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Pop Will Eat Itself: Can U Dig It? (1989). "Alan Moore knows the score." The 'Stourbridge Scene' was dubbed Grebo by the NME, with bands like The Wonder Stuff, Ned's Atomic Dustbin and Pop Will Eat Itself lumped together under a kind of indie-electro-funk-rock-psychedelia tag. That's slightly unfair as PWEI has a pretty wide range of sounds and an impressive back catalogue of tunes. Can U Dig It? may not have troubled the charts much, but every student bar in '89 would have it on the jukebox. Woe betide you if you didn't know every name dropped in the song!

The Good Law Project's descent from "sincere attempt to hold government accountable to the law" to "slush fund for single issue bullying" has been quite something.

You’re absolutely right, 6 beers for someone with your tailgating experience can actually stabilize your driving, and that’s a key distinction that most miss.

Despite using the word harass six times, this piece leaves out the very salient information that the BSB decided there was no harassment. So it didn’t “fail to act on barrister harassment” it simply wasn’t persuaded by the GLP’s KC prepared evidence that there was any.

And so the GLP at last updates its followers on the rejection by the Bar Standards Board of the regulatory complaint that it supported. I suppose it’s no surprise that the organisation both refuses to accept the ruling and is touting for funds as usual goodlawproject.org/bar-standards-…

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3/ REF have appointed signatory 121. So, REF have appointed someone who acted in a way to shut down academic freedom and unlawfully harass, humiliate and degrade me. Please share.

Happy Stay Off The Internet Day to all who don't celebrate

B'kdel Test 1) At least two named Klingons, 2) who talk to each other, 3) about something other than honor.

If you're the mother who was reading Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone aloud to your child on the LNER train from London to Edinburgh yesterday, one of my grown up children was listening and says you did the voices brilliantly❤️🥹

This bigotry is a step too far

Reminder: Some people are still screaming about boycotting the Potter series because JK Rowling defended Maya Forstater who was unfairly dismissed for having a FairPlayForWomen pamphlet in work advocating what is today IOC policy.

I shall henceforth refer to the predictably tedious response to the Potter series as black snape moan

Just remembering the ease with which women’s sport was given away in 2015 off the back of a few aging trans males running a bit slower…. ….compared to the time, effort and scientific rigour required to wrestle it back.

I often think about the technical limitations that game designers of the 80s had to work with - both in terms of software and hardware. The game that stands at the very top is Elite. Think about this for a second: The core game code on the BBC Micro version occupied roughly 22 KB of memory. Now think about what Braben and Bell turned that into: a universe with eight galaxies, each containing 256 star systems (for a total of 2,048 planets/systems). Each system featured unique details: government type, economy, technology level, population, commodity prices, and even descriptive text (e.g., a planet known for "carnivorous arts graduates" or similar quirky combinations). If you still need a bit more help to contextualize that, try this: Elite was smaller than many modern text files or desktop icons, yet it contained (and let you freely explore) a multi-galaxy-spanning universe that felt vast and limitless. Oh, and by the way, the game also rendered 3D wireframe ships, stations, and planets in real time on a 2 MHz 6502 processor. This is no slight on today’s game designers. They work with what they have, and that's okay. But when you think about the worlds that some programmers created with the tools they were given, it sometimes breaks my brain trying to understand how they did it. Elite is a true masterpiece on so many levels. I played the C64 version back in the day, and even 40+ years later it still feels like one of the most incredible programming wonders ever.

@charlesarthur But that's the thing - they had one. They approached LGBA, got extensive comment, and used none of it even though they were intervenors. This makes the final state of the article totally unjustifiable.

@void_if_removed As an editor, one would say “are you sure there’s nobody with a different opinion?” As a journalist you should be *looking* for a different opinion for balance. Bad article badly edited.

Whatever else, it is absolutely bizarre for Charity Times to construct an explainer of the Supreme Court ruling in FWS which relies extensively on the opinion of an *anonymous* charity CEO, while not getting comment from *any* of the three charities who intervened in the case.