ok, serious Q here, anyone have a spare half a million? there's an auction at Christie's next month with both J.R.R. Tolkien's desk AND the original John Blanche artwork for the 1st edition of Warhammer & I promise you we would be wonderful stewards of these items www.christies.com/auction/auct...

It’s wild, I talk to my nieces and nephews and others that age and they just have no comprehension, zero understanding of what it was like supporting an England football team for the first roughly three quarters of my life. I guess this is just the new normal now but it’s still fucking weird

Adding ‘national renewal & governance’ to ‘multi-billion pound film series’ on my list of ‘things that you would expect to have been planned with more competence & rigour than the DnD campaign I wrote aged 12, but here we are’

The wonderful @helleborezine.bsky.social scaring the faithful with the old ways, seriously if any of our readers want to magic up some free international media coverage for us by wearing one of our tees to a Cliff Richard gig or something please do

One of the artists I used to manage has a new EP out today, lush dreamy cosmic pop, been waiting for lucid dreamer to be released for about 6 years now, glad it’s finally emerged. Anyway, heres’s something gently numinous to start your day with

“Hi, I’m a NY Times writer, yes since you asked both my parents names are hyperlinked on Wikipedia, anyway here’s why you’re a naive fucking fool & worse still insufferably gauche for questioning our reporting” really seems to be working for a load of people today

tiresome but I could really go for a bit on discogs for black metal and dungeon synth labels, which makes it very clear if they're bad sorts or not. quite tedious having to do deepinvestigative research on labels to make sure you're not about to platform some absolute wrong un

gotta feel sorry for Zack Polanski that there's no Glastonbury next year

not entirely sure why the EU is about to sell out its citizens to companies who are essentially part of a semi-hostile state, though I'm sure the answer could be found in an audit of several people's bank accounts

ahhh, something I particularly enjoy about Belgium is when useful services like post offices close for lunch, really gives Bruxelles a homely, provincial village vibe rather than say being the capital of Europe 😑

oh man the Talking Heads flip & the Tears for Fears edit, fuck. Haven't bought a 12" solely because I wanted to play it in a club for years but tempted to grab this and force some poor BXL club promoter to give me a slot just so I can hear it at stupid volume www.phonicarecords.com/product/lex-...

Just accidentally ended up on x for the first time in ages & fuck me, you know it’ll be awful but it’s hard to prepare yourself for just how unrelentingly shit it is Though weird to see some big name people from the RPG scene still posting away, sad really like you have 10k followers & after a day

There are many not smart things I’ve done since I started publishing wyrd science but I didn’t think running a jokey giveaway on Bluesky would somehow turn out to be amongst them 🤔

humanoid robots as a branch of tech are so funny because it's been what 13, more maybe?, years since Boston Dynamics unveiled Atlas, and here we are

just noticed BBC News using an AI generated image to illustrate a story and, lads, I cannot tell you what an absolutely fucking terrible idea that is, especially right now.

Are internal US postage costs just totally ridiculous these days? We ship around 6-700 copies per issue of the mag to US readers at the moment and charge between £6&7 in shipping. Obviously want to reduce that & hopefully sell more so been talking to a few US based fulfilment companies but…

As tedious as it can be having the Second World War squatting over so much of British culture the way it does there is the benefit of it also providing several very easy to understand analogies for people like Huddleston and situations like this that can, and id say should, be freely deployed

Douglas Copland’s Generation X, is it worth re-reading? Read it just after release but just realised despite its cultural impact you almost never see the actual book mentioned anymore, I mean, I can only barely remember what goes on in it, which I guess was kinda the point

Second migrant sent to France returns to the UK www.bbc.com/news/article...

so, so, so much to unpack here...

Wild, depressing, depressingly inevitable story on @motiveunknown.com today about Spotify’s Dutch charts being flooded with racist far right AI slop

the editor of the NY Times, America's newspaper of record, running into the office waving a copy of the Weekly World News shouting "get me pictures of Bat Boy!"

