Gareth
@garethw1.bsky.social
Geek. Gamer. Reader. Filmgoer. Telly addict. Trekkie. Lifelong lover of comics, pop culture, and all that is geeksome. (He/him)
Even though it feels like it's been coming for a while, seeing a trailer for a HALO game on PlayStation is fucking WILD.
October 24, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Even though it feels like it's been coming for a while, seeing a trailer for a HALO game on PlayStation is fucking WILD.
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The whiplash from blaming the extreme militant antifa assassin/gun-banning, trans, immigrant left to feeling sorry for a lost white boy (grown ass man) is extraordinary…
Please get over this fever soon, America. You need to heal something real bad.
Please get over this fever soon, America. You need to heal something real bad.
September 12, 2025 at 8:37 PM
The whiplash from blaming the extreme militant antifa assassin/gun-banning, trans, immigrant left to feeling sorry for a lost white boy (grown ass man) is extraordinary…
Please get over this fever soon, America. You need to heal something real bad.
Please get over this fever soon, America. You need to heal something real bad.
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Angela Rayner’s exit proves it. Unless Starmer is able to meet this moment, Reform is on the path to power | John Harris
Angela Rayner’s exit proves it. Unless Starmer is able to meet this moment, Reform is on the path to power | John Harris
The prime minister increasingly looks like a man next to a burning house, offering to buy a new bookcase and rug, says Guardian columnist John Harris
www.theguardian.com
September 7, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Angela Rayner’s exit proves it. Unless Starmer is able to meet this moment, Reform is on the path to power | John Harris
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She called for innocent people to be burned alive.
Reform welcomed her with a rapturous ovation.
Revolting.
Reform welcomed her with a rapturous ovation.
Revolting.
Lucy Connolly was convicted of inciting racial hatred, and her tweet was part of the tinder that lit violence, intimidation, looting, and thuggery across England last year.
The fact Reform conference gave her a standing ovation says everything about that movement.
bylinetimes.com/2025/08/27/l...
The fact Reform conference gave her a standing ovation says everything about that movement.
bylinetimes.com/2025/08/27/l...
The Martyrdom of Saint Lucy
The right is desperately seeking to make a martyr out of Lucy Connolly in order to distract from the real victims of the hate she helped to spread, argues Otto English
bylinetimes.com
September 7, 2025 at 3:41 PM
She called for innocent people to be burned alive.
Reform welcomed her with a rapturous ovation.
Revolting.
Reform welcomed her with a rapturous ovation.
Revolting.
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'The Tension Is Hurting a Lot of People': Ex-Bethesda Boss Speaks Out on Subs Like Xbox Game Pass.
'The Tension Is Hurting a Lot of People': Ex-Bethesda Boss Speaks Out on Subs Like Xbox Game Pass
"I saw short sighted decision making"
www.pushsquare.com
September 6, 2025 at 11:30 AM
'The Tension Is Hurting a Lot of People': Ex-Bethesda Boss Speaks Out on Subs Like Xbox Game Pass.
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Websites: "Verify you're a human... No, try again. No, try again. You must verify you're a real person."
The same websites: "You can only make a complaint via Billy, our AI assistant, who will connect you to one of our customer support operatives, Misha, who seems to be human but is in fact a bot"
The same websites: "You can only make a complaint via Billy, our AI assistant, who will connect you to one of our customer support operatives, Misha, who seems to be human but is in fact a bot"
September 4, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Websites: "Verify you're a human... No, try again. No, try again. You must verify you're a real person."
The same websites: "You can only make a complaint via Billy, our AI assistant, who will connect you to one of our customer support operatives, Misha, who seems to be human but is in fact a bot"
The same websites: "You can only make a complaint via Billy, our AI assistant, who will connect you to one of our customer support operatives, Misha, who seems to be human but is in fact a bot"
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Retro podcasts, 90s gaming TV, E3 watchalongs and more: We’ve unvaulted some of our best Patreon content from the past year, so you can see the sort of thing you can expect to get when you sign up.
www.videogameschronicle.com/features/ret...
www.videogameschronicle.com/features/ret...
Retro podcasts, 90s gaming TV, E3 watchalongs and more: We’ve unvaulted some of our best Patreon content | VGC
Check out some of our best Patreon content from the year so far…
www.videogameschronicle.com
September 4, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Retro podcasts, 90s gaming TV, E3 watchalongs and more: We’ve unvaulted some of our best Patreon content from the past year, so you can see the sort of thing you can expect to get when you sign up.
www.videogameschronicle.com/features/ret...
www.videogameschronicle.com/features/ret...
