"It was a name like Batleigh." "Catleigh? Datleigh? Fatleigh? Gatleigh? Hatleigh?" "Summerscote Hall." "Yes."

Ever played a #ttrpg? What if I told you there's a chance you're a character the universe just created and started playing right this minute, and all your past is made up? Yeah, you're right, it's an old, old idea. Science is looking at something like it again: scitechdaily.com/what-if-your...

In case you needed some cheering up and missed this www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrJv... (no promises, but it made me smile)

In case you like Bathory and/or wonder what a fantasy #ttrpg bard could play when feeling melodically gloomy yet also majestic somehow: www.youtube.com/watch?v=It1S...

telex.hu/english/2026... 🇪🇺 🇭🇺 🤞🏻 👍🏻 (Note: Telex is a major, independent Hungarian news portal, this is their translation / summary / recap of Péter Magyar's victory speech. In case you felt curious.)

At first glance (without noticing the account that posted it) I thought this was a quote from Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". Misreading "spout" as "sprout" didn't help. (via @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social)

Modern People: "Silent movies are boring!" Silent Movies:

Best Star Trek crew, wrong answer only

Astronaut Michael Fincke was rendered unable to speak while on the ISS, prompting an evacuation to Earth. “We’re almost 100% sure that this is a space-related thing.” Uh, I’ve been reading a lot of sci-fi recently; this is *exactly* how It starts. [nytimes.com]

This sign raises many questions, which probably should be answered by the sign but aren't

The Temple of Emmental Evil A rather cheesy take on the classic #ttrpg adventure (I'm sure I'm not the first to have thought of this, but whatever.)

I'm sorry, but as a sometime book cover designer I'm not sure I'm a fan of _this_ specific cover design and this specific typography of George R.R. Martin's "Death of the Author". Oh, wait, it's Nnedi Okorafor's "Death of the Author". Maybe it's just me, though. YMMV, obviously.

Yeah, nice, using a random pigeon is casting your message into the ocean of air in a bottle indeed. (This may be a littering offense in many parts of the world, though, so don't do it outside stories.) (via the recommendations engine or something :))

"Old" (haha, isn't that relative) but still gold. If #Metallica 's "Atlas Rise" was on their 1988 "...And Justice For All" album (which is probably my fav record of theirs, yes, with the "bad" production/mixing, or maybe partly because of that.) Simply brilliant. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrwI...

Haha, as most comments say, this is exactly what a ninja would have you believe. 🙃🥷🏻 I mean, it's an interesting, apparently (!) well-researched video about ninjas… and how they didn't really exist. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUXM...

I mean, yes?

Scritch Scratch, the original short story behind the Call of Cthulhu scenario, is in this collection, and in some whoppingly illustrious company

Post your favourite "Lord of the Rings" character. Wrong answers only.

Another excellent episode of Poirot. "Dead Man's Mirror", if I'm not mistaken. www.imdb.com/title/tt0676...

Even after all these years one of the best remixes of this chillingly awesome #nineinchnails song. Remember the lyrics? "I don't need anything at all My voice just echoes off these walls And I just slowly fade away You will never ever get to me in here" www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqJ8...

Today I got to meet a white raven at a wildlife rescue center! This is Opal 💗

"Who is your dream visionary director to adapt a literary classic?" Dream? I would've loved to see David Lynch (RIP) adapt a Ray Bradbury story. If we need a director who's still alive, I'd go for Guy Ritchie adapting a Discworld novel by Sir Terry Pratchett (RIP) (via @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social)

'“(…) religions (…) often describe an interconnected consciousness. Those who wrote them used metaphorical language to express insights about the nature of reality. Early quantum physicists (…) arrived at similar ideas using scientific methods. (…)” [Strømme] says.' scitechdaily.com/is-reality-a...

