GP Galore
@gelidplateau.bsky.social
Spanish politics knower. Boomer game appreciator. Green Belt respecter
CyL | Slight britaboo | 🏳️🌈
CyL | Slight britaboo | 🏳️🌈
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Experimental post: The Inevitable March of Time
From the moment of this post, Super Mario Bros. is now closer to World War II than it is to the present day.
From the moment of this post, Super Mario Bros. is now closer to World War II than it is to the present day.
September 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Experimental post: The Inevitable March of Time
From the moment of this post, Super Mario Bros. is now closer to World War II than it is to the present day.
From the moment of this post, Super Mario Bros. is now closer to World War II than it is to the present day.
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Tony Blair used to talk about the difference between the 3-second, 30-second & 3-minute conversation - the point being that simplistic policies, that poll well, collapse under the more sustained scrutiny of an election or time in govt.
So what happens when there is *only* the 3-second conversation?
So what happens when there is *only* the 3-second conversation?
New post just out:
"Three seconds"
What links Charlie Kirk, the overthrow of the Nepalese government, the US-China trade deal, and the trial of a Romanian Presidential candidate?
TikTok.
Here's why it's changing politics and what that means.
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
"Three seconds"
What links Charlie Kirk, the overthrow of the Nepalese government, the US-China trade deal, and the trial of a Romanian Presidential candidate?
TikTok.
Here's why it's changing politics and what that means.
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
Three seconds
TikTok and the future of politics
open.substack.com
September 20, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Tony Blair used to talk about the difference between the 3-second, 30-second & 3-minute conversation - the point being that simplistic policies, that poll well, collapse under the more sustained scrutiny of an election or time in govt.
So what happens when there is *only* the 3-second conversation?
So what happens when there is *only* the 3-second conversation?
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I swear this is a real screen in the 2002 E.T. game for PlayStation.
32bits.substack.com/p/under-the-...
32bits.substack.com/p/under-the-...
Under the microscope: E.T. Interplanetary Mission (PlayStation)
In which the beloved movie alien condemns terrorism in very colorful terms
32bits.substack.com
August 7, 2025 at 1:30 PM
I swear this is a real screen in the 2002 E.T. game for PlayStation.
32bits.substack.com/p/under-the-...
32bits.substack.com/p/under-the-...
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(Here's one that just says "Invest")
July 17, 2025 at 1:51 PM
(Here's one that just says "Invest")
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Poland: renewables overtake coal for the first time.
A decade ago coal was 83% of power; in June it fell below 44%.
https://f.mtr.cool/dwqfciqmse
A decade ago coal was 83% of power; in June it fell below 44%.
https://f.mtr.cool/dwqfciqmse
July 16, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Poland: renewables overtake coal for the first time.
A decade ago coal was 83% of power; in June it fell below 44%.
https://f.mtr.cool/dwqfciqmse
A decade ago coal was 83% of power; in June it fell below 44%.
https://f.mtr.cool/dwqfciqmse
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Just recorded a pod on solar+storage and holy shit y'all, if you are not tracking this market on a daily basis, you have no idea how wild it is. The global average price of a battery pack fell 40% *from 2023 to 2024*. That dropped the LCOE of a solar+storage plant by 22%. In a year!
July 2, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Just recorded a pod on solar+storage and holy shit y'all, if you are not tracking this market on a daily basis, you have no idea how wild it is. The global average price of a battery pack fell 40% *from 2023 to 2024*. That dropped the LCOE of a solar+storage plant by 22%. In a year!
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Just pull it. Seen public break ups in Weatherspoons with less second hand cringe.
The government's welfare legislation is falling apart in real time. Now the four-point rule is being axed from the legislation. The one remaining big cut in the Bill is the slashing of Universal Credit health payments by 40% for new claimants
July 1, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Just pull it. Seen public break ups in Weatherspoons with less second hand cringe.
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- focused like a laser on cost of living issues
- spoke with “problematic” podcasters
- refused to language police when media elites asked him to
It’s really funny that Mamdani ran the perfect centrist campaign as a Democratic Socialist
- spoke with “problematic” podcasters
- refused to language police when media elites asked him to
It’s really funny that Mamdani ran the perfect centrist campaign as a Democratic Socialist
June 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
- focused like a laser on cost of living issues
- spoke with “problematic” podcasters
- refused to language police when media elites asked him to
It’s really funny that Mamdani ran the perfect centrist campaign as a Democratic Socialist
- spoke with “problematic” podcasters
- refused to language police when media elites asked him to
It’s really funny that Mamdani ran the perfect centrist campaign as a Democratic Socialist
Most smug thing I will ever write: A scarily big amount of people have completely lost the plot since October 2023. Most of yoose need to calm the fuck down, esp the ones that changed their mind recently and have gone full derangement syndrome
June 22, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Most smug thing I will ever write: A scarily big amount of people have completely lost the plot since October 2023. Most of yoose need to calm the fuck down, esp the ones that changed their mind recently and have gone full derangement syndrome
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It’s very easy to blame the public for this but successive govts that have said voters could have their cake and eat it have surely contributed to this irresponsible state of mind?