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If you can’t see how attacking this could have hugely dangerous implications for every single person living in the UK irrespective of citizenship or immigration status, I do not know what to tell you.
August 31, 2025 at 4:46 PM
If you can’t see how attacking this could have hugely dangerous implications for every single person living in the UK irrespective of citizenship or immigration status, I do not know what to tell you.
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In a sane, normal country, Lucy Connolly would be treated as a contemptible extremist. Not in Britain. But then this is no longer a sane, normal country. Britain has lost its moral bearings
My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column
www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...
My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column
www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...
A nation which makes a martyr out of Lucy Connolly has lost its moral bearings
BURN them in their hotels, she said. And try to burn them in their hotels they did.
www.heraldscotland.com
August 26, 2025 at 6:55 AM
In a sane, normal country, Lucy Connolly would be treated as a contemptible extremist. Not in Britain. But then this is no longer a sane, normal country. Britain has lost its moral bearings
My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column
www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...
My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column
www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...
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Daniil Medvedev after a loss at the US Open.
Another grown man throwing a tantrum like he's a 3yo toddler. Ffs, mate. Do the world a favour—get off the court and stay off.
Another grown man throwing a tantrum like he's a 3yo toddler. Ffs, mate. Do the world a favour—get off the court and stay off.
August 26, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Daniil Medvedev after a loss at the US Open.
Another grown man throwing a tantrum like he's a 3yo toddler. Ffs, mate. Do the world a favour—get off the court and stay off.
Another grown man throwing a tantrum like he's a 3yo toddler. Ffs, mate. Do the world a favour—get off the court and stay off.
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Someone who I assumed was in their early 30s noted in a post elsewhere that they were a full decade beyond that age, which reinforced the idea to me that I can no longer accurately assess anyone's age anymore, adult humans exist only in two categories: "My age and older," and "indeterminate young."
August 24, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Someone who I assumed was in their early 30s noted in a post elsewhere that they were a full decade beyond that age, which reinforced the idea to me that I can no longer accurately assess anyone's age anymore, adult humans exist only in two categories: "My age and older," and "indeterminate young."
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"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense
April 2, 2025 at 12:57 PM
"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense
The mask just keeps on slipping with this one, doesn't it?
Chris Pratt is defending his extended family member Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and tackling entrenched partisan political beliefs: "I’d hate to be so mired in hatred for the president that any success from his administration is something I’d be having an allergic reaction to" bit.ly/45Dy2RD
August 19, 2025 at 3:01 PM
The mask just keeps on slipping with this one, doesn't it?
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Is there any explanation for how we went from half of parliament and the whole national press up in arms - roaring that even a suspicion of racism is utterly unacceptable and those accused must be destroyed - to shrugs and awkward coughs as the main parties fight to do Enoch Powell speeches loudest.
August 18, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Is there any explanation for how we went from half of parliament and the whole national press up in arms - roaring that even a suspicion of racism is utterly unacceptable and those accused must be destroyed - to shrugs and awkward coughs as the main parties fight to do Enoch Powell speeches loudest.
I haven't read it yet, so maybe there's more to it than this review says... but it sure doesn't *sound* like a particularly "bold reinvention" if it's taking a concept from Discovery, bringing a popular TOS character back to life, and making the Klingons the villains *again.*
Advance Review: Star Trek: The Last Starship #1 is a bold reinvention, darker, riskier, and exactly the kind of fresh storytelling Trek fans have been waiting for. Out Sept. 24 from IDW! 🚀🖖 @heatherantos.bsky.social @hivemindactual.bsky.social #StarTrek #comicsky
Review by @davidbrooke.bsky.social:
Review by @davidbrooke.bsky.social:
‘Star Trek: The Last Starship’ #1 is a thrilling reinvention that takes chances
Boldly charts new territory, delivering a darker, riskier vision of the Federation that feels both raw and refreshingly new.
aiptcomics.com
August 18, 2025 at 2:56 PM
I haven't read it yet, so maybe there's more to it than this review says... but it sure doesn't *sound* like a particularly "bold reinvention" if it's taking a concept from Discovery, bringing a popular TOS character back to life, and making the Klingons the villains *again.*
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I know it’s neither constructive nor empathetic of me, but reading this I’m just compiling a list of people I know who deserve - but will alas never receive - a punch in the nose.
