John Power Jr.

thetimes.comLib Dems get ready for an election before ChristmasParty puts the chance of a general election on December 10 at 30 per cent, believing Andy Burnham may want to capitalise on ‘a run of gambles that paid off’

fair enough, just impossible to get anything done with a 400 seat majority, these days

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social

The Lib Dems are preparing for a potential UK General Election on December 10.

sorry, 400+ seats with 150 something majority I meant, which ok, yeah you can start to see why it's such a pressing issue now... 😑

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theguardian.comAs a young man, magazines were my window to the world. That wonder will be lost when all the shops have gone | John HarrisThe closure of former WH Smith stores around the UK is sobering on many levels. The publications they sold were there to be perused, to broaden horizons, says Guardian columnist John Harris

“The algorithm is great at finding me new music in the limited style I listen to,” he writes. “But it is really bad at showing me something new and different. My listening has become homogeneous, even though I can pick any album ever created.” ——— Stop me if you think you’ve heard this one before…

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Latest from me: on finding fascination, even now, (eg The Wire, Sight & Sound, MOJO) in your town's WH Smith (sorry, "TG Jones"), and the tragedy now unfolding. Result: algorithm culture, the leakage from headphones playing the same things over & over again www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I wonder if junior will complete his tribute act now by impacting several pounds of meat up his butt

youtu.beBrìghde Chaimbeul - Banish The Giant of Doubt & DespairYouTube video by Brìghde Chaimbeul

Ouais mecs

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I'm addicted to Brìghde Chaimbeul now. Thanks @wyrdscience.bsky.social for a new rabbit-hole. youtu.be/ZPGthC8_CyM

Clearly an excellent way to spend a Saturday afternoon

futurism.comCEO of Palantir Says AI Will Seize Power Away From College-Educated WomenPalantir CEO Alex Karp said AI would disrupt "humanities trained" and "Democratic voters" who are largely women.

Just incredibly tiring to know that for the rest of our lives we’re going to be dealing, every day, with the moustache twirling bullshit of The League of Unfuckable Men

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“Palantir cofounder and CEO Alex Karp states ‘AI will undermine the influence of highly educated, often female voters and give it to working class men. We have feminine energy running our cities and our courts,’ he complained.”

Low key hate myself for this but tempted to grab the little plant man along with the vinyl 🤪 www.sacredbonesrecords.com/collections/...

Still thinking about this book, and how it could be the basis for a (potentially) interesting 3 part game. Each player takes on a role, newly promoted Captain, dilettante 2nd son of a Lord, salty sea dog veteran, burly enforcer etc Pt 1 - on board the ship, dealing with all the shit the sea throws

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Needed something to read whilst travelling & found this lying about the house (random Xmas present I think)… good fucking god, if it’s not one of the bleakest (true) stories I’ve ever read then I must have memory holed anything worse to protect my fragile mental health. Great but so incredibly grim

At you, peril, danger, illness! Building alliances, morale etc. Pt.2 - shipwrecked. Factions emerge and you have to keep everyone alive whilst trying to escape and stop (or start) a mutiny Pt. 3 - home and on trial, the survivors have to make their case and defend their choices to avoid the rope

My first 5 RPGs AD&D Star Wars (WEG) Dragon Warriors WFRP Paranoia or Judge Dredd

Shannon Appelcline@shannonappelcline.bsky.social

My first 5 RPGs D&D (B/X) Traveller Stormbringer Champions James Bond 007

have to say after this week I am becoming incredibly into this genre of book that can best be described as: 360 million years ago our vertebrate ancestors crawled out of the ocean....

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Next on my bedside table is The Worst Journey in the World, Vol. 1 adapted by Sarah Airriess from the book by Apsley Cherry-Garrard.

“What’s that sir? Eleven days out from an election we’re already deep underwater in you want to make sure that for the next week every single Republican within 50ft of a microphone will be made to go on record as being pro-nonce? Masterful gambit sir”

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A quarter pounder with geas

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Why do bash “dead-beat” kids for not being there for their parents but we never question if the old folk have bad vibes?

Being a dogshit opinion haver is such an incredible job.

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Slamming into reverse so fast you can hear the gears crunch

Trying to read more fiction, which is having the inevitable, grotesque, side effect of making me want to try and write fiction again. Terrible.

bronze-age.coHARD DRIVEA new zine of HARD graphics by Sam Bailey and spiritual follow-up to 2019's Memory Card.Sam Bailey has been deep thinking about his self-assigned role of image-maker: I thought it could be fun to LARP...

