Sign in

Madra Rua

@daneeeyul.bsky.social
111 followers 127 following 161 posts

Aspiring small town character.

PostsRepliesMedia
Reposted by Madra Rua
Flora 🍓🏳️‍⚧️ @floramerigold.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yesterday's news about Jacob Geller broke my heart, so much that I couldn't stop dwelling on it all day. In an effort to make sense of this horrific news and my admittedly complicated feelings about it, here is my article on the Jacob Geller situation: epiloguegaming.com/what-do-we-d...
epiloguegaming.com
What Do We Do With Jacob Geller? - Epilogue Gaming
Earlier this week, a friend noticed Jacob Geller’s book, How A Game Lives, sitting amongst my living room shelves. Under almost any other circumstances, this would have been an exciting invitation for...
3002782633
Reposted by Madra Rua
thicc husband and father @lukeisamazing.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
thinking about this again and smiling
“james hennessy: it's sad reading like 14th century Christian theologians who spent an inordinate amount of time writing "OK there are exactly 3,892 demons and these are their names and these are their powers"... man, you would have loved Dragonball Z
Sep 27, 2023 at 9:32 pm”
3464061448
Reposted by Madra Rua
Sarah Z @sarahz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Remember, team, it's transfem Jimmy McGill Friday at the office this week! Make sure to come to work with your best transfem Jimmy McGill metas and headcanons. :)
1129613
Reposted by Madra Rua
Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I accidentally spent £17,700 on 400 subscriptions to the LRB for Home Office staff and now the Life in the UK test is asking applicants to rank Derek Jarman films from most to least emotionally resonant?
129572
Reposted by Madra Rua
lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 28/09/2026
i guess the idea of genius is appealing because it suggests there's a shortcut to the tedious experience of becoming good at something. and if there's no shortcut the time spent looking for a domain you're naturally gifted at is just more time wasted. ok happy monday everyone let's get this bread
1464055
Reposted by Madra Rua
Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Luxury retailers want taxpayers to fund a 20% tax break for foreign tourists. They paid consultancy Cebr to claim this will raise £2.6bn for the UK. That convinced Sadiq Khan and Kemi Badenoch. But it's false: a free lunch. Four basic errors mask a £600m loss. Thread:
6496226
Reposted by Madra Rua
Mike.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @dumbmike.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I thought this was just beautiful. Kurt Vonnegut takes a walk to mail a letter:
She calls out, “Where are you going?” And I say, “I am going out to get an envelope.” And she says, “Well, you’re not a poor man. Why don’t you buy a thousand envelopes? They’ll deliver them, and you can put them in a closet.” And I say, “Hush.”

I go next to the postal convenience center down the block at the corner of 47th Street and Second Avenue. The woman behind the counter says, “Thirty-nine cents for a stamp.” I say, “I only brought thirty-seven. When did that change?” She looked at me a long time. “Thirty-seven isn’t enough.” “Well that oughta be enough for one envelope,” I said. The line was getting longer. 

The lady moved her hand into her coat. I knew this routine. I backflipped behind the man behind me in line, wrapping my elbow around his throat as I landed. By the time the stamp seller had unloaded her clip, I had full cover. The gentleman’s body dropped to the floor, six holes smoking. The package he was carrying fell to the floor with a heavy clunk. Whatever was in there, it would do. 

I rolled my foot over the cardboard and did a “flick up” as they call it in soccer. I bounced the package once or twice on the back of my foot as the mail lady reloaded, then I launched it high and spun 360 to deliver my patented “Rising Phoenix kick”. The package caught fire as it shattered through the protective plexiglass window and struck the woman’s head with all the force and hatred I had learned to channel in my grueling tutelage under five fallen Wudang masters in my youth. The lady’s body exploded off of her bones, leaving just a blackened skeleton spinning in her office chair. “So it goes,” I said, but no one laughed. I guess they weren’t big readers.

And I go home. And I have had one hell of a good time.