I kind of assume that anyone for whom the reissue of the "first-ever British Asian electronic dance album recorded" (in 1982) which is "Part disco, part funk, part acid house, and infused with Punjabi folk melodies" means anything will already be all over this, but just in case not...

one for all you Hell Comes to Frogtown fans www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReZD...

Genuinely 100% changed my life, on balance maybe not for the better but still hearing this for the first time totally reoriented my life

Baby sitters are making fucking bank tonight in BXL

We should all (Americans included) be allowed the occasional day off from America, like honestly 2 days a week would be great but grotesquely unrealistic, but maybe we could manage 1 a month and see how that goes?

is there e a rea$on (see what I did there!) the Warhammer instagram page which rarely even features 3rd party licensed Warhammer products is suddenly caping for what appears to be a game store in Dubai? 🤔

always good to remember that public utilities that serve the people like postal services must be money making machines at the same time as being starved of resources, whilst privately owned tools for manufacturing consent and embedding minority rule get the cash hose

Don’t get me wrong I’m happy any time that Republicans in the US get a shellacking at the polls, whatever the reason But it is just fundamentally so depressing that the chief motivating factor for that isn’t because they’re sending armed goons into abduct people or atomising fisherman but money

It’s genuinely quite incredible how there is apparently no limit to FIFA’s awfulness, one of those organisations that needs to be razed to the ground and then the very earth it stood upon salted so no vestige of its endemic corruption can ever haunt football again

Nan mais y'a un moment quand on charge avec des T'au aussi faut pas s'étonner du résultat

incredible diplomatic banter I mean on the one hand lol, but then 20 years later we were butchering each other anyway so maybe they should have rolled the dice on this one

Seeing a lot of joy on the timeline today about Mamdani’s win, and it is so fundamentally important to celebrate these moments and the sense of community & positivity they bring It is also absolutely 100% fucking necessary to remain a hater and take immense pleasure when these bastards lose too

Today is the day finally I crack the perfect modular grid system that 100% aligns to my odd paper size, arbitrary margins and baseline grid That or I throw my computer out of the window and go live in a cave

A journalist is drinking in a bar, a guy walks in & the barman throws him out, says he’s a Nazi & if you allow one it becomes a nazi bar Next week the journo returns & finds the Nazi cried to his daddy who bought the bar for him & his friends Journalist orders his usual & settles in for the night

I'm at the incredibly frustrating stage of my latest autodidactic journey, graphic design, where I know enough to know what I'm doing is wrong in small but very annoying ways but not enough to know to how resolve that & all the tutorials seem to be either too basic or might as well be in martian

I think this might be the most depressing cover of a magazine I've seen for some time

This from @nesrinemalik.bsky.social is a clear and horrifying explanation of the atrocities underway in El Fasher. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

To be fair most RPG designers haven’t wielded a sword or cast a fireball in real life either and that hasn’t stopped them writing games revolving around doing that

When we look at this massacre and many more perpetrated by the RSF, let's be clear who funds, equips & sustains them. It's the UAE. Yes, the same UAE that might own your football club, fly you on your holidays, invests in our national infrastructure. If boycotts work, we should be boycotting now.

I see we’re doing yet another UBI trial

This was written in 2017. The current political moment was completely avoidable. ”the pain of looking back and seeing that there was a small window in which it was possible to act, and then discovering how suddenly and irrevocably that window can be slammed shut.” www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...

nice, first gig tickets for 2026 bought, Juliana Barwick and Mary Lattimore playing in L'Église Notre-Dame de Laeken in April. Going to be lush

I know in the grand scheme of things it's small fry compared to the other daily obscenities but the way she signs off this piece is still kinda wild, just pure unashamed state media

Been thinking about this, between the age of like 16-18 I did a lot, & I mean A LOT, of psychedelic drugs. Never exactly regretted it but there was always a part of me that thought it might have been better to have waited, maybe got a degree, enjoyed a more successful or more conventional 20-30s etc

I mean, its canon!

CNN: Zohran Mamdani claimed to play ‘Imperial Guard’ and yet his codex is clearly titled ‘Astra Militarum’ and so we must reluctantly endorse his sex pest granny killing opponent