mrmilesweaver.bsky.social @mrmilesweaver.bsky.social · 06/08/2026This is literally the most batshit thing I've ever heard a council propose. Whoever came up with and supports this needs to be fired immediately and banned from London for life. 000
Reposted by @mrmilesweaver.bsky.socialRob Blackie @robblackie.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Labour defending Twitter is a good example of why they are so ineffective in government: utterly unwilling to take decisions which have any controversy attached. 18504121
Reposted by @mrmilesweaver.bsky.socialDmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 12/04/2026Very Ukrainian accent: "Oh Mr Vance, is it hard to negotiate peace? Is it difficult to come to a deal when both sides have fundamentally irreconcilable positions on key issues? Does not being able to trust your counterparty make things tricky? Why do you hate peace, Mr Vance?"media.tenor.coma man with a beard is sitting in a chair .ALT: a man with a beard is sitting in a chair . 16810175
Reposted by @mrmilesweaver.bsky.socialJemma Forte @jemmaforte.bsky.social · 31/03/2026What has to happen before the world hits a tipping point? Epstein files? Hospitals bombed in Gaza? War crimes in Lebanon? Illegal Iran war? Children suffering in ways we shouldn’t be able to imagine? Ben Gvir celebrating being able to hang people? Wish I was going mad & this wasn’t reality. 1934775
Reposted by @mrmilesweaver.bsky.socialMolly White @molly.wiki · 09/03/2026"This probably sounds like nightmare fuel to many, but to wealthy VCs and AI and crypto entrepreneurs it’s the next gold rush." is the quote of our time 581672407
Reposted by @mrmilesweaver.bsky.socialChaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 27/02/2026turns out McSweeney and the Blue Labour gang were wrong and the out of touch woke liberal elite Bluesky echo chamber bubble was right 301429220
Reposted by @mrmilesweaver.bsky.socialStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 16/02/2026Indeed. It's also bleakly funny seeing people go 'this is harmful for teenagers' (a sentiment with a fairly limited evidence base) who have obviously cooked their brains online to the point that they cannot grasp the really simple 'we should probably ban the problematic parts of this for everyone'. 1115931
Reposted by @mrmilesweaver.bsky.socialMujtaba Rahman @mijrahman.bsky.social · 03/01/2026European weakness on full display by these horribly contorted responses from Merz, Macron and Starmer - neither condoning nor condemning US actions in Venezuela Such weakness only risks making the Europeans more vulnerable (ie Greenland) 42678232
Reposted by @mrmilesweaver.bsky.socialJemma Forte @jemmaforte.bsky.social · 02/10/2025Richard Tice during an interview "Keir Starmer literally used the words: take up arms and go for the enemy" What a lemon Firstly (& most importantly) he DID NOT say that. Secondly you can’t wang on about language you don’t like AND parade Lucy Connolly like a mascot. Make your mind up. 882162462
Reposted by @mrmilesweaver.bsky.socialCassetteboy @cassetteboy.bsky.social · 30/09/2025New! Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer. This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks! 9129661392
Reposted by @mrmilesweaver.bsky.socialRuss Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 05/09/2025Angela Rayner accidentally pays less tax than she should have, resigns, and the media gives her hell. Nigel Farage deliberately pays less tax than he should have, and the media gives him a free pass. That, right there, is the problem. 11137601689
Reposted by @mrmilesweaver.bsky.socialIain Mansfield @igmansfield.bsky.social · 29/08/2025Good piece by @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk. I'd add: 'won't work' can only work for a party in gov't people think that gov't's own approaching IS working. Which they don't. Similar to how Sunak's attacks on Starmer for 'not having a plan' failed to land. www.joxleywrites.jmoxley.co.uk/p/it-wont-wo...joxleywrites.jmoxley.co.uk"It won't work" Won't WorkLabour's response to Farage is bound to founder 182
Reposted by @mrmilesweaver.bsky.socialAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 26/08/2025The fact that an anti-migrant politician, who tells us every single day that he doesn't like immigration, is saying it once again, is not in any way news 1821982425
Reposted by @mrmilesweaver.bsky.socialMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 23/08/2025Trump taking a 10% stake in Intel for the government is yet another reminder that Dems, when in power, should stop being afraid of their own shadows and do whatever the f*ck they want and not worry about political norms or rules or conventions or media name calling. 1902548496
Reposted by @mrmilesweaver.bsky.socialBryant Francis @bryantfrancis.me · 29/07/2025This is an insane thing to write about game development. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/a... 41178481279