We are dancing animals. How beautiful it is to get up and go out and do something. We are here on Earth to fart around. Don’t let anybody tell you any different.
211270338
Reposted by Madra Rua
Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Britney Spears @britneyspears
Follow
Does anyone think global warming is a good thing? | love Lady Gaga. I think she's a really interesting artist.
13:31 • 10 Feb 11
131951117
Reposted by Madra Rua
ukjarry.bsky.social @ukjarry.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Have you seen the original artist Russ Heath's comic strip reply to Lichtenstein:
435899
Reposted by Madra Rua
Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
No system is perfect, yes some people might "cheat", but would you rather people who desperately need these things go on suffering so you can be SURE you're not being duped? Why is you not being duped so important that other people have to die for it?
1244762
Reposted by Madra Rua
Stephanie 🍉 @ageofoddish.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
mmygod
the slut gnomes of false berlin jeopardy bluesky posttoday's jeopardy categories. the last 2 are "false berlin" and "bizarre little men"
1207666641
Reposted by Madra Rua
mothcub @mothcub.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
more men should do this
713319
Reposted by Madra Rua
The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 18/09/2026
Some 6,000 people — 200 of them children — are right now starving to death in a humanitarian catastrophe orchestrated by Vladimir Putin's Russia.
kyivindependent.com
Editorial: The world must force Russia to end mass starvation in occupied Oleshky
Some 6,000 people — 200 of them children — are right now starving to death in a humanitarian catastrophe orchestrated by Vladimir Putin's Russia. The town of Oleshky and its surrounding district in t...
19659415
Reposted by Madra Rua
whet moser @whetmoser.com · 18/09/2026
dudes rock www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/w...
nytimes.com
Can Two Friends Complete a Game No One Has Ever Finished? (Gift Article)
The Campaign for North Africa, a staggeringly complicated World War II board game, has stymied players for decades. Now two guys in England are giving it a serious go.
5732108
Reposted by Madra Rua
Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
BOB DYLAN writing in The New York Times on being 80. We’re so used to Dylan being an enigmatic & elusive trickster that it’s always a delightful surprise when he writes something so personal, heartfelt and wise.
11481150
Madra Rua @daneeeyul.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
good thread
100
Reposted by Madra Rua
phyphor @phyphor.one-dash.org · 05/09/2026
The idea that we just have to accept the idea that "small boats" are a problem that must be dealt with is absurd and that Labour have bought in to this racist bullshit only provides support to the right-wing parties who proposed the policies to start with.
15917
Reposted by Madra Rua
Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
the new Harry Potter show is becoming like AI to me, in that everyone keeps trying to trick me into resigning myself to its inevitability because they don’t want to let me opt out
31937305
Reposted by Madra Rua
much like your ghosting @mlyp.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
British lads hit each other with chair dot mp4
1535761
Reposted by Madra Rua
Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Absolutely incredible that all of this is being done under the narrative of "independent review of studies." The studies find significant benefits and no harms! Children are not being rushed into irreversible procedures! An entire government and media apparatus buying in an urban legend
131776203
Madra Rua @daneeeyul.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Every e-bike story needs to make clear and upfront the difference between legal pedal-assist e-bikes (which are safe) and illegal throttle e-motorcycles (which are not).
100
Reposted by Madra Rua
Jukesie @jukes.ie · 29/08/2026
