Angry Gamers (capitol G) will look at a new trailer, invent a way cooler and more epic version of it, and then think that cooler and more epic version is Bad, somehow
Man imagine a GTA where you play as a trans woman sex worker forced into increasingly dangerous situations, surviving and slowly thriving through crimes and heists of escalating stakes, slowly overcoming and eventually overthrowing those who wronged you in both the justice system and the criminal underworld
Maybe game studios should have one of these Gamers on their team to torture. The angrier this Gamer gets the further the rest of the team pushes. If this Gamer is violent with rage by the end of a brainstorming session it's considered successful.
English horse stud ads be like: *confo shot* *shot of horse in performance* "Peppe le Blanc is available this breeding season, contact us for availability*
Western horse stud ads be like: *picture of horse surrounded by Hooter's girls* Granny's Hot Slut Water is available to be your broodmare's hot stud, get him while he lasts, or you'll have to wait until next season.
American horse for sale ads be like: *picture of clothes-drying rack with a painful expression begging for death, padded with unhelpful flab like a child wearing a puffy coat, apparently dying of tuberculosis, shot with a potato as the photographer was being tackled by a feral hog* beautiful cremello stallion, BLM rescue, backed but a little green , $10,000 great stud potential already covered several mare pretty babies (next seven photos are of goats; unclear if Progeny or just camera roll ïżŒ) moves well (video of stoned animal hobbling along, spurred, its soul clearly detached from its body) no lowballs i know what i got
UK horse ads: so sorry to trouble you, but if anyone can help find a home for a lovely schoolmaster - perfect mother/daughter share and ladiesâ hunter (picture of enchanting horse decorously jumping 1m at Olympics) we would be terribly grateful - please do bring your vet; the horse comes with full MOT, all previous owners have provided references, all vet visits logged in a binder, horse has British Sign Language qualification. (Video of horse doing dressage, filing taxes, and responding graciously to a difficult interview) Has been jumped, hacked, dressed at highest levels (video of most beautiful horse in the world gently taking a toddler to their dance recital) Rides and drives. Holds defensive driving license. Asking ÂŁ5000 - so sorry.
Irish horse ads: (photos of extremely nice-looking animal, shot for some reason at a 35 degree angle) hOrF sal.e can ship to england for free. 10 year old mixed breed hunter (video of what appears to be an olympic warmblood in fabulous condition) ÂŁ3000 or trade dfor . what you got
are an adult and have at minimum Indefinite Leave to Remain
Can scrape together about ÂŁ1200 in one place for a few minutes (can be salary/your actual bank account, but better if not, as youâll need to park it somewhere else for a month or so)
Can reasonably do mildly convoluted admin tasks (I.e., could you keep a spreadsheet that juggles a few things like âdates to cancel subscriptionsâ, and remember to cancel the subscriptions?)
Are confident, capable and able to do life paperwork such as opening bank accounts
Then you can usually farm a bit of pocket money with bank switching.
Bank switching is taking advantage of cash offers that UK banks offer to switch your current account to their bank. They often offer ÂŁ150 cash for doing this. The definition of a âcurrent accountâ is usually âhas ~ÂŁ1200 in it and two direct debits set up,â so if youâre willing to quickly set up a free throwaway bank account that meets these criteria, you can then switch that account around various banks to take advantage of incentives.
Thereâs some decent offers right now if youâre willing to do the homework (you could get up to ÂŁ1500 at the moment if youâre eligible for everything), and people on Reddit write really careful hand-holding tutorials. https://www.reddit.com/r/beermoneyuk/s/DLrpVkmDOo
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You can usually only max this out once a year, and then have to take a break (most banks have a cooldown period.) of course, if you have a partner or other family members, you can do theirs. You can pass the ÂŁ1200 back and forth between you for this, and make double the amount.
If you only do ÂŁ1000 a year, itâs about the limit of the admin most people want to do, and is tax-free.
You can mess it up - but rather than losing money, youâre more likely to accidentally fail to meet the criteria, or get into an admin snarl where you get querulous emails from bizarre institutions like the Ulster Bank of Lobsterworkers and Divinely Inspired Miners, telling you that they canât close your bank account until you remove ÂŁ0.37 from it. However, allowing reputable UK banks to hold your ÂŁ1200 is a low-risk activity.
You must follow the instructions (and guides) attentively to receive the payouts.
Bank switching is a good, honourable and reliable way to raise a few hundred pounds to pay off large unexpected expenses. A big credit card bill, an air conditioner, an unexpected flight - I find it useful to know that a little bit of extra admin-headache can write off the whole expense.
Oh, forgot to say - from the Reddit guide I linked above (which has a quick start guide and everything.)
If you and a partner switch to Nationwide with this June 2026 offer (obviously, itâs on you to read the instructions carefully) you will get a total of ÂŁ525. Thatâs very helpful pocket money that could make all the difference for your household this month.
I will say thereâs some decent offers on at the moment including a good deal of ÂŁ200 offers, but bank switching is a stable thing. UK banks like to play it. Donât feel any guilt or urgency about not having the spoons to try it, or not understanding it yet. The offers are basically always on. Thatâs why itâs good pocket money.
Park the idea in your brain, maybe queue this post to remind you, and pick it up again when you need to. Sometimes a serious need for quick cash is enough of a jolt to get over the bump of doing admin.
