Just found this amazing Yakuza 3 article from 2010 in which one ex-yakuza tells another ex-yakuza to stop being so racist boingboing.net/2010/08/10/y...
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Fun turnaround for a state that used to actively promote a myth that running fans at night caused people to suffocate to try and cut national electricity consumption
‘Stop all outdoor activities’: South Korea records its highest ever temperature
Authorities issue alert saying indoor spaces without airconditioning are ‘dangerous’ as temperatures pass 40C for fifth straight day
theguardian.com
But I thought Westminster's drinking culture was perfectly normal and only namby-pamby, wishy-washy nanny-state teetotal oatmilk-drinking woke lefties had a problem with it
‘MPs have had their stomachs pumped’: concerns over ‘alcohol-soaked’ culture in Westminster
Alcohol is embedded in profession where long hours, loneliness and lobbying are the norm, report finds
theguardian.com
It's starting to feel like Shawn and Corey's end goal is to eventually get rid of every tenured member and replace them with session guys
SID WILSON Fired From SLIPKNOT
According to TMZ.com, Sid Wilson, turntablist for the multi-platinum, Grammy-winning metal icons SLIPKNOT, has been officially fired from the band. A source close to SLIPKNOT and with direct knowledge...
blabbermouth.net
Genuinely baffled that Cyberpunk runs worse now than it did two years ago
Minister for Whatever We've Got Going On Right Now
Neon Genesis Ewangelion@ewacat.bsky.social · last wk.oh my god
In these dangerous times of freak weather events, we should all aspire to be like Kevin Knight: always wear your life jacket in anticipation of flooding
The stranglehold the rightwing and far right have on our politics is absurd. Not a single policy or idea that benefits the country. A wild aversion to tax, immigration, NetZero, the EU.. trapping us in a dismal dead-end, unable to make progress for fear of the DailyMail demographic losing its shit.
Not to be nihilistic, but can the economy hurry up and collapse already
Reminds me of the time a giggling Matt Chorley and colleague asked another Times Radio employee what her favourite Boris The Legend moment was, and she said she didn’t have one, because her mother and everyone on her mother’s floor of her care home were killed by Covid 19 within about three weeks.
When Andy Burnham gets anointed Prime Minister without having to contest a general election over it in what is supposed to be one of the world's leading democracies, he'll be the first Cambridge graduate to be Prime Minister since Stanley Baldwin.
We've reached the Anarchists Under The Bed stage of democratic collapse
RIP Sam Neill. In the Mouth of Madness is the best Lovecraftian horror film ever made.
Is Count Binface a pawn of the establishment? Yes, of course he is. That's why he's plastered all over the media. In other words, if you're looking for the establishment, look at the media itself. They promoted Farage from nothing to celebrity and are now showing him who's boss.
Please do read the excellent article by my @carbonbrief.org colleagues @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org @arunacsekhar.bsky.social with analysis by @zekehausfather.com www.carbonbrief.org/eight-facts-...
Eight facts about air conditioning amid an overheated global debate - Carbon Brief
Carbon Brief explains why AC rates in parts of Europe are relatively low and clarifies some of the misleading claims about the technology.
carbonbrief.org
I was only semi-joking in the past when I suggested that a Reform government might try something mental like abolishing income tax, but we live in the daftest of all possible worlds after all
Andy Burnham urged to scrap income tax and NI in radical fiscal overhaul
Economists including Jim O’Neill write open letter calling for single levy to replace six key taxes to raise money for public servicesupdates
theguardian.com
Odd flex for Ospreay to brag about all the fourteen year old Japanese girls he knows when his best friend was accused of child-grooming, but he isn't famous for being smart
Just some daft shit here. The more consoles become like PCs, and as the cost of consoles rises to PC levels, the better deal a gaming PC becomes because if you're spending over a grand to play games, you can use it for other things as well. With a laptop, you get portability and a screen, too
Instead of putting its games on PC, Sony apparently wants to escape the reputation that "PlayStation equals the living room" by selling monitors and speakers
Can I interest you in PC peripherals?
gamesradar.com
Oh, that's neat. How many light-years are we capable of travelling, in the event a back-up planet becomes necessary?
Potentially Habitable Super-Earth Found Just 25 Light-Years Away
One of the best places to search for life outside the Solar System may be practically right next door.
sciencealert.com
None of these are going to take off, for a pretty simple reason: none of them have anything to *say* with their horror. The Backrooms, Slender Man before that, even going back to Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos, those all had subtext behind the text.
Hollywood Is Desperate For The Next Backrooms As Studios Buy Up Film Rights To More Creepy Online Media
Movie studios are hoping popular online horror content like The Mandela Catalogue will win young people over
kotaku.com
When people spent the last seventy years predicting the end of capitalism, they sure weren't imagining it'd be for the return of feudalism, were they? Fucking monkey's paw universe we live in.
This is astonishing, please send to all your hometown friends and parents and second cousins and academic administrators: lareviewofbooks.org/article/dang...
A Better World Is Not Possible | Los Angeles Review of Books
Did the Weather Underground have a point?
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