At what point is it going to twig with the general US media and population that they're sleepwalking, step by very obvious step, into fascist authoritarianism?

JRR Tolkien William Shakespeare Cormac McCarthy Stephen Donaldson Gerald Durrell I have most of my read books listed on Goodreads & was surprised to learn that my most-read author by number of books was someone I wouldn't even rate as a favourite: Micheal Moorcock.

This is very good and intensely depressing and contains an interview with someone who comes across as one of the worst people in the world harpers.org/archive/2026...

Worked out last night that I could watch Sinners 6 times a day and still have time for basic life admin. If I did that for ten years, allowing days off for birthdays, Christmas, etc I'd still be able to say to anyone under the age of 60 that I'd watched more Sinners than they'd had hot dinners.

That LRT about X proving to shift people's views to the right reminds me about the way the world sleepwalked into letting individual billionaires own critical chunks of the world's information infrastructure and still nothing is being done about that danger

hey @emily4mk.bsky.social, ban x. ban it now. you all keep talking about the dangers of social media for teens. our entire political and media class are bathing in this poison.

Not a bandwagon I'd normally jump on but in this instance it includes a whole two 5* ratings

Thanks, search engine

This is appalling. TikTok - and other big social platforms - are now so big they don't have to care anymore about how they treat customers or users.

I don't know what game this is, but importing the Space Marine 2 character models into it was genius.

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The more poetry I read the more I wish I had some kind of system that could record the best ones with tags, thoughts, and keywords so that I could find them easily again and use them for inspiration

It would be if you weren’t in a fascist dictatorship where laws only exist to punish opponents of the regime or further expand the regime’s powers.

He may have given regrettable quotes about boob hypnosis, and I bet he doesn't live in that house but my word he is *good* at this.

While Dan makes a good & important thread here, I feel it's worth a reminder that you don't need a thread to ignore a feeble mea culpa from a man who claimed women weren't tough enough to make good game designers. Good riddance to bad rubbish & there are many reasons not to converse on his terms.

It's a little tighter than I'd anticipated but that doesn't spoil the sentiment

Oh look if it isn't the consequences of my own etc etc

Ok I have far too much to do today to spend more than 2 minutes on this but here’s my political cartoon of the day, please enjoy

Is it "United Kingdom: The Game"?

Dude is salivating at the chance to replace workers and incredibly disrespectful and dismissive to the designers who made his company successful. What utter bollocks to think they can or should be replaced by a machine.

Political movements are often coalitions. It seems that the modern radical right is in many ways a coalition between scam artists and ideological believers, with 'the scam' often being the underlying funding model for both.

2008: Hasbro and Universal made a deal, where the former gave a money boost to the latter, so Universal will make 4 movies based on Hasbro IP. Battleship flopped. Making more would have caused big penalties. Universal nearly went bankrupt bc of that deal.

OMG Netflix just greenlit a Ticket to Ride movie. Excited to see how they narratively reflect the angst of having some fucker block your route just as you're about to claim. deadline.com/2026/02/tick...

Can confirm. Fantastic popcorn flick.

That's quite the pitch

Poetry is not going well today lads. Maybe I need to reintroduce drugs into my life.

You really would hope that the people that invent kids' worksheets would have thought about this beforehand

At long last! The Tunnels & Trolls: A New Age Kickstarter is coming on March 17th. Spread the word. www.kickstarter.com/projects/reb...

Waiting on two twickets alerts for gigs I really really want to go to at the moment, and every time my phone pings it's a terrified ecstasy of fumbling to get it unlocked ASAP only to find it's another text message from the bank.

Surprising number of big classic board games seem to be hard to get at the moment. Cosmic Encounter, Castles of Burgundy, Twilight Struggle, The *havens, Lords of Waterdeep. I presume/hope reprints are coming for at least some of them. Curious that they all seem to be gone at the same time.

Enjoying this random pause screen featuring "Geoglyphs Chug Chug"

Spent a rainy afternoon watching Smile 2 & found it terribly disappointing. Just a rehash of the first film with more gore and a very silly extended sequence that turned out to be a hallucination. Really baffled by how it got better scores than the original.

Just got this email from someone I barely know and haven't spoken to in years: they've been hacked, right?

It is incredible to me how, given the overwhelming commercial and cultural dominance of media that revels in pushing positive agendas of love and multiculturalism, fascists can still go round claiming that they're somehow speaking for a majority

Made the mistake of visiting/r/hearthstone and now I keep getting tempted to go back into it on my Reddit feed and I really mustn't

This is incredible. The early reports now, two years on, read like prophecy.

Tried watching The Northman last night which proved to be possibly the most divisive film ever in our household. We didn't get to finish it.

Roses are red Grasses are green Who put the cheese In the washing machine?

If I'm going to compete regularly in poetry slams it means I have to write a lot more poetry, and that means *sitting* and *writing* poetry to time limits, rather than in occasional dribs and drabs as the fancy takes me, and that is proving extremely hard.

Wait was the winner Ray Harryhausen?

I doubt there are any. But if there is one, it is almost certainly vanilla Angband.

I had this on vinyl, and after I played side 1 I was so overwhelmed that I kept listening to it for a week because I was afraid side 2 wouldn't be as good.

Found this a very interesting set of insights into the machinery of British government and its ongoing enshittification

For no reason, my favourite Bon Dylan albums ranked: 1. Freewheelin' 2. Bringing it all Back Home 3. The Times They Are A Changing 4. Bob Dylan 5. Highway 61 6. Blonde on Blonde 7. Another Side The rest can get in the bin pretty much. I don't think he made a good album after Blonde on Blonde.

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

Wait, is the top one to teach them the meaning of the word "muscle" and give them frequent prompts to use it in conversation?

Finished the Imperial Navy Breacher Surveyor specialist tonight. At this speed I really might actually finish the whole team in February. #Nerdlings #KillTeam #WarhammerCommunity

Yes, and it's laughably soon to have pivoted in tone, as if we've all forgotten eighteen months of relentless hate.

Absolutely peak Bluesky.