I’m not an unreasonable person! These arrived today and if indeed the third book is very good I won’t pretend to hate it for no reason.

If you pile your furniture in the middle of your living room then set it on fire, you will have the warmest house in your street, for a few hours.

Funny* to see posters acting as if the ZA/UM layoffs are due to the studio having uniquely bad/evil management rather than this being a day in the games industry ending in Y *not funny

Well, at least Parsons knows what side of this he wants to be on. www.thewrap.com/creative-con...

do not use ChatGPT as a search engine. it is not a search engine.

If I see any of you cheering for the ZA/UM layoffs I am gonna bite your head off

Very depressing to see so many miniatures companies starting to embrace AI, slowly, but surely. For logos, for graphics, to ''paint'' miniatures...and for the actual models.

Delighted to have done a cover for SOMETHING IS KILLING THE CHILDREN #50

Incredible statement from the Church in Wales on the ignominious Code of Practice: "The Church in Wales will not use equality law exemptions to exclude trans people from our worship, our sacraments, our pastoral care, or our common life." www.churchinwales.org.uk/en/news-and-...

"what radicalized you?" "when i was 7 i watched a chicken sing a sad protest song in jail, a mother rabbit sacrifice her own food to feed her children, and a badger cleric get arrested for standing up to injustice."

People saying "locked room mystery" when they mean "mystery with a closed circle of suspects" - that's fine! That doesn't upset me at all. I'm actually laughing about it alone in my deadbolted study.

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Good/bad news (depending): this has already done well enough that I have been tasked with reading through to the end of book three, which is when people insist the series starts to get good.

really thinking about this tweet as i’ve been struggling to breathe through nausea for the last 5 hours

Come read @abeewords.bsky.social describe this book as "an extended Reddit post" and other excellent maulings.

Saladin in 1189:

I follow roughly equal parts English people, Irish people and nerds who don’t know a World Cup is on and are posting about new monkeys or microwaving lettuce so my feed is a real rollercoaster

I just want to know how all this is going to affect Brooklyn Beckham’s relationship with his parents

One hell of a chart... Via @superjoost.bsky.social superjoost.substack.com/p/ubisoft-an...

Entry for Junes #DragonsLairPaintingChallenge themed "Expendable" by @andycruns.bsky.social Tiger Squig

On my own, I eat like Macaulay Culkin in Home Alone or an old man whose wife has just died

everyone seems to be responding positively to this and i hate to burst anyone's bubble, but i recently went to a Luddite festival in NYC and this is something organizers specifically warned about: don't let capitalists sell your hatred of capitalism back to you

“.. I asked a few AI researchers whether they could name any other real-world software that scales so poorly. None of them could think of any. “.. By economic and engineering measures, generative AI might be the worst technology ever deployed.” @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Remember Streeting's review into whether young people are being overdiagnosed with ADHD, autism, and mental health issues? Well, the interim report is out, and there's a reason the media are silent on it (spoiler: it proves what a lot of us have been saying all along)

This is actually CRAZY work - we are more anti trans than several countries including the US, which are arguably not even liberal democracies

I turned off Copilot in Word etc. ages ago and now Microsoft has just added more, worse Copilot integration at a level where I can't turn it off unless I put in a support request with my IT admin.

infected lettuce entering my body to cause explosive diarrhea

Soon poolside sketches from my recent trip. I was trying out some new markers. Better than doomscrolling. #art

Are we surprised, lol

I only regret that I have but one wishlist to give

Shout out to the @jank.cool lads, they are smelly boys but they've only had the site up for about six months and have used their supporter funding to pay a bunch of different freelancers rather than pay themselves anything

"There are no ghosts in Galley House, but it certainly feels like there are." @jaymcastello.bsky.social reviews Type Help's fancy follow-up. www.jank.cool/the-incident...

It feels like we really got stuck in this country on the idea that the living elderly people are the ones who fought in ww2/were young adults then. I’ve seen it in fiction too, it’s too strong of an archetype to shift even when it’s mainly inevitably not true any more.

Anti-trans groups have been calling themselves women's rights groups, LGB groups and child safeguarding groups for the last decade. It is and always was a fiction. They are now leveraging that fiction, using Rowling's money, to try to take down anyone who points out that they are anti-trans groups.

This government would ban George from the Famous Five.

It's weird to me that discussions of JK Rowling always being a dick never being up the fact she spent her time at Amnesty International drafting books when she was supposed to be documenting war crimes in Africa.

absolutely abysmal from Amnesty to not have any plan whatsoever to deal with threats of legal action btw

J. K. Rowling posting an upskirt photo of a trans woman and then claiming she was "asking for it" because of the way she was dressed... you'd get laughed out of the writer's room if you tried to do it in an Armando Ianucci show.

The Amazing World of Tomorrow

This is the Amnesty International report on the anti-rights groups. These anti-rights groups have immediately engaged in lawfare to bury this report. *be a shame if people kept sharing it. drive.google.com/file/d/1UggI...

Basher was being very cross with me and then I realised I was like two hours late feeding him. So he munched all his food and then refused to nap on the sofa until I ceded my half of it to him. So now he’s asleep on my pillow. I deserve it.

I think about this quote a lot.

This is why the Philosophy Tube episode on conversion therapy in Britain was so carefully worded and went through lawyers first! It’s difficult to educate the public on topics that rich and powerful groups do not want people to know about

Book 30 this year was The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin. Extremely good, weird, hopeful, strangely loving. Let me tell you, reading something good and complex after something… not that… is a real challenge for the brain. In a good way! #booksky

My random Sam Neil story. An actor friend of mine was cast in a small role on Peaky Blinders. Never receives his script pages. Discovers his role has been pushed to non speaking background, which is less fun/less money. Sam Neil spots him looking dejected on set and finds out.

Sam Neill should have won an Oscar for this “help I’m being attacked by an invisible Chevy Chase” scene with a stupid looking plastic gun taped to the side of his head

we should do a national strike over climate change