Freyja finds a big stick. She’s 19 weeks old.

Just picked up an original piece from the shop — now doing international shipping, everyone! :)

The 4th printing of Starforged has finally arrived at the Modiphius North America and UK/EU web stores. Good timing, since all Starforged products are included in the Modiphius spring sale—going on now. North America: modiphius.us/collections/... UK/EU: modiphius.net/collections/...

Freyja update. Bigger.

Finished “Faceless Killers” (Wallander #1) for @thegrognardfiles.bsky.social book club in a day, think I might read the next one in the series actually…

Just sewed on a patch from the Pit Trap Shop (@morkborg.com) I bought to cover a couple of small puppy-tooth sized rips in a cheap hoodie (thanks, barkenbeast) and now I think I might have embarked on a battle jacket (battle-hoodie?)

grognard bookclub this morning, walked the dog, English breakfast for lunch, antiques and garden centre this afternoon hello middle age

i am the inventor of several spells which have been banned by the Wizards Guild for being "too fucked up." Enlarge Prostate, Blood to Soup, Alter Orientation, Power Word: Aquacide (kills all fish on the plane), Seal Rectum, Raise Fuckable Skeleton, Magic Missile (Racist Version)

bring back ccp seagull

🧙‍♀️ Today is Walpurgisnacht. Followers of the Satanic Temple observe not by dancing with witches, but by remembering the real women who died due to superstition and pseudoscience. We honor the minorities and vulnerable still witch-hunted and persecuted today. A good day to donate to their cause.

Small life update: we have a dog now. She’s called Freyja, she’s four months old and the best thing ever.

going to an “elder emo disco”. It’s emo, but, like, for elder millennials so it’s 4pm - 8pm so we can get home in time for a cup of tea and an early night it’s not a phase, mom

I need to order some reading glasses so I can meaningfully interact with my #MagicTheGathething collection again. I’ve got some cards to file and I can’t read the bloody set numbers #gettingOld

Finished my first hand-drawn #2d6dungeon floor; I don’t think Dyson Logos has anything to worry about just yet… One mistake made, there’s two copies of a unique room which I didn’t notice until later. I also continued exploring after placing the stairs down, which I’m not sure is allowed RAW.

played my first dungeon floor in "2D6 Dungeons" using the demo version over the last two evenings and it was great; definitely going to pick up the full book. Mapped it using dungeonscrawl.com but I'm going to go analogue next time :) #rpg #solorpg #ttrpg #2d6dungeon

It took me months, about 495 rides, recovering from a shattered right foot and hacking a folding scooter, but I finally own a Nintendo Switch 2 using points obtained from Citi Bike. Afterwards, it left me questioning the very nature of work. For @aftermath.site. aftermath.site/switch-2-cit...

For those eligible to vote, and who've enjoyed my writing, my eligibility list for 2025 is: Novel: Shroud, Bee Speaker Novella: Lives of Bitter Rain, The Hungry Gods Series: Dogs of War Short fiction: Holy Fools (in Of Shadows Stars and Sabers) Fancast: Starship Alexandria

we bonded over librarian martyrship, humdrum towns, shape-shifting elves, and arguments over the relative worth of data cores vs space rocks.

Fantastic interview with Adrian Tchaikovsky (@aptshadow.bsky.social) on writing, plotting and world building: just excellent advice here for writing and tabletop gaming. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO0q...

Haven’t used Bluesky in about 4 months. Haven’t been posting anything, anywhere, outside of a couple of Discord servers; cut right back on The Internet. Instead I’ve been keeping an increasingly sprawling journal / PKMS, just for myself. It’s been kind of incredible, actually?

New episode of my current favourite podcast, Starship Alexandria with @emmanewman.bsky.social and @aptshadow.bsky.social (Adrian Tchaikovsky). Going to delay listening to this one for a day or two though, I’m only halfway through the book.

So @cyningstan.bsky.social has done it again and released a fantastic CGI roguelike dungeon crawler. Well worth a play - DOS(box) and Windows versions available. cyningstan.itch.io/the-chambers...

Lovelies, here's a shiny new episode of Starship Alexandria for you (and anywhere you listen to podcasts). @aptshadow.bsky.social and I discuss Top Ten by Alan Moore, Gene Ha and Zander Cannon. starshipalexandria.com/episode-4-to...