I found this screenshot I took from somewhere last year in my Downloads and I think it sums up why I get angsty about "AI" - in my head it defaults to meaning LLMs/GenAI and not all the things I think are probably useful 😅
05217
Reposted by Madra Rua
Ian Lane @toxicshamesquadron.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Been watching a lot of the newer comedians recently, and based on their hard work I’ve been able to update my list of contemporary references to write jokes around. Thanks all. x
1128544
Madra Rua @daneeeyul.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The 5 Simpsons lines I’ve uttered most off the top of my head 1. Put it in H! 2. Hi, everybody! Hi, Dr. Nick! 3. Stupid, sexy Flanders. 4. I hope you’re ready for an unforgettable luncheon. 5. Everything’s coming up Milhouse!
000
Reposted by Madra Rua
Hazel Southwell @hazelsouthwell.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
got called racist in Ghent University earlier lads tell us what happened lad I got called racist in Ghent University ye but why I was being racist in Ghent University? yeah it was in Ghent University
1158791
Madra Rua @daneeeyul.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
among the most tedious things that irish people unfortunately share with british people is mocking americans for not drink large enough volumes of alcohol.
000
Reposted by Madra Rua
Rootless Cosmopolitan @brennick.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
In a world full of Trumps, Musks, Jenricks and “Tommy Robinson”, choose to be a Hannah Arendt.
8490139
Reposted by Madra Rua
Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 20/02/2026
Sharing from a friend, a passage from the Leveson Inquiry regarding the British actor Denholm Elliott, who died of AIDS in 1992. Three years after her death, the News of the World journalist Paul McMullan did the following to his daughter—neither a celebrity nor even someone of public interest.
BROOKE GLADSTONE:
The Inquiry brought up the case of Denholm Elliott's daughter -
PAUL McMULLAN:
Oh, yeah -
BROOKE GLADSTONE:
- which is one case that you truly do regret.
PAUL McMULLAN:
I do, yeah. After Denholm died, she hit rock bottom, was allegedly doing methadone. And although she had, you know, the half-million-pound flat that Denholm had bought her, she didn't have any money to get her ten-pound bag in the morning. So she'd get up and go begging at the tube station.
Here was a young girl crying out to be helped, and she met a police officer who didn't help her but rang up the News of the World and asked for money because he couldn't believe that this is the same girl who'd walked down the red carpet behind Eddie Murphy with Denholm Elliott, you know.BROOKE GLADSTONE:
And you offered her 50 pounds -
PAUL MCMULLAN:
Yeah.
BROOKE GLADSTONE:
- if she would come to your place and have sex. So you led her into prostitution, which she wasn't in that space for.
PAUL McMULLAN:
No, indeed. But she was in such a bad place that someone offering her 50 pounds for sex. I mean, that's five bags.BROOKE GLADSTONE:
So how do you justify that? Yes, she was a drug addict, yes, she was begging. Why push her that extra step? Why take pictures of her topless?
PAUL McMULLAN:
I was keen. It was in my first year. I wanted to impress Piers Morgan, who was my boss at the time, and just wanted to say, not only have I caught this girl begging, but l've got pictures of her topless and I've got her offering me sex for 50 quid. How great am I?
BROOKE GLADSTONE:
This is a pretty dehumanizing enterprise, not just for Jennifer Elliott, but for you, yourself.
PAUL McMULLAN:
Yeah, that's why I feel terrible about it, not just 'cause she killed herself afterwards, but I, I actually liked her as a person.
3737831212
Reposted by Madra Rua
Ross Thompson @wintermute115.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I tried on my friend's glasses, and it just made my eyesight *worse*.
7461100
Reposted by Madra Rua
Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 12/08/2026
i am writing a book! i’ve been talking to the creators of doom, marine doom, & america’s army, plus academics, drone experts, former military… it’s been so fascinating and i am excited to share it with you all. all that time i spent playing CS as a teen is finally paying off lol
