The latest bit of design madness to strike the internet is providing users with about a fifth of the screen to read the article, sandwiched between these immense moving banners.
Fuck are you doing guys. Why do people on the internet hate their own content so much that they want to put barriers in front of the reader accessing it?
It's like trying to read a newsletter in a fucking postbox.
I am aware btw that with this and the PDF comment I am now engaged in a kind of aged millennial descent into whiny middle age. And I own that shit. I accept it gladly.
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Wouldn't want you to have developed a sense of hope or spiritual reassurance. We'll have none of that here.
Johnson says Windrush was a "scandal" and the best is being done to "collectively to make amends". This is false, of course. If it were true, they would not be creating the conditions for precisely the same situation to arise with European citizens.
Comics have had a brutal year. But this weekend is @ThoughtBubbleUK - the greatest celebration of comics I've ever seen - an event that bursts with creativity and love for the medium.
@ThoughtBubbleUK The physical festival obviously can't be held this year, so they have put the entire thing online, for free, available to anyone. You can't leave the house anyway. You might as well sit there and just fucking drench yourself in it.
@ThoughtBubbleUK On Saturday afternoon, I'll be interviewing Joe Sacco, which is one of those events where you just sit there and think: how in the name of Christ did I manage to get this lucky? For anyone who's into comics and journalism, he's a kind of deity.
Next few months are going to be a fascinating exhibit in the Brexit mindset.
Tory Leavers know Biden disapproves of their little project. At some point, probably soon, probably over Ireland, he's going to snub them. He'll say something about Brexit, or the FTA, or he'll visit Brussels before London. And then they're going to lose their shit.
And that's going to be an interesting moment. Britain will have gone from being a bridge between Europe and the US to adopting a distant, acrimonious relationship with both of them.
As one of the other voices in the game, let me go on record to say that I'm incensed by this. Whether you agree with Helen's views on trans issues or not, they are legitimate debate and she is entitled to hold and express them. kotaku.com/ubisoft-to-rem…
She wasn't even discussing any of those issues here. A little Twitter mob got excited and now she is simply cancelled.
What utter cowardice. The silencing of someone on all issues, even analysis of a fictional political universe, because people disagreed with what they said on another issue.
Next few hours there'll be lots of sage old commentators on here telling you not to get too excited, lots of trouble ahead, problems Trump fed off won't go away, Democrats don't control Senate. And it's all true. But you know what? We all deserve to sit & be happy for a bit.
Fuck all the caveats and future problems. Savour this feeling. People constantly on the backfoot against pernicious political forces deserve to celebrate them being defeated.
There'll be time later for thoughts about how to proceed, and especially what liberals can do in office to prevent nationalism rising up again. But for now, just enjoy the victory. Have a drink for fuck sake.