A cheerful thought for a Sunday night: We're already 29% of the way through February; by the end of the month the UK will have an hour and forty minutes more daylight each day than it did at the start. Spring is coming x (Photo PoliticalPics)

🔊 Almost, but not quite, caught up with last week’s fresh new #Podcasts before the flood of new ones arrive this week 🫣 Whenever I get fully caught up on that set, I start work on the several that I’ve fallen weeks or months behind on. I’ve let them build up while keeping up-to-date on others 😬

This object is a legitimate masterpiece of design

My dad 3D printed me this awesome new model of Seventeen from The Re-Emergence, based on my more recent Blender model (see 2nd pic), after my original one broke. There's a bigger one, too, but this one fits the shelf better. 💙📚🪐 #SFF

SHE’S FINISHED! My 5-foot-long Enterprise D oil painting is complete after nearly 100 hours of work! I remember being 13 years old or so and trying to draw her and it was so hard, and all I wanted was to be able to do something like this. Truly a dream come true. 🥰🖖

📆 End of the reading week update sees my reading pace in February collapse even below most of January! 😱 Mostly I’m just getting a few pages in 🛌 before 🥱 says 💡 out and then 😴💤 Still working on “The Mask of Mirrors”: 📕 🔲🔲🔲🔲🔳⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ 49% 🏁 📚⚔️ #FantasyBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋

☎️ I am one of those laggards not on digital voice 😑

I'm going to win.

🍰 I’m making a Lemon Cake with a streusel topping today. Prepared the batter in a round tin, smeared the top with some Lemon Curd that I had made from scratch in advance, and then topped that with the streusel rubble. Into the oven it goes… 🤞🥹🤞 👨‍🍳 #AmBaking 😋 #FoodSky #Food 🍽️

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📖 My current book has long chapters, so I usually put it down for the night when I reach a mid-chapter break with a little art squiggle to separate segments. So I’m not having too many cliff-hangers. Last night though, a big one… followed by dream sequence 😖 📚⚔️ #FantasyBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋

Films that sound rubbish if you're British.

🔊 The one about what happens to a retro collection when we reach the end of our orbits around the ☀️ I’ve wondered recently about this re. book collections and charity shop/collection hauls 🤔 Lots of cool sounding games chatted about here. 🎮 #VideoGames 🕹️ #RetroGaming #RetroComputing ⌨️ #Podcasts 📻

I am so very here for the commitment to keeping the Hotmail address. Especially since it’s a Hotmail address that is basically impossible to give accurately down a phone line.

📆 Right then, that’s #BSB, #WorldSBK, #MotoGP and #F1 calendars added to my device after getting a bit of inspo. earlier 🤓 Here’s May as an example when things are all fired up. 🏍️ #TNTSportsBikes 🏁 #Motorsport 🏎️

🌶️ Rather to my surprise, my 🫑 have been very slow to germinate this year 🤔 They’ve only just started erupting after ~2w, despite identical conditions. 2x Chinense varieties were a no-show, so I transplanted some double-sown extras to fill the 4 cells. 👨‍🌾 #Gardening #VegetableGrowing #GrowYourOwn 🌶️🌱

I found this on Reddit: MotoGP and World Superbike calendars in .ics format. Thanks, Nixxo, whoever you are. nixxo.github.io/calendars/

3d print your own type 2 phaser garden sprayer: www.printables.com/model/156932... (off the shelf nozzle here: amzn.to/4klv5Mv)

That was a challenging process!! What a great year of stories from @clarkesworldmagazine.com So many great authors and artists to choose from. If you haven't go vote! If you haven't read the stories, make sure to go read finalists stories and help support them by sharing!! #BookSky 💙📚🪐 #SciFisky

🔊 The one about, amongst others, a game by Ryan, in which the gang offer a few thoughts directly to Ryan, for Ryan has made a certain impression with his stylings… 😳 🎮 #VideoGames 🕹️ #Podcasts 📻

And this doesn't change as they grow. Read to them, make time. Mine now go to sleep to very inexpert audiobooks because they still enjoy it. They know stories like Hogfather inside out and only a loving child could claim my voice as Death is better than Ian Richardson's

📺 Watching the @paddockpasspodcast.com boys discuss winners and losers of the recent #MotoGP test at Sepang, and they’re debating Bezzecchi’s leathers at a recent Aprilia stunt. Good fun, chaps 😄 I too am with @motomatters.com because I thought it was sharp! 😆 🏍️ #Motorsport 🏁 #Podcasts 📻

🔊 The one that discusses social media bans for U16s and mentions ‘happy slapping’, which both @zoegrunewald.bsky.social and @jacobjarvis.bsky.social experienced but I guess came after my time because I’ve not heard of this one 😳 🤷‍♂️ 🇬🇧 #UKPolitics 🗳️ #Podcasts 📻

🤗 I am all over #PlanetOfLana2 in March! Loved the first one. 🎮 #VideoGames 🕹️

The TBB Press Edition of The Shadow Gate is on general sale now!! The Iron Crown TBB Press Edition blew me away, and book two is somehow even more epic!! If you weren't on early access, now's your chance to grab it! 🤩🤩🔥🔥🔥 thebrokenbindingsub.com/products/the...

