Anndra
@anndra.bsky.social
Gael, writer, translator, communist, mapgame obsessive. Glasgow-based
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Jess loves to sit on some legs of an afternoon
November 13, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Jess loves to sit on some legs of an afternoon
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If Goodwin is considered too much of a racist reactionary to be an activist for the racist, reactionary Reform UK, but not too much of a racist reactionary to be intro'd as anything other than a 'presenter, former professor & author' by BBC QT, then what type of organisation does that make the BBC?
Reform UK accused of embracing racism over its pick for head of student organisation
Matthew Goodwin argued people from minority ethnic backgrounds born and raised in UK were not always British
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:57 PM
If Goodwin is considered too much of a racist reactionary to be an activist for the racist, reactionary Reform UK, but not too much of a racist reactionary to be intro'd as anything other than a 'presenter, former professor & author' by BBC QT, then what type of organisation does that make the BBC?
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"The mainstream understanding of AI is as an interefering piece of shit which doesn't work" pt II
www.askamanager.org/2025/11/the-...
www.askamanager.org/2025/11/the-...
November 12, 2025 at 8:47 PM
"The mainstream understanding of AI is as an interefering piece of shit which doesn't work" pt II
www.askamanager.org/2025/11/the-...
www.askamanager.org/2025/11/the-...
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he is going to be directly named on an Epstein list and absolutely nothing at all will happen, you guys know that right. we are not living in the west wing. do you know that
November 12, 2025 at 5:42 PM
he is going to be directly named on an Epstein list and absolutely nothing at all will happen, you guys know that right. we are not living in the west wing. do you know that
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Absolute carnage in the family group chat as my cousin posts a Christmas riddle from her fiancé’s office that no one can figure out, only to find that someone in the office got ChatGPT to make up the riddle and it’s gibberish that doesn’t have a solution
November 12, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Absolute carnage in the family group chat as my cousin posts a Christmas riddle from her fiancé’s office that no one can figure out, only to find that someone in the office got ChatGPT to make up the riddle and it’s gibberish that doesn’t have a solution
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"babies are born worshipping unknown gods" is one of the most incredible dwarf fortress bugs i have heard of. its poetry.
November 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
"babies are born worshipping unknown gods" is one of the most incredible dwarf fortress bugs i have heard of. its poetry.
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Just want you to know that when I asked Geoff why he gave the silent treatment to an open letter written by his own "future of games" program (& co-signed by 3000+ industry peers), he replied:
"Because that's my show and nobody gets to tell me how I should use my platform". 💀💀💀
"Because that's my show and nobody gets to tell me how I should use my platform". 💀💀💀
“Don’t gather some of the most brilliant activists in the industry, treat us like crap, and then expect us to do nothing about it.” After the Game Awards cancelled its Future Class programme, @alyssamerc.bsky.social talked to its former honorees
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
“We were effectively props”: young stars of game development feel let down by the ‘gaming Oscars’
Announced in 2020 by the Game Awards as an inclusive programme for the industry’s next generation, the Future Class initiative has now been discontinued. Inductees describe clashes with organisers and...
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Just want you to know that when I asked Geoff why he gave the silent treatment to an open letter written by his own "future of games" program (& co-signed by 3000+ industry peers), he replied:
"Because that's my show and nobody gets to tell me how I should use my platform". 💀💀💀
"Because that's my show and nobody gets to tell me how I should use my platform". 💀💀💀
I see John McDonnell is writing in Tribune about the need to "revive the Labour Left" and because I'm a petty idiot I remember all the people pretending he was a radical and saying "arm John McDonnell!" between 2015-2019 (and after)
lol
lol
November 11, 2025 at 7:02 PM
I see John McDonnell is writing in Tribune about the need to "revive the Labour Left" and because I'm a petty idiot I remember all the people pretending he was a radical and saying "arm John McDonnell!" between 2015-2019 (and after)
lol
lol
the linked article in this post is fascinating. I am not Irish but I am a Gael and since it's natural for us to talk of "Gàidhlig na h-Albainn" and "Gàidhlig na h-Èirinn", I do usually find myself saying Irish Gaelic when speaking in English.
reminder that those who complain about people calling #Irish 'Gaelic', rarely do anything else for actual language rights (apart from bringing this up). it also shows their ignorance. they don't really care about the language...
good in-depth piece: irishlanguage.ie/gaelic-gaeil... #gaeilge
good in-depth piece: irishlanguage.ie/gaelic-gaeil... #gaeilge
Can people call Irish, Gaelic? - IrishLanguage.ie
In short, yes. Saying ‘Gaelic’ for Irish is ok and you can use it. That in itself doesn’t seem like a controversial statement but say it in Ireland or
irishlanguage.ie
November 11, 2025 at 5:55 PM
the linked article in this post is fascinating. I am not Irish but I am a Gael and since it's natural for us to talk of "Gàidhlig na h-Albainn" and "Gàidhlig na h-Èirinn", I do usually find myself saying Irish Gaelic when speaking in English.
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An underrated pick for most evil journalist in the UK, although that is a very competitive field.
Emily Maitlis admitting she worked at the bbc to try and get healthcare for trans people shut down
November 10, 2025 at 10:01 PM
An underrated pick for most evil journalist in the UK, although that is a very competitive field.