Iâll confess something too: I canât do it very well. In our house, my spouse does it. I introduced him to the idea, explained what I understood, and admitted that I would struggle to do it efficiently. He kindly took on the management of our bank-switching activities, and when we need to raise cash, he coordinates activities across our accounts and sits next to me, and I just need to follow his instructions. If you have a partner whoâs willing to do this, give it a shot.
On Saturday I said to my partner, as I have said for months, "A ten thousand dollar a year raise would solve so many of my problems."
As of this morning I was reluctantly looking for jobs because I love my job and don't want to leave it, but see: $10k raise problem solver.
As of noon today this was no longer an issue, because my boss called me with the news that I was getting a $10K merit raise.
I feel like a huge weight has been lifted off my shoulders. This is roughly $200 extra per paycheck. Enough to pay off debt faster, rebuild my savings, and spend a weekend a month in Milwaukee getting obscenely laid. The sex I'm going to have on $200 extra per paycheck. You can't even.
May all of you get the $10K raise your soul has yearned for. And whatever level of sex you can be satisfied with for $200.
so one of the largest open source data communities on the internet, data.world, got bought out by a company called ServiceNow, who has decided to fucking delete all of it by July 11th. they've given users barely any notice, no emails, just a fucking banner at the top and a blog post from June that gives barely a month to download your data before they fucking delete it all.
a bunch of archives of incredibly important government datasets like maternal mortality statistics are about to be deleted forever. in a regime where they're known to fudge numbers, we can't trust a lot of the data coming from them to not be altered. open source backups like those found on data.world are vital to being able to verify that the data coming from our government is still intact and not altered. and they're about to delete all of it.
i don't know if we need to start a petition or what. nobody seems to fucking care. there are millions of users on data.world and yet nobody is raising the alarm bells and it makes me feel like I'm going insane. somebody needs to do something. i don't know what to do. it feels like more and more of this world is being destroyed and dismantled. it's not only US centric data, either! it's all sorts of countries from around the world! and they're about to fucking delete everything.
the only things that won't be deleted are private companies who happen to use the paid version of their platform (which isn't accessible data to the open source community; some people have just been using their service to host their own data on privately)
and the kicker? this announcement was made... via an AI generated blog post. so not even any sort of human touch. just a generic, soulless announcement made by a soulless human about to take a wrecking ball to one of the more important websites that exists on the internet.
an example of some of the things that will be deleted on July 11th:
I haven't, I don't really have a reddit anymore. if somebody else would be willing to do that, that would be great. I'm pretty sure it only lets you post with a certain amount of karma now which is annoying
It looks like this has gotten onto Reddit and people are saving the data - but I can imagine researchers who uploaded assets wonât know this, so hopefully can reach some.
There are over 3500 respectable data repositories on one respectable global registry; to a researcher thereâs no point in data existing if not findable; if youâre trying to find a new home for your dataset, start there
Iâve been emailing folks at my university about this today, and no one that I have talked to has been previously aware that this is happening.
Here are some of the scripts Iâm using to email University Research Librarians and department chairs/assistant and associate deans who I know oversee faculty who use resources from data.world for their lessons:
Email for a Research Librarian: To find a research librarian try running an internet search like: â[College Name] Library Staff Directoryâ and see who may be a good fit.
Subject: Data.world public archive private purchase and deletion
Hi [Research Librarian or Data Preservation Specialist],
I recently ran into news that data.world has been purchased by ServiceNow, and that ServiceNow is ending public access to these archives July 11th. This is a very large public data archive that I personally used in my undergraduate work several years ago. I don't know much about digital preservation, or how it works at [College Name], but I thought it might be worthwhile to try reaching out.
I wanted to let someone in Libraries know in case current [College Name] students are using data in this archive for their research and need to be notified to save the data elsewhere, and to see if there is anything that [College Name] can do to help with greater preservation efforts.
The archive can be accessed here for now. A login is required, but it is free to set up.
https://data.world/_all/w/datasets
Here is a screenshot with the announcement of the closure of the site. Site users were not notified that access will be ending and would have to be looking at the page regularly to know that access will be terminated.
Please let anyone know who may need to use the site (or who would be interested in trying to preserve it).
Thanks,
[Your Name]
[Your Job/College Affiliation]
[Your Contact Information]
If you know a current department or school within a college that is using data.world archives, this is a template that I am using to contact department chairs or assistant/associate deans of research within specific schools.
Subject: Loss of public data.world access 7/11/26
Hi [Dr. Last Name]
I recently learned that the public data archive data.world has been purchased by ServiceNow and that they are closing public access 7/11/26. [Sentence about how the data is or was used by the department/school you are contacting].
I wanted to make sure this was on your radar in case any students are doing research with this data and need to act quickly to retrieve the data sources they need for their work, similarly for faculty using this data in their research or teaching.
The archive can be accessed here for now. A login is required, but it is free to set up.
https://data.world/_all/w/datasets
Here is a screenshot with the announcement of the closure of the site. Site users were not notified that access will be ending and would have to be looking at the page regularly to know that access will be terminated.
Please let anyone know who may need to use the site (or who would be interested in trying to preserve it).
The core conceit of Lord of the Rings is pretty funny. You are a twenty three year old in a suburb of Maine. The little bracelet in your grandpaâs attic has an inscription on it that is the password to the worldâs entire nuclear arsenal. It is up to you to walk to the only hydraulic press in the world, located in Arizona, before the FBI finds the bracelet, kills you, and enslaves the suburb of Maine you currently live in
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