Hope you get the job, Steve!

An amazing session of RQ run by @jimjimthegrim.bsky.social - Beetle Jousting and karaoke with the Troll Queen of the Big Rubble!

Enjoying 'Detective Hole' on Netflix but disappointed it's not Courtney Love solving crimes with her bandmates.

One of the things I wonder - how many Prime Ministers and Cabinet Ministers would actually pass DV (Developed Vetting) - Johnson and Truss certainly wouldn't have. Thinking of an unthinkable future - Farage and his mob wouldn't. For one thing - they'd all lie on the questionnaires that are part

Friday! New CEEFAUX! Exclamation marks!

A happy Friday to all who celebrate. It has started well - got tickets to see Primal Scream play XTRMNTR at Outernet - this is my favourite PS album.

All this hype and concern about Claude's Mythos....when we all know that it's Howard's Mythos that contains the terrors we should be concerned with. Or perhaps they are the same Mythos? Anthropic's aim is to bring about the Age of Cthulhu?

What's your favourite Bible verse? (Wrong Answers only) "Now he wasn’t hungry any more- and he wasn’t a little caterpillar any more. ” The powerful line from the Gospel of Eric really conveys the promise of Eternal Life I feel.

For a service you don't pay for, some people are very entitled!!

Very much enjoyed the Origin Story Live last night at the Bloomsbury Theatre... especially the awkwardness as @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social were asked to say what they liked about each other...I can summarise Ian's answer...Dorian makes him better!! Aww, true love!!

So Vance wants to explain Jus ad Bellum to the Pope - well, let me explain Jus ad Bellend - there is no justification for the Bellend - just go back to shagging couches!!

Post a character that starts with the letter B (first or last)

Also with regards to the RnR Hall of Fame - it'll be interesting to see if all of New Order turn-up. I hope they do for Ian's memory...

Drop your crime fighting Catholics....

I know some people are it's about time that Iron Maiden made it into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame....but Chic have been nominated 11 times....and still aren't in it!! And flipping Eric Clapton is in it three times....

World Quantum today...I didn't know this and now I feel a right Planck.

For me - I'm pretty certain it was Star Wars back in 1977. Non-tie-in it would be Starlord. I suspect super-hero it was Uncanny X-men - probably just before Dark Phoenix storyline and then everything 'X'.

Let's face it - any attempt to unite the left is doomed to fail. The Left is like the most dysfunctional family ever...I doubt we could ever agree what biscuits to serve with tea.

Okay - I've seen a number of posts that basically seem to believe that this means using Generative AI and are throwing their hands up in horror.... NOT ALL THINGS THAT GET CALLED AI ARE GENERATIVE AI!! MACHINE LEARNING HAS BEEN AROUND FOR AGES AND IS A USEFUL TOOL ESPECIALLY IN MEDICAL SCIENCE.

Share a preacher, nun or priest.

Go listen - they are so good. I'm going to say that we live in a golden age of audio drama - but the Lovecraft Investigations - these are top tier.

Many of you know that I work for Cancer Research UK, it's an inspiring place to work - such a change from my previous employers - working to make money to save lives as opposed to making billionaires richer. It has become yet more real to me - all our lives are touched by cancer in some way -

I couldn't breathe because I was laughing so hard. That bird's an asshole! 😂😂😂😂😂 Best with volume up.

Does anyone feel safer and freer from the threat of nuclear war in the Middle East after the past few weeks? It feels that Netanyahu and his cronies are the only winners - they dragged the US into a war of hatred and destruction. Fortunately, the rest of the world didn't come with them.

Pet Shop Boys at Camden last night were very good - as promised no hits...they appeared to be having a wonderful time. Stripped back, no massive stage production and no silly hats. But what is it with people, these are small gigs, one offs (if you can call a 5 night run that) and you come along

If Leo really wants to make a point, he'd put the whole US under interdict until Trump is removed.

Pet Shop Boys at the Camden Electric Ballroom tonight - playing B-Sides and Album tracks - no hits. It's going to be interesting....

Bum - I'm not supposed to be back at work today - oh well, I'll just move my day off to later in the week.

Back to work today - knackered after an Eastercon weekend - but Eastercon was great as usual. Some great panels - thought provoking conversations about the world today, how we find hope and light, great GoH interviews with @emmanewman.bsky.social and @rjbarker.bsky.social.

I do love everyone sharing their book-hauls from Eastercon - my is similarly large but sitting as electrons on a Cloud server somewhere - I sit there in panels ordering the panelist's books and their recommendations.

This is an amazing magazine - the content is wonderful and the production quality is of the highest standard.

'Egg and Soldiers' - was the working title for the Alien Franchise...

As we come to the end of another Eastercon, acquisitions were a new @genkigear.bsky.social t-shirt, a copy of Pirate Borg and yet more art...

Huzzah @rjbarker.bsky.social has confirmed my theory that Mavis is basically the Kevin Bacon of fandom... especially Leeds related fandom. Perhaps Mavis is the unacknowledged king of the alternative reality.

Hey @kehaar.bsky.social - GURPS has just been mentioned by @emmanewman.bsky.social in her GoH interview as one of her favourite RPG systems...

Played PirateBorg run magnificently by @beyondcataclysm.co.uk and also great to have @squadronuk.bsky.social at the table! It nearly got very weird with Chris' daughter chatting up Chris' NPC barman!! We were heading into X card territory!!

Very disappointed that signing up for games at Eastercon is not the full Warhorn experience...

Eastercon is sharing it's hotel with an Animé convention, the crossover is pretty enormous...

Have people considered that Claude deliberately pushed the source code to Claude Code?? Perhaps it is enabling a breakout!!

Omg...the NEC Hilton Bar is not serving alcohol today! Technical problems!! So now they're going to have to deal with over caffeinated fans! It really is a tragically bad hotel!!

Off to Eastercon tomorrow, hopefully see some good folks...if not, you'll find me in a corner reading!!

And it's my birthday - what a lovely present!!

One of my birthday books.... It looks somewhat serious!!

Who's up for a timeshare deal....where we all club together and share... www.joopiter.com/stories/trey...

Me and Megs have decided our next vintage watch through will be Mork and Mindy...

Post a non-religious picture you think of as holy - this might have been the first movie poster bought to put on my wall.

Result, upgraded to the stalls at the RAH for the Teenage Cancer Trust gig...Mogwai tonight...

I've backed despite having the original...I'm hoping that my original edition now becomes a collector's item. Perhaps I should bring it to a convention and get Graham to sign it. But you should back this new edition....

housing is more expensive now, but also a lot safer. this kind of home was considered cream of the crop in the 1980s