the movie’s called the seventh seal but the guy doesn’t go arf arf arf at all let alone balance a beach ball on his nose he just plays chess

We overtook the same guy driving solo in a truck like nine times and on his tenth time overtaking us in return he wound down the window, tears in his eyes from laughter and asked “are you guys playing looney tunes?”, asked us where we were headed and was genuinely sad he wasn’t going the same way.

We had lunch in a random Culvers in a small town and on seeing our out of state license plate the manager personally bought our Frozen Custard and Butterburgers over and checked that we were enjoying them. He did a genuine double take on hearing British accents.

I wanna say, for the record, I’ve been telling people that the Midwest and Minnesota is the best place in the United States for over a decade now and nobody believed me. In 2022 I said it to a bunch of Americans and they told me it was “all racist hicks out there”. I am more vindicated by the day.

Who else?

Thinking about my perfect beautiful hockey boys again.

Chaos Renegade

I think there should be a law requiring him and only him to change his last name to reflect whichever company he's working with and right now, for the sake of journalistic integrity, I believe we and the press should all be referring to him by his upcoming name, "Doug Megatron."

Morning.

@warbosskurgan.bsky.social so… 25-09-09 to 25-11-11 except 25-10-07 are all red corsairs. 10-07 is yriel. 8 reveals from one set. 25-12-23 and 25-09-03-4 are Ossiarchs. I think we’re down to like 13 unrevealed.

If you want to imagine the future of Star Wars, imagine Ahsoka Tano, stamping on Darth Maul’s face. Forever www.starwars.com/news/lucasfi...

The worst part about this is if I fell foul of it I'd also be very tempted to eat my "new phone"

"His or her" ugh, if only their was a better word for that.

I have been murdered.

Thout shall not suffer the abominable intelligence.

Enjoying that new TV show where 4Lom and Zuckuss build their architectural dream home whilst living in a caravan. Gand Designs.

the new beowulf razor: the best a man can hwæt

Slightly diminish a band Half a Step Lower Than Minor Threat

Slightly diminish a band Even Less Than Jake

I finished stranger things! That finale was fine. Too long, too schmaltzy and in love with its own mythology, but good enough yeah.

What if I got some FDM printed cyberpunk minis and painted the layer lines like they’re paused VHS scanlines

So obviously every "secret good episode after the finale" is bobbins and nonsense and a really bad way of making a TV show. Terrible idea. Riverdale should do a secret good episode after the finale.

I could do with a website to read. I used to read The Verge most days but they've now put functionally everything behind a paywall and ⅚ of the articles are blowing smoke up the arse of some AI pish or another. Anyone got a sort of tech and tv/films/news magazine site that's interesting to read?

You cannot call the fourth film in your series that has always been 28 [units of time] later "the bone temple" because that's not how the pattern works and also because it's a fucking awful title. 30 Rock joke name of a film. 28 Weeks Later: Lost In Los Angeles

When you see adverts that say "Advertise here!!" Okay but if advertising there was worthwhile you wouldn't be advertising advertising there with an advert you didn't get paid to advertise.

Thanks to a gloriously unproductive break and a scant harvest on Christmas day I have done something borderline unthinkable. I have two books left on my physical TBR pile. One of them I am planning to read whilst camping, so I need to refill. Friends, make suggestions of books I could read please?

My clever system for attaching a scope to my firearm with a relish made of pickled vegetables and mustard was a commercial failure. Apparently people want a pica*tinny* rail, which is not what I heard.

@disappointment.bsky.social swung by the pub as I was in town with my mum, shame to miss you! Hope the car is okay etc

i've been laughing at this post for 2 months straight

@ava.foxfort.net hello!!! Been a minute, I hope you are very well

If you are a horse, happy birthday!

Swear this year will be better than the last…

Find a load of cool sticks and give them names. Throw them in a pile just of the path. Come back every day and check on them. The last stick remaining is the best stick. Forget the names of the others.

Okay so everyone pretend that you’re a really really big moose, okay? Now the room you are in is a great forest containing both food and hazards Communicate through your mournful song with your fellow moose, tell them of what you see around you. Move amongst the forest and explore.

Read @eleanormorton.bsky.social’s Life Lessons From Historical Women yesterday and it’s great! I loved how cleanly present day politics are linked into historical examples, which could have been really clunky from a lesser storyteller. It’s also funny as all hell and digital for a quid right now.

Just gonna put this out there but too many (AAA) games these days leverage that they are hundred plus hour “experiences” by thinking means they can run longer than you'd reasonably watch a movie in a cinema before introducing an inciting incident or plot motivate a player. Be more like Doom 2016.

I really resent that for all Stranger Things is a bloated stupid mess that’s going everywhere and nowhere all at once, I also really enjoy it and I can’t wait to watch the finale.

Still watching the robot kick that guy in the knackers tbh

Guys guys, we promise, this time, that the pivot to video will be a good thing for both audiences and creators.

man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls late contender for movie of the year

They say imitation crab is the sincerest form of crab

One of my favourite things is having this skill but also having absolutely nothing I’d want to “leverage” those connections for. Instead I have a bunch of neat friends and acquaintances who make cool things. Y’all are cool.

Perhaps it was my fault for opening social media about 12 hours after the next chunk of stranger things dropped, but consider: maybe I didn’t want to see spoilers just yet.

Read @leighalexander.bsky.social's The Hunger today - a haunted long read that has the poetic pacing of being told a folk tale at a fireplace; A story about being loved as a possession, but not being known or cared for. Well worth your time. medium.com/@leighalexan...

For a long time I believed that I had been set a series of taboos by the Sìdh, and that breaking them would lead to my downfall. It turns out however that the fey that reminded me of this was making things so I doubted my own memory. It’s horrible when you realise someone has been geaslighting you.

To me, my X-Mas!

Nice one. Real patriotic. That’ll claim are country back.

Advent Calendar day twenty-four is a snowman BB droid and a tiny Christmas tree. I know a lot of people have been very down on this calendar but I’ve really enjoyed the single big theme, and the list of cool weird droids along the way. A nice time.

This is absurdly my shit. Cannot wait.