🤖 Just seen how a work colleague has outsourced thinking to a chat bot 🤦‍♂️

🔊 The one about scandals, lies and trust. Lots of interesting and animated debates in this episode, chaps 👍 I know one of the panel was grasping for a book title at one point, and am pretty sure this was the one they were reminded of… /big huge knowing 😜 of course 😚😄 🇬🇧 #UKPolitics 🗳️ #Podcasts 📻

#bookreview 📚💙 📚🪐 📚🤏 Fan of: - Obsession - Bad directions - Pool cleaning - Very high tech - Revelation Space Try Alastair Reynolds' Beyond the Aquila Rift: The Best of Alastair Reynolds www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/... Short SF stories from a master that you'll be thinking about long after you're done.

Do check this out, but don't forget - if you want to show your interest so it actually gets made, the link is here www.scummdoc.com

"No I'm fine, you just make sure you get your fucking video first"

🔊 The one about learning so many new words, while also considering a Top Five 'Person Going up a Mountain' games list 🏔️⛺️🧗‍♂️ Guess I’ll be adding “Cairn” to my epic wishlist! 🤗🫣😅 🎮 #VideoGames 🕹️ #Podcasts 📻

🎼 Ghost’s “Peacefield” is a lot of fun to play on guitar 👻 The stretch from fret 3 to 7 is a tad too much for my pinkie, but I can manage it better at 5th and 7th position. 🎸 #RocksmithPlus 🎹

🐈 #TheGuestCat joined me for band* practice today 🎹 *I’m the band, it’s just me and #NotMyCat! 😚

🧒 How it started… 🎮 #VideoGames 🕹️ #RetroGaming #RetroComputing ⌨️ #BBCMicro

"Passport to Adventure: The Scumm Story" is an upcoming documentary charting the history of LucasArt's SCUMM engine in classic adventure games like Monkey Island. I spoke to filmmaker @mossrc.bsky.social to find out who's involved & what it'll look like! youtu.be/eJYQpimkVxY @scummdoc.bsky.social

🔊 The one about higher education. @gsoh31.bsky.social says “Voters will say ’academics are always going on about [the funding crisis].’ We’ve already had a university go bust and there will definitely be more. This is real. MPs won’t like it in their own constituencies.” 🇬🇧 #UKPolitics 🗳️ #Podcasts 📻

☀️ Really good long-form explainer on renewable energy sources. Also, hopefully 🇺🇸 folks will stick around for the full BINGO at the end too 😁 ✊🤩👌

👨‍💻 Looking at just the “Science Fiction Novels” section of the @locusmag.bsky.social “2025 Recommended Reading List” 31 books. I own or have read 0 🫢 However, there are a good 10 that I have on my wishlist and I’m still waiting on their paperback releases. 📚🚀 #SciFiBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋

🔊 The one on “imperial delirium”, “thrilling & catastrophising” headlines: “He writes this column every week. It’s like Heavy Metal, everything up to 11, we're all doomed, bodies lying around in the streets, everything's awful, Ocado is late” says @nndroid.bsky.social 😂 🇬🇧 #UKPolitics 🗳️ #Podcasts 📻

🔊 The one with a segment on “Little Computer People” (I had little experience with personally) that provides an opening for the “secret objective card” of the first (!) ‘This Week in Outrun' segment 😂 I laughed as soon as it got mentioned 😀 🎮 #VideoGames 🕹️ #RetroGaming #RetroComputing ⌨️ #Podcasts 📻

Trick to having a bestseller on the 'zon. Give it away for free :p Navvy Dreams is Free this week, and Navvies'Flight is at a deep discount (currently 99 cents). The tale of a hyperspace pilot who just wanted her next rush, caught up in someone else's galactic war crimes.

Where it all began! 🚀 In 2023 we released Citizen Sleeper: Design Works and vinyl to celebrate its anniversary, and we're reprinting BOTH for those who missed out the first time! 🔗⬇️

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Speccy puffing its Mandy piece: "Alexander Larman writes that there’s no way back for Peter Mandelson: the once-powerful ‘Prince of Darkness’ who is now little more than a diminished public figure." "Diminished"?! Ffs. You know what, can we ask just some women to write about Mandelson please?

😳 Blimey, my desktop note app of choice!

If you work in tech, and are ever approached by any crypto sh*tcoin even for a harmless ask ("here's some money for you/your project! Take it! No strings attached, promise!"), a warning: Talked with someone who took it. Seemed too good to be true. Death threats to them and family followed.

⚡️One (1) useful feature - reminders - rendered unusable because of five (5) other items of stinky poo that get rolled up into it. Way to go, technology. Slow hand clap to you 👏😏

🔊 The one in which @rafaelbehr.bsky.social considers how “the Royal Family is a kind of Mafia organisation, albeit operating at the highest levels of political history, culture and establishment.” Send all of the grubby 🤬 to “the bottom of the abyss of ignominy.” And 👮 🇬🇧 #UKPolitics 🗳️ #Podcasts 📻

🔊 The one in which I learn that the Michelin hard tyre coming in which destroyed Yamaha + Pedrosa's career was because of Redding's goon riding. Huh. I remember the tyre exploding, didn’t realise quite why. Great little details pop out of the pod all the time 👏😊 🏍️ #Motorsport #MotoGP 🏁 #Podcasts 📻

✈️ The hypewagon for #AcesOfThunder has built and popped abruptly several times in past several months, but tomorrow -Feb03- it finally arrives for realsies and we get to try it for ourselves. We also have @jammyhero.bsky.social doing a long-form review with a Q&A section. 🎮 #VideoGames 🕹️ #PSVR2 👀