"Earth's increase, foison plenty, Barns and garners never empty, Vines and clustering bunches growing, Plants with goodly burthen bowing; Spring come to you at the farthest In the very end of harvest! Scarcity and want shall shun you; Ceres' blessing so is on you." —S: The Tempest #ShakespeareSunday

In case you're interested in what a Hungarian metal/hard rock magazine looks like these days, the latest issue of Underworld is free to download in pdf format over at underworld.hu?/magazin/ (the mag is in Hungarian, obviously.)

Better than Apple's manufacturing videos: an engineer explains the ingenious design of the aluminum beverage can. [kottke.org]

misguided meditation or, an alternate take on the same for those of you into UX design misGUI 😶

This, but not really just metaphorically 🤪🧙🏻‍♂️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFIV...

Name an author you've read 3 short stories (published after 2015) by. Well, there's @salomekjones.bsky.social, for example. Another one could be @lairdbarron.bsky.social. And there's @stephenking.bsky.social of course. And me 🤪 (…because I also write short stories.) (via @mynachang.bsky.social)

if you like and rock / metal (és esetleg követed az @underworldmetal.bsky.social-t is), you might (still) find this funny (even if the video is a few years old by now.) :D www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbhf...

Just stumbled upon this album 👇🏻 by Reber Clark, and while I haven't yet had the time to listen to it in its entirety (this being my lunch break only :)), it is quite promising. Call of Cthulhu #ttrpg Keepers (and players) and HPL readers, give it a try.

In case you missed this and if you like Lynchian stuff that might remind you of #TwinPeaks, watch this ~3 minutes video (and then, but only then read its description and maybe some of the comments.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=uv3U...

44.32. 👀 This is a fun game. I'll it try again tomorrow in the morning, as I'm curious to see how lighting affects my score. (Currently it's already dark outside where I'm at, am in a room well lit by bulbs of various color temperatures.) (via @victoriastrauss.com)

Filming to begin this spring: Mysteries on the Nile with Sir David Suchet! "It’s truly exciting to have the opportunity to solve a different kind of mystery and unearth the truth about an ancient world that still impacts our everyday." deadline.com/2026/02/davi... #agathachristie #poirot

This def looks intriguing if you like Quake 1. (Q1's dark ambient industrial OST by Trent Reznor / NIN is timeless, that's for sure.)

A glimpse into my day, because why not: I've been listening to this on repeat almost all day. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN-B...

wow (via @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social)

the balking dead

Is it just me or would this sentence have worked quite well in a David Lynch piece as well? 🕵🏻‍♂️ (Imagine seeing Columbo work with -- considering his age, possibly mentoring -- Agent Cooper.)

This #WyrdWednesday is about “Downfalls, Demises & It's All Over"... …so here's a piece of #flashfiction by yours truly (published on 16 April 2021 at gaborcsigas.medium.com/that-piano-d... ) (I'm considering moving away from medium, btw. Ads in my text? No, thanks.) #weirdfiction #shortstory

The obituary of Hercule Poirot on the front page of The New York Times on 6 August 1975. His death in Agatha Christie's The Curtain was deemed so momentous that he became the first fictional character to receive front page treatment in the paper. #WyrdWednesday

Advertise your account with a gif.

I'm not really familiar with Gogol Bordello's work, but this cover of theirs of “In Dreams” by Roy Orbison that I know from David Lynch's 1986 movie "Blue Velvet" is rather great.

"The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself." William Blake

Display an album that was important to you when you were nineteen. ___ (This whole album. Mind you, it's still important, and no, I wasn't nineteen when it was released.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0tQ...

Thanks to having randomly stumbled upon this, today I have also learned the below about Rod Serling of #TwilightZone fame www.reddit.com/r/todayilear...

Earthdawn, the awesome #ttrpg could be described as Fallout meets D&D. Earthdawn used to share its in-game timeline with that of Shadowrun, until licensing made them go their separate ways. It was first published in 1993. Your people survived a magical apocalypse in "dungeons". Now you emerge.