Everything you need to know about the British voting public
June 3, 2025 at 8:18 AM
It’s very easy to blame the public for this but successive govts that have said voters could have their cake and eat it have surely contributed to this irresponsible state of mind?
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I wrote this about AI. We hear a lot about the importance of the "human touch" in the age of of machine intelligence. But the depressing truth is a lot of people just love AI slop.
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
Let’s be real, some people prefer the artificial
Biggest shock about AI is not the dire poetry it produces, but that many favour it precisely for the ways it isn’t human
www.thetimes.com
May 27, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I wrote this about AI. We hear a lot about the importance of the "human touch" in the age of of machine intelligence. But the depressing truth is a lot of people just love AI slop.
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
"It's her turn" might still be the worst media slogan for a campaign I've ever heard
May 25, 2025 at 1:12 PM
"It's her turn" might still be the worst media slogan for a campaign I've ever heard
We need to return to the days where a single game costed 150 bucks on console and the alternative were cheapo PC titles made in someone's basement with no quality conyrol for 10 bucks each. Not even permanently, just for like, 5 years to give everyone a scare
Games are so cheap that it's commonplace among gamers to have huge libraries full of titles that they haven't touched. Much like the "recession" during Biden's term, gamers talk about games like they're super expensive, but don't act like it
You're a class traitor scumbag. My man's here is saying, "Let them eat cake," You aint Marie Antoinette in this metaphor you dumbass. Quit fighting against yours and ours best interests by lobbying for wage slavery and people not being able to enjoy art. You're a fucking joke.
May 24, 2025 at 10:37 PM
We need to return to the days where a single game costed 150 bucks on console and the alternative were cheapo PC titles made in someone's basement with no quality conyrol for 10 bucks each. Not even permanently, just for like, 5 years to give everyone a scare
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I decided to create a possible UK zoning system, because yes, I was incredibly bored
This is HEAVILY inspired by the Japanese zoning system, albeit with some major changes.
This is HEAVILY inspired by the Japanese zoning system, albeit with some major changes.
May 15, 2025 at 7:14 AM
I decided to create a possible UK zoning system, because yes, I was incredibly bored
This is HEAVILY inspired by the Japanese zoning system, albeit with some major changes.
This is HEAVILY inspired by the Japanese zoning system, albeit with some major changes.
I like how Doug Walker comes back into public conversation every 12 months or so. One of the most fascinating content creators in Internet History.
May 14, 2025 at 9:22 PM
I like how Doug Walker comes back into public conversation every 12 months or so. One of the most fascinating content creators in Internet History.
The day we can't find any connection between a pope and our localism is the day we go protestant
🇻🇦 El Papa mantiene un lazo especial con León, ciudad española que visitó en 2002 como Prior General de los Agustinos.
🏛️ Conmemoró el centenario del colegio agustiniano
🎖️ Nombrado Asociado de Honor
✝️ Ofició misa y compartió comida con los frailes
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🏛️ Conmemoró el centenario del colegio agustiniano
🎖️ Nombrado Asociado de Honor
✝️ Ofició misa y compartió comida con los frailes
electomania.es/robert-franc...
May 8, 2025 at 6:23 PM
The day we can't find any connection between a pope and our localism is the day we go protestant
I'm reminded of Yahtzee Croshaw's octopus burger analogy. Dem coastal elites are like octopus burger stand vendors trying to sell a product but it fails because it is offputting, so they try something different, it succeeds and then internally go "ok how can we work the octopus back into this"
May 7, 2025 at 4:06 AM
I'm reminded of Yahtzee Croshaw's octopus burger analogy. Dem coastal elites are like octopus burger stand vendors trying to sell a product but it fails because it is offputting, so they try something different, it succeeds and then internally go "ok how can we work the octopus back into this"
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‼️#España 🇪🇸: 𝗘𝗹 𝗚𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗼 𝗮𝗽𝗿𝘂𝗲𝗯𝗮 𝗹𝗮 𝗷𝗼𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗱𝗮 𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 de 37,5h ⏱️
👷 Beneficiará a 12,5M de asalariados.
