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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Tough choice for Starmer to sack Mandelson, but we can all agree it was masterful of him to only do this after 48 solid hours saying he would not sack him because he really really likes and trusts the guy who supported the most famous paedophile the world has ever known.

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F.L. Everett @fliceverett.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

He looks like a cormorant about to be cleaned by RSPB volunteers.

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Elliot Brooks @elliotbrooks.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

OMG, finally realised why Sabrina Carpenter's Espresso had been bothering me so much, and that awkward rhyme of singer/finger. It's that bloody Serafinowicz Ringo Starr parody! It's the same bloody insertion of a hard 'g' into 'singer'. PF should sue. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xd8f...

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Ringo Remembers Goldfinger

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Jonathan Liew @jonathanliew.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

as the late economist Allen Sanderson put it: “if you want to inject money into the local economy, it would be better to drop it from a helicopter than invest it in a new ballpark”. column on the facts and the fictions of New Trafford www.theguardian.com/football/202...

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A new Manchester United stadium isn’t about regeneration and never will be | Jonathan Liew

If ‘New Trafford’ is such a nailed-on wealth generator, then why aren’t Ratcliffe and the Glazers funding it themselves?

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Kit Whitfield - fantasy writer @kitwhitfield.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

A lesser-known power of Shirley Jackson's 'The Lottery' is where it comes in its collection. Spoilers, but I suspect you know how 'The Lottery' ends. It's famous for a reason. But this is important: Jackson arranged the collection it was named after, and she chose the arrangement. 1/

Battered vintage-looking book cover.

Text: 'Shirley Jackson. the most haunting writer of our time.
The Lottery
Adventures of the Daemon Lover'

The cover is deep black; in the right corner cluster a crumpled scrap of paper and a handful of stones.

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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

I find myself in an RPS comment thread where (prompted by RPS linking to my piece I wrote upon hearing of Nash's death) the great Sin Vega reprinted an old J Nash review of E-Motion. This stuff made my heart explode as a teenager. www.rockpapershotgun.com/the-sunday-p...

Imagine, for a moment, that you are a gardener. A nice, friendly, late-middle-aged sort of gardener, sort of fattish, sort of shortish, the kind of gardener that walks about permanently in hardy slippers, except, of course, you don't walk, you shuffle. You have retired following the multi-million pound sale of your tremendously succesful business, and so can devote your whole day to your garden.

It is, to be exact, more of a sweep of land than a garden, comprising maybe an acre-and-a-half, and, following a large breakfast, you spend most of the morning ambling leisurely past your impressively varied flower beds, your near-manicured bushes and your carefully-placed, oh-so young trees, pruning a little here, watering a little there, aiming to reach the shade of your central swinging garden seat by noon, whan the sun is at its zenith and when your garden looks its most pretty.

There, following a hearty lunch of sandwiches and fruit, sitting and watching the wildlife of your garden, for you have declared all your land, which stretches far beyond your private arbour, a reserve for all nature, you parhaps spend a pleasant hour in the maze, whose hedges are still maturing, but will make a fine and delightful puzzle when fully grown, before continuing through the garden to its very boundaries, unfenced of course, but still marked by a succession of attractively irregularly spaced shrubs, and looking back at your garden, which has, over the years, taken on the warm, open personality of its owner, and then seeing the three men systematically razing the entire place to the ground with flamethrowers and realising there are two more behind you, watching helplessly in their vice-like grip as your beloved garden is annihilated without reason or remorse.

This would not, however, be quite as blue-faced, deep-gulpingly frustrating as playing E-Motion. (Alt text is too short for the full thing.)

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Elliot Brooks @elliotbrooks.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Not usually a huge lover of press junket interviews, but my word what a lovely moment from Tim Key here. Quite lovely to see how much that relationship with Basden means to him. Rare for a bit of press kit to feel this sweet and unguarded. youtu.be/bA6TsOjv4Cs?...

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The Ballad of Wallis Island Interview: Carey Mulligan, Tim Key, Tom Basden & James Griffiths

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Elliot Brooks @elliotbrooks.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Take it from me, noted critic of the ghastly dip in the middle of the main screen floor that means you're staring up and through the heads of the rows in front to see the bloody screen, the PCC needs to stick around. Home to a lot of good/weird culture that deserves protecting.

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Dan Douglas @dandouglas.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

without wanting to sound too conceited: i studied site plans, dozens of aerial photos and every shot of that disastrous piers morgan interview and though obviously embellished my map is perhaps the most complete record of the spa’s fleeting existence

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Elliot Brooks @elliotbrooks.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Committed to deleting Twitter - and let it be known the size of that sacrifice as it has destroyed all evidence of the time I exchanged tweets on Heaven Sent with Steven Moffat.

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John Rain🥇 @johnrain.co.uk · 07/01/2025

Saw Nosferatu

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 04/01/2025

ah this is so great, you should read it even if you're not really into darts imo

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Elliot Brooks @elliotbrooks.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Really not sold on Newsferatu. Not sure you can take away the melodrama and expect that story to still work - removes all the emotion from characters staring out across misty landscapes, and instead makes them look like they're regarding a half-cleaned mug they've just popped out the dishwasher.

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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

new article. it's about what cozy and wholesome games are, why shitty people like them, and why I really liked I Was A Teenage Exocolonist. docseuss.medium.com/i-was-a-teen...

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i was a teenage exocolonist (and so can you)

I’ve realized that I’m much better at discussing broad ranging theory than individual games, just because it’s easier to find ten games…

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 18/11/2024

This is... profoundly revealing, not necessarily of the technical side, but of the culture in some of these companies. I incline to trace it all the way back to the early DARPA/tech/anarchy nexus, but I have a meeting now. More later.

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OpenAI Describes Artists' Use of Glaze & Nightshade as "Abuse"

It's afraid.

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Tom Crowley @atomcrowley.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

New social platform, time to post this again. Every Doctor Who impersonated (as of 2019):

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