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The game kind looks a wee bit old, but if you loved Skyrim you will love this game. Rich story telling, mad decisions, gnarly enemies plus a weird sense of humour. Magic use is apparently overpowered, something Skyrim got wrong imho, where it was pretty naff

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 9h

Been playing Tainted Grail: Fall Of Avalon again and just discovered a spell that can turn enemies into cheese. That’s right, I’ve become a Fromagencer.

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 9h

Just enjoying threads of people declaring the new income tax declaration approach for HMRC is taxing small business on money they haven’t earned yet And asking “How much income did you declare last year? Oh that’s right. You lied. This is the HMRCs response to everyone lying.”

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 10h

My wife still hasn’t forgiven me for teaching our 8 year old the expression “back one out”

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 11h

At some point in time some genius in the GOP thought they could control the Maga Trump thing and now they are cowering under their desks, hiding from their social media & the news, begging their family to at least support them.

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 11h

Reminds me of the grumbles of US agencies working with Israel would find their toilets blocked when they came home at night.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 13h

Hot news for the sea lion in my comments bothering everyone about how training data is fair use www.courthousenews.com/ai-training-...

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AI training of copyrighted material not fair use: Third Circuit

Using someone else's "creative spark" to start a competing business runs afoul of copyright law, the panel found.

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 14h

Theres a shamelessness about how many of these people will complain about others not contributing to society “because I create jobs” like these same jobs aren’t purely to create more income for them

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 15h

The Uk continues to have people pandering to headlines like “billionaires are fleeing the UK” and muttering about paying too much tax whilst vast numbers of people in fact pay little tax & have disproportionate amount of property ownership.

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 15h

Just watched an SME owner declare because he “took all the chances of setting up my own business I’m entitled to not declare my income or pay tax like other people” in the kind of bold way you only expect from criminals.

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 15h

“Hear me out…. An iron dome.. OF THE SEA”

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 15h

It’s hard to see this as anything other than hedging bets tbh. The trajectory could have been seen back in what? 2015? 2010?

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 16h

Name some of those centre right lunatic campers Tim. Name them.

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Svetovid @svetovid.bsky.social · 18h

Well, that's a hell of a thing to leave next to a statue of Joan of Arc.😏

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 17h

Do you think one day Badenoch will wake up, look in the mirror and say “what the fuck am I doing?” I don’t. I’m just intrigued to know if anyone else thinks this?

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 17h

EXACTLY this era of pop culture as well I think

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 17h

Most famously of course is “man and a few random civilians are poisoned by polonium on quiet British town” but sure, we didn’t have a security problem

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 17h

See also “man kills himself and entire family in that order” and “man is randomly machine gunned on his Canary Wharf doorstep”

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 17h

This is one of those areas that when you see news stories like “well known analyst kills himself then zips himself up into a bag in the bath of a safe house” you then look at other stories from the era including “man stabs himself to death in own kitchen”

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 17h

Burnham being associated with Manchesterism just as city gets done for fiddling their finances in the Premier League is peak British politics

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 17h

Periodic reminder that there persists a belief that British security services was also infiltrated from about the Cameron PM era.

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 18h

Ha yes. The economics I learned over 20 years ago in school vaguely drummed some stuff into my head

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 18h

“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or Games Workshop that we expect our hobby, but from their regard to their own interest."

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 20h

the UK has three industries: higher education, whisky, and Games Workshop.

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 18h

“Sure, they might vaporise a city but that’s a price I’m willing to pay for an unclear outcome”

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Genuinely thought Kerry Katona was dead tbh.

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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Welcome to Day Zero.

The image shows a stylized "Z" with a glowing effect over a view of Earth from space. Above, text reads "INFOWARS IS NOW POWERED BY."

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A ting group of people are getting very equity rich & im having questions

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I’m saying carrots and not even looking

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Once again I say: If AI is so revolutionary why aren’t western economies thriving?

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John O’Shea @politicalhackuk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“Controlling a plague is a lot like making love to a beautiful woman”

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Things that you hear as a parent: (Youngest child looking into toilet) “Daddy! What would I have eaten that is really orange?”

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Equally Musk was caught abusing multiple privileges within X/twitter as well as running his own moms twitter account.

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

As a long time tech cynic it’s always fascinating to spot the big tech figures leaning into their personal brand somewhere in their product. For example you could not block Zuckerberg on Facebook

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It is massively amusing to me that if you let copilot suggest a business person you admire most it will automatically suggest Satya Nadella (CEO of Microsoft)

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It’s just a more honest branding of American politics

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

What I like about Kemi Badenoch is her ability to listen to no one & empathise with nothing

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SlenderSherbet @slendersherbet.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

They'll miss the tips.

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

TOP TIP: make water cooler conversation more uncomfortable by always stressing the middle word of Strictly Come Dancing

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