Have to say, quite into this

It’s not looking good 😤

Ok, finished this. I think my big takeaway is that if someone shows me a map and says, right… we’re going to sail past Port Famine, navigate both the Bays of Sorrows & Pain and plot a course through the Blind Horn’s Hate to make camp at Mount Misery, I would simply not

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soon ——————— a little teaser of something @frederikhornung.com has cooked up for us

Office sort out day, just unearthed a very dusty box with loads of copies of Headpress from the 90s, absolutely seminal (in so many ways) zine/mag/journal/thing. So fascinatingly OF ITS TIME in so many ways

having a Fall day, wanted to check something and was reminded that despite going 42 years and having had approximately 1000 members, very very early bassist Eric McGann still wins the award for best reason for leaving the band

Just got to a bit where half the crew are literally rotting and falling apart at the seams, they’re stuck in a hurricane going round Cape Horn, their ship is fucked and the captain has just ordered a load of lads to climb up the mast during a sub zero gale to act as human sails

Anyway, feel a bit bad for being depressed about having to do the job I chose to do which involves sitting on my arse in a centrally heated flat and writing about wizards

Out of interest, who do you think will be the first Republican to quote this if/when Democrats have any power and even the most milquetoast effort is made to dig into their recent crime spree?

Keith Edwards@keithedwards.bsky.social

Barack Obama just delivered a blistering rebuke of Trump's actions against Ilhan Omar. This is worth reading in full.

Yes, yes. New album and EU tour announced from my bestest boys @hotchipofficial.bsky.social

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Life is unpredictable but if there’s one thing that we’ve learnt it’s that as soon as we send a new issue off to the printers we spot something we’d loved to have featured in it… Anyway, just saw this… www.nemastudios.com/collections/...

Nuclear skyline tonight

Well, London was fun, best city in the world, now for a slight change of pace at the in-laws

Can’t believe someone allowed racist nonces into the racist nonce party smh

In case you’re wondering what that sound is, it’s thousands of people scrabbling to be the first to get ‘Donald Trump Hating, Left Wing, Transgender Witch’ t-shirts up on sale

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Ted Cruz: "Right now, if you are left-wing transgender witch, you hate Donald Trump"

Was reading the New Statesman yesterday and there was like a 6 page feature worrying about how Britain isn’t trusted by the current US government and as much as it might be true, it just feels like journalistic malpractice to write a piece like that and not include a reminder every paragraph that

This US government are a combination of the worst, stupidest, most venal, corrupt, untrustworthy, vilest specimens to ever crawled out of their various mutual aid rape fraternities and billionaire funded failson media organisations and into ill fitting clown brogues.

Have to say the Tate’s The 90s exhibition was one of the most inspiring shows I’ve been to for some years now. Can’t remember the last time I came out of an exhibition so fired up and wanting to stage my own to make up for that lacklustre display. Still, good to see Seana Gavin’s pics up close

theguardian.comThe 90s: Art and Fashion review – this isn’t an exhibition, it’s a magazine spreadThe Young British Art of the 1990s was brash and macabre but also intelligent and emotional. This breathlessly superficial show reduces it to a stylish pose

Oooof… seems I’m not alone in my view. I was genuinely surprised when we pushed through one set of doors and emerged in the gift shop, to the point I thought it was part of the show at first. Very odd…

On train heading up to the Tate to check out the 90s exhibition, trying to decide if I should pin roll my jeans

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Just found out there a pinball machine museum in Bruxelles so that’s next week’s day off sorted www.instagram.com/p/Dd4gU5bg87...

abconcerts.beOrbital - Sat 1 May '27Some names need no explanation. Orbital is one of them.For anyone who spent their nights on the dance floor in the ’90s, amidst strobe lights, smoke machines and a slightly over-optimistic plan for th...

Oh, go on then

Shout out to the place tonight where I ordered a whiskey sour, of I should say a menu with 5 cocktails on of which that was one, and was given a can of Fanta and a Jack Daniel’s miniature Incredible work all round

Working through boxes of stuff that’s been sent over since I was last in the UK and sorry publishers of what I’ll presume to all be very cool games, but so far this is the one that got loudest hell yeah upon opening

Talking of magazines, having both been asked if we want to do it and run the numbers many times over the last couple of years, it never ceases to amaze me quite how much WH Smith’s charges to have your mag unceremoniously shoved at worm’s eye level under a load of other stuff and behind a display

Tfw you find your dream sweater and it’s £830 🧐 Any chance that hot viral trend for young people embracing analogue/physical experiences could reach the tabletop game magazine market sooner rather than later please

Genuinely bizarre how getting on the Eurostar used to be such a breeze, like 5 or if it was busy 10 minutes or so and you were on the lounge, and now it’s like 40 minutes to an hour of queue after queue

This cost of living crisis is out of control

Oh, seeing some incredibly normal reactions to that Narnia trailer