(Screenshot of a Publisher’s Marketplace listing) Doom & Duty by Maddy Myers. Imprint: Grand Central. A detailed look at the history of first-person shooters, the gun lobby, violence, military simulators and recruitment tools, and the psychology of why it feels so satisfying to point a gun at someone’s head in a video game and pull the trigger, to Jacqueline Young at Grand Central, in an exclusive submission, for publication in summer 2028, by Charlie Olsen at Inkwell Management (world English).
801224191
Madra Rua @daneeeyul.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
less attention on this please. i got a whatsapp plug for tomorrow. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
theguardian.com
Rush to find solar eclipse glasses as UK high street stocks run short
Some online shoppers may have left it too late for deliveries – but you can still view partial eclipse indirectly without specs
000
Reposted by Madra Rua
da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
AND IT SUCK'S - dashare.zone ADMIN
A SKELTON WORKIN ON THERE COMPUTER AND HAVEN THOUGHT'S,,, "THEY ALWAYS SAID VIDEO GAMES WOULD RUIN THE WORLD, BUT WHAT FINALLY DID IT WAS, MASSIVE SPECULATIVE INVESTMENTS IN SOFTWARE THAT CREATED LANGUAGE DEVOID OF MEANING, SOLD TO BUSINESS AS A WAY TO ELIMINATE LABOR, TO TECH BRO’S AS A WAY TO CREATE CODE WITHOUT SKILL, AND TO LONELY PEOPLE AS A COMPANION, ANIMAL CROSSING WOULD NEVER DO THIS, I KNOW THE BASTARD ROALD PENUIN IS NOT MY REAL FREIND " - MAKING COMPUTER'S TALK TO US IN THE VOICE OF A HUMAN WAS HUMANITYS DEEPEST MISTAKE, A TRICK ON THE MIND WORSE THAN THE DOPAMINE RUSH OF GAMBLING, MORE SOOTHING THEN A BEER, ALL FOR DA PURPOSE OF ENRICHING DA PEOPLE WHO ALREADY HAVE DA MOST MONEY!!! AFTER THEY TOOK OUR MONEY, OUR HOUSING, OUR HEALTHCARE, AND OUR EDUCATION, THEY ARE COMING FOR OUR HUMANITY! STOMP EVERY COMPUTER IN THE STREET!!!! DESTROY ALL DATA SERVER'S!!!!! IF WE CANNOT LIBERATE THE TOOLS OF THE OPRESSOR WE MUST DESTROY THEM!!!!!!!!! WHEN THEY PUT FACES ON THE ROBOT'S THAT KNOCK ON YOUR DOOR AT MIDNIGHT TO REMOVE YOU FROM YOUR HOME WILL YOU DRAW THEM CLOSER FOR A KISS OR WILL YOU STAND UP FOR YOUR SOUL?????? DECIDE NOW WHETHER YOU LIVE UP TO DA PROMISE OF YOUR LIFE AS AN ENSOULED DIVINE CONSCIOUS BEING, OR IF YOU LIVE AS A TRAITER TO HUMANITY - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN
0580177
Reposted by Madra Rua
Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Early Tom Waits song: All the ladies in this bar Are like rhinestone-shaped goodbyes I miss my baby Late Tom Waits somg: Crank up the hog alarm and swig that gasoline We're gonna set fire to Panama with a goose fat machine
8627137
Madra Rua @daneeeyul.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Why doesn’t the BBC use a license fee model similar to PS Plus, Nintendo Online etc., by allowing weekly access for ~£3.50. Having to pay for a whole year is outdated. Allowing weekly usage to catch the World Cup for example would mean less licence dodging.
010
Madra Rua @daneeeyul.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
As we become more normalised, we also become more scrutinised. While we fight for society to be more inclusive, they will question our disability at every turn. Literally the same play with Trans people. Despite mountains of evidence of an UNDER-DIAGNOSIS.
110
Madra Rua @daneeeyul.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
what if it’s both what if it’s both what if iT’S BOTH WHAT IF IT’S BOTH WHAT IF IT’S BOTH
000
Reposted by Madra Rua
Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Guy who went on holiday to Toontown and made it his whole personality:
6754461559
Reposted by Madra Rua
Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 31/07/2026
In the past few days: - Transphobes have lost two further court cases, extending their streak of majority losses over the past year - Amnesty International UK folded in the face of legal threats anyway
4620139
Reposted by Madra Rua
mcc @dryad.technology · 29/07/2026
It was never going to stop at trans people.
Post by @scottygb.bsky.social:

