According to some people on the fediverse, the Kagi forum thread that is linked in the toots I posted above and seemingly nowhere else.
From a non political standpoint: I tried Kagi last year and it was ok but I didn’t get the big deal. And because I’m not in the US but the UK if you try searching where’s my nearest garage or stay the nearest result came up as 150 miles away. So it’s one of those things I’ll maybe return to it once it’s developed a bit more
The sources I find are solely from mastodon threads, and date from this month and the Brave thing. This is the best thing I’ve found
It depends on the game, character etc. I mean I suppose it adds to the escapism slightly?
I play all sorts of different games though, some where you’re not given the choice (Life Is Strange for example) and I don’t feel like it’s that big a deal
In my experience in my specific part of England that holds true - Aldi definitely seems a lot cleaner
So because I play a lot of games and read a lot of eBooks then I would say getting my first tablet was pretty great, even though it was a midrange one that was just thrown in to the deal when I was upgrading my phone and I probably wouldn’t have bothered otherwise
It was a Samsung A8 from 2019, had about an 8" screen and I used it mainly as a kindle and games device. The games I play are mainly strategy or board games, but there were certainly some games that you wouldn’t necessarily think would cause a problem (Wingspan?) that would lag or crash. Since I review games it helped to have a second device to check things on, and a bigger screen is better.
Last year I upgraded it to a Samsung S8 which is a flagship. It’s a 10 or 11 inch screen which felt more unwieldy though I’m used to it now. It can run more things. It’s a really nice device. The screen isn’t actually OLED but feels like it, the quality is amazing. It actually came with a stylus which was a neat touch. The screen is good enough that yes I have found myself watching more TV on it.
However, when people say ‘productivity’, I don’t know really know what they mean by that tbh. I’ve got a work laptop for work. I’ve got my own laptop for other stuff. Do people mean drawing and things on tablets but that?
I’ve read a lot about the Anglo Saxon period and I’m surprised there’s not been some sort of effort to dramatise it before now. (See also, the early history of Scotland.) I guess people are too busy thinking about the Roman Empire x times a day.
Reminded me of this Big Train sketch
I’ve turned into a bit of a Glinner Watcher over the last year I can’t lie just because I can’t believe someone has been so willing to throw their life and career away over something they have no reason to get involved in and be such a dick about it at the same time.
This review is basically the same as all the others - interesting and funny until he gets onto the transphobic stuff. But he’s harassed people online, he’s basically a TERF campaigner. I find it very hard to understand why he’s confused about why punching down on a minority group makes him unpopular with the audience that used to find him funny.
I’d find myself being very lazy and reaching for the ‘Catholic upbringing’ cliché in having a hand in at least some of all this - I might be wrong but I can’t bring myself to sit through his whole book, and certainly don’t want any of my money going his way
Have you read any of Jon Ronsons essays or books? He had a particularly interesting chapter on Icke as I recall
It’s not really that surprising that the average user wants the most popular search engine instead of yahoo (of all things) baked in, whatever your views on Google.
I’ve been seeing these on r/comics and assumed he was her secret alien friend or something, I never realised he was a sex toy.
Thanks for the, uh, enlightenment
I love this guy’s stuff so much. Especially with some of his longer comics you think you know where he’s going and he’s just on a complete tangent!
I remember having to change things I got from… places… from epub to mobi using calibre for my old school kindle to recognise it years ago. I don’t even have that device anymore.
Glad they’re accepting what appears to be the standard format tbh.
Easily my favourite section is the bit about journalism itself. Very eye opening (no pun intended)
There was a clip from Ian Hislop and 2 others from the Eye attending a select committee or something advising politicians about how they could handle disclosing gifts better, and there’s a funny/excruciating bit where one of the Eye journalists responds to an argument saying “they’re beneficial to the constituancy” by reading out to the politician what ‘gifts’ he has claimed: “football tickets… Opera… Stay in a hotel…” until the chairman or whatever intervenes. Private Eye don’t fuck about.
Was my exact reaction when I read this this morning before moving on.
She’s just jealous Glinner’s got a book out and she thinks she needs to raise her TERF game.
I mean I always found his cartoons annoyingly unfunny but I don’t think there’s anti-Semitism in this one. The general state of newspaper political cartoons actually being funny is pretty pathetic, they’re still about as good as The Day Today’s physical cartoonist Brandt.
But back on topic I it certainly looks like there’s no grounds for anti-Semitism for this one.
This is about misinformation on social media plays a part in war and journalism
See I got the impression when watching it was kind of like she was told to ‘just play it like you’re a female 10th doctor, yeah, that’ll do’. Which was really a shame because she could have owned her own character you know?
I actually thought her best episode was the one with the Daleks and the time loop in the warehouse (Eve of the Daleks I think). Her run got overshadowed by the whole timeless child thing which was more fanwank than anyone needed or asked for. Not that Moffat or Davies had individual episodes which were just as bad for continuity stuff but it felt like a lot of the 13th Doctor stories were arc obsessed. Maybe Flux didn’t help.
I just read about this this morning, exciting find.
I am also surprised to find out that ITV has a premium streaming platform when most of their best shows make it to britbox anyway…
EDIT It looks as though it is on Britbox so if you have that you’ll be able to watch it without another subscription!
“Britannia rules the waves…”