Finished Esoteric Ebb last night, had a couple of wee cries. Have a lot of thoughts about it - the game is maybe less interested in capital P Politics, but is very interested in talking about the intersection of politics, gender, and games (it ended up surprisingly/ pleasingly metatextual).

Couldn't remember the name of a song so searched for 'song which sounds like is she really going out with him' and got the right hit

Okay like I'm an engineer and largely an idiot but this is just obvious horseshit isn't it? People have been questioning thoughts and thinking for literally millennia Why are any of these parasites given even half an ounce of credibility?

Rare Warhammer post from me, finished up Darkwater! Really stuck at it here, couple of models I wasn't happy with but I kept up the pace. Great project, lovely models, and the game is fun too! Thanks to @warhipster.bsky.social for his tutorials, carried me through a lot of this.

Cometh the hour cometh the man

Okay so Esoteric Ebb is really really good

Literally just that peacemaker meme, 'i want peace and I don't care how many children I need to kill to get it'

Greens beat Reform! 💚 Congratulations to Hannah Spencer and our friends @greenparty.org.uk on their historic by-election victory in Gorton and Denton. We will never let the politics of hate divide us. The Greens will always put people and planet before profit.

"If I was to use ChatGPT for my designs rather than our designer Sean, that's taking money out of the local area into the hands of a multibillionaire ... removing value from the local community and local artists [and] into the hands of some of the richest people in the world." #AIslop #refuseresist

hollywood is COOKED something like this used to cost $100,000,000 to make and i just did it for free with one prompt 😎

I know what will help this struggling beer brand - sell it back to the least popular person in the UK

They don't view 'deportation' as part of the management of immigration, they view it as an explicitly cruel punishment to be visited on their ethno/political enemies, that's why they say things like 'deport americans'.

This is just the latest version of this right? youtu.be/biYciU1uiUw?...

Just remembered a photoshop I had a little fun with.

I have something I call The Harry Redknapp Rule, which goes thus: if someone is caught, by fluke, doing something wildly, intricately illegal - in Redknapp's case, placing dodgy cash in a Monaco bank account in his dog's name - then it is vanishingly unlikely that this is their first such crime.

Peter Mandelson, the MP for Hartlepool?

So an odd thing here is that if you say "an unidentified man dressed in a Batman costume" your point is to communicate "it is not really Batman" but the problem is that the real Batman, within the fiction of the comic book "Batman", is also, literally, an unidentified man dressed in a Batman costume

This is like that time Kevin Fiege said 'you can't just stick Mahershala Ali in a leather jacket and have him slice up vampires' because yea you can and everyone would cheer

Two weeks, two eps: continuing our look at the investigators of the new core and seeing how they compare to the original core characters! drawntotheflame.podbean.com/e/episode-36... drawntotheflame.podbean.com/e/are-you-go...

if they can offer free AI training they could offer free media literacy training too. i know which of those would do more for the public good

Size Five make great games, Lair of the Clockwork God maybe one of the best point and clicks I ever played, you should absolutely check this out!

When I, as a child, defended the latest pop culture fad to my dad as 'actually good, you should try it!' he would often reply to me 'i don't need to eat a dogshit sandwich to learn i won't like it'

scully you're not gonna believe this

Saw @mikewozniak.bsky.social's new show The Bench tonight at the Lyceum and had an absolute blast, could not have been more my sort of thing. Highly recommended to anyone who's ever been to a village in Britain.

Something new from us this week: @ephbee.bsky.social takes a trip to The Valley and plays some Earthborne Rangers! @earthbornegames.bsky.social Listen to this in the usual place: drawntotheflame.podbean.com/e/episode-36...

Considering what ended up happening to her feels like she was absolutely justified here, then? Fully vindicated

Well fair play to them www.ft.com/content/82bf...

Hit Bad Blood on my X files watch, and man, what an ep. Been a few absolute slam dunks this season, but this is a real overall highlight

And he's finally done! Lord of the Crimson Keep! Had a blast painting him honestly, can't wait to get him on the table.

Watching THE GREEN KNIGHT again

Didn't quite get this finished this year but super happy with how he's coming together so far. Here's to more finished miniatures in 2026!

What’s good about Walliams is we don’t have to separate the art from the man

Two weeks, two casts, two new gators... two hosts?! drawntotheflame.podbean.com/e/episode-36... drawntotheflame.podbean.com/e/episode-36...

My opinion is that there should be one big button labeled "opt out" and when you click it it should opt you out. Just in general.

Robin is one of the good guys ❤️

It is genuinely insane to see a judge describe Graham Linehan as a “generally credible witness” in a trial where he claimed Sophia Brooks has been engaged in “trans activism” since 2013 (when she would’ve been 6 years old), then, when challenged, claimed her drivers license lied about her age.

happy trans day of remembrance. you are beautifully and wonderfully made and I will never stop fighting for you. the world is better because you are in it

My view on this is that it makes no odds to the food (I'm not going to stop calling them veggie burgers), but consider that the EU has caved to the meat industry lobbyists on something as trivial and obvious as this, how are we meant to make any progress on anything important

it’s almost impressive how they’ve not just gutted the equality act, but actively perverted it so it does the opposite of what parliament intended

Christ, Your Party is really just going to be DOA

John Company one of my favourite games of all time, absolutely worth checking out (as is Molly House). I have them both so using the Kickstarter to pick up Pax Pamir (and maybe some metal coins for JoCo...)

Who could have seen it coming, aside from literally everyone who thought about this for a second. Fuck you, Labour.

That's right.

The toilet story here is the same script (same lawyer!) as the Fife nurse row, except even more ridiculous - a trans woman said hello to her in the toilet. Complete joke.

EARTH MUST DIE Featuring a load of my favourite comedians - too many even to fit on the trailer! Joel Fry! Martha Howe-Douglas! @alexhorne.bsky.social! Tamsin Grieg! @5teviem.bsky.social @mrholness.bsky.social! @misterabk.bsky.social! @rosieisaholt.bsky.social! MORE Please RETWEET and WISHLIST

Unless the government introduces PR, there will be a far right government in power in 2029. And like the compliant liberals they always were, the Labour party are building the administrative tools to help those fascists round you and your friends up for deportation. Frightening.

The GCs waited years for their "biological sex" judgment and thought they knew exactly how to handle it. But this is where their ideological biological purity meets reality. Birth sex apartheid simply isn't compatible with a functional society.