"Where did we lose really badly last time" "Liberal southern England and illiberal working class voters going Reform" "So we're going to focus on competence and anti-immigration rhetoric?" "No, the children yearn for the mines"

Yup, second time attending and I spend most of my time at the indie panels on the day they ran. Had a collection of excellent panels from indies and then this company's CEO doing a tone-deaf recruitment pitch.

Have also been using it recently as someone who never liked Substance much; it's good enough to be going along with for people who are not power users (or like me who really don't like Substance's camera and UV hotkeys) but it probably needs more help on its Github.

Had it pointed out to me that the specific attack here might not have actually been battery explosions, but specific explosives hidden inside the equipment; in that case it's still a worrying attack that is going to give a lot of sec analysts headaches at various state organizations.

this extremely niche games development joke is brought to you by the number 1/3, which is naturally 0.33333333333467434.....

I don't think the LDs have even appointed a new shadcab/spokesperson group/whatever yet? It's just the nature of what happens when you have a really stupidly-timed election.

Thanks! It was hard to clock as an autistic person; too much lived experience of "innocent comment trying to move conversation on" turning out to be a Bad Idea :P

Is that SMBC comic ragging on someone trying to keep a conversation rolling after an awkward moment, or is it ragging on someone still trying to use some false info to talk about their preferred position?

I've got no problem with human actors composited in fwiw but when you manage to look like a bad music video doing it...

Sunak spent essentially his entire time as chancellor having to cope with the pandemic. He should never have been chancellor at his age or experience level and any project he might have hoped to have was derailed, first by the pandemic and then by partygate ending Johnson's career.