Tomorrow's Remembrance Day! Looking forward to it, we always make a big bonfire in the garden and burn the Unknown Soldier in effigy. The fireworks are sort of hard to see at 11am though
November 10, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Tomorrow's Remembrance Day! Looking forward to it, we always make a big bonfire in the garden and burn the Unknown Soldier in effigy. The fireworks are sort of hard to see at 11am though
I gather that the Joined Nov '24 contingent are in crisis today
November 10, 2025 at 11:07 AM
I gather that the Joined Nov '24 contingent are in crisis today
Just finished The Séance of Blake Manor and it's a nice wee game for the most part (fun and compelling slightly spooky detecting and investigating). It occasionally gets a bit too silly for me (exacerbated by some of the confrontation mechanics) but I found most of the characters interesting
November 9, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Just finished The Séance of Blake Manor and it's a nice wee game for the most part (fun and compelling slightly spooky detecting and investigating). It occasionally gets a bit too silly for me (exacerbated by some of the confrontation mechanics) but I found most of the characters interesting
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Twin Peaks The Return is about how the scariest thing an American can imagine is a gas station that's closed
January 21, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Twin Peaks The Return is about how the scariest thing an American can imagine is a gas station that's closed
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The onion is the only outlet telling the truth these days thank you @bencollins.bsky.social
Fact-Checking Claims About Zohran Mamdani https://theonion.com/fact-checking-claims-about-zohran-mamdani/
November 7, 2025 at 4:33 PM
The onion is the only outlet telling the truth these days thank you @bencollins.bsky.social
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For some reason the media is not mentioning that the reason GTA6 is being delayed is they fired 40 staff over threats of unionization and now the rest of their staff are revolting
November 6, 2025 at 9:21 PM
For some reason the media is not mentioning that the reason GTA6 is being delayed is they fired 40 staff over threats of unionization and now the rest of their staff are revolting
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hey y'all! my questionnaire on player experience in historical videogames is now LIVE! if you play videogames about the past, we want to hear from you! edu.nl/7w3yn
November 6, 2025 at 10:35 AM
hey y'all! my questionnaire on player experience in historical videogames is now LIVE! if you play videogames about the past, we want to hear from you! edu.nl/7w3yn
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When a retired general said in a TV interview ~4 days after Corbyn became Labour leader that if Corbyn became PM there'd be a military coup Hinsliff et al treated as completely normal.
They just absolutely could not concieve it being said about a politician they like/benefits them.
They just absolutely could not concieve it being said about a politician they like/benefits them.
Where might the public have got the idea that it’s fine to talk about people as a vile cancer that must be excised and eradicated, or as traitors who must be showered in the hot piss of public contempt and ruthlessly crushed? Have they seen notable examples of respectable people behaving like this.
November 4, 2025 at 12:56 PM
When a retired general said in a TV interview ~4 days after Corbyn became Labour leader that if Corbyn became PM there'd be a military coup Hinsliff et al treated as completely normal.
They just absolutely could not concieve it being said about a politician they like/benefits them.
They just absolutely could not concieve it being said about a politician they like/benefits them.
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watching clipping do a (fully?) acoustic set for NPR's Tiny Desk Concert where all their usual non-traditional electronic instrumentation is replaced by rube goldberg machines making all the noises physically. what a band lol www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0-k...
clipping.: Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
www.youtube.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:44 AM
watching clipping do a (fully?) acoustic set for NPR's Tiny Desk Concert where all their usual non-traditional electronic instrumentation is replaced by rube goldberg machines making all the noises physically. what a band lol www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0-k...
immersive sims vindicated
November 3, 2025 at 6:23 PM
immersive sims vindicated
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I should not know this much about the mayoral politics of one city in a country I'm not from, and should not need to hear about it for this long.
November 3, 2025 at 12:58 AM
I should not know this much about the mayoral politics of one city in a country I'm not from, and should not need to hear about it for this long.
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what is it that makes the fascists of today different from yesterday? who are they? why do they seem to love america so much? the answer is, ANGLOFASCISM. The answer is in Britain and in Austria and in Engelbert Dolfuss. lets learn
ANGLOFASCISM
In 1933, Austrian chancellor Engelbert Dolfuss, a short, generally unpopular man, founded a political party. Out of right-wing militias, traditional conservative parties, and landed estates, he put together an organisation called the Fatherland Front, which ruled the tiny, dysfunctional Republic of Austria (rechristened the Federal State of Austria) for five years until 1938, when Dolfuss’s successor Schuschnigg was removed from office during the Nazi…
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October 27, 2025 at 3:39 PM
what is it that makes the fascists of today different from yesterday? who are they? why do they seem to love america so much? the answer is, ANGLOFASCISM. The answer is in Britain and in Austria and in Engelbert Dolfuss. lets learn
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Reading these two books currently. However much you hate liberalism (the big thing, inaugurated by the french revolution that does in fact encompass all modern conservatives) you don't hate it enough
November 1, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Reading these two books currently. However much you hate liberalism (the big thing, inaugurated by the french revolution that does in fact encompass all modern conservatives) you don't hate it enough
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