It's painful because it's true.

every morning Keir Starmer calls an aide into his room at 6.30am to film him doing bicep curls "leak this to the Daily Mail" he says between grunts. "say that friends of Keir are concerned about how strong he is right now" the aide nods, holding up the phone. it's not filming. it's never filming.

My Bond, cold-ish take, is I just don't want Amazon Bond. Just don't want it. Amazon has never shown the care needed to steward something as well loved as Bond. Yes they'll employ good people, but they'll fuck it, because they're run by execs who thought up putting Amazon brand Vodka on subscription

This problem with the Bond franchise seems to stem from the relatively recent need for every single thing to be explained and reasoned. I really believe this is a detriment to modern entertainment.

Basic Roleplaying: Creatures releases later this week! Meanwhile, Forever GM Mark Morrison takes his first dip into the depths of what this supplement means for those in the Gamemaster chair! www.chaosium.com/blogtable-ta...

green spaces #digitalart #rpg #fantasy #d&d

Indulging myself in the glamourous world of replacement tumble dryer shopping. It’s quite depressing how many of the offerings boast “Wi-Fi enabled” or “smart appliance.” Lol. I barely trust it not to shrink my t-shirts, why the fuck would I want it connected to the internet?

Trying to curate my #TTRPG shelves by having less games but more complete collections. Filling the gaps with reasonably priced eBay stuff and print on demands. I just got a POD in which the text disappears into the sloppily glued spine. Grrrr.

I don’t want any of the rubbish functions Bluesky is trying to implement. I just need a button to switch off reposts from individual accounts.

This art by John Berkey is fantastic. That's a sci-fi TTRPG campaign setting right there.

TIL Dutch’s real name is Alan.

Terrified Pixie, neighbour's dogs are howling non-stop and three completely freaked foxes at the top of the road. No more fucking garden fireworks. Organised displays only. 😡

It's been three days since fireworks night. Stop being cunts.

if we allow trillionaires to exist, then we have failed as a civilisation and as a species

Get yourself a poo spoon or turd knife.

Do you even Spacewar bro

I love the D. It looks so goooood. Although £350 is 5 fills of my petrol tank. A fair few grocery shops. Or nearly a whole vintage D&D module "in good condition" from an exploitative eBay seller.

Another day, another picture of Sam Altman's gurning face drifts across my feed. It's always attached to a fuck awful dystopian headline or yet more pleas for cash to flush down the toilet.

“More people are off work sick now than in 2019.” Well I wonder why that is. You can’t have it both ways. Dismantle all COVID safeguards and people are going to get ill.

I‘m finding it a curious sensation playing in a familiar D&D game world but with a classless system. In reality it‘s no different than playing any other setting, but it just feels … freeing? Bigger. Expansive.

It doesn't matter how much you pay to go ad free, it's just a matter of time before they'll ask you for more money or demand you subscribe to a higher tier or else ads again. The only ways to deal with these cunts is either deleting your account or using an adblocker.

Do what's right for the country? Fantastic to hear you're gonna clamp down on big business tax evasion, tax the ultra-rich, and begin to reverse Brexit.

I have a magnet on my fridge that says "and then Buffy staked Edward, the end"

Smear mint sauce on a slice of bread. Smear tomato ketchup on another. Put them together and toast the sandwich.

Twilight and Blade.

In completely unrelated news, I've started backing up my important files weekly, instead of monthly.

Not sure a dislike button is such a great idea, to be honest. Feels like the spirit of Twitter; engaging with things you find negative rather than just scrolling on past.

I love horror, so for Halloween I’m going to spend time driving around my local area, interacting with other road users.

Covid in England is definitely on the way down, but Flu is on the way up - and over a month early. My latest substack open.substack.com/pub/christin...

The hard men of Gondor feature heavily in my erotic LotR fanfic.

Happy ORKTOBER BUBZ

Starting this morning with some #goodnews.

Hole Nut.

Space Crusade's Chaos Dreadnoughts

Swapping out the microwave whose clock is set on British Summer Time for the microwave whose clock is on Greenwich Mean Time.

I published the Enterprise Leaves Spacedock animation to Youtube exactly 3 years ago. To celebrate 1.3 million views, 30K likes and 5K comments, I'm now making the high bitrate 4K fullframe video available on my Patreon. www.patreon.com/posts/141833...

Books. No cookie preferences. No cookies. No GDPR. No pop ups. No bots. No floating videos. No AI. No ads. No trackers. No misinformation. No fascist techbros. No distracting animations. No paywalls. No influencers. How good are these things? Books are frickin awesome

From Facebook. I was thirty when I first accessed the Internet, forty when I first had a smartphone and Social Media. And both were such incredible discoveries, making life easier, and adding friends, and communities, and insights, and learning, and information, from all over the world...

you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

Our opinions on current issues in the technosphere: AI is theft Diversity encourages innovation If you won't fix this planet, you don't deserve a new one There is no such thing as a self-made human Extremes of wealth encourage madness Reject terror Defy censors Remember, you are here:

The post-Winamp era of computing is straight up dogshit.

Art by • lain Mccaig

God, who wrote this post which lists Justin Alexander alongside Gary Gygax, Dave Arneson and Brennan Lee Mulligan? Oh. Right.

Feels like this will be a useful meme for the next few years

The Covid wave in England has reached Very High levels of risk, with around 1 in every 103 people in England infected as of 12 October. Now is the time to take maximum precautions against catching Covid. buds.org.uk/covid-19-ris...

refuelling station #digitalart #scifi #rpg

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

7 reasons why The Thing (1982) is a Christmas film: 1) snow 2) bearded men concealing surprises 3) compulsory party games 4) introverts shunning group activities 5) digestive issues 6) revellers bursting open to reveal partially assimilated canine lifeforms 7) knitwear