My house appears to be haunted by some kind of ghost bear.

As his castle burned down around him, Viktor regretted attempting to explain how AI girlfriends were the future to the pitchfork-wielding mob. #GirlsOwnCC

A1 re-framing. (I'm not sure why you'd frame a floor hot dog but I hear there's room in the Louvre.)

I'm reasonably certain this is Big Red, the Parker Duofold I use every day, though my great-uncle Tom is unlikely to have bought it in Denmark. Now I am wondering who I know who could tell me what 34 Kr was worth in 1928. I'm a little surprised it was more than a Montblanc. #fountainpens

I still judge all medieval grand strategy games against Defender of the Crown.

Seeing American friends post #NoKings but Stephen and genuinely thinking 'what, because he was so hopeless?' before remembering the author existed.

Postal delivery around here is highly personalised but rather unreliable.

Privileged ‘gender critical’ transphobes abusing their positions of power in National newspapers to propagandise their own personal brand of hate to attack trans people are a fight actual feminists could do without. … But here we are! 🤷🏼‍♀️🙄😣

Find yourself something to love the way I love this little old man.

New gothberg dropped!

Pretty sure the probability of this being universally known as a "Shit Card" is 100%.

While mending LARP kit I just randomly remembered the person at Goblin Town who said to me 'are you the mossy goblin? you looked really cute... well you look really cute now... I suppose you're just a very cute person'. Thank you person, you made my day.

One view I have and will bore younger activists with at the drop of a hat is that you cannot expect everyone who agrees with you about one thing to march in lockstep with you as regards their opinions on everything else.

IT'S SAMHAIN PERFUME OIL TIME

I am watching a really good video about how to run a LARP, by Youtuber Ash L G, which has just got to 'how do you source props' and it has occurred to me that back in the day my workflow on this was: (1/2) youtu.be/zXpgxBrM0Aw?...

Dear indie #crossstitch designers, I realise there are only so many letters, numbers and wingdings out there but for the LOVE OF ERIS AND HER GOLDEN APPLES if your pattern creation software spits out very similar symbols right next to one another could you somehow manually fix that?

THIS EVERY DAY FOR AT LEAST A THOUSAND YEARS

I have been wondering whether it's the tension between loyalty and ethics as virtues. People who value loyalty may not *be* particularly loyal any more than people who value ethics are particularly ethical in their personal lives...

Sighted at Goblin Town, a thread (please feel free to share on FB since that seems to be where most of the discussion is) A boisterous young male orc is trying to explain Karl Popper's Paradox of Tolerance over the tavern wall to three or four slightly older female goblins. They are tolerating him.

Me: ahhhhhh, first cup of proper coffee in three days Espresso machine: ominous clunk Me: don't even think about it

After several successful readings for the Geeps last night I am back on my nonsense. #goblintown

Larp kit progress!

Female historian: makes video about misfiring historical epic, citing odd costume choices, muddy lighting, mangled plot etc 1st commenter: the problem is all the black actors 2nd commenter: wall o'text about pot helms 3rd commenter: u wd lk better w more makeup 4th commenter: pot helm hard disagree

Countdown till the Express front page says Zack Polanski's cousin's wife's old housemate once did a nice thing for a refugee, the Telegraph says he wants to ban conservatories, the Mail Online says he's flaunting his manly curves and the Mail paper edition says he causes cancer.

Various well meaning YouTube content creators: there is no such thing as a soft toy that cuddles you back, it is a scam Sherlock: purr purr purr purr

With one of the amazing Cornish Daleks today at Geek Expo. The workmanship on them all is amazing. This one is definitely my favourite black and silver studded antihero outside #Blakes7.

Turns out Firebrand was on LibGen and was used to train AI. I am pretty relaxed about human downloaders, as I don't know what circumstances they might be in (though I completely understand other writers feeling differently!) but I do feel very annoyed about this.

Now all I need to do is finish the damn book. If the world could stop being on fire in what is somehow the stupidest way possible to be on fire, just for a few minutes... Anyway, if you want a cover, Keirin is your person.

I just saw a Reddit ad for a house lottery company reading 'your delivery driver will hate you but the New Forest ponies won't' composed by someone who has never bothered to consider why, besides basic decency, you don't piss off food service workers. And has definitely never met a New Forest pony.

More goblin collage nonsense.

Timeline cleanser. The belly is not a trap.

Data point: over here in the UK the actual allegedly centre-left government are bullying and demeaning disabled people and trying to roll back human rights legislation as it applies to trans people, and it's not moving the dial at all. They're way behind the actual far right populists in the polls.

Which makes the U.K. Government’s obsession with sticking to X as a channel for official comms even more baffling. They might as well use OnlyFans.

Episode 596 of "We Bloody Told You This Would Happen"...

What are these going to be? If you find me at #GoblinTown Fantasy Festival you may find out... #goblins

Today in new tablet adventures: finding the setting to turn Grammarly off in the keyboard settings after it persistently changed 'I will leave a review as soon as Etsy lets me' to 'I will leave a review as soon as easy let's me.' Not suggested. *Changed*.

THREAD. 🤣 (“[Justified] Hilarity Ensues” type: see also the “The Biter Bit” trope)

He is by no means the world's smartest or most hygienic cat, but he's very photogenic.

I don't remember where I got it from, but when confronted with door to door evangelists I tell them that my religion is very important to me & is between me & (meaningful look upward at nearest tree). This is true, means I don't need to explain 'secular pagan' to them and gets them off my doorstep.

Prompted by a friend elseweb being annoyed by their TV trying to enable a lot of smart features they actively didn't want, I am increasingly convinced that Ray Bradbury's 'There Will Come Soft Rains' missed a trick.

I clicked through to the rest of the debate in case this was being taken out of context. (thread)

My man.

Popular style system: your signature look is femme fatale chic Me: never speak to me or my large collection of novelty print dungarees again

Niche message for anyone who read Anna Chronistic And The Scarab of Destiny but... U GUISE UNCLE SHENG IS A DENISOVAN youtu.be/j8oD9g95jGE?...

I had not been paying attention to 'Bluesky is dying / disappointed me / disappointed me *and* is dying but for some reason I'm still pissy about it' article discourse but this morning I was searching for how to block American politics on my cats' account and the first *7* results were thinkpieces.

Dear #crosstitch designer, your chart only requires 12 alphanumeric symbols to represent the colours, so *why* did you decide to make contiguous areas handwritten 2 and handwritten uppercase Z?

'River Deep, Mountain High' and other classic songs contain examples of things people love a lot but have they ever met a middle-aged cat who is recovering from a health scare?

The impact on so many disabled people will be devastating. The knock on effect on Carer’s allowance will mean that many more may have to enter the care system, as the carer’s are forced to get jobs.

There used to be a combination yarn and mobility vehicles shop in the town about three miles up the road. The yarn business is still going, in smaller premises, but the mobility vehicles have gone.

Sherlock stars in 'Least Appropriate Cat For Anyone Who Owns A Lot Of Black Clothes'.