All my tabards toomed

🚨New episode alert! This week’s YOU’RE DEAD TO ME is all about King Louis XIV’s fascinating, impressive, and sometimes scandalous brother, Phillipe Duc d’Orléans! My guests are the amazing comedian Tom Allen and the fab historian @jspan.bsky.social Listen now on BBC SOUNDS, or wait 28 days

Quite often get the Reaching For It Academic Project Acronym, but today it's 'Project Name Which Could Also Be An Octavia Butler Title'

Thanks to @andrewoneillcomedy.bsky.social and all for a fun music and chat evening last night. I wonder if I can persuade them to learn www.youtube.com/watch?v=xI_1...

Goddamn Labelmaker Ozymandias.

Me. I like cake with no icing. Indeed icing can seem a last minute slap on to hide a dull cake... Impact should be *in the cake* not 3 inches of sugarpaste :D

"How are they going to turn this one around, Charli?" *music cue to 360 by Charli XCX*

@onlycans.bsky.social Well now I have 🎶boooone singeeeeer🎶 in my head.

Come to this or I will have to remonstrate with you on your doorstep. andrewoneill.co.uk/shows

Got my ticket. Going to watch them perform in an attic, from my attic. Classic.

🎶Said, if you want half of this baby Just make a choice now Oh I see you'd like to make a no plea The kid is yours now🎶

Tomorrow, online, 7pm. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1980508481...

Prediction: Next years John Lewis Christmas advert will be a stomp-clap-hey/neoacoustic version of On a Ragga tip by SL2. Performed by the surviving members of the St Winifreds School Choir On a barge making its way round Birmingham.

99% of Premee's books "Not *vaguely* unsettling. Straight up will fuck you up unsettling. BUT there may be an cool monster or two, or perhaps a moving building to enchant? Will cause you to question."

An unsettling little guy for @ewacat.bsky.social

slightly diminish a game: Boston Effect

At long last someone has made the meme game Flavourless Hexagons.

"We've linked up fire control to Grok, but fed it prompts for a rolling barrage... starting right here! Next up on Schwerpunk'd."

Listening Again to Habda-Geddon www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... @govindajeggy.bsky.social

Ah, the old BlueSky folk song 🎶the alf hog on the timeline is all mine all mine the alf hog on the timeline is all mine🎶

Reading books on occult history reminds me of the line from The Casebook of Max and Ivan: "he is clearly... I can't say that on radio 4...oh, *occult.*"

On the blue sex horses

Blue sex horse about the house

Popped to @junobooks.bsky.social to check out their sale tables. Picked up The Book of Records by Madeleine Thien half price. Had a quick browse of the rest of the shop and bought @goingmedieval.bsky.social's The Once and Future Sex.

Started "A history of the occult tarot" and it seems a lot could be condensed into "Person A used preceding person's ideas, which they didnt fully understand, working with Person B and Person C . Later Person C said that Person A was a fraud. Person B set up their own order."

If you've got 15min to spare you can listen to the comedy history show i co-wrote/co-produced/am in a little bit. It's kiddie friendly, available worldwide, there's 15 episodes, here's one about the brontes! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

White Dwarf had RuneQuest articles

Friday be promoting education... public legal education!

Great episode, sad Ria didn't revisit her 'whaaaale vomit' song :D www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... @gregjenner.bsky.social

The snow is settling here in Sheffield S2

Going to pitch a numismatics quiz with a university challenge vibe, call it Stater for Ten

Westfailure System more like @kjsanders.bsky.social

I went through a long novella / single book phase (ongoing Shannon n/withstanding) but the Emily Wilde books drew me back in to trilogies and now BAM The Raven Scholar lures me into 600+pp fantasy books 1/3... @ariadnereviews.bsky.social

Also wow I don't think I've ever cracked the Kindle Top 50 in... anything, LOL. (They have some VERY esoteric categories and still no.) UNTIL NOW! THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST is still $1.99 at ebook retailers apparently! :)

Today we launched a brand-new podcast! The Lands Remaining Podcast tracks the development of The Lands Remaining TTRPG. The first episode is straightforward enough: What is The Lands Remaining? Listen below or wherever you get podcasts. Please re-post! www.gauntlet-rpg.com/the-lands-re...

Just recommended The tea master and the detective to a detective fiction reading friend. They're going to check it out! @aliettedebodard.com

Uruk hai❌ Pad Thai ✅

TIRED: Listening to billionaires WIRED: Listening to our great episode about the Brontes INSPIRED: Going 'is that Gabby channeling Daphne Moon to play Emily?'

Sexistential angst

thanks everyone so far for donating and/or sharing, i really appreciate it. time off either next week or the following is in the works. I still need $50 to cover. more than $50 will allow me to cover with a better cushion and hopefully put some away and/or pay groceries/bills...things? sleep? .

Cheers! Aforementioned caipirinha

This episode does have an absolute glut of Cool Names, and one Less Cool Name (Sorry, Aelfgifu Of Norwich, you do sound like a used car dealership)

Helen is home. We're having a picky tea, cocktails, and perhaps some films. Early night, possibly. David is out at a small house party with friends. Whatever tonight looks like, enjoy, and my very best for the year to come x

Got ice last night. Had got cachaça with birthday money earlier in month. Had limes. So...CAIPIRINHA! so good. More tonight.

Widening reply guys Tell me how to hold the center That their falcon always listens

Today’s episode of #DeadFunnyHistory is all about King John and Magna Carta — it’s a fun, factual, short romp for your kids with audio sketches and me on narration duties Listen on any podcast app, find it in the normal You’re Dead To Me feed www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

I wouldn't find an escape room- or other deduction based group activities- low stakes or relaxing. I live in mild fear of someone doing this as a work based learning activity...

I imagine they've all been dune

In "let's try to use the ink I make and who knows develop a healthy practice" I have bought a new set of nibs and a holder . I had one ratty nib left and the holder was all clarty too.

at the advice of a friend I've started a GoFundMe for some assistance so I can get my head back together into something of a semblance of a person. any help would be greatly appreciated. shares are awesome. gofund.me/befc9a465