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Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social · 4h

"The Chinese only produce cheap budget EVs". Meanwhile in China: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbgf... But its Huawei so Americans will be banned from ever owning one 'because freedom'.

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I Spent $140K on China’s Most Insane Luxury MPV — Here’s What It Can REALLY Do - Huawei Maextro V800

YouTube video by DiscoverChinaAuto

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Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social · 4h

AI is going to destroy 'elite' institutions like Harvard, who want to gatekeep education behind exorbitant fees. Expect them to be obsessed with attacking AI, as their exclusion-based business model is eroded. Harvard is basically a hedge fund, with a sideline in selling degrees.

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Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social · 4h

Wow zack polanski sure has an army of devoted social media trolls who will attack anybody who criticizes him. Really makes me glad I do not support the greens. I don't like political parties that are cults.

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Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social · 7h

Like wildfires and glaciers collapsing...

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Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social · 7h

No politician should be allowed to whine about the 'cost' of netzero without also being told the cost of catastrophic wild fires and food supply collapse which is the alternative...

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Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social · 8h

Less than one percent of the time he spends on the middle east and gender politics.

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John Springford @johnspringford.bsky.social · 11h

Conservatives double the cost of net zero with spreadsheet error. Spiky comment from the Climate Change Committee, whose estimates they messed up www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Tories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet error

Exclusive: Badenoch’s flagship conference policy document cites £957bn estimate, twice the total in climate advisers’ data

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Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social · 9h

His leadership has transformed the party into a far left party of fantasy economics, that does not understand debt, or supply and demand. Its also absolutely forgotten about climate change. I cannot remember the last time Zack even mentioned it. He should stick to tiktok.

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Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social · 9h

Every time I think the USA cannot get more cruel, more evil, more pathetic, more depressing, it does. The only slightly good news might be that they COULD probably clear the entire national debt, if a certain politician's eventual execution is also live streamed.

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Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social · 20h

New BYD SUV interior. My Tesla is like a dinosaur compared to this. And a much more expensive dinosaur, with way fewer features. My country is considering sticking 45% tariffs on cars like this because we don't want to upset volkswagen. Let VW go bankrupt. Fuck em.

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Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social · 23h

I wonder if it would be illegal still if you held a sign where the 'c' in action was the cyrillic c (С), which is technically a different character, and has its own unicode number. I would love to see a prosecutor try and define exactly what the letter 'c' is, and expose them to even more ridicule.

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Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social · 23h

Her position is utter bollocks. The idea that arresting people who pose NO THREAT to anybody, when the prisons are FULL, because they write 'I support palesti** **tion' on a peice of paper makes ANY sense is just nonsense. But I am sure the Israeli government is very pleased with her.

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Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social · 23h

I wish there was a way to mark a game as a hobby project. A kind of 'Being a dick to the developer will not impact their business, so just give it a rest ok?' flag. I'm making a space game I hope space game lovers might like. But if they do not, OTHER space games exist ffs...

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Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social · 23h

My Ridiculous Space Battles demo is approved...but not the store page...which means I can't release it yet. Seems backwards. Never mind, I have a few small bugs to fix anyway, but hoping to get it live *before* next fest. Dreading dealing with complaints TBH. But I NEED to actually release it.

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Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Maybe I should send this to the people who refuse to buy an EV in 2026 because 'sometimes we tow a horse box'. And yes, thats a direct quote. People have NO IDEA how much power an electric vehicle can deliver. Petrol & Diesel are useless.

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Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Ha, literally just finished a re-watch of the big short, with steve yelling at everyone :D.

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Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Visited my farm today. Its all fine, grass is low, panels are clean, trees around the border fence are mostly living and growing. One inverter has some metal cable-enclosure bent out of place due to sheep rubbing their backs on them. But nothing too bad. My car smells of sheep though :D.

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Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

In other news, humans are awesome, and have never done bad things. Not one of them, never.

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Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Oh and if he needs it, as a distraction, of COURSE he will order a false flag attack on a democrat city. What does he care if 100,000 ordinary people get slaughtered if it keeps him in the oval office. Trump ONLY leaves office in a casket.

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Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Trump saying that its fine if Iran nukes Los Angeles (because he is unpopular there) was not even a news story for a whole day. The US president is making a joke about letting a foreign govt kill millions of US citizens. The US is heading for civil war. eu.usatoday.com/story/news/s...

eu.usatoday.com

Trump sparks outrage with remarks about LA, San Diego at rally

California leaders are condemning President Trump after he suggested that destroying Los Angeles or San Diego is a small price to pay for Iran War.

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Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I am just about to release RIDICULOUS SPACE BATTLES on pc :D www.positech.co.uk/ridiculoussp...

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Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I submitted my trailer to some reddits like this one: old.reddit.com/r/gametraile... but I do not have an army of school buddies to upvote stuff, so it will probably be ignored. #oldmandeveloper

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Ridiculous Space Battles 2026 Trailer

Posted in r/gametrailers by u/cliffski • 1 point and 0 comments

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Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Trying to track down a bug and I forgot how cool it is that Democracy 4 has an Arabic translation :D.