Reposted by @mrmilesweaver.bsky.socialDale Vince @dalevince.com · 16/07/2025A simple 2% tax on assets above £10 million will affect only 0.08% of the UK population... Let’s get on with it. 511037
Reposted by @mrmilesweaver.bsky.socialRyan T. Brown 🎮🩷 @toadsanime.lostincult.co.uk · 15/07/2025John Wick Hex will be delisted from all storefronts in just a few days, its publisher has announced. Physical versions of the game thankfully exist, but it's another reminder in the issues digital-only poses to game availability & ownership. (Read more: Kotaku) 55930
Reposted by @mrmilesweaver.bsky.socialStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 13/07/2025Terrific thread by Jonathan this. Since I was born, the area I grew up in has higher employment, has got older, has got healthier, became more likely to be in the private rented sector, got less religious, got less white. There is no non-bigoted reason to think the last of those is problematic. 1039976
Reposted by @mrmilesweaver.bsky.socialPhil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 03/07/2025Reminder: Atari didn't collapse in 1983-84 because their games were bad. It was because they had such unrealistic projections that even their top-selling titles were considered flops Atari executives peddled the "people hated the games" story to deflect blame for their mismanagement 2044991626
Reposted by @mrmilesweaver.bsky.socialZarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 02/07/2025I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again, and I know I speak for millions of people up and down this country: We are all Palestine Action 🇵🇸 381119319
Reposted by @mrmilesweaver.bsky.socialThe Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 17/06/2025Iran: Weeks away from having nuclear weapons since 1995 608108673982
Reposted by @mrmilesweaver.bsky.socialDave Hutchinson @hutchinsondave.bsky.social · 13/06/2025You’ll be too young to remember, but there was a time when you could wake up as many as three mornings in a row and not find the world had lost its fucking mind. 6255411422
Reposted by @mrmilesweaver.bsky.socialMel Brooks @officialmelbrooks.bsky.social · 12/06/2025I told you we’d be back 15674307412663
Reposted by @mrmilesweaver.bsky.socialNo Escape from the Tyranny of Virtue 🏴🏳️⚧️🇵🇸 @noescapevg.com · 07/06/2025Truly yesterday's "main event" was spiritual poison. An absolute donkey nuts excuse for a "AAA" showcase and the best excuse we have for simply scuttling this whole fucking project and burying it in the Mojave Desert. noescapevg.com/summer-geoff...noescapevg.comSummer Geoff Fest #4: What a ShitshowLook, I’ll just say it so nobody else has to: no one goes into the Summer Game Fest presentation truly believing that it’s a heartfelt celebration of the art, craft and hobby of video g… 38939
Reposted by @mrmilesweaver.bsky.socialOwen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 26/05/2025Does this surprise you? 22295117
Reposted by @mrmilesweaver.bsky.socialThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 23/05/2025Military intervention must be used to stop the genocide in Gaza | Ahmed Ibsaistheguardian.comMilitary intervention must be used to stop the genocide in Gaza | Ahmed IbsaisIn Kosovo, Nato intervened in 1999 after mass killings and the threat of further ethnic cleansing. Why aren’t Gazans being protected in the same way? 36390150
Reposted by @mrmilesweaver.bsky.socialDan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 14/05/2025If as a politician you are complaining about Pride banning political parties I would strongly suggest you look within yourselves as to why this decision has had to be made, the rampant, and unrepentant, attacks on the LGBTQIA+ community for starters, before criticising those who have made it. 7838136
Reposted by @mrmilesweaver.bsky.socialPeter Foster @pmdfoster.bsky.social · 12/05/2025But populists can't be the only ones telling compelling stories. There has to be a progressive narrative too, but you can't build credibility overnight. Years of cravenness and timidity take their toll. A plague on all their houses. ENDS 4759993
Reposted by @mrmilesweaver.bsky.socialTarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Given the local election results in the UK, a short #thread - based on much of our own research - on the vicious cycle of radical right support that we have seen in many countries. 1) When radical right parties (such as Reform) are electorally successful established parties move right on immigration 11344212
Reposted by @mrmilesweaver.bsky.socialGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Labour is handing this country on a silver platter to Reform. People do not vote Labour because they hate immigrants and want Reform-lite. They vote Labour because they want it to make a positive difference to their lives. 28552891340