🏛️ La norma irá ahora al Congreso.
🔍 Junts presenta enmienda y PP duda.
📲 Registro horario digital obligatorio.
📅 Entrada en vigor en 2025.
👇
👷 Beneficiará a 12,5M de asalariados.
🏛️ La norma irá ahora al Congreso.
🔍 Junts presenta enmienda y PP duda.
📲 Registro horario digital obligatorio.
📅 Entrada en vigor en 2025.
👇
El Gobierno da luz verde a la rebaja de jornada laboral
El Consejo de Ministros de este martes ha aprobado el proyecto de ley para la rebaja de la jornada laboral máxima hasta las 37,5 horas semanales, sin merma salarial, la medida ‘estrella’ de la…
electomania.es
May 6, 2025 at 12:45 PM
‼️#España 🇪🇸: 𝗘𝗹 𝗚𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗼 𝗮𝗽𝗿𝘂𝗲𝗯𝗮 𝗹𝗮 𝗷𝗼𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗱𝗮 𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 de 37,5h ⏱️
👷 Beneficiará a 12,5M de asalariados.
🏛️ La norma irá ahora al Congreso.
🔍 Junts presenta enmienda y PP duda.
📲 Registro horario digital obligatorio.
📅 Entrada en vigor en 2025.
👇
👷 Beneficiará a 12,5M de asalariados.
🏛️ La norma irá ahora al Congreso.
🔍 Junts presenta enmienda y PP duda.
📲 Registro horario digital obligatorio.
📅 Entrada en vigor en 2025.
👇
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fact of the day via Sunday Times:
“This was the first time the Conservatives had not won a majority on a single council since the local government system was created in 1889.”
“This was the first time the Conservatives had not won a majority on a single council since the local government system was created in 1889.”
May 3, 2025 at 9:11 PM
fact of the day via Sunday Times:
“This was the first time the Conservatives had not won a majority on a single council since the local government system was created in 1889.”
“This was the first time the Conservatives had not won a majority on a single council since the local government system was created in 1889.”
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Se acabó la fiesta: el partido de Alvise se rompe en tiempo récord con acusaciones cruzadas y amenazas de demandas
Se acabó la fiesta: el partido de Alvise se rompe en tiempo récord con acusaciones cruzadas y amenazas de demandas
Los dos eurodiputados que fueron en la lista de SALF estudian acciones legales contra el agitador ultra después de que sugiriera que les compró el lobby armamentístico. Diego Solier y Nora Junco forma...
www.eldiario.es
April 28, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Se acabó la fiesta: el partido de Alvise se rompe en tiempo récord con acusaciones cruzadas y amenazas de demandas
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Labour's biggest issue is neither being too socially conserative or not socially conservative enough. It's cuts. People have had enough.
make people’s lives worse, lose seats
May 2, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Labour's biggest issue is neither being too socially conserative or not socially conservative enough. It's cuts. People have had enough.
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We asked voters in this week's local elections to describe the four largest parties in England in a word - can you guess which is which?
April 29, 2025 at 4:06 PM
We asked voters in this week's local elections to describe the four largest parties in England in a word - can you guess which is which?
Ok I've always defended Jenrick was the better choice for the tories when it comes to getting more votes but maybe there's been a bit of an overcorrection
I fear The Critic has been the victim of an elaborate hoax. Surely this sentence should have let the editors know they'd been had?
"The sight of Jenrick in his puffer jacket strikes fear into the heart of impotent Labour ministers."
thecritic.co.uk/issues/may-2...
"The sight of Jenrick in his puffer jacket strikes fear into the heart of impotent Labour ministers."
thecritic.co.uk/issues/may-2...
Jenrick: the Tories’ saviour | Anonymous and Anonymous | The Critic Magazine
Rob Jenrick would not want this piece to be written. He has been unhappy whilst serving under Kemi Badenoch, but he is being professional.
thecritic.co.uk
April 24, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Ok I've always defended Jenrick was the better choice for the tories when it comes to getting more votes but maybe there's been a bit of an overcorrection
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🆕🧑🏭: In the wake of the Government taking control of steel production in Scunthorpe and debates about nationalisation, the British public would support nationalisation of broad swathes of national infrastructure - with water the most popular.
April 15, 2025 at 10:37 AM
🆕🧑🏭: In the wake of the Government taking control of steel production in Scunthorpe and debates about nationalisation, the British public would support nationalisation of broad swathes of national infrastructure - with water the most popular.