Josh Marketis

@[email protected] Chief Software Engineer at Master of Malt. Breaker of things.

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

How Musk broke Twitter and helped elect Trump
(Location: Tesla European HQ, Amsterdam)

[Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh]

Not being rude, but Americans are truly the stupidest.

[Josh Marketis @Clidus]

@ynnadddanny The guy who said women were the “sponging gender” and that we should have sided with Hitler got 8000 votes in Bexhill 😩

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

Saw a pregnant squirrel for the first time today. I’m not sure what I expected but this exceeds all of it.

[Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward]

The Tories are running a fake fact check scam against the BBC debate.

See how they've renamed and rebranded their website to make it look like something it's not.

Spread the word. Don't let them get away with it.

#bbcdebate

[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

USA media dishes brutal truth about Brexit Britain

“Every decision taken by Tory (and @LibDems) governments was a political decision—it did not need to happen that way. Austerity was never the hard logic of dutiful caretakers; it was a political calculation to rescue rich friends and dump the burdensome price on those least able to endure the cost.”

“There is mold in the walls and shit in the rivers, posh butter in the supermarkets has anti-theft tags stuck to it, the trains run on schedule about half the time, the average pub-poured pint of lager—the blood of the nation—is nearing the criminal price of 5 pounds ($6.34), and on May 22 a new general election was announced to the people of Great Britain by a prime minister who is richer than the king. 

“Should the polls prove correct—short of a 2016-scale error—the annihilation will be justified. Wage growth is at its lowest level since the Napoleonic Wars. What the Financial Timescalls the “rental market” and what the rest of us call “How much of your money someone richer than you takes every month” is stratospherically inflated; rent is about half a person’s average salary in London. Chain stores on British high streets close permanently at a rate of 14 per day, leaving most shopping areas a procession of corrugated shutters, uncollected rubbish, and the sleeping bags of the homeless.

“The precious marvel that is the National Health Service is cracking at the seams; at the current rate, waiting lists will not be cleared for another 685 years. The union for junior doctors, the BMA, has organised 10 strikes and walkouts in the past year for a pay deal that would only bring wages up to the current level of inflation. The city of Birmingham was the first to tip over into bankruptcy; more will follow.

“In 2022, at least 3% of all families in Britain—around two million people—could not afford to eat. Like a revenant from Dickens, Victorian diseases like scurvy, rickets, and scabies are back to blight children.

“Life expectancy has dropped to the lowest level since 2010—tellingly, the year the Conservatives took power, at the height of the recession.”

“These are the bitter fruits of austerity: an experiment in sado-monetarist economics and financial barbarism. Not much unites those five PMs other than the constant ritual tribute in blood to their coiffed icon, Margaret Thatcher. Yet Thatcher, back in the 1980s, did not lie about how brutal the first shock of neoliberalism was going to be. She coldly promised torture before riches.

“Its sequel, however, was pitched by its architect George Osborne, chancellor under David Cameron, as a bit of belt-tightening resembling that most prized memory in the national canon: the Blitz Spirit. Come on, chaps, buck up and give it some welly. The shattering of society into thinner fragments was supposed to be a hardy adventure. 

“Midway through this downhill plummet, Britain bumbled backward out of the EU. The wreckage of this four-year disaster can now best be seen as an attempt to escape the harsh bite of austerity.

“Brexit was a retreat from hunger into myth: an embrace of antique fables about British pluck and derring-do, a belief that even without an empire and an industrial base this archipelago might reclaim past glory. Faced with profound turmoil, much of the nation turned to a half-remembered falsehood about their grandfather’s generation, marching along with Churchill. This election is the reckoning Brexit postponed.

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[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

John Oliver, "The Conservatives have had 5 different prime ministers over the past 14 years.. It's worth briefly revisiting all of them"

1⃣"David Cameron.. Austerity.. Brexit"

2⃣"Theresa May.. More austerity, two child cap"

3⃣"Boris Johnson.. His time in office was a shambles.. Britain left the EU on the same day of the first case of the corona virus was announced.. His handling of covid was an unmitigated disaster"

"For the record there is only one actual f*ckpig in Downing Street.. David Cameron.. As a student at Oxford he once put his d*ck in a dead pig's mouth"

4⃣"Liz Truss who had the shortest tenure of any British prime minister in history.. Her budget full of tax cuts for the rich which caused a mini economic crisis"

5⃣"Sunak the wet.. A man who literally does not have the sense to get in from the rain"

"Brexit created red tape that has grown exponentially.. Trading goods with the EU is now so onerous that many businesses have chosen to relocate into mainland Europe which is not good news for the UK"

"Brexit is estimated to be costing the economy about £100 billion a year"

"While Brexit makes the news, austerity is the legacy of Cameron and his successors because it has in so many ways obliterated public services"

"Take the NHS, years of under investment have left it gutted and understaffed.. Wait lists for NHS treatment have exploded.. More than 7.5 million waiting for non emergency treatment, that's over 2.5 million when the Conservatives came in in 2010"

[Muhammad Shehada @muhammadshehad2]

Israel quickly went from "we never dug those mass graves at the hospital" to "everyone in those mass graves we dug were terrorists terroristically terrorizing the terrorized before the terrorized slaughtered the terrorists terrorists terrorists terrorists..." [bot malfunctions]

[🌹Scarlett🌹 @DiaLancea]

The evolution of Foxclon's anniversary outfits #ffxiv

[Josh Marketis @Clidus]

@ynnadddanny @tomwarren Oh right, yes PS5 doesn't have that. It can only run one thing at a time.

Even worse is PS5's automatic updater which will install updates and kill the running game without you being aware. Thank God for auto-saves...

[Josh Marketis @Clidus]

@ynnadddanny @raz0Rsh4rpo There are a lot of basic things wrong with XIII. There aren’t towns, there aren’t NPCs. You do nothing but walk forward, watch cut scenes and battle. X might be a corridor but that corridor is alive with people to talk to and things to do.

[Josh Marketis @Clidus]

@ynnadddanny @raz0Rsh4rpo Also back in the day it was the number one complaint about X. People just got over it because the rest was great.

[Everyone's Favourite Jim @JimmerUK]

Off the back of the news that May is stepping down at the next GE, I've been seeing a lot of comments about how "she's one of the good ones". She isn't. She was a terrible person, and here are some of the reasons why...🧵

[Josh Marketis @Clidus]

@Elmo5242 @JohnEricBentley Yooooo https://t.co/XQunVWpLQd

[Josh Marketis @Clidus]

@Elmo5242 Im in Under Junon now. Did you do the protorelic quests in the Junon region? If not, check them out. They are amazing.

[southpaw @nycsouthpaw]

I could add a few things, but that’s about the size of it.

[Josh Marketis @Clidus]

@Elmo5242 Oh, I also love the new card game. They should make that a mobile game.

My only real complaint so far is I hate the stealth missions. Catching the second chocobo last night was incredibly frustraiting.

[Josh Marketis @Clidus]

@Elmo5242 Im in love with the game so far. The evolution of the combat is awesome, the music is perfect, its funny. The open world checklist stuff is right up my street, but ignorable if you dont like it.