Dr Steven Di Costa 🍉

Screenshot from the game Indika sharing the title character, a nun, sitting in a darkened room surrounded by wooden furniture and white laundry hanging from several ropes strung across the ceiling

Promotional artwork for the game Indika, showing the protagonist, a young nun, surrounded by older nuns who have exaggerated laughing faces, while Indika herself looks troubled.

‘Indika’ is a remarkable game. Stunning visuals. Solid, thoughtful script with excellent voice acting. Big on vibes and full of surprises. You play as a nun.

(Odd Meter Games and @11bitstudios.bsky.social)

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In other news I got new glasses this week

Wait, if the two of you are on the sofa…
Then who…
😬 👻 📹

Gif of Luigi from super Mario brothers doing a celebratory backflip Alt: Gif of Luigi from super Mario brothers doing a celebratory backflip

Great day for Green plumbers! 💚

Polyamory is about honesty, not an excuse to sleep around An anthropologist’s detailed research shows polyamorists focus on intimacy and honesty, not sleeping around

Where popular portrayals of polyamory most often miss the mark is in the idea that the practice is primarily about having sex with multiple partners. Polyamory is mostly about intimacy, not sex, and it has ethics at its core. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/polyamory-isnt-all-about-sex/

He’s being undersold

Relic skull in an ornate gold reliquary with a glass front. It is adorned with flowers and a small tag that reads Valentine.

Valentine is also the patron saint of epileptics 🧠! (and beekeepers! 🐝)

For more info on epilepsy:
epilepsysociety.org.uk
@amepilepsysoc.bsky.social

UK ban on Palestine Action ruled unlawful Ministers argued the direct action group engaged in a campaign of criminal damage and violence

UK ban on Palestine Action ruled unlawful ft.trib.al/TKbvf6A

New Yorkers return Pride flag to Stonewall after Trump administration removed it New York officials on Thursday hoisted a large rainbow Pride flag over the Stonewall National Monument that was removed by the Trump administration earlier in the week.

New Yorkers return Pride flag to Stonewall after Trump administration removed it reut.rs/4qCvPyh

Side by side images of Sally, a patchwork doll character from the nightmare before Christmas, and actress Catherine o hara who provided her speech and singing voice

Good night Sally ✨🖤🤍

IDF accepts Gaza Health Ministry death toll of over 71,000 Palestinians killed in the war Although Many International Experts Have Accepted the Health Ministry's Data as Reliable, and Even Conservative Relative to the True Death Toll, Israel Had Refused to Accept the Health Ministry's Coun...

I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable.

Biden himself said they were fabricated!

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

🚨 5 Days to go - National March for Palestine - Hands off Gaza
⏰ Saturday 31 Jan, 12PM
📍Russell Square - Whitehall

Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people has not ended. Join us for the next march for Palestine to demand our government end its complicity in Israel’s violence.

Resisting the might-makes-right order, in solidarity with the peoples of Palestine, Venezuela, Cuba and Greenland.

Boycott, divest from, or exclude from contracts these complicit US companies.

"How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks!" 🦆
- Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night (1935)

Israeli drone strike kills two children collecting firewood in Gaza The attack hits civilians gathering firewood near Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, sources say.

The attack hits civilians gathering firewood near Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, sources say.

Good morning.

A regular reminder: a tiny few hoard staggering wealth and own much of the media, while millions struggle to survive.

That’s not an accident. It’s a choice made by those in power.

Tax wealth. Fund public services. Build an economy for everyone - not the 1%.

Always 🥰☃️🦊❄️

Anyway, the real crazies are those freaky pollen-loving Spring people.

I appreciate the consistency 😄

Haha I believe the word ‘nutjob’ was initially fired by Team Sunshine.

Genuinely love the cold and dark 😌

But don’t worry, the spring and sun will be here in no time, and then it will be my turn to complain while you… I dunno, what do summer people like?… Sit on a warm rock like a lizard? 🦎

Cosy monsters in our cosy monster caves, going for long monster walks in the crisp air and sipping delicious monster hot chocolate ❄️

No constant glaring light, no noisy crowded parks, no reapplying sunscreen every five minutes.

We are yes 😌

A displaced Palestinian girl was filmed gathering bread from the ground in a Gaza displacement camp after Israeli forces bombed the tents.

In response to the freezing temperatures, SWEP has been activated to ensure those sleeping rough have shelter.

If you’re worried about someone sleeping rough, notify StreetLink who can connect them with local services. One simple action can make a real difference.

thestreetlink.org.uk

Nice to see those oceans in place 👏 🌊

Refreshing that it’s patient/culture-centred, and not myopically fixated (like so often) on whether it ‘technically’ meets the definition and specification of addiction.

And as the quoted therapist says: “not an anti-porn crusade”. Actually focused on what’s happening and what could be helpful.

It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad.

The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.

Spray paint a plane and they'll detain you without trial and call you a terrorist.

Kidnap a foreign head of state - and Keir Starmer will make it clear we've played no part in it but will wait for the scheduled press conference in a few hours before potentially condemning it

Let's choose kindness in 2026.

youtu.be/lopMMkz0law

Watching the total donations shooting up after the Xmas Day Message is so beautiful.

Thank you all! 💚🎄

www.justgiving.com/campaign/tog...