Alice Bell
@abeewords.bsky.social
📖 GRAVE EXPECTATIONS & DISPLEASURE ISLAND out now! THE GRAPPLES OF WRATH out Jan 2026
◦ good books ◦ murder ◦ swearing ◦
#BWithTheT
Rep Stevie Finegan at Zeno
@totalplaytime.com
https://alicebellauthor.com/
◦ good books ◦ murder ◦ swearing ◦
#BWithTheT
Rep Stevie Finegan at Zeno
@totalplaytime.com
https://alicebellauthor.com/
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Alice Bell
@abeewords.bsky.social
· Jun 17
💙📚 COMING JAN 2026: THE GRAPPLES OF WRATH! The owner of a pro-wrestling gym died, and his ghost is convinced he was moidered. Can Weirdo medium Claire and her dead best friend solve it? What is kayfabe? Do personal issues really draw money? Pre-order to find out: www.waterstones.com/book/the-gra...
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Reminder: If you use generative AI for *any of your writing tasks* you are a Slopper not a writer and should be ashamed of yourself. The end.
November 11, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Reminder: If you use generative AI for *any of your writing tasks* you are a Slopper not a writer and should be ashamed of yourself. The end.
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I went to meet the 'Rockstar 31', the developers who were suddenly fired from their work on GTA 6 for what the studio has described as gross misconduct.
That's not what the workers call it though. They have another couple of words they prefer to use: union busting.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nO...
That's not what the workers call it though. They have another couple of words they prefer to use: union busting.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nO...
The Rockstar Workers Fired Before They Could Finish GTA 6
YouTube video by People Make Games
www.youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I went to meet the 'Rockstar 31', the developers who were suddenly fired from their work on GTA 6 for what the studio has described as gross misconduct.
That's not what the workers call it though. They have another couple of words they prefer to use: union busting.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nO...
That's not what the workers call it though. They have another couple of words they prefer to use: union busting.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nO...
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Don't miss HORSES preview and interview with director Andrea Lucco Borlera in this month's Edge Magazine (Issue #417)!
November 11, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Don't miss HORSES preview and interview with director Andrea Lucco Borlera in this month's Edge Magazine (Issue #417)!
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“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 12:33 PM
“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...
Very sad to see certified legend Michael D. Higgins go. Respectfully request he starts an unproblematic beehiiv newsletter about dogs and poetry
November 11, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Very sad to see certified legend Michael D. Higgins go. Respectfully request he starts an unproblematic beehiiv newsletter about dogs and poetry
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A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule
November 10, 2025 at 11:53 PM
A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule
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obviously you only sell almost $6 billion in stock when you're certain a company is going to get even more valuable
Japanese giant SoftBank said Tuesday it has sold its entire stake in tech giant Nvidia for $5.83 billion.
Click here to read more: https://cnb.cx/49LCIs8
Click here to read more: https://cnb.cx/49LCIs8
November 11, 2025 at 7:56 AM
obviously you only sell almost $6 billion in stock when you're certain a company is going to get even more valuable
It’s even funnier if you read the list
November 11, 2025 at 7:38 AM
It’s even funnier if you read the list
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Joining many people applauding this review (and Rick Lane, the reviewer) for arguing a difficult point very well.
For Arc Raiders to ride the wave of human sociability all the way to the bank, while also being so contemptuous of the thing that makes us social animals in its own workflow demonstrates a lack of artistic integrity that I find impossible to ignore.
Our review: https://bit.ly/49bVn01
Our review: https://bit.ly/49bVn01
November 10, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Joining many people applauding this review (and Rick Lane, the reviewer) for arguing a difficult point very well.