Channel 4 has announced documentary “The Great ADHD Myth?”

It “seeks to determine whether ADHD
is a genuine neurodevelopmental disorder, or a social construct.”

“While traits of ADHD undeniably exist – the question is why they exist. Is ADHD actually a neurodevelopmental disorder? Do people with ADHD have differently wired brains? Or does our world – with…processed food, and regimented education – serve as the catalyst for certain…patterns of behaviour?”
11039251236
Madra Rua @daneeeyul.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Lacking a POV of the victim is not an inherent fault imo. Both Ody. and Opp. are about the horror of lacking perspective. Fair to say you find that uninteresting. But it’s not necessarily glorifying. Also, a victim POV may be hollow and didactic in itself.
031
Reposted by Madra Rua
Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The Dutch equivalent of Cass, (except it’s a proper scientific review not pseudoscientific drivel like Cass) has wholeheartedly endorsed puberty-blockers and full gender affirming care for young trans people.
erininthemorning.com
Landmark Official Dutch Review Recommends Trans Youth Care, Call For Expanding Treatment
The review finds that wait times must be shortened, that few people detransition, and that trans youth care has enormous benefits.
142353789
Reposted by Madra Rua
BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
it has been an exercise in how a directed propaganda campaign can be highly effective, and seeing otherwise liberal people fall for it has disgusted and outraged me. People who lived through and fought against an extremely similar campaign of homophobia in the early 1980s, even!
81024294
Reposted by Madra Rua
davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 17/07/2026
Paul, you just took FEAR damage. If you let it fill up your Little Death meter, that's Total Obliteration, and that's bad news, compadre. Open your Inner Eye menu now and select Litany to permit some FEAR to pass through you.
514439
Madra Rua @daneeeyul.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I find coming up with names and alter-egos very hard. I’m toying with changing my Youtuber video essay persona into ‘Saint Kev’ or ‘Kevin the Hermit’. I just don’t know if those names sound good, and more importantly, I don’t know if the feel like me.
100
Madra Rua @daneeeyul.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Not surprising King’s is on here considering its ties to the defence industry and its harsh crackdowns on pro-Palestine protests. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/...
aljazeera.com
Inside a UK university’s ‘disturbing’ crackdown on pro-Palestine students
King's College London, which has ties to the defence industry, has disciplined at least 26 students in two years.
021
Reposted by Madra Rua
Bwillett Comics, Monster Boyfriend Specialist @bwillettcomics.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Freelance, from home, creative work and indie projects are often the only profession disabled people can pull off and I've seen everyone's work dry up because of AI. This tech is about as anti-disabled people as you can get and I'm tired of the proponents using as an excuse for its existence.
1270158
Reposted by Madra Rua
Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Reform UK plans to jail candidates for using Irish, Gaelic Or Cornish on their election leaflets. Nigel Farage’s party propose amendment to the elections Bill which would mean candidates using Irish and Scottish Gaelic would face up to six months in prison bylinetimes.com/2026/07/13/r...
bylinetimes.com
Reform UK Plans To Jail Candidates For Using Irish, Gaelic Or Cornish On Election Leaflets
EXCLUSIVE: Nigel Farage's party propose amendment to the Government's elections Bill which would mean candidates using Irish and Scottish Gaelic would face up to six months in prison
170540306
Reposted by Madra Rua
Daniel Benneworth-Gray @danielgray.com · 13/07/2026
Sam Neill on tackling depression and imposter syndrome when you’re between jobs.
65107553683
Reposted by Madra Rua
Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Has there ever been a situation before this when governments devoted so much money and effort into forcing people to adopt the products of a few companies, with so little evidence that they were useful?
314754
Reposted by Madra Rua
James Felton @jimmfelton.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I find the story of Hegelochus unreasonably funny. Imagine dying and the only trace of you millennia later is the time you accidentally said you saw a weasel in a tragic play in front of a packed audience, because people mocked you about it for centuries. (Thread for ease)
iflscience.com
Hegelochus: The Ancient Greek Actor We Only Know About Because He Really, Really Fluffed Up His Line
Around 400 BCE, Hegelochus really messed up his line. We only know about the actor because he was mocked about it for centuries.
361097388