When I first switched from White Dwarf magazine to GW games dev editor, John Blanche was the first person to come over fir a chat. He said, "Young man, you have the look of someone at the foot of a mountain, staring up at the summit." Pretty accurate tbh.

If I were drafted into the imperial guard and THEY put me in one of the boring green fatigue basic bitch units and not one of the themed and dripped out Militarum Regimentums , I would turn to chaos before first smoko break I can tell you that much

Normally I oppose Hungarian chauvinism, but it's Pride Month, so we can all agree that the best part of Austria-Hungary was Transleithania

Necromancer’s familiars

Every Warhammer fan will have their own story of how John Blanche transformed their game & informed their lives. The man was a giant whose shadow has cloaked the entire hobby, not in grim darkness, but in vibrant, idiosyncratic colour. Rest in peace, Mr Blanche.

what have you done

“‘Myrtle gives ink a green tint’ – not on this planet it doesn’t. ‘Sugar adds gloss’ – like hell it does, that’s the job of gum arabic. Sugar just stops it cracking. ‘The addition of tannin deters mould’ – does it really?!” This is so good. 🖼️ 📚 🎨

I love how they're just little dudes walking to their destinations

Have some stupid logos:

once the starting options are squared up and well-fleshed it will be a good sign the demo is ready I think

In 2005, James McMurtry wrote a scathing, incandescent populist anthem about the forgotten people of Middle America, abandoned and betrayed by elites. In 2025 he refuses to play it anymore, and his his new album is a haunting, bitter reflection on our history and ideals. Let's talk about that.

Open access to "The Palestinians: From Peasants to Revolutionaries," by my amazing mother, Rosemary Sayigh, who turned an impressive 99 this month. Published in 1979, it went thru several reprints & translations and remains a landmark book: michaelharrison.org.uk/wp-content/u...

just had a thought...

For years, I have made it a point not only to incorporate scholarly works, sometimes in my own translation, produced by global South scholars but to explain to my students WHY it matters to read their work, to see these locales as centers of knowledge production in their own right 1/

I wrote a case study for the Mandrake announce trailer! @itshannahflynn.bsky.social and @failbettergames.com contacted me a full year before we made the trailer to ask what art assets and animations they’d need to prioritize for the announcement. Lots of tidbits about VO script writing, too!

“Analyses of Queen Hetepheres’ bracelets from her celebrated tomb in Giza reveals new information on silver, metallurgy and trade in Old Kingdom Egypt, c. 2600 BC” Read the results of recent research on this link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Ok, last thought. One of the weaknesses of Paleoamerican archaeology is its insularity: They're not in regular conversation with folks working on Upper Paleolithic Eurasia or following that work in close detail. If they were, then the confusing pre-Clovis sites would make more sense.

American Century of Humiliation, etc

Pippin watches the Witch-king enter the Gate of Minas Tirith. Gandalf, on Shadowfax, is waiting. ‘You cannot enter here.’ The Nazgûl raises his sword. A cock crows—and is joined by the music of distant horns: King Théoden and the Rohirrim, charging the fields of the Pelennor.

Can this be a solution?

We bombed them. To do what? So we can bomb them. To do what? To facilitate strikes. To do what? To enable kinetic operations. To do what? To shape the battlefield. To do what? So we can bomb them.

Reading theory

I’m an internationalist in the sense that I think DC should be occupied by coalition forces

History: who the fuck? Historiography: who asked "who the fuck" and why the fuck did they?

Help save the Leicestershire Torc! “A stunning 3,200-year-old gold object dating to the Middle Bronze Age period and the only torc ever discovered in the county”. leicestershirecollections.org.uk/behind-the-s...

This is real Caves of Qud advice:

Two ancient 20-sided polyhedra inscribed with letters of the Greek alphabet. Now known as 'divination dice', they were used for cleromancy, a form of divination where casting lots determined divine will, sometimes in conjunction with an oracle. 🏺 1/ #ancientbluesky #MetMuseum 📸 me

1/ A thread on my new article, which I hope makes a few interesting points. First, there’s a need to understand the complexity of how archaeological knowledge travelled and was made at a time of huge change in the world (post-WW2). Are we really so confident in confining that knowledge to…

ðis is so cool and creepy and weird and it tickles me in all ðe right ways. ðe art rules, ðe writing rules, everyþing about ðis is just so fucking good.

SO excited to release Broadcast Fiends! a set of analog creeps hijacking the airwaves and reshaping the locals. stick em in your game and let em wreak havoc on the wires. @chaoticrobin.bsky.social did the art, i did the words. we hope you enjoy! giantrobottackler.itch.io/broadcast-fi...

This is the wildest and funkiest thing I’ve done. holy shit @giantrobottackler.bsky.social writes so evocatively and fiercely, he’s sickeningly good at it! I let myself go wild with messy and nostalgic art for this, and god I’m super happy with it! I love making weird art with my weird friends!!

Silly sketch for vday #wh40k #nightlords

Everybody stop what you're doing and look at this cat I'm sitting

again this all makes so much more sense (derogatory) when you read the kickstarter and see that at no point did they have an actual ttrpg designer on this project

This AI/LLM bullshit is going to take Native representation backwards by centuries.

Man goes to Borges. Says he likes hourglasses, maps, eighteenth-century typography, the taste of coffee, Stevenson. Borges says 'great writer Borges shares these preferences.' Man bursts into tears, says 'but in a vain way like attributes of an actor'

Secure your own squid first before helping others. (I'm disproportionately proud of this drawing.)

To those who advise me to use chatgpt to generate the lore, you are forgetting how cool it is to be handwriting it in a cafe

what impressed me most today was that a huge crowd of people who mostly had never been tear gassed managed to retreat without running or trampling each other. under a cloud of gas that was not moving (zero wind), people held onto each other and walked blind down a street packed tight as sardines

Nevermind huge battle simulators with realistic formations, I want Mechabellum set in the mid 19th century.

Cafe at The Portland art museum has Rothko no. 5 cakes. Something intellectually meaty about seeing the painting in person, and then eating a cake copy. The complete experience. Full spectrum.

Just talked a student through the bitter disappointment of realizing they probably won’t be able toaccess state archives in India for their dissertation. Some thoughts on how to handle this. 1) as an Indian, I have been hustling my way into archives my whole career so relativize the experience.

necromancer

40k is a deeply unserious setting (archon plays with a colony like it’s a game of Stellaris , then gets bored)

neolithic guys get pissed if you tell them their cultures are organized by the type of pots and jewelry they made. "we called ourselves the blood hunters" "we conquered villages far beyond this horizon" sorry bud you're the western linear pottery culture now

With french explanation from @chlowski.bsky.social, trivium = latin accusative singular of "trivia", bourge = french slang for bourgeois, formatting like "town on river". Loosely approximates: St Know-It-All-Town on the River Snooty-Rich lmfao