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Jackwraith @jackwraith.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yup. When you have most major "news" organizations owned by billionaires, those orgs will reflect the values of the ownership class. Even the nominally public ones, like the BBC, will be influenced by that trend.

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Jackwraith @jackwraith.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

First guess is that they're using AI for image recognition and that image mimics the, uh, fondling of certain parts.

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Jackwraith @jackwraith.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If you see this post a vampire that isn't Dracula

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Jackwraith @jackwraith.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Right. The 2025 "related parties" settlement was just one example of how they had continued to cheat right up to present times. I think the PL didn't want yet another protracted fight at that point but if they decide to really push back, there's certainly more ammo for the smoking gun.

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Jackwraith @jackwraith.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Writing is the act of creation. If you tell the machine to create it for you, then what's the point? It'd be like saying you're a woodworker and having a robot that does the actual carving of the wood.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“cowboys” here really reminds me of a brilliant post I saw on Twitter that I’ve never stopped thinking about, which is how the manosphere brand of toxic patriarchy isn’t about MEN, it’s about BOYS. everything is a 12-year-old’s fantasy. Pete is playing G.I. Joe on a trillion-dollar budget

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Jackwraith @jackwraith.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They absolutely didn't. That's part of what the "related party" settlement was about (i.e. sponsors that were either Mansour subsidiaries or simply a post box (produced no product or service) & yet paid regular sponsor fees.) Plus the "off the books" payments to multiple players in Pep's glory years

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Jackwraith @jackwraith.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

She absolutely deserves the full eight years. She attempted to subvert elections (aka democracy.) It's time that all of these people endure the full and complete consequences of their actions. Part of the reason we are where we are is because the main culprit of just this kind of action did not.

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Jackwraith @jackwraith.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ellington is one of those musicians who was better live than in studio. He was still great there because of what he was: creator, visionary, even genius, but most of all, a showman. When he had an audience, he was at the top of his game.

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Jackwraith @jackwraith.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Fer reals. I mean, I try to keep up with modern trends (surprised my stepdaughter by telling her we were going to see clipping a few months ago), but there's still a lot of "old" music that's in regular rotation and there's only so many hours in the day.

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Jackwraith @jackwraith.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

So you're saying he was a "Walmart Longhorn"?!!

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026

Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵

Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.

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Jackwraith @jackwraith.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Hilarious that they're wearing that color training kit in that pic, too...

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Jackwraith @jackwraith.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

As I've been saying for 15 years now, Trump is the symptom, not the disease.

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Jackwraith @jackwraith.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Immediate invalidation for me with Chernobyl at 19. HBO has been one of the- if not the -premier TV channels in the last quarter century and Chernobyl is easily among the best things they've ever done; right up there with The Wire and the first 5 seasons of GoT (both in the top 10.)

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Jackwraith @jackwraith.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Agree with all. @wademonnig.bsky.social and I have talked about where to take our stuff now that ThereWillBe.Games is defunct and the easy choice is BGG (including the built-in subscription audience) but the loss of control is a real issue. Could just do Blogspot, I guess.

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Jackwraith @jackwraith.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Exactly right. It's always someone else's problem until it's theirs and then suddenly it's everyone's problem. This is most refined in the so-called Libertarians, who rant about being independent until they need something. The political "philosophy" of spoiled teenagers.

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Jackwraith @jackwraith.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is the two-stage message of every GOP politician going back to Goldwater: "None of those things or people matter!" And, then, when something directly affects them or their family: "Oh, wait..." Same story, every goddamn time, from health care to immigration to civil rights to the economy.

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Jackwraith @jackwraith.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Fer reals. Been telling a lot of new friends that are eager to play John Company with me about An Infamous Traffic. (They're all history buffs and only a couple are gamerz, but they're interested enough in the themes to dig into them.)

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Mark T. Sneed @marktsneed.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted.... History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” ― George Orwell, 1984

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Jackwraith @jackwraith.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

@scalzi.com is famous not only for his fiction writing and social commentary but also for his burrito creations that sometimes bend the fabric of the culinary universe (and maybe the larger one, too.)

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Jackwraith @jackwraith.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I only made it a couple years ago and was surprised at how good they are. Immediately snagged the lot in one of Osprey's sales and have been thrilled to explore most of them. Still haven't gotten to Stalingrad but hoping to talk a new friend & wargame enthusiast into it soon.

