He just nicked this idea from Iain M Banks, that’s exactly how it works in the Culture novels. If only he’d nick the part where everyone in the Culture is a gay anarcho-communist who understands art

One of the incidents he’s referring to is that viral video of the girl in Dundee, and I’m losing it imagining Musk standing in Lochee high street and saying “this is basically the shire”

And a general! I always assumed she was supposed to be at least forty.

Knowing how old General Beatrix is in FF9 has made me turn to dust

Anyway, any and all EA workers should join your local game workers union immediately.

@gameworkers.co.uk for you UK based folk.

I miss “stealth mountain” from twitter circa 2013. It would correct people who said “sneak peak” instead of “sneak peek”.

This is like that tax that was going to affect hot takeaway food, where suddenly every politician needed to be seen holding a sausage roll

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To be clear I totally agree, I’m just bemoaning having to have the conversation again and again with people who think that Scotland intentionally has a vibes-based criminal verdict (or that it’s a good thing for a legal system to have!)

It’s very frustrating because in the original system, “not proven” was always intended as an acquittal, “not guilty” is the unorthodox third verdict, and it meant the opposite of what people think “not proven” means