The present is dystopian in ways no one ever imagined.

Even by the standards of @batmanforeverguys.bsky.social, "Ragwort" seems a particularly unexpected name

I’m gonna be at Cymera this weekend! The creator’s hall is free entry so you should totally pop down and say hi 🥰 www.cymerafestival.co.uk/creators-hall

A new documentary on the much-missed Moviedrome has appeared on the BFI YouTube channel.

That’s clearly Godzilla.

FRIDAY!

They never want us talking about the low rates or how difficult shoots are. You raise your voice and you risk not being invited back to set. Very happy to see the crew of Obsession slowly talking about their experience

Don't be put off by the clickbaity title card, the video is a mature, detailed, wide-ranging discussion (of what is, legitimately, a pretty concerning situation: Palantir's involvement in UK infrastructure)

Let’s be clear: we have annihilated crazy ideas like “let’s plant some nice trees, make a free-to-use broadband network and have a government factory making generic drugs”, apparently so we could have racist rioting, chat about civil war, genital checks at toilets and protection for genocidaires.

"Look, we don't know what that small child had done to provoke the beloved robot"

I HEAR YOU, MAN

Other work of the Ladybird artists ‘By the Mere’ Artist: CFTunnicliffe

Happily now gone from Etsy but having got LOVELY REAL VERSION yesterday, it was interesting to compare. Slop: totally uncharacterful ofc, but it totally wrecks likenesses, puts players in wrong shirts etc. THIS is the future if we let it happen. Vague approximations devoid of meaning. Reject slop!

It's hard to convey just how monstrous the privatisation of children's care homes has become. Highly vulnerable children have been turned into cash machines, with devastating impacts on their wellbeing. Please sit down before reading this week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Tomorrow (Saturday 6th) 10am-2pm, Alex is running a drop-in comic-making workshop at Newcastle Outer West Library. It's free! All ages! You don't need to be any good! It'll be fun! childrenandfamiliesnewcastle.org.uk/events/big-j...

COINCIDENCE? Or something more sinister? Is it time to re-evaluate the official version of events that led to the death of Big Bad Wolf? In this video I will...

Bold move by the crossword writer in the UK's i newspaper. But they likely realised that the typical Reform Party fan doesn't do cryptic crosswords so they're maybe safe from their ire. For those struggling with it - the key for is primary - take the first letters of the words.

Utterly gutted to learn about John Blanche passing away. I don’t think I can quite do justice to articulating exactly just how much impact he’s made from that first encounter 10-year-old me had with this piece adorning the 2nd edition box set.

Ah man, John Blanche has died. One of the most important artists in British SFF, not just because he was so core to defining the look of Warhammer but also as illustrator of things like the Sorcery! gamebooks. What a sad piece of news.

R.I.P. to an icon of fantasy art and gaming

Art by • John Blanche

ROBOT MONSTER (1953)

NEW TODAY! A deep dive into the ancient global disasters at the heart of all three original D&D campaign settings: Greyhawk, Forgotten Realms, and Dragonlance. What do these cataclysms tell us about the game? Why do we find the end of the world so comforting?

A while back we had the wonderful opportunity to pitch a Red Dwarf adventure game directly to Doug Naylor himself. While the project didn't end up going ahead, we're now free to share some of the work we produced for the pitch!

I read a fascinating thread the other day, somebody attempting a gotcha with “People who say billionaires shouldn’t exist: what would you do if you suddenly inherited two billion dollars?” With a quick consensus being “give away 1.9 billion and enjoy lifelong luxury with the remaining $100 million.”

A crack had started to appear in the casing of my kettle, so I went to the local Home Bargains to get a replacement. It turns out that only larger branches stock kettles. But they did have two shelves of resin squirrels with light-up eyes, so I'm OK when I need one of those in a hurry.

Someone tell these illiterate AI wankers that they absolutely can and do put Genies back in the bottle. Thats pretty often the point of the story.

Jurassic Parklife - requested by Dave Brown Painted on Microsoft Paint - approx. 30 hours of work. "Your scientists were so preoccupied with your vorsprung durch technik, they didn't put their trousers on, have a cup of tea and think about leaving the house."

If you say "I support Palestine Action", they might put you in jail. If you incite a racist riot, they put you on the news.

This is super. I think it genuinely helps one's soul a little to see a concise, amusing listing in one place of some of the many ways tech is extremely annoying these days. It IS annoying! It's justifiable to feel ambient sadness & despair at it! The fuckin POPE is against this shit!

And we are live! Massive thanks to everyone who contributed to this. Reading your posts made me so much madder than I ever knew was possible

A light sabre battle to end them all! The Beast in Space (1980) (La bestia nello spazio) Directed by Alfonso Brescia. God bless the Italians

Defying trends: www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2026...

This is absolutely nuts: hackers are hijacking high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI chatbot to change the email on the account. Meta's AI does it, hacker gets password reset code, they're in. A staggering security issue www.404media.co/hackers-simp...

Yeah we gotta regulate this shit immediately.

I Am Frankelda is a boldly handmade film. It's all texture and jitter -- even the camera gets jostled. The film celebrates the natural flaws of stop motion. They aren't simply problems that need to be fixed, as we explore: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/how-perfec...

It's Post-Apocalypse Week at WATM! First up is this kids' board game based on the ultraviolent Mad Max 2. "The last surviving car owns the road and its driver becomes the ultimate survivor. Will it be you?"

Mandelson arranged a private meeting between Keir Starmer and Palantir (which was represented by his own Global Counsel firm). Downing Street insist no records were kept of what was discussed at the meeting

References to Palantir have been redacted from the Mandelson files on the grounds that they would be "prejudicial to UK national security or international relations"

it has come to my attention that busytown is anti pig

More online fun from @monkeon.co.uk Look-In Star Portrait Challenge www.monkeon.co.uk/look-in-star... I scored 9/10!

Massively multiplayer online rave hallucinate.site

The line “I gave the dog a full Viennetta!” still gets me

Rabbits on Bicycles Artist unknown, Japan Late Meiji era ca. 1904

see then i thought THIS must be a photoshopped joke. but i asked google the question 3 times in a row and behold: the saturfish cometh

this poncy middle class festival is getting ripped on Facebook for having a dress code lol

Me & BBC Radio 3 Night Tracks