Gordan Ramsay: Monstresor's got himself into a spot of trouble. His restaurant has an excellent wine selection, but the decor is in shambles. He tells me he's planning to renovate but I'll believe it when I see it. Fuck me where's the exit gone?

"Crusader Kings" is a terrible name for that games series. They're like 10% fighting, 90% courtly intrigue and finding good marriages.

lotta lawsuit threats flying around from certain right-wing actors right now and I gotta say: do it man. Do it. Invite discovery.

the world is being torn apart by great evils: greed, selfishness, putting the discord notification sound in the mix of your youtube videos

an timely #nzpol reminder: if your David be Farrier, you couldn't be merrier if your David be Farrar: AAH, dude AAH

five years between these cards, I hope this good boy gets steaks for DAYS

A friend sent me this one last night.

of all the horrible fates in reality fracture, "nobody came to her party" somehow hits hardest

Hager book launch thoughts

guppy

my "not involved in corruption at the highest levels of state" press release has a guy who writes political exposés asking questions already answered by my press release

for those outside New Zealand: 2 years ago a veiled far-right astroturf org threatened to sue an investigative journalist for a book he was writing about them. He was not writing a book about them, but this incident meant former staff started leaking to him. He used those leaks to write a book.

interesting thing to post 30 minutes before Nicky Hager announces the TPU had a role in rolling Maiki Sherman

DING DING DING WE HAVE A WINNER

Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now@understatesmen.bsky.social · 2d ago

hearing the taxpayers' union are doing panicky damage control today, curious 🤔

the metaplot of the Scream series is that the events of each movie get adapted into a series called Stab, and then somebody watches Stab and gets inspired to go do real-life murders – which we see in the new Scream – which get adapted into more Stab movies. This is what the horror genre IS now.

Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now@understatesmen.bsky.social · 2d ago

Scream 2022 has the final girl shoot ghostface then look right at the camera and say "I prefer the Babadook" the fuck do you mean Camp Miasma was self indulgent, you're telling on yourself that you don't watch horror

saw somebody calling Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma 'self indulgent' and I'm just ... have you seen ANY of the Scream movies, does the horror movie about horror movies only become pretentious when a trans woman does it

what if we kissed in the hole at the bottom of the lake where the movies come from

we need to return to sci-fi book covers being little people in the foreground with immense looming wonders in the background

hearing the taxpayers' union are doing panicky damage control today, curious 🤔

Wanna see something wild? A third-party Mothership KS estimated to ship in Sept '24 just dropped an update that it's still not done, won't be Mothership anymore, will be riddled with AI now, and no they won't be refunding anyone. www.kickstarter.com/projects/bit...

Update 17: Alright, We're Off to the Races - Scrap Räts! · To Insanity and Beyond

I appreciate everyone's patience as we have been working through an immense backlog.  You can expect weekly updates (but likely no more than that) as we bear down to get this project down the pat...

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I did it, I found the ultimate secret victory condition of Vampire Survivors: having so many particle effects onscreen that my computer is visibly struggling

10 years from now 'unalived' and 'seggs' are gonna hit like 'doggo' and 'pupper' do today

hey remember that shoe company that pivoted to AI

Damien Grant trying to argue for less regulation is so funny. Wow the fox wants lower fences around the henhouse, who could've guessed, let's give it a column.

'ironically' replying UM ACTUALLY to women saying we don't like this also sucks. "It's funny because I knew I was being annoying", fuck offff

rax ‘levon honkers’ king@raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 4d ago

just gonna park this here for now. figuring on gettin a lot of use out of it

Yemeni Anthropomorphic Stele (3rd–1st Century BCE)

Great policy in tough times: a) instantly comprehensible b) tackles something we can ALL see & feel c) tangible/ measurable outcomes d) logical extension of the residential rent situation e) if we can fix this, we can fix other stuff Smart, sensible, sane stuff! #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Greens announce reforms to lower commercial rents, fill empty shops

The Green Party is pledging to restore city centre vibrancy by ensuring market rent reviews for small businesses can lower rents, and letting councils run rental auctions for spaces that have been emp...

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RNZ News Feeds@rnzrss.bsky.social · 4d ago

Greens announce reforms to lower commercial rents, fill empty shops

as a reminder: National have not said they will break up the supermarket duopoly. They have said they'll ask the commerce commission to review whether it's viable, if their coalition partners let them. Their partners won't, and even then it's just ... a review.

okay this is actually huge. I've complained a lot about Labour being limp, so I think it's important to pump them up when they're actually making shit happen www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Labour proposes splitting Foodstuffs and Woolworths from their wholesale arms

Labour would force Foodstuffs and Woolworths to run their wholesale operations independently from their retail stores, if elected in November.

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I don't know why the nicest books I own, physically (as in, highest paper quality, cover etc) are TTRPG rulebooks. It's definitely not industry standard, but the last couple I've brought have all been made like oldschool casebound hardbacks with proper glossy high-GMS paper