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@qwertymartin

Bristol-based lover of board games, music and books.

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Fair, I was just taking a cheap shot really :)

10.03.2026 13:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

To be fair, this is also true of NYT columnists.

10.03.2026 13:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It didn't even manage good paragraphs. The human paragraphs here are easily identifiable by their style.

10.03.2026 13:02 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

All I can think of is that they thought there was a comma missing after "As well" and it is supposed to mean "Also, ask men what they think of stone."

10.03.2026 11:53 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

It's simple really, it's because he faced no real accountability for his actions.

08.03.2026 12:27 πŸ‘ 2565 πŸ” 421 πŸ’¬ 43 πŸ“Œ 13

Here you go! www.whosampled.com/The-Magnetic...

06.03.2026 21:31 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

I think they also do it at the request of publishers who don’t want their new edition to carry over the old ratings…

05.03.2026 10:06 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Good job there is nothing going on in the world that might throw things off course.

03.03.2026 13:03 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Labour's Chris Curtis MP in last night's elections bill debate: β€œThe Government should look at a National Commission to look at our voting system.

"We no longer live in a two-party electoral system" - but FPTP acts as if we do (via Make Votes Matter)

03.03.2026 10:20 πŸ‘ 108 πŸ” 37 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 2

Let’s play! :)

02.03.2026 21:15 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I got a preview of @miasmacorp.bsky.social's new one!

02.03.2026 16:23 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Starmer told the BBC’s Leila Nathoo: β€œI could stand here and say Runcorn was close, we successfully defended three mayoralties and that opposition parties tend to do well in these sorts of elections, but I’m not going to do that

28.02.2026 12:08 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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10,000 Rivers, by ROBERT STILLMAN 8 track album

Can I interest you in a jazzy concept album about Steve Jobs?! archaicfuturerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/10000-...

24.02.2026 16:09 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

silly >>> skill(y)

24.02.2026 07:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Magical Athlete?

23.02.2026 21:48 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Got this for my daughter's birthday next month, looking forward to it!

23.02.2026 15:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I didn't mind them at the time but just an absolutely bizarre choice to put in a 1000 albums to hear before you die list :D

23.02.2026 09:25 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Starmer_v2_revised_final_FINAL

21.02.2026 11:38 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"Dice" as singular I can handle. "Die" as plural? Die!

20.02.2026 13:47 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah that's fair, but it is very much just a core that already existed (Port from the Pairs deck) with a sprinkling of fairly obvious (and not very interesting) special powers.

19.02.2026 13:22 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

To be fair, AI almost certainly could generate a game as good as Flip 7...

19.02.2026 13:05 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Haha fair point :D

18.02.2026 21:57 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I just read a great novel from 1938 (National Provincial by Lettice Cooper) and yep.

18.02.2026 21:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

17.02.2026 11:41 πŸ‘ 21768 πŸ” 7743 πŸ’¬ 299 πŸ“Œ 637

What did Pitchfork rate it?

16.02.2026 16:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Badenoch argued that one reason for banning children from social media is to allow it to be even more unregulated for adults!

16.02.2026 12:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah - and as a player, that really comes through for me.

13.02.2026 18:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Not a designer, but it seems to me that the crucial question is "what is this complexity *for*?" If you can't answer that, you should probably cut it out.

13.02.2026 17:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Isn't that more a property of rock music not having started yet then though? Wouldn't be that surprising for someone born in 1980 to love an album from 1968.

13.02.2026 17:14 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Also it implies that the purpose of those games is to train people up for the "good stuff". And no, they're just good games and if that's all you want to play, great!

13.02.2026 15:46 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0