One of the wickedest things Wes Streeting has ever done is push politically convenient falsehoods about suicide rates amongst young trans people. We have new data from the National Child Mortality Database that exposes the truth he tried to cover up.

Except he was

Ordering Pelgrane Press games from Canada just became a dream, thanks to our new distributor Compose Dreams Games and their online retail web store composedreamgames.com/marketplace/...

Looking for commission work still! Get in touch via DM or email (check bio) for a quote! in the U.K. but happy to work with overseas clients. #warhammercommunity #paintmachine #paintingminiatures #nerdlings

Stay warm out there, it's Manul Monday!

VIEWER'S COMPETITION SHORTLIST: we're posting two of fave #ceefauxviewscomp entries each weekday and will count up the most likes/comments/reshares in 24 hours. 2/20 by @geospacedman.bsky.social

#TTRPGTHOUGHTS 1 What should you do with adventures once you’ve run them? There are many different approaches and nuances to running TTRPGs. One basic one is the idea that you design and adventure and then run that adventure and then run another adventure. As opposed to…. 1

It's my birthday so by law you have to at least visit the shop and go "wow what a good girl you did this all by yourself" & some local bylaws demand a purchase. I don't make these laws! Thanks for all your support, younger me would be SO HYPED for today me <3 www.badsquiddogames.com

A first Poacher joins the court of the Princess of Thieves. #carnevale #ttcombat #minipainting

For anyone that ever wanted to grab a print of my art I just uploaded a bunch of prints and inprnt has a 15% off sale going right now. www.inprnt.com/gallery/bren...

🎵 If they ask you to pay money it's a scam 👏👏 🎵 If they ask you to pay money it's a scam 👏👏 🎵 that is not your favorite author or a stunning book club offer 🎵 They are asking you for money=it's a scam 👏👏

A senior MoD official helps shape defence strategy, then joins Palantir. Months later, Palantir lands a £240m MoD contract without tender. No laws broken – just the revolving door doing what it does best.

Impressive ‘Tabletop Gaming and Miniature Painting Community’. I’m in the southern regions of the cluster, as it happens.

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

Seeing people online trying to argue that this clip from Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway’s Flash isn’t political and is not inspired by real world politics at all so I will present it here with no commentary so you can come to your own conclusion

Secret Passages 4 is coming!

Early 50s Cold War Imagine-Nations in 15mm Crescent Root buildings Cut up mats for fields, upholstery fabric for roads

And show me your 15mm terrain. #15mm #wargaming #terrain

I’m delighted to announce the next shows in my Word Perfect tour. Thanks to all my wonderful audiences this year: I’ve had a blast!

My latest offering is already in the top 25 in Role-Playing and Wargames on Amazon. I’m delighted and grateful that gamers are showing so much support! amzn.eu/d/08V4oYo3

Scania, 1678: what can possibly disturb this peaceful, bucolic scene? #DevilryAfoot with @perbroden.bsky.social @sprandell.bsky.social and @desmondo.bsky.social

www.kickstarter.com/projects/pen... Eat God, or, what if muppet critters decided to band together to eat god

Question: I’ve been (legit through a friend) approached for a pencil portrait commission. 12 grandchildren’s faces. Each face typically takes me 45 minutes. How do I price that?! Also need to figure out how to make 12 floating faces not look idiotic. Any help welcome!

Finding myself near the cutting edge of treatment for advanced macular degeneration was not on my bucket list, but here we are. In any previous decade, the outlook may have been grim. Today, progressive vision loss has turned a corner to measurable improvement. go.dfstory.com/macular

Okay. My first thought was: Muppets doing an RPG actual play. Then… What about an actual Muppets RPG? Character creation alone would be a hoot.

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

This is what the most distant confirmed galaxy looks like. The light we're receiving was emitted when the Universe was ~15x smaller in linear size than today, and right now it's ~30 billion light-years away from us. The light was emitted when the Universe was <300 million years old. Pretty amazing!

