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Trump's strategy, or rather those of the forces whose puppet he is, seems to be to present Ukraine with a "deal" that the Ukrainian government cannot agree to, then portray Ukraine as willingly wanting the conflict to continue. It's always been the plan. If I were a non-EU, non-NATO country in...

A fair amount of those ideas appeared in official media in some form over the years, indeed. And almost certainly coincidentally. Kind of amusing that what we knew of the second CBS pitch was the whimsical picture of not-Bumblebee blowing out candles on a birthday cake, when the proposed...

https://bsky.app/profile/tupped.bsky.social/post/3lwgcmswmy222 So we’ve got a law requiring Spotify and Xbox online services to do an ID check, and is likely to lose us access to Wikipedia, to curtail “services that have a significant influence over public discourse.”

The Democrats might as well merge with the Republicans and become its ‘moderate’ wing, for all the good they are doing. Nothing but enablers and cretins and doormats.

Watching clips on BlueSky of the police presence in Washington DC, I can’t tell if the footage is actually cut scenes from Civil War (the 2004 film directed by Alex Garland). Because it’s so similar.

Thoughts on packaging? Just briefly, I think the current generic design used across SS and AotP is the worst packaging design ever. It’s so empty, so bland, like it should be for generic supermarket own-brand* transforming robot action figures. I’d ever take the Beast Machines design over this...

https://bsky.app/profile/theverge.com/post/3lw7zqoq4pb2x In other news, the British government doesn’t know how the internet works. (Isn’t that a surprise?)

I’d agree, if I thought it’d make the government capitulate for the sake of the economy! If anything it’d make them double down on their stupid law, given how isolationist and authoritarian they are.

Great, so Washington DC is going to be 1970s Belfast on steroids. It’s going to take America decades to come back from all of this.

Left this out in the kitchen for my girlfriend to find when she gets home.

https://bsky.app/profile/abcnewsbot.bsky.social/post/3lw4nsrur6q2h Great job Labour, so we’re counting down to Wikipedia being blocked in the UK. At least there’s VPNs, well, until Starmer bans them.

Deputy prime ministers punching protesters with mullets… Great times. Couldn’t be allows to happen post-9/11, I guess.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/furious-bournemouth-locals-set-up-35692183.amp Some local news for a change… My town now has a vigilante version of ICE. Great.

Artist’s impression of a US Army tank using a Cybertruck for target practice.

https://www.statnews.com/2025/08/05/mrna-vaccine-development-canceled-by-kennedy-hhs/ As I’ve been saying for several years now, the antivaxxer cult have won.

Yeah, I’m going to need a better source than David Collier, the mega-supporter of Trump and Farage.

Walked past a real car of the Bumblebee from the Michael Bay films yesterday afternoon. (Only twigged it was Bumblebee when seeing the dummy numberplate. I’m not a car expert.) Got existential dread when I realised it’s now 18 years since the first film came out. Ulp.

I probably wouldn’t want an SS86 Galvatron had I not seen one in Smyths yesterday (which I owned a version of anyway, but didn’t remember I had until this morning). It’s one of those “oh, that looks good, actually” moments.

Thanks, guys. Yeah, have to mull it over. Did see the SS86 Galvatron yesterday and that blue-purple looked pretty great. Better than the original Kingdom/Legacy deco. But is it worth the bother of selling the Kingdom figure as well as the extra expense? Not sure. (The Kingdom figure’s “Siege...

Err, unexpected plot twist: turns out that I already own Kingdom Galvatron, but entirely forgot that I did. Which is too easy to happen with this stuff. Might keep him, or sell and put the money towards the blue-r, new SS86 one. Perhaps. Take a look – are these misassembled shoulders or...