This is a bit late, but one of the players in my WH40k roleplay group reminded me of the story of how I met John Blanche, which I should really share again because it says a lot about him... So, at an Ammobunker forum meet-up in 2012 at WHW, John had been invited as a special guest. 1/X

Your regular reminder that PoliticsUK is a fake account owned by a Reform councillor Bailey Nash-Gardner who also works for Reform MP Andrew Rosindell. ***Stop following and sharing their stuff***

Playing Inquisitor at FringeFest in Haggerston.

The Hemel Hemepstead Wargaming Club saw our first game of a 40K RPG in the quiet side room. I have no idea what was happening here but the toys looked cool so here they are. #40K #warhammer40k #warhammerpainting #warhammercommunity #warhammer

Every single person in the UK will think this is something else for a split second

One thing AI has revealed is that there are a whole lot of people who have neither interesting ideas nor the talent to express them, and apparently not even any real will or desire to cultvate either of these things… but still for some reason desperately want to be regarded as artists.

If you see this, don't participate. It's a rigged study by Lisa Littman and unethical researcher J. Michael Bailey meant to undermine access to care. Spread the word.

It would be remiss of me to not mention that Ruaridh, also known as "Van Helser" has launched a Youtube channel about #Middlehammer gaming, and has started off with some videos about #Inquisitor. #warmongers #warcom www.youtube.com/@thecarthaxi...

I'm supposed to post about wargaming once in a while, so I've started putting together a frame for a gaming table that can be folded down for transport/storage. It's not going to be freestanding, but should be able to sit on any other (sturdy) table and turn it into a 6x4' gaming surface.

succubus - female demon that seduces men incubus - male demon that seduces women vengabus - non-binary demon that likes to party

Who’s your favourite Jedi? (wrong answers only)

I don't really agree with the analysis or conclusions (I don't think Inquisitor is a game served well by a points system, for example) and I've left a response with some of my thoughts, but dialogue and discourse around Inquisitor is a good thing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIlW...

For eff's-sake, "third spaces" are not a viable option. You cannot expect every shopping centre, cafe, 13thC pub, park toilet, etc to remodel for a insane solution to an non-existent problem. The only concievable outcome of this would be nearly everywhere having to declare their toilets unisex.

If you see this, quote the energy you bring to Bluesky.

I recently wrote to my MP regarding the UK's Online Safety Act. My full e-mail is too long to share here, but one complaint I bought up was that legislation with an cost of implementation *heavily* favours big platforms, and handing them more power is actively dangerous to kids. 1/3

I refuse to be automatically proud of my heritage. I had no involvement in it and no choice in it, what have I to be proud of? As far as I'm concerned, heritage and tradition should only be celebrated or preserved on its actual merits.

They tried to get me. NEVER GO TO A SECONDARY LOCATION.

Printed something shiny

None of those newspapers (or the BBC) that gleefully ran stories when the EHRC gave trans people a shoeing will now report on the EHRC admitting they (and hence those stories) were wrong. Are those outlets craven - or dishonest? Thank goodness for the legal press. www.law360.com/articles/235...

Do not dunk on the Vice President of the United States' account. Do not Quote or Reply. Do not even screenshot. Block and ignore.

I do not want AI in art I do not want in whole or part I do not want it when I write Creatively it’s really shite I do not want it making pics Of stolen work it has remixed I do not want it in my mail This really is beyond the pale I do not want this endless spam I hate it, hate it, Sam Altman

Never put up with anyone who looks down on your little hobbies. Few things are better for the soul than dropping the worry & leaning into whatever you love with full-throated enthusiasm. We don't have to love the same things but the wonder in me can fistbump the wonder in you.

You don't often see a street named after a typical discussion on a Doctor Who forum

King Leonidas decides that things aren't so grim, actually:

your regular reminder that buying Harry Potter stuff gives money to Rowling and she uses that money directly and in large quantities to fund attacks on trans people no ethical consumption under capitalism and all but “don’t buy Potter stuff” is an extremely easy baseline to follow

I just watched an orangutan tie a knot. You should see it too.

