We've just learned that the person at the MHRA whose letter caused Wes 'I follow the clinical evidence' Streeting to cancel the puberty blockers trial is Professor Jacob George, the GC who enjoyed mocking trans people on his social media account.
Why did Wes Streeting cover up his name?
If you're a developer ignoring your long-term goals just to shoehorn AI into your product don't forget to add this button for the majority of us. Thanks! 🙇♂️
Having a sensible chuckle as this post is at 69 likes at the time of writing
Nice
An Instagram image of all the Pokémon starters with the text "choose one from each region" only I've overlaid the word "choose" with "eat". my selections are bulbasaur, chikorita, torchic, piplup, tepig, froakie, owlet, scorbunny, fuecoco and browt
the same image template, but without my choices
What are YOUR choices?
I would not be surprised
This is from one of the former Infinity Ward/Call of Duty co-founders:
A coat of white paint on the inside and it'll be fit for the rental market
BEHOLD - The most swag-less men in the known universe
Hello everyone. I come with the sad news that as you are no doubt already aware, we're saying goodbye to several of our friends and colleagues here at Eurogamer. Leaving us are Tom Orry, our editorial director; our video team of Ian Higton, Zoe Delahunty-Light, and Alix Attenborough; Alex Donaldson, our editor-at-large; and Will Judd, who worked across Digital Foundry, hardware and deals. I'll start with Tom, who over the past year-plus had made himself a hugely valuable source of advice, expertise, desert-dry humour and world class poker faces (I think we just about made him laugh once, for a moment, on his final day). Tom initially began the role when Tom Phillips was our editor-in-chief here, mostly working away diligently in the background in a two-Tom-tandem doing editorial director things, before taking on a more prominent role on the site itself over the past 11 or 12 months, gracing us with some signature console nostalgia and unjustifiably intense Project Gotham Racing enthusiasm. Tom, Dom, Alex and I, along with the rest of the team, worked together closely on what a 'new Eurogamer' might look like last year, and his experience in running multiple games media sites was consistently our rock to lean on. While he may have initially seemed an outsider of sorts compared to Eurogamer chiefs of old - at least to some on the surface, coming from his 20-plus years across our sister sites VG247 and USGamer, and before that the cult-favourite site he founded in our once-rival VideoGamer - I can't stress enough how much Tom 'got' Eurogamer. His goal was for us to be at the heart of the big stories that mattered most to our readers with original, diligent reporting and on-the-button commentary, and that will absolutely continue. In immaculately on-brand, limelight-dodging Orry style, Tom opted to sneak his farewell into this past weekend's What We've Been Playing column, but I'll be damned if he gets away with it that easily. Sorry Tom. Here's what he had to say…
From myself and the whole team at @eurogamer.bsky.social, a very fond farewell and huge thank you to our friends and colleagues (thread).💙
Google is choking the internet to death, and it's not an accident. Like all the big tech firms, they want to be the only service you interact with at all times.
Ah shame. I quite wanted to play Saros, but with console prices as they are this just means I'm not going to get to play it rather than it inspiring me to get a PS5
Still, with so many games to play I doubt I'll miss Sony's releases
"Fucking Microslop" I say, as I repost an AI-written article that appears to be completely made up
That "Windows 12 is a modular, subscription based, AI-Focused OS" article that's doing the rounds appears to be AI written itself, and its source is also AI written.
We'll see, but the entire thing could just be an AI a hallucination
Did you know there was an official Eastenders video game in the 1980s? For my sins, I played it...
youtu.be/LqurD4DvrCA
Did you know there was an official Eastenders video game in the 1980s? For my sins, I played it...
youtu.be/LqurD4DvrCA
you are not prepared for the soundtrack
ditto with a | on his face
ditto with a | I on his face
ditto with | | on his face
ditto with |__ on his face
:3
The Pokopia logo, but it says "suckin on toes" instead
I did like Firefly at the time, but these days it would be lucky to crack my top ten tbh, let alone number 1.
Time has not been all that kind, plus it was a very short run so there just isn't that much of it to be GREAT
eight years ago today we all watched the glory of zendaya falling madly in love with tom holland and the internet was never the same
Gameblast weekend is over but the campaign is still running!
If you want to donate, you can do so until the end of March and I'll love you forever.
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Its this post, in image form. Blue background with white and orange text. The SpecialEffect and Gameblast logos are there too. Hi logos!
A massive THANK YOU to everyone who donated to my #GameBlast26 campaign. Together we've raised an incredible £1010 for @specialeffect.org.uk
You've humbled and delighted me yet again! I'll be back streaming on 13th March, I've got a lot of milestone promises to keep... twitch.tv/mrtomftw
And finally (because I'm waffling), I'm open to full time and freelance opportunities in video/editorial/community/pr and also I am now able to produce sponsored content for youtube.com/platform32 so if you're looking, come say hi! Big love to you all and thanks for the wonderful memories <3
PERSONAL NEWS: After 13 years working as a (legendary) video producer for @eurogamer.bsky.social I have been made redundant in the recent Gamer Network cuts. I loved that job so much (probably too much) and I will miss the people and the opportunities it gave me, but I'm not ready to give up yet!
No more illegal wars. Introduce a prevention of military intervention act and put human rights at the heart of foreign policy. Review all UK arms sales and make us a force for international peace and justice.
The majority of people in this country do not want us to be involved in this war.
Keir Starmer of a few years ago wouldn't have supported this war.
The only reason he does now is he will do anything Donald Trump wants - and it makes us all less safe.