Reposted by @mrmilesweaver.bsky.socialOn a clear day @icanseeforever1.bsky.social · 25/04/2025This moment when the penny drops that trying to implement bathroom bans is an impossibility for the former Tory Chief Secretary Simon Clarke is delicious. 339100583364
Reposted by @mrmilesweaver.bsky.socialMatthew Reynolds @mattreyn.games · 05/04/2025Microsoft is going to be pissed when they find out a) Quake already exists and b) they own it 0367
Reposted by @mrmilesweaver.bsky.socialBill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 03/04/2025The Sopranos is probably the Rosetta Stone of modern American reaction: it consists of people who bemoan the loss of an imagined past they mainly got from movies, claim victimization based on identity but hate when others do it, and view the people who build the society they prey on as suckers. 12697521733
Reposted by @mrmilesweaver.bsky.socialIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Want to know how Trump gets in? Just look at the coverage of Le Pen iandunt.substack.com/p/want-to-kn...iandunt.substack.comWant to know how Trump gets in? Just look at the coverage of Le PenThe press takes a leading role destroying the rule of law 28712256
Reposted by @mrmilesweaver.bsky.socialRuss Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 21/03/2025"Poverty in Britain exists not because we don't have enough money to satisfy the needs of the poor, but because we don't have enough money to satisfy the greed of the rich." My bit for @bylinetimes.bsky.social on wealth tax and the new austerity. www.bylinesupplement.com/p/russell-jo...bylinesupplement.comRussell Jones's Week Moment: Billionaires, Miscarriages of Capitalism, and Bin CollectionsIn the week the Government cut £5 billion in benefit payments, Russell Jones takes the UK's tax-dodging billionaires to task and urges Labour to get on with imposing a wealth tax 33958276
Reposted by @mrmilesweaver.bsky.socialMatt Green @mattgreencomedy.com · 14/03/2025Tough Choices! 30935410
Reposted by @mrmilesweaver.bsky.sociali’m just ken @shepardcdr.bsky.social · 04/03/2025when you ask a AAA developer if their game was inspired by current events and politics 11729167
Reposted by @mrmilesweaver.bsky.socialJohn Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 28/02/2025We live in Britain, and there are now profound questions to ask our government. There's no conceivable bridge between Europe & this US administration. Whether we escape tariffs is a laughably parochial question. Yesterday is now an awfully long time ago. 281257267
mrmilesweaver.bsky.social @mrmilesweaver.bsky.social · 01/03/2025Lots of European leaders standing with Ukraine. Fewer European leaders ready do anything other than speak words of support. Action is what's needed for Ukraine and European security. Begin building defence infrastructure right now and start forming that EU army. 000
Reposted by @mrmilesweaver.bsky.socialSkill Up @skillup.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Incredible strength and courage from Zelenskyy. Standing up to a room full of bullies in an orchestrated, stage-managed ambush. Never backing down. Never letting the lies take root. Absolute hero for the ages. 773066327
Reposted by @mrmilesweaver.bsky.socialFarrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 26/02/2025Caroline Lucas, "A hard choice for Starmer would be a wealth tax" "Why are the poorest people paying for increase in defence spending?" @carolinelucas.bsky.social #Newsnight 47933294
Reposted by @mrmilesweaver.bsky.socialRob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 24/02/2025Why does 25% AfD among young men spark a thousand "what is going on with young men?" posts yet Die Linke 34% among young women generates...nothing at all? Yes, young men voting for the radical right is an important phenomenon. But so is young women going rad left *at even higher rates*. 41478601797
Reposted by @mrmilesweaver.bsky.socialLuke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 17/02/2025opening linkedin in 2025: 845085
Reposted by @mrmilesweaver.bsky.socialDmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 16/02/2025Europe doesn't need any more wake-up calls. It's awake. It's just very comfortable in its warm bed and procrastinating on getting up in the hopes something turns up to magically take care of all the chores it knows it should be getting on with. 441105180
Reposted by @mrmilesweaver.bsky.socialPeter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 09/02/2025At risk of being repetitive, I don’t think it’s the tyres on Lime bikes which are the big issue. It’s the brakes. They are grossly insufficient for a heavy e-bike. It’s the same reason, though - drum brakes are cheaper than discs and need less maintenance. But they’re not good enough. 4436