Private Eye calls out "former newspaper" Daily Telegraph over its woeful coverage of net-zero

I have three types of TTRPG characters: - unwilling participant who still somehow has the biggest kill count of the party - well-intentioned character hiding who they actually are - talented outsider driven by boredom

Now it's got a few more things uploaded to it, I'm going to plug my art Bsky, which I've kept separate so as to not bury anyone in it unwillingly. It's a #noAI account, although I can't/won't pretend my creations aren't deranged in other ways.

Now it's got a few more things uploaded to it, I'm going to plug my art Bsky, which I've kept separate so as to not bury anyone in it unwillingly. It's a #noAI account, although I can't/won't pretend my creations aren't deranged in other ways.

If you see this, post a tank. I can only find a small version of the WHW photo (clearly old, I don't think their Rhino hasn't been parked in that spot for years), but I still like the stupid perspective trickery of the three different scales. #Nerdlings #wargaming #warhammercommunity

"Textbook stuff again, you see. The criminals' vanity always makes them make one tiny, but fatal, mistake. Theirs was to both record a video of them chopping down the tree, where they can be clearly heard saying 'Here we are, chopping down the tree'."

Please help us correct misinformation! Our hotline is being incorrectly shared as "Canada's national suicide hotline open toll free for Americans". We are not a general crisis hotline, we exist exclusively to support the trans community. Find out more @ translifeline.org

Today is Ed Balls Day.

Exactly the kind of point I was fuming about a few days ago. You don't make women's toilets safer by banning trans people from their choice of loo.

The Baroness's argument is not, and will never be, valid. Every suggestion these transphobes make about trans people public toilets just makes cis women less safe, the thing they're claiming to achieve. 1/X

Post dog

Okay lets game this out: You are a Nintendo employee given unlimited funds and authority to move Switch 2 production to the US. No new factories, that's going to take way too long, you need to work with existing American Contract Manufacturing capacity. How fast can you do it? 1/x

With great sadness, I have to report Paul 'Fat Bloke' Sawyer has passed on. If it wasn't for Paul, I would never have become a White Dwarf writer. He had faith in me when many others did not. It is likely because of Paul that I am now making comics. My deepest condolences to the Sawyer family. 🙏

It’s not a rage-tariff unless it actually comes from champagne, otherwise it’s just a Sparkling Whine.

QTP with powerful women. (I don't post a lot of my renders here, because I'm not sure if the people who've followed me for my very occasional wargaming posts have any interest in the other weirdness that leaks out of my brain, but I'm going to jump on this post chain).

Not one that’s going to get a lot of likes but I did want to highlight some of the fantastic scenery we have at the club. These Colosseum walls were built by one of the committee for our 40K Colosseum games in less than a week. #tabletopterrain #terrainbuilding #terraincrafting

A few of the photos I never got around to uploading from "The Pebblebeach Parahelion" 54mm Inquisitor event down in Brighton back in December. (Poor internet connection on the day, then got wiped out for two weeks by a flu I caught on the train home).

A few of the photos I never got around to uploading from "The Pebblebeach Parahelion" 54mm Inquisitor event down in Brighton back in December. (Poor internet connection on the day, then got wiped out for two weeks by a flu I caught on the train home).

Skipping to the middle of a thread (don't read up if you don't want Section 31 spoilers), but I am certainly fed up of everything having to be reframed through a dark and gritty lens. As it's put in the thread, "Joy is not less profound than sorrow".

There's a parliamentary petition for an independent review of the Cass report into gender medicine for young people. It's a problematic document from by the previous government, shaped by TERFs. If you're a Brit, you can sign it, whether in the UK or not. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

Opening for the Pebblebeach Parahelion #Inquisitor event at Dice Saloon, Brighton. #wargaming #WarhammerCommunity #warmongers