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Jackwraith @jackwraith.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I think what puts BIABH over the top for me is 115th Dream. Not only do I appreciate the discordant tones and the lyrics, but I never fail to laugh at the fumbled opening and the absolute joy you hear in his producer's voice.

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Jackwraith @jackwraith.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Maybe it's because I've read the book(s) so often, but none of the lines really stuck with me as much as the visuals. The sound element that hit me was the music. The score when they first enter the main hall in Moria still gives me chills; a musical acknowledgment of age and grandeur for them & us.

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Jackwraith @jackwraith.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Yeah, I was a tournament Magic player from the day the game started to 2001 and then just decided I couldn't keep up with it. So, yeah, there are alternative methods. Just depends on what tickles your endorphins the most, I guess.

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Jackwraith @jackwraith.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Halfway there with you. I've never consistently gone past regular listens of Highway 61 and Bringing It All Back Home.

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Jackwraith @jackwraith.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

As a GW enthusiast for many years (albeit many years in the past, at this point) I cannot possibly detail how repellent this is: jamesdwyer2.substack.com/p/the-warham... Especially the "loot box" approach, where you may not even get the expensive model you hope you're paying for. Nauseating.

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The Warhammer Trap: How Games Workshop Learned to Monetize Obsession

When Games Workshop unveiled the latest edition of Codex: Space Marines, the basic proposition was familiar.

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Jackwraith @jackwraith.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Agreed, but I'm not even expecting end product, given how difficult that is to come by in a typical match (esp. the PL right now.) I just want a good midfielder that will be able to keep the ball and retrieve it when lost, neither of which he does well at this point.

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Jackwraith @jackwraith.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Might be my favorite Knizia, even though I've played dozens of times and never won. Great point about the CMON edition. I thought the rulebook being mostly depictions of their art and descriptions of them kept Knizia's simplicity and actually touches on that commercial angle you mention.

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Jackwraith @jackwraith.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

So hard that, of all the major sports, it's the one that probably shouldn't be sullied by playoffs.

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Jackwraith @jackwraith.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Think you can be pretty assured that you haven't done anything so bad in this life to deserve that descent in status in the next.

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Jackwraith @jackwraith.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Definitely. Guess it could be argued that he's never really been a 6 and that season was a fluke that's creating we expectations that can't be met, but if we are determined to continue with the double pivot, he can't just be an attacking 8, either.

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Jackwraith @jackwraith.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Quoting the Liverpool Offside: "This half could've been an email."

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Jackwraith @jackwraith.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Totally created by Cody. Flo might get the assist because he was the last one to touch the ball before Alex scored, but that goal was all down to the work of Cody.

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Jackwraith @jackwraith.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

They're awful. Even worse in the very unEnglish sunlight at this time of year. Everything looks bleached out.

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Jackwraith @jackwraith.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Going from watching Brighton's precision passing game which they used to eviscerate Arsenal to two clubs basically playing dump-and+chase is kinda demoralizing.

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Jackwraith @jackwraith.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Yeah, it's becoming harder and harder to explain Grav's performance in that one season. Seemed like he had been unlocked. Since then, not so much. As for Jeremie, wingback bought to not be a wingback. Tough for him and yet another brick to lob at Hughes.

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Jackwraith @jackwraith.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This Spurs-Villa match is like watching two guys being handed a protractor and a pencil and being told: "Design a building." and getting about the results you'd expect.

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Jackwraith @jackwraith.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Dude! "Few" years is right. That's cool. Hope your new semi-group is the type to play it.

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Jackwraith @jackwraith.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Many people think that because they're rich, they must be GENIUSES; usually including the supposed geniuses themselves. It's rarely the case (see: Donald J. Trump, among many others.)

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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

*There aren't a lot of old-school leaky-hacktivists any more, but the ones that exist really want to go for the jugular. #GrayWar #cyberwar #Ukraine #Russia

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Jackwraith @jackwraith.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It serves their short-term interests & the 1920s & 30s are irrelevant because they're the smartest guys in the room and know how to handle things this time. The downsides of attaching themselves to MAGA in the US have been plainly evident for some time but they don't know how to steer out of it now.

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Jackwraith @jackwraith.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Ah, but see, to average sports fan/ESPN clicker, women don't matter. But competition-! That's everything.

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Jackwraith @jackwraith.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It's all clicks. Michigan, big team, implicitly committed a crime against America's favorite person: the underdog. Therefore, the story will proceed. Would be nice to have media that actually examined real issues and wasn't wholly dependent on advertising numbers, but that's a fantasy.

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