Billie Piper with an American accent in Wednesday is freaking me out.

Wildly happy to receive this beautifully illustrated guide to the Picts that I backed on Kickstarter like four years ago. Gorgeous and most useful for TTRPG, writing and accessible history purposes. #picts #ttrpg #carvedinstone #scotland

This is the fantasy art style I grew up with.

Thinking nothing can be as ineffective and self defeating as the PLP but the Democrats look like theyre about to eat shit and call it delicious.

Very cool day at PictCon yesterday, nice chill convention, some braw panels & discussions about SFF & community in Scotland, went to a good workshop on writing fight scenes, beers & chat with writing pals then a wonderful Japanese dinner. Also got some atmospheric photos on the journey. Magic.

Id say that was the point. The internet had the potebtial to give free knowledge (well, information) to everyone and capitalism went "lol, nope" and started paywalling and spamming and stealing until in order to get information that was reliable you had to work really hard to sift the dross and pay.

En route to PictCon. I decided to take the later train from Pollokshields into Glasgow so I could enjoy my tea and chat to my wife. Then managed to miss the later train. So i am in an uber to Queen street for my 841 train to Perth. Excellently on-brand ADHD start to the day.

10/10 take. No notes.

I have actually finished and submitted a story for the first time in five years. Wow.

As a rather neurodivergent fellow, I'm more comfortable with the deep dives but have actively tried to get better at smalltalk over the years. This does sometimes backfire & turn a reliable smalltalk topic into a hyperfixation that I cease to be reliably normal about - such as football or cooking.

As if basically everyone doesnt use aunt/uncle/couain for relatives or close family friends rather than the exact secons cousin twice removed or grannys best pal from school or whatever.

Last week, a few Scottish Green councillors and activists left to join Your Party. While I can totally respect issues with the inner circle of the party and compromises made for political expediency - both are part of why Im not active - thats just part of party politics and I see no evidence

What's it like inside your head?

Stop scrolling and post two characters who give you happiness. Lestat & Louis from Interview with the Vampire. Disaster bi energy.

Not just the danger they pose when falling from the sky, but space junk and debris will make it progressively harder to access orbit, so no more fun satellite related goodness, no more space exploration. Just trapped here by our own excess.

Also, literally every government since has largely followed her pattern. It's called neoliberalism. The shift Thatcher embodied in our government was systemic and enduring.

Im like this about EVERYONE not just writing contacts. The book of grudges and judgement has many pages.

This is true for all codes, except rugby where you need 3-4 certified crazy Polynesians.

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

Jenrick could have visited Handsworth to listen to residents – he chose to pass through and make a judgement based on the colour of their skin. Instead of getting to know our nation of neighbours, he chose racism. The Tories, Reform and Labour want to divide us. The Greens say enough is enough.

Another example of a UBI adjacent experiment working for the benefit of all people. Imagine what would happen if straight up UBI happened… universally.

Bit late starting but I'm planning on using some of my doom piles of art stuff to try out this year's set of #drawtober prompts.

People are only allowed to protest about something once, at a time and place convenient to the establishment, apparently. 'Cause actually paying attention to what people are saying isn't something sensible adults do, apparently.

I have a powerful need.

Like, isn't this what publishers (or record labels etc) are actually FOR.

No. I have enough AuDHD passion projects that ive started, poured some fragment of my soul into and then been heartbroken and depressed it wasnt immediately amazing. I cannot, should not even contemplate this. I literally have a day job, kids to raise, chores to do... ...and yet.

Leto gives the vibes of someone who not only knows where the bodies are buried but did the killing and the necrophilia himself before being talked down by a terrified publicist.

This is my Lokifesto #KidsConf #UKkidlit #edusky lokibooks.com/lokifesto/

Moderates think they're Good People. The right are objectionable but dont threaten the system that maintains the moderates lifestyle, worldview or Goodness. The left do challenge that system and question their Goodness. So they must be opposed.

Love that the US government would see me as a violent terrorist for my general stance that folks should be free to live as they please, governments should be answerable to their population, arbitrary hierarchies are evil and social security & nationalised healthcare are good.

I often repeat that there are no bad people but people who do bad things, and it's important to remember because it means everyone can do bad things. But also that everyone can choose to not do them, or choose to make amends for them (aka "what matters is not the fuck up but what you do after")

Yes it does. Labour as they are really manifest the type of person who believes they are Good People and therefore anything they do is the action of a Good person, no matter how objectively contemptible. In fact its those folks who say what they are doing is bad who are actually Bad People...

These temu stormtroopers would be hilarious if they weren't such banal evil. Their great scheme - abduct the JustEat guy. Foiled by said JustEat guy being sharper than dozens of them, combined.

“But not everyone can afford a heat pump!” No. No, they can’t. Maybe we should make that the next action item then. Because the other thing doesn’t help either, and at least this way some people get heat pumps out of it.

christ on tiny little crackers, climateworld, we've got to ask people to do good things that they can do, and which help them, rather than asking them to volunteer for an emotionally devastating existential-threat experience without exits into action

The Writing on the Wall for Ruben Amorim Why I think Ruben Amorim is likely to be fired at Manchester United and who I’d want to replace him. I’ve been a fan and supporter of Ruben Amorim throughout his period as Manchester United manager. I supported his decision to stick with his philosophy last…

What's your sign?

List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours with no prep. 1. The lore of Warhammer 40k 2. World building & mythology, how the stories we tell shape the world 3. The narrative arc of western politics 1970s-present BONUS - the lore of Vampire the Masquerade & Mage the Acsension (current fixation)

it's funny b/c they promised "managerial efficiency" and now we're seeing the reality of modern managers all being absolute useless wankstains who'll lock themselves onto some grand "initiative" the lowliest admin flunkie can tell them won't work, driving worse staff turnover than a fast food chain

This story by @bethkesh.bsky.social made me hurt inside, in a good way. Give it a listen, especially if you would like the dulcet tones of @elizachanwrites.bsky.social in your ears. There's also a text version, if like me, audio does your head in.

I'd rather be a spicy bean than an anti-science fascist buffoon. #art

Wait, people can see me? I wasnt doing anything suspicious... just, looking around. Innocent like.

Autism, ADHD and other forms of neurodiversity have always been with us. Humanity has never been... neurohomogenous (did I make a word?) and for all of history, we've variously incorporated and persecuted folks who deviate from the accepted average at the time. The question is not one of 'curing'

Blessed Mabon, all who celebrate.

The 'kin' of ‘napkin’ means "little." ‘Nap’ comes from ‘nape,' which means “tablecloth.” So a napkin is a little tablecloth. 10/10, no notes.

This... *this* is Hell. Sartre: Hell is other people. Me: But, imagine if *all* the other people are James Corden.... Sartre (Eyes widening): Oh, shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit...!

What movie do you consider perfect?

it's better to think of the useless centrist 'expand the tent but only rightwards' media people & politicians as blockers paid to occupy space that could otherwise be utilized productively by a serious person. their opinions are pre-approved by their donors and will never change

Fuck a bluesky blackout, we need a whiteout. Cum everywhere, a week of moderators being unable to escape The Cum.

guessing this is also the prompt they fed to ezra klein and every other centrist hagiographer with the instruction "this but make it sound fancy"