Matthew Hanlon
@thebag1981.bsky.social
🏴 •Lead coder at Playsport Games •Co-founder of Bit By Bit Games •ex-Lionhead gameplay & AI coder (B&W2, Fable 2 3 & H) #BAFTAGames he/him
This is Massive Attack's response to what happened in Singapore, posted on their Instagram page. Good on them.
Kirsten Han 韩俐颖@kirstenhan.com · 5d agoMassive Attack has been banned from Singapore after they held up a Palestinian flag during their concert here last week. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Australia’s eSafety commissioner buried a report (released Friday afternoon) that shows the under 16 social media ban didn’t tangibly reduce teen social media use, and also resulted in parents tuning out of kids usage. We traded our privacy for no reason. theconversation.com/more-than-80...
More than 80% of kids still using social media despite ban, new eSafety report finds
The report provides more evidence Australia’s world-leading social media ban isn’t going to plan.
theconversation.com
Stop calling me an amateur. I've been doing this for decades. I'm incompetent.
(CLANG) A POST! (CLANG) A THREAD! (CLANG) A BLOCK! (CLANG) A QUOTE! (CLANG) A LIKE!
Better Things Are Possible@internethippo.bsky.social · 4d agoWhen the gods want to test a man's character they put him on the computer
“I've sold data centers to Brockway, Ogdenville, and North Haverbrook, and, by gum, it put them on the map! Well, sir, there's nothin' on earth like a genuine bona-fide electrified six-terrawatt data center! What'd I say?”
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d agoHassett: "Data centers are very good for towns bc they create so many jobs & bring people in with high incomes that can buy houses & stuff like that. So if you take a sleepy town that hasn't seen much in the last 30 years & put a data center there, there are gonna be a bunch of happy residents."
Epstein files aren't worth seeing or discussing, but Fauci's personal diary...? THERE's our new distraction. I'd listen to this remarkable woman.
Amnesty have issued an apology to JK Rowling and the rest. Adjust your expectations, and donations, accordingly www.amnesty.org.uk/latest/an-ap...
An Apology for A Growing Threat briefing, published on 8 July 2026
Amnesty International UK has made a public apology for the publication of the briefing “A growing threat: the anti-rights movement in the UK”. Click here to read it in full.
amnesty.org.uk
Most of my experience lies with Unity and Unreal (as well as doing smaller projects Raylib projects using the C# and C++ wrappers) but am open (and excited) about learning new engines!
Natalie (Tali) Vancouver era ✨@talidev3d.bsky.social · 3w agoI know the industry is in a dire state right now for jobs but If any indie studios see this and need an additional programmer, PLEASE let me know ASAP! my partner @barndone.bsky.social is a great generalist programmer and needs a home! Vancouver on 1 salary isn't going to cut it for long 😓
New Kaleidoscope ep! Pip Warr (Little Kitty, Big City, A Monster's Expedition) joins us for a fun chat about localisation. Can digging into your script in immense detail make you a better writer -- or will it drive you mad? www.inklestudios.com/kaleidoscope...
Based in the UK? Then please sign and share! Help creators be paid what they're owed. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...
Petition: Protect creators' rights: require AI firms to disclose training data
We ask the Government to introduce a statutory duty requiring AI developers to disclose the copyrighted works used to train generative AI in enough detail for creators to identify use of their work, e...
petition.parliament.uk
my blood boiled to read this. so I went and found this contact form www.amnesty.org.uk/contact-us/ and immediately told them what I think. recommend you do, too
We'd love to hear from you
If you would like to get in touch please fill our the form below and we will get back to you as soon as we can.
amnesty.org.uk
Elizabeth Taylor@elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · last wk.Hugely hugely concerned by this archive.ph/2026.07.27-1...
Just loving how John Cleese, now reduced to one of his own caricatures, rages about immigrants coming to the UK and failing to accept "our" culture, from his home in ... (checks notes) ... Nevis in the Caribbean.
My beef with Morrissey runs all the way back to 1986 when he said this about Black artists. Nineteen Eighty Six, while the Smiths were still active. It’s not a “later phenomenon” don’t try and lie to me www.standard.co.uk/culture/musi...
They moved on from lindsey graham's death so quickly you'd think he died in a school shooting.
This monstrous fascist liar's argument is that if you die because I stopped paramedics from helping you, *I* didn't cause your death because someone *else* could have hypothetically helped you. Get the fuck off of X. No money for Musk, in any form, ever.
Jonathan Harris@jonathan-a-thon.bsky.social · 2w agoHe's quite possibly one of the worst people to have ever lived.
A robber baron. The bridge was 100% paid for by Canada (it cost $6.4B+ to build). (Also, for the billionth time, Canadians don't pay the tariffs; US folks do.)
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoTrump: “Canada disinvited the US to the opening of the Gordie Howe Bridge, which is fine, considering they are paying substantial TARIFFS, but the original Deal on the Bridge, which was terribly negotiated by a previous Administration, no longer stands. We changed terms so that the US now gets 50%”
They keep telling me media literacy is dead but then I see videos like this and I know it jot to be true
A twelve thousand percent increase in articles about "the trans probem" in a decade. Manufacturing "the trans problem" out of thin air and bile.
elia ayoub@ayoub.bsky.social · 2w agoWorth adding some numbers to this. The British press decided to make trans rights into an issue. It just wasn’t an issue before. This was a top-down decision. shado-mag.com/articles/opi...
It isn’t the White House task force’s role to decide these matters. It’s FIFA’s rule. But I supposed FIFA has for the past 6 weeks become a branch of the federal government so …
Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life - Terry Pratchett, Jingo
The creator of Roger Rabbit (who is 85 years old by the way) is a good sort Crossposted with @openvibe.social
Watched the England vs Argentina game last night with my son. When Argentina's second goal went in, they cut to the crowd looking mournful and my son said "that old lady looks sad" ... ... it was Mick Jagger, and yet he wasn't wrong.
Today we have something special: a newly translated interview from July 1996 between Shigeru Miyamoto and Kenji Eno! Conducted just weeks after the launch of Mario 64, Eno takes Miyamoto to task (in a friendly way) with several fascinating critiques of its design. shmuplations.com/miyamotoxeno/
Shigeru Miyamoto x Kenji Eno (1996) - shmuplations.com
In July 1996, Kenji Eno visited Nintendo HQ to speak with Shigeru Miyamoto as the first of his "cross-talk" series.
shmuplations.com
