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Once more it is paint and football time! If I’d planned this properly I’d have a Skycutter* so I could paint a real #Seahawks figure, but a Seaguard will have to do. *or possibly an owl

The NHS saved my life. I spent 4 1/2 months in hospital and it didn't bankrupt me. Britain cannot believe so little in itself that it would accept the loss of the NHS. There's so many lines being crossed but surely it has to wake people up. Right?

Just going to leave this here youtu.be/a3HEePMLAVU?...

There's nothing I can say that isn't being said better by hundreds of other people, but I can't be silent at a moment in which we see the president's pet militia murder someone in cold blood in the street and know that they will suffer no consequences for it. Anything but abolition is collaboration

Got my @highrollersdnd.bsky.social 10th anniversary pin! It’s significantly chonkier than I anticipated (in a good way)

Watching THE GREEN KNIGHT again

Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’

deep down, he believes we are all good chaps and he believes it hard enough that everyone wants to live up to it, just a little, just for him

Spare some love today for Collingwood. The other Admiral at Trafalgar. Proud northerner. Hater of flogging. Legit brilliant commander and Nelson's trusted right hand. First into battle on Royal Sovereign. Took charge after Nelson was sniped and saved the British Fleet. Here's HIS Trafalgar... /1 🧵

My goodness, this poem. A beautiful, savage, blunt explanation of why we study war and conflict and also why military history is not and should not be just 'for the boys.' The poem is moving in its unwillingness to whitewash the many tombs of war, as we should too should be unwilling.

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He was very good in person with his trans fans too. Growing up going to SF cons, I met many trans people before I even knew what trans meant. I gave my parents very little they needed to accept in their child, so they had lots left over for everyone else. 😉 www.thepinknews.com/2021/08/06/t...

Beyond delighted to share the cover for The Shipwright and the Shroudweaver. Kerby Rosanes is a wizard. If you think the cover is beautiful, just wait until you meet the wild, heartbreaking adventure inside. The good folk @gollancz.bsky.social await your preorders. Link in bio, as they say.

Ten writers by whom I've read more than five books 1. Terry Pratchett 2. J.R.R Tolkien 3. Adrian Tchaikovsky 4. Ben Aaronovitch 5. Robert Jordan 6. Bernard Cornwell 7. Brian McClellan 8. Kevin Hearne 9. Steve McHugh 10. David Eddings Probably at least one BL author but I’m not doing the maths

If you see this, quote repost with a sword. I really should finish this lad. It’s just his shield and base to do.

re: generative AI I have finally fully and accurately explained my problem with how it’s marketed and used. And now, you can use it, too.

applying for jobs again

Ideally, the festival rights should be sold to the highest bidder who then cancel all the less profitable elements and deliver a vastly degraded experience for the same money. It's what she would have wanted.

QRT with something red? I’ve got a few red things

Appropriate today

There will be a lot of bluster and noise today, but the judge said this explicitly.

Fuck the TERF bigot cunts with the sharpest object in hell, Trans Women (and Trans Men) don't deserve this hate just because they want to be happy with who they are meant to be.

Five years ago today it seemed that the golden age of naval idiocy had disappeared forever. That was before the Venezuelan patrol vessel Naiguatá managed to recapture some of this spirit by fighting - at least at that point - the dumbest action of the 21st century.

Discworld QOTD, from Carpe Jugulum

1. Deathwatch 2. Deathwatch 3. D&D 5e 4. D&D 5e 5. Star Wars (SWRPG) 6. Discworld Adventures in Ankh Morpork 7. Discworld Adventures in Ankh Morpork

I have been doing entirely too much earnest posting about deep things recently, I need to do a proper thread about hippo testicles or something just to keep myself sane. Oh by the way hippos have migratory testicles.

Ten years today. GNU Terry Pratchett.

Kroot War Shaper. This is probably the most effort I’ve put into a single mini but I’m super pleased with the result. #warhammercommunity #warhammer40k

Just to be clear

Built my first Gunpla kits this weekend, HG Aerial and Lfrith. (I completely blame @spenspainting.bsky.social and @theforgeofmars.bsky.social). A really fun pair of builds and some interesting experiments with the panel lining. Might line up a few more kits for the future! #Gunpla #Gundam

Finally finished my Canadian fleet for #DystopianWars! Inching towards finishing all the boats I have to hand #wargaming #miniaturepainting

Productive evening watching @theforgeofmars.bsky.social stream! Built and magnetised a Constitution & Gloriana as well as a little swarm of Caliburn frigates! #dystopianwars