UK: What if everyone had masked up? Analysis of app data has the answer:
"Respirators would have dropped the rate of COVID transmission by an estimated factor of 9, compared with 0.6 for surgical masks. A factor of 9 is enough to put SARS-COV-2 into exponential decay!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
"Respirators would have dropped the rate of COVID transmission by an estimated factor of 9, compared with 0.6 for surgical masks. A factor of 9 is enough to put SARS-COV-2 into exponential decay!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
What if everyone had masked up? Analysis of app data has an answer
Modelling study based on almost 250,000 positive COVID-19 tests in the United Kingdom shows that universal masking could have cut transmission markedly.
www.nature.com
August 10, 2025 at 8:38 AM
I know it’s neither constructive nor empathetic of me, but reading this I’m just compiling a list of people I know who deserve - but will alas never receive - a punch in the nose.
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Haha, that's exactly how I feel. It's been so long.
August 9, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Haha, that's exactly how I feel. It's been so long.
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Lance Storm Weighs In On Brock Lesnar’s WWE Return: “It’s About The Overall Message You Send To Women Who Work For You In Your Company…”
Lance Storm Weighs In On Brock Lesnar's WWE Return: "It’s About The Overall Message You Send To Women Who Work For You In Your Company..."
Lance Storm speaks candidly about Brock Lesnar's return to WWE at SummerSlam and the message it sends to women who work at the company.
www.fightful.com
August 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Lance Storm Weighs In On Brock Lesnar’s WWE Return: “It’s About The Overall Message You Send To Women Who Work For You In Your Company…”
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there's an episode of The Simpsons where Marge tries to get a violent cartoon pulled from the airwaves, only to discover that the people backing her aren't going to stop at just the art that *she* doesn't like, and that supporting artistic freedom means accepting discomfort.
It aired in 1990.
It aired in 1990.
August 6, 2025 at 1:38 PM
there's an episode of The Simpsons where Marge tries to get a violent cartoon pulled from the airwaves, only to discover that the people backing her aren't going to stop at just the art that *she* doesn't like, and that supporting artistic freedom means accepting discomfort.
It aired in 1990.
It aired in 1990.
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Nuanced polling shows the complexity of opinion, compared to opinion-directing polling and reporting that seeks to oversimplify immigration debates to suit the aims of Farage etc. @mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk
This is a key table to understanding public opinion on migration. *When confronted with the real trade offs* people go for protecting the NHS and the economy over reducing migration.
The problem as per the rest of the thread is many don't believe those trade offs exist.
The problem as per the rest of the thread is many don't believe those trade offs exist.
When presented economy vs immigration trade-offs, Britons typically opt for economic benefit over lower migration
Those who support requiring large nos of migrants to leave would pick fully staffing NHS over reducing immigration, but economic arguments hold less sway
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
Those who support requiring large nos of migrants to leave would pick fully staffing NHS over reducing immigration, but economic arguments hold less sway
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
August 5, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Nuanced polling shows the complexity of opinion, compared to opinion-directing polling and reporting that seeks to oversimplify immigration debates to suit the aims of Farage etc. @mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk
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This weekend thousands of people in the UK stood up against racists and far-right thugs only to have representatives of a nominally leftwing government support, enable and empower the racists. Why do you not hear the worries of those trying to protect minority rights and liberal democracy?
Govt minister Angela Eagle is asked what her message is to people on the streets shouting "get this scum off our streets" & holding banners saying 'protecting women & children is not far right, its just right'
In her reply Eagle says "we hear your worries"
In her reply Eagle says "we hear your worries"
August 4, 2025 at 8:43 AM
This weekend thousands of people in the UK stood up against racists and far-right thugs only to have representatives of a nominally leftwing government support, enable and empower the racists. Why do you not hear the worries of those trying to protect minority rights and liberal democracy?
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I feel like the reason why far right propaganda is so effective and pervasive is because instead of offering solutions they offer excuses.
It always boils down to "All of your problems are because of someone else" which is like oldest and most basic grift around.
It always boils down to "All of your problems are because of someone else" which is like oldest and most basic grift around.
August 2, 2025 at 3:34 PM
I feel like the reason why far right propaganda is so effective and pervasive is because instead of offering solutions they offer excuses.
It always boils down to "All of your problems are because of someone else" which is like oldest and most basic grift around.
It always boils down to "All of your problems are because of someone else" which is like oldest and most basic grift around.