Andy / FluffyFreak

There's another way of putting this: "Markets prefer fascists" www.economist.com/leaders/2026...

Last year I asked the Foreign Office what meetings took place between some of our British embassies, and staff members for Shell and BP. I was told that information was not available. Thankfully, Adam found out through FOI. So why would the Govt want to conceal those meetings?

“We should be making sure that people who make a living by going out to work aren't paying effectively a higher rate of tax than people who get their income from sitting on assets.” Ellie Chowns responds to reports that John Healey has ruled out equalising capital gains tax ahead of the Budget.

Ah yes, young people won't get the same pay for the same work. Also young people: "why don't you move out of home and start a family!?!", "why are you so depressed as a generation?!?", etc

It's very, very telling, I think, that the markets are so concerned about the pro-democracy incumbent winning

Big day today for ending centuries of secrecy about who owns our land! A new government consultation will propose revealing who owns the vast majority of England and Wales. To get this over the line, I’ll need your help to send in supportive evidence! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

New wallpaper. I've said it before and I'll say it again but if I have to stare at a screen all day at work then I'll be damned if I have to look at the corporate wallpaper - I know where I am, don't need reminding every few minutes 🤣 #Lightwave3d render of Howie Day's model. #ScifiArt #Scifi

Part-Man, all Clown, who owns the platform that can't beat or even partially match Steam, tries to tell Steam how to run its far more successful, popular, and well liked business.

Steam's AI disclosures are akin to "forcing developers to list their voting history", says man who must hate seeing eggs virtue signal that they're free-range https://bit.ly/4yHFEyK

Monster Month Day 26 #HappyToastMonsterMonth

Between Tim Sweeney being an absolute AI chud and the harassment of our beloved @kenney.nl, we've decided to cancel our previously announced Epic Games Store release for Shape Sender Deluxe 🚮

Actions speak louder than words, personally I was in talks with Epic to get all my game assets on their Fab.com marketplace (for free) but cancelled the deal immediately. If they want slop, let them have slop.

Little Troubles in Spooky Town is free to play in your browser, as a download or on mobile. No silly stuff, just a totally free game. 👻

I had a bad nights sleep but this is still great news to wake upto! 🎉

Victory for Lula, who has already reduced Amazon deforestation by 70% since 2022, means there is now a chance of ending deforestation of the rainforest entirely I’m weeping with joy for Brazil, for the Indigenous peoples of the Amazon, and for life on Earth 🇧🇷🌳🌎 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

I'd bet money that the USA is interfering in this election to try and get Bolsonaro elected

This is horrific. And unsurprisingly the work of a "conservative" multimillionaire. Other adjectives might include creepy, prurient, dictatorial and abusive, not to mention, of course, transphobic. Once more with feeling: we need to get the money out of politics. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Me in The Independent just now. Link to article —> www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

A parasite inevitably weakens and brings down whatever it's feeding off. #AI is parasitic by design.

Starlink and Starshield operations have been restored to the speeds Ukraine had before the restrictions. - Zelenskyy

The Relegance Z. A beautiful car with amazing aerodynamic lines that cut the air like a hot knife cuts butter, which you can use to make your everyday breakfast toast.

Yes, I imagine it would be difficult to make a video game if you have absolutely zero relevant skills and refuse to learn any

There is a massive corruption scandal unfolding in the US, with top American executives abandoning a $25 billion gas project over allegations of secret Russian investment and control. ​All of this is happening just as the US administration moves to ease sanctions on Russia. ​

I just priced up shipping for this. Bloody hell. I'm really doubting the viability. £5 within UK, £15 + duty for international. Bloody hell (again)

"System Shock and Deus Ex, they were RPGs. People called them RPGs": Gloomwood's publisher isn't too keen on using the term immersive sim despite it being one https://bit.ly/4yGRDwD

Something that's really funny about Tim Sweeney's crusade against AI disclosures on Steam is that he has proven himself to be uniquely inept at running a pc games store Like why would Valve care what he thinks about their business when he took a swing for them and missed completely

James makes such beautiful comics. Just look at it.

the sun beneath the horizon; the flower on the field

A distinctly British approach to A.I. NB - still my favourite panel I’ve ever written.

"a distinctively British approach to artificial intelligence"

The new Chair of OfCom has rather oddly suggested I should set up a left wing version of GB News. This suggests he doesn’t quite know what his job is. But I have taken him at his word. app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/75420/...

Once you're fining a company $25B for violating laws, you really do need to be identifying he people responsible and either A) Sending them to prison, or preferably B) Removing *entirely* their ability to manage businesses or hold stocks

RT if you don't use AI for coding

Great post on a fast/elegant approach to UI rendering: blickeditor.com/blog/caching... I would have loved to have implemented something like this in Figma, but "unfortunately" it needs to support a lot more generality, including the ability to render arbitrary user-designed scenes...

New interview alert: @fortebass.bsky.social talks to @gamedeveloper.bsky.social about development, deals, and why Outersloth is not enough. www.gamedeveloper.com/business/out...

Britons should use money we haven't got to buy food the country doesn't grow, store it in homes that don't exist, in spare rooms that got taxed away, so we can survive when reservoirs nobody built run dry because of a climate the govt won't protect. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

It struck me that almost every seemingly intractable problem on today's front pages could be substantially alleviated simply by taxing the extraordinarily wealthy people and corporations whose greed, short-termism and pursuit of power we protect at the expense of almost everything else.

The government didn’t just approve Jackdaw, they also reiterated their support for so-called tiebacks - a dodge to allow yet more new drilling without new licenses. This deserves almost as much scrutiny as Jackdaw and has got barely any of it, so I raised it in the Chamber.

Roses are Fragrant And so is Clover

Not keen on the whole 'living in a 2000AD world' thing.

honestly kinda buoyed to see this on normal people social media

Yay good news! More butterflies! Thanks to restoration projects

Nature bounces back: 5,000 butterflies appear at chalk grassland restoration project at Halnaker Hill in Sussex, two years after its reversion from arable land I’ll be talking lots about chalk grassland restoration in my next book THE GHOSTS OF CHALK COUNTRY… www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This is a good illustration of how so much of AI theft isn't indirect (ie, data sucked into a model to train the chatbot) - it's actually **direct** copying, but *enabled* by GenAI. Of course it is: chatbots absolutely suck at creating good, new stuff.

Input Prompts is the largest collection of glyphs covering a wide range of input devices and platforms. It's also completely free and public domain. 🎮 I want it to be even better though so looking for feedback; what's missing? what can be improved? kenney.nl/assets/input...

but after everything that's been done, how can a bloody dictator who did all that to someone be called a "humanitarian" just for releasing them? This is simply humiliating for America. He must be charged arrested prosecuted and executed not kissed in the butt!

their life, posing no threat, and breaking no laws. They captured him there during an illegal invasion, kept him in awful conditions, and brutally tortured him for four years. They released him now, which is good, I'm happy for him and his loved ones,

Let's just make this clear: Witkoff calls the bloodiest dictator, indicted war criminal, and child murderer, Putin, a "humanitarian" not for some massive concession, not for agreeing to stop the war, but for releasing a person they captured in a foreign country where that person was simply living