I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

What he said.

Proud to be the 4,889th backer 😎 on @BackerKit Crowdfunding for Mothership: PROSPERO'S DREAM! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/t...

A dislike button, you may as well call it the Brigading button, The Arse-signal, the pile-on event horizon generator.

Reposting with Alt-text:

I'm in the mood for some superhero TTRPG recommendations. What have you got? What do you love, and any you'd steer well clear of? Have at it mes amies

"How dare you call us Nazis!" say the Hitler-loving racism enthusiasts who openly fantasize about torture, rape, and putting their political enemies in gas chambers. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

⚡️The Economist maps Russia’s hybrid-warfare attacks across Europe.

Putting aside how the UK government usually responds to these petitions by simply saying 'no', seeing this hit a million signatures in like a day kinda shows how much people REALLY do not want this. So yeah, keep signing it. Let's see how high this can go! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

Errr are you Americans having a Rapture or something soonish?

Love the shirt and it's relatively local too.

Me then: They can't lock us all up! Me now: So they just locked all of us up?

Appalled to see this image of Donald Trump and the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein projected onto Windsor Castle. Please... for the love of all that is good, do not share it on all your social media channels... because it simply wouldn't be done to remind the world of the association

I wonder how tall the designers and installers are? I'd second the cricket bat to the knees but would also add; 'now your car keys are locked in this safe for between 1 -3 years, please do try and carry on as normal.' I suspect that'd learn them a thing or two.

Counting Crow

'We have to terrify the kids in order to signal that we're wanting to protect the kids from an undefined threat to our comfort and induge our worst prejudices, it's what the now terrified kids would have wanted.'

Good: They're very nearly there at working out where a significant part of the nations earnings are going. after a decade of people telling them. Bad: They've chosen the stupidest way possible to solve the problem. HMG still unmatched in the kicking yourself in the nuts championship.

“Tom Clancy’s Goodnight Moon”

Guys, I have a special & unusual request today. My cousin Sean is a union bus driver here in Los Angeles who was just FIRED in retaliation for saying he would not let masked ICE agents onto his bus to abduct riders. The fight is on to get his job back, you can help: actionnetwork.org/letters/send...

Nearly done.

If you want to believe it, check it twice ::clap clap:: If you want to believe it, check it twice ::clap clap:: Doesn’t matter if it’s awful Doesn’t matter if it’s nice If it confirms your bias, check it twice! ::clap clap::

World: The multi-billionaire oligarchs are oppressing us all millionaires: It must be the poor peoples fault.

Just taken delivery of 3kg of sweet popcorn and I can genuinely tell folks it's not for me. Also a good example of how weight is not necessarily the same as encumbrance for the TTRPG folks out there. Monday Movie Malarky holiday club can now happen at All Saints parish church Nettleham.

‘Debate Me!’ demands the Stranger who will never change their mind, or yours.

Just about falling into True Nerd, I suspect the grooming questions are what got me so parlously close to the 'normie' categorisation. www.idrlabs.com/jock-nerd-pr...

Welp never visiting the US ever again. You think it'll go away if Dems win any future elections? DHS just disappeared after the gulf wars right? Oh so now it's parasitically grown to overtake and subnume all other law enforcement to be its apendages.

We ship world wide btw! I paused EU shipping for a month while we adapted to new regulations and then nobody came back. Spoke to so many Europeans at UKGE that were sad we didn't ship to EU anymore - we dooooo!

This of course is the epitome of a frugal nay the exemplar of a virtuously parsimonious activity of the greatest benefit to all when compared to mere 'gaming'. /s

When I was a nipper Dad used to take my sister and I to Bank Hill near Dollar "To see the baby deer." and give mum a rest when she did nights. Guess what? Despite hours hiding in the bracken we never saw any deer there. Having since seen Red Deer up on Rannoch Moor I consider myself 1 up on my sis.

Shall I be plain? I wish the bastards dead

How about...

Oh sure... now that Orbital have rereleased Their Brown album, is a Sabres of Paradise 'Sabresonic' rerelease announced. The nostalgic backfilling of the music library continues.

In these challenging times someone might need one of them: Childline: 0800 1111 Samaritans: 116 123 Domestic Violence Hotline: 0808 2000 247 Mind: 0300 123 3393 Age UK: 0800 169 6565 Alcoholics Anonymous : 0800 9177 650 Cruse Bereavement Care: 0808 808 1677 MH text support: 85258

So once a legal precedent has been established that large multinational companies have the right to take people's property without compensation because their business-models require it, why would they stop at taking stuff from creatives?

Lookit Elmo in his little blue cartoon Fokker.

more painted tiny army space mens. Disciples of Caliban (Dark Angels successor chapter) still need a bit more tidying but more or less done.

Historically, police serve to protect the "haves" from the "have nots". The "haves" are protected by the law but not bound by it. The "have nots" are bound by the law but not protected by it.

Juyst had the RAF BBMF Avro Lancaster buzz the village at full chat. All four RR Merlins on song. It was spine tingling.

It really is this simple. #TransRightsAreHumanRights

"Get her in front of serious, intelligent & honest journalists, she will be dead in two minutes." Can anyone spot the flaw in this projected scenario? I'm not say journo's like that don't exist but they are vastly outnumbered by stenographers and fantasists.

From the depths of Julian Fellowes unused but oddly stained Downton Abbey drafts I come bearing a gift; "Far be for me to coment upon anything quite so outre as owning a silver plated Venezuelan colander... ...However one must always bear in mind that they are a Berkshire Hathaway."

What have I done? I painted a tiny army mans for the 40 thousandth hammering of war and it ✨sparkles✨! Used Turbo Dorks Rainbow Roll paint on my Dark Angels Librarian.

Is RFK jr a dangerous idiot, or just dangerous? My new video is out now. #actuallyautistic #autistic #autism #rfk #rfkjr #neurodiversity #neurodivergent www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyxG...

Just received a big box full of sad space cowboys Really excited to flip through all this new Orbital Blues content from @soulmuppet.co.uk and especially excited to see The Wanderer by @moreblueberries.bsky.social in print (plus a freaking cassette by @beholdyourfate.bsky.social )

Tomorrow, a certain online mega-retailer launches a book sale, just days before Indie Bookstore Day on 4/26. This is no coincidence; Bookstore Day is one of the largest revenue drivers for indies. Indies need our support to thrive & build community spaces for all...mega-retailers do not.

Pass it on. #StandWithUkraine