There's something ironic about me choosing to reward myself for releasing @wefixspacejunk.bsky.social Season Four, which was written during a horrendous period of writers block, by playing Alan Wake.

I'm DELIGHTED to announce that I'm in Season 4 of We Fix Space Junk! You can hear me RIGHT NOW on the Battlebird Productions Patreon, or wait until next week for the general release. I'm living my dinosaur dream. 🚀❤️🦖

Stop callinge them "data centers" and starte callinge them "slop peripherals"

For anyone who can't make it all the way to Leighton Buzzard to check out my #dnd paintings, I've made a gallery on my website! bethkcrane.com/virtual-gall...

If it's sometimes hard to tell the difference between fossil-fuel lobbyists and the billionaire press, that's because there isn’t one. My column on the politicians, journalists and junktanks using the Iran crisis as an excuse to extract our remaining gas and oil. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“Why do you want to shit on entire swathes of human endeavor and wreck the planet while you’re doing it? Why are you so determined to be awful and amoral? Everything about your priorities is messed up, and you should all be heartily ashamed, abashed and embarrassed.”

There are pieces of writing that stand on their own without any external information, but there's a reason when we read poetry, for example, we want to know when it was written and by whom? Where was it written? What were the circumstances of their life at time? And their country or city?

Episode 3 of Tales of the Cog ⚙️ is releasing on Thursday the 12th of March and features the lovelies from @wefixspacejunk.bsky.social in leading roles. Get hyped ⚙️ ⚙️ ⚙️ ⚙️ ⚙️ ⚙️ ⚙️ ⚙️ ⚙️

Season 4 is finally here! Episode One of Season Four will be released on our Patreon feed on the 16th March and to our general feed a week later, starting on the 23rd of March! Episodes will go out biweekly, and they'll be a week earlier on our ad-free Patreon feed.

It's GREAT that because I've finally hit a minimum threshold for self-employed earnings I've got to pay next year's taxes too. Just dandy. It's not like my money is tight because I'm self-employed or anything.

Gonna get ahead of things now and optimistically schedule in "burnout" for March onwards.

Treating myself to a replay of Control in this trying time.

I had the pleasure to run a game for @noshortrests.bsky.social to help promote their #OneRoomOneShots Kickstarter! You can now catch me running Tomb of Grief for @iamloufryer.bsky.social, @ralphstickley.bsky.social, @bethkcrane.bsky.social & @masquewren.bsky.social! tinyurl.com/ytsd9ay2

Did a portrait painting session yesterday. Think I've hit my stride with it! I'm really proud of this one.

How Hookland Works – you all own it, fill you boots. Now updated to reflect how AI means Arseholes Involved. #Hookland

To the establishment the tragedy seems to be that a mother lost her child far far more than a trans girl lost her life and everything that’s followed has been about suring up the ownership and control parents have over their children

The biggest “block” writers face is time and money and gatekeeping (by the people who can offer money to give you that time.) I would welcome a day that I didn’t wake up with fourteen great ideas that I simply don’t have the time or money to do properly. AI directly threatens that. It doesn’t help.

Why is Piers Morgan always given so much time and space? Because our media is a relentless circle jerk where people whose main experience is dinner bang on and on about the world they can barely see above their goose pate and Stilton foam

YOUR ENEMIES LAMENT YOUR VERY EXISTENCE. HAVE YOU TAKEN YOUR MEDICATIONS?

There aren't enough giant inflatables at gigs any more.

Just realised the reason I couldn't play Horizon Zero Dawn (I tried!) was that I watched Batteries Not Included about a hundred times as a kid. The majority of non-humanoid robots are friend-shaped to me. (I also didn't see ET until adulthood)

One day I will have one of these in my actual home, but for now I'm going to have to content myself with telling people that they're incredible and that you should treat yourself.

Falkner writing a pissy letter to the minister going “its been six months and trannies are still legal what gives“ is quite funny tho

The Repair Shop with Werner Herzog: Guest: "Stunning work, thank you" WH: "How do you feel seeing this object, a symbol of your dead wife? Though constructed of crude, worthless materials, it has been resurrected like some cheap miracle, mocking your grief and dead wife, now condemned to oblivion."

we fucked up a perfectly good planet is what we did. look at it. it's got billionaires

I have never heard praise for generative AI from someone I respect creatively

babe what if we kissed outside the temporary hospital for scurvy-ridden whalemen who had been trapped in the ice for months

New painting! Finally made it back to my wednesday painting class. This is for a new maybe-project? The bird basis for this Aarakocra is Marcus, my late cockatiel. She was my best buddy growing up and now she's a knight. #Aarakocra #cockatiel #DnD #DndMonsters #DnDCharacters #DnDPets

Taxing the rich is the only option. Their extreme wealth makes everything more expensive for the rest. We need everyone in the UK to know that the answer to "what can be done" is a wealth tax.

Started talking to my cat like he's the protagonist in a point and click adventure game

The incredible debut novel from @victoriocity.bsky.social is out tomorrow in paperback and they're giving away a gorgeous signed hardback copy to celebrate! We're not entering (we already have it!) but a) you should enter the competition and b) buy the book! www.instagram.com/p/DGgZ3FuNpg...

Been painting more recently. Seeing as I now have a decent scanner I'm gonna get some more prints up on TeePublic when I have time (so like 2026?) Anyway, this is Cthuleless.

New pots available now! www.roseschmits.com

In one of my solo happy places (shed with power tools and female punk music)

A typical night spent ruminating over events, past present and future. What I did or didn’t do to help Alice, that which I can or can’t do to help the trans community. It’s endless. My memoir has a throw away line, ‘I just want to find some middle ground’ that I don’t revisit. Let me do that now 1/

Oh no this must be because people are just bad now and Labour has allowed people to just be bad and there can’t be any socio-economic reasons for shoplifting now being 0.5% of turnover (little detail). www.theguardian.com/business/202...

awkward gestures: - finger guns - hug/handshake confusion - trying to get past someone in a corridor and you both keep ducking in the same direction not an awkward gesture: - nazi salute

HMRC Self Assessment site is plain ol broken so I'm finding all the people I used to follow on twitter.

YOU CANNOT GRIND THE BONES OF YOUR ENEMIES INTO DUST TOMORROW IF YOU DO NOT HAVE SOMETHING TO EAT.

I'm exhibiting with the Leighton Buzzard Art Society at the Leighton Buzzard Library Theatre this month!

Yes, I’m angry, watching the concept of women rebranded to weakness. And people forgetting that they benefit from the hard work of queer people and immigrants. I’m not saying we pick every fight with these sycophantic weirdos, but sometimes they need a reminder of who we are.

Sincerely delighted to discover, 45 minutes into this nearly-wordless three-hour documentary about French monks who take vows of silence, that among the reasons they *can* talk is "to make sure the monastery cats know when it's mealtime by making little kitty-calling noises at them."

On manic upswing: hell yeah, I'm gonna feel this way forever

RIP to my @tourbox.bsky.social, which was fried today by a dodgy power supply. I'm gutted as it's a crucial part of my sound editing workflow!

Back at BloQs today working on Christmas Decorations for the @oldoptheatre.bsky.social!

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I spent the entire day sorting out my workshop ahead of a power installation tomorrow. Now it's 3/4 clear (with the other 1/4 having all the stuff I couldn't deal with stacked up chaotically)

Sorry to be cringe but I’d be so grateful for any shares of Murder for Dummies posts. My friends and I literally made six episodes of TV ourselves and then just… put them on YouTube?! With no marketing budget? I know, very silly. Here is the trailer if you wanna know more: youtu.be/OQm2yOdRo6I?...