I have eaten the turtles that were in the Galapagos and which you were probably saving for study Forgive me they were delicious so meaty and so slow

The Classic Web account on Bluesky is currently going through kottke.org’s blogroll list from 2004 and displaying screenshots of those sites as they appeared then. Look at all those varied designs! [bsky.app]

I'll never get over how the best line in all of noir – "I've got eight slugs in me. One's lead, and the rest are bourbon" – doesn't come from Raymond Chandler or Dashiell Hammett, but Calvin and Hobbes

I really want to play some Elder Scrolls Online. I haven’t touched it for a few weeks, besides claiming my login goodies. Want to get Wrothgar wrapped up before the new content patch hits consoles in a few weeks time.

I added some vinyl text to this banner outside my local Sainsburys a few years ago. Stayed up for about 12 hours before they took the whole thing down

got our stamp duty bill from the solicitors, bit unpleasant but it is historically used to pay for wars with France SO I guess I’ll pay it

This is kind of interesting because it shows that an LLM can’t do this with any accuracy or skill, and it’s basically the Lemonade Stand game. Instead of boiling an entire ocean to get a LLM to do it badly, a human could write a handful of IF statements to handle it basically forever.

First Witch: When shall we three meet again? In thunder, lightning, or in rain? Second Witch: …in the exciting new DLC update, only $9.99, or with the new season pass included for $29.99

Your beauty is beyond compare, With writhing locks of flaming hair, The thousand eyes upon your wings are green, Your voice it is the death of men, Your angles non-euclidean, You're biblically accurate, Jolene

Aronofsky? The guy who made pi? The movie about an unfortunate guy with mental health issues who builds a giant computer that spits out probably random junk but he frantically imbues it with meaning until he has a breakdown? That Aronofsky?

Generative AI has helped me to understand why, in Star Wars, the droids seem to have personalities but are generally bad at whatever they're supposed to be programmed to do, and everyone is tired of their shit and constantly tells them to shut up

too cynical?

Just been to our favourite little French restaurant just around the corner. The owner announced he’s selling up, having not-quite recovered after Covid. Absolutely gutted. Wife has been going there ~14 years, me ~9. End of an era.

Work was really stressful today, but my boss and I talked things out a bit; currently sat in a pub garden with my wife who is fantastic and I think everything might just be okay

Went out to vote. Polling station in a pub. Rewarded ourselves with a Democratic Pint. Stopped in another pub on the way home. Now in a Greek restaurant. Feels very birth-of-democracy and civic-minded. Well done us. Good citizens/drunkards.

An open letter to the Equality and Human Rights Commission from the Culture Sector, in solidarity with Trans, Nonbinary and Intersex communities. Sign your name here: tinyurl.com/ehrcletter Please share widely, and if you are not able to sign for your organisation, please share with someone who can

spent two hours this afternoon debugging an issue with a colleague before either of us noticed that the report to identify problem data was mistakenly using ‘last_updated’ instead of ‘last_imported’ during a crucial comparison.

I know when you’re viewing a house to buy you shouldn’t judge the furniture or decor, because that’s not what you’re buying, but this house came with fleas. Hard to remain objective when your ankles are crawling.

When Clive Barker was working on the MUMMY remake for Universal in the early '90s, he had a trans character in the script, and when the studio vetoed it, he basically said "I really can't stress how much I don't need to fucking make THE MUMMY" and left.

A request for my friends and followers: It's highly likely that a lot of burner transphobic accounts will pop up here today, gloating over the Supreme Court ruling. PLEASE DO NOT ENGAGE. It just encourages them. Give them the ignore, report, block treatment. And tag @hedgehogsafety.bsky.social

With alt text, because this is important. Via www.theguardian.com/law/live/202... Seems to me somewhat disingenuous of the judges as if this was the case, there was no need for this judgement, was there? Fight on 🏳️‍⚧️

The Trans Rights TTRPG Bundle is about more than just the money www.rascal.news/trans-rights...

I'm moving my #ironsworn campaign from a digital wiki to pen-and-paper, in an effort to spend less time in front of the computer. I've spent the evening printing playkit sheets and bits of rulebook PDFs, cutting them up, doodling in the margins and sticking them in a notebook. Prep is play, I guess?

The answer is MANTA FORCE. I had the exact little white spaceship pictured. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manta_F...