lookin down at all the flowers, and coffee cups, and two cookies and a coke, and wow it just hits you like a thousand suns that art is immortal. creation is too radiant to contain in a body. we trot across time
October 6, 2026 at 1:31 AM
other day i was at david lynchs grave just having a moment of thought and admiration and lookin down at all the flowers, and coffee cups, and two cookies and a coke, and wow it just hits you like a thousand suns that art is immortal. creation is too radiant to contain in a body. we trot across time
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One of the problems with Steam's current policy toward adult content is that it makes no sense to do anything slightly risque or cheeky with your game; you'll get lumped in with us perverts anyway, so you might as well commit to the bit
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October 6, 2026 at 9:40 AM
One of the problems with Steam's current policy toward adult content is that it makes no sense to do anything slightly risque or cheeky with your game; you'll get lumped in with us perverts anyway, so you might as well commit to the bit
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Just as a counterpoint to some of the obituaries this morning, here's the start of the Archer chapter in my history of political lying, The Lies of the Land:
October 6, 2026 at 9:33 AM
Just as a counterpoint to some of the obituaries this morning, here's the start of the Archer chapter in my history of political lying, The Lies of the Land:
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How much do I have to yell about this? I already wrote *an entire blog* calling out THIS specific site's double-standards, but there is a reason mainstream media doesn't use machine translators even now and it's fucking embarrassing that far more tech literate orgs willingly ignore that for clicks.
You Can't Report on Hunger While Taking Bread Off the Table
On the proliferation of machine translation in video game outlets covering the effects of AI on labor.
dateemups.com
October 6, 2026 at 9:41 AM
How much do I have to yell about this? I already wrote *an entire blog* calling out THIS specific site's double-standards, but there is a reason mainstream media doesn't use machine translators even now and it's fucking embarrassing that far more tech literate orgs willingly ignore that for clicks.
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I can already picture the newsreader's smirk as they introduce the story about "a rather surprising success story involving *pause for effect* goblins".
October 6, 2026 at 7:52 AM
I can already picture the newsreader's smirk as they introduce the story about "a rather surprising success story involving *pause for effect* goblins".
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Computer games: not just for kids!
October 6, 2026 at 7:50 AM
Computer games: not just for kids!
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Another useful comparison: if any "traditional industry" had seen job losses comparable to the UK games industry in the last few years, it'd be treated as a national crisis on the front of every newspaper for months and months, because those are considered Proper Jobs and making games is not.
October 6, 2026 at 8:05 AM
Another useful comparison: if any "traditional industry" had seen job losses comparable to the UK games industry in the last few years, it'd be treated as a national crisis on the front of every newspaper for months and months, because those are considered Proper Jobs and making games is not.
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And if this did get covered by the media, it'd be a wacky novelty story not an actual exploration of how modern commercial reality does not align with the political notion of British industry/exports.
October 6, 2026 at 7:39 AM
And if this did get covered by the media, it'd be a wacky novelty story not an actual exploration of how modern commercial reality does not align with the political notion of British industry/exports.
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This gets said constantly, but it worth reiterating: Games Workshop being bigger than fishing is important to shout about because you wouldn't know it from government talking points, which are rarely about anything creative or artistic. Growth won't involve fish or steel, it will involve goblins.
October 6, 2026 at 6:19 AM
This gets said constantly, but it worth reiterating: Games Workshop being bigger than fishing is important to shout about because you wouldn't know it from government talking points, which are rarely about anything creative or artistic. Growth won't involve fish or steel, it will involve goblins.
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It's .02 percent of the GDP of the world's fifth-largest economy! That's fucking WILD.
October 6, 2026 at 12:44 AM
It's .02 percent of the GDP of the world's fifth-largest economy! That's fucking WILD.