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Spoilers: Hardspace: Shipbreaker 

@drandrewv2 - I don't know if you're a gamer but you'd like the story. Just the contract you have to sign to start playing is hilarious. I can't find a copy online (I guess I could screenshot some of it for you), but among other things it insists that when you die (which you will) your employer legally owns the clone of you that it's going to put back to work. The cloning programme is called EverWork(TM).

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Spoilers: Hardspace: Shipbreaker 

Just finished Hardspace: Shipbreaker. It's really nice to see such an unapologetically pro-Trade-Union piece of work in a computer game. And a good computer game as well! I thoroughly recommend it both to those who like good games and those who could use an illustration of what collective action is for and what it can accomplish.

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Designer: if you want the head that size, you should really consider knuckle walking so the pelvis can actually get the baby out
Client: NO!!!! REDESIGN THE BABY HEAD SO IT'S SQUASHY

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Hello! We're new here and eager to connect with folks and communities that intersect with:
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PC-815. Built as a cheap submarine chaser, it spent 68 hours bravely fighting a known magnetic anomaly, declared war on neutral Mexico, arguably inspired Scientology, and finally ended an all round superb career of uselessness by ramming a friendly destroyer and sinking itself. Sterling stuff.

#FailureFriday

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@sonjdol I haven't tried, I don't normally get enough notification traffic to worry about it. On a quick glance I can't see a no-ping setting, I guess you could turn off notifications altogether. Depending on your platform you could also probably fiddle with the notification settings either for your server's website or for the app you're using - can probably silence them that way.

@sonjdol I figured if someone didn't shut them up my computer was going to keep pinging at me all afternoon. 😂

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(Just to you)

Apologies, I'm not subscribed to that one and I didn't realise it was a group, or I'd have stripped that too!

@MisuseCase @taoish @doomscroller @bojacobs @sts

You guys realise you're spamming the whole histodons group with your flame war, right? I've removed it from the tag list for this post.

@trinsec I played that through a little while back, got it free on Epic IIRC. Had no expectations but actually it's a really nice little game, really enjoyed it. 🙂

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@bojacobs @sts @histodons This is a popular myth but it’s not true at all. This stuff will last 10,000 years at most. The really nasty stuff will last about 300 years.

There are other things we produce that will actually last forever. Arsenic, for example, which is both a byproduct of burning coal and of certain industrial processes. Unlike radioactive material it does not become less harmful over time. That’s with us forever. 1/?

@lowqualityfacts Well, yeah, but only if you get up to $25,012.42, presumably!

@lowqualityfacts What happens if someone actually gives you money in response to this? Do you have to give it back? 😄

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Post Office scandal 

Please read this. The Post Office scandal is one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in history, but it is being almost completely ignored and the people responsible for it will almost certainly walk away entirely unscathed. Marina Hyde is rarely serious, but in this piece she is as serious as a heart attack.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

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