Tom

At the end of the day aren't we all whores just looking for a dirty pole to take our last ride on? - Karen Walker
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[Rino🚀 @RinoTheBouncer]

Refuting dumb arguments against physical games🚀

🗣️“85% of players buy digital”

✅15% or even 5% in this industry is still millions of people bringing in hundreds of millions of not billions o revenue

🗣️“Netflix and Spotify ended movie and music Blu-Rays and CDs”

✅Movies are still being sold on Blu-Ray and 4K UHD Blu-Rays, and music is still released on CDs, vinyl records and even collectible cassette tapes that actually work, despite being far smaller and less demanding than video games which can go over 100GB

🗣️“I haven’t bought a physical game for 10 years! It’s obsolete”

✅Your experience with games does not automatically reflect everyone else’s. If you don’t care, don’t get in the way

🗣️“It’s expensive to make games on disc”

✅Games won’t be cheaper when man all digital. You will pay the same price for a glorified rental that can be taken any time due to licensing agreements or account loss/suspension

🗣️“You’re too broke, you want to buy second hand and resell games”

✅Being a bootlicker to corporations that don’t know you exist, does not make you any less broke than those you accuse and posture in front of behind a keyboard

Physical games should always be an option. Video games are far more than just a file to download or “access” to gain. They hold sentimental value to players and collectors.

Raise your voices, players, game makers, gaming and memorabilia stores. Let us overturn this predatory decision!

Video games are an art form, not just a business and the value players hold for them should be honored and not reduced to a code to redeem and a download to revoke😎

[Tom @ThomasGeorge95]

As nice as the new speakers look, the pinnacle design for me is still the OG @madebygoogle Home with the interchangeable bases

[Google @Google]

The Google Home Speaker, our first audio device built for Gemini, is available for pre-order before hitting shelves June 25 for $99.99.

Google Home Speaker comes with Gemini for Home voice assistant, so you can speak naturally and get answers to just about any question. It also features balanced 360° sound and new colors.

[moon meow 🌙 @Moonbae222]

We have such useless national cyber security in the uk, people getting hacked & information stolen every week. Now they want us all to upload our IDs on to databases they can’t protect? Seems like a good idea.

[ZombieTron @ZombieTron]

Replies switched off.

I have two children.

I implement parental controls on their devices, just as I control what books are in my home, what television is watched and when, etc.

This is not the responsibility of government or tech giants.

This is parental responsibility.

[Eris🖋 @poleris_writes]

PIP is, and I cannot stress this enough, not a work related benefit. It is to cover the extra costs being disabled brings. It's like saying my vaccum cleaner doesn't do the dishes, BECAUSE THAT'S NOT WHAT IT'S FOR

[The London Economic @LondonEconomic]

The Reform-led council said they 'wouldn't provide a penny' for the event - so the trade unions stepped in and managed to raise enough money to make it the biggest Durham Pride in the event's history 👏

[Stuey Beef 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @stuey_beef]

800 years traded for a three‑line whip.

MPs have just voted 304–203 to slash our right to trial by jury for thousands of cases carrying sentences of up to three years.

More than 3,200 lawyers – including 22 retired judges and hundreds of senior barristers – begged the government to stop this “erosion of a deeply entrenched constitutional principle for negligible gain”.

Labour backbenchers called the plans “unprincipled, counter‑productive and shameful constitutional vandalism”… then many of them abstained when it actually came to the vote.

Eight hundred years of being judged by your peers, traded away for a three‑line whip and a cheap headline about “efficiency”. If this is what they do with a majority, imagine what they’ll do when you’re the one in the dock.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

From mandatory ID cards to arresting pensioners for holding up cardboard signs to cosy deals with US tech spy firms:

It's good to see lawyers pushing back on their increasingly authoritarian Govenrment.

We must protect jury trials.

[Meral Hussein-Ece @meralhece]

The publicly funded @britishmuseum should not be erasing history to satisfy lobbyists.

[Joel Jenkins @boganintel]

This is a world breaking moment.

If everything feels a bit extra fucked--its because the people of earth are expected to swallow this and move on.

[MUSAFIR @MusafirNafar]

“Some scholars and scientists estimate the real death toll in Gaza at 680,000.”

“If confirmed, 380,000 of them are infants under five.”

—Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur

[sarah @sahouraxo]

“You rush to impose new sanctions on Iran, yet Israel faces no sanctions after bombing Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, an Iranian consulate, and hospitals in Gaza.”

“International law must apply to everyone.”

—Belgian MEP Marc Botenga

🔥🔥🔥

[الكسندرا ميراي @Lexi3Alexander]

I can't stop thinking about how bleak the situation in Gaza has to be for the BBC to report on this

[Aysha @AyshaSusmaz]

If confirmed, 380,000 children under five.

Read that again.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Ms Rachel shared the drawing of a 6-year-old from Gaza: “Everyone in Maha’s picture of her family was killed but her.”

Israel killed her entire family.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Zack Polanski, "What's your view on Gaza?"

Gary Lineker, "We've got a ceasefire but it's not a ceasefire, they're just carrying on with people being killed every day. And not just in Gaza but in the West Bank as well"

"I look at my phone every day and I cry most days when I see innocent kids being killed by snipers and bombs"

"It's just immeasurably wrong"

Zack Polanski, "The response you gave seems totally obvious. It seems ridiculous that we have have to say children dying, or anyone dying is totally wrong"

"Yet we do have politicians who seem to be turning away from it"

Gary Lineker, "I find it extraordinary really. Most of the world sees it for what it is"

"It's so difficult to understand how this is happening and how we're letting it be allowed to happen"

"Obviously Oct 7th is horrendous, we all know that"

"But we also know that it didn't start on Oct 7th. It started a long long time ago"

"And these poor people have been basically been living in an outdoor prison in Gaza"

"They can't go in, can't go out, water is controlled, electricity is controlled, life is very difficult"

"Of course Israel has the right to defend itself, but why doesn't Palestine have the right?"

"If you genuinely think this is all fabricated, let journalists in"

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Nothing to see here, just the New York Times actually justifying Israel’s ban on humanitarian orgs—like Doctors Without Borders and Save the Children—that provide life-saving support to Palestinians.

This is propaganda, not journalism.

[Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 @jacksonhinkle]

“Some scholars and scientists estimate the real death toll in Gaza at 680,000.”

“If confirmed, 380,000 of them are infants under five.”

—Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur

[Krystal Ball @krystalball]

Banning Doctors Without Borders is just insanely evil

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

A Zionist terrorist screams "WE'RE GOING TO KILL ALL OF YOU" and walks free

A disabled man holds a sign saying "I OPPOSE GENOCIDE" police arrest him

This is the grotesque theater of "justice" where the powerful protect their own and criminalize compassion.