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Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Thanks to guidance from Claude on using handbrake, I now have an mp4 version of the short teaser video I made for Ridiculous Space Battles, so I can upload it here direct to bluesky. I REALLY have to make 60fps videos for this game, too much going on for 30fps. store.steampowered.com/app/3607230/...

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Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Russia, Belarus and now the USA. To use Trumps own words 'shithole countries' who refuse to accept international election monitors. For the US, the first time in 20 years, because there is NO WAY the US midterm elections will be fair. www.ms.now/news/trump-m... The USA is not a democracy any more.

ms.now

Trump administration refuses international election monitors for first time in over 2 decades

The decision not to invite observers from the OSCE puts the U.S. alongside Russia and Belarus, while the Justice Department prepares to deploy its own poll monitors.

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Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I felt bad that I could only keep the GSB online stuff working for 15 years...

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Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I am constantly fighting the fact that although I think a lot of the time, confronting people who are behaving badly is not worth the stress and the grief, I hate the thought that such people just breeze through the world being assholes without being called on their BS. Argghhh....

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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 05/10/2026

I often see people argue that clean energy is not reducing emissions, because it just adds to rather than replaces fossil fuels. This argument is deeply misguided – clean energy built since 2005 has displaced 23 billion tons. I dive in over at The Climate Brink:

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What if the world hadn't built wind and solar?

Clean energy does not simply “add to” global energy use; it displaces fossil sources that would otherwise get built.

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Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

...and what a waste of time because uploading new videos to steam community is apparently broken for me on both the web page and the steam client. And of course steam will not even host a 40MB video file, they let youtube pick up the bill for that, and now its broken. FFS I hate all this.

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Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just posted a new youtube short. I'm trying to get things set up so making enw ones is easy and does not take the ages that it has taken to just make this...arggghhh. I guess all the cool kids are tiktokking this stuff now, but sod it, youtube will do :D youtube.com/shorts/0Fffw...

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Ridiculous Space Battles October Teaser#1

YouTube video by Positech Games

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Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

So here you go: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uixh... meanwhile my country takes DECADES to decide to just not even widen the A303 by one lane. I am not kidding. For fucks sake, at this point I'll vote for whoever cares about infrastructure and getting shit done!

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China's Infrastructure Is On Another Level!!

YouTube video by Because I'm Lizzy

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Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Finally uploaded a new developer blog video in the runup to the demo for Ridiculous Space Battles, in all its 14GB of uploaded glory: youtu.be/H5ZeNuDG62E Including some live bug discovery and me rambling about why it took so long... #RidiculousSpaceBattles

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Ridiculous Space Battles Developer Blog October 2026

YouTube video by Positech Games

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Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

My date of birth is apparently incorrect by one day atycompanies house, so the govt wants me to print and send a FIFTY THREE PAGE paper form to correct it, because we are governed by fucking lawyers with the brain cells of a fucking dead badger. Fuck bureaucracy. You fucking morons.

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Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Absolutely ignorant. Maybe if she gave two fucking shits about the situation in Gaza, it would be different, but she is happy to be Israel's stooge instead. I have nothing but contempt for her. She is siding with genocidal fascists.

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Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

People complain about AI data centers, but then they spend their lives constantly scrolling through 'reels' and instagram videos that are just a talking head with subtitles. They are basically scrolling through text posts, but 2,000x as much RAM and compute required to show them. FFS learn to read

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Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Which means steam takes 30% for zero discoverabiility...

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Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I KNOW my new game will not sell many copies on steam, but I wonder how many indie game devs are simply ignoring charts like this and telling themselves that everything is fine...

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Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

youtu.be

Ridiculous Space Battles Developer Blog October 2026

YouTube video by Positech Games

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Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Looked into the best option for a youtube blog video and read I needed 24Mbps at 60fps (Sony XAVCs), did that, and the file is 14GB for 40 minutes... uploading it anyway. But yikes thats a big file. Is that just standard these days? I guess every youtuber has a major fiber upload speed?

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Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

So state imposed price controls? What impact will that have on new house building if the government can just arbitrarily force prices below market prices? You will just kill off housebuilding. Green party policy makers need to learn some basic economics.

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Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The USA embracing hybrid cars in 2026 is like embracing compact fluorescent light bulbs. Yup, technically a bit better than the crap tech before it, but still laughably crap compared to the new tech. The only major US EV manufacturer (Tesla) is also deliberately being run into the ground. Amazing.

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Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Serious question for anyone who works at google: Does the 'show fewer shorts' button on youtube do ANYTHING? or is it just an empty function. I am genuinely curious.

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Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I really would like to keep selling Democracy 4...but stuff like this makes it impossible to include the USA as a functioning Democracy, and removing it would hurt sales. Seriously considering a disclaimer and renaming USA 'Historical USA' instead. www.ms.now/news/trump-s...

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Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I did a blog post about how I ended up taking four years to release a game, and why its got a demo, and also how this is not a typical commercial release of a game: www.positech.co.uk/cliffsblog/2...

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