England playing like writers being paid by the word

Genuinely incredible the swivel eyed right are actually going to meme a joke candidate, who isn’t their own for once, into Parliament

I'd say it's finally hot enough to drop this

Ngl this thing looks pretty good, more people should buy it

Oh, ok, so now taking out heads of state is bad, good to know

Bears. These people are going to end up being eaten by bears (Actually, that’s if they’re lucky, I mean I’m not sure that if I wanted to live out my life in safe, unfettered luxury, I’d start by colonising disputed land in the Balkans, but then I guess these folk have never read a book)

Decided to give Instagram a go again over the last month *sad trombone sound*

Randomly decided to start watching King of the Hill from the first pilot episode on last night, and damn, with that first season it really did launch firing on all (propane) cylinders

“who funds you! who funds you!!”, i continue to shout at the man with a bin on his head as i slowly shrink and transform into a corn cob

The moment he truly became his father’s son

shout out to anyone whose day involved something somehow even less dignified than being worn like a glove puppet by a doctor 😑

Stupid I know, but I somehow hadn’t considered the possibility of Count Binface truthers.

So, just to be completely clear what you’re telling me here is that there is no football on tonight? * starts frantically hunting for a stream of some Belgium 2nd division pre season friendly *

UK summer holiday done, it sure is a country

This does kind of irk me about the Tories not standing in Clacton as I’d absolutely love to see who the handpicked candidate to stand in an election that will receive vast amounts of national coverage would be as I’m pretty sure they’d be pathologically unable to pick a candidate able to do this 👇

A good day to remind you all that you can spend £5.50 on a 28mm @countbinface.bsky.social model from Troublemaker Games, £3 of which goes to NHS supporting charities Now who is selling some frog faced fiends and a scale model pier for them to fight over? www.troublemakergames.co.uk/product-page...

Nobody: Absolutely no one: Herman Melville:

Anyway it’s good to see that some of our fellow Commonwealth members have embraced running joke political candidates in ridiculous fancy dress too

If I was a TV presenter I think I’d try to look less grumpy about interviewing Count Binface than I do interviewing far right politicians but maybe that’s just me

After a week of grey skies and rain In off to the airport 🧐

It really is wild when you consider how many genuinely moving & awe inspiring moments major sporting events produce, moments that time after time enduce warm fuzzy feelings about humanity even in miserable shits like me, that the organisations behind them are such absolute abyssal moral voids

Much as “Nigel Farage quits after few weeks of very mild journalistic scrutiny” is an enjoyable headline, it is also one I feel like I could and indeed should have read many, many times over the last two decades (or at least read once and then never had to hear from him ever again).

Farage: ‘We need leaders who will record birthday messages or say “up the Ra” for £50 a pop’

Having lived there over a decade now I’m finding 95% of the world rallying around the Belgium flag today very funny seeing as that’s something that a significant percentage of Belgians themselves, including the current prime minister, are pathologically unable to

Ok, as everyone is talking about my adopted home today let me take advantage of that & beg you to watch The Sound Of Belgium, a brilliant documentary about how this small country’s new beat & ebm scene played a pivotal role in the rise of house, techno & rave Should be streaming in lots of places

If this wasn’t so good I’d almost be annoyed at how good this is. Respect to @andycrysell.bsky.social for doing this, such a good idea, executed perfectly I’d been toying with an idea similar to this, tho not music journalism, and this both resolves all the questions id had about doing it & does

Overturn this! 😎

Annual pilgrimage to @raremags.bsky.social completed yesterday, lovely to see WS in the window, even if I managed to somehow close my eyes and point only vaguely in its direction like a total idiot in this photo. Anyway a wonderful store & great to be amongst such fine company. Do give ‘em a follow…

My, I suspect genuinely, unpopular TTRPG awards hot take is that if you (game designer/publisher) really do want a prestigious, well run and well organised awards then you’d have to be ok with paying a lot more to enter it than the current “send us 6 copies” business that the Ennies runs on

Guy in mismatched fatigues stood on top of a Toyota Hilux with a heavy machine gun bolted on to the back pointing at the Avengers, “look at what they need to mimic a fraction of our power”

Sitting in a bus shelter to avoid the rain whilst sinking tins, first night of this year’s annual Scottish family holiday done in fine traditional style. Now up to go buy some square sausage.

Fascinating/horrifying

A huge thanks to Steven at @stackmagazines.bsky.social for asking me on to the podcast to talk Wyrd Science Stack’s a wonderful thing, subscribe & you’ll get a “different independent magazine delivered every month” they have great taste so it’s always something super fresh, unexpected & interesting

Didn’t want an ENNIE anyway

Is the UK ok?

This is a picture of heaven. I like getting pick'n'mix at the cinema. This is a thread about it. What IS the best strategy for the perfect pick’n’mix?

That’s the good shit right there

ok I’m really going to need you all to stop, drop & read this great feature by @lonlozzin.bsky.social for the @texasmonthly.bsky.social on all woman buhurt team the Dallas Mythics. All incredibly badass with some amazing photos by Chad Wadsworth to accompany it www.texasmonthly.com/culture/dall...

Yessssss, new issue of Bâtard

I’ll admit our relationship has been strained the past few weeks, but looks like i’m Team Sun once more

Awesome news if you are, like us, incredibly horny for Ian Miller’s art from The Tolkien Bestiary as two pieces are now available as fine art prints, both limited to 200 pieces (& pretty fairly priced). There’s his incredible Helm’s Deep piece, which has just gone straight in the bag and then his…

Just got my copies of the new Curses ‘Next Wave Acid Punx TROIS’ compilation, 7 slabs of vinyl that completes both an incredible series & quite possibly my day to day involvement in the music biz. Not sure I’ll work on any more albums but incredibly happy to go out on this one, & get a shout out too

#WorldCup who? It’s all about #BloodBowl, mate. Skip Four Four Two this month and pre-order Secret Passages issue 3 instead ko-fi.com/secretpassages

Just thinking of this one again today…

Don't have all the details yet but just been told Royal Mail are planning to charge a £1 surcharge for all deliveries to the EU now to accompany the €3 import charge the EU are charging. roughly 15% of our customers are based in the EU & currently pay £6 shipping + VAT on top of the £10 for the mag

Had a few health scares recently which has made 2026 a bit fraught, but 🙌 so far they’ve all turned out to be fixable each time tho once the initial euphoric, too brief, relief has passed my response has been to think well, that just makes it more likely the next odd ache will be a death sentence

It is time for Yet Another Completely Unprofessional Unboxing, as I take a rambling dive into @wyrdscience.bsky.social, a fantastic magazine covering the weird and wonderful corners of tabletop gaming. And, as is tradition, vanish into several avoidable tangents along the way.😅 youtu.be/e8Du6b70iYM

Lot of stock photos of smiling young families at the beach being downloaded by newspaper picture editors today