SHE’S FINISHED! My 5-foot-long Enterprise D oil painting is complete after nearly 100 hours of work! I remember being 13 years old or so and trying to draw her and it was so hard, and all I wanted was to be able to do something like this. Truly a dream come true. 🥰🖖

So it's Black History Month and that means I think it's a good time to get familiar with Mike Pondsmith, if you're not already. When you see R. Talsorian Games, that's him. When you see Cyberpunk 2077, that's his world. Mekton, Castle Falkenstein, also him. cyberpunk.fandom.com/wiki/Mike_Po...

I think I might be done painting this fine Dwarf for @fenrisgames.com and it's basing time! Until I look at the photos some more and spot any mistakes. 😆

In honor of #BrandonLee's birthday- My CROW art now offered here: kirbyscomicartshop.com/collections/... 9 pieces- while they last- range of prices

i don’t know if it’s the jaunty bow tie or what but i cannot stop laughing at this

A previous set of Captain Scarlet miniatures I made for a chap here. INTERCEPTOR, MSV and the Koala Base hovercraft from the episode "The Traitor "

#SelfPromoSaturday I'm Paul; I paint miniatures & build scenery for private clients & gaming companies! Available from c. March/April - do get in touch! www.pandaemoniumminiatures.com #Nerdlings #WePaintMinis #MiniaturePainting #NotAThread #JHbackdrops

Erebor, famously safe from burglars

My latest: Battle Maps for Miniature Wargamers, a collection of 52 maps (one for every week of the year) with suggestions for how they can be re-interpreted for different theatres, periods and even genres. There are even suggestions for how the maps can be linked to create your own simple campaigns.

Please please please, new parents, introduce your babies to books as soon as they can sit up. They LOVE the sound of your voice. LOVE IT. And, even before they can speak, reading gets them used to the cadence and rhythm of stories.

I have made... a mistake. Each auction lot had 8-12 photos, so I assumed that was the number of pieces in the lot. It was merely a sample. Each lot contains 100-ish pieces. I won three lots.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I rarely do this, but I’m hoping I maybe have enough of a following here that someone can help: I need to get in contact with Donkey Kong. It’s urgent

BLACK CAT FRIDAY! Raven is 2 years 3 months-old and sponsored by Christine & Anthony Durso. SNAP Cats rescued Raven from Long Beach, CA. Raven's an extremely vocal cat, full of energy and loves to play. Her ataxia doesn’t stop her from doing anything! Raven loves attention and wet food treats.

BLACK CAT FRIDAY! Penny and Bart enjoy their daily strawberry brunch.

A small but very deep thing that bothers me about generative AI as a shortcut to practice and work and skill is the basic assumption that it’s impossible to take pleasure in a creative pursuit that you aren’t very good at and I assure you that is not the case

SPIRE RPG: Capitol from the Hunger Games gets dropped in Pratchett's Ankh Morpork 🗼🧝‍♀️ If you liked____ you might like it! 🔹Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake 🔹Works of Vermin by Hiron Ennies 🔹Lies of Locke Lamora

To celebrate the launch of Killtopia: Phantoms next month, digital editions of our first story arc are now just £1 each on our store. Print editions are also discounted for a limited time. It's the best time to dive into our world of Neo Tokyo. Don't miss out! davecookcomics.bigcartel.com

Today's my birthday. If you'd like to help me celebrate, maybe try one of my books, currently on sale! (no shipping to the US, work your shit out) Serialized, weirdo, slice-of-life scifi for discerning readers. Or, if you've read the comics, say something nice about them, I always like that.

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Hello, people of Blue Skies! We are LorePlayPress, a first-time publisher hoping to get our things out into the world! We love D&Derivatives and we are committed to making original and fun supplements and adventures for your pleasure. Coming soon to Kickstarter with our first: Sickle & Torch!

If you are baffled by why the jury refused to convict the Palestine Action defendants, it's because – unlike them – you didn't hear the actual evidence. You heard what the media wanted you to know. Here, I explain what the jury learnt from the trial: jonathancook.substack.com/p/barristers...