Performative reading isn't white men reading in public, it's people saying they routinely read 300 books a year
November 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Performative reading isn't white men reading in public, it's people saying they routinely read 300 books a year
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When Rosie Duffield is in on it I think we can safely say the anti-phone campaign in Brianna's name is actively at odds with tackling transphobia
November 10, 2025 at 2:25 PM
When Rosie Duffield is in on it I think we can safely say the anti-phone campaign in Brianna's name is actively at odds with tackling transphobia
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LONDON/BRIGHTON folks! In TWO WEEKS I'm hosting Can You Solve the Murder? Live at Waterstones Piccaddilly (Mon 24) and Brighton (Tues 25). It's a NEW ✨festive edition✨ of the interactive game, so come along and see if you'd make a good detective… 🎄🔍
November 10, 2025 at 11:37 AM
LONDON/BRIGHTON folks! In TWO WEEKS I'm hosting Can You Solve the Murder? Live at Waterstones Piccaddilly (Mon 24) and Brighton (Tues 25). It's a NEW ✨festive edition✨ of the interactive game, so come along and see if you'd make a good detective… 🎄🔍
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"You, like Nigel Farage, are simply lying about what the ONS says."
I somewhat lost my patience with Reform Councillor Bill Piper here.. (from about 1h 27 min in)
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
I somewhat lost my patience with Reform Councillor Bill Piper here.. (from about 1h 27 min in)
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Stephen Nolan - 08/11/2025 - BBC Sounds
The day's main news stories, topical debate and interviews.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 7:41 AM
"You, like Nigel Farage, are simply lying about what the ONS says."
I somewhat lost my patience with Reform Councillor Bill Piper here.. (from about 1h 27 min in)
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
I somewhat lost my patience with Reform Councillor Bill Piper here.. (from about 1h 27 min in)
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Progressive thought has been totally expunged from the British political mainstream, and *still* the argument is that there’s an unacceptable institutional bias to the left within the news media.
It is *utterly* mad. Very clear for all to see what’s happening here.
It is *utterly* mad. Very clear for all to see what’s happening here.
November 10, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Progressive thought has been totally expunged from the British political mainstream, and *still* the argument is that there’s an unacceptable institutional bias to the left within the news media.
It is *utterly* mad. Very clear for all to see what’s happening here.
It is *utterly* mad. Very clear for all to see what’s happening here.
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Was in the foyer of my local leisure centre at 11am today and the 2 minute silence was interrupted by a guy in full body armour with a sword asking when the two minute silence would be because there was no clock in the Bushido practice room and none of them were wearing watches.
November 9, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Was in the foyer of my local leisure centre at 11am today and the 2 minute silence was interrupted by a guy in full body armour with a sword asking when the two minute silence would be because there was no clock in the Bushido practice room and none of them were wearing watches.
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lol she got his ass and he knows it
November 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
lol she got his ass and he knows it
Really excited because i follow the guy doing daily updates on a perpetual stew and he’s reaching day 200 tomorrow
November 9, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Really excited because i follow the guy doing daily updates on a perpetual stew and he’s reaching day 200 tomorrow
I hope everyone is passing a solemn Remembrance Sunday as I am: listening to their dad repeatedly shout SHUT UP at the Remembrance TV programme commentator for talking over the band
November 9, 2025 at 11:59 AM
I hope everyone is passing a solemn Remembrance Sunday as I am: listening to their dad repeatedly shout SHUT UP at the Remembrance TV programme commentator for talking over the band
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
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Really enjoyed Frankenstein (obviously, Guillermo my beloved) but kind of baffled by Jacob Elordi’s accent in it.
November 8, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Really enjoyed Frankenstein (obviously, Guillermo my beloved) but kind of baffled by Jacob Elordi’s accent in it.
Played the demo for There Are No Ghosts At The Grand and the best description I have is that it made me feel like Mel Brooks when he was on The One Show and blurted out 'What a crazy show this is!' in the middle of a segment (complimentary) store.steampowered.com/app/3725190/...
November 8, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Played the demo for There Are No Ghosts At The Grand and the best description I have is that it made me feel like Mel Brooks when he was on The One Show and blurted out 'What a crazy show this is!' in the middle of a segment (complimentary) store.steampowered.com/app/3725190/...
I was in hospital again this week lol (discharged after a night in A&E on the old IV pain killers, so I’m generally trending up)
November 8, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I was in hospital again this week lol (discharged after a night in A&E on the old IV pain killers, so I’m generally trending up)
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What happened to those days when ITV or ITV2 would be showing The Mummy and/or The Mummy Two every other weekend, country’s gone to the dogs
November 8, 2025 at 5:04 PM
What happened to those days when ITV or ITV2 would be showing The Mummy and/or The Mummy Two every other weekend, country’s gone to the dogs