We finally watched the Section 31 movie and everyone telling me how bad that movie was really didn't prepare me for just how bad that movie was.

Our Dan Dare Kickstarter is now launching 1 March 26 - visit the page to register your interest!

I don't think people appreciate enough the fact that, at a time where global warming was approaching an inflection point yet renewable energy was finally becoming economically viable, we decided to squander that opportunity because literal death cultists decided we needed Infinite Bullshit Machines.

Benedict Bridgerton: I have fallen in love with a mysterious silver lady Lady Bridgerton: Don't worry Benedict we live in a progressive alternate history where racism is a thing of the past, even here in the past! Benedict: She's working class Lady Bridgerton: Lady Bridgerton: fuck

From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Date: 1554 Second Age Subject: Re: Master Ring (Forged in secret)??? lmfao u totally shoulkd

Me when everyone keeps carrying out their intentions

Put in at least twice as much garlic as the recipe calls for, what are you, a coward?

New dev diary in which I explain how I've decided to handle game overs, give my chapters cool names, and introduce the dreaded antimatter furnace! write.as/johnayliff/f...

Our Dan Dare Kickstarter gets great coverage in the new Judge Dredd Megazine! Thanks Tharg!

Personal nerd goal achieved: I've got my hands on scans of old Eagle comics so I've been able to read the 1960s Dan Dare stories that have never been reprinted. And it's a pity they haven't been reprinted, because they're pretty good!

Just finished TR-49 and it blew me away. A wonderfully atmospheric game that's both a deep story and a perfectly balanced puzzle.

petition to protect gender affirming care in canada. go fuckin sign it www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

OK this has the potential to be very good and timely, especially because the creator compares it to Andor.

Starfleet Academy is making me appreciate how art thrives within restrictions, because both of those episodes would have been improved by being edited down to a 45-minute TV time slot.

What are five things in your upcoming release? - sword-fight an alien cyborg on the moon! - push your spaceship's engine past its safety limit! - incite a slave revolt in the antimatter furnace! - escape a killer robot in the air ducts! - talk back to a villain monologue! 🚀👽🤖🛸🌌

neolithic guys get pissed if you tell them their cultures are organized by the type of pots and jewelry they made. "we called ourselves the blood hunters" "we conquered villages far beyond this horizon" sorry bud you're the western linear pottery culture now

RuneScape is older than ICE

I've just released Beyond the Chiron Gate version 1.1.7. As well as fixing some minor bugs, this should make the layout adapt to phone screens with inset cameras so the camera doesn't hide part of the interface. spacegoblingames.itch.io/beyond-the-c...

Vancouver people: The Vancouver School Board is planning to introduce generative AI into classrooms, here's a petition to ask them not to. actionnetwork.org/petitions/vo...

Discord wants to know how you feel about AI. Go tell them: discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

The No ICE in Minnesota charity bundle submission period is now open: itch.io/jam/no-ice-i... All games, free and paid, TTRPG and browser based-alike are welcome Submissions are open until January 26 & the charity bundle supporting a Minnesota based Immigrants' rights org will go live in February

Just read a story where the heroes climbed a mountain and it was so vividly described that it triggered my fear of heights.

The Spanish version is “the left liberates, the right oppresses” and once I learned that, both screws and politics made more sense

Ah yes the story arc in which Judge Dredd gets a Bluesky account:

I'm sorry but why wouldn't right-wingers like a story about natural hierarchical power structures being restored and evil lesser races being put in their place? Sure there's a bit about little guys succeeding where big heroes fail, but overall it's deeply conservative.

1. Headlines everywhere today read "Grok apologizes." This is bullshit. A chatbot is not something that can apologize. Pretending otherwise is simple laundering these companies' bullshit about what AI is, while diffusing blame away from the human beings that developed and released this system.

I wrote about Grok's CSAM problem and how journalists keep fumbling the story www.readtpa.com/p/grok-cant-...

Years ago I was in a UK train station and an obviously robot voice announced some delay, and then said "I apologise for any inconvenience." And that bothered me, because who had apologised? It wasn't a corporate "we", it was "I". *No one* had apologised. Thinking about that now for some reason.

New developer diary in which I take a brief look at my progress over the past year: write.as/johnayliff/f...

And Tiny Tim, who did not die, but retained disturbing memories of the vanished timeline in which he had,

Ghost of Christmas Breaking In To Scrooge's Safe While The Other Ghosts Distract Him

I have always said it, I will continue to say it, we are limiting the productive potential of millions of freaks by demanding they earn a wage to survive instead of enabling them to do whatever thing their brain is broken for

PLEASE COPY OR SHARE THIS! University of Carnegie Mellon are doing a research to see how generative Al has (or has not) impacted your work and/or sentiments in the industry. Folks in creative fields only, please consider filling this out: cmu.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Happy Winter Sale! Beyond the Chiron Gate is 50% off on itch, Steam, and ios spacegoblingames.itch.io/beyond-the-c...

Wally Wood.

RIP Gil Gerard, star of the 1970s Buck Rogers TV show. I've been slowly working my way through the show lately and it's still very enjoyable today, thanks in part to Gerard's performance. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/g...

I've famously told this story on podcasts a number of times, but I met Gil Gerard as a kid at a celebrity tennis tournament and he tried to pick up my mom right in front of me. Was I mad? No. Buck Rogers tried to fuck my mom, which is the most Buck Rogers thing he could do. Lived up to the legend.

Guess what, I am evolving into someone who no longer uses Firefox

It's important to remember that most cop shows are "copaganda" and give a very inaccurate picture of what police are like. For example, almost no real police departments have a neurodivergent civilian consultant who helps them solve puzzle murderers.

Happy 100th birthday Dick Van Dyke, I've spent most of my life confusing you with Rip Van Winkle and thinking you were a fictional character.

Superman Returns is a so-so movie but it was a great communal viewing experience. Whole cinema of strangers clapped along to the title music.

Filling in placeholder text today and sometimes I come across a bit that I'm not sure can possibly be improved.

Nerd middle age is realizing over and over that the remake of X is older now than X was when the remake came out.

Launching on Kickstarter in Feb 2026 - the return of DAN DARE in a new over-sized format Graphic Novel from B7 Comics by @alexdecampi.bsky.social and me! www.kickstarter.com/projects/798...

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

My university SF+F society (which was mostly a weekly movie watching club) had "No Krull" written into its constitution because otherwise the council would have played it constantly.